And this is why we got 3 rises on SFV.
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Is that someone praising a design choice in SFV? Get him!
Just telling how the history went, don’t shoot the messenger.
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Yeah I thought so… 
Cammy’s divekick in vanilla and super was ultra wild. She didnt need EX to do it low to the ground. Rufus also has a divekick that he can do super low to the ground.
Its offputting to say the least. The twins divekick in 3S is hilarious because they hit overhead.
The term vortex was coined by Arturo to describe Akuma’s mix up in vanilla SF4. He would combo into sweep from tatsu and then dk dumb demon flip stuff that would go back into the same knockdown and into the same mix up. So it was like being stuck in a vortex.
He used the Obama stimulus money to go to Japan and play SF4 in Arcades. Then he’d post on SRK by leeching wifi from cafes with his blackberry.
10/10 thread before people stopped taking it seriously. That shit was crazy.
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Here you guys go:
I made exactly one comment to ask some silly stuff and thank the guy for the thread.
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Eh, cultural accuracy hasn’t ever really been the point with Street Fighter character designs, look at Dhalsim, hell E Honda is based on elements of Capcom’s own culture and they managed to piss off real Japanese sumo.
Sumo is considered a sacred sport watched by the gods, and kabuki is theatre, so for Honda to be wearing kabuki as a sumo wrestler denigrates the sport to a clown show.
They’re not trying to make accurate culturally sensitive stuff, they just wanna make cool anime characters and El Fuerte is a cool anime character.
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Cammy was like top tier or close to it in every iteration of SFIV except for AE if I’m not mistaken. Her toolkit was an excellent combination of solid stuff and stupid shit.
But yeah, SFIV was the game that made people hate divekicks. For good reason. They were pretty hard to deal with for a lot of the cast.
She was retroactive Top Tier in every version.
People discoverd retroactive how nuts her pressure and damage was in Vanilla.
Then she got mostly buffed in Super, where everyones damage was nerfed. Japan put her in Top1 for a reason.
Then her divekick got changed in AE, but she got a lot of buffs to her normals, allowing for a lot more combos.
And then AE2012 came and her entire Vortex gameplay was fully discoverd. Most of her 50/50 and Vortex worked either of her backthrow or of her regular HK Arrow. Unblockables for days, 50/50 of literally anything, really good damage to top it off.
She then got a bunch of Nerfs in Ultra and most people thought her Vortex was dead, then they got reminded that she still could 50/50 you off of her regular Knockdowns and had still TK EX Arrow because fuck you thats why.
She was mostly between A and S in Ultra, opinions varied.
There is a reason why a lot of Cammys didn’t like her in SFV, they never learned how to Neutral and only how to Vortex.
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Some sources would be appreciated on this.
Some Slammasters characters are better than Elfuerte or even Abel.
The comedy with Fuerte seems force like Rufus.
The part under ‘Reception’ that reads:
Images of E. Honda were barred from display at a Street Fighter II Turbo tournament held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan because, according to a report in Electronic Gaming Monthly , “his painted face was considered a sacrilege to the Japanese national sport.”[33]
The Ryōgoku Kokugikan being an indoor sporting arena mainly used for Sumo, so the fact that they didn’t want E Honda displayed at all speaks to their distaste for him.
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Explains why Japan doesn’t seem to like Honda a lot.
Still this change literally nothing in terms of your bad taste for character designs.
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Does this beat delay buttons? I gotta try this when I get back from work.
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Are you guys in America all right? Because I’ve seen some crazy shit on the internet.
Have your police force really started beating journalists too now? I’m seeing people calling out the looters, but I’d be more concerned about your government using that as an excuse to send in the fucking army.
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The police are out of control. Which started all this in the first place and each time they do something else, it only makes it worse. Hell they arrested one reporter while he was live on the air.
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Yeah shits going down right now in a lot of places. The initial killing was in Minnesota but cops and protesters have been clashing in cities all over the country. Pick any major city and you can probably find a twitter video within 2 mins of the police doing something illegal/unethical/needlessly violent handling demonstrations in the last week.
Doesn’t help that unemployment is at record highs due to covid and the presidents comments/actions are throwing fuel on the fire. Don’t know how long this’ll last or if anything will really change but for now this seems like the June edition of 2020 apocalypse bingo for us.
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My city has had a curfew for the last week and just passed an ordnance to extend it indefinitely. Thousands of people have been marching every single day. I will say, that the tensions between protesters and cops has died down a ton, and now it’s almost completely peaceful. Still, everything is on edge.
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