Anya

I don't understand why Namco doesn't release extra versions like Sega does with VF to clear up problems like that. Although I know they did one with SC II early on. Apparently it wasn't enough. It would be easy to send to arcade owners and cost little.

I know like nothing about even mid-level SCII. What is step guard and why is it a problem? I think I remember hearing about something with the sidestep that made certain moves too safe. Is this it?

It doesn't come out till next week. I'm buying it. Probably the day it comes out.

8.7, 8.5...whatever. Same thing. The point is that they rambled on about 10 hit combos while saying how great MKD's gameplay is. MKD's online play is what made me turn on that game. Multi-tired arenas? GREAT! Now I can fall into a different looking arena inbetween getting owned by a little kid doing one of Noob's millions of infinites.

The article says nothing about the arcade release. It doesn't even mention that there's going to be one. Cards would be good. So would a T5 style cabinet. It's weird that's it's coming so soon. I am not big into SC in the first place and T5 is still fresh, so I have like no hype. I guess by the time it finally goes through testing and all that it'll be a while from now. I could see them releasing it on console and arcade at the same time at the end of the year. Seems like Namco may finally have got the idea that we're still going to play at the arcade when it's out on PS2. There was never any need for the insane waits. So how bad were the problems in II? Seems like it died really fast, even worse than T4. With T4 everyone was bitching non-stop but there were still tournaments and a scene to follow. SC II just seemed to have fell off the radar.

I am thinking the Create-a-character stuff is more along the lines of arcade's Conquest mode. The article makes it sound more like you pick a character and just kinda customize them, like it was hyping "you pick their name and ocupation!!!" WOW!!! And on the subject of bad fighting journalism, the GI review for T5 is horrible. Almost entirely references to 10 strings and other scrub favorites. They gave it something like a 8.5 and 8.7. A few pages later MKD got something like 8.7 and 9.5 and was hyped for how great it's gameplay is.

I'm happy there's going to be no more Link.

The May Gamepro has the first pics and info for SC III. Looks like more of the same. The big new feature sounds like some kind of create-a-character mode but it's not really specific about the details. And it's exclusive to PS2....

When the lineup is good, like PS and PS2, it's worth it...even know it'll die after a while.

Having the best fighting game franchise would certainly help.

Rogue Agent is horrible on console and will probably be horrible on a handheld. Both lineups are just awful. It's embarassing, really.

It does seem too early for Xbox 360.

Sony did the same thing with PS2 and we all know how badly that turned out. Oh wait......

So true. And how many of those that left would return if it got better? I know I wouldn't. I'm done with wrestling forever. I will always be a Buffy fan though. Always!

Kazuya did die. His body was found by a genetics company named G Corporation, who brought him back to life a few days later. Namco thinks Marshall looks cooler than Forest. I agree too, his mustache is cool. He looks like a pissed off Bruce Lee.

I just figured out the CD WS+1 thing. The notation is d,d/f, n, 1 but it's kinda tricky. You have to be exact. f+3+4,4,2 into the wall is brutal. BTW, have you been able to beat the one player arcade game since Heihachi arrived? You always face him on stage 7 now and there's a little cutscene that plays before the fight. If you're playing as Raven there's a special one where Raven sees his alive, turns on his radio and is like "Heihachi Mishima........is alive." There's another if you're Jack where Hei freaks out thinking Jack is going to blow up. Pretty neat.

Buffy just all together is the greatest thing ever to happen to TV.

Jer, I got some questions about Raven. How do you get 3 knees in a juggle? 2 is hard enough. Is it just something that takes skill or is there some trick? I'm using knee, 1, knee, d/f+44. Do you know any better juggles? How do you do the CD version of the WS+1 uppercut? And after it is there anything better than 1,1,2,2,b+3?

Well after countless hours of practice I can now do ewgfx3 a little over half the time, something I've been trying to do since TTT. This is awesome. I'm so hyped right now!

It's like Sega WANTS to be completely irrelevant. That Shadow game sounds horrible. OMG EVIL SONIC WITH A GUN!!! is like 10 times worse than Prince of Persia getting all angsty.

Last I looked at SC II sales(dec 2004) GC had sold the most, with PS2 right behind and Xbox in 3rd place. Tekken is still Namco's #1 fighting franchise though.

I just want to know if it's going to be a big hulking monster like the first Box.

No, they're the arcade versions.

I've owned 5 PS2s, only two broke though. Ps2 has Tekken so it could break like once a month and I'd still buy them.

The lack of new Buffy is KILLING me.