Super Battle Opera

Oooh update: Kara has her photos up here and here

She has a nice shot of Chocolate Lemon going on with beast making a weird face in the background

I don’t know what’s going on there, anyway on to the post!

Today is the day, we finally made it out to SBO. Lemon and Marn were playing the 3rd strike team tournament.

Today’s line up was TVC(Tatsunoko vs Capcom), Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Codes and Street Fighter 3:Third strike.

First off I want to say that being at SBO was an experience that I feel all serious gamers should check out regardless of genre they play. We couldn’t really get match videos because of where we were seated.We did manage to get a few clips of everything else and some photos. It’s a very controlled atmosphere, no cells,cams or what have you.

One thing I must say is that FSN is very boring. Its a juggle fest and if you mess up defensively you lose at least one bar. If you guess wrong you’re dead. At one point there were two Riders fighting separate matches but doing the exact same combo. You can make this argument for gaming in general, it’s repetitive, however this game is just sleep inducing.

Hi, I am an asshole who is playing in a tournament for a game I created

The funny thing is that the developer of the game played in the tournament as well and placed top 8. Where did he finish overall? I don’t know we didn’t stay.I’ll tell you why a bit later.

TVC was exciting. We saw some giant robo action an some clutch combos. Marn(a usual at the sf ranbats) got demolished. There was no way around this.That tended to be the them for any Americans playing in SBO.

The 3rd strike tourney was intense with Justin’s team getting beat so fast that we only got to see Justin play an Elana player and lose. That was part of the reason why we left. I like Street Fighter but I am not too keen on 3rd Strike. So we watched a few more matches then we left.

Fatigue was setting in so we made our way back to the hotel, where I promptly passed out.

There’ll be more vids tomorrow and I’m going to start an arcade crawl. Beast will be bringing you a Quest of D tutorial. I think I’ll do the same for gundam. Here’s your drink

Drink of the day