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Yooo....
 
What if they give Blanka a Garuda outfit?
 
 

New EX costume.
 

GG's homies. Gotta get off. It was great finally playing with everyone. We gotta do this more often. Thanks to Darc for the inv. I was seconds from hopping off before I saw the notification. I hurried with the quickness. Good shyt yall.

The funny thing is that replacing SRK wouldnt be hard. The bigged thing SRK has for it is the large legacy repository of niche information.
But you could get a team of people to write a wiki from the ground up, with all of the info in character subforums and replace it in two/three years time.
I wanna say tech talk had the most amount of unique information stored in it. So as long as you download that subsection and make a wiki, a lot of the forum is basically there for historical info.
 
I mean, fuck, SRK front page got beat up by eventhubs. 
 

I predict SRK1 will be shut down by Xmas.

Like $27 deal for a year of PS+?
 
https://kinjadeals.theinventory.com/amazon-has-12-months-of-playstation-plus-and-playstatio-1842747039?ks=nativestream
 
 

The women in Strive are so goddam thicc(c).
 
Please note this is the exact opposite of a complaint.

Full art of Giovanna
 

Can't we just all agree that Strive will be GG as long as this still applies.
 
 

I play a lot of different games.  I have sunk many many hours into Xrd, Blazblue, and Tekken.  I also play a ton of KOF.
 
If SF suddenly had air-dashes I wouldn't mind at all.  I'm not obsessed with all the games I play having some kind of conceptual 'purity' like some people seem to. 
 
SF3 had an almost completely different cast of characters from any SF that came before it.  Parries change the way you play the game so radically that it has almost nothing in common with any other SF game, because core SF mechanics like fireballs don't even matter.  Despite this some people think 3S is the best SF ever created. 
 
...but when New Generation first came out everyone hated on it because it wasn't similar enough to what they once knew.  "Who are all these weird characters?  Where's Chun-Li?  This isn't Street Fighter!" they would say.  James Chen still thinks it's not Street Fighter because of parries -- and who is taking him seriously when he says that?  
 
We would never have gotten to the beauty of Third Strike if all the hardcore 'fans' had had their way.
 
I don't know how you think the characters don't look similar enough for you.  Eddy looks 100% like Eddy.  Nobody is gonna be confused about which characters are Sol or Ky.  May is unmistakably May.  Adding muscle mass and changing up costumes doesn't suddenly make those characters unrecognizable. Chip's outfit has barely changed from original Guilty Gear all the way to Strive.  Adding a rope to his belt and making him buff doesn't suddenly make him nothing like before.  Xrd Milia has an outfit completely different from older Milia and I don't think anybody was confused about who that character was when the game came out.
 
The real problem isn't that Strive has changed too much.  The problem for some people is that they have invested tons of time and have enjoyed one specific set of games for years, and don't like it when the new thing isn't the same.  It feels like the game they love is being taken away.  There are old GG players out there right now bitching about Xrd and I don't think anybody is taking them seriously anymore.  Strive as you say may be quite good, and nobody will care about how different it is from Xrd.  Then one day when Strive gets replaced the Strive players will claim that the new game isn't GG either, because to them GG is a game like Strive.  It's just a cycle of complaining tied to peoples' dislike of change /their nostalgia.
 
There is no hard and fast rule of what GG is.  To some people it's just an anime game with a hard rock soundtrack.  For others it's all about the chain canceling normals and Roman cancels.  Some people care more about the technical aspects of the gameplay and some care more about the aesthetics.  GG is a lot of different things to different people, and Strive is closer to the mark for some than others.  Hell, Isuka is a 4 player game that forces you to push a button just to turn around -- and that's still a Guilty Gear game, isn't it?
 
I have spent many hours playing Xrd.  I played it in arcades in Japan and love the game a lot.  I own it on three different platforms and bought it on launch.  Before that as a kid I spent a lot of time dicking around in PC versions of XX.  I have zero problems with Strive and think it's a really cool-looking GG game.  I can't wait to play it. Are my opinions and time spent playing GG wrong?  Is Strive for me because I don't like GG?  No, I like GG a whole fucking lot, and from where I'm standing Strive is another GG game, just with new/different mechanics.
 
Am I somehow not a GG fan?  Or is my fan opinion somehow inferior to yours?  Trying to gatekeep who Strive is 'for' based on some silly idea of who is/isn't a GG fan is pretentious as hell.
 
You're standing over there saying THIS ISN'T GG and I'm standing here saying it is.  You can see how this is a futile point to try to make because it's just peoples' opinions, and those differ wildly, even among 'fans'. 
 
If the game is good then who cares if it has GG in the title or not?   You worry that Strive will kill the franchise but if it's a good game then it'll HELP the franchise, regardless of how similar it is to old titles or not.  You're not afraid the franchise will die.  You're just afraid the specific type of gameplay YOU LIKE will die.  Guilty Gear itself will probably do just fine. 
 
Strive's graphics ALONE will probably pull in more casual player $$$ than any similarity to older games ever will.
 

Damn more brown people in GG. Thanks Arcsys :)

Stream is finally over. Here are the two trailers they've shown.
 
 
 

Strive release date as of now is April 6th & 9th
 

 
lol. Made it to Level 2 just from posting about this stream.

I love how the SFV thread is for discussing everything except SFV.
 
 
 
 
Get rekt.
 
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Alright guys, when I said I found gold, I meant because of what I found that my sister sort of overlooked. She put a bunch of my mom's cooking stuff on the kitchen floor. I assume this was just clearing out cabinets and stuff to make room for my dad to take over the apartment. So I'm browsing along and lo and behold, my mom's old mortar. She had two of them: a newer one and then the one I grew watching her use. Had to do a double take because it'd been years since I saw it. Soon as I saw it, a giant smile came across my face and it made the whole ordeal of going over absolutely worth it.
 
So now I own my grandmother's mortar and the one my mom used on her daily cooking for decades:
 

 
I know my posts have been sort of sadsackish lately. But those two mortars represent decades worth of food with them. Just looking at that picture has me a bit emotional (in the good kind of way).  That's a lot of garlic mortared, sofrito made etc. It may have zero monetary value to anybody, but it may well be the most valuable two things in my kitchen.

So if we posted
You be cool with that
 
I like stryper
 

Goddamn, I love this place.

On the next episode of Street Fighter V, Season V is here. With new buffs in hand, the poster boy Ryu and his muay thai rival Sagat battle for supremacy. Who will win this epic battle?  And most importantly, who will walk away with the coveted Cornflakes. Find out on the next episode of SFV.

When I came here in 2018 to lurk, I definitely did not see this place getting big. Especially since it was called SRK2 at the time. 
 
2 years later, I’m glad I was wrong and it’s my new home. 

I was trying to figure who broke the site, thought it may have been Preppy but MisterBee hit me with the Vince McMahon...
 
 

thumbs up soldier. I appreciate all your hard work to help this place feel new and exciting but also very familiar.