What’s with the Rolento hate all over the place? I thought he was one of the more liked characters. Also, my list is
T. Hawk (he needs his story to be concluded in this game. I don’t see him coming in a sequel with a proper story)
Dee Jay (just because T. Hawk is in. You can’t leave him out if you’re adding the other SSFII characters)
Fei Long (fighting style + nostalgia)
C. Viper (do we even need a reason at this point? She has been hinted more than once and still nothing)
Oro (same as Viper)
I wouldn’t put Rose in because she had to be there in the first season instead of the shitty replacement that is Menat. Rose is one of my favorite characters, but I definitely DON’T want her in this game this late + with Menat in.
A continuation to my long earlier comment on what an SF general story mode narrative should be careful and should avoid.
The link to the earlier comment:
which would be about the transitioning of stories from one game to another
Since it’s already obvious that everything need coherence and I have mentioned early easy to pickup.
They should took some pointers on how 90’s cartoons do they settle conflict and do transition to each new conflicts. each has various characters involve. Why? because 90’s cartoons are good at prioritizing and preserving characters even with different conflict each week but still everything conflicts each other because it’s a on-going series.
And a Fighting game general story should be treated also like a on-going series that prioritize characters like xmen 90s cartoon does.
Stories nowadays
Doing a skip like 3 years after stories is terrible for a fighting game.
The best example is the x-men because of it’s seamless transition to each different conflict wlike from the sentinel, to mojo then magneto and sinister.
Imagine that like it’s impossible but still most makes sense because it’s continues every character involve to each different conflict made sense. The other characters from the previous conflict would latter join-in the newer conflict.
They could even put high risk and threats but they always find a way to at-least reset things back to normal at where everything things return where it used to be that they could pick up for the next episode. This kind of story telling template would do wonders for a general story mode SF.
problems with modern storytelling in fighting games that it tries to be like a blockbuster movies and also tries to please everyone. sometimes it tries to downgrade and re-write their characters to be relatable to everyone. Instead of just doing a general story that is better for a fighting game brand.
casual nowadays had ridiculous request for fighting game stories like, like everyone should have fight along with win and lose, while they also want everyone in the character select screen to be part of the general story while asking 30 plus characters, while also expecting future DLC character being part of the stories and having a huge role, then they would criticized why the story is terrible and generic, everyone was forced and this character blah blah didn’t get enough screen time, this character didn’t get enough fight, this character is out of character… and etc rants.
that’s messed up expectation it’s like this kind of people has no idea how things works in reality. They should pick an RPG instead. They should realize that a fighting game is not a game made to priorizte stories that they expect about plot twist and surprises. Fighting Games is about range of selectable characters that there to be options to used again
NRS stories work is because of over using time travel and parallel dimensions which has no true consequences like what crossover titles are able to do.
I find it also ridiculous that some NRS fans wanted to find out what happens to the story from alternate parallel. That they want a continuous or be discuss in the latter progression story.
This people doesn’t realized that it would cause more confusion and convoluted flow of the future stories. And the fans shouldn’t be attach to those kind of characters.
And also Capcom should stop involving Shadaloo or even Secret Society to
I don’t like him, but I haven’t complained about him lately. Pretty sure the last time was weeks ago, possibly during that previous conversation where someone blamed SF3 for introducing all those unfit character designs when it was really the Alpha series. Rolento being one of the worst offenders in a series that seemed built for offending.
I like Rolento but the way his design was translated from Alpha to 4/XTekken was woeful.
Face was completely off and he became too goofy.
Hes the only character in the Tarot that I am not excited for but maybe they will make him cool again.
I would just love to see El Gado instead of Rolento for once or even Hollywood.
Funny that most of the possibly season 5 roster had really bad character models in the 4 series.
Rose, Viper and Elena all looked horrendous in SF4 so it will be nice to see them more on model again.
I don’t like Rolento but I don’t hate him. I dislike most of the Final Fight bosses as Street Fighter characters because for the most part they just don’t interest me. I think Sodom is the only one I actually like.
I kind of dislike the idea of another FF character getting in but like I said a few days ago; at this point it doesn’t really bother me when this is obviously the swan song for the game and anyone added at this point probably won’t be in SF6 for a while. In that sense Rolento is a good pick to me.
At this point in SFV i would prefer El Gado too (due Falke being already in), specially because i see great potential on how was in Final Fight Revenge
But if we get a knife guy in SFV i guess it will probably be the Neo Shadaloo one
While at It it’s kinda sad the Neo Shadaloo crowd did’nt got official SFV profiles, far less interessing figures got one
Btw if we get Rolento i’m happy anyway despite the Falke redundancy, i think SFV Vskills/Vtriggers system will allow them to go crazy on his trickster side
I would still prefer more martial artists like Fei Long and Abel, but there the problem may not be much Rolento himself, but a smaller Season that rumors want female-oriented
In a 4-males normal Season i will welcome Rolento much more
Do you think there will be a “definitive” edition (beyond the Arcade and Champion editions)? It would be just weird to have a physical release that doesn’t include the missing 5 characters.
With the Covid thing and that, maybe they will milk SFV one last time? Season 5 characters + some new gameplay stuff?
I still crave new characters. Probably because no one has fully clicked with me yet.
To be honest, I think I’m going to need to wait until Street Fighter 6 to feel comfortable in an SF game again. Of all the SF’s, SF5 has a roster I like just about the most and gameplay that is bottom tier for me.
Haggar —> but only if does’nt interfer with Zangief being in SF*
Belger
Rolento —> if Falke is NOT in
Sodom
*but in my ideal SF, Zangief is ever part of standard cast
**but in my ideal SF, Falke never eat a SF slot again
For heroes i think Cody-Guy-Haggar trio together will feel a Classic
The other 4 for a reason or another, can stay out (even if i liked Carlos)
For villains i will like to see Belger developed in a SF game, as a sub-boss allied with the actual Boss… to give proportion think back to SF2 days, something like M.Bison (New Boss) > Balrog (Belger)
Have Belger in will make also feel FF heroes involvement in SF events less random, and will like to see Rolento and Sodom working for him again
Will have loved see him in SFV and V-system to have been used to make him use (and evolve) alll his gimmicks… like the wheelchair to be broken at some point (think Vega’s claw), or him getting a definitive transformation Vtrigger (see Necalli’s) where he goes cyborg version a la MFF
Writing all this i’m not counting Hugo and Poison, who i wish to see too… but more on SF3/4 Hugo new wrestling career side, rather than FF/MGG stuff
Hugo>Abigail
