These two shall be forever linked in my mind. See, this past weekend EVO consumed my life so I thought I would find a way to be productive during it. Productive Procrastination is my uberskill — see: playing DDR while fishing myself super rich in Final Fantasy XII — and this was a perfect opportunity to combine two more good things into something even more awesome.
I wrote a little about Evo in an earlier post I did want to do a quick follow-up post now that it’s over. I also want to highlight that I linked only a small part of Silrin’s Playing To Win series and he has generously posted the entire book online for people to peruse. I know I’m definitely going to look it over again when I’m taking my all-too-brief vacation around my birthday.
Gotta kick it off with w.h.rad’s fabulous post that everyone should read. It was too bad that the stream died during the closing moments of the SSFIV finals, but they’ve posted all the videos on their YouTube channel, evo2kvids. I tend to keep in touch with the community through SRK, http://shoryuken.com/, but I’m happy to add more bookmarks to my list if you guys have suggestions.
As one who loves to dwell on decisions that game designers make, I was thrilled to see the character variation in the top eight! Endless shotoclone matches for days and days can grind anyone’s enthusiasm. Go go Rufus in the finals, no less.
This year Evo presented a women’s invitational for SSFIV. I missed a little of the beginning but I was happy that they put it on the stream at all. Half of the commentary was alright. That’s really all I’m going to say about that. There were noticably less combos going on but these girls were fierce and would sooooooo kick my ass. Lots of zone work, too. Still very fun to watch.
They also had a a Marvel vs Capcom 3 Exhibition. <3. I can't believe I'm excited about this since I skipped the second one entirely. So many infinite combos and it just didn't make it fun to play random people. They still take skill to pull off (most of them), but not my cup of tea.
Aaaaaaaand I’m gonna stink at 3 but I hope to have some fun with it. My biggest drawback is that I love low tier characters.
If I learned nothing else from Evo, it’s that the ever-wonderful Seth Killian‘s favourite word is shenanigans :)
Now, how does Lego Rock Band tie into all these fighting shenanigans? Because.
For the achievement whores out there, don’t stress the stars and the fans and the money. Just get to the end of the game for the marathon sets and you’ll blow away all the requirements in one go. Well, ok. You might need to grind out a few more stars if you didn’t play a little in every venue first.
I’ve been making due with my original Rock Band one instruments from way back yonder and, well, they’ve had better days. This is what happens when your friends need to be in some state of intoxication to be willing to game with you. It’s annoying, believe me, but sometimes I was pretty desperate for people to play with. My guitar? I have to press yellow a certain way or it will take blue with it and/or get stuck in. Not too much fun for harder difficulties. The drums? I hope you wanna smack them real hard. Mic? Still works. Hard to break. I just don’t know 90% of the songs so doing vocal for a first playthrough would be an exercise in frustration. Instead I just set guitar to medium and played through almost the entire game with peripheral vision. I’m serious. Evo on my tablet, LRB on the tv. It was perfect! Medium is not exactly strenuous and I still 5-starred most songs and increased my gamerscore in the process. Good times.
Lego Rock Band is really my favourite of the series (before 3 comes out, anyway). There’s not a serious note in it and the experience is so much better for it! When I get new instruments (and friends) I will definitely go back and get those last pesky achievements for the full 1000. Woo.
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All too flattering. But wait, there’s more! …that will get me caught in the filter as usual :-P
First, a small correction. While evo2kvids even has all of the Marvel vs Capcom 3 exhibition, they have yet to post anything from Melty Blood, Tatsunoko vs Capcom or any of the SSF4 Women’s Invitational. I started late on that one, too, and haven’t been able to find the earlier matches I missed. The only video with consistent quality from it I’ve been able to find only covers keits’ slightly controversial… well, I’ll call it, “invoking science without quoting sources.” Is there anyone in the audience with links for the earliest women’s matches?
With that out of the way, onto fighting games + music! For those readers who aren’t already aware, but enjoyed hearing the SSF2T HD Remix soundtrack during that tournament, it was the product of the community over at OverClocked Remixes. It can be downloaded for free, in MP3 or FLAC.
http://ocremix.org/info/OC_ReMix:_Super_Street_Fighter_II_Turbo_HD_Remix_Official_Soundtrack
Redrapper’s EVO intro videos are all available on his YouTube account.
http://youtube.com/user/redrapper
The only thing I’ve been listening to more often this week has been the Super Fireball Battle put together by Maj of Sonic Hurricane fame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXP1JGtVmaw
Finally, I enjoyed being able to finally put voices and faces to JChensor and Maj after so many years of enjoying the guilty pleasure that is their Capcom Fighting Evolution combo video set to “Katamari on the Rock.” “Fun with CFE”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1UTVpA__U
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