Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Maplestory!
I've recently just gotten back into maplestory thanks to my friend, Brandon Whitehurst. Once again my life is turning into chaos. Haven't really played the game hardcore since right after 4th jobs were released. Decided to pick up the game once again and it turns out that it's still pretty fun.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Announcement
So, again, sorry about the super late responses but I've just been mad busy. AGAIN!
Things will start to get off the ground once again soon, but I have something I have to tell you guys. I'm no longer a part of codenamedepic.com.
Long story short, I just haven't had the time to commit to CE as much as the other members could and I couldn't keep up with what I was supposed to do. I ended up resigning from CE because I felt bad for the time I couldn't commit to the projects that others can.
I have a FT job, a gf, and other social activities that prevent me from doing these type of things with the group. I've also gradually started feeling less and less a part of the group and my drive for doing the videos have dropped substantially. The others don't have as many obligations as I do, so they can commit a lot more. Plus, the meetings are held at the University at which, at least for me, is a chore to get to.
I'll still be doing videos, but they will be on my own time. For me, that works great. I think in the end, it'll be far better off for me. I'm still happy for the guys over at CE and hope they flourish. I just know that it's not my place. At least now.
Average Joes has been put on hiatus. When AJ was started it wasn't thought all the way through, and there are a couple pilot episodes that are on youtube "unlisted". AJ wasn't green lighted with CE so I still have the rights to the name, logos, and etc.
So anyways, with that out of the way, I have been thinking about continuing AJ. Right now, I'm thinking more and more about ideas, pitches, and kinks of how the show can be improved. Since I don't have my own camera and tripod, I won't be able to show my face for quite some time, but that hasn't stopped me before. I've had great success with just direct captures of games, with audio commentary.
A while ago, I was asked to pitch in for film equipment. I had no problem with it, but I always felt that I would eventually leave CE, so I offered to pay for the equipment myself. It was mine, CE could use it whenever they liked (as if it was for the group), but if I left or something went down, the equipment would stay with me.
So anyways, this is my little announcement. I'll have something for you guys who waited patiently. See you guys next week ~
Things will start to get off the ground once again soon, but I have something I have to tell you guys. I'm no longer a part of codenamedepic.com.
Long story short, I just haven't had the time to commit to CE as much as the other members could and I couldn't keep up with what I was supposed to do. I ended up resigning from CE because I felt bad for the time I couldn't commit to the projects that others can.
I have a FT job, a gf, and other social activities that prevent me from doing these type of things with the group. I've also gradually started feeling less and less a part of the group and my drive for doing the videos have dropped substantially. The others don't have as many obligations as I do, so they can commit a lot more. Plus, the meetings are held at the University at which, at least for me, is a chore to get to.
I'll still be doing videos, but they will be on my own time. For me, that works great. I think in the end, it'll be far better off for me. I'm still happy for the guys over at CE and hope they flourish. I just know that it's not my place. At least now.
Average Joes has been put on hiatus. When AJ was started it wasn't thought all the way through, and there are a couple pilot episodes that are on youtube "unlisted". AJ wasn't green lighted with CE so I still have the rights to the name, logos, and etc.
So anyways, with that out of the way, I have been thinking about continuing AJ. Right now, I'm thinking more and more about ideas, pitches, and kinks of how the show can be improved. Since I don't have my own camera and tripod, I won't be able to show my face for quite some time, but that hasn't stopped me before. I've had great success with just direct captures of games, with audio commentary.
A while ago, I was asked to pitch in for film equipment. I had no problem with it, but I always felt that I would eventually leave CE, so I offered to pay for the equipment myself. It was mine, CE could use it whenever they liked (as if it was for the group), but if I left or something went down, the equipment would stay with me.
So anyways, this is my little announcement. I'll have something for you guys who waited patiently. See you guys next week ~
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Update #1
Sorry about the long hiadus but I've been doing some soul searching to try find what it is that i want to do with my life. This isn't exactly an update to what I'm going to do, but more along the lines of what I've been doing. So far it's just shuffling :P
I'm starting to get more into raves and shuffling now. Specifically malaysia shuffling. Lost a cool 15 pounds thanks to it, and it seems that I can't get enough of it. For now, this is where my life seems to be heading.
I'm starting to get more into raves and shuffling now. Specifically malaysia shuffling. Lost a cool 15 pounds thanks to it, and it seems that I can't get enough of it. For now, this is where my life seems to be heading.
Friday, September 23, 2011
The 1st Rule of Fight Club is DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB
But I can't help myself so I'ma spill the beans! Man, Capcoms latest fight club event held at the Belasco theater was really amazing. I had a lot of fun. When I 1st got there, I was pretty worried because me and my friend were running late to the event. So we didn't have parking yet, and we had to wait in line. But thank god for Abby!
She really saved the day. She grabbed extra wristbands for me and my friend so we skipped the line to enjoy the festivities ahead. We were expecting a crew but it was just down to me, Abby, Abby's friend, my friend Edgar, and my other friend Brandly. Fight Club was better than I thought it was going to be. I've seen previous fight clubs, and they seemed to just be a bunch of people playing on the booths, but it was more than that.
When you walk in, you are greeted by these incredibly talented, and professional cosplayers. I've talked with them for a little bit, and they all make there own costumes! That's pretty cool if you ask me. Lili was my favorite of the 4. In total, there was She-Hulk from Marvel, C.Viper from Street Fighter, Chun-Li from Street Fighter, and Lili from Tekken. I took a few pictures and they'll be up later.
After you enter the next room, you'll see a medium sized stage where the DJ lights up the sky! To the right of the doors, there's a bar where you can get free drinks (Sorry kids, no alchohol for you). You had to be 18 to walk through the door so I assume they weren't going to have alcohol. But that's beside the point. After the bar, you can't help but see loads and loads of arcade setups. Well, not exactly arcade setups, but concole setups that imitate an edgy basement type arcade cabinet. On one side, you had all Ultimate Marvel 3 setups and on the other, you had Street Fighter x Tekken. On the far end walls, you had Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and Third Strike Online Edition (But I have both those games, so why bother).
My goal for the night was to meet up with some high level players, and chat for a little bit, and get my hands on SF x T. Did I mention they have Arcade setups? I walked upstairs and there was 8 more setups. I walked outside and guess what I saw :P
More Setups
So I 1st decided I'd take advantage of the super short lines since everyone was outside and play SF x T now. The rules were a little different. The general consensus was that you let players play whether you win or not. If you won, you left, if you lost, you left. Just so everyone can get their hands on it. After about 30 mins that all changed. I wanted to play some UMvC3 and the consensus changed to winner stays. I was fine with that. I ran into gootecks and said whatsup, and why mike wasn't with him today. He seemed busy but he responded like the person I knew him to be. Mike unfortunately couldn't make it because of family issues.
I wanted to talk with gootecks about a couple things but he had to run off and I was in desperate need of some UMvC3 action. I was drinking an ice cold drink for at least 20 mins. My hands were chilled so my execution suffered. Apparently, more so than I thought. I was literally bodied by someone who I thought wasn't so good. Wesker plays the same as he does in UMvC3. Very high damage output for little execution. I was a little salty at 1st, but I knew I was outplayed when he OCV'd me.
I was kinda hoping that we'd have a new build of UMvC3 and can confirm its the most recent build with Dr.Strange and nemesis. There was a really good nemesis player there. Saw some interesting setups with Hsein Ko. Phoenix Wright not being there made me unhappy, as I was looking forward to him.
After that, I realized that UMvC3 is essentially the same as MvC3 with a few balance changes and more characters. After this realization I decided I Was going to dedicate the rest of my gaming time to SF x T. Before that though, I grabbed some free food :P
I had some of the best pastries in my life here. Their strawberry danish is sooooooo good. After I re-fueled, I was ready for some more gaming. Ran into, Abby and the gang and I caught up with what they were doing. Edgar isn't much of a fighting gamer so he just walked around talking to people, Brandly was tearing it up in SF x T while I was away, and Abby managed to talk to Justin Wong. DeosX, was also in the building and he was rocking his signature doom. Seth was commentating on the DeosX vs JWong match. Along with these two high level players, there was also a few others like combofiend, alex valle, and a few others.
If I remember correctly Justin clutched the match. After the match S-Kill (Seth Killian) introduced a new nerdcore artist by the name of "A-Rival, The 8-Bit Pimp". I like the DJ more than I liked AR to be honest. It's not that AR was bad but he wasn't exactly my cup of tea. AR was a mix between hip hop and nerdcore and it didn't seem to mix well with his lyrics. I prefer Red Rapper any day of the week, but I guess they decided to go with AR because of the electronica feel.
In the end, AR was an okay choice, but he failed in a lot of ways trying to get the hype through the roof. Like it felt kind of awkward at one point. I do like his enthusiasm though. Even though he sometimes off key with the public, he went on like a pro. Because of that, I respect the guy.
So, I'm still waiting in line for SF x T while all this is going on. I just decided, hey, might as well chat it up with some of the guys here. So I begin talking to players about SF x T and to try and get some basics down, because I've only played the game once, and I don't feel quite as comfortable. Like, I didn't want to research anything before I left. I wanted to play the game without knowing what I was getting into if that makes sense.
I've seen videos before, but very briefly. Before all this technology was made available to us, this is how people used to share information. Through word of mouth. By the time I made it to my turn, I felt slightly more confident. Only slightly. Like the UMvC3 build, this was the same build of SF x T. Nothing new except for Pandora mode (Hold down + MP and MK while at red health/below 25% health). Pandora mode basically is a buff. It allows you to gain increased damage and infinite super for roughly 8 seconds. Pandora mode kills your partner character and after the 8 seconds is over, your other character dies. In a way, it's kind of like x-factor, but it's super toned down in comparison.
I had no intentions of ever activating pandora mode during the testing.
My original team that I started out with when I came in was Ryu/Kazuya. That changed to Ryu/Poison. The Tekken characters DO NOT play like street fighter type characters. Like, they have similar move sets but the behaviors of the moves are far different. It feels like you're sort of playing Tekken. Since I never played Tekken a lot, I decided I will pass on Tekken characters for now. Poison was definitely the right choice. She has zoning down to a science.
She's not a charge character like I thought she would be. Her s.MP has outrageous anti-air hitboxes. and her s.MK is good range. She can be a footsie character as well. She can create frame traps with her HP Fireball. Light travels the farthest, Medium travels short, and the heavy travels extremely slowly and goes almost no where. What makes HP fireball the best is it's great against those who try to jump at you or go underneath your fireball. It has a huge hitbox so you can only block or use a move that is invincible to projectiles to get passed it.
Ryu still feels the same. He has all his moves from SFIV and he also has his axe-kick from 3rd strike. EX-Shoryuken is shin shoryuken which is really cool.
SF x T however doesn't play like any game in particular. I can't say it's like SFIV and I can't say it's like Marvel either. It's not exactly in between. It has elements of both games, but it is its own game entirely. I'm happy to say this game doesn't play as defensively as SFIV does. There's almost no defensive options. Tick throws are extremely hard to do. You have to be outrageously close to perform them (THANK GOD!)
As for the button layout...
(LP) (MP) (HP)
(LK) (MK) (HK)
LP + LK = Throw
MP + MK = Partner Change
HP + HK = Cross Assault
Cross Assault is a new mechanic which can be used in mid combos. If you end a combo with a heavy attack and press that heavy attack again, you get the Cross Assault. When you perform a CA, you will hit your opponent and your partner will come out allowing to continue the combo further and further.
There will be some pretty crazy things going on with this mechanic, and its very fun to use.
The other interesting thing about SF x T is that it plays Tekken Tag Tournament style. You basically have 2 characters. If any of those characters die, you lose the round. You don't need to kill both characters to win the match, just any of the 1. Your life recovers pretty fast while you're tagged out.
By the time I gained at least this information, I've been playing the game nonstop for 30 mins. Around this time, 1 person in the line got a little frustrated with my win streak. I didn't care because he's a hater, and I had no intentions of getting off. I was following the rules like everyone else was so I could care less. After every victory, I greeted the other player politely and said thanks for the match. The better players appreciated my humbleness and tried to take a run for the money.
I've played probably at least 29 different people that night. There were about 5 really good players out of that lot and it got fairly close. A lot of time passed that I didn't even realized passed. Brandly who was with my during my win streak had to leave early cause he had to drive to Las Vegas. Edgar even came by to get my wrist band so I could get my swag bag.
I ended up playing SF x T for about 1 and 1/2 hrs. I went undefeated the whole way through. I couldn't even believe I've been playing for as long as I did. It felt like only 20 mins passed. I wanted to play more but the bouncers turned off the power and kicked us out. We past by the lady giving away items, and we asked if there were extra posters. I swear this lady is awesome because she gave us a whole lot of posters. :P
I have like 10 extra posters that I will probably be giving away some time later. You can't find posters like these, I promise :P
I had such a blast at the event and I got to meet some pretty cool people. The games were awesome, and the music was awesome. My only regret is not getting Lili's number. There's no community like the fighting game community!
That's it for this review. Join me next time on my crazy adventures.
6ixx out!
She really saved the day. She grabbed extra wristbands for me and my friend so we skipped the line to enjoy the festivities ahead. We were expecting a crew but it was just down to me, Abby, Abby's friend, my friend Edgar, and my other friend Brandly. Fight Club was better than I thought it was going to be. I've seen previous fight clubs, and they seemed to just be a bunch of people playing on the booths, but it was more than that.
When you walk in, you are greeted by these incredibly talented, and professional cosplayers. I've talked with them for a little bit, and they all make there own costumes! That's pretty cool if you ask me. Lili was my favorite of the 4. In total, there was She-Hulk from Marvel, C.Viper from Street Fighter, Chun-Li from Street Fighter, and Lili from Tekken. I took a few pictures and they'll be up later.
After you enter the next room, you'll see a medium sized stage where the DJ lights up the sky! To the right of the doors, there's a bar where you can get free drinks (Sorry kids, no alchohol for you). You had to be 18 to walk through the door so I assume they weren't going to have alcohol. But that's beside the point. After the bar, you can't help but see loads and loads of arcade setups. Well, not exactly arcade setups, but concole setups that imitate an edgy basement type arcade cabinet. On one side, you had all Ultimate Marvel 3 setups and on the other, you had Street Fighter x Tekken. On the far end walls, you had Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and Third Strike Online Edition (But I have both those games, so why bother).
My goal for the night was to meet up with some high level players, and chat for a little bit, and get my hands on SF x T. Did I mention they have Arcade setups? I walked upstairs and there was 8 more setups. I walked outside and guess what I saw :P
More Setups
So I 1st decided I'd take advantage of the super short lines since everyone was outside and play SF x T now. The rules were a little different. The general consensus was that you let players play whether you win or not. If you won, you left, if you lost, you left. Just so everyone can get their hands on it. After about 30 mins that all changed. I wanted to play some UMvC3 and the consensus changed to winner stays. I was fine with that. I ran into gootecks and said whatsup, and why mike wasn't with him today. He seemed busy but he responded like the person I knew him to be. Mike unfortunately couldn't make it because of family issues.
I wanted to talk with gootecks about a couple things but he had to run off and I was in desperate need of some UMvC3 action. I was drinking an ice cold drink for at least 20 mins. My hands were chilled so my execution suffered. Apparently, more so than I thought. I was literally bodied by someone who I thought wasn't so good. Wesker plays the same as he does in UMvC3. Very high damage output for little execution. I was a little salty at 1st, but I knew I was outplayed when he OCV'd me.
I was kinda hoping that we'd have a new build of UMvC3 and can confirm its the most recent build with Dr.Strange and nemesis. There was a really good nemesis player there. Saw some interesting setups with Hsein Ko. Phoenix Wright not being there made me unhappy, as I was looking forward to him.
After that, I realized that UMvC3 is essentially the same as MvC3 with a few balance changes and more characters. After this realization I decided I Was going to dedicate the rest of my gaming time to SF x T. Before that though, I grabbed some free food :P
I had some of the best pastries in my life here. Their strawberry danish is sooooooo good. After I re-fueled, I was ready for some more gaming. Ran into, Abby and the gang and I caught up with what they were doing. Edgar isn't much of a fighting gamer so he just walked around talking to people, Brandly was tearing it up in SF x T while I was away, and Abby managed to talk to Justin Wong. DeosX, was also in the building and he was rocking his signature doom. Seth was commentating on the DeosX vs JWong match. Along with these two high level players, there was also a few others like combofiend, alex valle, and a few others.
If I remember correctly Justin clutched the match. After the match S-Kill (Seth Killian) introduced a new nerdcore artist by the name of "A-Rival, The 8-Bit Pimp". I like the DJ more than I liked AR to be honest. It's not that AR was bad but he wasn't exactly my cup of tea. AR was a mix between hip hop and nerdcore and it didn't seem to mix well with his lyrics. I prefer Red Rapper any day of the week, but I guess they decided to go with AR because of the electronica feel.
In the end, AR was an okay choice, but he failed in a lot of ways trying to get the hype through the roof. Like it felt kind of awkward at one point. I do like his enthusiasm though. Even though he sometimes off key with the public, he went on like a pro. Because of that, I respect the guy.
So, I'm still waiting in line for SF x T while all this is going on. I just decided, hey, might as well chat it up with some of the guys here. So I begin talking to players about SF x T and to try and get some basics down, because I've only played the game once, and I don't feel quite as comfortable. Like, I didn't want to research anything before I left. I wanted to play the game without knowing what I was getting into if that makes sense.
I've seen videos before, but very briefly. Before all this technology was made available to us, this is how people used to share information. Through word of mouth. By the time I made it to my turn, I felt slightly more confident. Only slightly. Like the UMvC3 build, this was the same build of SF x T. Nothing new except for Pandora mode (Hold down + MP and MK while at red health/below 25% health). Pandora mode basically is a buff. It allows you to gain increased damage and infinite super for roughly 8 seconds. Pandora mode kills your partner character and after the 8 seconds is over, your other character dies. In a way, it's kind of like x-factor, but it's super toned down in comparison.
I had no intentions of ever activating pandora mode during the testing.
My original team that I started out with when I came in was Ryu/Kazuya. That changed to Ryu/Poison. The Tekken characters DO NOT play like street fighter type characters. Like, they have similar move sets but the behaviors of the moves are far different. It feels like you're sort of playing Tekken. Since I never played Tekken a lot, I decided I will pass on Tekken characters for now. Poison was definitely the right choice. She has zoning down to a science.
She's not a charge character like I thought she would be. Her s.MP has outrageous anti-air hitboxes. and her s.MK is good range. She can be a footsie character as well. She can create frame traps with her HP Fireball. Light travels the farthest, Medium travels short, and the heavy travels extremely slowly and goes almost no where. What makes HP fireball the best is it's great against those who try to jump at you or go underneath your fireball. It has a huge hitbox so you can only block or use a move that is invincible to projectiles to get passed it.
Ryu still feels the same. He has all his moves from SFIV and he also has his axe-kick from 3rd strike. EX-Shoryuken is shin shoryuken which is really cool.
SF x T however doesn't play like any game in particular. I can't say it's like SFIV and I can't say it's like Marvel either. It's not exactly in between. It has elements of both games, but it is its own game entirely. I'm happy to say this game doesn't play as defensively as SFIV does. There's almost no defensive options. Tick throws are extremely hard to do. You have to be outrageously close to perform them (THANK GOD!)
As for the button layout...
(LP) (MP) (HP)
(LK) (MK) (HK)
LP + LK = Throw
MP + MK = Partner Change
HP + HK = Cross Assault
Cross Assault is a new mechanic which can be used in mid combos. If you end a combo with a heavy attack and press that heavy attack again, you get the Cross Assault. When you perform a CA, you will hit your opponent and your partner will come out allowing to continue the combo further and further.
There will be some pretty crazy things going on with this mechanic, and its very fun to use.
The other interesting thing about SF x T is that it plays Tekken Tag Tournament style. You basically have 2 characters. If any of those characters die, you lose the round. You don't need to kill both characters to win the match, just any of the 1. Your life recovers pretty fast while you're tagged out.
By the time I gained at least this information, I've been playing the game nonstop for 30 mins. Around this time, 1 person in the line got a little frustrated with my win streak. I didn't care because he's a hater, and I had no intentions of getting off. I was following the rules like everyone else was so I could care less. After every victory, I greeted the other player politely and said thanks for the match. The better players appreciated my humbleness and tried to take a run for the money.
I've played probably at least 29 different people that night. There were about 5 really good players out of that lot and it got fairly close. A lot of time passed that I didn't even realized passed. Brandly who was with my during my win streak had to leave early cause he had to drive to Las Vegas. Edgar even came by to get my wrist band so I could get my swag bag.
I ended up playing SF x T for about 1 and 1/2 hrs. I went undefeated the whole way through. I couldn't even believe I've been playing for as long as I did. It felt like only 20 mins passed. I wanted to play more but the bouncers turned off the power and kicked us out. We past by the lady giving away items, and we asked if there were extra posters. I swear this lady is awesome because she gave us a whole lot of posters. :P
I have like 10 extra posters that I will probably be giving away some time later. You can't find posters like these, I promise :P
I had such a blast at the event and I got to meet some pretty cool people. The games were awesome, and the music was awesome. My only regret is not getting Lili's number. There's no community like the fighting game community!
That's it for this review. Join me next time on my crazy adventures.
6ixx out!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Bye facebook, hello google+?
Don't know if you guys noticed but facebook is looking a lot like google plus. If I honestly had to choose, it'd be the original over the knock off.
This scenario seems so familiar. I believe the staff/developers of myspace, facebook, and google+ share some common ground. I see a complete takeover by 2012.
Google plus here I come. Come say hey!
https://plus.google.com/109026932949955751458/posts
This scenario seems so familiar. I believe the staff/developers of myspace, facebook, and google+ share some common ground. I see a complete takeover by 2012.
Google plus here I come. Come say hey!
https://plus.google.com/109026932949955751458/posts
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Mind of 6ixx Podcast: Episode 1
Just started up my very 1st podcast. I guess you can say it's a vlog, but it isn't since it's just audio :P
So anyways, join me and my crazy shannigans as I talk about stuff. This weeks episode talks about fighting games and what it is that I love and hate about them. Everyone should get 3rd Strike Online Edition if they already don't have it. Comment, rate, and subscribe :P
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Classics are good!
I'm really pumped! I don't know if you guys ever played "Resident Evil 4" like I have, but I can't get enough of that game. RE4 originally came out for the Nintendo Gamecube and then it made its way onto Sony Playstation 2 (I hated this ver). Resident Evil 4 takes place in Europe where the U.S. Presidents daughter is kidnapped and her life is threatened. The terrorist don't want money, but her life. They want to teach a lesson to the Americans, so they figured why not the presidents daughter?
The plot of the story is really good, and the dynamics of the game are very well crafted. If you played previous RE games, you'll know right away it doesn't play anything like them. The originals play more like games like Tomb Raider and the early GTA series. RE4 has those elements, but they are renewed, and they add in the FPS element to their game (Which I loved).
Capcom decided to take it a step further and make a lot of items more interactive, as well as have signature boss fights. Like, you knew when you were fighting a boss, and all of them were different but have similar backgrounds.
There are dozens of reasons to check this game out for yourself, but I suggest you wait until the HD re-release of Resident Evil 4. It will hit the XBLA and PSN on September 20th 2011. The new release offers all of the extra content from the original game and it also adds a lot of new content to the game. I'm sure after the games release, there will be DLC planned for the future. There's also online features for Mercenaries, but lets hope they have some sort of co-op story mode planned for the future.
The price will be between 15-20 bucks. Lets hope for less!
The plot of the story is really good, and the dynamics of the game are very well crafted. If you played previous RE games, you'll know right away it doesn't play anything like them. The originals play more like games like Tomb Raider and the early GTA series. RE4 has those elements, but they are renewed, and they add in the FPS element to their game (Which I loved).
Capcom decided to take it a step further and make a lot of items more interactive, as well as have signature boss fights. Like, you knew when you were fighting a boss, and all of them were different but have similar backgrounds.
There are dozens of reasons to check this game out for yourself, but I suggest you wait until the HD re-release of Resident Evil 4. It will hit the XBLA and PSN on September 20th 2011. The new release offers all of the extra content from the original game and it also adds a lot of new content to the game. I'm sure after the games release, there will be DLC planned for the future. There's also online features for Mercenaries, but lets hope they have some sort of co-op story mode planned for the future.
The price will be between 15-20 bucks. Lets hope for less!
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