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!
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