Caltrops - Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark





	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Not so much that One Must Fall is better than Street Fighter - I've never played One Must Fall, because it sounds stupid. A bunch of robots in a fistfight. Fantastic. We got that every Sunday, from robots that I <i>did</i> give a shit about, and they had all sorts of extra powers, like ejecting cassettes out of their chests, speaking really really fast and having <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcee">breasts</a>. Secondly, One Must Fall sounded an awful lot like Rise of the Robots, which could be completely defeated on the Amiga by crouching and hitting kick. No, the issue is that fighting game fans are completely fucking insane. Look at this thread! People are fucking snapping because OMF made a freeware list and Street Fighter 2 didn't. Anecdotal evidence suggests that SF2 made ops more money than anything since Ms. Pac-Man. Operators were electrocuting their own nipples in an attempt to convert things to Street Fighter 2. Mr. Do!? Not any more, you nightcapped loser, you're Street Fighter 2. Tempest?? I've got a Shakespearean drama for you, Tempest - the forest itself turns into Street Fighter 2 machines and then Fuck You. Look at the <a href="http://www.brentradio.com/images/HellcadeAll/">Hellcade</a> - if ops could have turned Super Hang On into Street Fighter 2, they would have done it and crowbarred the cycle. You couldn't pick a game that generated any <i>more</i> money than Street Fighter 2 unless you start counting WoW or the entire Madden series and so forth. Which is completely inexplicable to me, because I found Mortal Kombat II to be much more interesting than Street Fighter 2. On one hand, you have a large array of sociopaths and monsters all gunning for the top prize of some once-in-10,000-year tournament. I don't know what the goal of Street Fighter 2 was, because Anime isn't worth my wage, but I assume it was control over some small section of asphalt that was valuable only because it had crosswinds that consistently blew up miniskirts. One validates the imagination behind video games, and the other is from a land of stifled creativity. Why fight for immortality and control of the multiverse when you can fight for the corner of a cheap alley too narrow for both motorcycle <i>and</i> sidecar? If I want to watch poor people fight in an passionate and pointless struggle about the things that truly matter to them, I'll hide a krugerrand downstairs in the mailroom. But SF2 is beloved. There are probably ten posters around here who are capable of delivering a list of reasons as to why SF2 had better gameplay than MK2. I have no response - SF2 seemed retarded and meaningless from the get-go, so what the fuck do I know. At least Virtua Fighter had tits. Mischief Maker, your folly was not in including One Must Fall 2097 as a representative of fighting games, it was in thinking that you could throw a bone to these animals and not have them devour it with immediate designs on eating you, all while they the picked the marrow out of their teeth and cursed and cursed and cursed you. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote]