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It's not Street Fighter...but a fighting game cosplay THIS GOOD on a stage this big deserves everyone appreciating it https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1500658201540415488?s=20&t=yy0aYSVRF5Rt2aTqHBbFrQ Jade Cargill is awesome

Yeah 100% genetically engineered to age-up. No different from the Clonetroopers in Star Wars Of course, it'd be nice for this to be EXPLAINED by Capcom gonna Capcom when it comes to basic story structure and character info

The thing to keep in mind with characters like Falke and Ed is that they will absolutely have genetic heritage based on the origin of their DNA...but they are lab-grown and therefore do not truly have a 'home country' like a typical world warrior.

Probably not an intentional "fake" but very likely just something thrown together by someone totally unrelated to the game.

"type of killer you ascribe him to be" Uh I ascribe him to be what he canonically is: someone that will only fight other warriors to the death including fighters that have no interest in that (like Gouken).

We really trying to thread this impossible needle? Akuma's repeatedly described as 'blood soaked' for a history and he himself talks about all those that have "fallen before his fist". "Countless" warriors have met their fate against Akuma. Let's stop pretending that he's not evil as hell. Yes we only know of a few battles he's been in but by that logic Ryu has only fought a handful of times instead of the HUNDREDS of battles he's canonically supposed to have had. Akuma's bloody history is not implied. It is not hinted at. It is explicitly stated many times. Come on, guys...

Nah sorry that's revisionist history at work He walks "the path of slaughter" and multiple games and sources talk about those that have fallen beneath his fist. Akuma REGULARLY kills martial arts masters in his quest to prove how strong he is. Typically they're just far beneath him with only figures like Goutetsu, Gouken, Gen and Bison being particularly noteworthy as challengers to him. Akuma is evil. At least one can argue that Oni is mad and deranged, possessed by the insane Satsui No Hadou that really dictates his actions. Akuma? Not so much. He's conscious of his decision making. I could argue that makes him MORE evil rather than someone driven insane.

Correction: regular Akuma is Evil Akuma. Oni is Stupid Akuma 😄

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

Okay gotta say... Orochi-possessed Gill in the Capcom Vs SNK manhua is really cool looking

Which does reinforce what we had discussed before in the thread that Charlie was basically a top-tier character in the Alpha timeframe and able to match-up against Bison

Shadaloo HQ where the ninjas chase the robots in the background. It looks BEYOND stupid. It's legitimately cringe and embarrassing

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

Absolutely not 50/50. Just looking at them... Ken gets married. Not a joke. Ryu has his obsession with fighting reinforced. Not a joke. Chun-Li is LITERALLY AT HER DAD'S GRAVE. Honda's is about him with his students. It's lighthearted but not stupid. Zangief dances with totally-not-a-real-person Russian leader. A joke. Blanka is reunited with his mother. Not treated as a joke. Guile is talked out of MURDERING someone. Dhalsim goes home to his family. Lighthearted but not a joke. Then compare to SFAlpha where stuff is treated seriously. The core narratives and threat and drama is treated as legitimate. Since at least SF4, Capcom has had an obsession with undermining a lot of their own stuff and it's really annoying. Tekken is KNOWN for its joke endings but treats its CORE narrative as serious and dramatic. SF just can't seem to handle that because it veers too much into cartoon stupidity and OHHHH SOOOO WACKY moments I'm not against humor or for any kind of grim-dark tone...I just wish SF didn't seem so often like it was putting itself down

I don't dislike Rashid. In fact, I have his SH Figuarts. What I hate is SF's INSANE obsession with making almost everyone a joke or a caricature in a way that undermines the stakes and narrative they're trying to create. It's so stupid.

Jin is ten thousand times the protag that Rashid is. You're spot-on. Rashid hiding behind his butler was shameful. It's not even funny...it's just stupidly putting Juri over for thirsty Juri-fans at the expense of a character we're supposed to get invested in. Bad booking 101

I like Ed's fighting style so I'd root for Ed...plus Ed has a story I care about because he helped give Balrog more growth in 1 game than over 30 years

Thanks. I like to generally think in terms of 'match-up' for most Street Fighter stuff. It's far more interesting to have interactions between peoples style (both physical and spiritual) than just "Well this guys power level is higher"

Gotta say I agree with Maximilian big time that a Luke vs Sean rivalry would be GREAT for SF6

Oh I won't disagree with you about the stupidity of the retcons Bringing Gouken back was stupid AF even if he is one of my favorite characters to play. There was ZERO reason to do that and Gouken doesn't even factor into SF5. It was nothing but a cheap shock tactic of a character. Akuma has killed Goutetsu...and that's about it. Taking the killing of Gouken away from him was absolutely idiotic on Capcom's part It's one of the reasons I'm okay with a reboot at this point. They need the opportunity to tell the story COHERENTLY and cleanly from the beginning

HEY! I don't know if this has ever been mentioned here... ...but has anyone else ever read the ONLY good fanfiction to ever exist? Cuz it's Street Fighter vs King of Fighters. No lie. Nightmare Symbiosis. It's fantastic. Anyone else ever here of it?

I agree with basically everything you wrote @CESTUS III Akuma's dick-riding is detrimental to the series and its narrative. It's much more interesting to have Akuma be a bad match-up for Ryu in the way you described. Like, I'm sorry, if I had my way I'd have Gill demolish Akuma in a fight and do so by pointing out how utterly imbalanced Akuma's spirit is, making it impossible for him to beat someone as perfectly centered as Gill... ...and I don't even like Gill that much...but Akuma just needs the L THAT badly

The "everyone is here" mindset is actively detrimental to the health of any sequel

I agree with the former but not the latter. Akuma should get humbled by someone. Potentially even someone like Gill. And I don't mean 'a close fight', I mean something should happen where Akuma eats a big L because it will reframe a lot of his character in a useful way. Meanwhile, he should not be Ryu's father. Ryu should be an orphan adopted and his dad is Gouken. Period. Akuma redoing Luke & Vader with Ryu is just weak

Natural disasters are not inherently evil. It's possible G is malevolent but it's also possible what he is might trigger events. Either way, Capcom was stupid for not making more stuff about G explicit to try and draw people in instead of going "Ooooh soooo mysterious" well past the time when people had patience for their bullshit storytelling.