The Britney episode turned out way better than I thought. We're already in the third episode and you can already tell who's good and will go deep compared to those that will leave eventually. Even though tonight's elimination of Team Millenia (Shout out to Fullerton!!!) was shocking, that moment may be the last straw for a lot of people and stop watching this season. In NeoGAF terms, America loves gimmicks confirmed.
Here are the top 3 performances of the night...
Quest killed it with "Toxic" and clearly the best performance of the night.
Beat Freaks murdered "Womanizer" and at first when the song debuted, I wasn't feeling it, but this song gets u hyped like crazy!!
Strikers All-Stars also killed it with "Gimme More" and the mirror prop.
Here's my rankings after this week.
Quest
Beat Freaks
Strikers All-Stars
Fly Khicks
Dynamic Edition
Ringmasters
Next week we do this again I guess...
UPDATE - Yeah the videos usually get taken out once they are up the day after the episode, so watch if u can here, or just search YouTube and get lucky or go to MTV's website to watch them there without the judges' thoughts.
A new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII has arrived hyping up the upcoming demo that comes with the Advent Children Complete Blu-Ray (Japan only). Let's just say I'm excited again for this game and now I'm considering importing it to be played on my PS3 (It is region-free). I think it is out sometime in April and will sell like gangbusters because of the demo itself and hopefully I can import it or maybe get it during my vacation to the Philippines that same month.
Looks like a second video for The Ting Tings' "That's Not My Name" has surfaced for the U.S. audience. I think I like this one better than the original video (The song is now out in U.S. version of Singstar PS3 and uses the 1st video). It is one of my favorite songs of 2008 and this video has brought it back to my life.
UPDATE - Also adding "Spaceman" by the Killers for this post (Another weird video by them). This song is playable in Rock Band.
Originally, I was going to Super Arcade at Walnut, CA to play more Street Fighter IV and surprisingly, Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion is already out (it came out on Friday) in SoCal. Six hours and over ten bucks later, I was done for the night playing with SoCal's best players and Super regulars ranging from Kane, Cynnik, Suiken, Unconkable, Rip, MYK, Calsonic, and more. These six hours were pretty fun times even though I lost all my matches, but came close on several against some of these tourney-level players. Every 50 cents spent per game is a learning experience in terms of what to do and not in certain spots. I as usual was playing my main character Bryan Fury and it is about time I return to the Tekken franchise even though console SF IV is just around the corner.
Anyway, your card from Tekken 6.0 works in Bloodline Rebellion as a transfer, but your character resets to the default costume even though the items you bought from the previous game are still in. The character customization in terms of wardrobe is pretty crazy with more wacky items. Some customizations can be too nuts and you can't tell if your character is the same from his or her's default appearance. Other than that, the card system is the same as before winning matches gets you more money even though you still earn money by losing. Also, the roulette is the same as before with more opportunities for money and getting lucky for rare items.
As far as gameplay is concerned, it is pretty much the same as Tekken 6 with the obvious changes to characters' movelists and properties to balance the game further. The low parry is now an automatic bound and certain things you can get away in Tekken 6 doesn't work anymore in BR. From what I seen, the new characters, Lars and Alisa, are fun to play as adding more unique styles to the huge character roster (about 40 to choose from, which is nuts). Even though the machine is set to three rounds, eventually, it will be five in a month or two. The rage and bound systems are basically the same as before too which change the momentum of a match to someone's favor pending on the situation. Sure, its still a combo heavy juggle festival, but its Tekken, and it is still the most fun I had with a 3D fighter.
Okay, I save other thoughts for my review soon, so stay tuned for that. If you're around the SoCal area and a Tekken fan, go play Bloodline Rebellion because it will be a while before it comes out on consoles.
Yeah, another post about my favorite game right now, Street Fighter IV, but this is from my Twitter and I had to post it here too. Here's another example of how this game delivers mad hype over at Arcade Infinity (located at Rowland Heights, CA in Diamond Plaza). I go there sometimes to play SF4 and hopefully I'll come and watch a Ranbat tournament (or even give it a shot) in the future. Actually, California Regionals, a big Cali tournament with players from NorCal, SoCal, and other spots, happened last weekend at Denijin Arcade (over at Simi Valley, CA which is pretty much a hour and half from where I live - I should of went there to hang out I guess) and supposedly was a crazy weekend filled with fighting game goodness from SFIV, 3rd Strike, MvC2, BlazBlue, and more. If u know the SFIV scene here at SoCal, it is pretty much charge character heavy with lots of Balrog players, some Bisons (my main in this game), Blanka players, and more. Even though Honda is bottom mid tier, he's still a pretty good character at times and he's my secondary character (Blanka and Guile are next in the list after Honda).
I'll also plug Gootecks's Street Fighter podcast over at Gootecks.com (link is at the right side with the other links I put up of other sites) and its pretty good if you're into Street Fighter IV and want to know the scene at SoCal. I am sort of taking an arcade SF4 break because of Skate 2 being out tomorrow (review hopefully by the end of the month), but will return closer to SF4's console release on February 17.
UPDATE (Minor) - Oh I guess that I'll post the console intro up here too. My original reaction is that it sucks because of the "pop-ish" theme song, but now I can tolerate with it.
The third season of America's Best Dance Crew starts tonight on MTV and here are my picks to win the whole thing (I already mentioned them on my Twitter, but here they are in action).
Quest (My #1 pick)
Team Millenia (#2 pick)
Sleeper Pick: Beat Freaks
Remember those episode recaps I did for Season 2 last year? I'll do them again, but they will resume next week.
UPDATE - My sleeper pick is added, which is the Beat Freaks. Also, here's my rankings heading towards next week.
Quest
Beat Freaks
Team Millenia (rocky start, but I'm generous)
Ringmasters (We'll how long their "flexing" style last)
Dynamic Edition (Another sleeper contender despite their clogging style)
Boxchutthz
Fly Khicks
Strikers All-Stars
I'll say the competition is way more even this season compared to the last two since those seasons, u can tell who will win right away (look at Jabbawockeez and SuperCrew) and who will go far (Kaba Modern and So Real Cru for example). It will depend on the themed weeks which crew will stand out from the bunch.
