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Today CFN profile is Final Fight 2's Atlas. The translation was provided by Miðgarðsorm of the SRK forums.
[spoiler=Atlas (Final Fight 2)]
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132004
http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/c...t_11447748

Private Nakawaga: His trained body is his weapon.
The whole town fears him for his violent attitude.
He drinks right from the morning
and is a troublesome fellow, who immediately comes to hug you¹.

Basic Info:

Name: Atlas
Height: 201cm
Weight: 120kg
Blood Type: 0
Birthday: June, 22
Country of Origin: USA
Favorite things: Hot Women, Alcohol
Dislikes: Work

Private Nakawaga:
He played American football at the university
and was a promising player.
Also had interest in combat sports
and began to train in wrestling and sambo.
Unfortunately, due to a car accident
his professional sports carrer came to a halt.
Nowadays, he indulges in alcohol and violence.

¹ In FF2 Atlas did a very annoying Bear Hug.
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I got bored waiting for the actual game to arrive since the store I ordered it from had not gotten the game in the store yet, so I made this.

So I recently found out that a Street Fighter fan film is on the making. Looks good so far.

Today CFN profiles are Jony, Schot and Elijah from Final Fight 2. The translation was provided by Miðgarðsorm of the SRK forums.
[spoiler=Jony (Final Fight 2)]
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132005
http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/c...t_11450126

Private Nakawaga: A big guy who's quick to take offence and lose his cool.
Wow, scary!
Haste makes waste¹!


Basic Info:

Name: Jony
Height: 204cm
Weight: 128kg
Blood Type: Unknown
Birthday: April, 19
Country of Origin: USA
Favorite things: Tomato Juice
Dislikes: Dark Places


Private Nakawaga:
He played American football at the university
and was a promising player.
Also had interest in combat sports
and began to train in wrestling and sambo.
Unfortunately, due to a car accident
his professional sports carrer came to a halt.
Nowadays, he indulges in alcohol and violence.

He goes along well with the town brute Atlas.
He even wears the same accessories.
He has a powerful palm strike²
and a characteristically threatening voice
that he loudly uses to intimidate his opponents.


¹ The Japanese expression 短気は損気 tanki wa sonki "Short temper is an inconvenience" is commonly translated this way. While not completely identical to the English one, it's sufficiently assimilable. After all, when you have a short temper, you do hasty actions.
² 張り手 harite, the same basic sumō palm strike that Honda does as well as his LP or MP.
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[spoiler= Schot (Final Fight 2)]
https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132006
http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/c...t_11450126

Private Nakawaga: A man with a fired-up hairstyle.
It's incredibly mook-like!
One of those who go "yahoo!", you know.¹
...Oh, is he angry?

Basic Info:

Name: Schot
Height: 182cm
Weight: 79kg
Blood Type: AB
Birthday: August, 10
Country of Origin: UK
Favorite things: Early Punk
Dislikes: Difficult Things

Private Nakawaga:
When he was young in his home country, he played in a punk band.
The members went along well, and the band's name was "Big B & Bullheads"².

Nowadays he has a job at a record shop specialized in punk.
Also earn some pocket money working as an underling for a certain organisation.
He often causes trouble because of his attitude prone to brawls.


¹ An evident reference to Fist of the North Star's standard mooks, perpetually grinning and screaming excitedly, and often sporting the same punk hairstyle.
² Apart from the obvious Beavis and Butt-Head pun, yes, Birdie was probably their front man...
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[spoiler=Elijah (Final Fight 2)]
http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132007
http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/c...t_11450503

Private Nakawaga: A man who serves as smuggler for a criminal organisation.
Reports indicate that he's tied to numerous organisations.
It seems he's able to be trusted
because he's not only tight-lipped, but also has a human side.

Basic Info:

Name: Elijah
Height: 179cm
Weight: 82kg
Blood Type: B
Birthday: October, 20
Country of Origin: USA
Favorite things: His Mom, His Bass
Dislikes: Raw Fish

Private Nakawaga:
His silky hair were his trademark,
but his favourite hair conditioner went off production
and he's worrying because his hair is becoming a little dry.
Triggered by a superhero movie he's recently seen,
he began dressing smartly and wearing a goatee and moustache.¹

He lives in the downtown with his mother.
The two constantly quarrel, but that's proof they're close.


¹ Evidently influenced by Iron Man.
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Here's the trailer for Kimi wa Hero x KOF collaboration:

Well, Capcom revealed the Arcade edition of SFV today:

From the video description: "From the beginning, we promised that you’ll only need to purchase the original Street Fighter V, which we’re sticking to. All the new gameplay-related content – Arcade Mode, Extra Battle Mode, a second V-Trigger, the Gallery, and more – will be available as part of a free in-game update for current players!"

So there you have it. Technically Capcom didn't break it's promise.

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(10-05-2017, 11:53 AM)ZpaceJ0ck0 Wrote: [ -> ]Well, Capcom revealed the Arcade edition of SFV today:

From the video description: "From the beginning, we promised that you’ll only need to purchase the original Street Fighter V, which we’re sticking to. All the new gameplay-related content – Arcade Mode, Extra Battle Mode, a second V-Trigger, the Gallery, and more – will be available as part of a free in-game update for current players!"

So there you have it. Technically Capcom didn't break it's promise.

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I'm sorry but that technicality is so freaking minor it doesn't count. You don't release a second version of a game in January, one of the most successful months of any given year, without the intent to profit. They broke their promise, flat out.

(10-05-2017, 12:35 PM)RepentantSky Wrote: [ -> ]I'm sorry but that technicality is so freaking minor it doesn't count. You don't release a second version of a game in January, one of the most successful months of any given year, without the intent to profit. They broke their promise, flat out.

I disagree. When Capcom said there wouldn't be any new editions they meant in the terms of new games you had to buy. To be more specific, Capcom said (and I quote) that you will "only have to buy one disc" in order to keep playing the game.

Back then, every time a company released a new edition of a game you had to buy a whole new game every time. For example, back then you HAD to buy Super Street Fighter II Turbo even if you owned the champion Edition or the vanilla version. This is not the case here.

The only people that will have to pay for SFVAE are people who haven't bought the game yet. People who already own the vanilla version will recieve the Arcade Edition as a FREE update. They have reiterated many times that (and again, I quote) "you will only have to buy one disc" . The physical version of AE isn't even full price (60$) anyway, it's just 39.99$.

I mean, come on. Back when Lab Zero Games did something similar with Skullgirls by releasing Skullgirls: Encore everyone was praising them for that. Why it is different when it comes to Capcom and SF?

Anyway, so Yoshinori Ono released a statement regarding this update.

That video pisses me off. He starts off with "Oh thanks for dealing with our BS incomplete game we wanted you to pay full price for" and then starts patting himself and Capcom on the back for the free stuff they put into the game that should have come with the release of it from the start. By the way, to make things clear here, I have SFV already, so this in no way effects my wallet or anything, but it still comes off to me as a broken promise and with that video throws just enough ego boosting into it all that it really pisses me off. I'm also not accepting or debating any defense of their actions either because I see this as nothing but a promise broken and an opportunity to break it further when people support it. Yoshinori and the rest of the people who worked on or are still working on the game a pack of liars, plain and simple. If you defend them I will simply ignore you, because I cannot agree in any sense that you have a good argument. If they weren't making a new edition of the game, they would never even think to charge for this new content in any regard and instead release it for free without that release date and 40 dollar price tag for anyone who doesn't already have the game.

Yeah... I think the best we can do in a situation like this is to agree to disagree.

Here's the thing about SFV. For starters, it's typical business to sell the newest edition of a game when it releases right? Street Fighter has done it in the past, Destiny did it, Fallout did it, even PS3 versions of the Uncharted games became less popular on the market after Uncharted: Drake's Collection was released, and PS3 was still at the tail end of getting major titles released at the time on it despite current generation having been out for a while. It's just common practice no? And that will be the excuse for a lot of people when the Arcade Edition releases in 2018, but here's the thing, that arcade Edition will sell for a lot more than the game is currently selling for new. I checked GameStop, Amazon, Ebay even just google shopping which often shows overpriced versions of things the most expensive place was the google shopping tab, but even then it sold for a mere $22.51 US, and that was the best match result. Going down just four spots, a version of the game is priced at $8. When I looked at Amazon, it was selling for $19.91 on average, Ebay was selling it for $16.50 and GameStop was selling it for $19.99 but GameStop was particularly interesting because, unlike all the other places I looked, it wasn't listed on GameStop's options to click right away as you type in your search results. GameStop has a total of 5 options to pick from when typing in a search, Street Fighter II, Pop! Games - Akuma -Only at GameStop, Funko Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Box -Only At GameStop, Super Street Fighter 2 and Pint Size Heroes: Street Fighter - Only At GameStop. So with two versions of Street Fighter, which clicking either will lead to all the versions of the game that GameStop sells, and three different things that are just figures, as far as GameStop is concerned, SFV is old news, as it should be, because it's getting closer to two years old. However, when the new version comes out, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Arcade Edition will be in that top 5 search for a while, namely because it will be the most expensive thing related to Street Fighter that will end up in their top 5 results. Now of course you could buy it on Steam, but they've made the choice to sell it at $29.99 so almost no one is going to do that. I tell you all of this to make the point that Street Fighter V is already a successful title. On PS4 it's sold 1.03 million copies, and on Steam, it's sold at least 336,815 units. While that's considerably down from Street Fighter IV, that's to be expected. For starters, it's only sold on one console, and sure it's the one that sold the most copies for the game at around 4.18 million, the 2.94 million units on the 360 isn't anything to turn your nose at either. Now while it's true that this new version of SFV doesn't have any stages or characters as incentive to buy the game, but if they can sell enough versions of the new game, it gives them reason to make another version down the line after this upcoming version becomes to cheap or doesn't show up in results, or even perhaps a 9th generation version when those consoles come out. If there's one thing I've learned about gaming over the years, it's that if you let a shady practice go and it succeeds, it will be repeated, and here's it's easy to do that, because all they have to do is apologize for lying, and most people end up buying another version of the game down the line. It's a typical rinse and repeat formula. If we give them this, and allow them to resell the game at about twice the price that it's currently selling for, it will happen over and over because it makes them money, and damn it all to their promises, their word will mean nothing in the face of making more cash.

I'm just bringing this up for all to see where I'm coming from.

IIRC the thing with Lab Zero was more to do with legal reasons and its departure from Sony.

For those out there who want to know what the characters in Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus + are saying:

Sonic The Hedgehog was revealed as a guest character for Super Smash Bros Brawl 10 years ago.

Easily one of the best guest characters of any Fighter. He just fits perfectly into Smash.

Guy's master Zeku is the latest addition to the Street Fighter V roster.

Those transformation bits were interesting. Does he simply disguises himself as a young man or somehow he actually turns younger for a brief moment? Whatever the answer is, one thing is certain: Capcom will use this in order to confuse the living hell out of Ibuki's hormones.

Oh yeah, and I hope the win quotes other characters have against him aren't just: "Did you just turn yourself younger? HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!1?1! :OOO".