Blanka looks good which is my main worry as a brazilian, ken looks divorced but he is working that divorcee look AND IS THAT FUCKING DEE JAY?????? this is a pretty nice starter roster.
when you're old enough to remember zangief fighting for the ussr :ussr-cry:
why couldn't he stick to dramatically entering with helicopter and doing russian dance of victory :rage-cry:
This might be the single greatest thing I've ever seen
What’s up with the Italian?
this one is a weird one like i looked at him and i am not sure but the skirt makes me think roman so GRECOROMAN WRESTLING????
obviously fuck them for making the villains Russian and Chinese, and deciding now is the time to litigate over Hong Kong, after it’s officially returned to China. I thought we were past that with this franchise after they retconned the HK flag out of SF2.
it is fun because street fighter is pretty popular on China so i would imagine this will not be anything more than this they are from there and also they look cool even though they are evil
oh fuck i fucked up i knew she was a big buff lady, i don't know if it is muay thai because i feel like sagat who will for sure be on this game in the future tends to get that niche, but there is a lot of MMA vibes on this game so a mixed muay thai plus something else feels sensible
Dan also kinda counts as muay thai as his style is mixed so yeah my reasoning was a bit off i was guessing mostly on vibes and nationallity lmao
every time i think about japanese companies i recall sega and the yakuza series in which they made the Chinese triad dude ugly ass fuck in all releases but the chinese release, where he looks pretty good and i am pretty sure this game will be the first to be after 3rd strike, ryu is using the goro clothes, like i believe they will just not address anything at any point, and it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that the chinese release has him with the mainland flag by his name
They made the triad guy modeled after a famous actor i believe in the Chinese version
apparently this one will have a classic controls mode and a more modern simplified controls so this might be the one to check out when it releases if it not as daunting as Fighting games tend to be
SF4 online was incredibly fun. I skipped 5, but maybe I'm ready to get salty again. Would there be interest in hexbear fightin lobbies? I don't want to get salty vs. randos anymore - would rather build comradely bonds.
like SF4 is nuts there are so many characters, SF5 got way better with time like it feels totaly diferent from before whenever i play but i did not have any friend that had it other than me so we generally played SF3 on fightcade also there should be a HEXBEAR (virtual) FIGHT CLUB
Fully agree we should have a fight club. New edition is the chance to get into it again. I have many fond memories of SF4 coming out in 2009, delivering pizzas, coming home, and either getting salty online or drinking and fighting with my friends
The majority of getting good at fighting games is theory and practice. Fighting games are split into 3 states: Neutral, advantage and disadvantage. The neutral states is where both players are in mid with neither players grounded with nobody having hit anyone. The advantage and disadvantage states occur when a player gets a hit or another player enters an otherwise disadvantaged position that the advantaged player can exploit.
- Learn your character's bread and butter in neutral. What are their openers? What are their safe spacing and footsies tools?
- When you've broken neutral, know your damage dealing combos.
- Learn and practice your character against the whole cast, a lot. You can't win neutral without knowing how to play neutral against everyone and if you can't win neutral you can't do damage.
- Spacing. Learn spacing. Spacing is the difference between getting really good and just being ok. Spacing is what enables you to punish opponents with big damage when they take unnecessary risks by baiting them into it.
All of these topics should have pretty in depth reading and learning if you ever want to go into and learn them. There should be videos going into all of these specific areas of fighting games if you google around for key terms.
Getting good beyond this basic level takes advanced theory, tech and character specific situational matchups. I don't recommend getting into tech or advanced content until getting the basics of neutral and punishing opponents though.
I used to be decent at Starcraft I know what it takes "to git good". I just have no motivation these days to do what is required. I rather watch fighting games from afar. Thanks for the tips though.
Step 1: Acquire a potato masher.
Step 2: Play as Blanka.
Step 3: Apply the potato masher :LIB:erally to the buttons.
I call this strategy "Shock and AWWWWW SHIT HE'S EATING MY FACE HE'S EATING MY FACE OH GOD OH FUCK MAKE IT STOP." It was honestly pretty effective against randos in SF2.
I still love that it's cannon that Guile has the America flag on both shoulders because in his original appearance, his sprite was just flipped when he turned when he turned around.
i find it endearing in a late 90s kinda of way, like blanka could be a capoeira dude for sure or a Brazilian jiujutsu kinda of guy but they just went crazy and said DO IT GREEN MONSTER ON THE FOREST FUCK IT
that is fair, i really enjoy the bearded look they gave him over time, but he is the least impressive of the original set and there is the problem that he is the only indian fighter in all games right? like if you are not a blanka or oro (kinda counts) fan there are other brazilians fighters who are way more normal
He's probably inspired by the kung fu movie Master of the Flying Guillotine.
Awesome to see passage of time on timeless character. Ryu going from Mr. Clean shaven Karateman to become more of a stinky jobless hobo. Ken looks JUST'd as well, probably lost his house due to US recession and can't afford baby formula. Chunners as classy as ever - running an orphanage in China is probably not that hard thanks to based Xi and the generous social welfare program.
Sad that there is no Rival Schools character. Akira in SFV was super lit. The whole Rival Schools casts had banger designs, another one or two reps similar to how Final Fight characters have a lot of reps in SF would do the franchise justice.
can't believe after third strike ryu stole oro's clothes as he had the become the bigger hobo, on the rival schools thing: capcom has leaned into bringing older characters in SFV so i wouldn't be surprised if Batsu or someone like that got in through dlc
I like the green gobbo, why is he from Brazil and not a magic forest kingdom?
Blanka lore is pretty much tarzan but he becomes an eletric rainforest monster instead of an englishman
Zangeif w/o USSR flag - uhg
guess that isn't new but the first time I became aware of the USSR at an elementary level was while playing SuperStreetFighter2 on an arcade machine in a pizza shop when I was like 8.
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I still remember seeing Zangief squat dancing with G*rbachev in SF2. I will never forgive what they have taken from us
I dunno anything about Street Fighter but I like that one of the fighters is a sumo hehe
Honda is not only a fighter he is like one of the faces of the series he is like from SF2 which is the first proper SF game so he is like fighting game royalty at this point like blanka, which you would think would annoy brazilian people as their representative being "wild man from amazon" but i kinda just love that green freak
Zangief over here looking like one of the Urals just stood up and said, "We fight."
Is it just me or does this cast design look considerably less horny than Capcom usually go for? Capcom usually make all the women into porn fodder but this seems considerably muted compared to usual? Not perfect but better?
Capcom know their audience. They emphasize less on TnA's, but if you are into musclegirls and muscleboys this series has been coomer heaven and more horny than ever. Look at hobo Ryu, crypto gambler divorced Ken, Zangief, Akuma even Honda got muscles. Chun Li still has her thunder thighs, Cammy now has Jessica-Ennis rippling abs.
Right but there's a lot less skin and the posing being chosen here doesn't seem specifically to show off each targeted fetish of the character... Except Juni who is still clearly targeting the foot fetish audience and insane chuuni yandere audience of possible school shooters.
Also completely tangential -- I'm pretty sad my main Sakura won't appear until DLC but understand she's not that special or unique.
I'll turn myself into the vocal police and admit I have never been more horny for Juri after seeing this picture
they are going for a more realistic look this game so i would imagine that is why it feels less horny, like everyone in these images look like they are ready to throw hands, also capcom has sagely decided to make the dudes hotter over the years and it makes the ladies stand out less as it feels more like a universal design thing
The men are blatantly more naked than the women which is extremely noticeable to me. Chun Li feels extremely covered up compared to previous incarnations having her wearing stockings or nothing. The only thing really bothering me about this image is that every woman is sticking her hip out and arching her back which is fine on one or two but a bit unnecessary for all of them including children.
juni is the only one that they said "no this character is for the foot people we can't change this" but it noticeble like guile ken and HK boy are the only ones that are using closed shirts and Cammy is using actual PANTS not her latex clothing and stockings, GOOD FOR HER, on the posing i get why it is like this, like it is concept art and other than the more famous characters every male is on a neutral base pose with slight change, but it is a bit weird on the kids in particular
Are you only looking at Chun Li and the lack of her massive hammies here? Ken and Ryu look fucking jacked
a zangief costume that has zangief using a I Stand with ukraine shirt
Sakura graduated in SFV and now is a waitress/arcade place hype girl
The true crime is Makoto yet again shafted
like makoto is such a popular character i can't believe they did not add her in on SFV
i thought THE SAME ABOUT SFV i was like OH they are gonna sell her but still nothing, and they can't even try to trick me with the timeline because ibuki is old enough to fight in 5 and they are like the same age
i am pretty confident we will get her this time so i am not mad about it , but i don't understand how the second most popular character of the series on a polling they did AFTER THE GAME WAS RELEASED was not added on a DLC, i just don't get it MR CAPSULE COMPUTERS
Q is one of the surprising ones too like top 4 i wouldn't ever had guessed that without the poll, there is just a lot of SF3 on the higher rankings because third strike really did age like fine wine
