5769

I don’t think that’s Illuminati, I think it’s a danger, explosive content warning

http://www.proshieldsafetysigns.co.uk/signs/4480_signs.jpg

5770

Well, when going by many of Nash’s quotes, I pretty much expected that. He said nothing good comes from family or friends, so whatever relationship he had with Guile is probably a distant memory to him by now.

5771

Nigga be cold now. Ice cold.

5772

The boxes are labeled explosive, but they don’t even break when you land near them…How can Guile’s stage tease exploding boxes like that?

5773

Bison tends to have that effect on people. Look at Juri. She went from a prodigy Taekwondo practitioner to a mass murderer. Vengeance isn’t driving her like it is Nash. I just think Shadaloo’s attack on Juri and her parents unhinged her for good. Chun-Li says in her win quote something along the lines of “What would your parents think if they saw you now?”

Guile abandoned his family to seek revenge, but he was able to be saved by his wife and daughter before vengeance consumed him.

Btw, to draw another EX comparison: Guile is trying to save Doctrine Dark’s soul before vengeance consumes him. I wonder if Guile will be able to save Nash before it’s too late. With the way it’s looking now, I doubt it.

5774

I say Bison don good and don goofed at the same time. Don good because I have my girl, gon goofed because now she’s gona rip him in two.

5775

Word. It’s both a blessing and a curse. Juri was the first character I used in Super. Loved her ever since.

Really looking forward to seeing her place in the story. We know the Dolls have a big part in Shadaloo’s C.H.A.I.N.S. project, and we see Juri keeping her eye on Cammy and Juni from afar. I have a feeling Juri’s going to try to fuck up the project, but she’ll also mosy likely fight Chun-Li and Cammy as well.

Btw, you ever see how vicious Juri can be in her SF4 personal quotes? No one’s safe! Not even the elderly. Here’s a few:

To Cody: "I’ll give you something to brood about, you emo loser."
To El Fuerte: "Cooking? No thanks, chump. I don’t wanna eat anything you touched.
To Gen: "Time to get back to the old folks’ home, gramps. Here, let me help you up."
To Gouken: "I’d heard you were pretty tough, but you’re just an old fart past his prime.:
To Makoto: "What a heartwarming story. Too bad you’ll never go home now."
To T. Hawk: “If you like the earth so much, go take a dirt nap.”

Juri’s win quotes are so good…

5776

Girl’s vicious what can I say?

5777

Fucking Savage

5778

Juri has to talk shit in her win quotes/taunt, it’s a must for her in this game…

Any theories on why the hell Guile’s muscles expand during Sonic hurricane? That caught me off guard when I saw his trailer.

5779

Gotta pump up. Show that h has power and unleashes it in SH.

5780

I actually have a whole theory on Guile’s new abilities after I did the translations from the SF2CF for his Sonic Boom and Flash Kick.

Unlike a Hadoken, Tiger Shot, or Kikoken where the ki is expelled and consolidated into the palms, a Sonic Boom surges through the arms and stays there because of the closed fist. The larger ki swelled arms not only propels a faster style Sonic Boom, it helps manifest a larger shockwave into a Sonic Hurricane.

5781

That is such an awesome idea that I hope it’s the canon explanation.

5782

Is it wrong that after seeing that, I want Guile to use his booms to slice off Nash’s limbs?

This is really like ROTS, except the student has become the master.

5783

My shitty little theory on the Sonic Hurricane, canon-wise: Guile has developed it to the point where he can put all of his Chi into it. That would probably explain the expanded muscles. The technique was first shown in Alpha 3, but with the plot of that game being all over the place, it wouldn’t be hard to exclude Guile from that game altogether. He only had the Double Somersault as a Super Combo in SF2, so we can say he probably had yet to develop the technique or didn’t have it at all. The Sonic Hurricane reappears in Super SF4, appears to be a decent attack. Now in SFV, it looks to be at its most powerful level.

One of the things I was hoping for was to see the Sonic Typhoon make an appearance in one of the main SF games. He does this exclusively in the EX series. To me, this does a far better job at demonstrating Guile’s raw power than the Sonic Hurricane ever did.

For those who haven’t seen it yet:

This is the same attack used in his EX2 ending that knocked Bison on his ass, too. Just look at the manliness in that attack.

5784

Inferring from this, do you think Nash may lash out at Guile by going after his family?

5785

It kinda makes guile’s revenge motive pointless now. Still gotta stop bison. But now nash is all “bitch, we ain’t friends no more. Ima fight you now and beat you.” Guile\s gona be awestruck then he may question his beliefs or something. That or he may try the “come back nash!!!” route.

5786

Nope, Charlie is not a mindless beast. He’s fueled by hated, but looking at his story mode, he can at least be reflective on his journey, he’d have nothing to gain by going after his family and would make for out of character shifts into bad writing.

5787

It shows Ryu cleaning a grave (probably his master’s) with water. A girl (ojou-san) asks if he really have to go (to the tournament). Ryu says that yes, because their master (her father) was murdered. The girl hugs Ryu saying that she doesn’t want to lose him too. Ken appears and mentions that he discovered who his master’s enemy is: Sagat. They go their way leaving behind the girl with tears in her eyes…

The Fanbook manga is almost an exact continuation of this… There it shows Ryu leaving the dojo, with ojou-san being extremely sad. She decides to pursue him. When she finds Ryu, a bear attacks them. Ryu pulverizes the bear with the Hadoken, a technique which he had a hard time to master. Ojou-san faints. Ryu covers her with the upper part of his gi, and go to his path to become a true warrior…

I really don’t know how those stories play out between Capcom and a given publication. Gamest seems to be the only source for those stories before the All About books. I don’t know if they just make up those things and Capcom is ok with it, if Capcom gives them a basic guidance for them to develop the story or if Capcom writes this stuff and the publication simply reprints it. What I do know is that a lot of this stuff is mentioned by Capcom publications (like AAC and Eternal). Let’s take a look at Vega’s stories:

1: SF2 WW
Gamest publishes an story that Vega is a brutal fighter, but also admired. He’s pissed that the people from Japan actually compare him with other known people. He plans to display Psycho Power (yes, his energy is called like that since WW) on television for the whole world to know about his strength.

2: SF2 Dash/Champion Edition
Gamest publishes Vega’s origin (in 1992!!!) he was a promising fighter with murderous intent (no, I’m not talking about SNH). He aimed to be the best in all the things that he does, and including fighting. His master was the sole Psycho Power user, and for a while managed to keep Vega to work his psyche in a good way. However, Vega gives in to his evil ways and kills his master, following a killing rampage. Then he disappears… only to become the evil boss.
This story is mentioned in Complete File, AAC and Eternal. Complete file even metions that Vega killed his master with the Psycho Crusher.
Until the Zero series, Gamest wouldn’t update the 12 original character stories for Hyper Fighting, Super and Super X.

3: SFZ1
Vega pursues the heir of ansatsuken. He wants to learn about a certain move. He faces Gouken who gets defeated but didn’t use the Hadoken, Shoryuken and Tatsumaki in his fight against Vega. Vega leaves, saying that his pupils would show him those moves… That’s a clear indication that Vega knew that Ryu defeated Sagat with the Shoryuken and wanted to know more about the technique/fighter that defeated the Emperor of Muay Thai. However, nothing like that is mentioned in-game where he fights Rose (neither this story is mentioned again in subsequent publications).
This story was published in an resumed version in Himitsu Hyakka SF2 book. The complete version in All About Street Fighter Zero and Gamest Mook SFZ1.

4: SFZ2
Psycho Crusher
Vega is increasing his power in a Shadoloo lab by facing several fighters hoping he could get hate an anger from them, but instead he can only get fear from them. He hears about a fighter who defeated Sagat. He destroys the lab with the Psycho Crusher.
This story was published in Gamest Mook SFZ2 and All About SFZ2 (possibly in Z2 exclusive publications for Saturn and PS1 too). Curiously, a translated and shortened version of this story was in Capcom’s USA Alpha 2 and EX+@ site back in 1997…

5: SFZ3
Secret Point 48106
Mark Douglass (I think that’s his name) reads a report about a subject found near the Secret Point 48106 shore. The subject’s name is Allen and it seems that he was expeienced with Psycho Power. Allen seems to have suffered a lot and only reacts when his interrogators mentions about Vega, Psycho Power or when a fake Psycho Power light is shown. Douglass decides to call Chun-Li who is in middle east. The time to take down Shadoloo has come.
This was published only in All About Street Fighter Zero 3. Allen was mentioned in AAC. Curiously, SFZ3 Gamest Mook doens’t have the character’s accounts.

6: SF3 (1997)
SF3 Fanbook mentions that Vega and Shadoloo are “alive and well”. Confirming that Vega was simply defeated by Gouki in SSF2X.

7:SF3 - 3rd Strike
Gamest #255 have a character relation chart changing the previous story. Vega was pullverized by Gouki in SSF2X. Probably, this was implemented because of Vega being blown up in almost every SFZ3 ending. Later it was reinforced by AAC.

In my opinion, this info is written by Capcom and the magazines simply print them.

5788

If the American military science division had a part to play in helping him develop his ki techniques than he should have one of the best ki projectiles in canon. His V-Trigger doesn’t coat his fist in some amorphous globe of ki energy, but he literally wraps a smaller form of his sonic boom around his wrists as cuffs. This requires him to control his energy into an actual form unlike the others fighters, and its the mini wrist booms that help support him in the use of faster one handed booms.