abstract alien
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What's gonna be here V-Trigger if it isn't that?
Street Fighter V Roster Discussion: P-P-P-P-PATTERN BREAKER
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I think it's always been that way, I believe it stems from the confusion between Japanese and American names. Vega = Claw, Bison = Dictator, Balrog = Boxer, because their names were switched for eastern and western markets, so referring to them as that was just easier for everyone to understand.
Remapped88
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Since forever tbh, especially to those who frequent a lot of fighting game forums. Like the poster above said, used to avoid confusion of the 3 characters who got their names changed so it's easier to just say Boxer, Claw and Dictator. People here still get confused when Japanese media show Dictator's Japanese name, Vega, on screenshots or whatever and keep thinking Claw Vega is gonna be in the game.
Emperor Bohe
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Mermandala
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The stone floor looks a bit like a circular dais which fits right into the expected architecture of the Illuminati / Necalli / maybe Urien / JoJo Pillar Men themes that are slowly emerging. It could possibly be the stage of the Final Destination, but as for your question... they could spin it around to show the other 8. They could be standing on a flat floor in a circle or on a raised, rotating stage or one that lowers into a deeper area or even in the sky on top of a literal pillar! And there's always just widening the shot and "hey everybody, could you scooch in a lil' bit more please!".
ScraftyDevil
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If Mika does make it in, I think it'd be really cool if her V-Skill were a projectile-invincible Paradise Hold. That'd give her both an extra mobility tool and an easy command grab as well as a way for her to deal with projectile spam like most other SF grapplers (i.e. Zangief's Banishing Flat, Hugo's EX Lariat, etc.)
Her Critical Art would likely be some variation of Daydream Headlock so I don't know where that'd leave room for the patented Sardine Beach Special unless they demote it to a special akin to Habanero Dash, but I'm intetested to see how she's handled regardless!
Her Critical Art would likely be some variation of Daydream Headlock so I don't know where that'd leave room for the patented Sardine Beach Special unless they demote it to a special akin to Habanero Dash, but I'm intetested to see how she's handled regardless!
It's still one of the biggest public events and marketing opportunities, if not the. They can drop a trailer to coincide, not like everything has to line up with a conference.
I'd expect that over many other venues, maybe even TGS.
Geminosity
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Seeing as there won't be any characters to unlock on release aka no on-disc or day-1 dlc, I wonder how long we'll have to wait until the first character is added. A lot of people seem to have assumed that Akuma or some kind of boss would be unlockables right off the bat 
Ooh! Good idea! Didn't even notice the stone floor until you pointed it out
Troubled Bat
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Seeing as there won't be any characters to unlock on release aka no on-disc or day-1 dlc, I wonder how long we'll have to wait until the first character is added. A lot of people seem to have assumed that Akuma or some kind of boss would be unlockables right off the bat
Not very long, I can assure you that. lol
Hours Left
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I wouldn't be surprised if there's one or two "day 1" DLC characters.
Geminosity
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I dunno...
... sounds like Capcom says otherwise, unless they're being literal and they wait an hour or something after release to do itIn this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=18&v=5astnXVNptc
He said the important line (for us) of:
So. confirmed no unlockables on disc
( Timestamped linky for those who just want the bit I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5astnXVNptc&feature=youtu.be&t=4m6s )
SirJackDaniels
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With 5 slots remaining for returning characters.
IMO i think this will be the line-up
Urien
Alex
R. Mika
Karin
Sodom
New Characters
Son of Dhalsim
Guile's Daughter
Dan's Father
IMO i think this will be the line-up
Urien
Alex
R. Mika
Karin
Sodom
New Characters
Son of Dhalsim
Guile's Daughter
Dan's Father
Weird, having a guy like Gouki as a preorder exclusive DLC or something would have been a good incentive to secure preorders, and it's something other fighters have done in the past (Adachi for P4U2 for instance). It could have been a good move.
Unless they give a voucher for preorders to get the first DLC chara for free (as in for no real nor in-game money) when he becomes available or something.
Unless they give a voucher for preorders to get the first DLC chara for free (as in for no real nor in-game money) when he becomes available or something.
Geminosity
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Hmmm... ono's going to be on Playstation Hong Kong's stream in 10 minutes... and Yang was on Ken's flier/card. I'm worried ¬.¬
edit: nevermind, I'm an idiot. the event is the 24th to 26th so the stream won't be today.
edit: nevermind, I'm an idiot. the event is the 24th to 26th so the stream won't be today.
Karsticles
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Is there an occasion?
Hours Left
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I think that comment is really just in reference to the actual on disk content. I used quotations because I don't necessarily think it'll be the day of launch, but I do think they'll want to show off their fight money system with some content pretty quickly.I dunno...
... sounds like Capcom says otherwise, unless they're being literal and they wait an hour or something after release to do it
Geminosity
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Actually, I could be getting the date wrong, it might not be today XD
As for the occassion:
edit: Ok, the SFV event is on the 25th so definitely not today
My hype is making me too impatient XD
Day one seems like obvious bad PR, so they might give it a good month at least.
Hours Left
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Which is the same as "day 1" to a lot of people, hence the quotations.
I just meant we'll probably get some pretty quick.
Tizoc
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Actually, I could be getting the date wrong, it might not be today XD
As for the occassion:
edit: Ok, the SFV event is on the 25th so definitely not today
My hype is making me too impatient XD
I hope we at least get some more Necalli footage.
Sanctuary
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The beta is the preorder bonus. Why the hell do you need more than that as an incentive anyway if you are remotely interested in fighting games (or SF5 in particular). On top of that, preorder exclusive characters are just stupid. For so many reasons. Yeah, lets include one of the most iconic Street Fighter characters as an exclusive. If you buy the game after launch, you're SOL.
Does anyone even remember when you didn't preorder games for exclusive game content, or when you didn't have to do a lot of microtransactions (DLC) to get bonuses or a complete game? Boy, I sure do. You used to preorder for bonuses that had nothing to do with the actual game itself and was mostly just collector's content.
hooijdonk17
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I really fail to wrap my head around the choice of Mika as part of the initial roster..
Its a rumour brah - but I hope its true. There you go, some of us want her in.
Red Liquorice
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I'd like to see him in DLC, but I don't think he's got a hell in chance shot of being in the first 16 - although I might've said the same thing about Birdie a couple of months back!
I really hope we see some more charge characters, and one with more complex fighting system like Gen, but with better rewards. I mained Gen in SF4 but never thought the effort was worth the rewards, I just liked the character and idea of stances, but it was a hell of a lot of work when you could do just as much damage or more with an EX tatsu to the face. I want a character like that, but the effort you put in should reflect in damage done or opportunities for damage.
When you live in NA, yes :/
Some people like her (I happen to be one of them), and she might have an interesting gameplay.
Troubled Bat
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If she's in. Here are the reasons:
- She hasn't appeared in a SF game for a long time.
- R. Mika is Ono's favorite character
Dr. Buni
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- Birdy is surely not the only colorful/odd personality.
We Mortal Kombat X now
Kombat kids ruined the story. No thanks in SFV
Troubled Bat
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This too. He can't be only one in the 16 character roster.
Dr. Buni
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Can't say I agree, the story was pretty fun to me. That being said, I don't want the other three new characters to be related to older ones either.
direct_quote
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Why would you worry about getting Yang? He's a fun character to play.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
That's right! I recalled that people were upset that a leaker made boo-boo.
OsirisBlack
Banned
I have never understood the infatuation with R Mika. Her design and play style came across more like a parody character almost more so than Dan.
Stone Ocean
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Some people like goofy characters, whaddaya know
sixteen-bit
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Leo's my favorite Tekken char so I would have been salty, lol.
Geminosity
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Because there's still nobody on the roster that makes me want to enter the betas and Yang isn't going to change that in the slightest
She's fun and bubbly. I like my characters to look like they're at least enjoying themselves and if it makes my opponent more likely to hate themselves for losing to them then all the better :3
Dr. Buni
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Deja Vu? Pretty sure someone else posted something similar yesterday.
Preach.
dragonzdogma
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Anyone agree with the me that there should be an equal amount of female fighters to that of male ?
Beelzebufo
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That's a very controversial stance to take.
I think that's a fine notion for new fighting games but I don't know if I want Capcom trying their hand at a bunch of new designs just to the requisite amount of women in the game as their new designs aren't the strongest. Even if there was gender parity in the initial roster they would soon run out of veteran female fighters when increasing the roster size to something like SSF4 levels.
Yeah, it's a total sausagefest so far.
If the rumors (& my Juri guess) are on the money...
- Male: Ryu, Nash, M. Bison, Birdie, Ken, Necalli, Alex, Urien, Rashid
- Female: Chun-Li, Cammy, Karin, R. Mika, Laura, Juri, Zen
Should? I dunno thats not up to us. I would like there to be more female characters. And more like makoto that dont have to be super sexy all the time. Its one of the reasons i am not for r mika. I would like them to make like a new more badass female wrestler character thats physically larger.
I drew some stuff a while ago based on bret heart and the undertaker. Buts thats another thing.
Stone Ocean
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I wouldn't say you need to go as far as full 50/50, but a reasonable amount of females is pretty important.
Which is why I'm inclined to believe the Siliconera rumours, because otherwise the roster will have like 3 female characters out of 16.
Geminosity
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Despite wanting more female characters to play, I don't think 50/50 parity is really necessary. All that's really important, as far as I believe, is a diverse enough set of choices to cover an adequete number of people's tastes :3
It wouldn't really add anything if we had 50/50 gender split if all the females were just different takes on Chun-li for example
(Hence my angst that most female characters tend to just end up being variants of the 'speed' type)- Status