CESTUS III

Ironic thing is that ultimately i consider Gouken (SF4 version, not EGM lol) to be a far more interessing and welcome character design  (and fight style) than Akuma himself
 
I like Gouken, great mix of Kanzaki's version mixed with bit of HNK (Ryuken and Koryu)
 

It's funny that Akuma and Gouken being playable is due to EGM. Akuma was clearly Capcom's take on the "Sheng Long" April Fools joke in SF2. And Gouken from the SF3 version of that joke. In the case of Gouken the one arm Hadoken's and EX double Hadokens are basically just lifted from that joke.

 

It's awesome Capcom reurrected Gouken, but Goutetsu should just stay dead lol
 
 

Yeah, I don't get their need for him to come back. There's so many other corners of the SF world to explore, we don't need to keep coming back to the Super Hadou Bros. corner. I watched Max's video the other day and I just hope that the SF6 style and aesthetic for visual flourishes in moves and things like V-triggers is something fresh. I don't want them to go nearly or fully realistic, if they do I fear a lot of charm in their character designs will be lost.

Don't let Eventhubs see this. They have a hard on for Goutetsu.

@CESTUS IIIIIRC Ryu started training with Gouken at 8 years old.

Thanks dude!
Wish SC6 had all the stuff from SC5 though... guess they planned use it for DLC but end up they did'nt and we got less stuff lol

Thanks dude!
Wish SC6 had all the stuff from SC5 though... guess they planned use it for DLC but end up they did'nt and we got less stuff lol

Bruh, your CAS or top tier man. I wish I had your talent for this.

Nice job on that Blasphemous CAS

Cool to see love for SC cas here
 
If somebody has been in 8WR forums may remember me as "Gatsu"
 
Not posting pics, too much stuff, just posting links
 
Soul Calibur World CAS
 
Huge Berserk tribute gallery
 
Little tribute to Indie Games
 
Random stuff

Cool to see love for SC cas here
 
If somebody has been in 8WR forums may remember me as "Gatsu"
 
Not posting pics, too much stuff, just posting links
 
Soul Calibur World CAS
 
Huge Berserk tribute gallery
 
Little tribute to Indie Games
 
Random stuff

True but my cousin was 6'3" 283lb at 15. No juice required.

In Akuma's SFIV ending 
 
小僧の運命をけて・・・ (Kozō no unmei o kete)
 
He calls Ryu a "boy".
 

Pre-SFV he was definitely an orphan. In the SFIV movie they show a scene where Gouken finds him, then Ryu talks about Goutetsu and Akuma. But after SFV...
 
 
It's possible that he is Akuma's son, but they'll leave ambiguous so fans will talk about it.

Man I want to read this manga now
 
And nope your memory is not tricking you. In Kanzaki's manga Ryu states his hadoken is like 2/3rds the strength of Rog's punch in Rog's prime but that Rog's strength has decayed because he's gone soft from being a wannabe mobster running his Little Las Vegas on Shad island.

Yup. He refused to acknowledge the SF4 OVAs as canon but had no problem saying that Gen and Gouken were zombies. I'll never forget how he got into a fight with everyone over Nash's dogtags. 

So... The great evil has returned. We must be prepared!

Two absurdly specific trivialities I've found on Twitter.
User  PLUS is playing with a camera to navigate SFV stages, and he found out that in Sakura's house her brother Tsukushi is INDEED playing SF's parody 龍拳剛記外伝 轟の章 Ryūken gōki gaiden - Kō no shō, "Dragon fist strong chronicle side story - the rumble chapter", as is written on his bio. Obviously the title plays with Ryu, Ken, Gouken and Gouki's names.
 

I also asked him to enlarge the Egyptian obelisks in Ring of Prosperity stage, because I wasn't sure whether the writings had a meaning or not.
It turns out Capcom just copied real hieroglyphics from somewhere, but the text is assembled randomly. The cartouches are both versions of Ramesses III's name, and immediately reveal the text is a forgery: in an Ancient Egyptian text, all hieroglyphics must face the same direction, but the figures inside the cartouches are oriented towards left when all other figures are facing right.
 
 

All you need is some Pocky sticks, and suddently they're about to fuck

All you need is some Pocky sticks, and suddently they're about to fuck

Wow that's a jump in the past for me

I have somewhere at home the italian version of these (was released in monthly volumes called "Game Over" that got that, an ugly fatal fury manga -later replaced by a gundam one- and a short Samurai Shodown chibi comic strip)


Some things i remember of that specific final fight (lot of years passed)

- Asrafil(? Italian version at least), the Gill-looking "demon" is an artificial being created by Bison's (who there had white hair like in V)  Shadaloo labs, and Bison managed to get Ryu there to face it to test the monster fighting abilities
Bison talks about it as if is supposed to be the ultimate form of life or some shit, not sure if considered himself superior to it or not

-The creature was able to completely regenerate, each time it will be evolved changing physical look to adapt against the attack that destroyed him
Iirc -but not sure- phases were
Get wings (for extra speed?)
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Armored shiny body parts (that reflect hado energy like a mirror), i remember Ryu throwing his own blood on him to ruin the "mirror" effect and inflict damage
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Greater muscle/strenght wich made him able to physically force together opposed energies like hado and psycho power in one single huge attack... i remember thinking that Sagat Ultra2 in SF4 seems to be inspired by that, pretty similar pose/action.
Iirc Bison boast about the fact that this ultimate creature is the only being able to do such feat, but Ryu (evil version) was able to replicate something similar
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Evil Ryu trigger in like some sort of Mister Hyde when Ryu is about to get killed by Asrafil final form.
He destroy his artificial heart, wich was the secret of his regeneration

Fun thing is manga was made in 1995, i would not be suprised is some traits of SF3 Gill as Boss even more extreme than Bison came from Asrafil

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- whole series is essentially based on Ryu
- manga was violent af lol, way more than usual SF tone
- there were multiple robots with Ryu appearance, and some with other figthers appearance (honda and Sagat iirc)
-Bison SAVE Ryu at some point from them lol (guess to keep Ryu for the final experiment/duel)
- Ryu fought Vega(in north pole lol) and Rog(in some american city), don't remember who else
- DINOSAURS lmao
- Guile fighting Bison on a plain or something, lose and fall from the plane but for whatever reason still laugh and give Bison the middle finger while falling lol
- Is possible see good chunk of it (in whatever language) here
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=382316761836649&set=a.382316291836696.80767.135004579901203
 
Well, we have the mighty

 
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Yeah it's funny that almost every Japanese game that I can think of that had a sequel they wouldn't move past, have all past said sequel in recent years.  
 
Zelda II The Adventure of Link - Nintendo never made a Zelda game that takes place after this for the longest time, and it's only the second game in the series! Every Zelda game that came out after it was a prequel, and then things get super wild when the timeline got split three ways. It wasn't until  Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild  (the director if that game is a former Capcom Employee BTW)  that Nintendo said it takes place after all of the Zelda games. We don't know if it takes place in the same timeline as Zelda II, a different timeline or if all three of the timelines merged at some point. Knowing Nintendo they may never tell us anyway.  
 
Devil May Cry 2 - Internally people at Capcom, and particularly Itsuno didn't like the game. So he made Devil May Cry 3 a prequel and Devil May Cry 2 was placed far in the future. So the order was 3, 1, 4, 2, and Capcom even released an artbook called 3142! But when Devil May Cry 5 came out, Itsuno wanted to end the Sons of Sparda saga, or at best give it a measure of closure. So the heck with an artbook title lol! The series order is now 3, 1, 2, 4, 5. So Devil May Cry 2 has two games that take place after it now ha ha!
 
Metroid Fusion -  Nintendo never made a game that takes place after Metroid Fusion, until last year when Metroid Dread came out.
 
There might be more examples but that's all I can think of. I'm glad that aspects of SFV take place after SF3 Third Strike, but we need a full game that does!  All signs point to SF6 going that way at least. 

Okay managed to figure out how to toss the images here. This is from the manga based on Street Fighter II V, which was serialized in Bom Bom Comics. The story is very different from the Street Fighter II V anime, was completely unrelated storyline-wise other than having similar character designs. It featured a very early version of 'evil' Ryu, which even predates Masahiko Nakahira's Satsui No Hadou Ryu in his Street Fighter Zero (AKA Alpha) manga. But, Capcom still credits Masahiko Nakahira with creating SNH / Evil Ryu and not this manga. When I discussed this with vasili10, he theorized that it was because the SF2V version was more 'demonic' and less about 'dark ki.'
 
I guess now this is pretty funny given how demonic Gouki AKA Akuma and Kage seem these days LMAO! 

Welcome Sano!
Yeah fun thing of SFV playable Ed with NS uniform is that he's technically non canon in SFV present, both as uniform and muscle mass lol
 
SFV standard costume in theory should have been his white hoodie one and much less muscular as we seen him with Rog in ASF events, NS uniform should still not even exist (so also playable Falke is not canon in current timeline)
 
Fun thing is all his quotes on contrary seems to reflect young correct Ed, he never mention Neo Shadaloo
 
In theory Standard NS costume of Ed should have been his Story costume (wich often represent a different time, usually past), but guess Capcom either thought white hoodie was just too simple/bland to be his official Standard look (style wise many urban clothes have been used as secondary Story costumes in SFV) or maybe they originally thought to add the birth of NS in SFV then they dropped the idea for whatever reason