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The Importance of Arcade Perfection in Fighting Games

Gamer Limit writes: "Recently, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was announced for the Playstation Network and XBox Live Arcade. While this was cool, it wasn't a surprise to anyone, either (someone I know from another website I visit called it "the gaming industry's worst-kept secret"). Still, when it was officially announced, even though we all saw it coming, most people were happy to hear it.

Personally, I was a little skeptical at first until Capcom released a fact sheet about the game. Most people were probably thrilled to hear about the netplay, or the anti-aliasing options. What finally got me excited about the release was the mention that the game would be based off of the Sega Dreamcast version.

What does this mean? Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 will be "Arcade Perfect", meaning that there are no gameplay-based phenomena that occur unless it would happen in the original arcade version. If you don't know why this is important, get ready for an important lesson."

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Fullish5455d ago

MvC2 wasn't very well balanced from memory.

chrisjc5455d ago

MvsCapcom 2 was the worst balanced game in history. Xmen vs. Street Fighter was pretty unbalanced, but then again, every character had an infinite, as opposed to other vs games, where only a few had them. Balance? You tell me.

Ziriux5455d ago

Yea sure is important look at Tekken it kicks ass in the arcades.

Dimly5455d ago

Ahh, but is anything really "perfect?"

SkankinGarbage5455d ago

Yeah it's true, XMvSF is considered pretty well-balanced, if only because every character has a braindead-easy infinite.

Still, there are about 15-20 usable characters in MvsC2 high level play. When you compare that to other games, the level of usable characters isn't bad at all; it only sucks to look at the 30-35 other completely useless characters, lol!

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5 Of The Best Narrative Twists In Video Games

GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds

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Rebel_Scum1d 5h ago

With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?

Not clicking on your article otherwise.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.