All of the negativity is to be expected at this early stage – be it reasonable criticism or just nitpicking. People need to remember what SF4 and MvC3 looked and played like in the early stages. The criticism can help Capcom fine tune things way in advance before the final product goes Gold. To be honest, I don’t expect to see significant gameplay, or graphical improvements until maybe summertime 2015. Then is when I’d expect more salivating will happen, and less negativity.
I prefer we get new dolls if we’re getting any. We already got 3 awesome ones, imagine how awesome the remaining 9 are.
Sort of off topic, but everywhere I go I see people asking for Karin. Whats the reason? Do people think her play-style in alpha is that good or is it an anime thing? Genuinely serious here.
In the end, I dont really care who they add as long as the play styles are interesting. I think 3rd Strike was good at mixing stuff up in that respect with characters like Necro and Hugo who broke some of the old SF tropes. I hope they continue the trend.
I do like the idea of have 4 characters return from each franchise to start the vanilla edition of SFV. And hopefully, characters people wanted or couldn’t make the cut into SFIV, get their time to shine. The original 12 are archetypes for fighting games, so not including them might be a little crazy not to do. Just my idea of who could be added:
SF/SF2:
Ryu (confirmed)
Chun-Li (confirmed)
Ken (it’s a given he’ll be included)
Guile
SFA:
Charlie (Shadow?) (teased, but looks confirmed)
Karin
Birdie
Sakura
SFIII:
Alex
Sean (casual gamers love those shotos, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he gets into fill in for Dan)
Oro
Yun or Yang (because Yun’s level in the demo)
SFIV:
C. Viper
Juri
Abel (might be too similar to Alex, but he goes well with the story line)
Decapre/Hakan (both bring a very unique fighting styles)
SFV:
4 original characters
Main Boss: ?
Hidden Bosses (playable after defeat):
Gill
Urien
Dictator
Akuma
Gouken
He doesn’t say anything new. In fact I think somebody told him to calm down on the leak because he doesn’t even name V-trigger at all, he doesn’t name any character (he was supposed to know the entire cast).
He basically says he was saying random stuff.
Why does that make it seem more believable now?
Yeah it’s really weird, he seemed unconfortable, he doesn’t even confirm 2016 now, might be 2017, 2018, he doesn’t know.
And for the record he announced SF5 PS4 exclusive two month ago in a tweet.
Suddenly he knows nothing ^^.
It’s obviously not him in the video, it’s a Shadaloo brainwashed clone. M.Ono (Ono in Japan) is behind this.
Assuming there are character specific stages, that can easily be Chun Li one
the only returning ppl should b ryu, chun li, karin, and r mika
no one tryna play sf3 rejects
But it is almost confirmed to play around SF3 (Ryu uses Denjin Hadoken…)
This means you need to SOMEHOW tie the titles… Either SF4 and SF3 connect via SF5 or SF5 plays after SF3, which would mean we need to know what happens now.
And it’s very unlikely that after SF3 everyone just goes there way and no one is returning at all.
With Charlie in, probably controlled by Illuminati (because of the gem), we can assume it plays before SF3.
So yeah… there will be at least a few SF3 characters returning.
I would go for:
Originals:
Ryu (obviously never missed a SF game)
Ken (same as Ryu, was in every game so far)
Chun (duh, seen her already)
Guile (Charlie confirmed, would bring Conclusion to his Storyline)
Bison (with Charlie and Guile in a game, brings an end to his storyline as well)
Alphas:
Charlie (teased)
Cody (fan fav.)
R.Mika (highly requested for whatever reason)
Karin (same as R.Mika)
Rose (fan fav.)
3rd Strike:
Urien (since Charlie has a Gem on his head)
Ibuki (the game looks like it could be air combo heavy, Ibuki is perfect for that)
Q (with normals doing blockdamage, I see Q as the heavyhitter you want to avoid to even block)
Alex (protagnist of sf3 and fan fav.)
Yun (capcom loves him obviously, btw calling hightier right now)
New:
4-5 new characters to fill in any missing archetypes or get creative with new stuff.
My list would probably go well with the bold statement that “every character will feel unique” made by Ono. (But I highly doubt it until I see more footage)
edit: with that, we got around 20 characters which is a good starting roster, any fan favs that get demanded afterwards can return later with no problem. SF4 grew from ~17-18 to 44 …
I’m really wondering if Ryu is the slow but strong shoto…will Ken Masters be the fast but weak shoto?
Here’s what I think Ken will be like.
very slow fireball with single hit.
EX red fireball borrowed from Ryu. Single hit but…see bottom
classic fiery dp with more arc than in SF4
faster walkspeed than Ryu
weak normals.
Removal of his mk stepkick
gains his ryusenkyaku.
fire element can
a)causes greatest chip damage/grey life in the game
or
b)minor perpetual health depletion post hit(like poison rpg effect)
or
c)increased overall speed
or
d)only red fireballs for a limited time plus fiery tatsu?
*ex red fireball doing either a or b
as for ryusenkyaku, just my wishful hopes and dreams haha =D
I think Hakan makes sense in sfv considering his oil mechanic might fit in well with the power up state
Yun and Yang better be in it, Yun is always destined to be a high/top tier cause of his arch type. Muhaha’ cough excuse me.
They better not just put Yun in, and make his move set an amalgam of Yun and Yang’s moves like what they did in Capcom Fighting Evolution and Cvs2, ew.
I thought so too, at first… but putting Yun/Yang, Ryu/Ken, Guile/Charlie all in the starting roster doesnt really feel unique to me, characterwise
In short, yes for both. Her amazing gameplay and the fact that we haven’t seen her in any other canonical SF for about 17 years now. Her personality is just an added bonus for me, but some fans like her just for that.
I hope they are not working with the guy who did the SF4 portraits anymore, and instead hire Stanley Lau for the artwork.
Idc who they get, just don’t get the same guy because those portraits are fucking ugly. They were better off just using the models like in SFxT.
Her gameplay is just a rekka char so I would say more of the anime thing. She’s a schoolgirl and has the anime laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a62WVc64K_s
this one would probably be better to show what karin is about.