Street Fighter Discussion Topic Turbo!

I always thought belly dancing was an Arabic-based art? The name is obviously western but they at least got that part right. As for names, that's part the course for Capcom. Not a whole lot of "Seans" in Brazil from what I know.

Now I just realized Rouge from Power Stone is themed off an ifrit, huh.

You're complaining about Pullum when this series has a Brazilian who's green skinned, wild haired and animalistic?

Here's something that I think may be fulfilled in Ultra. The new character is...

A Shotoclone. Learns Ansatsuken from the likes of Gouken. However, this new character will specialize in one branch no one else has tried (if they haven't): The Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku branch (Ryu specializes in Hadoken, Ken specializes in Shoryuken, I think Gouken and Akuma are masters on all branches, Sakura is just 'emulating without super harsh training', Dan is expelled and ended up making a 'parody', Sean is too much a newbie, we don't have a Tatsumaki representative yet).

So we will have a Shoto that specializes in Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku.

Bonus points if this Shoto is a woman.

Well, there's the pic of Retsu in a very recent 25th anniversary Street Fighter pic that includes several characters porting into USF 4 from SFXT, so yeah, maybe.

Belly dancing as we know it — i.e. sexually suggestive torso-shaking — is believed to have originated in Egypt and Anatolia, though "reliable evidence about its origins is scarce, and accounts of its history are often highly speculative" (quote from Wikipedia). And the name does not sound like anything except Latin, or some sort of pseudo-Hindu, neither of which are compatible with her origins or the fact that her Ambiguously Brown appearance suggests either African or South Asian origin.

Blanka at least has the excuse of being somehow "mutated" into his current state through some pseudo-scientific form of adaptive "evolution".

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

And the stereotypical native American who sits and goes "How!" and meentions totems?

^^ So she's in the same boat as Elena name-wise, then? What with her using a fighting style that may or may not have originated in Africa, but certainly not Kenya, and in any case definitely not the more Brazilian form she uses. With an Italian name.

Street Fighter is notorious for not being culturally consistent when it comes to non-Japanese characters.

^ From Mexico, at that.

edited 10th Oct '13 5:01:03 AM by KnownUnknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

@ Chris X: I like your idea, actually. I have been thinking of something like that myself Maybe s/he would be called Sho

Continue the bloodline, Fujimaru!

Exactly.

Of course, maybe we should be complaining more about this stuff, but it's not something new at all.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't be annoyed slightly.

edited 10th Oct '13 6:46:54 AM by Handsomerob

One Strip! One Strip!

Question: Why is it that every time I enter a fighting tournament, all I get is a million groupies asking about what Ryu's like? C'mon man... FUNK DAT. GET A LIFE!

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Yesterday, I re-downloaded HD Remix, only to find that it had tremendous slowdown. I'm talking about 1-st person here. I can't tell yet if the gameplay is easier than before.

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"

I hated HD Remix. There are less animation frames than the original game, everything looks ass ugly like a flash browser game, just completely unnecessary.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

At least some of the music is pretty good. That game's version of Boxer's theme is one of my favorites.

edited 15th Oct '13 12:44:42 AM by KnownUnknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

How are there less frames? I thought the idea was to keep the original frame count.

There's some noticable choppiness here and there. At least, there was for me. I know they kept the original's animation in there for balance reasons. But I've played enough SFII in actual arcade hardware to know the higher choppiness when I see it.

edited 16th Oct '13 12:37:01 AM by Schitzo

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Strange.

Some interesting SF2 notes

The original MFG thread. Keep an eye on it, new info might come out.

Damn, that combo thing was ingrained to me that it was a glitch. Very interesting to read.

Does anybody know French? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwwNsZKJBeA&feature=c4-overview&list=UUra8qHY3KYC3RxDaYwUqdnw

Copy-pasting what the dude who posted this says:

Also also, way back when SSF 4 was in loke tests and Dudley was still speculation, they had a prop of a blue boxing glove and a rose. This time, they have this◊.

Got this from a dude who posts in Penny Arcade forums.

Here's hoping for Decapre, even though I never heard about her until roughly five minutes ago.

"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"

@ Malibu Comic

Oh... Oh dear god. I will never talk shit about the Film ever again.

Who looks at the series and honestly thinks "Hmm... needs more scalpings"?

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Just you wait until you see The Legend of Chun Li. Because it will be the last thing you see before you claw your eyes out in horror.

A corpse should be left well enough alone...

Oh I've already shat my load on The Legend of Chun Li. A Black Eyed Peas member. As Vega. Wow, man.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

It also had Neal Mc Donough as M. Bison as Geese Howard if that makes any sense.

And everyone's favourite bit, Chun-Li breaks Bison's neck IN FRONT OF HIS OWN DAUGHTER.