Fighting Games

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Beerus' official Dragon Ball FighterZ gameplay trailer was released.

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Gotenks has been released for Hyper Dragon Ball Z.

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I'm just going to leave this here

http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/c...t_11553896



Bakfromon: You know what, this arcade ending reminds me of something. You know in SFIITAM where Ryu kicks the crap outta Fei Long in the beginning, breaks his arm and shit, and is still able to have a coherent conversation with him about important matters like Shadaloo, Sagat, and Bison like nothing ever happened, even though Fei is in a sling from a broken arm received by Ryu.

It's like the characteristics we know of SF's are held to the fight itself. Win Quotes, endings, basically everything.

I read something somewhere by an (alleged) SF fan that basically stated: "SF fans see SF characters as real people."

And honestly, that's kind of the point. They all (mostly all) have Bdays, countries of origins, blood types, they are all basically their own person and character, and in essence, represent something more than themselves. Though they might fight from time to time, once characters are out of a fight, they're basically just normal people. They talk, they listen, they're even willing to maybe take a selfie or 2, but they're still just normal people at the end of any fight (well, maybe except Bison, but still).

The FGC is basically like this, and in between the fighting, they came together to address their concerns to keep something they felt was crucial and important, like SRK forums, being alive by any means necessary. That is a great and powerful thing. Especially when SRK was essentially the hub for the online FGC before they were even known as the "FGC" to begin with.

You know this forum has history when it is featured in the 1st few paragraphs of a Wikipedia article about the FGC

And honestly, that's what I like sharing with you guys, ultimately is, history.

History of the SF story itself in all shapes and form.

I'm like the acting SF story curator, and so, I'd like to share with all of you my SF Media Museum *(thus far).

SSF Plot Guide II


Nakahira's Collection


SFAFHA++

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It is because of this exact same reason that I always had a preference for Street Fighter (+ most of SNK fighters while we are at it) over other games in the genre. These characters have some humanity in them, they have lives outside of the ring. Even back in the SF2 days they made ilustrations were you can see things such as Blanka re-integrating into society, Guile smoking and the Dictador chilling with a beautiful lady while a meidc checks his health. 

It's small things like this that make them more fleshed out and enjoyable.

PS Oh yeah, the reason while I removed the link from the Nakahira and "SFAFHA (Street Fighter Assasin's Fist IDK what the other letter means)" is because I wans't sure if that counts as illegal content or not, so I removed the links.

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Karin's crossover costume is based on Ingrid from Capcom Fighting Evolution. The Costume will be available for purchase tomorrow

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Capcom released a Street Fighter character popularity poll.

The results of the poll are in!

Top 10

1. Sakura
2. Makoto
3. Juri
4. Q
5. Cody
6. Chun-Li
7. Sagat
8. Akuma (Gouki)
9. Ryu
10. Blanka

Noteworthy extras

11. Cammy

15. Ken
16. Skullomania
17. Dan
18. Karin
19. Guy
20. C. Viper


26. Zangief
27. Guile
28. Vega (Claw)
29. Alex
30. Gen

31. Ibuki
32. M. Bison (Dictador)

52. Urien

57. Nash

71. Balrog (Boxer)

74. Kolin
75. Gill


87. Birdie

You can tell more people voted for characters they want in future seasons rather than their all-time favorites.

[Psychospacecow]

Lets go Q!

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So what do you guys think of Sakura's cahracter story in SFV? Personally, I really enjoyed the character development they gave her. The scene when Sakura says that she doesn't have money to travel the world really hit a soft spot with me because it felt real.

This is how it should be. Great work Capcom.

Oh yeah. While we are still on the subject of Sakura I'm just going to leave this here

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Artificial Human 21 Confirmed Playable in Dragon Ball FighterZ

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So we pretty much know the basic layout for the story of each SF game, right?

• Street Fighter 1=Ryu's global journey which ends with the tournament hosted by Sagat.
  
• Street Fighter Alpha=Ryu learning about the SnH, Nash fighting against Shadaloo, Bison recruiting, etc.
  
• Street Fighter 2=World Warrior tournament hosted by Bison.
  
• Street Fighter 4=S.I.N. Tournament hosted by Seth.
  
• Street Fighter V=Prologue stories + A Shadow Falls.
  
• Street Fighter 3=World Tournament hosted by Gill. Third Strike's story is similar to Alpha, with everyone doing their own thing.
  

So knowing this, we can predict who are going to be the final bosses of each arcade run in SFV AE.

For SF1, it seems that not everyone will be fighting Sagat . I think everyone will fight Ryu, except Ryu himself who will fight Sagat.

Much like in the actual Alpha 1 and Alpha 2 games, everyone will have a fight with their own rival. Same will happen with SF3s arcade run.

As for SFIV, Juri will likely be the final boss in order to replace Seth. Either that or they will pull up an Alpha if you know what I mean.

As for SFV, well, this is more akin to wishful thinking, but basically it will give us some epilogues that take place after the events of ASF.

Now that the game is available let's see how many of my theories were correct and how many were not.

• SF1: My theory was correct for the most part. Everyone will fight Ryu, with the exception of Ryu himself who will fight Ken rather than Sagat. Maybe this is gonna change once Sagat is added to the roster, but I could be wrong.
  
• Alpha: My theory was correct. 'Nuff said.
  
• SFIV: Everyone will fight their own rival. I heard there is a secret bosses but I cannot verify said information at the moment.
  
• SF3: Urien is the final boss on normal. Urien himself fights Alex.
  
• SFV: M.Bison is the final boss.
  

As for the endings, they are recreations of the past with certain exceptions such as the new characters who have brand-new endings. Substantially they are what-if scenenarios until they are canonized by their sequel as per Arcade Endings tradition. Capcom had a great opportunity to do something different by having the Arcade Endings show some sort of cohesive storyline but that didn't end up happening. Even back in the SF4 days every character prologue and ending - with the exception of Evil Ryu and Oni - actually happened, so why stop the process out of all the sudden? The fact that said events from SF4 were badly told and that you needed to be a wizard in order to connect all the dots is a different subject.

Some of them are obviously more likely to become canon than others in the full context of everything we know, and some are either partially canon (like Ken getting married but not defeating the Dictador himself, and likewise Chun-Li thinking Bison was dead and giving the single girl lifestyle a shot) or - like Akuma's SF2 ending - remain completely non-canonical. 

My favorite has to be Urien's SFV, Spoiler:mostly because we're actually being told something about Gill and Urien's past and Urien is depicted as something more than an half-insane powerhungry egomaniac who envies his brother. That's something new.

There's also this

Now this? This I like. Hopefully this becomes Rose's new costume once she returns to the series as a playable character.

[Psychospacecow]

Yo, if anyone is planning on getting FighterZ on PC then here ya go.

https://www.gamebillet.com/dragon-ball-fighterz
"DBFighterz" as promo code for additional 5% off

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Artificial Human 21' official Dragon Ball FighterZ gameplay trailer was released

More gameplay of this character:

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A new teaser trailer for 'Fighting EX Layer' was released to the public.

Looks like Cracker Jack.

[Psychospacecow]

Don't go on youtube if you want to experience FighterZ's story unspoiled. Pricks putting stuff in their thumbnails and descriptions.

[RepentantSky]

Good thing the only person I'm subbed to who's playing it is Max so all he's doing is character analysis. No spoilers there.

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Monster Hunter costumes for Ken, R.Mika and Ibuki announced for SFV: Arcade Edition

Nightmare, Kilik, Xianghua, and Groh join Soul Calibur 6.


KOF XI' Oswald is the latest addition to the King Of Fighters XIV roster.