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[TheSpoiler]

Most of the SF2 characters are generic as hell. Karate dude, kung fu girl who kicks, beast man, big wrestler guy, a boxer, a dude that can stretch his limbs, a sumo wrestler, and a masked ninja. None of these were original when SF2 came out.

 

[GuileBootCamp]

Akuma was only ever fun in Pocket Fighter IMO. Otherwise he's just the stereotypical scowling bad guy with no real point of interest beyond his pineapple hair.

Hair is a major point of interest with Street Fighter characters.

 

[TheSpoiler]

Some of y'all need to play Akuma in EX. That dude was a beast and so much fun.

 

[Skilletor]

Some of y'all need to play Akuma in EX. That dude was a beast and so much fun.

I want Hokuto.

 

[Village]

Most of the SF2 characters are generic as hell. Karate dude, kung fu girl who kicks, beast man, big wrestler guy, a boxer, a dude that can stretch his limbs, a sumo wrestler, and a masked ninja. None of these were original when SF2 came out.

Also the bonus of a lot of street fighter characters being based on other characters or just real people.

Akuma was only ever fun in Pocket Fighter IMO. Otherwise he's just the stereotypical scowling bad guy with no real point of interest beyond his pineapple hair.

Man does demon-ey stuff and glows red, dude is aesthetically interesting. On a character level, he's a bout as unique and interesting as most SF characters. He's very basic, a lot of sf characters are. Especially ryu who is kind of just fight man who occasionally throws a tantrum. They aren't vurtua fighter basic, god no, but pretty basic.

I mean, I'm pretty sure that was the design intention. So what's your point within that?

I guess i'm trying to figure out where you points of condensation seem to be coming from. Like their is some higher tier of street fighter design understanding unlocked by going to college. When it actuality most of the designs are designed for the teenage range of people , for better or for worse.

And your statements seem to being to the thing you are criticizing against.

Being edgy. And having the design logic of something a teenager would think is cool. Like when you are a teeneger or a child and you think when you become an adult you will magically become an adult and like adult things, but you don't and you still like rugrats and shit. That thing someone who has yet to become an adult thinks.

Ironic.

 

[jett]

Some of y'all need to play Akuma in EX. That dude was a beast and so much fun.

The only thing that needs to come back from the EX series is the music.

 

[『Inaba Resident』]

The only thing that needs to come back from the EX series is the music.

Nah, EX had some good character designs in there. Wouldn't mind if a few of them came back

 

[GuileBootCamp]

If Doctrine Dark ever makes it into SFV, it will be easily my favorite SF game ever, except possibly X-Men vs Street Fighter, but I'm not sure if that counts and it's largely for nostalgia reasons, anyway.

Skilletor mentioned the Saturn port a few pages back...so good. Still an impressive port, today.

 

[spazchicken]

I hope you guys aren't getting tired of me posing my videos here. I try to do it sparingly and getting to make these videos is a fun and educational byproduct of playing the game, for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asD06X0OGRs

 

[Village]

The only thing that needs to come back from the EX series is the music.

Best guile theme

Nah, EX had some good character designs in there. Wouldn't mind if a few of them came back

....eh... there arren't a lot of winners.

I don't even really like skullomania that much to be real. I remember the one girl in the judo outfit or something, she was tight,

 

[『Inaba Resident』]

I don't even really like skullomania that much to be real. I remember the one girl in the judo outfit or something, she was tight,

Skullo, Pullum, Hokuto, Garuda, Nanase. Maybe Blair and D.Dark too.
I thought these were pretty good.

 

[Hours Left]

Man does demon-ey stuff and glows red, dude is aesthetically interesting. On a character level, he's a bout as unique and interesting as most SF characters. He's very basic, a lot of sf characters are. Especially ryu who is kind of just fight man who occasionally throws a tantrum. They aren't vurtua fighter basic, god no, but pretty basic.

I've only ever found him interesting when his paper thin personality is tempered with humor, ala Pocket Fighter. The SF cast in general is sorely lacking in character development, but I think Akuma is among the worst offenders, particularly for someone with as many appearances as he has. And I don't care for his design or fighting style, so that leaves a lot to be desired personally.

I don't have any qualms about his popularity though. As I've said before, people like who they like, and that's great.

 

[GuileBootCamp]

I thought Akuma was pretty cool in SFA2. Cool character art, cool stage, cool theme music, and his interactions with Gen and Ryu were interesting at the time. Problem is, he hasn't really gone anywhere interesting since then.

 

[Village]

Skullo, Pullum, Hokuto, Garuda, Nanase. Maybe Blair and D.Dark too.
I thought these were pretty good.

I felt like pullum belonged in another game series.
Hokuto is the girl i'm talking about she's tight
Garuda ( HEEE HAWW HEEE) its weird that let that darkstalkers characters brother in sf
Nanase is mostly good, I feel like the armor part of her design needs a little work
I like Blairs design from the head up
D.Dark is fine , I feel like he needs edits to his design to make him a bit more visually interesting though

I've only ever found him interesting when his paper thin personality is tempered with humor, ala Pocket Fighter. The SF cast in general is sorely lacking in character development, but I think Akuma is among the worst offenders, particularly for someone with as many appearances as he has. And I don't care for his design or fighting style, so that leaves a lot to be desired personally.

That's fair.

I thought Akuma was pretty cool in SFA2. Cool character art, cool stage, cool theme music, and his interactions with Gen and Ryu were interesting at the time. Problem is, he hasn't really gone anywhere interesting since then.

That's kind of my problem with SF characters in general? I would like to be more evolutionary. Its why I appreciate SNK's stuff and love tekken.

I would have loved in Ryu in sf5 was just alt , shirtless ryu. Or If Chun li had a new outfit like ken. They are certainly taking chances with some designs in this game, but there are still a lot of designs that are I feel too static.

 

[MrPressStart]

Looking for a fighting game for my PS4. I have Mortal Kombat but it feels slooowwwww... is this worth it? Anything better (hidden gem of a few months out)?

 

[JeTmAn81]

Akuma is usually the only SF character with air fireballs and that's why I like him.

 

[Alchemist]

Looking for a fighting game for my PS4. I have Mortal Kombat but it feels slooowwwww... is this worth it? Anything better (hidden gem of a few months out)?

Yes, Street Fighter V is worth it. Also Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator if you don't mind anime.

 

[Village]

Yes, Street Fighter V is worth it. Also Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator if you don't mind anime.

Especially with the discounts.

 

[Producer]

Looking for a fighting game for my PS4. I have Mortal Kombat but it feels slooowwwww... is this worth it? Anything better (hidden gem of a few months out)?

both this game and GG Rev are on sale right now. Take a look at the OP to see what this game has, obviously everyone here will say its good lol

 

[TheSpoiler]

I want Hokuto.

That's a weird way to spell Area!

Also the bonus of a lot of street fighter characters being based on other characters or just real people.

Exactly.

The only thing that needs to come back from the EX series is the music.

Nah fam, the characters were great, and the story was way better than the original Alpha canon (dark without being overly edgy and still self aware). Gameplay is straight up broken, but it was still fun to mess around in.

I've only ever found him interesting when his paper thin personality is tempered with humor, ala Pocket Fighter. The SF cast in general is sorely lacking in character development, but I think Akuma is among the worst offenders, particularly for someone with as many appearances as he has. And I don't care for his design or fighting style, so that leaves a lot to be desired personally.

I don't have any qualms about his popularity though. As I've said before, people like who they like, and that's great.

That's a big issue stemmed by Capcom thinking everyone was Japanese and would scour through artbooks and interviews for character building. I don't think most people know that Akuma just likes fighting but beyond that is actually not a mean dude.

 

[Neoxon]

Looking for a fighting game for my PS4. I have Mortal Kombat but it feels slooowwwww... is this worth it? Anything better (hidden gem of a few months out)?

SFV & GGXrd Revelator are both great picks, plus there's Tekken 7 on the way.

 

[Csr]

Okay, who with a college education thinks either look cool?

It's ironic because insulting people who like a character is the opposite of what someone with a college education should do.

Yes a lot of other people like what you don't like.

 

[ForkNetwork]

The only thing that needs to come back from the EX series is the music.

Skullomania brother

 

[Hours Left]

That's a big issue stemmed by Capcom thinking everyone was Japanese and would scour through artbooks and interviews for character building. I don't think most people know that Akuma just likes fighting but beyond that is actually not a mean dude.

If we got to see more of this Akuma...

He'd probably be more interesting to me. If he truly has life beyond fighting Ryu/Gen/Gouken, then let's see it.

 

[Edzi]

I'm college educated and like Akuma's look. Checkmate, vulva.

 

[nded]

If we got to see more of this Akuma...

He'd probably be more interesting to me. If he truly has life beyond fighting Ryu/Gen/Gouken, then let's see it.

 

[Mizerman]

That's a big issue stemmed by Capcom thinking everyone was Japanese and would scour through artbooks and interviews for character building. I don't think most people know that Akuma just likes fighting but beyond that is actually not a mean dude.

Pretty much. SF has a decent lore, but a majority of the info comes from their books...that are in Japanese.

 

[mbpm1]

People think Akuma looks cool?

He needs a Reaper alt and Batman Arkham Knight armor for my edgy quota to be fulfilled

On an unrelated note, I think it's time to stop ranked/casual for a while. Need to Battle lounge to make some real progress

 

[Hours Left]

The scale of this image is shocking.

 

[mbpm1]

Akuma's a big guy

 

[nded]

The scale of this image is shocking.

Yeah, he's like SF Alpha movie size here. Akuma being the same size as Ryu in SFIV always bothered me because he's usually depicted as being larger in other media and Gouken's in the same game being more swole.

 

[Blueblur1]

So I just saw this on Amazon; cheaper used TE2+ sticks. I wonder if this is like the new but sold as used PS4 Dualshocks from a couple weeks ago?

Edit: There's one more Amazon Warehouse Deals listing I cut out. It has the same item description as the second one with "Packaging may be damaged" added.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018AW405K/?tag=neogaf0e-20

 

[Shadoken]

I don't really have a strong feeling about him really. I just think he screams of design to appeal to teenage boys or people with the mentality of a teenage boy. He doesn't visually offend me or anything, I just think it's a dumb/lazy design.

IKR... Its almost as if this game was T-rated and targeted towards ???

Lets be real most SF characters can just be called dumb/lazy by that logic. Most female characters are heavily sexualized with plenty of camera poses for showing tits and ass. And most male characters either have some exaggerated "flashy" or "badass" thing ( Ken Flame shoryuken ) or some kind of edginess ( Nash , Ryu Dark Hadou , Necalli Super Saiyan)
And then you have the Freaky characters. You arent going to see some super mature character here , because that would be completely out of place.

Everyone here is going to be like someone in a shonen anime , So I dont see any particular problem with Akuma's appeal as an edgelord.

Capcom at least put a decent amount of effort to make their "Stereotypical" characters have some unique aspects or quirks that make them very distinguishable.

 

[Mizerman]

The scale of this image is shocking.

Akuma is a big dude.

 

[Gusto]

I'm platinum too =D

https://v-league.pro/player/sephluis/profile

CFN: SephLuis.

Just recently that I had too play less because of life >.>

I didn't even know that site existed. This is so sweet https://v-league.pro/player/mcgusto/profile I'm not that good, but I can't stop playing and I'm going to the Capcom Cup!

 

[Coda]

I'd assume Akuma will look familiar yet also different with some new styling visually. I'm really interested to see him in motion.

 

[TheSpoiler]

There's a story about Akuma saving a kid from a blaze. Like, you'll never see that shit in the story lines in the game, but to be fair, SFV is the first time they gave a shit.

 

[mbpm1]

Did they give a shit?

 

[Skab]

Lets talk about happy things

like this Gief montage from Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFWD8Otcb8

 

[mbpm1]

necalli is just frame trap frame trap frame trap

 

[Whales]

still not used to this thread not being in community, lol

 

[JayEH]

Lets talk about happy things

like this Gief montage from Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFWD8Otcb8

Snake eyez crying in a corner.

 

[lucebuce12]

necalli is just frame trap frame trap frame trap

Then a command grab when they respect the frametraps too much.

 

[mbpm1]

Then a command grab when they respect the frametraps too much.

and then a dp every now and then for "negative" frame trap

god this character is dumb good. so much more continued pressure than juri

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Wolfman made me join the necalli army, it's gonna be hard to drop him for decapre >_>.

 

[Village]

Wolfman made me join the necalli army, it's gonna be hard to drop him for decapre >_>.

A good alt can change the mood. in 4 it got me to play T hawk, in this game it gets me to play mika.

 

[Durden77]

Do you ever think that you truly think too much when you play this game? Yes I know the thread title and all that but I just came back after not playing for about 3 weeks and I feel like I'm playing better than ever. And the last time I played I was thinkin a lot about my gameplay.

 

[mbpm1]

Do you ever think that you truly think too much when you play this game? Yes I know the thread title and all that but I just came back after not playing for about 3 weeks and I feel like I'm playing better than ever. And the last time I played I was thinkin a lot about my gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZn9ghG9nRw

 

[TheOGB]

Do you ever think that you truly think too much when you play this game? Yes I know the thread title and all that but I just came back after not playing for about 3 weeks and I feel like I'm playing better than ever. And the last time I played I was thinkin a lot about my gameplay.

The moment I recognize that I'm doing well is the exact moment I start playing like shit

 

[The Lone Dragon]

I just realized Akuma is the one holding the camera in this selfie.

AKUMA KNOWS HOW TO USE AN IPHONE.