Yep server issues and busted matchmaking are my only real gripe. Game’s a great approach to adapting the first game into a more mainstream genre. The other minor issue being that any time you load into a game you get little cutscenes of your character that last just a few seconds too long and they can’t be skipped.

I got my Dreamcast for Soul Calibur as well but the games that drew my interest were Street Fighter Alpha 1 & 2. The fighting pad for DreamCast was days ahead of the competition and helped me train for local Street Fighter tournaments at Golfland USA in Sunnyvale, CA back in the heyday of Street Fighter local…

Everything these guys make is amazing. Yes, you can emulate everything on your phone/shoes/toaster till the end of time but for those who still have a special place in their hearts for the carts/hardware, their quality is above and beyond. Built like tanks and in the near decade since I started buying their consoles,…

It really is the former, grinding and running around hatching eggs in 3/4 games is not what the competitive Pokémon scene is about. The competitive scene is about strategizing, planning and reacting to RNG, not about how many times do I beat a game to get the perfect Enamorus

The only reason Gf has eventually started to champion 4v4 and 3v3 formats is in an effort to make games go faster, but from a global standpoint it really limits the strategical possibilities of the system, which is explicitly built around a 6 mon team (a philosophy still present in almost every aspect of pokemon…

Why am I not surprised at the flood of anti-Smogon crying in this comment section?

Every time, I swear, the same wave of “those people do not play the game like I think they should, booooo!” It’s as bad as competitive vs. noncompetitive Smash players.

If it wasn’t for half-life and it’s available editor tools, i probably never would have been working in the CGI industry for almost 15 years.
Getting used to 3D workflow as a teen, messing about with scripts and animation timing. I built maps for myself to play in CounterStrike with ai that I had to use a pathing tool…