ShockDingo

Regarding the SRK news / post.
 
I have been browsing OLD SRK forums using  https://archive.org/web/  and even found some of my old posts and many faces that are gone now,got hit in the gut with nostalgia i must admit.
 
I don't know if i will get hate for this or not but whatever.
 
I personally don't want to see SRK gone. Yea some questionable things happened lately that made a lot of people migrate but it was "home" for many years and the place where i started to learn about FGC and got to know some great people, some that are still here on megashock.
 
Ups and downs everywhere for sure but it's still one of the most memorable websites out there. If it's indeed shutting down for good, it will leave a big footprint that's for certain.
 
Gone but not forgotten.

Azami punishing the yolo Young Zeku/Bison slide in that last gif 😍

I could see Ty Lee working like Rohan in JoJo’s All Star Battle. One of her supers using chi-blocking to lock the other character’s specials for a limited time.

I'd be lying if I said I haven't spent hours fantasizing about an Avatar/Korra fighting game. Katara with a bloodbending level 3 super, Uncle Iroh breathing fire on people, Varrick and Zhu Li in a mech...my boy Bolin, slinging some lava.
 

The reason why the focus of the Movie is Marcus and not Connor is because they wanted to kill Bale's Connor at the end and have the twist that the Connor that was the leader was Marcus all along.
 
But when on test screenings that ending was universally panned, they pannicked and tried to salvage the movie by filming a new ending and reediting.
 
It is something that has annoyed me since T3.
They are so eager to subvert expectations by replacing Connor as the focus/hero.
With each entry reducing his role more and more to the point wher in Genesys he was the Villain and on Turdminator Feminist being outright killed and replaced by a a joke of a character.

I also like Salvation.
This comes from someone who likes T3 for its action, but i feel that from all the sequels after 2, only Salvation is the only one that is warranted.
 
T3 onwards missed the point of T2, where the chars defied "Destiny" and prevented JD.
And for what? To make worse versions of T1 and T2
Salvation served as an exploration of the world post JD, and how humanity survived and fought against the machines.
 
Its execution was not perfect, but imo, if the Terminator franchise had to continue in any way, it should be in the vein of Salvation, and not retellings of what we already saw on 1 and 2.

There was some potential, but I feel it dropped the ball. It should have focused on Bale more since this was his climb to be the legendary leader (I actually liked that the brass looked at him like a nothing, cause if some guy comes out of nowhere claiming to be a legend, people are gonna balk at it until he proves himself), even if you had him on the side and the main character being an audience surrogate that was a part of John's team, that could have worked, but we had Marus/Sam Worthington and I felt it just petered out pretty quick. I liked some of the ideas (the not knowing he's a Terminator, the early prototypes and the factory stuff) and Helena B. Carter, but overall, with all the potential it had, it just didn't stay with me once I was finished with it.

There was some potential, but I feel it dropped the ball. It should have focused on Bale more since this was his climb to be the legendary leader (I actually liked that the brass looked at him like a nothing, cause if some guy comes out of nowhere claiming to be a legend, people are gonna balk at it until he proves himself), even if you had him on the side and the main character being an audience surrogate that was a part of John's team, that could have worked, but we had Marus/Sam Worthington and I felt it just petered out pretty quick. I liked some of the ideas (the not knowing he's a Terminator, the early prototypes and the factory stuff) and Helena B. Carter, but overall, with all the potential it had, it just didn't stay with me once I was finished with it.

Did someone say guest characters? Time to hand out 👎🏾 's. Who's first?

I've come to the point where I don't want guest characters anymore. Just make more games. 
 
Gimme a dope ass Avatar fighting game. 
 

Nice stuff in Blender and add-ons and tutorials have helped me a lot, i am improving i would say
 
You basically : 
 
-  import the model and bust your balls to make the texture work -  use import image as planes add-on import pictures so you can use as reference in poses, in-game screenshots work wonder -  align you character's skeleton joins parallel to the picture and start posing until your eyes bleed -  you then select the character mesh, in this case the body skin, use some modifiers to give it a wet / glow effect so it looks better - put about 1500 samples in Cycles engine with a 20 light bounce render  - use a HDRI background environment so the cast shadows on the model simulate actual light so your model won't have flat and lame looking textures -  use a denoise modifier so your rendered picture won't have noise effects and artifacts - go and eat until it's done and proceed to right click and save your fully rendered image when ready.  
So yea, i posed Bonita for  @Illwill88 as i said so and used some screenshots to duplicate her in-game poses. I like Laura, i hope she returns in SF 6.
 
Bonita 1  
 
 
 
Bonita 2 
 
 
 
And i mostly did this last screenshot so you guys can see the texture quality with correct light samples on her bikini.....yea that's why i did it. 
 

That Faust move is so well animated, those are definite goals. Also glad we'll be able to have a montage of faces from his moves again lol

Yu Yu was a great show, I should go back and watch it, it's been quite a while since I last saw it.  The issue with that barrier idea is it would need a major reworking to make the "normal" world fit with Street Fighter's normal world.  Street Fighter is one of those martial arts = having super powers universes, but it's still, I guess grounded. So far, Necalli's one of the weirder things there. Sure Bison's gotten weirder over the years, but there's still a ceiling in place, that's one of the reasons why Ingrid ruffled feathers with her timetravel etc.
 
With Darkstalkers, not all the supernatural stuff comes from Makai.  Felicia isn't a rarity. Cat Women, according to Saiki's plot guide , are common enough that previously, there's been discussions on their human rights and even prejudice kept popping up around the time Felicia became a star.  It's never stated how they came to be, but sometimes human women give birth and then around 3 years or so their daughters start growing fur and tails etc. Also characters like  Sasquatch (Snowmen naturally reside in Canada) & Rikuo (the Kingdom of Mermen resided in the Amazon til Pyron's arrival destroyed the kingdom) are humanoids with no connection to Makai.  Zabel/ Raptor was human, but super into the occult and serves a dark master, but I don't think he's from Makai. Morrigan was adopted into Belial's house and brought into Makai, but she was born in Scotland, there's not info about her birth parents or life pre-adoption, but yeah, I initially thought she was born in that real, but she's another character that originates in this realm. Also Anakaris is human but came back from the dead, I think it's stated that he could use magic before he died. I have to reread, when he was alive he could see the future, dude was impressive in life and death.
 
The thing is that in Darkstalkers, they're not rare monsters crawling around that are the stuff of myths, their existence is widely known of, though as far as I know, humans no nothing of the Makai dimension, just the monsters from there that occasionally pop through dimensional rifts and the terrestrial monsters and such that pop up all the time. People who are super rich frequently hire DarkHunters to kill and or capture them so they can be used for weird, rare medical stuff, potions, or just collections.
 
All of this is moot though it Capcom wants to retcon everything. I just hope they don't. Like I said, I love both franchises and want them to flourish, but here's my issue.  If you merge the universes you run into a couple problems:
 
SF is all about how martial arts makes you stronger and increases who you are. Even with Bison's tech, he's still based on martial arts at his core and used science to enhance his powers. With his failing in SF5, Ryu showed that his hardwork and sacrifice triumphed over all of Bison's help. Heck, he was nearly invincible due to the constant stream of negativity being pumped into him until Rashid shut things off. If he had shut it off earlier, Charlie's first win against Bison in the finale would have prevented the need for him to kill himself. So Bison's reliance on tech and treachery was trumped by the purity of Ryu's fight and train and overcome his limits (SNH) methods.
 
If you get Darkstalkers who are just super OP by default  into SF, it shakes things up thematically. Also it gets less impressive to see a martial artist attain the weird, mystical powers of Oro through his hermit life journey when you can just have a character like Jedah show up and pull people into other dimensions. Plus, I doubt Bison would want someone like Demitri walking around and messing with his plans. I wouldn't want Bison easily stomped by a guy who drank the series' equivalent of Galactus. It would leave a sour taste in my mouth.
 
Ryu is the series posterboy, he would have to go up against the baddies if they popped up, and I really don't want to see him get some DBZ level power creep where he learns new techniques to put him on par with the DS cast and then leave a gigantic gap between himself and the rest of the cast.
 
Aesthetics: I love the horror aspect and now, with the global audience more accepting of horror movies from different cultures, not just western or Japanese, you get a loooot more options to get more monsters as part of the roster of a future Darkstalkers. I want DS to lean more into that, get newer, more ambitious designs and plots. let's see a Grendel, a Pontianak, a Fey, etc.
 
With Street Fighter, as much as I love Bison, I'm excited that we're finally moving away from Shadaloo (for now), on to further approach SF3's Illuminati stuff and even possibly ending this arc. I want to see SF stop all the prequels etc and just have each numbered entry from here on actually  advance things. Even though I like the weird characters like G, Q, Necro, etc. I wand to return the series to a still fantastical, but more martial arts driven focus when we wrap up the Illuminati arc. Don't ditch the weird characters at all, I don't want Virtua Fighter, but the overarching feel shouldn't be a superhero show.  I'm not saying things have to be super realistic and just a tournament, but we've been in world ending plots for too long and I'd love to see some fun action movie stuff that's on a smaller or medium scale, some underground fight tourny stuff, a global contest that has a race for some form of treasure that unravels towards the end with your typical anime/manga fighting zeal. I don't want the SF cast suddenly trying to figure out how to handle fighting ghosts, or vice versa, the Darkstalkers focusing on martial artists or a syndicate.
 
From a gameplay stand point, I also want to see how creative we can get with things in the modern era. I liked how when I'd switch from alpha to DS2 it was such a different feel. I'm not the most technically informed player, but I loved the difference between the two games even if I couldn't tell you what's what. Having the elements that eventually led to some of the VS games approach was nice. Seeing the curse debuffs, magic series combo system, ex moves, etc was great back then, who knows what mechanic could be pumped into a modern DS? We could get experimental and not try to closely mirror whatever current SF is out there are the time!
 
Hah, sorry for the essay, I just think that both series would get some dilution if they merged. Either you change up SF a ton, to smooth out the inclusion of DS, or you change up DS, tone down some of the crazy to make it fit more in with SF.

That Faust move is so well animated, those are definite goals. Also glad we'll be able to have a montage of faces from his moves again lol

Yu Yu was a great show, I should go back and watch it, it's been quite a while since I last saw it.  The issue with that barrier idea is it would need a major reworking to make the "normal" world fit with Street Fighter's normal world.  Street Fighter is one of those martial arts = having super powers universes, but it's still, I guess grounded. So far, Necalli's one of the weirder things there. Sure Bison's gotten weirder over the years, but there's still a ceiling in place, that's one of the reasons why Ingrid ruffled feathers with her timetravel etc.
 
With Darkstalkers, not all the supernatural stuff comes from Makai.  Felicia isn't a rarity. Cat Women, according to Saiki's plot guide , are common enough that previously, there's been discussions on their human rights and even prejudice kept popping up around the time Felicia became a star.  It's never stated how they came to be, but sometimes human women give birth and then around 3 years or so their daughters start growing fur and tails etc. Also characters like  Sasquatch (Snowmen naturally reside in Canada) & Rikuo (the Kingdom of Mermen resided in the Amazon til Pyron's arrival destroyed the kingdom) are humanoids with no connection to Makai.  Zabel/ Raptor was human, but super into the occult and serves a dark master, but I don't think he's from Makai. Morrigan was adopted into Belial's house and brought into Makai, but she was born in Scotland, there's not info about her birth parents or life pre-adoption, but yeah, I initially thought she was born in that real, but she's another character that originates in this realm. Also Anakaris is human but came back from the dead, I think it's stated that he could use magic before he died. I have to reread, when he was alive he could see the future, dude was impressive in life and death.
 
The thing is that in Darkstalkers, they're not rare monsters crawling around that are the stuff of myths, their existence is widely known of, though as far as I know, humans no nothing of the Makai dimension, just the monsters from there that occasionally pop through dimensional rifts and the terrestrial monsters and such that pop up all the time. People who are super rich frequently hire DarkHunters to kill and or capture them so they can be used for weird, rare medical stuff, potions, or just collections.
 
All of this is moot though it Capcom wants to retcon everything. I just hope they don't. Like I said, I love both franchises and want them to flourish, but here's my issue.  If you merge the universes you run into a couple problems:
 
SF is all about how martial arts makes you stronger and increases who you are. Even with Bison's tech, he's still based on martial arts at his core and used science to enhance his powers. With his failing in SF5, Ryu showed that his hardwork and sacrifice triumphed over all of Bison's help. Heck, he was nearly invincible due to the constant stream of negativity being pumped into him until Rashid shut things off. If he had shut it off earlier, Charlie's first win against Bison in the finale would have prevented the need for him to kill himself. So Bison's reliance on tech and treachery was trumped by the purity of Ryu's fight and train and overcome his limits (SNH) methods.
 
If you get Darkstalkers who are just super OP by default  into SF, it shakes things up thematically. Also it gets less impressive to see a martial artist attain the weird, mystical powers of Oro through his hermit life journey when you can just have a character like Jedah show up and pull people into other dimensions. Plus, I doubt Bison would want someone like Demitri walking around and messing with his plans. I wouldn't want Bison easily stomped by a guy who drank the series' equivalent of Galactus. It would leave a sour taste in my mouth.
 
Ryu is the series posterboy, he would have to go up against the baddies if they popped up, and I really don't want to see him get some DBZ level power creep where he learns new techniques to put him on par with the DS cast and then leave a gigantic gap between himself and the rest of the cast.
 
Aesthetics: I love the horror aspect and now, with the global audience more accepting of horror movies from different cultures, not just western or Japanese, you get a loooot more options to get more monsters as part of the roster of a future Darkstalkers. I want DS to lean more into that, get newer, more ambitious designs and plots. let's see a Grendel, a Pontianak, a Fey, etc.
 
With Street Fighter, as much as I love Bison, I'm excited that we're finally moving away from Shadaloo (for now), on to further approach SF3's Illuminati stuff and even possibly ending this arc. I want to see SF stop all the prequels etc and just have each numbered entry from here on actually  advance things. Even though I like the weird characters like G, Q, Necro, etc. I wand to return the series to a still fantastical, but more martial arts driven focus when we wrap up the Illuminati arc. Don't ditch the weird characters at all, I don't want Virtua Fighter, but the overarching feel shouldn't be a superhero show.  I'm not saying things have to be super realistic and just a tournament, but we've been in world ending plots for too long and I'd love to see some fun action movie stuff that's on a smaller or medium scale, some underground fight tourny stuff, a global contest that has a race for some form of treasure that unravels towards the end with your typical anime/manga fighting zeal. I don't want the SF cast suddenly trying to figure out how to handle fighting ghosts, or vice versa, the Darkstalkers focusing on martial artists or a syndicate.
 
From a gameplay stand point, I also want to see how creative we can get with things in the modern era. I liked how when I'd switch from alpha to DS2 it was such a different feel. I'm not the most technically informed player, but I loved the difference between the two games even if I couldn't tell you what's what. Having the elements that eventually led to some of the VS games approach was nice. Seeing the curse debuffs, magic series combo system, ex moves, etc was great back then, who knows what mechanic could be pumped into a modern DS? We could get experimental and not try to closely mirror whatever current SF is out there are the time!
 
Hah, sorry for the essay, I just think that both series would get some dilution if they merged. Either you change up SF a ton, to smooth out the inclusion of DS, or you change up DS, tone down some of the crazy to make it fit more in with SF.

That Faust move is so well animated, those are definite goals. Also glad we'll be able to have a montage of faces from his moves again lol

With this, that’s all the beta characters out of the way. Millia’s animations will be next if they continue this.
 

I like how she turns into a Junji Ito panel

I think Daigo will be part of the stage KO.
Maybe the river side has the loser go in the water; the slope side has the loser stumble into Daigo, who may be very annoyed that you tried to fight his sister. "How dare you lay a hand on my sis?" *megaton punch to the sky*
If the loser is Akira, maybe Daigo can humorously scold her for getting into the fight.
 
 
The original stage was named 大和川堤防 Yamatogawa teibō, "Yamato river levee". It's the only real-life reference in Project Justice, and indeed the Yamato flows between Nara and Ōsaka's prefectures, not far from Capcom's HQ.

I paid $500 for mine like an intelligent person. Only thing worse than the scalpers charging ludicrous amounts for PS5's are people buying from them so they'll keep doing it in the future.

Faust fucking dies 
 
 

Street fighter, Final Fight, Slam Masters, and Rival schools are all the same universe (though they're weirdly trying to shove Strider in there as well now). Captain Commando takes place in Metro City, but in some cases it's referred to as being fictional, Darkstalkers, unless they retcon it heavily is not in the same universe, don't let the Udon comics fool you, heh. The world structure is totally different with people commonly aware of all these monsters running around with insane hunting guilds going after them, but showing such a lack of humanity, some people consider them worse than the Darkstalkers. Also most of the DS characters are ridiculously OP, Demitri can't be killed by sunlight due to that field you always see him surrounded in (it's said to withstand like 1 million degrees or something), plus Pyron is basically Galactus (cosmic power, made the Hutzil robots literally kill the dinosaurs to let the planet forcibly evolve and get richer before he'd consume it)...and in canon after Night Warriors Revenge, Demitri drank him dry. So no Hadoukens gonna make a dent in most of the cast.
 
Though you could potentially have the DS & DMC universes be canon with possibly minimal tweaking, but I dunno.

The hackers took 1TB of data from Capcom.

Is what i hope and expect them to do to replace the MvC series.
Disney/Marvel are a pain to deal with not only for Capcom but for the community.
The whole reason why umvc3 was announced 3 months after mvc3 release and released 5 months later was because the license window where they could kept the game was that small, which lead to the game being abandoned after that, without even qol patches.
 
I even predicted that IF capcom ever released a mvc game after umvc3, we would see way less of the fan favorites in favor of pushing more mcu chars, plus probably it would suffer in its quality due how capcom was less willing to spend money after mvce and umvc3 underperforming to their expectations, since each game after sf4 has sold less and has moved units more slowly than the previous game in an increasing way.
 
Havving a game that is full of their own will allow them to not only support it and monetize it as they want to, but also bring light to their dormant and more obscure franchises.
They are disney levels of drowning on ips to use, that have the potential to mirror and surpas the FUNCTIONS of the mvc cast.