Fatal Fury started to push it with Fatal Fury 3 with the Jin brothers and the sacred scrolls.
1 Like
The Jin brothers were decent fine line with supernatural and mysticism not really to much its feels 90s mystism and martial arts, unlike other new modern FGs that characters just end up like character memes with fighting style like memes.
Yes and no. It’s important to go out of boundaries to spice things up with design, but I think the main theme of “fighters from around the world” is good enough to keep churning out a lot of cool designs.
6 Likes
Going so much out and beyond the core theme because others(FGs) do so would make future sf more complicated than usual because those weren’t natural in their world and probably would complicate the future titles if they wanted to be moee of the core this happens when trends suddenly of today became obsolette or shifted in a different way.
Misticysm Is perfectly fine
A little bit of science fiction acceptable
But the more far from “martial artists from around the world” the more i get bullshit and wasted slots
I’m ok with SF4 Juri way
SIN,Seth,Shadaloo,bison, cyber eye
Whatever, i don’t give a fuck
She was korean char in design that wink at taekwondo uniform, so she’s ok to me to stay in SF
Korean/taekwondo was a giant hole in SF
The bullshit story attacked to her does’nt bother me, as long It does’nt prevent the character design from the martial arts/fighter vibe
Her SFV design say nothing to me, keep that shit for alts pls
Thanks gods i got nostalgia one and she can look a SF char
That’s why i LOVE tournament setting for SF, It justify and encourage straight fighter designs
Few characters to break the vibe it’s ok(It give variety), the problem is when/if SF fall in love with “story characters” instead guessing wich country/martial art they can add
2 Likes
Well then I hope Capcom continues to explore new horizons for SF6 then, cuz IMO they’re not exactly doing well in that regard for SFV.
The newcomer regions/countries for this game only include Canada, UAE and Egypt. Not exactly a good result from a game that’s supposed to be all about “world warriors” is it? All the other newbies are from regions that are already represented in the SF universe via at least one established character.
To be honest they don’t even help themselves at that, the new characters nationalities had decent variety even if was’nt first ever or even “first in SFV”
The crap “unknown” on nationality of characters where Is hinted steal some
Rashid UAE
Kolin Ukraine
Falke Germany
Necalli Mexico
Menat Egypt
Abigail Canada
Laura Brazil
Fang China
Ed ??? (they could have dropped hints there)
G ???
Kage “japan” (as product of Ryu)
Zeku Japan
Lucia USA
They got some decent variety there, as long you don’t spam even more USA/Japan i’m fine… the metro city arc is’nt helping at that lol
2 Likes
Capcom reluctance to give a character like Rashid an official nationality when it’s obvious where he’s from pisses me off. What are they afraid of? It’s not like there will be a fan revolt if he’s from X middle eastern country instead of Y.
Did Falke get an official nationality or one of those shitty shadowloo unknown icon? Is the accent all we’re going with here?
Isn’t Fang Vietnamese? I could have sworn someone here made the connection that the clan of assassin’s he originally belonged to had a Vietnamese name.
6 Likes
She also got german flag colors on VT ink and on her costume/canne
I think Fang Is Just supposed to be chinese, his Battle alt even hint to chinese “boxers rebellion”.
Fang char story Is essentially about Bison bullying chinese triads lol
I think Fang being Chinese is a false flag. The character on his shirt is misspelled. Chun’s win quote even references it questioning if he’s Chinese.
1 Like
I’m okay with unknown nationalities the only exceptions are the obvious and clear with the origin.
Cybernetics and Mecha is a strong part of SF.
The thing that SFV did meh was the Oversized Donuts and Zombie/Frankenstein Nash.
Interesting side note.
I do agree those two were just barely straddling the edge, but I think they still fit in. They’re basically just, like, youthful versions of Pai Mei.
And even then, FF pulled back from that level of weirdness for all future games.
Very much this. It feels like Ono is constantly trying to copy Tekken’s world, and Street Fighter should NOT be Tekken.
1 Like
I wouldn’t say that. There’s White from the Playstation version of Real Bout Special. A character based on Alex from a Clockwork Orange was out of left field.
2 Likes
I agree with @Cestus_II completely. SF characters should be based first and foremost on a martial art AS a martial artist and look somewhat like one. Not some magical timetravelling loli fairy.
And wtf is up with the nationalities being ambiguous. Personally I think Rashid should be from Kuwait as theres an actual SF community there.
Ed can be from Australia or Scandinavian country
2 Likes
Agree too but ironically that’s the same guy that pushed so hard multiple times trying to shill the skinny teen with magical yoyo in udon comics, because of being italian lol.
Fair enough. White sucks.
Isn’t that because the character is made from two outdated Chinese characters so it only makes sense to him? I remember hearing that before.
Well, he’s extremely similar to the musician assassins in Kung Fu Hustle, which takes place in the 40s.
4 Likes
Just out of curiosity what is the meaning o the “X” in the name “Super Street Fighter II X — Grand Master Challenge”?
4000 REPORTING IN
Anyway, national representation would be more relevant in SF if more characters had anything to do with their nation. The entire Bison clone plot has produced a bunch of characters with completely arbitrary nationalities like Cammy and Abel. Capcom can’t really hit all the notes with most characters, producing either characters like Ed (all story, no nationality) or Laura (basically a collection of stereotypes with a flat personality and little story beyond being related to Sean).
2 Likes