Texas Showdown Around the Corner

So here I am, approaching another year at Texas Showdown/Showdown Championships here in Houston and its literally 1 week away from today. Excited? Sure, the event is on the Evo circuit and Evo seeding points will be awarded so that's a plus. More info on the events Evo here and Showdown here. We got players like Justin Wong and Mike Ross coming down so it should be quite an interesting event.

Should I be worried about any players in particular? NOPE! I've played far to long to let anyone's name or reputation put fear into my game. I'm going into every match confident as one should be.

The games I'm playing are:
King of Fighters XII
Super Street Fighter4 AE 2012
Soul Calibur 5
Street Fighter x Tekken
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (PURELY for shits and gigles)

Really really looking forward to a successful weekend as I'll be rooting for my fellow Houstonians and Texans versus the out of state comp. I wish the best of luck to all competitors no matter where you're from and hope that you have an enjoyable time within the competition and the Anime Matsuri event as well.

GOOD LUCK~

Street Fighter X Tekken and My Thoughts~

So the game I've waited for finally hit and like everyone else I've dropped a good chunk of time into the game (even before writing this). My impressions are still the same as from when I played it at Evolution, the game has a great deal of creativity within it. I feel that the game is only limited to the player's imagination. So many different combinations lead to so many unique situations is pretty nuts. Playing the early build at Evo, again at SoCal Regionals to this final build just has me in complete amazement because of the creativity one can come up with.

Currently I'm trying out Xiaoyu and Hwoarang for now. At Evo I had to scrub it up and play Ken to help suffice for my lack of knowledge with the game and Hwoarang. Xiaoyu was a character I had a feeling if I went into the lab (training room) with her, I'd feel right at home and I sure do feel at home. Her mobility is just what I was looking for in a character for this game. She has a multitude of trickery that I think has a great deal of potential. Her damage output is really solid for someone her size too! *YES~* The synergy between her and Hwoarang is more than I expected and I'm still finding things out as I go.

Generally I'm enjoying the game however I think the online experience could be a bit better for sure. It's not unplayable ENTIRELY but it has its faults. For example sometimes opponents teleport across the screen for one. Second the rollback feature hurts the sound of the game by cutting sound clips out during the match which can be quite painful if a player relies on sound cues to react to things. Other than that there are input problems apparently with the game in regards to diagonals in inputs. I hardly feel this happen but when it does its no good lol. Not to mention there are infinite combos being discovered even as I type this lol. I don't mind them because you can always limit them to 3 reps in a tournament and call that a day. Luckily Capcom is releasing a patch to remedy these issues so the overall experience with the game will be even better than it is now.

All in all this game is extremely fun and has the things that I like in a game. So I'm all in on this one~!

outtro~