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Hey guys!
I think it’s ok for me to post this now, since Beowulf has been announced as the other voted character!
Here he is posing with his chair “The Hurting” and holding the arm of his former Gigan opponent, Grendel.
So the order is:
Squigly
Big Band
Eliza
Beowulf
Robo Fortune.
Hype!!!!111
@ A @
Maybe it’s because of the way it was done leading to a vote of mine actually winning, but for once I feel like my vote actually mattered. Now if only we can use this same method for stuff that actually matters.
Yo, if you are one of those people who make a living off making Let’s Play videos on YouTube, that’s good, but keep in mind: You are making your living by filming yourself playing video games.
I’m pretty certain this whole genre will begin to become oversaturated as heck given how easy it is to do. If you are 100% certain this is what you want to do, you better have a backup plan if things go awry because they probably will in a few years time.
Not to mention that you are making money off someone else’s intellectual property. If a company decides they want that money for themselves, who are you to tell them off?
The people making money for themselves don’t deserve a cent, unless the entire video consists only of content they own in full, or if they’re getting sponsored. The people who make Let’s Plays to raise awareness and advertise freely for a company they like ought to be thrilled that they are directly benefiting the company once Content ID notices roll in. Because isn’t that the whole point of being a fan?
Proposed Video Game Tournament Structures
I learned there’s a thing called the Road to EVO 2013, where a bunch of lesser tournaments will submit their finalists to the main event of EVO. It reminded me of the Road to Wrestlemania, the only period of WWE programming (between the Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania) that matters in their internal continuity. As part of my desire for the fighting game community to be more like a wrestling promotion, I then came up with a Royal Rumble-style video game tournament format that may or may not end up a disaster.
An even number of participants are gathered and randomly assigned numbers. All players choose their characters and setups before the event starts and may not change them between matches. (Update: This stipulation is optional just because some people think that enforced matches are less fun than counter-picking.) Two pairs of players, numbered 1 through 4, are made to start the Rumble by playing their matches simultaneously. Like the Royal Rumble, competitors come out after a regular period. What happens at that time depends on whether any matches have finished by then:
- If a match ends before the countdown ends, the winner sits around until another player is available. It won’t be very long if the period is set to a good time. This can be a new entrant or the winner of another match also waiting for their next opponent.
- After the countdown, one player enters if someone is waiting for an opponent. Those two players start their match.
- If all current players are still in matches when the countdown ends, the next two players in line enter and start a match.
- If only one player is left in line, he enters immediately when an opponent is available, and not before.
- Players would be encouraged to stall or rush to get opponents they want, but the random factor will limit this strategy somewhat.
The biggest disadvantage of this format is that there could potentially up to a dozen matches that people will all have to watch at once. It will be basically impossible to cover in a stream and probably not much more fun to watch in person, but I would think the drama of waiting for fan favorite players to come out and sweep everyone would still be present. At the very least, I would like for the top players in a tournament to cut 30-second promos that tell why they are the best and should be feared.
Fighting game streams illustrated.
Ask Capcom > Thread > So Xover...
I did it! I saved Capcom!
The Greatest Ideas of 2012 (or possibly stupidest)
- An all you can’t eat buffet
- Group and military discounts on gastric bypasses
- BBBBBB, an 8-bit-style game about avoiding bees
- A fighting game where all of the characters are unnamed. The community would have to nickname all of them.
- My Little Oni
- An informant named Depperthroatt, who gives intel with an extremely disjointed and vulgar manner of speaking
- R.L. Steins;Gate
- In the 19th century, stomach worms were sold as a weight loss product. With current genetic engineering technology, we could bring that back — worms built with a lifespan of a few days and only eating fatty material in the meantime.
- Open a Kickstarter for $50 to buy the domains jme.com, fubmede.com, and venguaq.com and have them all redirect to http://www.bemanistyle.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?23-Forum-Boredom
- A fighting game with only effeminate gay dudes, to counteract the girls fighters that are all the rage
- Gangsta Tower Defense
- A new Pokérap with all 649 current Pokémon
- A kusoge game development contest
- A creepypasta Mega Man ROM hack that details his sad recent history, ending with his burial
- Regular Expression Show
- Kickstarters to stop other Kickstarters
- A Kickstarter equivalent for bounty hunters
- Kickstarters for ransoms. Milestones include parts of the victim and coerced personalized messages from them.
- Bullet hell Connect Four
- In a fighting game, keep control after timeout. If they keep fighting for too long, they’re bombed and DQed.
- Ms. Fortune as a Happy Wheels character
- How to protest excessive file-sharing penalties. Get busted for downloading music and get hit with 5 years in prison and the maximum fine. On the way to court, stab an innocent child and get arrested again. In the ensuing trials for both, say “At least the punishment feels fair now.”
- A JRPG with a schizophrenic. Your party is your multiple personalities and fight-or-flight makes them split.
- A game show without a host, i.e. one run by GLaDOS
- Dadaist martial arts
- I hear that Minecraft fans have a tendency to gang up on gaming YouTube channels and dislike all the videos if they want them to produce Minecraft videos. Rather than ostracize them, I would dare them: “If all of my videos get 500,000 dislikes, I will start doing Minecraft videos.” The ensuing war will be highly entertaining and the high dislike counts will attract bile fascination.
- YOLO: The Game - An online game that bans your IP when you die. You literally only get one life ever.
- A Twitter app called “YouTwit”, which narrates your tweets as the computer from Courage the Cowardly Dog
- A live-action adaptation of Flatland
- A fighting game whose rules shuffle randomly. It’s impossible to master, but that won’t stop dedicated fans.
- Wolfensteins;Gate 3D
- A JRPG where the protagonist is unconcerned with the crises that surround him, because he knows the ending
kids wb on saturday mornin, eat ceral with animanacs and justice friend
Let’s hope this escalates into some big gaming website front page story.
The Mega Man Network » Rockman Xover is 100,000 Strong
The title of this article is such a fantastic zinger to a certain internet petition that I couldn’t help but smile at the fact that Rockman Xover is apparently a success in the eyes of at least a few Capcom higher-ups. I just love how all this turned out. To recap:
- Mega Man Legends 3 gets canned.
- 100,000 Strong For Bringing Back Mega Man Legends 3 opens.
- Rockman Xover is announced, in complete defiance of what the fans wanted.
- It comes out, gets more users than the Facebook group has Likes, and a major Mega Man fansite delivers a masterful burn on the latter, even if unintentionally.
It’s almost as if everything led up to that last point. Breathtaking, if I say so myself. I almost don’t want to comment on it so as to let the precious irony speak for itself. Regardless, the story continues, and I hope more delicious sucker punches like this one come with it.
Reckless: Resident Evil 2 Remake?
Case in point for my Capcom article: Here’s an example of a fan effort that will NEVER EVER WORK.
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/resi2remake
JESUS CHRIST.
I made a post about this a month ago at least and I went back to see how the page is doing and…
ONLY A FEW HUNDRED MORE UNTIL 20,000.
Sign it now RE fans. Only takes 1 minute. EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT RESIDENT EVIL FAN, JUST DO…
Sure, they say it would help to show some interest, but from a purely business perspective, 20,000 is a very poor sales forecast for such a big project as this. Resident Evil games regularly sell on the order of millions of copies, and if I ran a business that had to push that many sales to break even, I wouldn’t take my chances on a petition from a bunch of wide-eyed fans who don’t know how best to expend corporate resources at any given moment.
