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Would not be opposed to suit-Blanka being his default in SF6 and his story being that Blanka-chan took off and Blanka is basically a major businessman now...
 
...and of course Dan is still poor and comes begging for money.

Would not be opposed to suit-Blanka being his default in SF6 and his story being that Blanka-chan took off and Blanka is basically a major businessman now...
 
...and of course Dan is still poor and comes begging for money.

And here we are, Bu$ine$$ Blanka Cestus Edition, done with proper Capcom style

Special thanks to Bowman Delgado and Geese Howard for giving some help lol
 
 

Would not be opposed to suit-Blanka being his default in SF6 and his story being that Blanka-chan took off and Blanka is basically a major businessman now...
 
...and of course Dan is still poor and comes begging for money.

Would not be opposed to suit-Blanka being his default in SF6 and his story being that Blanka-chan took off and Blanka is basically a major businessman now...
 
...and of course Dan is still poor and comes begging for money.

Embrace it
 

Embrace it
 

Embrace it
 

I don't always vibe with all of Max's tastes but for the most part I pretty much agree with those two videos. The only two things I don't agree with him on are him wanting to shelve Necro and Remy. Remy I think I can be salvaged even if I doubt Capcom or the majority of fans care enough to try, but Necro I think is incredibly underrated and deserves to come back and have an Oro-like surge in popularity. There's a lot Cacpom can do with him and Effie. Other than that though, can't really disagree with his other choices for and against returning for 6, even if I don't care for a lot of SF characters.
 
One thing I very much enjoyed though is his thoughts on Sean as well as his chats response to what Max was saying about him. I was watching the Twitch VoD that was the source of the two videos and it really made me smile to see his chat explode with tons of 'SEAN' posts when Max started talking about how there was one obvious choice for a SF3 returnee and that they knew who it was (and I'm assuming agreed with him).
 
It's genuinely been crazy to see that, in the last year or so, so many people are getting behind him too. I was watching a few roster wishlists/speculation videos not long after 6 got announced and a lot of them had Sean in there. Even one Justin Wong and Punk did had Sean in their most wanted tier!. As someone who actually used to get shit for wanting Sean back in the day, it's just been wild to see things start come around for him. Hopefully that turn-around happens with Capcom too and they bring back Sean for SF6.

I don't always vibe with all of Max's tastes but for the most part I pretty much agree with those two videos. The only two things I don't agree with him on are him wanting to shelve Necro and Remy. Remy I think I can be salvaged even if I doubt Capcom or the majority of fans care enough to try, but Necro I think is incredibly underrated and deserves to come back and have an Oro-like surge in popularity. There's a lot Cacpom can do with him and Effie. Other than that though, can't really disagree with his other choices for and against returning for 6, even if I don't care for a lot of SF characters.
 
One thing I very much enjoyed though is his thoughts on Sean as well as his chats response to what Max was saying about him. I was watching the Twitch VoD that was the source of the two videos and it really made me smile to see his chat explode with tons of 'SEAN' posts when Max started talking about how there was one obvious choice for a SF3 returnee and that they knew who it was (and I'm assuming agreed with him).
 
It's genuinely been crazy to see that, in the last year or so, so many people are getting behind him too. I was watching a few roster wishlists/speculation videos not long after 6 got announced and a lot of them had Sean in there. Even one Justin Wong and Punk did had Sean in their most wanted tier!. As someone who actually used to get shit for wanting Sean back in the day, it's just been wild to see things start come around for him. Hopefully that turn-around happens with Capcom too and they bring back Sean for SF6.

...I'll accept this reasoning...for now...

Found myself agreeing with Max quite a bit too. Very good video with very good takes on roster...except I'd like Necro and Remy back

I enjoyed Max's vid too, but I want Adon & Necro back, I don't care lol. Adon''s too fun and full of ego. I also feel Necro is so underrated and could really bring something to the lore if we get more focus on him and Effie's lives pre and post Illuminati kidnapping.

Capcom blue-balled us so hard last month that this turned into the KOF story thread in my absence.
 
 
 
JK obviously, I agree with a lot of the posts made about Rugal and other bosses. Really hope that boss challenge mode leads to Krizalid, Goenitz and Igniz making it in as DLC characters.

Shen and Duo are my two big wants for returning characters. They're both great designs and Shen Woo is flat-out one of my favorite characters to play as in any fighting game ever (punch-dudes FOREVER!)...
 
...however, a slightly older Shroom is one of my dark-horse character adds I want to see. From the little we've seen of him with stealing Heidern's eyepatch and protection of Romello, he seems to have a lot of personality.
 
Of course, I also want to see the return of Krizalid

100% agreed on all points.
 
Krizalid just needs a redesign to a non-NESTs costume. Since K' is very 'leather punk' it might be neat to have Krizalid invoke some design elements of 'bancho' in his look. It'd let SNK incorporate elements of his long jacket. Now, keep in mind, I don't mean a literal bancho gang school outfit, but something that takes design queues from that the same way K' isn't strictly 'leather bike punk' but takes design elements from it. A comparison would be someone like Virgil from Devil May Cry who has a very 'business-like' appearance. That fits Krizalid very well since he's the more mature version of K' and this is especially appropriate since K' and Krizalid predate the whole "messy silver hair vs slicked back silver hair' that Dante and Virgil also do.
 
Essentially, have Krizalid look a bit like Kazuya does here...
 

 
...but make the business attire a bit more 'ultra modern' with a high collar to evoke elements of his original design (and so he's not just business-suit guy)
 
Also!
 
I needed to point out an interesting thing dropped suddenly into the KOF14 manga...
 
Towards the end Krizalid returns as a shadow-warrior from Verse (along with the Orochi Trio, Goenitz and Zero) and, when he fights, he clashes with Kula and IMITATES HER ICE. At that point he has one hand of fire and one of ice (as well as one wing of fire and one of ice).
 
I am ALL for that. He could be the Gill of KOF and it's something KOF lacks in regards to powers.
 

 
Seriously check that out! Fire wing and ice wing with dual element hands Krizalid? HELL YES. Give that to me as DLC immediately. Kriz should have NEVER been killed off. Without a rival, K' flounders as a character and no one else fits the bill. Both Kula and K9999/Krohnen have been reformed and neither were a proper rival anyway. Krizalid? Shear perfection and you have the baked in drama with Whip and the two.

I hope if he returns, it isn't as an enemy/rival to K'. If his memories are of the original Krizalid, I think he definitely would have deserted NESTS and joined Whip.
Maybe a Kriz/Khronen/Angel team for XVI
 
I think Shen and Duo are extremely likely as season 2 DLC considering how they ranked high both in a fan poll and a one SNK made. 
 
@DaemosI'd say SNK mostly had a nice approach to their villains though one could argue that having a new boss every game was getting tiring by XIII. I think having them dead or defeated adds to its story. But SNK themselves admitted that killing off CYS and Kriz in their debuts was one of their biggest regrets. Makes me wonder how  CYS would be in NESTS or who their 4th member would be. 

To each their own, it's nice having Rugal back, but I enjoyed the range of stories and povs we got over the years while he was gone. One of KoF's strengths in narrative is the willingness to change focus and be able to break things into arcs.

Over the weekend I went back to Doctrine Dark’s master win quote post and realize just how much I enjoyed these over the years. It made me think what it would’ve been like if one of my favorite characters was in the game and what she would say to the others.
 
So in a stroke of inspiration, I tried writing some stuff as if Makoto was in the game. I’ll put it into a spoiler so it doesn’t clog the thread.
 
 

Fuerte was fine. I think it's a shame he gets lumped in as the other shitty SF4 newcomer with Rufus when he's not even close to being as bad.

Fuerte was fine. I think it's a shame he gets lumped in as the other shitty SF4 newcomer with Rufus when he's not even close to being as bad.

This leak doesn’t even name Luke who was the only other character in the teaser. Fake.

Ingrid is lame waifu anime trash but she's still not as lazy as Oni and every other 'evil' version of a pre-existing character. As much as I don't want her, I'd be fine with seeing current Capcom have another attempt at Ingrid if it meant we never saw Evil Ryu/Akuma/Dee Jay or whoever the fuck Capcom can make evil again.

Also because of all of the unfortunate grief he has caught and a severe lack of deserved spotlight, I gift this "Alex getting props" pic from CvS Manhua to the thread
 
Alex needs some love
 

Oh god you just reminded me of that...
 
A perfect example of absolute stupidity