However it’s strange that Capcom have to pay for rights on characters appeared in their own games. Besides Karin,think about how many original characters maybe we can’t never see again. So sad.
I’m really thinking copyright or royalties is a huge factor as to why Karin didn’t make it into any game after Alpha 3.
Well she was in Capcom Fighting Jam and Namco x Capcom…but both of those games are largely irrelevant, and only one is a fighter.
ask yourselfs this question " would one character really sell this game or make people play it" do you think SFXT would have been more successful if KarinXSakura where a team instead of blanka?
this 5th character is either going to get people hype or make them cry…there is only two options
remember how Hakan was build up?
But Karin originally appeared in Alpha, which Capcom has full ownership over. Even if she appeared as a “guest” in NamcoxCapcom, they wouldn’t have to pay anyone to use her. She belongs to them.
Not to sound pessimistic, but I feel like the reason we haven’t seen Karin in future games is the same reason we haven’t seen Sean, Q, or Ingrid.
Actually that’s not the first time she appeared.
Unfortunately, this isn’t true. Her first true appearance was in the Udon manga, Sakura Ganbaru! made by Masahiko Nakahira. So technically, Nakahira made her and not Capcom. I just don’t understand how Capcom gave him permission to use their characters for his manga, yet any other character he makes up in the manga is not rightfully owned by Capcom. Shouldn’t they be owned by both equally? His manga would’ve never seen light if it wasn’t for Capcom’s green light on the whole project. I guess I’m missing some facts about licensing issues, which I hate by the way…
Since when do people hate Akuma, he’s so popular, also what was the reveal from the blog last week, I missed it and can’t find anything on it.
Oh, man. Sorry about that.
Still, I don’t really think it’s something all that complicated. They very likely chose to exclude her in lieu of other characters intentionally. I can imagine how difficult it most be designing the roster already.
lol I wasnt around since vanilla but hakan was hyped up? The character is unique n all but not hype worthy idt.
Since vanilla=around to see ssf4 new char hype
I wasn’t around either, but Hakan is a pretty interesting concept. I would have been hyped about a character like him at the time. Capcom doesn’t make Grappler very often.
I would of liked Hakan if he looked like a normal person.
I think that many people would agree with you, sadly Capcom decided to base his appearance on a terrible japanese pun which would make James Chen go “Really guys, you stooped to that?”
First off from what I’ve found, he is red because turkish oil wrestlers often end up turning a dark red color (probably from the sun + oil) you can easily see how red they are in this picture:
The reason his hair is blue is pretty retarded:
just thought it was worth mentioning how stupid the inspiration to make him look like a freak was. I’m not a big fan of Hakan’s playstyle BUT I love his personality and his english VA is awesome (IMO one of the best, up there with Cody and Zangief for sure.)
Hopefully Capcom strays away from “Pun based characters”
Dog-dick-red isn’t normal to you guys?
I think it’s just a matter of the red and bleue being too bright. Toned down it would not have looked as freaky as it is now.
I agree, a more tone downed Hakan would look much better. Someone with some photoshop skills should make this happen.
Design wise I think capcom really dropped the ball on Hakan and Seth’s design. Seth makes Hakan look like a masterpiece though. Like really, I wanna meet the guy who designed seth so I can give him looks of disgust, from a distance of course. I mean take the stupid yin-yang torso away and you have MAYBE a half decent looking character. Also what’s up with his alternate costumes? I’m 100% positive Seth doesn’t need pants. And his glowy blob one? Ugh ugh ugh. Just no.
The steam powered robot one while not fitting for Street Fighter at all is pretty f’n good. One of the better costumes around IMO. (I wish Cody had his Edi E. alt from SFxT that shit is way better than his SF4 alts.)
That’s what that’s suppose to be lol? I’m going to have to check it out a bit more, I’ve only seen it a few times.
I remember raging at my loss to Seth once in Vanilla. In a spout if gibberish from my otherwise eloquent mouth; I shouted ‘Arghhh! You stupid silver surfer look alike!!’
It would be nice, I think, if the 5th character was related to Illuminati in some way. That aspect of the SF canon could use some more fleshing out.