I could do some stuff on soul caliber 4
if anyone’s interested.

Successful developers know the importance of designing their games differently from their contemporaries to give the gamers a unique experience when they are playing them. It is not always necessary to change the theme of the game radically just because someone else has used a similar one (if that was the case then games like Tekken, Soul Calibur, Mortal Kombat etc would not have seen any success after the one vs. one fighting theme was established by King of Fighters, Street Fighter etc.)

Dog Wars might not be able to provide you with an experience that is one of a kind but it would definitely be able to give you a fun time that would make you come back for more.

Objective of the Game
The objective of the game is best summarized by the content of the info section provided by the developers “Become a dog, give yourself a name, choose a breed, and work your way up to become Facebook’s top dog!”. Those who are put off by the unusual nature of the objective and decide that they have other applications they rather spend their idle time in than becoming a dog would be missing out a treat.

The Good

1) The whole concept of the game smells of freshness. Just think of a game that revolves around being a dog and turning yourself into a formidable creature with spell casting abilities and the skill to use dangerous equipments making the usage of fangs a thing of the past.

2) Many of the features of this game are inspired from the insanely famous game of Warcraft and another version of the game that is known as Defense of the Ancients or DOTA. You have items that give you evasive capabilities, damage boost, defense boost, etc. You also get recipes that allow you to combine items to forge more powerful ones and super rare items that give you huge upgrades in stats.

3) Different breeds of dogs that vary from each other in strength, agility and intelligence are at display to choose from. This gives you the unique chance of choosing and becoming the mutt of your choice and train to turn it into the ultimate pooch. The dogs have different primary attributes which get free boosts every time the dog levels up. All of these combined make choosing of the dog a very interesting part of the game.

4) The items and spells that the dogs use to fight each other are hilarious and yet cool. I taught my character to use lightning and sunbeam to deal damage to enemies during fights and as far as I see even more formidable yet funny ones are coming up as I level up.

5) The inclusion of evasive capabilities and damage boosters by varying factors mean that a lot of complicated calculation must be done before you can determine the true attack and damage of an opponent. There are items that reflect back the damage and also ones that multiply damage by some factor based on the difference of level or stat of the different dogs (I found this one especially intriguing).  This ensures that one has the chance to take on other players at higher levels if he/she has the right items and strategy.

6) The substitutions of the necessary components of similar games with things that would make sense if you were a dog have been done with some wise thinking. For example, the concepts of virtual money needed to buy the items have been replaced by bones and biscuits and the idea of having a bank to store the money has been replaced by dig sites where you dig a hole and hide your bones.

7) The explanations of how the abilities and attributes contribute to the fight have been kept simple yet effective.

The Bad
1) Each energy point is restored after every 3 minutes and this waiting can get boring once you get to higher level missions that require a lot of energy.

2) The explanations beside every attribute and beside certain items make the pages look messy at times and it can be corrected easily by putting relevant help files beside each attribute and items.

3) Color scheme and choice of fonts could have been better.

4) The complex calculation of damage (Base damage + Spell Damage + Equipment Damage + Damage Boost from Potions + Extra Damage due to Alliance) and defense (Base Defense + Defensive Spells + Defense from Equipments + Bonus Defense Received from Allies + Bonus Defense due to Potions + Health Rejuvenation Potions etc) might go over the head of casual users who would be left baffled thinking how they lost to a seemingly easier foe.

The Ending

It is a fun game and the learning curve is relatively low. With only 32, 000 users and an average rating of 3.9, I am sad to say that the game deserves a lot more and that the critics have been too harsh in judging it. You should definitely give this game a shot. Try it -Dog Wars

4 out of 5

Ostatni kwartał każdego roku to okres bardzo obfity w plebiscyty, które wyłaniają najlepsze gry w danej kategorii. Do miana najlepszej produkcji roku 2009 w kategorii Best Fighting Game na Video Games Award kandydują:

• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
• Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny
• Street Fighter IV
• Tekken 6

Głosowanie trwa do 12 grudnia. Na swoich kandydatów możecie oddać głos TUTAJ.

Kto jest Waszym faworytem?

Ecco i migliori picchiaduro del momento ai migliori prezzi!

Street Fighter 4 (versione PAL uk contiene Ita)

• PS3: 19.95£ da MyMemory.com (Voto MetaCritic: 9.4 critica, 8.0 utenza)
• Xbox360: 14.95£ da Zavvi.com (Voto MetaCritic: 9.3 critica, 7.9 utenza)
• PC: 17.73£ da TheHut.com (Voto MetaCritic: 9.1 critica, 8.7 utenza)

Tekken 6 (versione PAL uk contiene Ita)

• PS3: 34.73£ da TheHut.com (Voto MetaCritic: 8.0 critica, 7.8 utenza)
• Xbox360: 29.85£ da ShopTo.net (Voto MetaCritic: 8.0 critica, 6.5 utenza)

Blazblue (Versione NTSC in inglese, Xbox360 NON region free)

• PS3: € 41,99 da AlexMusic.com (Voto MetaCritic:  8.9 critica, 9.0 utenza)

Soul Calibur 4 (Versione PAL Uk contiene ITA)

• PS3: 12.95£ da Zavvi.com (Voto MetaCritic: 8.5 critica, 8.1 utenza)
• Xbox360: 12.95£ da Zavvi.com (Voto MetaCritic: 8.5 critica, 8.8 utenza)

A presto ulteriori aggiornamenti con nuovi giochi e nuovi prezzi.

Remember long ago when 3-D fighting games were in its infancy? First was Virtual Fighter, then Battle Arena Toshinden and Tekken.  I have to say Tekken was the perfect balance between VF and Toshinden. It had simulated martial arts attacks like VF but also had the character style like Toshinden. So what happened to this great balanced fighting game?

The first game was not at all a huge hit in the states. The game was shadowed thanks to Virtual Fighter 2, Killer Instinct and Street Fighter Alpha. However, It came back with the better sequel and made a big K.O. years later with Tekken 3.  I loved Tekken 3 and hated players of Eddie Gordo. The game was great to play and loved those entertaining endings.

When the PS2 came out players couldn’t wait for what Namco would make of Tekken 4.  Little did we know that the wait would be much longer then expected. Thankfully to fill the gap Tekken Tag came to arcades and soon after PS2. Finally when Namco announced Tekken 4 fans were promised a new designed gameplay, surreal graphics and new modes that would add replay value for hardcore fans.

What fans got was Tekken Tag minus the tag part. New modes that were nothing but yawn with frustration. So noted as a dud fans still bought it and Namco was quick to come out with Tekken 5 adding a few new characters and a slight tweek in the gameplay.  It was a breath of fresh air for fans but it was too little too late. Namco wasn’t hurting though since Soul Calibur was the top cash cow for the company. By then fighting games were all but dead and Tekken was in hibernation slumber.

So now Namco has released its sixth installment and it seems the Tekken gameplay, style, characters remain alive and unchanged. At least Street Fighter 2 Alpha (Street Fighter4) changed something in its franchise. While Tekken keeps its old and true formula like some kinda flavored water thats been around way too long. Basking in the hot sun and freezing  cold for years. Their comes a time to drain the water out and get some fresh water in the bottle.

That’s what Namco needs to do. I say its time to kill all the characters and gameplay. Re-invent the franchise making old fans addicted to a new fight engine and new fans coming for story and characters. I remember when Namco claimed Tekken used real martial arts in the game. I say its time to make a fighting engine that is simple to play, hard to master and entertaining to watch.  Now a days its same Tekken with the same characters and just another wasted franchise.

We actually didn’t do that web page training thing today at work.  I guess it’s going to be next week instead.

I think I made it until about 7pm this evening when I saw “your” used improperly again.  I’m telling you, I see it every day.  It’s not a typo, either.  These people really don’t know how to use “you’re”.  I also saw it a few times after that, as well.  It’s so annoying.

By the way, if you ever see me use a word incorrectly or spell something incorrectly, please tell me.  I, unlike the other ignorant idiots in the world, would actually like to know the proper way.  Unless it’s just a typo… I do make typos all the time… especially when I’m at work and I can only get to my blog and facebook through a remote window which has a slow response time and makes it difficult to type and even more difficult to correct mistakes.

Well, as the subject here implies, it is bedtime.  Lisa and I played Soul Calibur IV for a little while.  That game really is a lot of fun.  Shura FTW!

I guess I don’t really have anything else to say…. OH oh… I’ve been coughing a lot lately.  It’s strange how I was super sick for over a week, heavily congested, and barely coughing.  Now that I am feeling better, and hardly congested at all, I can barely stop coughing.  It really doesn’t make much sense to me.

I watched a few more of those FAIL toy reviews.  Some of them are really pretty funny.  I can’t believe some of the toys that were put on the market.  Some of them are so blatantly inappropriate, it’s surprising the companies don’t get sued… that I know of, anyway.

Well, time to pee and go to bed… in that order.

Llego de nuevo con los juegos de PSX ejecutables y portables, por fin!!!

Ahora si me dan ganas de jugarlo...xD

Ahora les traigo el juego que dió inicio a una de las sagas más conocidas y populares por parte de Namco, se trata de la saga Soul Calibur.

Este título recibió originalmente el nombre de Soul Edge en Japón y fue lanzado primero para las arcadias y posteriormente para el PSX (en América y en Europa su nombre cambió a Soul Blade). Cabe mencionar que este juego tuvo 3 diferentes versiones, una mejor que otra…

En este juego hacen su aparición la mayoría de los personajes que aparecen en los demás juegos de la saga como Mitsurugi, Cervantes o Siegfried.

Aquí el link de descarga:
Soul Blade (PSX, ejecutable)

Gracias por tu visita!!!

Oláaa og vou postá dinovo sobre wallpapers e mais tarde vo conta uma historia q aconteceu lá na escola o titulo será O FUJITIVO vcs entenderão pq esse nome!!!! a e tbm vou indicar a ves um site muito boom num sei se vcs ja conhecem o site é http://www.vertvonline.org/ quem quizer entra lá da pra ver tv paga e tbm tem um histórico de filmes da pra assistir jogo de futebol, seriados e muito mais entrem lá para ver !!!! Depois comentem se gostaram!!!! Agora vamos ao q interessa!

1º  Começando com SOUL CALIBUR 4

2º Esse dá meedoo Sillent Hill

3º Na minha opinião esse é o jogo mais esperado por todos!! GOD OF WAR 3!!!

POR agora é só pessoal!!! mas tarde eu posto!!!

Si algunas veces tienes ganas de asesinar a tu jefe, si extrangularías al profe de mates o tirarías a tu madre de un puente, ahora puedes liberar toda tu agresividad por la patilla con Blades of Fury.
¡Prepárate para el submundo!

Por el bien de los que te rodean, bájatelo (que es GRATIS) y déjate de movidas Zen y asanas de Yoga. Oooooohhmmmmm…

DESCARGAR BLADES OF FURY GRATIS AQUI

Esse fim de semana estava jogando Soul Calibur IV com uns amigos quando lembrei que a roupa da Ivy foi censurada no japão por ser muito insinuadora.

O comentário imdeiato foi: mas logo os japoneses, que são safados pra tudo! E não é que é verdade mesmo, não sei qual o nome desse programa japonês, mas só encontro barbaridades nele, um exemplo:

Mas os da Ivy não podem!

Below are three paintings I’ve been working on.

Soul Calibur: Amy Sorel

If you’ve played Soul Calibur III, you’ll recognise the pose and look of Amy Sorel from her wallpaper, although I gave her a new outfit here. I’m not sure when I’ll continue this, but hopefully soon. I’m most happy with her little nose and lips. ^^

Lordi: Enary

I started a painting of Erna Siikavirta, who used to be known as Enary (this is the Valkyrie Enary look for Erna) when she was apart of Lordi, for her birthday which was October 8th, and passed recently. Right now, the colours are a tad bright, but I’ll be hopefully getting them a bit more dull in colour so as to represent her stage name of Enary. I really admire Erna/Enary very much, and I hope to become a talented keyboardist/pianist like her someday. ^_^

Blade Runner: Pris

Ahh, my namesake character, Pris from Blade Runner. She’s my absolute favourite alongside Roy <3 and Sebastian. ^_^ This was a quick painting I started one night while letting Kitten borrow the computer. I think it came good for a quick painting, and I might continue it sometime as her outfit is not exactly right, and the background looks a little out of place over her left shoulder, methinks.

A bit late on schedule, but none-the-less I bring to you yet another episode of MYK’s Tekken Time! This episode I interview one of the best, if not the best Dragunov players in the country, Aris!

Topics Covered:

• Discussion on Aris being World Champion in Soul Calibur II, and how the Soul Calibur series have progressed til now
• Patching up fighting game
• Tekken 6 -> BR changes for the better
• Discussion on Dragunov from T6 to BR
• Aris’ top 5 list
• Strategy books relating them to fighting games
• His legendary beard

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The first of the six attacking stratagems.

13.  Stomp the grass to scare the snake.

I remember this stratagem as “hit the grass to startle the snake” but its the same thing.  Basic idea is to do something wild so you force your opponent to reveal their intentions, their spirits.  Of course there is an unwritten but well known addendum to this and it says that an imprudent act (unwise) will give your intentions away.  You must intelligently decide on what spectacular but negligible move/tactic you want to do and be ready to capitalize on your opponent’s surprise should they show any.  If you just decide to throw out whatever randomly without a plan, then all you did was give up your strategy to your opponent who will surely take advantage of the fact.

So what can you do to scare the snake?  Well, the handfake for sure.  While you don’t actually do a move in game or anything, you still move your hand in a way to scare the snake in your opponent.  Do it too much, however, and your opponent will realize what an ass you are and just ignore and overcome.

A great application of this stratagem is hitting buttons when you don’t actually have to.  If you know me, then you have a good idea what this stratagem is;  hitting buttons during combos.  Fine, you are juggling me.  It’s cool, you hit your launcher and now you get to take your 40-50% life.  Nothing I can do about it, right?

Nope, wrong.  During your combo, I’m going to be mashing my buttons.  If you are unprepared for this onslaught of clacking during the time which you usually get to only hear your own buttons clicking, then you are going to panic (SSS: startled snake syndrome) and drop that combo.  I’m expecting this.  I get up and reset positions.  Best case scenario, I get up, opponent doesn’t recover from dropping the combo and continues a laggy string/move and I punish with my own launcher + juggle.  And if the opponent doesn’t drop the combo?  Well, no big.  Would have happened anyway.

Another Tekken example, you are grounded.  Your opponent is close and is putting you in a bad situation.  He’s immune to the hand fake so you can’t use that to get up freely.  What can do you to get him off you and reset the situation?  Push 2.  He hears this and expects movement.  You stay on the floor because you pushed the meaningless 2 button on the floor; it does nothing!  Slight hiccup in the plan lets you get up safely.

Another, weird, example of this.  There was this guy who was pretty good at Soul Calibur.  He’d beat me and place top 5 in locals.  I thought he was decent and would do well when he went to play in Arizona or some other place that isn’t Cali.  Well, he got rolled.  This made me think that he wasn’t actually that good in the first place, that there had to be some trick to his placing well.

Turns out that this dude listened to button taps and would GI on reaction.  Of course when confronted about it he would say that he just GI’s naturally and has a really good knack for sniffing them out, but on close inspection of his game, I knew for sure that he listened and reacted accordingly.  Against stick users in an environment that semi-quiet, he would GI a ton, like at least 3 per round.  Stick user in a loud environment, no GI.  Pad user; no GI.

Not saying that it was “cheap” or “unfair” that he did this because it wasn’t.  Might as well use it to your advantage right?

So I couldn’t beat him.  He was good already but with this tactic that he subconsciously used he was impossible because my post GI skills are terrible and all he had to do was listen to beat most of my post GI gameplan.  So I thought of this stratagem and decided on a new course of action; hit buttons that arent assigned to any function, dead buttons, loudly.  So during our games, I would hit those dead buttons and, sure enough, he would whiff a GI attempt.  After a few sessions of this, he stopped trying to react to sounds because of all the baits I was throwing at him.  Hit the grass with a dead button and the snake got startled enough to whiff GIs.

Brings up the interesting debate of Pad vs. Stick, but its dead and done with to me.  Pad wins by far, but I’ll still use a stick because I’m not a faggot scrub woman.

Okay, so there’s not really a game called Street Fighter 7 Alpha Championship Edition. HOWEVER, if there was, it would probably look like the awesome “Super Turbo Arena 2″ that is the gamersport played in the year 2051, as portrayed in the amazing action-short “Turbo”.

Check out this trailer:

Any gamer who has a pulse HAS to be excited to see this kind of thing. Personally, I’d love to see a feature-length version of the same story.

Mind, you, the story is a little played out: “kid with dead-end life is good at something. Really good. Has a family member with a disability though and needs to be responsible for him. Girl rival sees talent and gives dead-end kid encouragement and a chance to succeed. Epic battle against the evil reigning champion for all the glory ensues. Cut to black.”

So yeah, it’s pretty much Karate Kid for the Street Fighter/virtual reality set. But honestly, does that sound bad?

No. It sounds like awesome meat piled high on an awesome burger with a side of awesome fries.

Not to mention, I’d give a body part to be able to play this game. The time is coming though, and it’s not as far as 2051, says this OtakuDad.

To see the entirety of Turbo (and you should), check it out at Vimeo.

Oh, and ladies? I hear there’s a guy from Twilight in there. I have no idea, because I don’t dig on vampire porn. But yeah. Figured you should know.

Since the vast majority of traffic to this blog comes from Google searches for the guys in The 13 Hottest Men of Gaming, In Color, I thought I’d encourage the trend (read: pander to the masses) by giving some dap to the random people of color that show up in video games. We at Token Minorities know that it’s not easy being the only brown character in the instruction manual, guys, but we appreciate the pleasant surprise that comes up when we find you in the middle of your lily-white game world.

The inaugural character for Player Characters of Color is none other than Talim, from the Soul Calibur series.

While it’s no surprise to Token Minorities readers that one of the easiest places to find brown PCs is in fighting games, Talim gets extra dap for being the first Filipina in a video game and the least mindlessly sexified female character in a series that might as well have all their other women characters put the swords down and beat each other with their ballooning bosoms. That hasn’t stopped certain gaming magazines from including her in a swimsuit issue (PSM) or a “Girls of Gaming” spread (Play) – for shame, for shame.

Here’s hoping that she continues to kick colossal amounts of colonial ass with her two arm-blades while managing to wear more clothes than the rest of her female counterparts.

Matchup I’d like to see: Talim vs. Ferdinand Magellan.

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As I’ve settled into college life, certain trends begin to emerge. Trends such as over-drinking, eating, and sleep are commonly known, but I’ve found that gaming has grown into a pretty sizable chunk of college life. Every dorm has at least a laptop, but almost every dorm I’ve been to has had some gaming console. I’ve seen Xbox 360s, PS3s, and sometimes Wiis. Some dorms even have a combination of the three. Systems aren’t limited to this generation; I’ve seen a good share of PS2s and even N64s. So the question remains: what do you play in college? If you’re a freshmen or just interested, below are the games that I’ve seen most played.

3. Sports

Surprised? Shouldn’t be. Sports games are huge in college. Football, UFC, boxing, even soccer (or football) is accepted. The important thing about these games are that they are based off subjects that almost every guy can talk about. It even lets the jocks join in and feel comfortable.

2. Shooters

Shooters are hugely popular with the console crowd, so it’s no shock that it would be on the list of most played things at college. Shooters are perfect to play with a group of guys because of the excitement; bullets are flying, grenades are exploding, and people are screaming as their bodies go flying. With 4 player split-screen, the game takes on a whole new life. It can be a fierce competition or, if played in co-op, a bonding experience. Tip: Halo 3 seems to be the most popular, but Call Of Duty has also been known to draw a crowd.

1. Fighters

Yes, fighters are #1. It may seem strange that it beat shooters out, but think about it. Two people enter the game, fight using a system of combos and counters, and one person wins. The controller gets passed around. This simple process is what makes the fighter such an enduring genre in college life. Shooters involve more people and is less intense because of it. One on one, the players are center stage and are cheered on. Mastery of the game invokes gasps as combos are pulled off and everyone bands together to beat that one “crazy” player. Hint: Get a faster based fighter, such as Soul Calibur or Tekken. Slower games such as Street Fighter or King Of Fighters are harder to master, and therefore harder to play. You’re looking for a quick game, not a epic battle.