Friday, April 20, 2007

Street Fighter 2 losers

From x-entertainment, "On a completely related topic, here are my picks for the three World Warriors who look the absolute worst in their post-brawl "loser" photos from Street Fighter 2."
Bison looks the worst by far, but you have to admire that he went through the trouble of finding his cape again before taking the post-brawl posterity photo. Even after Bison became a playable character and lost much of the inherent invincibility that came with being the game's main boss, it still felt special when you beat him. Even if you were really just beating some one-handed retard who never played SF in his life. I guess that's why they made Bison look so shitty — to make the reward all that much sweeter.

Blanka's not much better. His eyes are falling out and his tongue's halfway to the floor. Totally frazzled. It's great, because Blanka can be utilized as a really cheap character (one of my friends from work's only skill in Street Fighter was keeping Blanka electric for all but two seconds of every round), and when you finally find a way to circumvent your opponent's cheapness, it's great to have your assorted "booyah" catcalls footnoted with a shot of Blanka looking like an alley cat who just got gangraped by graveyard dogs.

Ken doesn't look much worse for wear physically, but I love his expression. He can't believe you did that to him. He's all, "MAN I thought we was FRIENDS" and shit. "

3 comments:

Johnny Sweatpants said...

As it turns out, I'm also pretty unstoppable at Street Fighter II. Not to brag, but I was trained by a Japanese wizard.

Using Bison is close to cheating just because his moves are devestating, quick and easy to pull off. Of course, that never stopped me from whooping him.

Octopunk said...

Wow, you must have the high score on every video game our little group comes in contact with. Oh wait! What's this here? It looks like the high score list for the Super Pac-Man game on the emulator that you, yourself, actually own.

Well, look at that! Not a single entry with your initials! Looks like every high score slot has been nabbed by...ME.

(Better still, it's my "clear the board fast" technique that beats Mr. Pants's "go for the ghosts" technique, which I know galls him because going for the ghosts is the high scoring move in most Pac variations.)

You'd kick my ass at Streetfighter, though, even if I was Bison.

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Yes, the Super Pac high score is indeed troubling and requires immediate attention.

The only games I really talk trash about are Ms. Pac Man, Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II.

Oh yeah, and Super Mario Kart.

Malevolent

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