The second Akuma was created, Ken became irrelevant.
>>120245813s akuma is underrated in akuma lore discussion
>>12024581
Ken is cooler though.
He made the entire roster obsolete considering he was flat out better than everyone else.
Akuma is lame, dark hadou is pussy compared to psycho power and he doesn't kill anybody despite that being the whole reason he's so "scary" that he fights to the death OH WOWWEEE just like every other character who isn't a hero
>>12024581Ken is cooler than faggot Ryu and faggot Akuma. I also say Dan is cooler than those 2 as well.
>>12024581Certainly can't tell by number of fans/players. Storywise they are divergent paths representing opposite ends with one being a well adjusted member of society wondering if he's wasting his talent and the other being a murder hobo pushing his limits
>>12024581true
>>12024581Gouki*
>>12024836Dictator, settle down
>>12024581RYU became irrelevant, faggot. They even had to make a gouki-ized ryu called fucking "evil ryu">>12024836>>12025027KEKI always loved how psycho crusher's sfx from SF2 sounded like a plane getting off the ground though. the SF2 sfx were amazing, it really made psycho crusher sound like it would genuinely hurt to get hit by (like getting hit in the face by a fucking jet plane or a rocket)
>bison is called vega in japan>vega is called balrog>balrog is called bison I just learned this and I think it's fucking retarded
>>12025134>I just learned this good morning anon
>>12024581explain all the south americans who use ken then
>>12025134blame mike tyson
>>12024581noKen is the fire shoryuken guyAkuma the the air hadouken guythey serve different purposes
>>12025134>it's fucking retardedI know right? Imagine not giving the Spaniard a Spanish surname, the big hulking guy the name of a big hulking monster and the leftover guy the leftover name. It's fucking dumb.
ken is better
>>12025134>>12025496>Guy based on Mike Tyson whose special moves all are named after bovines is called Mike Bison>Narcissistic yodeling blonde bullfighter, just a bunch of random things a Japanese person would think of as European, is named after a LotR fallen angel who fights with steel claws>Man who fights by burning bright and flying is named after a starThe Japanese names were always better
>>12025386They literally only had to change one character's name, there's no conceivable reason to do a roulette. They could have just dropped the M. and called him Bison! Or Buffalo! Or Raging Bull!
>>12025746Except for Tyson, you just made that shit up.
No because Shinryuken is one of the sexiest supers ever
>>12025754>there's no conceivable reason to do a roulettehttps://web.archive.org/web/20250504071233/https://www.polygon.com/a/street-fighter-2-oral-history/chapter-2>Back then the developers were not so familiar with overseas projects, so whatever the U.S. people said the developers felt like they had to do; otherwise the game wouldn't be accepted overseas. And I kind of believed in that too. But after a few years we started to realize, "Hey, this is just their ego." ... They wanted to change everything they could [so they could say they played a role in the development]. Even the titles, right? Like Biohazard to Resident Evil. [After] we learned that, developers actually often refused to listen to their suggestions, or tried to get a second opinion from someone else. But back then on Street Fighter 2, whatever Americans said was the absolute truth we had to follow.>Tom Shiraiwa, Capcom Japan translatorThis also proves it was just ego, since there's literally 0 reason to rename Gouki to Akuma:>For the sequel Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Capcom's development team created a character named Gouki, who was known in the game's story for killing his trainer Gouken. "There was a lot of 'G' guys," says Scott Smith, who was tasked with coming up with a new name for the character in the U.S. Smith thought back to a radio show he heard a couple months prior, "a wacky news story" from Japan where people were trying to name their child after the devil but the government wouldn't let them. Smith looked up devil in Japanese and found the name Akuma, which stuck.
>>12025786We're good at naming stuff!
>>12024581Scrub on these nuts nigga
>>12024581I think all shotos become irrelevant,and I don't see why they didn't add him over Ryu and Ken in Smash.Granted I don't play Smash Bros.Also the Smash in which Ken and Ryu appear is not retro, so I better stop there.
>>12025754The character name labels are whole sprites, not fonts made of individual letters. Thus changing the names would require changing the graphics ROM, which is not feasible late in development. Just switching the existing name sprites around was easy to o in the localize program ROM.
>>12024589>What a wonderful phrase.
>>12025134How old are you kid?
>>12025767He just give you a description you actual analphabet.
>>12025818No you didn't, you just hated the japanese and we're envious
>>1202696326, in my defense I'm not big on fighting games
>>12024581Nah Ken is cooler because in 1993 I was blonde and white. I still am so he's still cooler than ryu
>>12024581Akuma is like… a black guy… isn’t he?
>>12027381Street Fighter is named after the Sonny Chiba movie, and Sonny Chiba looks and acts like Akuma.
>>12027396[citation needed]
>>12027381Yep, his real name is Jamal
>>12027381
>>12026745Ken got in for sake of reputation (of being the first known fighting game clone character) and, like any other clone in the series, free manhours. It's not that deep.The concept of Echo Fighter fucking suck in terms of execution. If they're so cheap to add, the DLC should have covered most the the essentials on the roster, like Mario, Bowser, Meta-Knight, and more, along with the new additions.Something tells me that the work culture is too batten down to produce several cookie cut characters.
>>12024581Ah yes Akuma. The number 1 character for obnoxious players with missing self esteem.
