Life With Imaginary Power Ups #24: It's Christmas Time!

*Our local FGC for both Namco (Tekken, Naruto) and Capcom (SF, Mahvel) sides is thriving and I just hope it continues through next year. Hopefully other communities for games like Guilty Gear and KOF start showing up and build up, too. Represent!

*Speaking of Naruto, I recently held my first Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 tourney... And let me you...Kids get crazy when they get ridiculously competitive. Hype compares to Mahvel Hype. No joke.

*Namco just recently released that vampire babe Eliza into it's free to play Tekken Revolution. I immediately noticed she can add her fireball into her combos...I see you Namco, testing it out for TekkenXSF..:)

*For gift giving during Christmas, I always try to give out quirky and sentimental gifts. I assume that the person I'm giving it to makes them think that I am a deep, meditating person who has gone through the effort of getting them something worthwhile to remember. If that fails, fuck it, give them shoes. Or shirts.  #xmassolved

*Practice really does pay off. One of my achievements for 2013 that I am so happy about is that I can now do plink combos in SF4. Sure it do miss it at pressure moments (unavoidable, still :( ) but at least I understand it to a point where I can teach it to others. Helping me to helping you. Win-win.

*One of these days I am gonna find the time to do a Ghibli marathon. Respect for Hayao Miyazaki's work.

*I just watched the annual Holiday Adventures of Gooteks and Mike Ross 2013. Christmas complete :)

* Fun Filler Facts:
=I posted this issue on December 24, 2013!
=This issue of LWIP is my age, too!
=It's also Kobe Bryant's current Jersey Number.
=Irish singer Jem has a song called '24' in her Finally Woken album. Pretty good.
ugghh...what else...
=It's the number of hours in as single day!
=When you add this two numbers, you get 6!
=It comes after 23...and apparently, comes before 25!

Hahaha I'm out peace y'all! Happy Holidays!




-Chady

My Personal SSF4AEver2012 Tier List: In the land of Vortexes and Unblockables

As 2013 draws to a close and the new iteration of SF4 (Ultra!) looms closer, I am posting my personal tier list for Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition version 2012 (Whew Capcom, why so long?). Now again, this is my personal opinion and I am not trying to jam this in anyone's face. I did this as a kind of reminder for future me as he looks back into his time of AEver2012. This iteration of SF has become one of my most favorites (next to 3rd Strike.) and it would be interesting to see and compare my concepts then and now. I have played around with most of the roster and I've already watched a gajillion match vids both local and international and this is what I came up with.


Top 5 S                     Rounding out the top 10 A
Akuma                       Adon
Cammy                      Sakura
C.Viper                      Yun
Fei Long                    Ibuki
Seth                           Rufus

Upper Mid Tier
Abel, Ryu, Sagat, Gen, Makoto, Balrog,
Oni, Juri, Bison, Zangief

Mid Tier
Dhalsim, Guile, Cody, Ken, Rose

Somewhat Lacking in a certain Department Tier
Yang, Guy, Blanka, Gouken

Bottom Tier
Honda, Fuerte, Dee Jay, Dudley, Hakan

Low Tier
Evil Ryu, Chun Li, T,Hawk, Vega, Dan


-Chady