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Daughter is graduating kindergarten!
 
She thought the SF6 Chun li model was beautiful. That makes this post SF6 related. Misterbee can hold that.
 
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Are you seriously trying to argue if 6 had more than acouple SF3 characters at launch it would fail? 

^ one of the reasons. It made many mistakes, but it didn’t lose its core audience because it was 2D. SF3 was competing with other SF games and Capcom games, and that was a bad spot that Capcom put themselves in.
 
No self respecting SF player at the time would play that game over their characters appearing in other fighters. Ex, Alpha2/3, SF2, and crossovers were just much better and more familiar games. Characters are not functions.

SF3 failed because it was 2D, Capcom took to long to release it, and everyone had moved to 3D. SNK went out of business for reason. They were in the 2D fighting game business and nobody was buying 2D fighting games. It was all about Tekken. Up until MK's recent resurgence, Tekken was the best selling FG franchise. That's not even getting into weeds of the other issues at the time. People forget about Sony actively discouraged 2D development because it was the one area that the Saturn had the edge over the PS1. That's when the devaluation of 2D games started but that is a whole other topic. Most people in the US didn't realize that the PS1 versus the Saturn was actually a contest in Japan. There is reason Capcom bent over backwards trying to support competing platforms to the PlayStation. The heavily supported the Saturn, Dreamcast, and Gamecube for reason and it wasn't their install base.

Tbh for the cast thing i don't think new characters were the problem, the problem was the lack of characters from previous games 
Add bunch of SF2 vets and SF3 would have felt much more home lol
 
People (myself included) were mad at SF3 cast, while on reality their problem was capcom not adding more vets 
 
SF4 proven me SF3ers and SF2ers can blend so well if put in same game lol 
 
But on general would help stop consider whole groups and pick char by char, we don't need give loyalty/hate to any chapter... overall i prefer SF2 over SF3, but i pick Dudley over Balrog any day
 
Juri is literally the only SF4er in whole vanilla+S1, chars don't need their whole gamily to be in lol
 

I think it's funny when it comes to SF3, it also reminds me of the discussion regarding SF6 music lately.
 
When 3S released people didn't like the new cast immediately, same goes for the music because it was new and different.
Now they are considered classics.
 
I assume something similar might occur in SF6 in the upcoming years or when SF7 comes out.

I would have taken any character from either Alpha or 3rd Strike instead of Luke and Ed to be honest.

I do find it odd that there are no Alpha or 3S characters, as Vhozite pointed out, but it does seem especially weird there isn’t one 3S character because that’s the most recent game chronologically.
 
SF3 was hit hard at the time for a few reasons (new characters, 3D fighters were more popular, arcades were dying, etc), but that was over 20 years ago now, and some of these characters are beloved now. I personally love the 3S cast, but I certainly understand they’re not as iconic/popular as the returning characters they added. I just hope some come as DLC eventually.

Kolin would be so much welcome, bring in cool moveset/power, poetic butt and lore wise will add some Gill lore without need actually Gill... tbh i'm not fan of get former bosses too early, they risk to suffocate even weak small capcom attempts of build new bosses
 
From Sf3 cast would surely love see Dudley, Elena, Hugo, Makoto, Urien and Alex (in this order more or less)
 
Overall i like Vanilla SF6 cast
 
 
And SFV Luke was essentially a SF6 char making a quick cameo to open things for SF6 lol
 
S1 add Rashid and Ed though, Alpha and 3 still nothing including LOOONG ass poor S1

SF3 has the worst roster of any game in the series which is a big reason it flopped lol. SF6 roster is way better just by virtue of having vets ppl actually like. 
 
Edit: Now that I’m actually looking at the launch roster every series that isn’t SF2 is underrepresented so it’s not like they’re singling out SF3. 
 
SFV and SF4 both only have 1 rep, and Alpha series also appears to have 0 reps while being way more popular than SF3. 

If we go by the actual birthdays from 1991/1992 and if SF6 takes place in 2023 then Sagat is 70 years old!!!

Yeah the losers from the game that almost killed the franchise aren't here
 
pretty good thing imo

This take...I don't even know what to do with this take cause its really dumb at first thought and at worst destructive to the game itself the more you think about it.  I can understand the people who don't like breakable weapons but this?  I legit don't think this guy put real thought into what he's saying at all.  Without the combat there's no reason to look around for weapons or koroks.  There's less incentive to do just about everything in the game.  You can put money in the caves and jewels yeah but that's part od the economy to put towards clothes to explore and put more defense or extra perks on yourself which you would be less incentivized to do.  No combat means getting to and being in the dungeons would be less interesting.  We're now just solving the puzzles in the dungeon to get a cutscene...no bosses.  Hell what are we gonna do when we get to Ganondorf now?  That just gonna be resolved with a cutscene too?  Removing the combat would cripple the game regardless of your feelings on it.

This article popped up on my phone via Google.
 
TOTK Would Be Much Better Without the Combat
 
 
Combat in TOTK and BOTW is fun AF and there are so many different ways you can go about it. The article is missing the forests for the trees.
 

We gettin Scrub Quotes in article form now eh?

Either that or Kolin might come back soon.
 
The only reason Gill's absence isn't even more noticeable is that the whole fucking SF3 cast is missing.
 
This might actually be one of the worst launch rosters of all time.

Either that or Kolin might come back soon.
 
The only reason Gill's absence isn't even more noticeable is that the whole fucking SF3 cast is missing.
 
This might actually be one of the worst launch rosters of all time.

Either that or Kolin might come back soon.
 
The only reason Gill's absence isn't even more noticeable is that the whole fucking SF3 cast is missing.
 
This might actually be one of the worst launch rosters of all time.

Either that or Kolin might come back soon.
 
The only reason Gill's absence isn't even more noticeable is that the whole fucking SF3 cast is missing.
 
This might actually be one of the worst launch rosters of all time.

Either that or Kolin might come back soon.
 
The only reason Gill's absence isn't even more noticeable is that the whole fucking SF3 cast is missing.
 
This might actually be one of the worst launch rosters of all time.

Either that or Kolin might come back soon.
 
The only reason Gill's absence isn't even more noticeable is that the whole fucking SF3 cast is missing.
 
This might actually be one of the worst launch rosters of all time.

Long-play of me knocking out the Wind Temple for the first time on my ToTK playthrough:
 

It’s a totally different game but the AIs in Mortal Kombat 11 are like this too. You can equip certain moves and they will just straight up not use them. Sometimes they ended up performing better with worse moves bc they would at least use them. 

Oh hey this looks familiar