Mongo Nation

My thumbs already have blisters

By Jeremy Azeved

For years, the only way to play Marvel Vs Capcom 2 has been in the arcade, on the Dreamcast (if anyone still has one of those) or as a crappy port on the original Xbox or PS2. As I’m sure you’re all well aware, those days are over now with the release of a nearly arcade-perfect version of MVC2 on Xbox Live.

The only thing that’s really been changed is that a visual filter has been applied to make the game look slightly better without drastically changing the art style. Don’t let the awful theme music (which is quite possibly the worst of all time) fool you. This is a game that everyone with even a passing interest in fighting games needs to own.

I’m sure that there are people that could pick out minor discrepancies that I am missing, but so far as I can tell, this is the game that I kicked the shit out of my friends on a regular basis at all through college. For the uninitiated, Marvel Vs Capcom 2 is a hyper fast, slightly dumbed-down version of the classic Street Fighter franchise. MVC2 replaces some of the overly technical aspects of its parent title with an ass-ton of fun characters, button mash-ier gameplay and screen filling super-combos that will put epileptics into a coma faster than an army of Pokemons. This is not to say that the game lacks depth, but rather that the barrier of entry is a little lower than, say, Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (which requires a PHD in Street Fighting to play worth a damn). Almost anyone with limited fighting game experience can, at the very least, put up a decent fight right off the bat.

I was initially a little surprised to find how rusty I was. I used to know every special move for each of the 56 characters (sad, I know), but here I found myself in total darkness with most of the cast. I tried playing through the single player campaign with one of my favorite teams (Cable, War Machine and Ryu) to get back into the swing of things. Once I was more or less blowing through the computer opponents without too much trouble, I hit the (virtual) arcade in search of human challengers.

The lobby for matchmaking is kind of weird. I must have played thirty matches and I still couldn’t tell you how I came into any of them. There’s no on-screen indication that you are queued up or about to fight someone, or even what their skill level is really. (At least not that I could figure out.) I actually don’t play online very much so I’m no expert, but I did certainly find myself in some pretty even matches. Early on, I was getting mopped up like a sucker. One guy kicked the crap out of me with Amingo, the lamest character in the game. Totally humiliating. Read the rest of this entry →

Geek babes, celebrities, karate, suicide girls and robots!

Each week, we select the top three absolute weirdest videos any of us have ever seen, and post them here for your viewing pleasure! If you want to see the best of the best, this is your place to look… No genre is off limits, no subject too taboo, no cows too sacred. Think of it as America’s Funniest Home Videos, only:

1. Subtract Bob Saget and the laugh-track.
2. Replace with angel dust and Tourettes Syndrome.
3. ???
4. Profit!

This week we’ll be showing you some of our best videos from Comic Con 09, a writhing pit of nerdery the like of which the world has never seen. Check out all the cosplay freaks, geek babes and general dorkery exclusively on CraveOnline!

CraveOnline Wildin’ Out at Comic Con 2: Electric Boogaloo

Shocking revelations about Star Wars, beatboxing, Transformers and strippers!

Learning Karate with the White Queen at Comic Con 09!

Lingerie clad mutant babes AND karate? Why are you even still reading this?

CraveOnline Wildin’ Out at Comic Con 09!

We talk to some nerds and half-naked babes, catch up with the Shredder and do some coke!

We talk to the SG babes about nerds, World of Warcraft and Comic Con

There are many reasons to love the Suicide Girls, but perhaps chief among them is their dedication to the sexyfication real girls. Girls that have tattoos and piercings, sure, but also girls that play video games and read comics and do other dorky shit that we like to do. In fact, when talking to a Suicide Girl, you may just discover that their level of dorktitute far exceeds your own, as we did in the following video. Check it out, exclusively on CraveOnline!

Body painting on naked girls: Turning regular people into art enthusiasts since 1993!

If you are any kind of self-respecting nerd, you’ve probably seen some of Jim Mahfood’s work at Nerdcore shows, I Am 8-Bit art installations, in the pages of any of the various comic books that he’s worked on or produced (Clerks, Spider-Man, Generation X, 40oz Comics, Girlscouts, etc…), and possibly even on a can of Colt 45. We ran into Mahfood (who often goes by the name “Food One”) and Buffmonster at a party during Comic Con last weekend, body painting their artwork on a couple of tasty babes. Check out some of the (borderline NSFW!) pics from the event right here:

Buffmonster paints a foxy blond while the girl in the back practices her karate or something.

Food One is going for what looks like a tribal Muppet design with his roller.

A gratuitous ass shot. You’re welcome.

How is it that only one mohawk spike is flaccid in this picture? Read the rest of this entry →