The Inevitable Street Fighter V Story Thread: ARCADE EDITION!

It seems Ken’s wife has her own business. On the left side of the City in Chaos stage there’s a place called Cafe Eliza. It can only be seen in intros and victory sequences. Ryu’s intro on the P1 side is the best way to get a good look at it.

Some details on Character Story Mode (different than the Cinematic Expansion)

These are some of the titles of each character’s individual stories

Ryu - Finding True Strength

Chun-Li - The Power of Belief

Nash - The Man Who Lost It All

Vega - Ballad of Greed

Karin - Seeking Worthy Challengers

Ken - A Bond Enduring

Cammy - Choices and Burdens

Master Bison - Bringer of Destruction

Birdie - On The Run: Extreme Hunger!

Rainbow Mika - Kindred Muscled Spirits

Necalli - ???

Zangief - ???

F.A.N.G. - ???

Rashid - ???

Laura - ???

Dhalsim - ???

The concept arts seen

Laura x Birdie

Guile + Charlie

Chun-Li x Vega

Cammy x Vega

Alpha Charlie x Bison

Ryu x Rashid

FANG x Birdie

Dhalsim + Police Man

Laura x Mika (Zangief watching)

Mika + Zangief

Cammy x Decapre (new outfit)

Necalli

Gouken x Ryu

Karin x Dhalsim

It seems the character story modes will deal with each character’s past, present, and future. May the retcons have mercy on our souls.

Why come chun li not in trouble for almost killing ray jackson in bloodsport???

So cool. I love the small taste of character stories we’re gonna play.

It’s only a small sample, but I’ve already started theorizing potential synopsis and stuff.

Ryu - Finding True Strength: The same plot that Ryu’s had ever since: Finding the true path of being a warrior, and fighting to become stronger

Chun-Li - The Power of Belief: This one was a little harder for me to think of. A first, I thought Chun-Li’s story was gonna be about her backstory, the murder of her father, and taking down Shadaloo. But after seeing the character story teaser and a couple of the artworks, I’m leaning more to thinking that Chun-Li’s story might revolve around the little girl. It seems she’s the girl that gets kidnapped by the illuminati, but before then, Chun-Li was taking care of her. So maybe this is Chun-Li’s story of inspiring the little girl to become strong just as she is. (not to mention that there is an additional Bengus art work with Chun-Li and the little girl)

Nash - The Man Who Lost It All: Nash downfall (and stuff beforehand) and how he survives, but loses his humanity.

Vega - Ballad of Greed: Post SFIV, Vega planned to use the data he gained to make himself eternally beautiful. So probably

Karin - Seeking Worthy Challengers: This one sounds fun. I feel that Karin has matured a bit since her Alpha years. So instead of bragging to all her challengers why she’s better, she adds a little more “class” to it.

Ken - A Bond Enduring: Simple: ken finding Ryu for another bro-fight

Cammy - Choices and Burdens: Cammy is determined to rescue the dolls, her sisters. But when some are assigned to kill her (and her team?), Cammy must make a difficult choice on where her loyalties lie.

Master Bison - Bringer of Destruction: Bison once again hatching his plan, but it’s all to set up his master plan for the Cinematic story mode.

Birdie - On The Run: Extreme Hunger!: Birdie breaks free from Shadaloo… and eats about 100 donuts before 100% completing the story

Rainbow Mika - Kindred Muscled Spirits: Rainbow Mika working hard to wrestle like the great Zangief.

Nash- Lost it all

just because of that title this is for Nash

black veil brides- lost it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_stEdcZbhMk

Nice. I got flashbacks of Bowie when I read the title…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSH--SJKVQQ

I shall call the hospital to prepare a room for vasili.

From the title I don’t think it will just be about Ryu. I think it will also focus on Ken being a family man. I feel Eliza and his son will factor huge in his story.

^*added one

You missed the first concept art featured in the thumbnail

They should’ve hired UDON guys to do the story drawings for SF5 instead of Bengus. He fucking sucks

Yeah, but in the heavy denials unit.

Psych ward it is.

I wouldn’t mind. Some of the UDON artists are good.

While I recognize Bengus’s drawings have more character than Udon’s and I hate Udon I have to acknowledge Udon’s art is usually better quality than this character story shit artwork.

From the modes trailer:

You can see Cammy v Decapre in the top right-ish, and Dhalsim v Karin in on the rightmost side. The fat yellow guy seen in the panel along the bottom is Birdie.

Included are

Ryu v. Evil Ryu

Laura & Birdie

Chun-Li & Vega

Ken & Eliza

Vega (?) & Cammy

Decapre (?) and Cammy

Ancient Necalli

Guile & Nash

R. Mika & Laura

Rashid & Ryu

Ryu & Gouken

R. Mika & Zangief

Fang

Karin & Dhalsim

Birdie v. (?)

Chun-Li + Little girl

Thats all i can make out so far

R. Mika to Ryu: “You have these battles sometimes…like you’re fighting with yourself!”

http://i.imgur.com/AkKcqg2.jpg

Looks like Evil Ryu will have a major part to play in Ryu’s prologue…again.

Gouken/E.Ryu/Decapre confirmed Season 2 DLC

Since Decapre is showing up means her Ultra ending must be canon. Bison (More accurately FANG) kept her alive.

Well these backgrounds are suppose to establish their backgrounds up till SFVs story mode.

This season is 6 DLC characters; these characters will probably also have prologues since it’s basically an arcade mode. So, I expect them to include more key SF3 figures, specifically the ANG cast. It’d really help build the identity of those characters if you get a decently told prologue then their story In a cinematic format after each season or after every few seasons.

Im very interested to see what capcom ends up doing.

P.S my wish for a prologue for each character that shows motivations cmame true I asked for this forever ago :b