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Darkstalkers Resurrection have random trivia and lore info pop up while you are waiting for a match to start/when loading. Maybe they could have in SF too.

Just make a guide/codec as an extra in the game. You could even have certain info needing to be unlocked under certain conditions eg winning enough matches with Guile/Sakura etc to unlock info on them as an incentive to get players to bother with the option rather just leaving it there.

Sad that he doesn't that green shade to his clothes that he did in 2003-XI. Don't like his face either but it's better that how they completely made Maxima and the Ikaris ugly.

It's cruel irony that Geese did the same thing to his son what Rudolph did to him as a child. Now that I think of it, KOF has a lot of caring parent figures: Saisyu, Heidern, Takuma, Foxy+Diana etc

True. Here's to hoping he returns for XIV. Might be interesting now that Rugal is possibly back.

I never said he did unless you're just bringing that point up. Adelheid is an earnest fighter like this father. Difference is, that's he's honorable and a good sport unlike his father who would self destruct the entire place over losing. It's a shame that Adelheid wasn't playable in XIII. He was basically the third protagonist of the saga after Ash and Elizabeth.

Rugal traveled to a military base where Heidern was getting promoted hence why his wife and child where there. What is fanon was that the base was in Brazil. When the developers were asked about whether Rugal regrets what he did they said something along the lines of "to him, Heidern was at the wrong place at the wrong time" this it's likely the first one to me. What's impressive to me is that Heidern doesn't seem to hear any ill will towards Adelheid and even helped him out in XIII, showing that Heidern is genuinely a caring man. It was Rugal who deserved to be punished, not his children. Same with Terry looking after Rock.

His special intro with Guile is actually a very good touch and it's not just because of the bronze statues cameo in 94. Rugal is a weapons contractor, he's deeply ingrained into the military industrial complex to the point that he was able to infiltrate and completely murder Heidern's men. It makes sense that Guile and maybe Chun-Li would enter the tournament to investigate how deep Rugal's influence runs into Interpol and the Army. I really do like the extra bit of characterisation that Capcom added to the SNK characters to help them fit in with the SF guys. CVS2 and KOF99/00 with the Striker system have a sort of very special atmosphere that hasn't been replicated since and those 3 games were very much affected by the ongoing strife over at SNK.

I like how alot of the KOF main villains are arguably even more evil than their Capcom ones. Even somebody as flat and badly written as Igniz (who completely ruined the NESTS Chronicles for me) is more despicable. Clone Zero pulled a Black Moons before Bison did lol. A Shadaloo+NESTS team up would be dangerous.

Arguably the 3d models are far better than the original 94-98 era sprites in terms of comparing them to their contemparies. The cutscenes for the earlier KOF games look like Sega Mega Drive tier stuff right next to what Capcom and even other Neo Geo games put out.

The funniest thing about Rugal that actually might explain some stuff is from one of the dating simulators for the DS that SNK shat out during the mid 00's. From what I can understand, there is an original character who is another descendant of Kushinada (the virgin that was rescued by the Yata tribe from being sacrificed for Orochi, Yuki, Kyo's girlfriend, is another descendant of Kushinada). This character is supervised by Rugal himself, who is making her have a forced marriage to Ash Crimson of all people. Considering Ash Crimson and how "Those from the Past" are a European offshoot of the Orochi Tribe on top of the intrigue surrounding Adelheid-Rose and TFTP throughout the Ash saga. It's possible that Rugal might be a distant descendant of TFTP hence why he had some Orochi capabilities and managed to sustain it after Goenitz bestowed those powers to him. Of course this is speculation for a non-canon game, a dating simulator no less, but it's food for thought and arguably more interesting than what we have seen from some of the XIV characters.

This. The only way to go from XIV is up. The hype subculture is stupid af.

Thanks. May Lee is also listed as liking tokusatsu so her mannerisms are based off alot of them and her appearance is just the protagonist from Dokonjo Gaeru.

It's probably from a tokusatsu show (special effects shows from Japan. Like Power Rangers) or an anime. Leona's specials as well as the poses Ralf and Clark strike in their special intro comes from Kamen Rider. https://webmshare.com/WqNPP

They are probably going to have show a new character or a a past one that wasn't in XIV soon. Then again, Ralf+Clark are a given, there's K' and his team and then there's the 3rd member of the women's team yet to be revealed.

The only results in English are the usual suspects like the wiki etc. It's funny because I remember seeing this piece of info all the way from a decade ago. The Japanese wikipedia pages are pretty reliable because they at least actually source not just the book but usually the page number and exact quote too! Fighting games seem to be absolutely cursed when it comes to collecting their story, especially when they are blocked through a language barrier. A lot of misconceptions of SNK's story and rumours come straight from english speakers mistranslating fan sites in Spanish/Portuguese/Chinese/Arabic into English and confusing it for canon when it was originally speculation. Don't we have a new revised plot guide now? Might be worth it if @Darc_Requiemadds it to the OP.

She's just drunk from last night. She'll recover... I hope...

Yes, that's Kinu Nishimura

Searched around for this and the Street Fighter wiki and some other English sites say this. But I haven't found anything in Japanese, I tried typing up Gill, Street Fighter and different synonyms for mother/parent in Japanese and nothing comes up.

His mother was canonically a very well skilled Olympic Athlete and physician. I bet the father is just as skilled as the mother is.

Alts referencing this pic would be nice. Especially for Ibuki and Alex.

It's probably one big coincidence but the resemblence is uncanny. There's also how Gunloc is supposedly Guile's younger brother and was caught in a love triangle with Cody and Jessica according to the Movie game and some old material. But that's probably no longer canon thankfully.

Having more lives, a high rank and all the parts will make improve the chances. If anything, playing with Zero on your 4th/8th maverick is just better because he always starts out as a SA rank and it's difficult to go down a rank. Dynamo is also a quick and easy way to raise your rank, esp with the SDC tactic. I know there's a romhack that plans to streamline the process to get rid of the RNG and make it completely controllable and has already added tons of other QoL features. It's a shame X5 ended up so lackluster and it's very apparent that Inafune just wanted to wrap up the X series to finish up work on Battle Network and finally start working on the Megaman Zero series, which are pretty much the magnus opus of the entire franchise I feel. But, we're getting pretty off topic now.

Everybody hates Seth it seems lol That brings me to a nice question: Which Slam-masters character you'd like to see make the jump to SF? I think Black Widow and Wraith would be good.

Megaman X4 is probably up there as one of my favourite games of all time. I play it on mobile with the retranslation patch. Capcom were pretty much at their peak back in 1996-2003. I remember that I talked with you about X5 back in SRK.