MALADROITHIM'S PROFILE

author=kentona link=topic=915.msg12497#msg12497 date=1208562565
Yeah, I still don't know who Dan is. Kinda looks like Ryu from Street Fighter.

Dan is a joke character from the Street Fighter series (specifically Street Fighter Alpha 1-3 or however many they made). He has all the same moves as Ken and Ryu, except they are worse -- they either move more slowly, do less damage, or both. Curiously, his fireball will go destroy and go through Ken and Ryu's fireballs, but it travels more slowly and only halfway across the screen so it still suck. Note that Ken and Ryu have red and white robes respectively, while Dan is stuck with the a very unintimidating pink. Where Akuma is the same as Ken and Ryu but a lot better (Akuma is always banned at tournaments because he is basically a cheat code), Dan is the same as them but much worse.

Dan's signatures is that he has more taunts than any other character. I forget the exact number, but he usually has more than 10 in each game where most characters only have one or two. Also, his super move is a taunt. Most characters do something awesome with their super move; not so with Dan. His super move is that he goes into a mode where every button you press triggers a different taunt maneuver. The idea is that you can craft your own 10-second long custom taunt.

Dan is a fan favorite because the more you play Street Fighter the more you realize he's completely worthless and consequently hilarious. People that are ridiculously good at Street Fighter will play as Dan because if you can manage to beat a decent player using Dan you have serious bragging rights. It's a really humiliating experience to put someone through, especially if you can manage to pull of his Super Taunt move without dying because of it (you of course are wide open when executing a taunt).

Note that there is no benefit to using a taunt in Street Fighter -- it doesn't charge up any gauges or anything the way that taunts do in some games. It's an intentionally wasteful move to piss off your opponent (it's part of the arcade culture and sort of like talking trash through the video game).

Dan hasn't been confirmed for Street Fighter 4 so a lot of fans are really worried that he won't make it in. Thus I suggested him for the ultimate petition.

author=Enker link=topic=836.msg12458#msg12458 date=1208545642
Ok - played it right through and WOW - this is a wonderful little piece of gaming, and I enjoyed the story a lot. Very nice graphical touches and an excellent use of the program to break out of the norm. Potentially I would suggest a second play mode that throws the levels at you straight after each other without any plot interludes or level selecting, to allow for quick-play for repeat players - but otherwise a top download.

I salute you!

Well if you repeat the levels you can skip the cutscenes. So click on the levels and play them again in order choosing a higher difficulty and I guess that's basically New Game +.

I am going back and forth between James Lee Burke's Jolie Blon's Bounce and McCallough's biography on John Adams. Both are pretty good.

Looks decent man. I don't think many people realize that one Gamecube is fine but two Gamecubes is actaully a mean bit of processing power. I guess I can't comment on much else because I don't know a lot. My gut impression though is that this is going to be billed as "an Xbox 360-style experience on your Wii" which is probably not the best idea.

But Jesus Christ I am sick of games where your avatar takes up most of the screen. Games like this or third-person games where the camera is centered on your character suck because you want to be able to focus on everything *but* yourself (GRAW had the brilliant idea of having your avatar way far off to the side and RE4 did something similar). But I guess this is more of a criticism of games in general than this particular game.

author=Blitzen link=topic=920.msg12389#msg12389 date=1208492541
I wouldn't know that :-X I never get far enough into it. I can usually get to the second post-robot master stage in any MegaMan game and then I'm stuck. Like I said, I suck pretty hard at MegaMan. But I still think that we can learn from its overall excellent design.

What I mean is that the first level is always the hardest because you have you extra abilities. The game gradually gets easier as you acquire more powers. The last level is always the hardest of course, but the majority of the game has a backwards difficulty curve. Usually, games gradually challenge the player more as they progress but Mega Man is the opposite.

Anyway that's a tiny detail but otherwise I really endorse your article.