The Inevitable Street Fighter V Story Thread: ARCADE EDITION!

Regardless, I don’t think there’s any reason to think anyone couldn’t do this if they wanted to. Most character’s abilities come from training. And most characters all know the fundamentals of chi manipulation.

If a character sees another character use a move, there’s no reason they couldn’t train for a few years and learn to do it themselves.

That said, I can’t see any reason Capcom would WANT to do that. Because they’ve been trying hard as fuck to make characters LESS alike. It wouldn’t make much sense to start having them share more moves.

Still hoping for Thin Rufus in SF5.

If they had created a new Shaolin Monk character instead of bringing back Retsu, I would have been ripshit.

Sure, with training.

Retsu was never a Shaolin Monk…

It’s not a question of Capcom including something like this into actualy gameplay. It’s a pure theorycrafting for the SF Universe in general

Some characters already use a technique from another character previously featured. Sagat turned Shoryuken into Tiger Uppercut, Dudley’s Rocket Uppercut is basically a variant of Shoryu as well, Guy has a version of Tatsumaki called Bushin Senpuu Kyaku. Haggar and Gief stole each others specials. Even things like move animations seem to blend.

And the Street Fighters aren’t the only one’s in their respective universe to have access to their moves. The Muscle Bombers have their own variants of Ryu and Guile techniques.

Akuma is looking less and less powerful each and every time…

Good…friggin’ Kylo Ren of Street Fighter. Or…is Kylo Ren the Akuma of Star Wars? Hmm. Actually the first way is right since Kylo is from “a long time ago…”

Correct. He was a Shorinji Kenpo practitioner. Although Shorinji is the Japanese translation of “Shaolin Temple” (少林寺拳法), the art itself is a style which replicates the original Chinese practice while being derived from Japanese styles like Karate and Judo. Shaolin is a much older style which has a multitude of various forms and styles incorporated into it that originated in China. Both are similar in that they have strong beliefs in Buddhism, and they both incorporate their style of martial arts into their religious practices.

I also love a billy cane or nanase type character to be in the game i hope someday shoto weapon user would be in Sf. they never give lee, mike and the retsu some love even just a redesign.,

I didn’t mind Ren. Not my fav but he’s alright in my books.

Super moves may be harder, but I’d expect a trained SF character to at least be able to do a lot of special moves pretty decently. I mean, are you telling me that Ryu can’t do Tiger Knees at will, even if not as effectively as Sagat?

When was Kylo ever powerful looking? He steals his armor from Vader, and his lightsaber is based off of a parody of a lightsaber.

Isn’t Vadar his inspiration? His motivation?

Yea but he failed from the get go. He took all the bad aspects of Vader which turned him into a baby, not the cool calm collected badass of the galaxy prepared to choke a nigga. He was more like Vader stuck in his Tie Fighter spiraling out into space at the end of the first movie, but for his whole performance.

Isn’t that what he’s supposed to be?

Calling her Gohan would be a bit much… I’m going to play it safe and say she has the same potential as Ryu. I’m sure if Ryu was a teenager who never trained, he would be able to pull off the moves just by watching nuh like Sakura.

I’d say yes. For me, I enjoy Kylo Ren because he’s the way a messed up dude who idolizes a villain at a young age could turn out.

Ben Solo
Skywalker

=Kylo Ren

Someone online pointed this out. He’s like a kid who looks up to how “badass” a villain is and then goes online as ~!++SHINShadowHEdgehogHunter1998XxXx++!~

I like that he’s this young man, with considerable power, but in his urge to be like his idol his instability bleeds into so many aspects of his character. Vader didn’t don the armour to be tough, he was put into that suit to keep him alive and his reputation built up his nefarious legend. Kylo Ren got the suit and modulated his voice to invoke memories of Vader and could not stand on his own merits as a threat. All his childish freakouts made sense. He wasn’t just flipping out for the sake of flipping out. This was him getting so mad at HIS OWN blunders and not being able to handle it. He didn’t lashout out at his men every time.

When he destroys the console after hearing about Finn…he knew something was up from the get go. He looked at him strangely during the initial attack, but didn’t do anything. He knew something was amiss but ignored it and it came to royally bite him.

Several of the above points have been echoed better then I could, but I felt that his childishness was intentional and I liked it. Instead of being this perfect, charming villain, he’s an immensely powerful 30 something with unresolved daddy issues that’s been twisted into this monster. I sense great things for the character.

Kylo Ren as a character is fine. What wasn’t fine is Rey learning Jedi mind trick after 2 tries, and suddenly being able to outduel a sith when she never picked up a lightsaber before. Of course Kylo is going to look like a nerd when a scrub hands him his ass.

Yeah Rey should have been bodied for free.

Maybe not body her, but make it clear she’s being overwhelmed and she’s out of her league. Rey is a Mary Sue and she makes the other characters look bad, including the main villain. Way to set up the villain as a threat for the next two films… Yes I’m saying this while my avatar is a guy who got two lines of dialogue in his film and got defeated by a padawan, never to be seen again in the movies, but still…