SC4, Worldcon

[mneme]

Worldcon was fun, if somewhat amorphous. I filked, harped, gamed (lots of Race for the Galaxy on Sunday; Monkeys on the Moon and Early American Chrononauts and a few other games before that), socialized, and even went to the GOH speach, where Bulhold talked about her early days in fandom and why there will probably not be more than five Chalion books (and that no, the next Vor book won't be an Ivan book, though we're still working on her to write one, and it's apparently a common question. And I was Jupiter in Sue DG's Giant Sized Schoolhouse Rock-based Masquerade entry (which won a craftsmanship award for clarity of execution, surprising Susan, and a performance award for being silly, er, "Best scientific defense of the indefensible"), which more or less ate Friday.

In my spare moments (and some not-spare ones), I've been playing Soul Calibur IV for the PS3 -- which is hella fun if you like fighting games (I do, though I'm terrible at them). Played on line last night, and proved to be a colossal fish, though it was fun and I did win four matches (of, oh, 24 -- won one ranked match of 10, then spanked one opp twice in a friendly room before he kicked me (for being too good? who knows?), then lost five matches to a very good opponent who had created Street Fighter themed versions of several characters (Chun Li with Taki's style; M. Bison with Centares's; he used the iconic moves that made these work, too), finally played another opponent who I beat 3/2 once, and then lost six matches (but not infrequently winning some games) to, which was actually fun and satisfying. In online play, I'm a collossal fish, (and I need to make an Amy custom character that's designed for a distinctive look, not mucking with the mechanical microgame), but it's fun anyway, and I'll hopefully improve with practice.

Mind, my harping has suffered a bit; I've been trying to get -some- practice in, but after a bit of work, the tension between moar SC4 and harpwork is a bit high...

Comments

[avram]

Crossover had a copy of Soulcalibur, and quility got frighteningly good at it. How good? She could handicap herself by playing with a Dance Dance Revolution pad instead of the normal controller and still win much of the time.

[mneme]

Wow.

Does a DDR pad even have equivalents for all four buttons plus eight (well, four + combos) directional inputs?

[jl8e]

The buttons are in the corners, and you can do diagonaly by combining the cardinals.

That said, there are going to be moves you just can't do, because you need too many inputs.

[lordess.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I haven't played Soul Caliber in years! Excellent :)

[mneme]

Cool; didn't you you'd played.

So, you play Ivy, right? :)

[lordess.livejournal.com]

Heh...yeah. Is it that obvious?

[jl8e]

All the cool kids play Ivy. :)

(Josh plays Talim and Amy.)

And just about everybody looks at Ivy's latest redesign and says "um.... no." :(

(Fortunately, costume #2 is ok, and there's an extensive Barbie mode.)

[lordess.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Ivy's new design. How bad is it?

[jl8e]

It's pretty bad. They made her breasts bigger, and she's wearing even less.

If you look at my lj, there's a recent post commenting on my impressions of the game, and I included a link to an image. You really need to see the costume for the full 'WTF?'

[mneme]

Well, it's an obvious guess, anyway. :P

Ivy was actually the first character I spent any work on myself, though I've been concentrating on Talim and Amy in this game and SCIII.

shapeless fun

[wanton-heat-jet.livejournal.com]

BLANK "was fun, if somewhat amorphous."

Truer words, truer words...

Re: shapeless fun

[mneme]

*laugh* Well, yes. Memories get hazy pretty quickly, and often, reality doesn't fit into neat boxes.