Posion? Oh dear…:wasted:
Yeah the interview was a bit bizarre. Saw some pages online before Capcom and/or EGM took them down lol no one’s allowed to scan the magazine prior to it’s release. 
Ono was pandering to the audience a bit too much for my tastes. This may have been on EGM’s side, they have been pretty bad at handling interviews lately IMHO.
Ah well, seems like Ono’s working hard and so far the images in the magazine look really good! I hope with this being an inbetween-quel they answer a bunch of questions like who won the SF2 Tourney, how exactly did Q witness the downfall of Shadowloo and so on. Maybe they can even use this opportunity to settle Ryu’s rivalry with Sagat, who knows. Least we won’t have to worry about storylines being forced like Chun-Li’s daughter getting kidnapped so she can come out of retirement, well in theory anyway… 
They say the game is only like 2% done so it’s kind of hard to pass any real judgement right now and I suppose a bunch of things can be altered from here to there, guess we’ll see. Can’t wait to see some actual gameplay footage.
If he did.
Yeah ‘if.’ Questions abound…
Random: How the hell can all the Street Fighter games take place in separate continuities if SFIV officially takes place between SF2 and SF3? Oh that crazy Capcom. (I still think that when they said “different continuities”, they didn’t actually mean storyline parallel universes so much as there being endings that happened and endings that didn’t and that the games’ stories are meant to be able to stand on their own right as opposed to SF being one big story arc).
Hey Aerialgroove? When’s the next update coming?
Yeah originally the N64 games, Circle of the Moon and Castlevania Legends were removed from the timeline/continuity by Igarashi. Very recently he put the N64 and Circle of the Moon games back in the timeline, stating that they do in fact occur / are canon but they are side stories and not part of the main saga, but they do happen. The Sonia Belmont / Castlevania Legends game is still out of continuity only because he doesn’t want Castlevania to have a female lead. The N64 games and Circle of the Moon were taken out originally because they were unpopular, with Legends it was just because Igarashi didn’t want it in there and that’s still the case, and yeah it’s still just because of the female lead thing. But storyline-wise none of them truly contradict each other. She can still be the first Belmont to fight Dracula as the game states because you don’t fight Dracula in Lamont of Innocence, within the game’s story they haven’t done anything to contradict Legends just yet.
Lol most people just naturally assumed every Castlevania game occured until he said anything… I’m sure most people still feel that way… In the bonus chart that came with the pre-order of the last DS game, there was a timeline chart and each game had a storyline description, with the exception of the 4 games I mentioned before. Lol I guess he was still hating on all of those games at the time and not just Legends…
Castlevania 1 only happens once even though there are different versions of the same story, the arcade version, the console version, Super Castlevania, the remake with Ayami Kojima’s redesign, etc. Konami goes with Kojima’s design of Simon Belmont with red hair and black leather as his official look now.
Oh yeah did The Dungeon finally stop saying that the Kid Dracula games were part of the series? First they claimed it was Dracula when he was younger but Lament contradicted that, he wasn’t born a vampire. After that Dungeon started to claim that it was Alucard when he was younger. I believe one of the monsters Alucard fights in Symphony is the same as one of the monsters in that franchise and there’s an ingame nod to it. But LOL why would you want to connect Castlevania to the goofy Kid Dracula series and not just chalk that up to a shout out / nod, that would mean the Mystical Ninja games are in the same world ack… :looney:
As an aside, according to Castlevania’s canon Trevor, Grant Dynasty, Alucard and Sypha Belnades were all responsible for destroying Dracula in part 3. There is no way you can accomplish this within the game. It’s not even possible to encounter all 3 characters in the same game, at best you can meet Grant and Sypha in one game but you can’t meet both of them and see Alucard, the multiple paths don’t allow it. On top of that, Trevor can only carry one spirit at a time, not 3. I suppose this is a big one where gameplay gets in the way of the story/canon.
According to Nintendo every Zelda game occurs at one point or another with the exception of the horrible CD Philips games. They have yet to tell us about the official timeline and have promised that they will one day, but it still hasn’t happened. They claim that they know what the timeline is though but they just aren’t telling us… There’s a debate by fans as to how it works but you can say for sure most likely I think… that Zelda II is the final game, 3 and everything else happen before it. Link finally gets with Zelda and their ancestors keep not hooking up over and over again so the Link of 1 & 2 can be the one who gets lucky…
I’m preparing it but I’ve got a lot to do. Got a lot submittions and stuff. I’ll scan some rare Gill pics at the weekend. Figured people are busy being hyped about SFIV. Don’t know when the update’s coming. Also I’m spending a lot of time killing typos and correcting false info and dead links plus the site is non dynamic and therefore takes a while to update but I should be updating before Xmas if nothing unusual happens.
Okay. I’ve noticed a few dead links. Like:
Sprite Rip City
Ufs trading card game
Street Fighter Legends
Damn I’ll miss Sprite Rip City. Thanks a lot, I’ll update them! Could you send me that kind of stuff per mail or PM on SRK, so the thread doesn’t get cluttered up with FS.com stuff? Thanks!
I brought this up in Capcom BBS as well, so…
I believe the biggest confusion with this arises from the fact that when the guide means canon or storyline, it’s supposed to be synonymous with authentic history. Capcom Japan has always supported and continues to support it, and that’s what the plot guide intends to be about as well. Separate continuities, parallel universes are what we make ourselves by playing the games, as well as endings that don’t happen, fights that don’t happen, extraneous outcomes. This is how Capcom can be seen with a method to its apparent craziness.
Snow!
Yeah we are getting snow too right now in NYC, lots of it!
I don’t really mind the snow on the forum, but it’s kinda lagging up the page.
Or maybe they retconned Alpha 3? :wonder:
-Keeps fingers crossed-
If 3 goes, realize that 2 will also.
Ah, now I see the snow on this forum. Meanwhile outside the snow has turned to rain. :looney:
Damn.
I wish it would snow here :sad:
sad