I feel like this is a minority opinion in the West
I have no real qualms with the man's work but its certainly.......divisive.
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Officer Chun-Li costume spotted in latest SFV beta, also some other lame costumes
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I feel like this is a minority opinion in the West
I have no real qualms with the man's work but its certainly.......divisive.
YianGaruga
Banned
Obliterator
Member
Shallow in what sense? Street Fighter ain't exactly known for the narrative complexity and depth of its characters
RockTurtle
Member
its cause the render had pseudo nipples
NoctisVsStar
Member
Owen Wilson's constant "O" face when he's confused has you pissed off? I'm down with SF2 Ken though in that one version (Super I think) I don't think the super long ponytail worked too well. Still ok though.
SF4 Ken is alright. I'd have taken that face and hair over this edition. This is the only version of Ken where I think he is straight up ugly. A 4/10 ugly ass loser.
Obliterator
Member
The actual cut of the shirt is a lot more revealing as well. Compare the cuts of the shirt they are different, its cut higher up to show more underboob on the original render
YianGaruga
Banned
Please give us hair down Ken as well Ono
He's so fabulous
He's so fabulous
It's pretty great, will need to play first before I can determine if I like it better than her old one.
I need her Alt 3 from T6 back though, like desperately.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Alpha Ken needs to get his brows done.
NoctisVsStar
Member
This might be because parts of the shirt are meant to be physics objects, and those don't "animate" properly when you load up the models in an external viewer.
Already Torn
Banned
Shallow in the traditional sense. There's nothing interesting about her character and she brings nothing new to the table.
Compare her to F.A.N.G.
BumblebeeCody
Member
Looks good
Guess you missed the Fang hate train.
Already Torn
Banned
I didn't! There's no accounting for taste, and even then a lot of people seemed to come around and I'm sure more will follow 😁
Oh? Then perhaps I'll give him a shot when the game is out. Haven't watched any trailers/gameplay.
To be fair Ken in V during gameplay looks fine. But that select screen ;_;
Dad Ken
dad ken is garou Terry
Just needs the jacket
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Ok prematurely freaked about Laura's alt. The angle on the render made it look over the top pervy.
Just looks like something someone would wear at the beach in the screenshot.
Just looks like something someone would wear at the beach in the screenshot.
Personally I'm waiting to see how the new characters shake out in terms of gameplay before I make any condemnations.
The difference is that people can criticize FANG without being told they're outraged or offended
Already Torn
Banned
We've seen gameplay videos of both! Still nothing interesting. The fact that her alternate costume is just having less clothes only makes things worse. And gameplay doesn't matter. Abel ended up being fun to play, but he's still a lame character.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Street Fighter V |OT| Asses to Asses
ThatCrazyGuy
Member
All the costumes are pretty bland/boring to me. Except cop chunli
Hope they step it up. At least make Ken not ugly. Hehe.
Hope they step it up. At least make Ken not ugly. Hehe.
Alright dude, Laura is the worst character. You win the internet argument.
YianGaruga
Banned
Already Torn
Banned
NoctisVsStar
Member
If they made costumes the way riot does then we'd get tons of costumes for the popular characters and someone like Fang (or whoever ends up being the least played) would have one or two for the life of the game.
Also they can't do stuff like change attack effects like legendary skins in league or dota do due to the nature of the game compared to a moba.
If anything they do what they did before in sf4 which is just make sure everyone in the cast gets costumes so that anyone who plays the game gets something when new stuff rolls out.
Riots model works for a larger scale roster since they have to pick and choose a bit because there are over a hundred characters so they can afford to ignore some of the cast. Street fighter 5 even with a finished roster in a couple of years is still going to be much smaller than that and as we've seen with sf4 it's easier to give everyone some attention as a result.
He's my favourite SFV newcomer 😎That's because no one likes FANG
YianGaruga
Banned
I don't know about great.. his hair is still two bananas
He looks great.. Select screen though is just bad:
Wait until you see his swimsuit alt
NoctisVsStar
Member
I meant his actual face during gameplay at least to me looks great, hair aside and all. Certain angles make certain characters look weird, 3D hasn't been kind to Ken. Yet ryu always comes out great.
That's because no one likes FANG
I like Fang...
Might not play him since he's a charge character but I think he looks cool.
Literally none of this matters to me when the end result is that I think all of the costumes are bland, boring, unappealing and I would never go out of my way to get them. Contrast that with LoL where, even though I have zero interest in playing that game, I see some of the alternate costumes for the characters and I feel like playing them just for that.
It's about the quality, not the quantity.
ryu's hair is a pineapple if you haven't noticed
NoctisVsStar
Member
Hot Ryu got that hair on point.
Also in the external viewer picture being passed around the camera is placed low looking up.
Laura's idle pose in game has her upper body leaning forward so the cutoff isn't emphasized as much.
Already Torn
Banned
Just sayin, novel mechanics and an off-the-wall design are great but don't necessarily make a character less shallow in terms of the game itself. FANG and/or Laura could be utter shit from a gameplay perspective as far as we know, and pre-release promo videos for fighting games are traditionally not very meaningful for determining this. Lots of things about FGs generally don't become apparent until the game has been out in the wild long enough for people to figure them out.
darth_infamous
Member
That Laura costume is so disappointing
NoctisVsStar
Member
Few pages back some were crying wolf.
Obliterator
Member
My main beef with the Laura alt is just how plain it is. Its just a green top, and blue bottom. Its not awful its just I wish there was a little more design to it, maybe the top have a little more flair or something to it.
Already Torn
Banned
That's true! But like I said, this alt costume sure isn't encouraging. She could be super fun to play and I don't think I'd want to see her return in a future game at this point because I think the character is uninspired. A disappointing alt costume for a disappointing newcomer.