Hah! Allow me to indulge myself.
What do you play?
Who do you main?
Any gripes that you have with the games you play?
I play a bunch of games. Here's what I "currently" play, with my go-to games coming closer to the top of the list:
[HEADING=3]Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code[/HEADING]
I've always suffered from a character crisis in this game. I play C-Seifuku, F-Kohaku, H-Nanaya and a bunch more, but none of them are characters I truly want to main. Fortunately, I have recently found a character whom I think I will stick to. That character is H-P.Ciel. She's got long-reaching normals, strong zoning tools, deals great damage, and has fairly strong mixups. She's relatively weak in terms of defensive options, being slow and lacking a good reversal, but I can deal with that.
I love Melty. MBAACC is one of my favourite games of all time. It incorporates so many mechanics from other fighting games, but it's got a unique feel. The neutral and pressure game feel very unique to Melty Blood. Aerial footsies are a thing, and pressure can last for
days. I have no gripes with MBAACC other than with how French Bread released the game. They need to put this on Steam or something. This game can only be bought bundled with Carnival Phantasm season 3 at a high price, which hurts the size of the playerbase.
[HEADING=3]Tekken Tag Tournament 2[/HEADING]
I play a team of Lili and Asuka at the moment. I'm relatively new to Tekken, so I thought it would be to my benefit to learn the game with the more accessible characters first. Though, I doubt I will be abandoning this team later on, lol. Lili's one of my favourite fighting game characters ever, and I cannot resist pairing Lili with Asuka. If I'm going to split up the team, I'm going to have two separate teams for each character. In the future I plan on partnering Lili up with Lee Chaolan for team fancy pants. Asuka will form a team with Jin for team Kazama.
Tekken is an interesting series. The Tekken games are more knowledge-oriented than any other series of games I know. I both love and hate the complexity of these games. All I can say is that most of my grievances stem from how difficult it was for me to pick up T6 and TTT2. Hell, I didn't even "learn" how to play Tekken in T6. It's only recently with TTT2 that I can play confidently. You have to be quite studious with Tekken compared to other games. At least that's how I feel.
Also lol, high damage and hop(e)kicks.
[HEADING=3]Skullgirls[/HEADING]
I'm pretty green when it comes to Skullgirls. I took a long, long break from the game since the big 1.01 patch was announced, and I'm just recently getting back into the game. Currently I'm playing solo Ms. Fortune. Fortune's perfect for me as she has the movement options of a Melty character, she's got great air normals, and her basic mixups are strong. She's a character that you can play almost solely off of fundamentals. I basically picked up and played her. She's going to be in my final team with a 100% certainty.
I enjoy SG, but I just can't get the hang of a "Marvel vs." type game. I can hardly fault SG for being what it is, though. It'll take some time to get used to this sort of gameplay.
[HEADING=3]Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition[/HEADING]
I play a bunch of characters in this game. My strongest character is probably Guile, but I've most recently been enjoying playing Sakura. She's a blast to play. She's got ridiculous stun and damage output, easy hit-confirms, a great mixup game, and decent footsie normals. She feels like a Melty Blood character in that she can pressure her opponent for days with carefully placed pressure resets.
Vortexes and "unblockables" suck some of the fun out of the game. Thankfully we've got a version 2013 to solve some problems.
[HEADING=3]Persona 4 Arena[/HEADING]
I play Labrys. She's a lot of fun to play, but she definitely one of the weaker characters. She has a relatively modest mixup game, her damage output is low without yellow or red axe, and she doesn't have strong defensive options. Plus, she's slow. I do like her range, though. She can definitely fight the neutral game.
I'm only sad about Labrys being so weak in comparison to top tiers like Mitsuru, Yu and Aigis. She's not incapable, but damn, it's hard out there for a Labrys.
Also lol, DP xx Super.
[HEADING=3]BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend[/HEADING]
I really like Noel as a character, but unfortunately, I don't find much fun in playing her. She's fearsome up close, doing good damage off of simple and effective mixups, but she doesn't have much of a neutral game. I much prefer playing spacing/footsie-oriented characters like Hakumen and Ragna. Maybe I'll switch characters for BBCP.
I feel BB could use a speed increase. The BB games don't feel as smooth as other fighters. Thankfully, BBCP looks like it won't be having this minor problem. ArcSys seems to have reduced hitstop and sped up the game a little bit.
Your best moments in a fighting game?
I eliminated a favourite player in a local P4A tournament, and people got hype! I'd play more P4A, but it doesn't have much of a presence around where I am any more.
Are you interested in EVO 2013?
Of course!
Evo is always a blast. Evo 2013 in particular looks to be especially amazing, featuring a whopping nine games plus the Skullgirls official side tourney. I'm going to shut myself in for that weekend. I will have no distractions.