Vega is the most triggering one, honestly
SFII World Warrior - dark brown
SFII Champion Edition - light brown
SFII Animated Movie - blonde
SFII V Animated Series - blonde
SF Alpha 3 - blonde
SF EX - blonde
CVS2 - blonde
SVC Chaos - blonde
SFIV - dark brown
Super SFII Turbo HDR - blonde
SFV - blonde (again)
Like, nigga, make up your damn mind
There was a fan thought of Ryu’s hair being red by associating it with SNH in SF1 game. I hope Capcom would just come out with story to make that thing logical.
Blond Vega is best Vega. Anyone disagreeing is wrong.
SFIIAM = best Ryu and best Vega looks.
SF2AM is the best everything.
Can’t disagree
Cammy’s round face is questionable but otherwise yeah, SF2AM designs were pretty sick
Chun never looked so good
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Imagine SF2 AM being the Art Direction of a anime fighter in an engine and animation of Xrd or DBFZ but playstyle like SF4 or SFV. Everyone would surely blown away.
Blond Vega work fine as design but still the best imho is ingame SF4 one
Brown/reddish hair color will have been very unique instead being just another blonde (specially in SFV), plus i think that shade of red it really fit and give some elegant and bloody vibe, i don’t ever praise SF4 art direction but they really nailed the look there
I wish if they do a nostalgia costume for him, they stick with this as #1 color, then they can go blond for other #
I think standard SFV #2 kinda tried it, but sucked
Agreed. When I was a kid and thought a MvC anime would be around the corner, I pictured it in this style (the X-men TAS anime opener really helped that fantasy along). It’s just a really solid, powerful art style from the heyday of anime - not too slick, overproduced, and flashy, not boring or sterile. Just right.
People’s hair darken over time. Maybe that was the reason why Vega’s hair is blonde in Alpha and brown in II onwards.
But considering Vega’s narcisism, it wouldn’t be weird for him to bleach or dye his hair.
My favorite Vega models are in SF4 and SFA3. They’re both awesome. Nothing can top that shit.
That logic fails when you consider how his hair goes from blonde (alpha) to brown (SF2) to blonde (SFV)
Nice consideration. The hair dye thing could work for him but not for Ryu.
Ryu might have a super saiyan stuff where his hair changes color depending on his power level.
Or he could have just taken a shower; he’s a hermit, not necessarily the cleanest guy, maybe his hair wasn’t that dark but only dirty at some moment.
Not necessarily, maybe after SF2 he looked himself into the mirror and thought “damn, my hair looks so much darker than before, I should start dying it”. And thus, he’s “blonde” again in SFV.
There’s nothing I want more in this world.
That inspired the Alpha art style, so they should’ve gone through with it.
Blue hair??? You mean black, which was highlighted by blue due to sprite limitations?
His hair is very dark brown in SF4 game models, it probably looks kinda gray due to weird lighting.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for him to keep his natural color since he believes he’s perfect?
They could have used any color they wanted because of the richer palettes available in SF3. Note how, unlike previous sprites, the SF3 one does not have to share the hair shades with any other element of the sprite (skin or gloves), so they had total freedom.
That said, yeah, they were going for black and gave it the blue highlights to make it stand out more than if it had gray or brown highlights.