My storyline concept for Street Fighter 4:
Setting: year 2005
Character roster (includes 30 characters):
The Godly characters:
- Gouki
- Gill
3-5. resurrected Rose + the 2 other persons Bison trained with (assuming that they aren’t Gill and Urien) (these three won’t be selectable)
The demi-gods:
6. Ryu
7. Sagat
8. Urien
The really powerful characters:
9. Ken
10. Guile
11. Chun-Li
The really good scrubs:
12. Sakura
13. Mel
14. Amy
15. Datta
16. Alex
The filler scrubs
17-30. (Anyone that Capcom prefers to include)
The story:
Shadowlaw was slowly rebuilt after its destruction in SF2 (1993). It was being rebuilt secrectly. The characters involved in this are Rose (with Bison’s remaining persona) and the two anonymous characters Bison trained with.
They (having a fake public identity), organized the Street Fighter 4 tournament as a secret means of gathering potential Shadowlaw warriors.
The selectable character lineup would include Sakura (now 31 years old) Mel, Amy, Datta, Alex, and the other filler scrubs. They are all listed in the tournament.
Gouki, Gill, Urien, Ryu, Sagat, Ken, Guile, and Chun-li will be hidden characters. They can only be unlocked only if you play good using the selectable characters.
All these hidden characters are hidden because they aren’t listed on the tournament and are just there for their own personal agenda. But they can still battle anyone plainly for gaming purposes.
Guile and Chun will be there because of a rumor going around about the restructuring of Shadowlaw conspiracy and they have to investigate it.
Ken will be there because uhmm…Ken has always been in any SF game.
Ryu will settle the score with Sagat and Gouki for the last time.
Gill will be there because of the potential threat that the Shadowlaw has over the Illuminati.
One might ask, will the hidden characters’ personal agenda in any way affect the tournament? No because they’ll do their agenda stuff immediately after the tournament.
In this game format, you’ll initially play the new characters. You won’t hate these new characters because…uhmm…well, most of them are blood related to the legendary Street Fighters (Mel, Amy and Datta). Well, that’s better than the clones (but unrelated to the character being cloned) of SF3.
You’ll not regret playing the scrubs because of the chance that you can unlock the veterans by playing them efficiently. Also, maybe the veterans should have a sophisticated ending so that the player can understand how the SF4 storyline goes after unlocking them. The scrubs will probably have only a casual ending.
So that’s it. Not only that you can unlock the veterans, you’ll also get a good ending for them as well.
Well, that’s my concept.