My old games and my high school crew

I have a story about this. Me and my group of high school friends were made of: myself the exclusively console kid, two 75% pc gamers who mainly played MMOs and FPS, and two dudes that played every games. I tried to spread my fighting game and beat em up enthusiasm to the rest of the group whenever I could. One of the idort kid, let's call him Far, was a social but the butt of the group since he said whatever the felt like saying and did whatever he did. He was not a bad kid at heart though. Anyway, my effort reached a fruition I guess because everyone seemed to enjoy games like D&D 2: Mystara and AVP the capcom arcade game. PS2 Launch comes around, and one of the mainly PC gamer bud buys Bouncer out of his savings. He was a 17-year-old with no work, he was really hyped for it to buy it from what little he saved out of lunch money. Then we had an all nighter one day at my place, and the kid forgot his Bouncer home probably because we were drunk as fuck from booze. From that day on, he proceeded to accuse Far for stealing his game. College time comes around, everyone was separated onto our own schools, hardly anyone met each other any more. I never went to college, and I stayed in my parents for a few more years. I decided I had to do something for my life and joined the army active duty as a mechanic. As I cleaned my stuff out of my parents' home, I noticed Bouncer and few games that weren't mine. I didn't pay them much mind, my parents weren't going anywhere and they didn't care to leave my stuff alone so I felt like I could return them when I have chance in future. 4 years later, I come home from my Army contract, and I found out that the kid passed away because he did too much drugs.

I don't have any contacts left for those old high school friends. I still have the game in my possession, hoping that I can return to the right owners one day. I'm so sorry guys.

My dream game before I forget about it

I don't even have a name for this yet. It's just something I have in mind. When I actually learn some C or C++ I think I'm gonna hack old games to incorporate this idea. Anyway, the idea is:

Game is a cross of beat-em-up and versus fighter. Imagine Ninja Warrior Again or Valkyrie Profile 2 and you see the basic looks of what I'm shooting for, A 2D or 2 1/2D world.

There are shops, interactive NPCs who can give you quests and you can give them items for friendship parameters, or deceive and steal from them for quest shortcuts, money, or items. Can recruit any NPCs in the game as a sidekick. The game will have a lot of quests, but no leveling, fuck that timesink shit. Rewards are gears, but players have only certain amount of gears they can keep to make things fair for newcomers. Gears are reflected on player sprites to encourage customization. I plan to find a way to make the game generate itself some random quests so I can focus on quests that advance user's stories while not spending too much time on random ones myself. A lot of main quests that I do myself will be cross-genre to make things fresh, like, a quest will have tower defense gameplay, another is a puzzle to get by a dungeon, overhead ship shooter, racing and so forth. This will be possible once I figure out how Capcom did it with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure PSX.

That's not even the meat of the game though. What I want is a total, customizable versus fighter that interacts itself into a beat-em-up. If anyone knows Variable Geo(the anime), then it's kinda like that where a ring appears when character is "challenged" by 2nd player or met a boss encounter. Fighting area can expand via classic shatter-the-corner method employed in Real Bout and other oldies. This time, you can swap with your recruit when you feel endangered and regain health outside the ring. Game is not over when your ally dies, but it's over when the main character does.  Since this would be an illegit indy game, I'd rip off every cool costume I can find. Superman with Goku's gi? you got it. Light Yagami head with Batman costume? Definitely.

You know how the leading fighting game company likes to make 7 different variation of same fucking character, and call those different? I'm sick of that shit, and I want to make a game where you have one character who can equip any variation of a single move(say, hadoken) as user's preference. The player will even get to customize input methods. Sick of doing sonic booms hold back-forward+punch? Now you can make it (hold punch), release! or any way you want. The inputs are zero-sum so no single input will be easier or harder, just more optimized for the player. This way, there can be many characters slots while being balanced. Like GwonHo, every while the selectable moves will be introduced and balanced.

Also, the player is never given a penalty for losing a game in his single player campaign. Plenty of story branches would allow to lose a game but trigger a sequence, not endgame, from it. When gameover happens, whatever they worked would be saved.

Since I suck balls with writing a good story, I will copy someone's good work or hire a good writer to do overall story, one that is not a save-the-world. A horror game or sci fi fits my preference, but doesn't have to be. In fact if I have the resources I will probably do a level creator.

Too grand? Of course. Dreams are meant to be grand. When I achieve them, that just makes it more kickass anyway.

MvC3 fake hype is getting old.

I can't wait til the game comes out,
just so I can laugh at the ridiculous shit that came out of some of you during this hype thing.

there were:
Howard Duck;
sucking dicks off random facebook posters for "reveals";
people actually believing that Capcom would do an event on Jump Fiesta, an event that had nothing to do with Marvel;
wishing for Dio for that matter;
fanboys actually thinking Pheonix Wright belongs to a fighting game;
pretending spider woman comes from Spider Man comics;
people trying to decipher a video of a Japanese guy eating a dozen fucking donuts

on top of Capcom's masterful trolls such as the alternate color schemes, NATHAN Spencer, and Jill who looks nothing like her MvC2 self.