Heh, yeah.

[trinityvixen]

feiran and I hung out with our former roommate on Saturday. (Not the one that just moved out--man, I need a system here. I shall call her Ms. Beans!) As we walked up to her apartment from 96th (stupid 1 train non-service!), we passed the Game Stop at 106th, where I remarked that, no matter how many games I have, unplayed, waiting for me at home, I'm always tempted to stop in a Game Stop when I see one. Ms. Beans has recently been gifted with a PS2 from her brother (who's graduated to PS3 because he's one of those that has to have the new shiny thing, apparently). So we shouldered our way in with our newly interested former roommie.

We basically tried to get her to buy the entire store, save those games which we could lend her ourselves. (When I see her Wednesday for Project Runway watching, I'll bring a mess down with me. She has Lego Indiana Jones, though, so she might be set for a while.) She ended up with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time for the GameCube (we bought that for her!) which she hemmed and hawed about lest her boyfriend give her a hard time about it. When she checked out, it was $3 cheaper than the box cover said, so we declared this to be victory. (I might also have bought Samurai Warriors 2 for the 360, but that is neither here nor there.)

As she was paying, I looked down to see a Soul Calibur IV players guide. And, because I possess no sort of filter whatsoever, I exclaimed aloud when I flipped it open and found that they'd brought back Lizardman! The lady behind the counter launched into a discussion about it with me--I told her I'd stopped playing this series at II because of the lack of Lizardman, so I didn't recognize anyone; she told me how Darth Vader was going to be in it, as well as Kratos from God of War. Darth Vader, I vaguely remembered rumblings about from Penny Arcade; Kratos was a surprise.

Anyway, this anecdote happens to dovetail nicely with this comic that came out today, so I thought I'd share. Did I mention I have no filter?

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[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

That comic should not have amused me as much as it did.
:)
We still have Soul Calibur for the DreamCast--it was actually why jendaby bought the DreamCast, after discovering the game at a friend's party (and kicking everyone's *ss on her first try). Never played the later ones, but now I'm curious.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

One of the first games I ever played doggedly in the arcade was Soul Calibur. I beat it with Sophitia and my friend beat it with Xanghua. So, I loved it to pieces, mentioned it to a classmate freshman year, and it turned out he had a DreamCast. Man, did he kick my ass. It was fun though. (One of his roommates mooned me and my friend and the guy with the system while they were over there. It was that silly.)

Later on, in our suite living, viridian got one and we played it to exhaustion. I am still abysmal, but it's pretty and that's all I ever asked. I got to introduce it to cagexxx and I beat him until the third game, when, as he predicted, his insane learning curve caught him up and he schooled me.

I admit to being curious about IV myself, but I have such little love for fighting games any more. Time was I was so starved for comic books and geeky stuff I just had no real exposure to that I used to just watch people play fighting games because HOLY SHIT ROGUE IS BEATING UP RYU! I never was any good at them :)

[anarchicsquirrl.livejournal.com]

Ms. Beans is the first thing you came up with??

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

feiran calls her [her name]-beans all the time. Point of fact, she's started calling her Ms. Beans. It fit.