Diff'rent Games

This week was one of a variety of games.

Game 1: Marvel vs Capcom 2 - Since I don't own a Wii and therefore cannot play Tatsunoko vs Capcom, which looks awesome, I purchased MvC2 from the Playstation Store. I've messed around with it a little, but it's a bit overwhelming. There's 56 characters, I need to pick 3 and pick an assist for each of them. I'm not sure how I should go about picking a team I like. There's lists of the best teams out there, such as Magneto-Storm-Sentinel, but there are other teams that are used, and since I will never be playing at a high level, playing high level teams that require great execution isn't really needed. I've found a few sites that I want to read. Team XBox looks like it has some good info. Of course there are things to read on eventhubs and srk. Expect posts on triangle jumping and other crazy things you do in MvC2. Edit: I've removed the link to the article on screwattack. It's impossible to read and is absolutely useless. I should have looked at it more before hand.

Game 2: Mega Man 9 - If you are not aware, there are a couple of series under the Megaman name. Mega Man appended by a number are games in the original series. Other series use the X prefix and random words. The last pure Mega Man game released was 8, in 1996 (technically, there was Mega Man and Bass, but that was Japan only). Mega Man 9 was released in 2008 and its quite the throwback. 8-bit graphics, 8-bit music aaaaaaaaand as hard as always. I've never played any other Mega Man games, but I know that they are ridiculously hard. The game has not let me down in that regard. I've beaten one level so far (Galaxy Man), and am currently attempting to make it through Jewel Man's level because he is weak to the Black Hole Bomb I received from Galaxy Man. Even though I'm not very good (like you didn't see that coming), what I really like about Mega Man is that the enemies move generally move in a pattern and show up in the same places every time. So while I may die to somebody, next time I will be ready for them and be able to figure out how to get past them.

Game 3: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project - I've recently acquired a working NES and a few games. TMNT 1, 2 and 3 were included in the haul. 2 and 3 are very different from the first game in that they are a pretty standard beat-em-up, like Streets of Rage or the Simpsons Arcade Game. I had a friend over and we fired up Turtles 3. I don't think my friend cared too much (though she did enjoy hitting my turtle and killing me), but for me it was some great nostalgia. I hadn't played the game before, but just having both of us sitting 2 feet from the television, sitting cross legged was how I remember things were when all I had was a NES.
Edit: I just did a quick look at the Wikipedia article about the game and found out that if I had chosen 2 Player mode B, rather than 2 Player mode A, my friend would not have been able to kill me. Oh well.

Game Noticeably Absent: Street Fighter 4 - I still like this game and I'm still trying to learn it, but I didn't play much this week. I think I have said this before, but I don't know the best way to learn and not pick up bad habits in the process, not to mention break the ones I already have. Also, I'm not so sure on how to write the posts that I want to regarding SF4. I found a blog that does a lot of what I would like to do: The Tao of Street Fighter. I like his posts, but I certainly do not want to copy it. Hopefully I can figure it out. Otherwise the next 46 blog posts are going to be tricky.