General gaming discussion

You sure you played Halo because it's very obvious you don't go for headshots as the big enemies have energy shields. It's more, use energy weapons to dissipate the shields (Disclaimer: but screw that, the ballistic weapons are weak but go 'bbbbrrrrrrr' with really meaty sound effects so we all just use them).

While we are all having love ins for PS3 games that don't deserve any love does anyone remember MAG?

I remember Sony bugging it up for ages, a fps game that supporter 256 players at once. I played the demo and my response was 'is this it?'. It just felt like a really bland battlefield yet despite it having 256 players it felt like a standard 8v8 game.

Apparently they have the guy that created VF back for this one after he spent time creating Tekken, then Tobal No.1 and the Bouncer. Apparently he is obsessed with fluid realistic blocking in fighting games so could well be part of the plan. I know Namco showed off Tekken 8 with 'not actual gameplay' which ended up being very close to actual gameplay.

The problem is it will come with Jak 2 which smells of poo.

Fighting game fans are eating well at the moment. SF6 and Tekken 8 being great VF on the way and Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolves looking to be an all time classic going by fgc people that have played the early builds.

MK always felt stiff to me. The old games are kind of bad imo especially compared to what was available from Capcom and SNK. The new ones have been much better admittedly but it still just feels wrong to me.

It's good to see fighting games get much better training modes. It's also frustrating that it took so long because it was a solved problem, VF4 evo on the PS2 had by far and away the best training in any fighting game and it's taken years for other games to come close. I remember when playing sf4 and being told the only way to learn how to FADC was to practice it for a week. Then there's stuff like KoF13 were I could t even finish the tutorial thanks to SNK 'pretzel' stick movement (which thankfully snk have abandoned and made some of the most accessible fighters available). SF6 seems to have made good in roads as well. You really need more than a training room, move lost and maybe some combo trials these days otherwise new players just feel intimidated.

Its a fighting game. Unless you are a top tier bellend then there's always BS to deal with! I'm amazed most of these games are as balanced as they are but there's always an imbalance in terms of characters and match ups.

As for SF6 you kind of learn that most aren't viable and you fall back on bread and butter combos with wide input windows and hit confirm that doesn't leave you open. The new mechanics are intimidating though even to me but it seems the windows on them are quite wide. I'd love to try and get into it this year.