I did the right thing but why do I feel so both like an idiot and incredibly frustrated. I even censored the names involved. I don't even know who I am protecting at this point. I need a stiff drink
Thursday, October 16, 2014
An exercise in Frustration
I did the right thing but why do I feel so both like an idiot and incredibly frustrated. I even censored the names involved. I don't even know who I am protecting at this point. I need a stiff drink
Saturday, June 7, 2014
It's finally time to hand things over
Today marks the end of Minna Con mb tournament which will also mark my time to run anymore tournaments.
Just to clarify I will still be playing fighting for games. This just means I will no longer be the active person running the tournament.
I have been running tournaments for the last few years and I personally have been looking forward to just joining a tournament and not worry about things going wrong.
Like to thank the many people who helped me over the years running tournaments. Could have never done it without you guys.
With this I can put down the tag of being a tournament organizer.
Long live fighting games.
Just to clarify I will still be playing fighting for games. This just means I will no longer be the active person running the tournament.
I have been running tournaments for the last few years and I personally have been looking forward to just joining a tournament and not worry about things going wrong.
Like to thank the many people who helped me over the years running tournaments. Could have never done it without you guys.
With this I can put down the tag of being a tournament organizer.
Long live fighting games.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Goals, Targets and to get as much as possible out of attending a tournament
Less than 5 minutes ago I posted on Facebook MeltyBlood group with first a goal and a couple of targets to meet before the upcoming Minacon tournament for Meltyblood Actress Again Current Code.
I thought I just want to quickly explain the reason I am doing this.
I realize most people in Singapore don't join tournaments because you know they will not win the tournament. Like "these guys are so good I have no chance".
I mean sure winning a tournament is THE THING to do but realistically there is only 1 winner out of so many players joining a tournament. So what about the folks who like me are not that great, growing old which leads to less time available to grind it out getting better.
For me I would personally set a goal I would want to meet. This round I chose to be place as high as possible using not my main character Aoko and opting for Arche-type earth instead. The actual position I am aiming for is actually at least fourth place in the tournament.
With my goal decided, I set some targets I need to achieve to get myself ready to meet this goal. So I told everyone I want to play 1000 matches with Arche-type Earth and hopefully meet the 1000 matches. What happens if I don't play 1000 matches but 700? That's actually fine. That is how you set targets to achieve then do it. Hitting the target in this case would be great but not always possible. The idea here is to get as many matches in as possible and learn match ups and break my own bad habits.
Second I be streaming my progress. Why to I do that? This is more for helping people see how I get myself. I notice most folks to not know how to prepare themselves for tournaments. So by streaming this I be able to show people how I do it and what I do.
So well with that out of the way, lets see how I place in this tournament.
I thought I just want to quickly explain the reason I am doing this.
I realize most people in Singapore don't join tournaments because you know they will not win the tournament. Like "these guys are so good I have no chance".
I mean sure winning a tournament is THE THING to do but realistically there is only 1 winner out of so many players joining a tournament. So what about the folks who like me are not that great, growing old which leads to less time available to grind it out getting better.
For me I would personally set a goal I would want to meet. This round I chose to be place as high as possible using not my main character Aoko and opting for Arche-type earth instead. The actual position I am aiming for is actually at least fourth place in the tournament.
With my goal decided, I set some targets I need to achieve to get myself ready to meet this goal. So I told everyone I want to play 1000 matches with Arche-type Earth and hopefully meet the 1000 matches. What happens if I don't play 1000 matches but 700? That's actually fine. That is how you set targets to achieve then do it. Hitting the target in this case would be great but not always possible. The idea here is to get as many matches in as possible and learn match ups and break my own bad habits.
Second I be streaming my progress. Why to I do that? This is more for helping people see how I get myself. I notice most folks to not know how to prepare themselves for tournaments. So by streaming this I be able to show people how I do it and what I do.
So well with that out of the way, lets see how I place in this tournament.
Monday, March 17, 2014
What an awful way to do a character review
Let's get elephant out of the way. This character review is awful. Capcom has no money to do this update. Ono back pedaling on the hype of the 5th character after he realized what he had done.
So why the collective sigh from the gaming community in general? It stems from really poor marketing decisions.
First, they shouldn't have reviewed the "good" known characters first. They should have reviewed Decapre first than the rest of the known four character first. This would soften the fact it is a clone character.
Second, they should have reviewed the character in January than now which is a month away from release. The need to balance letting the game stay in people's mind and game being totally forgotten is a hard juggle all the more Capcom should not have held the hype for such a long time. Huge expectations tend to build up over long period take for example Duke Nukem Forever. The game of course never delivered what it promised.
Lastly, everyone could see this is the easiest character to develop for the game since Capcom doesn't have any resemblance of a budget to work.Oh and come on with the hints. We least expected it to be a Bison doll. The issue comes when it resembles too much like one of the characters and putting the label "new" on it. Clones are brought up a lot like evil Ryu though evil Ryu in SF4 has slightly different standing animation, different character models, different properties to some of his moves and overall visually people can tell it is a "different" character. You can't simply lie to people and expect people to take that Decapre is a "new" character when the 3D model and most of the animations are borrowed from Cammy. Even changing the hair model with the same standing animation would make a lot of difference at this point.
On the same note look at the character review for Dead or Alive 5 Kasumi Clone phase 4. People were not too impressed by it but collectively nobody felt like it was that much of a negative. Why? Simply because Tecmo Koei did not try to hype this extra character as new. Prior to this Kasumi they did review a totally new character from ground up which is Marie. There is some good will there and people can understand they are getting something more not less.
Overall really stupid and awful marketing decisions by Capcom which will take away more good will they accumulated from the past memories of the well crafted games they used to make.
So why the collective sigh from the gaming community in general? It stems from really poor marketing decisions.
First, they shouldn't have reviewed the "good" known characters first. They should have reviewed Decapre first than the rest of the known four character first. This would soften the fact it is a clone character.
Second, they should have reviewed the character in January than now which is a month away from release. The need to balance letting the game stay in people's mind and game being totally forgotten is a hard juggle all the more Capcom should not have held the hype for such a long time. Huge expectations tend to build up over long period take for example Duke Nukem Forever. The game of course never delivered what it promised.
Lastly, everyone could see this is the easiest character to develop for the game since Capcom doesn't have any resemblance of a budget to work.Oh and come on with the hints. We least expected it to be a Bison doll. The issue comes when it resembles too much like one of the characters and putting the label "new" on it. Clones are brought up a lot like evil Ryu though evil Ryu in SF4 has slightly different standing animation, different character models, different properties to some of his moves and overall visually people can tell it is a "different" character. You can't simply lie to people and expect people to take that Decapre is a "new" character when the 3D model and most of the animations are borrowed from Cammy. Even changing the hair model with the same standing animation would make a lot of difference at this point.
On the same note look at the character review for Dead or Alive 5 Kasumi Clone phase 4. People were not too impressed by it but collectively nobody felt like it was that much of a negative. Why? Simply because Tecmo Koei did not try to hype this extra character as new. Prior to this Kasumi they did review a totally new character from ground up which is Marie. There is some good will there and people can understand they are getting something more not less.
Overall really stupid and awful marketing decisions by Capcom which will take away more good will they accumulated from the past memories of the well crafted games they used to make.
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