Street Fighter V Cinematic Story Mode - Spoiler Thread
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lucebuce12
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WrenchNinja
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I just finished this. No one acts or talks normally in this. It's all just exposition. They don't talk with each other, just at each other. I found myself falling asleep watching some of these cutscenes.
But he was already dead. I think thats why guile had so little feeling towards him
SkylineRKR
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Yeah it looked like Guile knew he was a zombie and didn't really see him as Charlie anymore.
Bruno_Arrais85
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so much hype for nothing.
lucebuce12
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Season 2: Necalli's Redemption
Bruno_Arrais85
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no more story mode pls. This was a pain to watch with all that cringe worthy script and clipping.
Omnistalgic
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it's ridiculous, but I really liked it, especially the Laura moments and all the Ken and Ryu interactions (wish there were more)
For another story segment, I hope they go more character oriented instead of end of the world stuff. I always feel like Ken and Ryu being best friends and rivals is just the perfect backdrop to an Evil Ken story and it happened for the briefest of moments in SF2:Animated movie. It's like we've never really seen Ken and Ryu fight each other with a killing intent (at their best so to speak) which is still the coolest story in SF IMO. Urien is pretty dope as well though. And Bison jumping bodies is crazy...
For another story segment, I hope they go more character oriented instead of end of the world stuff. I always feel like Ken and Ryu being best friends and rivals is just the perfect backdrop to an Evil Ken story and it happened for the briefest of moments in SF2:Animated movie. It's like we've never really seen Ken and Ryu fight each other with a killing intent (at their best so to speak) which is still the coolest story in SF IMO. Urien is pretty dope as well though. And Bison jumping bodies is crazy...
JacksUsername
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Just finished it today, and I enjoyed it for the most part. I'm definitely a casual fighting game fan with a fondness for the characters, so I definitely appreciate a dumb story mode.
Biggest complaint was the network connections affecting loads between scenes. It would be at least 10-15 seconds of loading, sometimes to just a 3 second scene, and then another long load. Got super frustrating, especially towards the last act, which consists of a lot of little quick victory scenes. Also tried playing multiplayer for the first time since the game came out, was 1 and 2, which for me is pretty good, but got no points or fight money because the server couldn't connect. It's a shame; I really want to like this game, but the user experience has been so poor every time I try, that it's hard to see why I should stick with it, especially with so many other games to play.
Biggest complaint was the network connections affecting loads between scenes. It would be at least 10-15 seconds of loading, sometimes to just a 3 second scene, and then another long load. Got super frustrating, especially towards the last act, which consists of a lot of little quick victory scenes. Also tried playing multiplayer for the first time since the game came out, was 1 and 2, which for me is pretty good, but got no points or fight money because the server couldn't connect. It's a shame; I really want to like this game, but the user experience has been so poor every time I try, that it's hard to see why I should stick with it, especially with so many other games to play.
This.
Oddly I can't seem to play it on my pc. My save data has been reset (for some reason as all my fight points and costumes purchased are saved) but my progress in the character story is reset, yet when I do battles I gain no fight money.
When I search for the dlc on steam and in game it says both are installed. Ffs capcom!
When I search for the dlc on steam and in game it says both are installed. Ffs capcom!
sixteen-bit
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Rashid's female friend for those who were wondering what she looked like...
are there any more cut assets in story mode?
ShinMaruku
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Funniest thing about his sacrifice is they can bring him back with any assortment of bullshit.
Great for the fluidity of the story.
Great for the fluidity of the story.
They did an awful job of handling the Guile/Nash stuff. So little weight. You'd think seeing the reanimated corpse of your best friend whose dog tags you carried around would conjure some emotions than disbelieving indifference.
CommandThrower
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Bison does fight Necalli -- it's you as Bison fighting Necalli. Bison beats him, and Necalli just kind of slinks away and goes after Nash and Rashid.
He really was handled poorly. If there is a new story mode in Season 2(would almost be a fighting game first), then Necalli should swoop in and kill Gill, forcing Ryu and co to fight Shin Necalli.
Scrub Mcgrubb
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She's used in the story mode... you see her for a glimpse from the front when she's running from FANG. Although her face is fully rigged for animation and she also has an IPAD... so perhaps she was intended to be in more scenes that landed up getting cut.
Salty Hippo
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Cringed the whole way through it but at least I got 80k FM.
sixteen-bit
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I must have missed it. I only remember some other lab coat character that F.A.N.G melted
Callibretto
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That's her
Even in the credits, Rashid's friend is listed literally as "Rashid's friend." It feels like they went so far out of their way to not even give her a name or any sort of identifiable remark, and the fact that she dies right at the start of the story, literally like three minutes before Rashid happens to show up at the very same base, made the whole final reveal about that all really flat to me. FANG talks about how he killed her, and Rashid seems upset, but during that whole exchange I kept thinking to myself "Nah, Fang's probably just mis-assuming, I'm sure this vague 'friend' is someone more important to the story that we'll see later." Nope.
More than anything though, I'm really disappointed that this story has to once again fall for the stupid trope I call "Just shoot him in the fucking head syndrome." In this case, the prime offender is FANG, who is willing to engage Rashid at the very beginning of the story, win, take his piece...and then walk away leaving Rashid knocked out but otherwise free and fine, letting him get up and wander off so that he can screw up the moons later. It's not like FANG has anything against killing people, obviously, and this guy had a control piece and just infiltrated Shadaloo's base but...we're gonna not just kill him there? Not even capture him and throw him in a cell or a lava pool or something? For literally no reason? It seemed like they were at least trying to make FANG seem like a credible villain during the course of the story but that one narrative cardinal sin kind of ruined the rest of the story in a way.
I'd always assumed that the purpose for Necalli was for Bison to throw the world into chaos, creating a need for fighters, thus summoning Necalli to devour the warriors souls and Bison would eventually take that body over for his own. Perhaps in a future story expansion that could still happen, since Necalli just kind of wandered off at the end (he implied that he had been devouring souls even though we see him do that literally never), and Bison laughs and disappears in that classic "I can come back if the plot demands it" villain fashion. If that's really supposed to depict Bison's final end, it was awfully underwhelming for a character that's been the primary antagonist of the series for so long.
Maybe some of it's just character unfamiliarity, but from an actual play perspective there seemed to be a couple of really bizarre difficulty spikes in particular where the opponent AI suddenly gets a lot more aggressive. Felt like shades of survival mode, which made this not as fun to actually play as I would've liked. I know I suck terribly at Street Fighter in sum total but to go from being able to mash through most fights without too much issue to suddenly getting combo'd to death by Bison out of nowhere was rather jarring and frustrating.
More than anything though, I'm really disappointed that this story has to once again fall for the stupid trope I call "Just shoot him in the fucking head syndrome." In this case, the prime offender is FANG, who is willing to engage Rashid at the very beginning of the story, win, take his piece...and then walk away leaving Rashid knocked out but otherwise free and fine, letting him get up and wander off so that he can screw up the moons later. It's not like FANG has anything against killing people, obviously, and this guy had a control piece and just infiltrated Shadaloo's base but...we're gonna not just kill him there? Not even capture him and throw him in a cell or a lava pool or something? For literally no reason? It seemed like they were at least trying to make FANG seem like a credible villain during the course of the story but that one narrative cardinal sin kind of ruined the rest of the story in a way.
I'd always assumed that the purpose for Necalli was for Bison to throw the world into chaos, creating a need for fighters, thus summoning Necalli to devour the warriors souls and Bison would eventually take that body over for his own. Perhaps in a future story expansion that could still happen, since Necalli just kind of wandered off at the end (he implied that he had been devouring souls even though we see him do that literally never), and Bison laughs and disappears in that classic "I can come back if the plot demands it" villain fashion. If that's really supposed to depict Bison's final end, it was awfully underwhelming for a character that's been the primary antagonist of the series for so long.
Maybe some of it's just character unfamiliarity, but from an actual play perspective there seemed to be a couple of really bizarre difficulty spikes in particular where the opponent AI suddenly gets a lot more aggressive. Felt like shades of survival mode, which made this not as fun to actually play as I would've liked. I know I suck terribly at Street Fighter in sum total but to go from being able to mash through most fights without too much issue to suddenly getting combo'd to death by Bison out of nowhere was rather jarring and frustrating.
Foxhound286
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That's his friend.
Just finished the story mode and wow, just wow. What complete and utter nonsense. It's not like I had any real expectations going in, but come on. It's like the whole thing was written by a 10-year-old.
My favourite part was the off-screen motorcycle chase from Brazil to London.
My favourite part was the off-screen motorcycle chase from Brazil to London.
Magnet_Man
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Mother of christ I have died.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I found a mod that makes the story NPCs playable, so I made a quick and dirty showcase of the dolls' movesets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdFra4NCJY
Yeah, pretty much all of them have a lot of Cammy's basic moves copy/pasted over, but they differ a lot in terms of how their combos work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdFra4NCJY
Yeah, pretty much all of them have a lot of Cammy's basic moves copy/pasted over, but they differ a lot in terms of how their combos work.
CrowdChant
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I love Street Fighter. Always have. Saved up my money over the summer when I was a child just to buy Super Street Fighter 2 on SNES. But...
Story mode was horrible. As others have already mentioned, they really, really dropped the ball with the Nash/Guile stuff. Truly horrible. I don't know how they screwed that up so badly. It's been part of SF lore forever, and they botched it when they had the chance to spotlight it in story mode.
Ryu to the rescue. Also the fight had no weight behind it whatsoever. They couldn't even come up with a unique or interesting final boss fight.
Sagat never even mentioned or acknowledged, unless I missed it. I was bored to death so it is quite possible I missed a throwaway line or something.
I kept waiting for Chun-Li to get her moment to shine. Especially since she was my "main" back in the vanilla SF2 days. I kept thinking, "they are saving her for the end." That moment never came. I was just kidding myself anyway. It has been such trash so far I don't know why I thought she would get any decent characterization or have any meaningful impact.
The only time I got even remotely interested was when I thought I was going to get to play a portion of the televised tag team fight. Nope.
I was really looking forward to this. I guess I shouldn't have had any expectations since it was free. It seems like the developers didn't have any expectations for it, either.
"Eh, fuck it it's free. Who cares if the animation sucks, there's tons of clipping, the dialog is horrible, the story is disjointed and the character interactions are garbage."
"Should we come up with a decent final boss fight with some new mechanics, animations or moves?"
"Naw remember it's free. Fuck it."
Story mode was horrible. As others have already mentioned, they really, really dropped the ball with the Nash/Guile stuff. Truly horrible. I don't know how they screwed that up so badly. It's been part of SF lore forever, and they botched it when they had the chance to spotlight it in story mode.
Ryu to the rescue. Also the fight had no weight behind it whatsoever. They couldn't even come up with a unique or interesting final boss fight.
Sagat never even mentioned or acknowledged, unless I missed it. I was bored to death so it is quite possible I missed a throwaway line or something.
I kept waiting for Chun-Li to get her moment to shine. Especially since she was my "main" back in the vanilla SF2 days. I kept thinking, "they are saving her for the end." That moment never came. I was just kidding myself anyway. It has been such trash so far I don't know why I thought she would get any decent characterization or have any meaningful impact.
The only time I got even remotely interested was when I thought I was going to get to play a portion of the televised tag team fight. Nope.
I was really looking forward to this. I guess I shouldn't have had any expectations since it was free. It seems like the developers didn't have any expectations for it, either.
"Eh, fuck it it's free. Who cares if the animation sucks, there's tons of clipping, the dialog is horrible, the story is disjointed and the character interactions are garbage."
"Should we come up with a decent final boss fight with some new mechanics, animations or moves?"
"Naw remember it's free. Fuck it."
CrowdChant
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God, so true. I kept thinking it could be something one of my friends would have written in middle school. But actually they probably could have come up with something better.
holy shit lmao!
sixteen-bit
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I really like the story mode despite the awful dialogue. What I liked about it is that we got see the characters interact with each other and showcase their personality. It made it feel like an actual universe.
They just need to get better script writers.
as soon as I saw this I knew it would be a model swap goldmine, but I still wasn't ready.
BumblebeeCody
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Jesus FUCKING CHRIST! HAHAHAHA!
Shadoken
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Definitely the best way to end it , I dont get why they needed to shoehorn Ryu into beating Bison. His Story should have been only with Necalli,Akuma... and the whole ansatsuken story line.
Rashid beats Fang , Nash blows up to make Bison weak , Chun/Guile Takedown Bison. Everyone gets their spotlight. It was so lame when Fang had to be brought back to give Chun some spotlight.
In fact the entire Story seemed to lead up to that ending , the Ryu thing at the end just pissed me off.
yurinka
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I really liked it:
+Necalli's moments are dumb even if it had potentia. Other than that, the mode has an entertaining story that fits the game very well.
+The plot links properly the events of USFIV with the ones from SFIII. They can continue it maybe detailing more Gill's rise to the power.
+Has a ton of cool cameos (or even enemies) that aren't the normal in-game characters.
+Has a playable teaser of the DLC characters.
+Shows new stages (I assume they will end as DLC stages).
+It's long enough.
+To complete it in Normal and Extra difficulties gives you 80000FM, almost enough to buy a DLC character.
but other than that the cinematics are great, feels like a movie.
+ Let's hope they add a second chapter for Season 2, showing the stages they didn't use here (like the Guile's, Balrog's and beach DLC stages) plus season 2 characters.
-Like in the character story prologues or the Survival mode the difficulty isn't properly balanced. In this case, Normal mode of the story is way too easy, and Extra mode sometimes is too easy and sometimes is too hard.
-In some rare cases the cinematics.
-Now the game feels more complete, but this mode still isn't like an arcade mode where you can play with a single character during like 8-12 battles with the "best of 3 rounds" settings and 8 levels of difficulty.
The survival mode has broken difficulty: in the Normal difficulty the boss is too difficult and the other battles are too easy, and more difficult modes get boring because they're also too long. I assume they didn't include an arcade mode because they had issues balancing AI for the "non too easy" and "non too hard" difficulties in the other game modes.
I'm really happy with this story mode, but still want the arcade mode and the rage quit penalty.
+Necalli's moments are dumb even if it had potentia. Other than that, the mode has an entertaining story that fits the game very well.
+The plot links properly the events of USFIV with the ones from SFIII. They can continue it maybe detailing more Gill's rise to the power.
+Has a ton of cool cameos (or even enemies) that aren't the normal in-game characters.
+Has a playable teaser of the DLC characters.
+Shows new stages (I assume they will end as DLC stages).
+It's long enough.
+To complete it in Normal and Extra difficulties gives you 80000FM, almost enough to buy a DLC character.
but other than that the cinematics are great, feels like a movie.
+ Let's hope they add a second chapter for Season 2, showing the stages they didn't use here (like the Guile's, Balrog's and beach DLC stages) plus season 2 characters.
-Like in the character story prologues or the Survival mode the difficulty isn't properly balanced. In this case, Normal mode of the story is way too easy, and Extra mode sometimes is too easy and sometimes is too hard.
-In some rare cases the cinematics.
-Now the game feels more complete, but this mode still isn't like an arcade mode where you can play with a single character during like 8-12 battles with the "best of 3 rounds" settings and 8 levels of difficulty.
The survival mode has broken difficulty: in the Normal difficulty the boss is too difficult and the other battles are too easy, and more difficult modes get boring because they're also too long. I assume they didn't include an arcade mode because they had issues balancing AI for the "non too easy" and "non too hard" difficulties in the other game modes.
I'm really happy with this story mode, but still want the arcade mode and the rage quit penalty.
Most of my complaints have already been said
Fuck Sean's hair. Mel should just be baby Rock Howard. I don't like how everyone is besties with everyone else. I prefer it when most of the cast are acquaintances, assuming they know each other at all. But I am glad Cammy and Chun stayed the c-tier jobbers they deserve to be. Hopefully we can make the transition from magic kung fu and cartoon crime syndicates to human experiments and illuminati cult moving forward.
Fuck Sean's hair. Mel should just be baby Rock Howard. I don't like how everyone is besties with everyone else. I prefer it when most of the cast are acquaintances, assuming they know each other at all. But I am glad Cammy and Chun stayed the c-tier jobbers they deserve to be. Hopefully we can make the transition from magic kung fu and cartoon crime syndicates to human experiments and illuminati cult moving forward.
BronsonLee
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Nash is just going to come back in Season 2 with a re-skin where he's got more green patches on his skin
It's like Barf Vitiligo
It's like Barf Vitiligo
giancarlo123x
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This gif makes the shitty story worth ever releasing. Bravo.
Or Urien will use what's left of Charlie to make Twelve.
Augemitbutter
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should warn me before people post this stuff. could barely breathe for a minute straight.
Ooh..my heart...im dying...
Marvel
could never
Bison was great though.