ToreyBeans

Fighting games are hard.
 
 

Secretly tend to agree, but just want my compatriot Problem-X to win, and saw the opportunity to make a crap joke, and grabbed - even seized - it

No way to sugar coat this, but I want a Blanka player to win a tournament 

Yeah that pool was boring as shit and dumb to watch.
 

Apparently its the five year anniversary of this:
 

I know a lot of people have joked about how this should've been the boxart, but seriously. This should've been the boxart.

I like the ed trailer cause it gave me a reason to talk about anything SF cause there sure is a lack of SF6 content going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, the owl with a laurel wreath and N.S.  (Neo Shadaloo).
 

 
The owl and the laurel wreath are more positive symbols than Shadaloo.

As of now, Tekken 8 has the best cinematic story mode in the genre. After Jin hit that pose and that theme started playing i knew this was the only modern fighting game that cared about its story.

That Ed trailer has me incredibly hyped. Everything I could have wanted for him has been addressed. He looks better, moves seem more coherent, he's pure boxing, his stage is pure fire.
 
Man, what a step-up. This will definitely be pulling me deep into SF6.
 
Also I agree with everything @Darc_Requiemsaid about the Tekken story. I'm a big Tekken fan and it felt really good to play and the ending with the way they incorporated characters, story arcs, music and even MOVE LISTS going back years and years ago was just incredible. Genuine story-telling through move-set. How cool is that?

In Ed’s V debut blog, it’s noted he was “kidnapped at a young age” - https://news.capcomusa.com/lets/browse/the-young-commander-ed-joins-street-fighter-v

Fantastic news!

Slugger - Balrog

Outboxer - Dudley

Swarmer - Ed

Street Fighter officially  has three boxing styles.

Site updated:
https://www.streetfighter.com/6/character/ed
 

 
I mentioned this on twitter. Do we actually know if Ed was a clone or was a kidnapped kid that got aged up? Over the years I've forgotten.
 
 

I thought that was pretty interesting too and honestly I felt like they should implement more. I remember a rumor from SF6 story that mentioned that Ken had a limited moveset in his story mode due to his  experience in the story and that’s something I would have liked to see. Although due to the story structure of SF6 it wouldn’t have made much of a difference as you don’t play specifically as Ken.  I just thought that it was interesting to show how the story would affect the gameplay of a character and Tekken 8 did implement that respectfully. 

Yeah, I haven't watched the whole thing but Tekken 8 really did things awesomely as Darc said. No spoilers, but the fact that they had certain characters having story related affects on their movements was awesome. I remember back in the 90s when my sister and I played Soul Blade and in Edge Master mode there were certain matches with special conditions (player is poisoned, opponent can only be hurt in air, etc), I'd love to see more of that in story modes!

The Tekken 8 story was absurd, campy, over the top, and had the protagonist use the "power of friendship" to achieve victory. That said, it was very well executed. Namco deserved credit for how they told the story. They focused mainly on one character. They wove  an actual tournament into it that didn't seem forced. Namco even managed to come up with solid, in universe reason, for the goofy Avengers style clash of "armies" shown in the trailer. Heck, they even snuck a Tekken Force mode in. As someone that is not a Tekken fan by any means I have to give two thumbs to Namco for T8. Heck the netcode, provide you set to prioritize the connection, held up well in my limited experience as well.
 
Side note: The way the story was told should be a blueprint for how to handle a fighting game story with a big roster IMO.

I feel like Ed hate is so fucking forced. I understand that people didn't like the disconnect between how he looked in the story VS how he looked as a playable character. But I always thought Ed was cool and I think his over all game plan was fun to watch especially at the tournament level. So fuck it. I'm gonna use Ed. I'm playing the character just to piss people off. I'm now and AKI/Ed main. I don't care if he ends up being ass tier I'm gonna annoy you fuckers online!!!!!!!!!! 

The Japanese blog post contains a shot of Ed's classic inputs.
https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2024/02/09/20240209-sf6/

Bit nice things
 
Dude learned Mashiba's flicker jab

 
I think twice in two different situations (idle stance and Lv1 animation) he does the Ali shuffle lol

 
Beside using opponent as punching bag in Lv3, also the small psycho ball/elastic psycho rope shit he does in his win cutscene is essentially

Dude can make a boxing gym using ki 😆
 
Last the more i see him the more i think they may build him up to fight Luke (more precisely Ken vs JP and Luke vs Ed), they're crazy if they don't lol
 

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/02/08/ed-boxes-his-way-into-street-fighter-6-on-february-27/

Stage looks pretty cool.

God damn it is now $200 just to get into Evo as a spectator.  That is crazy.

No, Blanka makes my opponents not want to play the game.