Shouldn’t there have been a new DLC character introduced by now?
Man, that scene JUST happened in the anime this week too.
Well the patch is gonna be released “at the end of the month”, so either we get a teaser for a new character sometime this month, or we’ll have to wait another month for a new character.
I know Abel is white and most people think of him as a reference to Fedor
But Abel is french and while his style is supposed to be MMA, tons of his shit comes from Judo.
I’d argue that Abel is a general tribute to French’s strenghts in Judo.
Fedor does Sambo, Sambo grappling is essentially Judo+ Wrestling (Greco-Roman, Freestyle)
He got Fedor’s look, he got Sambo uniform, he even got a scar on the same point of the nose lol
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Pls, you can’t get more fighter tribute than that… he’s more or less Fei Long or Balrog level, lol
His (Abel’s) face is modelled after younger (and less bald/fat) pre-fighter/very early career Fedor, there are some pics where he’s really close
Also Fedor’s career in MMA (greatest HW of the sport) as popularity easily surpass his popularity as Sambo dude (greatest HW of that sport too lol), so it make sense most identify him as MMA artist first.
Even if must be added that his style in SF4 mimic more Sambo Fedor than MMA Fedor, mostly because most/all throws are gi-throws you don’t wear gi in “modern” MMA… example Fedor in MMA never fought wearing or versus an opponent that wear a gi
Gi grappling and No Gi grappling involve different techniques, and most of Abel’s throws are “gi” ones
PS: Also Abel is’nt “french”, he just escaped from shadaloo labs and now live in France
I like that, it will be an improvement
Or they could have keept just the purple/pink lock (wich made sense as classic Juri color)
But both purple and azure was just overdone
Just an aside, but do you guys think the statues in the remastered Thailand stage will be breakable?
I was thinking, instead of random NPCs in the background, what if the onlookers were the rest of the playable cast, minus the two characters battling?
Sort of as an homage to Enter the Dragon?
You know, still a couple monks here and there and maybe a Shadaloo soldier or two.
At the very least it could be the Four Kings watching, minus whichever one or two are fighting of course, mixed in with NPCs.
Wouldn’t make sense for Urien and Bison to be in the same backstage rooting some random fighter without getting involved in the battle somehow.
Guile’s stage had breakable boxes, so I would be surprised if they didn’t do the same with the statues.
I think the characters in the background should either be the Four Kings, or the (S)SFII cast. Maybe not everyone, just the ones that are in the game, or better yet, the ones that aren’t playable thus far. It would be a good way to give Blanka, Honda, Sagat, Fei Long, T. Hawk and Dee Jay some screen time without necessarily adding them to the roster, although I’m sure that eventually one or more of them will join the fight.
If the people in the background HAVE to be NPCs, then Eliza, Guile’s wife and daughter, Gorbachev or Blanka’s mother would make the most sense.
No Secret Society guys, no shadaloo dolls, no other characters, it okay for blanka to appear, but not overly populated by other SF2 characters, no other characters that never appeared in SF2.
blanka mom, guiles wife and daugter are okay because they were interruption in the ending. Good stuff along with the monks and like crash say 2 shadaloo soldiers and that enought for a balance.
But no Gorbachev… Only a russian helicopter should be roaming arround.
… i want deejay, feilong and hawk stage but I don’t expect them to be revisted this soon.
It would be nice if there was an “Alternate SF2” story scenario where you could look at a re-imagined battle between Ryu/Guile and Bison. Just what happened in that stage and how did it end? We know the Aftermath took place after the tournament was over, so something went down there. The Akuma cheap shot doesn’t seem to be a thing anymore, so I’m left to assume Ryu fought Bison there.
I’d pay to see Gorbachev in Street Fighter
Tbh i hope Thai stage to be just Thai stage, at worst an hint of Bison
This is the stage where i will have liked many SFers as stage NPCs
Because it feel a bit “bonus” and Capcom self celebration
But about Blanka cameo i will like see this stage with Blanka doing his Blanka shit around
maybe even a cameo of
I want the helicopter stuff for him to go down it as another stage KO animation but not hitting the helicopter
I would prefer him going down the helicopter like Sf2 ending Gief in the end of the round
Agree I like the early idea of people thinking Akuma being the KO interactivity of the characters like other stage. but now since Akuma is in SFV , I would like to see Sheng long instead doing a Shoryuken that sends the knock character sky high like team-rocket since it’s alternative haha.
This should be canon
Muscle Power > PP/SnH
In a fair world Muscle Power is second only to Rosso’s Stomp and more or less equal slighty superior to Oro’s Sennin shit
It was very Harajuku punk, which I imagine was the point. It’s overdone, yes, but that’s Japanese youth street style.
So lets make Gief on the Background with Gorbachev, when gief is not fighting in the stage, haha
I don’t doubt it is, but as general direction i prefer much more when stuff get adapted to the game’s design rules… it’s more or less where SF4 alts started (summer costumes iirc) to piss on it’s own feet
SFV already did an half misstep on Halloween Pack tbh lol
Old school Capcom used to have a stronger/more solid sense of art direction, they could design basically anything staying loyal to theyr style and keeping everything fitting… even crazy concepts like Rival Schools or Darkstalkers, even fucking comic superheroes in MvC1/2 lol