Archaon

If you must include any original characters, put them through this test first.

You know, it's kind of frustrating that if I ever do pick this game up, I'll probably be lumped in with the thousands of other Sagat players who pick him just because of his (alleged) overpoweredness. The truth is that I've stuck with Old One-Eye through thick and thin. From the very beginning, in Street Fighter II, through ups and downs, through low tiers and high tiers, Sagat has always been my primary choice of character. He is, and will always be, the ORIGINAL Emperor of Muay Thai, (forget that Adon jackass) and dammit, he deserves recognition. Ah well. Look on the bright side. At least they didn't make him suck.

I'd just like to go ahead and issue an apology to anyone who actually deigned to download the demo in the first post. It was pretty terrible. It didn't seem that way to me at the time because I was excited about it and I was only just starting out; I'm sure at least some of you know how that can be. However, you have my assurances that I am working my armour-plated arse off to redeem myself and improve it, and to demonstrate this, I offer a before/after screenshot. Forest before: Forest now: I will get this sucker whipped into shape, so bear with me.

Ah, crap. I could have sworn I got rid of that thing. Don't interact with it. It was my first draft of the introduction, and it'll take you to a horribly messed up map. The games console is just to the right of the TV.

Archaon is working on a game. A GRAND game of EPIC proportions. What is the nature of this game, you ask? Well, as you might have surmised, it is named "The Troubleshooter", and you can read some of the details on it below. Mission Statement Plot Game World Characters This is just a small selection of the multitude of characters that will appear in the game, as party members and otherwise. I may add more as time goes on, but I don't want to give away too much. Please note that listed skills/overdrives are not finalised, and are likely to change over time. You Bobby Navi Kid Chameleon Simirror Kano Please note that due to the damnable character limit, I've had to split this post in two. You can find the rest of it towards the bottom of this page.

What have you tried, exactly? There's no point in us suggesting a bunch of solutions if you've probably already attempted them.

...I've been a fan of the Street Fighter series since I was six years old and I'm only just now noticing that Guile has no eyebrows. How the hell did that happen?

1. Finish him! 2. Finish her!

"So it's a sword, right, but it's also a motorcycle."

http://noreload.blogspot.com/ First thing you're likely to notice is that it's been something like eight months since I updated this sucker. All being well, though, it's going to get resurrected in the near future. Watch this space.

Am I the only one who expected to hear Donna Summer start singing at 1:36?

Tekken 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00qgdHQ5PVA&feature=related Seriously.

I'll try not to make this too wordy for once. Long story short, I want to learn to play the keyboard, but the only place that does actual lessons around here is way too friggin' expensive. (Almost $60 for a one hour session? I think not.) Can any of you musically inclined folks recommend any books or applications on this subject?

Ooh, MvC2. Totally forgot about that one. Hayato. I swear to Christ and all that is holy that I CANNOT make his plasma combos to work. I can get maybe one or two of them to execute properly, but the rest just refuse to come out no matter how many times I try and no matter how I push the buttons. And it's not like I'm just looking at a bad command list either. I mean, they're plastered all over the Internet. Every single movelist I've looked at for Hayato has the exact same list of plasma combos and ALMOST NONE OF THEM WORK. And it can't possibly be that I'm pressing the buttons wrong, because one of them just involves holding back and pressing HP twice. That's it. AND IT DOESN'T EVER WORK.

...that you really like, but can't use to save your life? Mine's Raphael of the Soul Calibur series. He's got style, no question, but he's also a real badass when you think about it. Pretty much everyone in the Soul Calibur universe has some kind of advantage, be it an enchanted weapon, a suit of armour, magical powers or just being really friggin' big. Raphael's got nothing but a plain old rapier and some fancy clothes, and yet he can go toe to toe with the likes of Nightmare and Darth Vader. Except when I use him. I don't know what it is, but I just can't seem to get the hang of his moves. No matter how much I dodge and weave with his Preparations or try to bust out a nice juggle, I almost always just seem to end up spamming 6BBB until someone's KOed. Same thing applies to Slayer in the Guilty Gear series. Damned cool and sophisticated character that I haven't got a hope in hell of beating anyone with, ever. EDIT: How the hell did this get in here? THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN COMMUNITY. WHERE IS THE DELETE BUTTON OH GOD.

It's not that bad. I mean, not since they fixed the game breaking bugs. Good luck doing anything except getting carved into bloody chunks as Dark Eldar, though. Hell if I know. One assumes that they've made some substantial changes to the game's mechanics and they didn't have the time to apply them to more than four new races. I'm guessing they didn't go with the original four from the first game because Chaos was "too similar" to the Space Marines. And because the Tyranid players were probably starting to bitch a bit after three expansions and no appeasement.

Is it bad that I only just now made the connection between Defilers and giant enemy crabs?

Oh yeah? WELL WHY DON'T YOU GO AND HIDE BEHIND A ROW OF BASILISKS AND CRY ABOUT IT.

Piffle. Nobody cares about Tyranids except Tyranid players, and they're too busy looking up Xenomorph porn and stripping the junk food sections of your local supermarket of all organic matter for anyone to care what they think. One thing I really hoped they'd do with this one is introduce army variations. For those of you who haven't played the tabletop game, (almost) every army has various factions, chapters, regiments or whatever that each have slightly differing playstyles. To use those attention-hogging Space Marine bastards as an example, the White Scars legion focuses heavily on maneuverability, fast attacks and lightning-strike tactics, whereas the Blood Angels prefer to just charge screaming into melee and carve up some shit. It would have been a lot of work, but by god it would have been worth it. It'd mean people would more or less be free to choose the army they liked, rather than the army that best suits their playstyle, since you'd more or less be able to cater to any playstyle with every army using this method. Right now, though, they're just glorified colour schemes. Thousand Sons need some love, damn it.

There's no Chaos. So basically, to hell with it.

Am I going crazy or did this thread get locked at some point yesterday?

The movie. And no, not just because of the gratuitous Chun-Li shower scene.

Well. At least the animated movie was pretty sweet.

That animation doesn't have anything to do with the game. It's just a short movie that Sega decided to release in accompaniment to it.