CESTUS III

5 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

The Akuma blog post is up

 

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/04/29/akuma-rages-into-street-fighter-6-on-may-22/

 

For anyone that watched Street Fighter Assasin's Fist. Akuma's level two is essentially what Goutetsu hits him during their. A devastating palm strike that sends a surge of ki through his opponents torso. Basically an SnH verison of Gouken's Senkugoshoha (Palm Strike).

Pissed at this

because -without fire- shit would have looked so cool on Ryu and fitting his old SFV badassery, instead i got that hashogeki crap

I'm going to love steal that and some other stuff on my Makoto though, she's going to shape up well 😄 

Cool thing is as cutscene suggest he will have the new stage as location, so we will get new merchant (even if merchant living in same cave as Akuma is hilarious shit lmao), given the char hope we get some old school martial artist shit, God knows we have too much bland urban crap already lol

Love get confirmation 22 we get also third alt for S1 chars, i even forgot i had it already included within the S1 pass price

Good to see we will not have to wait S2 start for big balance patch

But still... give me S2 (at least announcement to know if be hyped or pissed) asap please

1 hour ago, -PVL93- said:

Sagat

Fei Long 

Makoto 

Viper 

G

Newcomer 

Not 100% my ideal list, but the trio Sagat, Fei Long and Makoto would make it really sweet deal... between this and mystery box i pick your offer easily, would be solid S2

Newcomer can be welcome too

G is bizzarre af situation for me... i like a lot the charisma and lore of the char, like would really love see his story pushed forward... but at same time i can't bring myself to give fucks about his fight style or him becoming playable lol

On bright side SF6 G would maybe offer some insight on why have so much shit in common with Q

Overall i find him too loved/successful new face to not get a shot at some point, will be at least curious to see how he ends up

Viper idk, i don't dislike the char itself and that sweet boobs-tie combo deserve justice after that SF4 shit model, but at same time beside Makoto you already listed i take almost every (or at least a lot) missing females over her... i think Elena, Laura, Menat, Kolin, Mika, Poison(?), Karin, Ibuki lol

Give me Season 2 pls

6 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

SNK was worried about getting sued by Ricco Rodriquez. A Brazilian Heavyweight MMA fighter. There wasn't a shared likeness like M.Bison/Balrog, so I don't understand whey they thought they'd be sued.

 

Ricco Rodriguez

Bizzarre part is that in spanish language countries Rodriguez is a common surname, there are more famous people than Ricco with same surname, think director Robert Rodriguez or actress Michelle Rodriguez lol

Apparently they changed/canonized his name as RodrigueS, not RodrigueZ in KoFXV including western version, from SNK wiki

• Rodrigues was always referred to as Khushnood Butt in the West until 2021, when SNK officially acknowledged him as Marco Rodrigues in the team story for Team Art of Fighting on the website for The King of Fighters XV.
  • In the English version of their team ending, Takuma nearly refers to him as Khushnood before stopping himself and using Marco, referencing his rename.
• This was also the first time in which his name was spelled as "Rodrigues" instead of "Rodriguez", as the former spelling is much more common in Brazil, due to it being a Portuguese-speaking country, while "Rodriguez" is more common in Spanish-speaking ones. SNK made the same mistake with the character Bandeiras Hattori, whose first name was changed from "Banderas" for being a Spanish word instead of a Portuguese one, said mistake caused some outrage among the Brazilian fanbase.

PS: In all of this mess of spanish names they still never realized "Garcia" being a retarded name for an italian fighter lol

But tbh japan FG ever had problems at find italian names: Rose, Brad Burns, Patrick Dulton, Leon*, Pielle, Johann 🤣

*give this freepass because they likely just ripped off Jean Reno's movie char lol

Game looks beautiful

Preecha was a mistake

Kinda bizzarre mix

"Akuma is coming" Fighting Pass is listed as 1st May

In some hours we get maintenance patch wich guess is to add next Fighting Pass, usually trailer follow up in few days

Akuma trailer this weekend?

Tomorrow is last day of current Fighting Pass, guess in few days we will get some sort of announcement on new one

Considering will be the "Akuma is coming" one, guess we may get gameplay trailer too

Lol random af but just crossed online shit i did years ago 😁

As new special i take my hado-powered body shot over shit hashogeki, but maybe mirrored (opposite arm, front side toward camera) to don't overlap with SPS look

Actually right SPS -> left hado body shot combo would have looked good, fuck up these ribcages kyokushin style lol

Or maybe not, but i just hate hashogeki look lmao

Maybe would have liked made with open palm but one-hand, to kill the resemblance with hadoken and to show he's reaching Gouken's level at that hadoshit

For the lulz other two i did before get bored (of course i started is as "will do it for EVERYBODY" then was already bored at third one lol)

Iirc next was Chun Li but killed it mid run lol

5 hours ago, elliephil said:

So I guess my friend from back in the day actually worked on that Dudley mod.

 

A little glimpse into the future shh 😃

 

https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2478744004130790806/C243967221BEA05010BDF2BFDDEFFD5591C9ACC3/

That's awesome

If you have way to contact him only advice i can offer to improve already great work is maybe to reconsider whole characters sizes

Dudley was definitely too small (watch him next to Ryu), Abel may be slighty too big... even if in latter case it's not by that much margin

But tbh that's something could be said to SFV Capcom itself too, like Necalli being too small or Alex being too big or Abigail being nonsense

Even SF6 have some problems, maybe not with heights but with proportions for sure

4 hours ago, Sonero said:

 

Alex and Abel in the same game?

 

Might as well name the whole thing to Street Fighter 5: Cuckpionship edition.

 

I will never be against Abel's return, dude is SF Fedor and Fedor is legend

But yeah with Manon in is it's not happening lol

13 hours ago, mykka said:

I'm really hoping Dudley and Elena return

11 hours ago, ZioSerpe said:

I'm hoping to get Menat soon

Would love get all them, of these probably Menat is the one with highest chances

Really want also Sagat(or Adon) even before them to rep Muay Thai, also would welcome Fei Long, Laura, Hugo, Cody and Kolin too

3 hours ago, HeavensCloud said:

Elena would be cool. If she made it, I'm sure they wouldn't have the healing mechanic work the way it did in SF4.

Yeah they could re-imagine it in whatever way

Maybe as Level 2 Super (where lot have an install) that make her gradually recover health little by little up to let's say 33% and can be stopped successfully hitting her... still powerful help but not as dominant as SF4

Also nostalgia alt Elena in new engine

8 hours ago, Dragonfave723 said:

That's awesome, incredible fan  job

19 hours ago, biachunli said:

Capcom doesn't play with my heart!

I know fans and marketing loves the idea of Ryu x Chun Li, but if we speak SF canon if he's doing anything on that side my money is still on him throwing dick-shin-shoryukens in Sakura

Actually would not be surprised if Chun made him buy that jacket to go to a date with Sakura, considering the jacket got cherry blossom (sakura) decoration

It's fun how others look up to Ryu to solve big things like uppercut the villain, yet his friends take care of him for normal life things... Ken handling his money, Chun giving suggestion on how to dress etc

On 4/8/2024 at 9:39 PM, Dragonfave723 said:

Someone from another forum translated the Japanese text from the right as peaceful Akuma with complete control over the Satsui no Hado . 

This post end up underrated, bring new perspective if end up ingame

Street Fighter EX 6 development going well 😁

Warning BIG pic
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Street Fighter EX 6 development going well 😁

Warning BIG pic
click bunch of times for true size

10 hours ago, YagamiFire said:

I feel like the AKI we got is far more interesting looking than her concept art.

What i like of final AKI is the freak factor she bring in, at that it's true final ingame look step up it compared to concepts

14 hours ago, Lord_Vega said:

Lost my account few weeks before the char i was waiting got released 😭

Tbh i'm ok with AKI final look too

I just pointed out she's a very rare case where imho there was better options in dropped sketches, as usually i agree with capcom pick on best route for final ingame design

Only others i can think are Guile (imho his standard SF6 design is weak, imho they was getting better ideas through concept phase)

and Ryu, but tbh there it's just me hating the fucking beard (too bad i'm not on pc so can't mod that shit off* ), this would have been my fav Ryu design ever lol

yeah yeah i know everybody else (apparently capcom designers less, but marketing rule) love the beard though lol

I'm not sure i'm sold on Akuma's change from original concept to final

overall new color scheme contrast better and definitely works better, yet feel lost bit of identity (sure, we could link it to classic "Shin Akuma" look though)

For sure i prefer smaller beard of first one, affect the classic look less and let eye focus more on hair, in second one the santa beard take lot of spotlight

Must admit it help A LOT show visually he took seriously hermit shit, second design achieve sell perfectly how far from society/civilization he gone (will be fun see him text with smartphone lol)

I liked more also original Lily, but i know i'm on huge minority here too

* there has been also a mod on nostalgia one too, beard there looks barely visible yet modded version without it does wonders make it waaay cooler/closer to Ryu's classic artworks look

14 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Give her the same color scheme as her current default look and keep her albino just with that design aesthetic.

2 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

That 5th A.K.I. design with the red hair is perfection. I wish we would have gotten that one.

Yeah that's my fav too 😁

Only thing i'm not sold is color scheme, would have prefered something like this to be the standard palette

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Some bullets dodged, some missed opportunities

- AKI had some designs better than one we end up, i really like the very FANGesque 4th but even more the red 5th

- Rashid end up more or less same level

- Ed ultimately got much better designs ingame, i take both the Standard and Alt ones over anything i see there

- Akuma ones are terrible, but i like the 4th as artwork

16 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Not really the PS1 hardware was built around 3D rendering and it had less RAM than the Saturn by default. That gold only widened with the RAM cart.

As Saturn boy in late 90s remember "yeah, but 2D games are better on our console" was essentially our life mantra

On 4/4/2024 at 2:32 PM, DarthEnderX said:

I'll be honest, I don't really care about the avatar stuff.  Because my avatar is pretty much exactly what I want them to be at this point, and I have no personal interest in making a bunch of different avatars.

 

I have my Rude clone with a boxiing style, and that's all I need.

 

I might switch out Specials/Supers depending on what we get, and I'd switch to Dudley's normals in a hearbeat.  But other than that, I'm done.

I'm sure you'rfar from alone at that, and it's a fucking shame to me lol 😄 

I think there's a majority who's even hating avatar stuff, and tbh i blame it mostly on Capcom in many ways but specially for creating the false perception character creation is getting all the goods, while on reality their way to handle is absolutely shit poor too, just not as poor as how they're shameless ignoring main cast dlc stuff (wich bother me too as does to anybody else)

Wich is a shame as the ability to "create SF characters" for me that i'm both SF fan and design guy is a dream, too bad capcom's mediocrity and greed is making it maybe 50% at best of what could have been

Personally i'm still LOVING it because allow me to see/use ingame characters that otherwise Capcom will not add (or maybe some will but years from today), be them former SFers or even muh SFEX crew, or rejected SF concepts etc

Basically will try to use it as i did with SC6 character creation, there i got close to SC version of your "everybody is here!" utopia 😄 

https://8wayrun.com/threads/teh-gatsus-sc-universe-temple-post-quarantine-edition.21104/

Too bad as i said before SF6 went half ass with character creation too, so while i enjoy my stuff we can't use them as characters as was for SC, but it's indeed mostly threated by capcom as silly "avatar stuff" as you say

I find it kinda sad and wasted opportunity, because if i think at CC of SF6 the one that come to my mind is highly detailed stuff in my copy of the game, while community perception of it is

7 hours ago, YagamiFire said:

Monster Hunter stuff is always the easiest of easy skips for  me

Yeah as FP kinda weak (including arcade game pick), "Akuma is coming" next one will for sure bring more useful traditional fighter pieces

Would say with the exception of Final Fight FP wich has been the best, so far the "XXXX is coming" FPs have been the easily the most intersting

Some MH weapns in the shop are useful and relatively low price though, bought for 1000DT a blade for my D.Dark 😁

One month from now we get "Akuma is coming" Fighting Pass, Akuma for sure at some point in May... wonder when we get first "character introduction" vid, maybe 2-3 weeks?

Btw i just hope with Akuma launch we get Season 2 characters revealed, considering they should start around July/August