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Officer Chun-Li costume spotted in latest SFV beta, also some other lame costumes

Crocodile

Member
Like, they should hire Hyung-Tae Kim now that he's not working with NCSoft anymore. He understands how to combine sexy and cool together in a complete package. I was looking through the Blade and Soul OT and the art design alone almost made me download the launcher. I backed away in time but man...the designs in that game, both male and female, are so awesome.

I feel like this is a minority opinion in the West :p

I have no real qualms with the man's work but its certainly.......divisive.
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
Real talk though, Mika's outfit is the best of the lot. Then Chun's cop uniform. Everyone else is terrible or just boring.
 

nded

Member
I'm just upset because she's turning out to be as boring and shallow as I thought. They shoulda just added Sean and Blanka instead.

Shallow in what sense? Street Fighter ain't exactly known for the narrative complexity and depth of its characters
 
What's funny is that Ken is a canon handsome dude, yet he's been ugly ever since Alpha, lol.

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Ugly where? Lol
 

PillarEN

Member
Ken looked liek shit in SF2 ( Owen Wilson Face) and pretty bad in SFIV (HeMan Hair cut). HD Kens are hard
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 would disagree with you.

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.
 

jon bones

hot hot hanuman-on-man action
all this thread taught me is that Square really went off the deep end with FF13 and never recovered

a shame, but at least Persona 5 is a thing
 

nded

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

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.
 
Shallow in what sense? Street Fighter ain't exactly known for the narrative complexity and depth of its characters
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.
 
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.
 

nded

Member
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.

Personally I'm waiting to see how the new characters shake out in terms of gameplay before I make any condemnations.
 
Personally I'm waiting to see how the new characters shake out in terms of gameplay before I make any condemnations.
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.
 

DasPrints

Member
They really need to look at League of Legends for the kinds of costumes that make players excited and interested in getting them.

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.
 

FluxWaveZ

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.

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.
 

DasPrints

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.

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.
 

nded

Member
At least the worst in this game so far 😁

We were arguing?

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.
 
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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