The Street Calibur 5 Lounge: The Soul Burns But not as Hard as the FGC is Burning

As someone who routinely plays grapplers and rush down, I have a weird fascination with charge characters which tend to be pretty defensive.

Any SF that doesn’t have Bison in it loses a lot of brownie points with me. It’s one of the few things I hate about 3S. :pensive:

That’s my main problem with charge characters, I can do the combos in training mode decently. But deciding when to sacrifice my charge and move forward or whatever is tough. Just seems like such a big change to mindset.

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Aren’t you playing Ken?
Who the hell are you playing?

I already have a lot of trouble going on the offensive as is, if I have to pick a character that pretty much requires me to hold downback, I’ll be a statue.

I pretty much play with this playing in my head at all times. :rofl:

I used to play Ryu and Cammy in SFV and play Ryu in 3rd Strike.

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Ok, I might become old but, who of them is a charge character?

That’s the same problem with me and the only reason I can’t main FANG. Charge characters are too big brain for me.

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None, you dimwit. Did you reply before reading again? :rofl:

I was talking about why I couldn’t adapt to playing Urien, who is a charge character.

You just saw SFV and acted like a bull seeing red, didn’t you?
:rofl:

But all you do with Urien if throw fireballs and press st.hp.
Why would you need to charge with him?

Funny enough, charge characters were created to be the easy alternative for motion chars back in the day :rofl:

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EX Tackle. :man_shrugging:

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Overrated, a real man mashes Sweep at point blank.

Facts. My problem isn’t doing charge specials, it’s using them correctly.

Every time I meet someone that can’t do charge specials I’m like:

Acerola what

Mitsuru’s ex coup droit in bbtag is uriens ex tackle on crack. No charge needed, can lead into corner combos and is faster with no recovery

:expressionless:

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She needs it. :man_shrugging:

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My God this dude has been typing for literally over an hour.

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Since when was Katalina in BBTag

She also needs this.

And this

And this
Mother of all Pokes

And has this
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Baines is about to drop a whole mixtape on us. :rofl:

Moral of the story:

Keep out characters do keep out stuff.

Samus had character established outside the games. Characters, really. That’s really the root of the fan backlash over Other M.

In the West, Samus Aran was a badass bounty hunter. The NES manual for Metroid says she is the greatest bounty hunter, a cyborg who has had her entire body augmented, a person who regularly succeeds at missions that everyone considered impossible. The Federation Police have in their desperation called her in to do (alone) what they’ve been unable to accomplish.

Nintendo Power, as an official publication of Nintendo of America, would further establish Samus’ badass cred with info and comics. Nintendo Power published the popular armor cutaway datasheet image that listed Samus as 6’3" and 198lbs, further described her personality, and showed her muscular form under the armor. While the Nintendo Power Super Metroid comic would conflict with some canon elements, it would further establish, or reaffirm, the Western perception of Samus. (The comic would also apparently contribute a few elements to Metroid canon.)

However, Yoshio Sakamoto would take control of the Metroid franchise with Super Metroid (*). Sakamoto had his own view of who Samus Aran was, and it was pretty much the opposite of the popular Western image. Not just “popular Western image”, but arguably the Western image that made Samus so popular. Sakamoto’s view of Samus certainly wouldn’t be held up as an iconic strong female character. To be blunt, it is hard to see Sakamoto’s Samus as being anything other than his waifu.

(*) Something that tends to get forgotten due to the credit Sakamoto receives as the creator of Samus is that he was officially only a character designer on the original Metroid, and apparently wasn’t involved at all with Metroid II.

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