ARCADE

a film by Kurt Vincent and Irene Chin
I’ll admit, I’ve never been to a Capcom Fight Club before, so I really did underestimate the line. “You’ve got to be at least two hours early”, I was warned. But I shrugged it off, “I’ve been to CF on a Friday night, I know what to expect”. I did not. I was expecting maybe a few hundred people over the course of 3 hours, not enough to warrant getting there early, that’s for sure. I was wrong. When I arrived a half an hour after the official start time, there were literally over a thousand people waiting in line. I was truly stunned. I have never seen the fighting game community out in such force. Everybody was repping their Broken Tier shirts (some even cosplaying) and talking about the latest SFxT and UMvC 3 reveal videos while determined to put in the time to get a chance to play some early builds. And boy, did we put in some time. I was online for waaaay to long (I should also mention that is was raining half the time), but I finally got in. Once inside I could tell Capcom put a tremendous amount of effort into this shindig, and it’s awesome to see them so engaged in the community. The wait finally paid off when I got a chance to play Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and got my hands on my new favorite character Nemesis. That guy is a beast! All in all, it was an amazing experience, both seeing Capcom give back to the community, and seeing how huge the NYC scene really is! -Reed

I’ll admit, I’ve never been to a Capcom Fight Club before, so I really did underestimate the line. “You’ve got to be at least two hours early”, I was warned. But I shrugged it off, “I’ve been to CF on a Friday night, I know what to expect”. I did not. I was expecting maybe a few hundred people over the course of 3 hours, not enough to warrant getting there early, that’s for sure. I was wrong. When I arrived a half an hour after the official start time, there were literally over a thousand people waiting in line. I was truly stunned. I have never seen the fighting game community out in such force. Everybody was repping their Broken Tier shirts (some even cosplaying) and talking about the latest SFxT and UMvC 3 reveal videos while determined to put in the time to get a chance to play some early builds. And boy, did we put in some time. I was online for waaaay to long (I should also mention that is was raining half the time), but I finally got in. Once inside I could tell Capcom put a tremendous amount of effort into this shindig, and it’s awesome to see them so engaged in the community. The wait finally paid off when I got a chance to play Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and got my hands on my new favorite character Nemesis. That guy is a beast! All in all, it was an amazing experience, both seeing Capcom give back to the community, and seeing how huge the NYC scene really is!

-Reed

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