The Inevitable Street Fighter V Story Thread: ARCADE EDITION!

MrPyro · June 10, 2016, 11:57pm

While we’re on that note, can we please confirm once and for all whether Akuma actually demon’d Gill? I honestly can’t find anything credible on this anywhere, unless this was covered in a translation before and I missed it.

Shockdingo · June 10, 2016, 11:58pm

Looks like more stage transitions are coming!

FengShuiEnergy · June 11, 2016, 12:02am

So do you think there will be more of a “capcom shoulda waited to release SF5 then we coulda have all this stuff at launch!”? I forsee it.

Doctrine_Dark · June 11, 2016, 12:05am

Can’t wait to see Ass-D’s Critical Art.

Based on everything that’s been translated from AAC so far, it doesn’t seem to be a canon occurrence. Akuma’s SF3 entry doesn’t mention anything about it, nor does Gill’s.

FengShuiEnergy · June 11, 2016, 12:19am

Strike 4 for the angry one.

Doctrine_Dark · June 11, 2016, 12:23am

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I’ve always been meaning to ask, but kept forgetting. What are the entries detailing in each game?

Cestus · June 11, 2016, 12:49am

Nah, this should be Karin premium costume

or the training suit from the manga (but with closed zip lol)

PVL_93_RU · June 11, 2016, 1:18am

MUSCLE POWER

AriesWarlock · June 11, 2016, 1:36am

No, opened zip!

bakfromon · June 11, 2016, 1:46am

You sure been sleeping on these ones. I had to get rid of the other Shadaloo description in the guide because it was from the SFM (ironically that’s the entry you decided to leave out in the bottom of this batch)

I actually just started to do misc. entries again so this should go well with that.

So far what I have done since I last time.

Final Fight Section: is as complete as its gonna get for the moment. I’d still like to get my hands on the Japanese FF Sega CD manual and the FF 2 & 3 manuals to fill in the gaps for fodder characters and bosses.

Stages: Added all the stage description stories from the Street Fighter II Complete File Guide.

Misc section: Im breaking into sub sections that cover different topics that are misc. Right now there’s a few different ones, for example.

Shadaloo- misc things and characters like, Shadaloo Sentai (4 recently revealed Shock Troops), Psycho Drive, Psycho Power, and the 4 Kings

Ansatsuken- Covers Goutetsu and his techniques like Hadoken, SnH, and SGS, as well as Gen’s Ansatsuken.

Organizations: Interpol, Delta Red, C.I.A, and the misc people who work for them.

Families: Masters, Matsuda, and anyone else who’s a family member.

There will be lots if others in the future.

I also added a sources list to the very beginning detailing the sources I’ve used to make the guide.

Hawkingbird · June 11, 2016, 2:36am

Daemos:

http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/9/11889950/street-fighter-5-cinematic-story-mode-ibuki

Street Fighter 5’s story mode is a spectator experience

The long-promised new addition is a lot more watching than it is playing

I’ve played the first hour and change of Street Fighter 5’s upcoming story mode, and whether my news is good or bad depends on what you want out of a fighting game solo offering.

I know that’s infuriating to hear, and not particularly informative, but hear me out.

The reason I was hopeful for SF5’s story mode was because of how I grew up playing Street Fighter. Playing against the CPU, as one character, from start to finish, was a great opportunity to get a basic feel for a character, to feel powerful without playing against a moving goalpost of evolving human capability. It was a fun way to put time into the game that didn’t involve other people.

Street Fighter 5 failed in this regard at launch pretty fundamentally. Characters had three to four fights each in the shipping prologue, which is miserly, but more strangely, each match was just one round long. It was a trifle, more of a tease than a meaningful play experience. It demonstrated a completely different priority for “story mode” than what I, and, judging from some online response, many others were looking for in a single-player mode, seeking instead to build an extremely complicated, interlocking fiction for Street Fighter.

Granted, it didn’t really pull that off, but in Capcom’s defense, it wasn’t supposed to. It was just a taste. Though, in the buying public’s defense, it was just one of many underbaked elements of Street Fighter 5 at launch. Capcom suggested that this deficiency would be addressed by the addition of a proper story mode to the game, but in my time with it, there’s a lot more story added than there is game.

When you begin story mode, the biggest change to Street Fighter precedent is immediate: You don’t pick a character. Instead, Street Fighter 5 takes you through various characters as the story bounces from thread to thread, introducing characters to each other and setting up competing motivations to … do … I’m not sure, actually. There’s a lot of discussion of things happening, as if Street Fighter 5 is several episodes into a television show’s season, and having played through all of the prologue content a few months back, I was completely lost.

Maybe things will make more sense farther in — it’s hard to fault a game’s story so early on, and I’ll refrain from holding that against it yet. And Street Fighter 5 is very clearly presenting itself as an anime story, and I tend not to watch much anime. So I get it. The story probably just isn’t for me.

That said, my time demonstrated some problems. The most superficial and likely to be unremarked upon is the continued fan service present throughout. In case you didn’t notice, Street Fighter 5 is extremely interested in detailing its female characters’ asses. It’s particularly creepy with upcoming DLC character Ibuki, whose canonical baggy-ish ninja outfit has been replaced with a short-skirted schoolgirl thing that still includes a ninja mask because why not.

You probably don’t care about that, if my Twitter mentions are any indication. What you may care about is the structure of story mode. As in the prologue, fights here are a single round, which, at normal difficulty, could be over in seconds. Literal seconds. The story bookends to these fights can last minutes. For all but the most beginner Street Fighter players, you’re going to spend 10-20 times more time watching Street Fighter 5’s story mode than you will playing it.

When I was playing it, I often found myself confused about who I was supposed to be playing as — the point of view in each cutscene before the fight proved to be little indication of who the fight would belong to. I often wasn’t sure which side of the ring I was on until after I got kicked in the face.

While the Capcom representative in attendance told me that I had played the first 90 minutes or so, it felt much shorter, so your time investment in the story mode will likely vary wildly based on your skill level. And your enjoyment of it will depend highly on how much you want to watch the Street Fighter cast interact — including a few unreleased characters, some of whom you can even briefly play as in story mode.

Not happy about the difficulty level. I don’t think this was the right guy to play story mode and write a preview. He seems disinterested from the get-go.

I doubt Polymon has anyone who’s right for the job.

Chun-Li_Forever · June 11, 2016, 2:53am

Heres a clip about Nash/Helen + Guile/Chun-Li part of the story in english.

A little retelling of Nash’s prologue and more. I might be alone on this, but have to admit, I’m liking the English voice acting so far.

Doctrine_Dark · June 11, 2016, 3:23am

Lmao…

My bad. I had no idea. Seeing Shadaloo spelled in plain English should’ve been enough of a hint since almost everything about the SFM game is English. Btw, Akuma from the SFM looks more terrifying than the Akuma from the game.

MrPyro · June 11, 2016, 3:24am

Nah, I agree. The English voices are unfairly underrated. And hey, at least the lip syncing is FAR better than in SFIV. Holy crap.

Also, I’m glad to hear a lot of Dave Fennoy. I forgot his name, but I’m positive that’s him voicing the guy Guile talks to.

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FengShuiEnergy · June 11, 2016, 3:25am

I feel more connected with english voices. Able to understand the characters better through a variety of ways.

Doctrine_Dark · June 11, 2016, 3:34am

I used to unnecessarily hate on the English voices because I thought it was the cool thing to do. Nowadays, I feel much more comfortable keeping the majority of them in English. Bison is one of those characters I wish I could simultaneously switch between mainly because of how great both actors are in that role.

For example, I like F.A.N.G.'s Japanese voice, but I feel as though his English voice captures his personality much better. I don’t get that creepy vibe from the Japanese like I do the English one. Same can be said about many other characters.

MrPyro · June 11, 2016, 3:36am

I’m sure we can all agree that SFIV Cody’s JP voice is far superior…

Doctrine_Dark · June 11, 2016, 3:39am

Cody’s Japanese voice makes me want to punch cats.

Especially when he does the “Ha ha” nonsense. His defeat cry is just…shut the fuck up!

Admittedly, it was better in SFXT, but the SF4 voice has scarred my ears for life.

FengShuiEnergy · June 11, 2016, 3:45am

Sometimes when I hear the japanese voices through various things (anime, games etc) it almost sounds at times I’m hearing the same 3 people. You can get that in english as well but to me it sounds way more prominent. It’s really weird. That and alot of the girls sound really high pitched alot of the time…which kinda hurts the ears a little.

Some of them are kinda funny when you translate what they say you think they say in english.

Hei’s defeat in SFxT “YOU NEED SUNBLOCK!!!”

Balrog’s defeat in SF4 “WASH IT OFF!!!”

Adon in SF4 “COME ON IT’S SAVANGARDE!!!”

Juri in SF4 “ASUNA BACKING OFF!!!”

YagamiFire · June 11, 2016, 3:45am

Cody didn’t have a Japanese voice actor in SF4.

He didn’t have one.

At all.