I would provide context but I feel that telling you Satan made this is good enough.

I then graduated to getting TF2 and for the first time in my life have fallen in love with a multiplayer FPS that has me actually doing well against others while still having no real idea what the hell I am trying to do about 70 percent of the time. The reason I bring all of this up is because I just bought the Humble Indie Bundle 4, for an undisclosed amount that I chose to pay that was above the average. For all of the people that used to be like me and have no idea what I am even talking about I shall explain. If you go to www.humblebundle.com you will see an offer to pay whatever you want for 5 games that are all on steam for much more than what you can pay if you decide to go this route. You offer what you want for the games, and the money goes to the site hosting, the developers, and charity and the best part is you can adjust where you want the money to go. If you feel that the devs deserve it more than breast cancer awareness than you can do that. If you are like me you just split it the best that you can right down the middle. Right away I had to get it for Bit.Trip Runner, and Super Meat Boy alone, and I can tell you that every single cent I threw towards this noble cause was worth it about 30 seconds into me playing Super Meat Boy for the first time.

Seriously after playing this for a while I know the price I paid was highway robbery.

I even got introduced to what is already my third favorite birds eye view Shoot-em-up of all time in a games named Jonestown. I mention all of this because my next few reviews I will focus on this bundle I have picked up and I will pour my heart out into the reviews. I keep making promises about me and how I will post very soon, and I keep fumbling over and over again like Peyton Hillis in the second half of the 2010 season for the Browns. You the reader deserve more for me as a writer and with the ideas being thrown around on how we can give you guys more just like you deserve, a change will hopefully soon happen. I will have a post up about one of these games probably around the holiday (I hope to make it a post on Christmas just for the sake of making puns and calling it a gift.) I promise it will be worth your while if you stick around.

Martyr Out.

In Japan it was known as Street Fighter Zero 3 so this picture is still accurate

I personally remember seeing this at the local video store the day the game came out and losing my shit. The day was April 30th 1999, and I remember being the first person to rent that game to this day. By now you can tell that I am a huge fan of fighting games and there are so many that I need to review so why would I choose this one to follow Killer Instinct you might wonder? This is the best game in the entire series that changed the genre of fighting games forever. This game boasts the biggest roster for a street fighter game to this day with a whopping 34 fighters when it hit the home consoles. The entire reason everyone is fighting is because Bison has something called the Psycho-drive, he of course being the level headed man he is wants to use it to destroy the world as we know it to basically make it a wasteland and blowing away all the people he has met in the process. Slight problem is that even though he is the second strongest person in the world he cannot power it himself so he needs the body of a “Fighter” to throw into the Psycho-drive and power the unholy hell out of it until it makes the world a’splode. Depending on who you choose to fight with the story will change and you even have dialogue set ups before certain matches to give you a little insight to what the hell is going on. Even better is the fact that if you do get to what you assume is the final showdown with M. Bison you have to fight a sub boss consisting of Balrog or Juni and Juli (Both the girls are actually clones of M. Bison and basically copycat Cammy the whole time.) Once you get through all that and you finally get to face the man himself…you only get one opportunity. You either win two rounds, or lose two rounds and waste all that time getting to him because it will just show a cut-scene of your character being thrown into the Psycho-drive and chaos ensues.

Another unique thing about this game is how there are several different styles you can use for your super combos. You have the normal A-ism combo system which basically just gives you three different levels to get your meter up to and depending on what button you press that determines the amount of damage you can inflict with your super combo. The second is the X-ism which is basically just one big ass meter you have to fill before you can pull of super combos and then there is finally the V-ism which gives you the ability to actually make up a combo using certain buttons presses on the fly so pick your poison and either way if you know what your doing then you should be good. Back to the characters for a minute. Like I previously stated there happen to be 34 of them but in all honesty I pretty much pick the same five or six all the dame time.

First and foremost when it comes to Street Fighter games in general if this person is in it I must play with them. Cammy White is single handedly the hottest thing that the series has ever had (Fuck Chun Li and her huge offensive lineman like thighs) and is the first girl I ever had a crush on which 1: Is sad to admit that a video game character that could kill me in like 1,000 different ways is the first thing I had a crush on. 2:Is completely plausible because shes hot as hell and I will defend that (along with her honor) to my dying day.Lastly 3: Is probably the exact reason I decided to start playing as her and kicking ass all the fuck over the place. She is fast but not strong, which is really not too hard to compensate for if you just have a good strategy and hell her special moves help her avoid projectiles so shes good against characters that throw random shit. Also the fact that she is not a charge character even if her moves seem to be that of a person who would require a charge is a good thing so you can just use the same rolling motions some of your favorite characters have and completely dominate.

Cammy Fucking White is dressed up as a soldier promoting one of the best games Capcom has ever made holy shit I don’t think my brain can handle the awesome. Quick question is it a little odd that I now want to fuck that plane because of Cammy being near it?

Second there is Rolento. Rolento is a military genius that is fast yet stronger than most fast characters and has what might be the second strongest super combo in the game. He throws out a trip wire to lynch the opponent when a man from the sky dangles a god damned metal hook to assist you. His attacks overall are kinda iffy at best but if you can get used to his style he is a very good character to use. By the way Capcom I am not calling you out for being Disney-esque when it comes to overt racial prejudice, but if anyone has the opportunity to play as Rolento and do the trip wire lynching to Balrog…all I have to say is that I have not seen anything as blatant as the expression Balrog’s face has when he gets the attack done to him since the civil rights movement existed. Seriously Capcom, I have never once doubted you or questioned at least to a serious degree but holy fuck.

Third is Balrog. I remember playing Street Fighter II Championship Edition in the arcade and picking him simply because he looked just like Mike Tyson. He is a slow but amazingly powerful charge based character and I honestly think he is one of my better people to play as in any of the games he has appeared in. Mind you he is a little harder to use due to his sluggishness, but honestly if you get good with him he is a serious contender in any match you can throw him in. Plus his throw consists of him just throwing headbutt after headbutt into the persons concussed skull.

Forth is Ryu. Yes hes the poster boy for the series and yes he is a bad ass.

Fifth is undoubtedly Akuma. For starters his name means Devil in Japanese, and you cannot get much more over the top than just being named after the demon-man himself. Second he is the most powerful character in the game and is very fast as well so you simply cannot lose when you are using him, or well if you do lose you should probably just quit your life as you have failed harder than most people ever could. His best and most powerful ultra combo is the “Shun Goku Satsu” which translates into Instant Hell Murder. There is not a move in video game history with a better name. There just simply is not one. When it comes to Akuma he only fights people that he actually thinks pose a threat to him and can test his skills as a warrior. He will never fight an unworthy opponent because of his “moral code”. Hell the man has even stopped fights (in the actual storyline) when he knew the person he was fighting was not up to their 100 percent top form. My question is that if he only fights people that are worth it and people that can test his skills as a warrior…then why the hell would he ever face a person like Dhaslim or Dee Jay when we all know for a fact that Yoga and Jamiaca are not known for their warriors. Akuma was and still is banned from most tournaments in America which just shows how dominant he really can be.

BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER

There were several different game modes when you were playing this on the home console. You had your standard Arcade mode, and Survival mode but you also had the “Final Battle” mode which let you skip all the way to the final fight with M. Bison so you didn’t waste all that time fighting the first 8 rounds if you ended up losing to him, and Finally the most awesome mode was World Tour. World tour had you choose one character and you had to fight certain people under certain circumstances  and sometimes it would even make you fight multiple people at the same time. Stipulations could be anything from you only being able to damage your opponent with ultra combos, to you having to face two different people at the same time but only one of them takes damage. The final battle (if you are bad ass enough to meet certain requirements) has you face 2 different people per match for three matches. It starts out with Shin Akuma and Evil Ryu (basically the two toughest characters in the game) then you face M. Bison and Shin Akuma, and then you fight them again. It is so damn hard because they will constantly throw projectiles and random moves at you and God help you if you get stuck between the two of them. if you are in the middle of them attacking you have lost this fight and there is nothing that will save you from certain death. This game is hard but so rewarding when you actually do kick some ass.

The art in this game is simply one of the best for a game ever made by Capcom, the music is fantastic and the announcer is amazing. If you do not lose your shit or get amped when he first says the words “Go For Broke!” then you are seriously a huge huge pussy. Simply put this game kicks ass and you need to play it. I do not care if it’s the arcade, the console or emulating it through your computer. Whatever you have to do you simply must do it for the sake of your video game life. If you disagree with me in anyway you can kindly direct your hatemail to me and you will probably recieve a nice cool glass of Fuck Off in return.

Martyr out.

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Seventy Two Pin Connector Podcast – Episode 043 – Skibbity Fuck Poop Video Games

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Feel The Magic Official Trailer:

Heavy Rain Trailer:

Wu Controller:

Poets of the Fall – Late Goodbye (Max Payne 2 Ending Song)

Big Daddy Daycare:

Releases:

There were a ridiculously large number of surprisingly good games that came out just in this first month of the year.  Some beckoned us to be nostalgic with them: “Darksiders” and “Bayonetta” come to mind.  Some of them were critically praised sequels: “No More Heroes 2″ and “Mass Effect 2.”  Some of them were innovative in scope: “MAG.”  And some were nostalgically experimental: “VVVVVV,” I’m looking at you.

The greatest part about the releases this month was that there really was something for everybody.  A hardcore/indie game, an arthouse slash-em-up, a space opera epic, “Devil May Cry” with tits, “The Legend of Zelda” with portal guns, and a MASSIVE online shooter.

This better be a good omen for the rest of the year, or else twelve months from now, we’re going to be talking about “that one good January.”
“Yeah, those were the days…”  Then we’ll sip our beers as we watch the sunset off of our rickety, old porch swings.

So what were we doing?:

This month, Senior Skizz was playing Zuma and Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, going crazy with Arkham Asylum, and watching his girlfriend play Wii Fit.

Chad was up to his usual indie game snobbery with the People’s Games, playing Sunshine and Trundle, as well as indie titles, Guru Meditation and VVVVVV.  He was also playing Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Sonic Adventure.

Rob gives his thoughts on Wings of Prey.

And the always lovely Tom (King of the Site) was playing Half-Life 2 mods: Dear Esther, The Radiator, Goldeneye Source, and Missing Information.

We also discussed (in two parts) our Games of the Year, and there was a list of great freeware games that came out in 2009.

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Seventy Two Pin Connector Podcast – Episode 042 – The Rise and Fall of Atari

In this episode of the Seventy Two Pin Connector Podcast, we discuss commercial failures in gaming. While there are games out there that are innovative, amazing, and fun to play, unfortunately some of them don’t make any scratch whatsoever (See Example: Psychonauts). We take this moment to pay homage to some of the best.

Seventy Two Pin Connector Podcast: Episode 041 – Failcast!

Tonight! We will be podcasting and discussing Mythology in gaming! Everything from Quiz and Dragons to Quiz and Dragons, with special guest, Quiz and Dragons! Tune in tonight at 9PM EST to join the discussion!

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This game has you picking a team of 3 players from the Capcom and Marvel universes. It has a tag system which is actually a good thing and makes for very competitive matches when you are low on health slamming the two buttons down for a crutial tag in. This game also has more than just Street Fighter characters for the Capcom side, they have Captain Commando (a character made for the Capcom company, the first three letters of Captain and Commando make up Capcom), Jin, Hayato from Star Gladiator, Sonson, and Mega Man with two other characters from that series. I am sure you can guess who the Marvel side is represented by the most, but they also have other random super heroes from different backgrounds which really can fill out the roster very nicely. Speaking of the roster it has a total of 56 people to choose from which is a big list. All the fighters can do their own super combos when your super meter is full but if you want to destroy with full potential you will figure out the way to have a team super combo which will destroy the other trio you are trying to make it past. The thing you need to do is experiment to find the best team with the best combo and I think that I might have found a few of them in my own right which I will talk about later in this review. Each player has their good and bad sides and if you spend enough time playing it you can easily find out how to be technical, speedy, powerful, or a cheap little bitch of a person with your team.

Mind you I am sure when this game gets released in the USA again that the character select screen will not be in Japanese.

I have to review this game for what it is so I can give you a preview of it in case you somehow have not had the pleasure of playing this game yet. This game is pretty…and I cannot say that enough. The art on every single person is nothing short of straight up beautiful. The backgrounds are artistic and they are perfect for this game. If the background had a clock in it, it would actually sync up with the clock in the machine to give you the correct time which is a nice touch. Every single animation is done perfect down to a T, they even include a 2-d version of Jill Valentine and the damn Tyrant that she fights in the Resident Evil series and that looks great as well. They spent alot of time getting all this together after they made the original Marvel vs Capcom, more or less because the fans wanted it and I am glad that these superpowers in the industries they are in decided to give the fans what they want.

Now as far as characters go this game is ridiculous with the amount of different styles that are in this game so I will have to discuss them in a pretty big scope here. There are very few street fighters that were in the series that were not involved in this game such as T-Hawk and Dee Jay, and they were not in this game I would guess to popular demand saying that they do not need both those shit-holes in the game to take up space and be terrible. See a lot of the characters are pretty similar to other characters in the game. Cammy is a fast yet not powerful character, so her speed makes her good against slow characters. At the same time Spiderman has the same type of style, him and Cammy even share a super combo that is pretty much identical, his being the Maximum Spider and hers being the Killer Bee Assault. Then again you have your standard middle of the road fighters such as Ryu and Ken who are just like they are in street fighter 2 except that Ryu’s fireball is fucking gigantic compared to Ken’s and even Akuma’s. There are also big ass slow guys that join the fight and can be awesome and terrible at the same time, for example Juggernaut is the most powerful person in the game but is by far even slower than the Hulk or even Sentinel which is incredible with how slow they are. Look for the sake of this I will discuss a few characters in more details just to tell you who to look out for and who to play as.

Gambit is fast, very fast in fact but obviously his power will be a little less than the average person. He makes up for it though with his super combos and even with his regular special move that freezes the opponent in place if they get hit with his “Kinetic Cards”. If you can stand to use a speedy person then he is one of the people you need to look for. Speaking of X-men there are two versions of Wolverine in this game, one being bone claw, and they other having his standard Adamantium  claws. Both characters are fast, and can do quite a bit a damage although Bone-claw Wolverine is slightly faster and not as powerful, while both of them can take a lot of damage….too bad he can not regenerate his health as fast as he does in the comics though. To finish off the speedy characters that I enjoy I have to say that Cammy is badass. In this game you can dash and it is not very hard to take advantage of this with her because she might be the fastest person in the entire game, if you are against a person that cannot avoid a rush all you have to do is go and dash towards them then Cannon Spike, dash back and repeat….if you want to be a cheap bitch about it all. I am a street fighter fan-boy, and I love Ryu and Akuma…but in this game based off a overall basis I have to give the advantage to Ryu. Akuma is powerful yes but they did dumb him down for this game so people could not just destroy constantly with him like they have in other games. Once again I must say that the fact that Ryu’s fireball takes up 3/4th’s of a character model when thrown gives you a great weapon to keep people at bay with. On the same level as him I think is Captain Commando, who actually is slightly faster than Ryu, and is probably  a little more powerful but to do combos with him is slightly harder than one would initially think. Up next is Jill Valentine from the Resident Evil series. She is quick and actually can rack up some damage if you know how to use her. She uses dogs and zombies from the RE series to actually perform special moves, one of her super combos actually has her call up the tyrant to destroy your ass with three gigantic slices from his big claw. In my opinion her best move is how she has a counter attack where she pulls out her Beretta and as long as you keep hitting the strong punch button she will fire up to nine shots right into the person who tried to hurt you. Venom is a badass in this game and yes he is slower but his attacks are actually quite quick for a man of his size. His specials can do a lot of damage but you really have to get used to his style to use him effectively, Iron Man (and also War Machine) in this game is the same way so if you choose to use them be careful. Out of the slowest characters I can only stand Sentinel and Juggernaut. Juggernaut I will use almost never, but Sentinel is a very good character. When you are up against someone who must dash in and attack, or someone who cannot fight from a distance then you can be the worlds biggest bitch with Sentinel. He shoots out a laser from his mouth which can go the full length of the screen but nevertheless.

Jill summons the tyrant to completely obliterate SonSon and her little friends.

Personally I cannot stand any of the Darkstalkers characters in this game because they are not the people I used when I used to play the game in the arcade. Where in the Hell is my Jon Taliban, he is a werewolf and he is not in this game. I also hate a lot of the other characters in this game that are part of the Marvel side. There are so many generic characters that are useless unless your going to exploit the game which is what a lot of these people that play the game do. Mega Man is in this game and he is such a little bitch…I am sorry to say it I never was a fan of Mega Man but even I realize that Capcom has finally spent all their time making sure that he is between the ages of roughly 8-10 and that he is the biggest pussy in the fighting universe. B.B. Hood has more balls then Mega Man ever could. I will say this about my favorite fighting game of all time, there is something that I can easily gripe about.  Damn near every character has a infinite combo, which would not be so bad had they not been so easy to pull off. A little while back while I was at an arcade with a group of friends, I found a MVC2 machine and decided to play it. While kicking a huge amount of ass I had a random guy come up and ask to join me, and low and behold all he did was exploit the shit out of this game and yea he beat me but I actually held my own until about 10 seconds left in the entire match so to me that is a victory in itself. If you are going to play anyone in the arcade beware that your ass will get exploited more than likely, or even if you play this against a decent player on X-box Live you will have this happen as well.

The final boss in this game is hard, and if it’s your first time going up against the bastard named Abyss…you will lose unless you pull off a huge amount of bullshit. He has three forms and each form is crazier than the last. His first form has him dressed like a huge metal samurai, which throws lightning bolts and tridents at you, while he can also fire a huge laser from his chest. Fast characters are really good against him if you can just figure out exactly when to block and when to counter an attack with a super jump to just go over him completely. If you get past him you will face a green goo like substance that looks like it’s made of Slimer from Ghostbusters. This form will actually shoot lasers, and taunt you the whole time…attacking him with a close ranger character is not a good idea at all because of the damage he can cause so you really need someone from long range like Ryu or Gambit. The third form is a huge dog like demon from Hell. This thing is the length of 75% of the screen and the entire height of it if he is on screen at all. He constantly teleports and has the ability to keep shooting things from across the screen so your best bet is to constantly back up so you can block if he attacks and then just keep going for him. You must be careful though because if he hits you with a super combo he can kill all three of your players so fast that you will not even be able to react to what you just witnessed on the screen. I have not lost to the boss since the first time I went up against him actually. Once you figure out his pattern of all three forms he is not difficult but that first time you face him will be a monstrous  task to say the least.If you have a team with a good super combo it makes it a lot easier as well…any team with Gambit has an advantage because he can freeze the first two forms with his super combo. Honestly I still think the best super combo team I have found is Gambit with his cards, Ryu with a gigantic fireball, and to finish it up Iron Man with his cannon shooting a crazy amount of ammo at the sad sap in his way.

Example of the “Iron Man” Tony Stark owning face with his cannon.

Overall this game is almost perfect. I cannot think of a better fighter that I have played in my life. Even Street Fighter IV is not as good as this game in my opinion. You need to get ahold of this game on the marketplace, they have redone the sprites and made everything even prettier, you need to get it off the marketplace anyway because unless you own a Dreamcast and the actual game from 2000 when it was ported you kinda got fucked because all the other ports were apparently nothing short of terrible. I have no idea how much this game will be when it finally comes out but regardless what it costs I will purchase it. I have said before and will say it again Capcom could make me pay 50 dollars willingly to get this game all over again and relive the fun that I have had while playing it. If you play this game and you honestly do not like it, I will actually understand but will ultimately be confused at how you can not stand a game like this. It has a lot of ups and a few downs but all together this game does nothing but jut amaze me constantly every time I play it on my Dreamcast or in the arcade which is why I cannot wait to pick this up on the marketplace. Thank you Capcom and Marvel for listening to what the fans have been craving this whole time…although I hope in the future sometime that they will make a sequel to this game and revamp the series again.

I may be a fanboy but this asshole is just ridiculous.