Anya

That was the most vague balance analysis I've ever seen.

The 2001 profile art on PS2 was some of the worst art I've ever seen. http://www.cannonspike.com/CamFan/miscella...01/chin2001.jpg

I am pretty sure 3 Count Bout came out before Slam Masters. SM was cool...I played it on SNES back in the day. It had Haggar. You can't go wrong with that. No one will ever play bad fighters with me.

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?