Anya

I have Art of Fighting for MVS. It has good graphics and funny cutscenes but that's about it. It's archiac like SF II But without the fun. Same with Fatal Fury 1. It does have King's exploding shirt though. Art of Fighting 2 is impossible. I doubt anyone has ever beat it. I know young Geese is the boss which sounds cool but I'll never see him. I think I can get to like, stage 3. The only Neo game I've played that's harder is 3 Count Bout. That right there is the single hardest game I've ever played. It's a wrestling game with a grapple meter like those SNES era games except it's impossible to win a grapple. The computer has won before you even really begin to mash. I think you'd have to actually be a wrestler to have the strength to mash hard enough to win a grapple. Even world class Eddy scrubs wouldn't be able to win.

I don't think anyone cares about Chaos. It's just lame. 90's bad fighters are at least funny and have novelty. I know an arcade that has like 3 cabinets and no one ever plays it. I don't mean that as an exageration like how nobody plays T5.1 anymore. NO ONE EVER plays it. I've never seen it played. More people play Cruis'n USA. I've never been more into fighters but it's only Namco and 3S now. In the 90's EVERYONE made them. Now there's like 4 companies. All I play is Tekken, 3S and SC. What else is there? VF? No one actually plays it, they just talk about how deep it is. I don't like GGXX and Capcom and SNK haven't anything interesting in like a decade. Maximum Impact? Ugh no thanks. Does anyone actually LIKE it? Not like it as in "well it's ok for a 3D KOF" I mean actually play it? I have never heard of a KOF MI fan. People tolerate KOF MI they don't like it. It's like WWE fans. "Well it's watchable" except "well it's playable". It's the same with Capcom's stuff. I guess an Alpha compliation is nice and all but where's the actual content? Fans shouldn't just shrug and accept nothing but ports and compilations. If Namco released a Tekken 1-3 compilation I wouldn't play that. I've pretty much given up hope 3S will ever be topped as far as 2D fighters go. I can't play Marvel. I love how 3S has the mindgames and technical skill but isn't so crazy.

The only people that review Fight For Life are Jaguar fans who are just reviewing it compared to other Jaguar games. I can't imagine anyone thinking Shaq Fu was worse without going in with a bias. Games like E.T., Superman 64 and Shaq Fu are so notoriously bad when you finally play them years later it's going to be even worse because you're going to be looking for the dumb stuff and laughing at it. Fight For Life is so bad it would be legendary if it wasn't so obcure. And yeah SF The Movie is not that bad. That is another example of being so infamous it gets hate by people who haven't even played it. It's bad but it's no where near being worse than games like the Jaguar stuff. It's crappy ST. Any version of ST is better than Ultra Vortek. Plus it has Sawada and his awesome super where he lifts his arms up in the air and just runs towards you.

Fight for Life is on Jaguar. Jaguar has a holy trinity of bad fighters. FTL, Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortek. I actually got my Jaguar and 3DO for the bad fighters. Way of the Warrior! For years I wanted to play it just based on the screen shots. Then finally got it when the 3DO became cheap. It's so great. It's like low budget MK which was already cheaply made. The "actors" are literally the Naughty Dog guys and it was filmed in the hall of an apartment. The obligatory ninja character is actually called just "Ninja"! Has anyone played Clayfighter 63 1/3rd or Scuplters Cut for N64? It had Earthworm Jim and Boogerman as playable characters. The one thing I found funny was the parody of the KI combo system. You can do ridiculous 500 hit combos and the annoucer has goofy names for them like "Triple Brown Betty Combo!!!".

I've been saying UMK3 is the best for years now! I'm betting most people with fond memories of MK II would be bored and frustrated with it if they played a good Jax or Mileena. The game is so slow and limited. Running, chains and more juggles is the best thing they did for MK. MK3 is fast and flashy. In Rise couldn't the second player pick the bosses? I don't even remember the main robot having a special move to begin with. Everyone needs to play Fight for Life. It's the worst fighter ever. I never want to hear someone bring up Shaq Fu or Kasumi Ninja if they haven't played FTF. I can't even begin to explain how bad it is. It's like VF/Tekken clone but even slower. Everything is as slow as a VF floaty jump. Even just walking forward takes decades. The greatest legacy Primal Rage had was that the nice delux showcase 33 cabinets Atari made for it ended up being used for better games later on. You know those big white cabinets that often house Namco and Capcom games? That probably was once Primal Rage. Next time you're at the arcade playing Marvel in one of those take a moment of silence to reflect on Primal Rage.

Clayfighter is no where near as bad as Rise of the Robots. Clayfighter is playable it's just lame. Nobody could play more than like 15 minutes of Rise. MSH vs. SF does have the worst roster. I'm glad I am not the only one to notice. Shotos, shotos and more shotos. The only reason I've played it so much is that I have the arcade. Marvel vs. Capcom 1 is still my favorite versus game.

That makes no sense. SNES KI has the same combo system.

Art of Fighting 2 is impossible. Primal Rage was one of the better MK clones I think. That really isn't saying much. It was mostly "one of the better" because you could actually move around quickly and tolerate beating the game. I played as Blizzard because giant apes are cooler than dinosaurs and he could freeze. Everyone either played as Blizzard, Talon or Sauron. Primal Rage 2 never coming out is tragic.

One of the main reasons I don't take wrestling and fans seriously anymore is that it's own fans seem to struggle to justify their enjoyment by calling it drama and trying to make comparisons to hollywood actors. When I used to watch I thought the same things and now looking back it just seems stupid. It's silly fake fighting no matter how hard you try to make it sound credible. I think fans would look a lot better if they were just honest about it.

I don't know what else to say. Kind of a broad topic. Bring up something specific about Mortal Kombat and I can talk for hours.

I played EVERYTHING in the 90's. MK, SF, Primal Rage, KI, Time Killers, Justice League...anything. It was fun at the time but I look back and it seems kind of...pointless. I'm losing a lot of my nostalgia for the 90's era arcade scene. I play at arcades now and honestly it's a lot better than it used to be. Now I have money and a car, I can go whenever I want. More importantly the level of competition is so much better now it's not even comparable. What I would consider good back then is now scrubby.

Shaolin Monks was not that good. The fact that it was a MK spin off that wasn't terrible makes it seem better than it really is. An unofficial sequel to Time Killers? More like Thrill Kill. A sequel to Time Killers would be good. More BLOODSTORM!

I'll probably go see the new TCM. It was supposed to have Amy Acker from Angel in it but I didn't see her in the preview? I hate bad political satire in horror movies. Like....Land of the Dead. That wasn't deep, subtle or thought provoking.

I like, except the cape. Who are they? From that versus game? Handheld size doesn't matter much to me. I don't carry anything in pockets.

The point is that Rogue's most interesting power is her touch and the focus of her story should be on that. Her permanetly having the power to fly like Superman is so random. It serves no purpose but to give her more power. There are 3 powers I am sick of that are so overused. Telepathy, enhanced agility and energy beams. Agility works for people like Beast and Logan that have other things that make them interesting but there's far too many mutants who have nothing else going for them. It's like an easy go to power when they can't think of anything else. Didn't like half the cast of X-Force have the enhanced agility power? Energy blasts are the other generic power. Sometimes they try to make it more interesting like with Bishop but it's still just an energy attack. Then there's villains like Sinister and Apocalypse who can just randomly shoot beams out of their hands for no apparent reason.

I know it's old news. It's just new to me. I like the design of her that I've seen so far. I liked most of the FF VIII and X cast. Don't know about XII but I like Ashe's costume a lot. I would be afraid to buy a Nintendo handheld. I'd worry a redesign would be out a month later. Where is the Pink DS Lite? A small Xbox just wouldn't be a Xbox.

That's just one example. There's tons of other overlapping powers. Like just with flying there's so many people besides Rogue who can fly as well as do other things. Storm, Jean, Banshee, and characters like Iceman who might as well be called flying with the way they are able to use their powers. Then there's all the telepaths. What about all the people with a projectile beam of some sort? Cyclops isn't so special anymore.

I just now got around to looking at pics and reading info about FF XIII. The only thing I had seen before was a close up of the main character. I thought it was a guy. I'm happy it's a girl, that's what I've been wanting to see. And she even has a short skirt. Andrew you seen this? It's funny we were just talking about Ashe's. DS Lite? Didn't GBA Micro just come out? I had missed the buzz of this coming out. I can't believe they did another redesign of their portable hardware. It seems like it's a yearly thing now. I can't understand why gamers and the press don't call Nintendo out on this. Come on already...

Iceman in ice form was cool but I'm glad they saved it for 3 and only in that extreme circumstance. Having him look like that all the time would be silly. Colossus was bad enough. I would not want to see him sliding around but the perfect time to do the slide would have been when they were jumping down to help the soldiers in the final battle. I liked how everyone had their own way of coming down using their powers, Wolverine sliding down with his claws, Storm floating down, Beast just jumping....and Iceman was stuck holding onto Kitty. In most cases I think the movies portrayed their powers better than any game or cartoon or whatever. The X-Men shouldn't be gods. Why even have a team then? If Rogue can fly and is super strong what is the point of Angel and Colossus? I really liked how they portrayed flying, especially with Magneto and Storm when you can actually see how they're doing it. They both mostly just levitate. You can hear the magnetic field with Magneto and see that Storm is using the wind and not just flying around like Superman. Magneto is strong enough without the goofy energy blasts and force fields.

Peter Moore could.

Wow that's cool. I wish Aeris would call me! I would buy more stuff at EB if Squall would call.

I guess it was done well but it was still weird. Magneto looked too different. Charles looked almost the same. I think it's the hair. Magneto's was so different it was jarring while Charles is still bald. Magneto's helmet continues to be the silliest piece of clothing in the series. It's too tight! I watched X2 last night and had forgotten about Pyro calling it dorky. Only thing almost as bad is Scott's giant earmuff visor in X1. So to get to Jean's room did Magneto levitate the professor's wheelchair up the stairs?

I love the music when Jean kills Charles. It's odd, it isn't menacing it's more almost uplifting or something. It shouldn't go with what is happening but it works. It gives a feeling of awe. I also like how that theme comes up again when Logan is struggling to reach her at the end. I think that whole scene in her house is the best in that series and probably any comic movie. That is what I keep thinking back to and what I'll immediatly recall when X3 comes up years from now. The president is the worst character. I think every single line he has is a cliche. It's so bad it seems like it had to have been on purpose. My god have mercy, they want a war then we'll give them a war, and so on. The military stuff in general was lame. The soldiers acted straight out of a cartoon. It was like the military advisor took the day off. Like that scene where Multiple Man tricks them. The elite special forces agents sneak up all stealthy arbitrarily saying stuff like "alpha team" while a bunch of generals and cabinet members sit around a table watching it on monitors. The president himself tells the head ninja to attack and they just run up to the camp and start screaming and waving their guns. Much worse than the way Stryker's soldiers were portrayed in X2. I was watching X1 and 2 and it's weird to think of how little actually happens in this series. At least with me I tend to think of the story being much longer and epic because of it being many years between movies and the millions of comics and cartoons that came before. The actual trilogy is nothing. The events of the 3 movies are only a couple days each. The X-Men team only had like 3 "missions". Logan and Jean barely even knew each other! They meet in X1, he is gone till X2, they see each other a few times, then she is dead till becoming Phoenix. And it's odd how Colossus and Kitty have just randomly joined the team. What exactly gets you on the team? In the first it was the teachers and then Logan just to help in the end. It was a school and then the adults were the X-Men team. Now it seems like it's the adults and then some kids. Iceman makes sense because of 2, Colossus seems like one of the oldest students, but Kitty? Why is Kitty on the team instead of "change the channel by blinking" guy, Jubilee or any of the other generic students you saw in the background before? They don't even acknowledge their promotion. They're seen in the danger room in the beginning, they go back to being regular students in the middle, then in the final battle Logan, Storm and Beast are suiting up and they're just standing there in uniform. And the whole code name thing has always annoyed me. It's so cheesy. Almost nothing else comic booky about the movies bugs me except that. The uniforms, Magneto's silly helmet, the jet, they're all acceptable...but the idea of calling someone "Cyclops" is just so goofy. I'd be fine if it was something they used in battle and just a codename like how Charles explained it to Logan in X1 but I hate it how they will just randomly use them in casual speech. Like Kitty saying "Storm told us to stay in our rooms". Ugh. Nobody talks like that. And even worse is how a couple people just don't have code names for no apparent reason. Kitty is just Kitty and Jean is Jean. So it's like "these are the X-Men...Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine...and Dr. Jean Grey". Did they ever call Beast "The Beast" either? I don't think so.

I played as Peach. Mostly because she was the girl. The float was the best power.

I agree Wolverine vs. Deathstrike is better than any fight in X3. The problem is it's the only good fight in the whole climax. The rest is just the mutants making easy work of the generic soldiers. X3 final battle is kind of disappointing. It starts off well and then it just kinda ends. Before you know it all of the bad mutants are just gone. Still, overall it's more fun than X2's. In X2 it seemed like Magneto's mutant machine in X1 had caused Jean to evolve. Scott mentions she hasn't been the same since X1. I don't know why they dropped that for X3. It made sense and would be easy to explain. I don't like the split personality and mental block stuff. It feels wrong that they had never mentioned it before. It just kind of came out of no where.