Tuesday September 7th 2010. That is the day I finally decided to get back into fighting game tournaments. Working at a game store, I can’t helped but get excited every week when anywhere from 10 to 30 people show up at my store to play the game of the week. Succumbing to the feeling, I entered in my first tournament in a LONG time. last time I was at a fighting tournament, it was for Super Smash Bros Melee a couple of years back.
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift published by Aksys Games was the game that day. I own the first game in the series, Calamity Trigger, but I never really tried to play it. Since it seems the official system to play fighting games on this generation is the PS3, I had to go out and buy the PS3 versions of the games they play. I don’t have a problem with that but I am not ready to throw down more cash for another fight stick just yet (I have a Street Fighter IV arcade stick for the 360 currently).
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Of course, only having a day and a half to practice a new game is hardly fair although I figured my time spent with Super Street Fighter IV on the 360 would at least help me a little. Man that was a poor misjudgement on my part. I lost both my matches right away and sat in disbelief on how my opponents could enter crazy inputs to do 20 hit combos with the greatest of ease. “I have A LOT to learn in this game” I said to Boog, one of the top players in the tournaments we have at the store. “Just keep trying. You will eventually get better playing against us”.
This kinda took me off guard. Not saying that I think Boog is not a friendly person, more so that everyone had so much sportsmanship. Coming from playing online with others mostly who do nothing but try to use as many derivative forms of homosexuality and combining that with your family members, this was refreshing.
And here I thought sportsmanship doesn’t exist in this day and age of gaming. Looks like I was proven wrong to a certain extent. Hopefully next tournament, which is Super Street Fighter IV, I can actually win one match.
