New week

What have you been playing can come later, Vader what up with Spike exclusive news?

Edit: the student has surpassed the master, I am so proud of you Leo

Edit 2: Might as well start now. What have you guys been playing?

^^Dammit now I will have to change my post Leo!

I have been playing Brawl and Zack and Wiki. Zaku is awesome, their are some annoyig thing, but overall it rocks my socks. I actually let my sister play it, she quit gaming after the SNES. Well actually after Super Mario Kart, and she solved the Crystal key puzzle with a little help. Not surprisingly because the puzzles in Zack and Wiki are pretty cool. Everyone likes puzzles, see people playing Sudoku and stuff. This game might sold a lot better if it had proper advertising.

I finally have my Ridley trophy in Brawl. Took me quite a while, first time I made him a trophy and he fell down, the second time I was ready but he still fell down. Third time I planned until he did a certain attack, so he would not fall down. And it worked, but then I saw two stickers and tried to pick them up. But to my horror the screen turned black and the level was over, the trophy standing there mere inches away, not collected. The fourth time I collected it imediately, I would not take any chances. 

phantom_leo said:

I went to edit it and it got deleted somehow... Really now, the new one is so much more interesting anyway, isn't it?

Yeah, but now you will have to hear me babling about some Ridley trophy, no one cares about! 

Iga_Bobovic said:

phantom_leo said:

I went to edit it and it got deleted somehow... Really now, the new one is so much more interesting anyway, isn't it?

Yeah, but now you will have to hear me babling about some Ridley trophy, no one cares about! 

 So there's trophies in Brawl? A Ridley trophy sounds awesome.

Iga_Bobovic said:

There were trophies in Melee too! The Ridley trophy you have to make yourself, by attacking him until he has little health left. Then you will have to wait until a trophy stand lands, and then you throw it at him, transforming Ridley into a trophy.  

 I only played an hour or so of Melee with my sister, and didn't like it; too much of a button-masher. I only played a little bit of the single player mode too which was even worse with those weird sidescrolling levels. I never saw any trophies.

bugsonglass said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

So did you read the comment about Martial arts sparring I posted right before you disappeared?

yes, same as i read all that goes on here.  a lot of the time i mean to reply then do not get round to it etc.  i agree with pretty much all you said in that post.  in my training most people sparring use full power because they are so afraid they might be made to tap out.  i now basically try to practice whatever techniques i know (not many yet) whilst sparring instead of just using strength.  on the one hand i like how i have been made to spar full contact from the outset (oftentimes with guys bigger than me and always with guys who have been training longer) because cause as a result i'm not afraid of fighting.  on the other hand sparring so much means that I pick up too many injuries (because a lot of the guys I spar with are idiots) all of which seem to linger for a good 2-3 weeks which means that i'm hardly ever fully fit to fight even if i keep going to training

 Ugh, I see your problem, the worst kind of sparring is with idiots! Hmmm, my problem with sparring at my school is that we are all good friends, so you kinda pull your punches. I always start slow and slowly build up, because some people are different than other people. My motto is full speed, but not full power.

It is actually more difficult to capatize on kicks and punches when you do not fully commit. Of course after some time the plan is too spar harder and harder. But only if you guys are evenly matched, otherwise it results in a onesided beatdown.

After I graduate (university) I will start doing Jisenjutsu, this is the fighting part of Ninpo. You have Goshinjutsu, which is self defense. You know walking around minding my own business, then somebody punches me out of nowhere. Jisenjutsu is a full fight, so you attack him and he attacks you. Jisenjutsu we have a lot of sparring we start with a few techniques, spar until mastered and get new techniques and spar again. The point is that you have to spar with those techniques. Should be fun!

Ground fighting is easy as long as you tap on time and your sparring partner is not trying to break your bones. 

Ravenprose said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

There were trophies in Melee too! The Ridley trophy you have to make yourself, by attacking him until he has little health left. Then you will have to wait until a trophy stand lands, and then you throw it at him, transforming Ridley into a trophy.  

 I only played an hour or so of Melee with my sister, and didn't like it; too much of a button-masher. I only played a little bit of the single player mode which was even worse. I never saw any trophies.

 Button-mashing will get you nowhere in Brawl. 

Iga_Bobovic said:

 Button-mashing will get you nowhere in Brawl. 

Well, that's all I saw in Melee, a bunch of characters hopping around like idiots smacking me with random attacks until I fell off the screen. Yippie!

Ghostbusters Wii Footage (link above)

The game looks very nice. The stylized graphics seem to work well for the game. It will also have co-op. It'll will be fun playing through it with my sister who is a big Ghostbusters fan. I can see myself renting or buying both the Wii and the 360 versions next year.