Kicking Ass in Games You Don't Own
 

Just last night, I was playing SSBM and I was doing really good against people who have owned the game, while I don't even own it.

I know this has probably happened to everyone here at least once.

Its happened a few times to me, and I've witnessed one happen to someone I know, and it was incredible.

My friend bought Need for Speed Underground (the only NfS I like, despite its horrible rendition of drifting) and had a hard time finishing a race. I asked if I could try, and I burned rubber through that course, making all turns perfectly, losing no speed, just in a groove. Of course, as soon as he got farther in the game and got faster cars, I couldn't handle them with the lack of experience I had.

A time I've witnessed this was when I bought Gitaroo-man. I loved that game, but I felt guilty for not getting a friend a christmas present, so I gave it to him after only playing a few levels. I still miss that game...

Anyway, the night I gave it too him, my cousin/his girlfriend (why yes, it is awkward) came over. She asked if she could play, and after faultering on the first level and losing, went to beat the entire game in one sitting. Appearantly, she is a gitaroo-man god. My friend gave the game to her, since he didn't like it that much, and we've continued to play it for a while.

I have'nt played it in a while, though. I miss it, I'm on Mojo King Bee on the Master Levels. Its impossible.

I remember when my family went to Blockbuster to rent a movie and they were busy fighting over what to rennt. I saw a Tekken 3 game out of the corner of my eye on one of those display consoles that you can play aroudn wtih. So I play for a bit and find myself beating the entire game in Blockbuster with Lee, and I had never picked up the game once before that.

There is one in particular, James Bond Nightfire for the Game Cube. Never toutched it before but when we all played 4 player, I owned them all. Like completly. I think I doubled thier score. Every time I came over he would play PS2 and I would beat the James Bond Mission mode. He started before I did and was halfway through the game, but I still beat it first. I tell ya, no one can beat me.

Well, there was this one time....
 

Where I live, there is this video game store, that has a party room, and 4 xboxes set up, all of them connected.

So on friday nights, a bunch of nerds congregate to the store, and play halo.

now, these guys are amazing, you just walk a step and you dead, i would get last, almost every time, by about 30 kills, but it was all good.

One time, we did only sniper rifles, and I think they wern't paying attention to me or something because I kicked their @$$es by about 40 kills.

but then the next game, i lost horribly
and the game after that
and the game after that.... etc

I just finished that level. GOD DAMN it was close. Here's a little hint - when I first beat Flying Os (level two) in master mode, I was playing my dwarf Paladin on Everquest. I just finished beating it. Between now and then, I got a bard to level 56, a cleric to level 51, a monk to level 35, quit everquest, played Star Wars Galaxies, got Master Smuggler, quit, and only after a few months after I quit did I THEN beat Mojo King Bee. And I played it once-fourty times a week during that whole escapade. You're in for a long, hard road my friend.

Oh, but back on hand....A few years ago when I was really young, like 10 or 11, my brother borrowed a Super NES and Street Fighter. Him and his best friend Peter were rippin it up. I asked if I could play, and when he finally let me I picked Ken, and promptly threw him down. It was like I perfectly timed his Shoruken (flying uppercut), followed by his tornado kick, landed, chained three combos, and hadokened him into the grave. My brother blinked, and told me to pick another character. So I picked Chun Li. Same story. Elbow smash, flyingbird Kick, lightning kicks, chain a few combos, and threw him to send him down at last. it was pritty sweet. Never happened again.

I was visiting with my sister, a while back, and she took me to a big mall-type place.. the entire upper floor was a frickin' video arcade.. anyway, I cruise around, playing a game here or there.. I find this one game.. I forget the name.. some fighting game. Anyway, I start playing.. No big deal.. after a few rounds, this kid comes up to me.. he has to be about 3 years younger than me.. pasty, kinda chubby, you know, the average "Win every game" type of nerd. Uh, Person. Anyway, I've been told I look like a prep.. And I'm blond, with long hair, so I guess that accentuated my air of stupidity. But this kid asks me if I've played the game before.. I hadn't.. then he goes about explaining how many times he's beaten it, how easy it is, how many combos and shit he knows, etc.. Then, he asks me to play. Sure, I say.. Anyway, I pick a big giant falchion-wielding demon guy, and he picks somebody else.. He actually laughs in a condescending sort of way when I chose my guy..So, we start.. and I totally kick his ass. Having never played this game before. I demolish him, just pressing random buttons, while he's trying all these ineffective combos. Anyway.. after I whoop his ass, like, 7 times, he goes.."Wow.. uh.. you're really good." And slinks away. Hah. Bitch. Don't ever test my mighty random button pushing skills...

The anti-mashing stratagy: Just back up. Thats all you do. The'll be fighting the air and sky while you watch and laugh your ass off. Wait for a short pause in thier spazum and attack.

An instance similair to Vicous' happened to me at Disney Quest once. However, my opponant wasn't an ass, we just said "hey, want to play Capcom vs Marvel?" And then I won.

That's the situation that I'm in. We have a gaming club at our school, and we usually play SSMBM, and I whup everyone I play against, and I don't even own a next-gen system. Plus, I'm a ninth-grader, and I usually play against 10-12 graders.