Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO (Capcom)

I love Capcom's fighters! Out of all the fighting games out there, they are the most player-friendly and exciting! You don't have to be a pro to do well, but the games are so rich that you could play them for forever and never get bored!

There were some of the Street Fighters that started to bug me with counters and auto-reverse counters and super auto-reversing-reverse counter power-up attack fireball extinguishing attacks... I just avoided those games. My favorites though were actually the Rival School games, the Marvel vs. Capcom games and these, the Capcom vs. SNK games. However, do not get them confused with the SNK vs. Capcom games. Unless you are a hardcore SNK fanperson, let's avoid these games all together, shall we?



So let me tell you, dear reader, that I was very excited to play this game! It wasn't very expensive and the chance to salivate over my favorite characters again was too much to bear! I had to buy it!

So let me tell you, dear reader, that when I brought it home and put it into my Xbox 360, you could hear my heart shatter into a million-billion-trillion pieces. I shat bricks! Why? Because Microsoft had yet to provide an emulator, you see... Let me explain.

"Backward Compatibility"

Both Sony and Nintendo have gone great lengths to make sure that the previous games you had still ran on the newest of their consoles. Playstation and Playstation 2 games play on the Playstation 3. Gamecube games play on the Wii. Microsoft is a whole other issue.

The Xbox 360 is a much different machine from it's predecessor. One of the most noticeable differences comes in the form of no Nvidia graphics card. This plus some other factors have limited the way that original Xbox games are played it's Next-Gen brother. So much so that each of the hundreds of games made need their own emulator to work.

Does that sound crazy? That's because you, dear reader, are a rational human being.

For years, Microsoft was busy creating the emulators for games, while Xbox 360 owners waited patiently for months for them. Quite a large number of games have been ported. And now, in the glory of 2008, M$ has decided to considerably slow down the Xbox 360's Backward Compatibility updates. Guess what never made it onto the list...

Pissed Off Mikey!

Though there are many excuses as to why Microsoft failed their promise of 100% backward compatibility, none of them really fly. It just sounds like "We would find a better way, but it's hard..." Wah Wah Wah...

If games like Zan-Kabuki, a little nothing of a game that only I've heard of, can be backward compatible, why can't EVERY SINGLE CAPCOM game be? They are the captains of the fucking industry. Not one of their games should be missed for whatever fucking reason!



Well, M$ was focusing on the top-selling games. So if this wasn't a real big seller, then I'm screwed, right? I've got just on hyphenated word for you... Zan-KABUKI!!!!! Come on!

In The End...

I'm sorry this turned into a rant about the failings of Micro$oft, but they always fail so spectacularly, it's hard to get away from! I'm sure Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO would have been a pretty sweet game! For now, I will just have to dream of my darlings Chun-Li and Mai going at it. In some mud...