General gaming discussion

Ah, but it comes in a nice box with a shiny disk. 😁

This is always the way. There are digital sales but they never match the physical sales on recent games (and never with Nintendo first party). At least for now.

And you can always sell, trade, swap the physical game. And buy second hand.

This is changing though, at some stage physical games will be gone.

Also, on Amazon you'll see physical game prices vary wildly. E.g. Elden Ring from 25 pounds up. You are best waiting 12 months or or as long as you can, unless you really need to play a game now. Or its Nintendo first party, which rarely drop much. You'll also get patches, bug fixes and even free next gen upgrades if you are not in a mad hurry.

Still having a lot of fun with Tekken 8. The training/practice features are insane. Once you reach a certain point in the Arcade Quest mode, you unlock the ability to fight CPU Ghost versions of yourself and other players, where the game is constantly learning how you fight, meaning you can essentially fight yourself and learn what mistakes you're making, how you're signalling what you're doing. You can even download Ghosts of friends or players you've fought so you can play them offline and practice against them. They're not perfect (my ghost had a tendency to instantly use his Heat moves at the start of a match which I never do, but seems to have stopped that), but they're pretty good.

You can also watch replays of fights you've had where it'll give tips on what you could have done, like saying you could have punished during this part of the opponent's combo with a quick jab and turned the tide on them, or recommending better combos you could have used.

The training modes and even the Arcade Quest mode itself do a far better job of training you rather than just making you practice various combos.

Yeah I saw an image floating around online yesterday of Jin's moveset and some people complaining about how on earth are you ever meant to learn all that especially as the image was labelled "Quick Guide", but the truth is you just learn and get good at a few short combos and practice how to tie them together to keep the pressure on. As Hwoarang, once I can hit a launcher, I have my few moves I can do to then take off a decent chunk of their health, then I have a few moves I do in between to keep them guessing and take off a bit of health. The rest is just learning how to move, bait and hit a quick jab to interrupt them. The main thing I need to learn now is how to best keep attacking when they're down. Most of the people I'm facing online now are able to just constantly keep me bouncing and staying close to me, chaining their attacks for about half my health. Need to learn that myself.

Lets have it right. None compare to the king of all fighting games:

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You know it. Still remember full days spent on it with my friend and his younger bro on his Amiga.

So addictive and so much fun. Zipstiks were a requirement 😁

International Karate Plus

I think I played it on Amstrad

Edit ... googled a video ... Yep ... And there was a sub game where you had to deflect balls.

I actually got legitimately good with Eddy just because of the PS1 demo disk, but yeah it's amazing how much of a meme Eddy Gordo became for being the prime example of button-mashing in a fighting game.

Anyone watching the State of Play? Stellar Blade not doing it for me.

But Godzilla coming to Dave the Diver? Yes please.