Official Street Fighter 5 thread (PS4, PC)

[FuryFox]

Necro was pretty dumb, conceptually and in execution. I liked his little lolita friend that would rush and die with him after a loss though, that was cute. I don't think Elena's fighting style works well in a 2D fighter, so it was a bit doomed to start. Her design is kinda basic, but fits in with SF's borderline racist vibe.

I think part of the reason that SF4 originals are so distasteful to me is that they're in this ugly game with weird slapstick elements. It's a game that has very little dignity or regard for its characters, and if that's where you started, kinda hard to move on from there. Still, all it takes is some smart implementation and a bit of vision, and anyone who sucked before could be cool in SF5.

Except Rufus. He's just embarrassing. At least Bob had some design grounding and fought like Sammo Hung.

[Will]

Of the newer characters in SF4 I thought Hakan and El Fuerte were well designed and very much of the Capcom mold as annoying as it was to play against then. Juri and Crimson Viper were really cool too but they certainly veered more towards the SNK style design wise.

Didn't care for Rufus and Abel and Seth was just another one of those all in one boss characters with the same near naked look Gill and Urien had, all of which were unimaginative. Seth's alts were pretty cool though so they should have just gone with one of those for his default.

[mollipen]

SNK needs to do World Heroes 3 to give us something different, even if it pushes a new KOF aside.

...who the hell wants a new World Heroes game?!?!

[Yoshi]

Even if the corpse of ADK could make something new, why would anyone pick anything other than Twinklestar Sprites?

[A Robot Bit Me]

...who the hell wants a new World Heroes game?!?!

I would've (and did) asked the same about Clay Fighter, Killer Instinct, Shaq Fu, etc. WH is a lot more likable and plausible than those things.

[Yoshi]

That's a fair point.

[Changeling]

...who the hell wants a new World Heroes game?!?!

ME ME ME !! Jet was a lot of fun.

[gameoverDude]

I would've (and did) asked the same about Clay Fighter, Killer Instinct, Shaq Fu, etc. WH is a lot more likable and plausible than those things.

World Heroes 2 is good. DAMN good. The backgrounds and soundtrack blow away SFII IMO. And it's got Johnny Maximum, the Quarterback From Hell. Quite an interesting mix with Janne d'Arc, Erick the Red, Captain Kidd, Rasputin, and others.

One idea I wanted to see in SFIV for a Japan stage was a fight atop a Shinkansen, with the scenery becoming a blur as the bullet train takes off to about 150 mph. Not a realistic concept, but neither was Terry's FF2 stage (one of my faves from SNK, esp. with the view of Mount Rushmore in the distance). When there are people throwing fireballs everywhere, anything goes.

[cka]

http://p.twipple.jp/IChBW

looks like blanka has an weapon x type critical art now

[Diff-chan]

World Heroes 2? Didn't that come out like 22 years ago. Why is it even a little bit relevant today? Nobody even gives a shit about KOF anymore.