YagamiFire

Dude it's not a matter of me following the story, it's a matter of NRS following their damn story. Within 3 games they've made a huge mess of contradictions and nonsense in their own canon. No one can explain Sindel nor Kabal, just as an example. Their characters make ZERO sense.

That is presuming that anything JP says is his goal is his goal. Dude seems to be working wheels within wheels. Can't take anything he says at face value. For all we know, he could want Ken to clear his own name. These 3 issues have been some of the most genuinely interesting stuff in SF in a long long long time and it is actually the BEST SF stuff has ever done any kind of intrigue outside of the martial arts arena ever with only Kanzaki's manga even coming close.

I can't connect at all unfortunately EDIT: They just announced an hour of maintenance

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It's hard for me to give half a damn about Mortal Kombat's story at this point when it's clear NRS doesn't. They've had only 3 games and their continuity is a total disaster.

Okay, fellas, I gotta say... As a fan of SF and MK both... We are eating well on this side of the fence while MK12(1) just showed me NOTHING impressive or exciting.

This reminds me of when people say She-Hulk "suffers consequences" in the finale where she literally has god rewrite the universe because she feels like suffering consequences for her own bad actions is deeply unfair 🤣

It occurs to me that a good way to drum up some SF interest might be to do some powerscaling stuff with them and vs match-ups. The community that would have a lot of overlap with interest in SF has A LOT of interest in those sorts of videos and they can be quite fun. Just an idea I had.

The thing is, Capcom will basically always use Ingrid in perpetuity in some capacity or another. When you have an IP it's best to put it in stuff occasionally. Her being barred from Udon SF stuff is certainly a good thing, however.

That show was an abomination even without counting the underage nudity and stripshow featured in multiple episodes (which careened the show right into ultra-nope territory)

The Terra connection is VERY interesting. Man I am torn between wanting to dig into these spoilers...or just wait until the game comes out and then binge.

My response to that tier list

I'm not so sure. I think that's supposed to be blood. Omega Rugal in KOF 98 is powered by Orochi Blood.

Yes it very much seems like a "You require punishment" sort of super, doesn't it? Like JP is putting them in their place for actually tousling with him.

Yes but that could also refer to Oro talking about Bison's "will" in the sense of his goals, dreams and the like. You can fulfill someone's "will" by pursuing the same path they did. We do need to learn more about JP, however, to know where he factors into stuff.

Some people cultivate martial talent out of a sense of practicality or pragmatism or for various other reasons. This could be the case with JP. Dhalsim, for instance, doe snot enjoy fighting because he does not like violence...but he will take part in fighting for various reasons when he sees it as necessary. @CESTUS IIIAlso yes agreed that that is a big distinction currently between Rugal and JP. The one thing I'd throw in about Rugal is that it's not even strictly fighting that he loves...fighting is merely one way by which he hurts people. Rugal loves causing pain to others. Dude is a legit sadistic psychopath even going as far as to sell weapons just to spread human misery. It makes Adelheid an interesting counterpoint to him too since Adelheid does not like hurting people though he does enjoy fighting to test himself. It's a big philosophical/mental difference between father and son. Both have the same level of passion to excel at combat but for entirely different reasons. It's also something that separates Bison and Rugal. Bison ultimately spreads misery to empower himself. It gives him real, tangible power. Rugal does it for the lulz. It's one of the reasons I'd love them teaming up in a cross-over situation. It'd be genuinely horrific because Bison and Rugal do not share conflicting goals for the most part. Bison wants to rule the world...but Rugal has no concern for such things. The only conflict they could have would be over who is the greatest warrior between them.

Rugal also has weird AF biomechanical stuff in his 98 stage and it's always been one of my fav boss stages. Just strange and unnerving and creepy.

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Shitaku is a cancer on the internet. They can't fail and go the way of other garbage peddlers soon enough.

I don't think so. The VAST majority of players coming into SF6 will have no preconceptions of Luke because they weren't around playing at the end of SFV. This is Luke's debut to them.

Naive of you to assume he's not a Capcom spy here just harvesting story ideas!

Necalli should have been petrified like a stone statue or something and reawakened...and he should have absorbed chi (like in his V-trigger Super), leaving people lifeless husks to feed himself. Not Majin Buu nonsense. It could have even been that the civilization he was from previous sacrificed people to him. The blob stuff is dumb.

This is great! Remy was the second created character I made. The first was K'

Yes. This.

KOF has done way better with their bosses, honestly. They first established Rugal, an all-time classic boss that stands shoulder to shoulder with someone like Bison in terms of being an overt bad-ass antagonist. Then they brought in the Orochi, using Rugal as a springboard for the MUCH larger Orochi saga and the villains in it who didn't require Rugal at all to stand on their own. After Orochi, they brought in NESTs who needed nothing from Rugal nor Orochi to establish themselves (becoming my personal favorite villain group in fighting games)...and then they went on to bring in Those From the Past who drew on Orochi stuff due to its popularity and continuing relevance. The weakest angle of all of those ages of villains are TFTP because they were Orochi-adjacent...BUT they established themselves quite well by being very unique and tied into the current main characters. After all that, we then got the all new Verse stuff and a main tournament organizer (Antanov) that is one of the best new bosses introduced in any fighting game in a long time largely because he's NOT villainous and is a genuinely nice guy. SF has struggled to ever get away from Bison. Dude casts a huge shadow for better and, sometimes, for worse, on the entire franchise. They need to be able to get away from that I think. Hopefully JP is a step in that direction.