>disgracefully turns Street Fighter into anime
>>12384397CPS1 chains were basically anime fighter combos before they existed.
>>12384397Bait needs to be believableLurk a year or two
>>12384397You could have at least used the first game in the series.
>>12384397Street Fighter II: The World Warrior was anime, it's just that it looks more like 1980s anime style.Street Fighter 1 is arguably anime/manga, with a 70s+80s style.
>>12384413>>12384435>>12384451>>12384454hate this characterfucking cringe
>>12384476would fuck
Street Fighter was always anime.
>>12384476this is why you're an uncool poppa
>>12384413Darkstalkers is the first anime fighter
>disgracefully turns Street Fighter into Mortal Kombat
>>12384580>the game of the movie of the gameIt blew my mind then and it blows my mind now
>>12384580>SF movie is considered a joke, gets a game >MK movie is loved, doesn't Universe is realtarded
>>12384589Super Mario World gets 10,000 rom hacks and not one of them is Super Mario Bros: The Movie: The Game.
>>12384580Fuck you. Raul Julia Bison is GOAT
>>12384397I do wonder what the reaction was in the 90's, the way more colorful and stylized art style>>12384451Or things like Ken having longer hair and keeping it in a ponytail Can't imagine some 90's kid wouldn't call that gay
>>12384662Surely there's gotta be one out there
>>12384580Except that was the Capcom remade version that was just Super Turbo without the Turbo and uglier photo sprites than Arcade SFtMhttps://youtu.be/4tn8gQxsScw?si=350VVotVgkYPbfne
>>12384702>I do wonder what the reaction was in the 90'sViscerally positive. People craved anime.
>>12384702>Can't imagine some 90's kid wouldn't call that gayPonytails on men in the 90s was considered alt and masculine.
>>12384725Not even alt really, just normal for white and Hispanic etc people basically anyone without nappy hair who listened to rock which used to be the default "guy music"
IIRC it was Funamizu who decided to carry over the cel-shaded look they had already been doing in Darkstalkers and Marvel. The MvC series would probably have never happened if SF had stayed with a different art style.
>>12384589Using digitized actors wouldn't have seemed novel since MK had been doing that all along and the experience with the SFIi movie game showed that legitimate actors aren't necessarily great for game mocap because they don't take it seriously or want to commit any real amount of time to it. Can you really imagine Christopher Lambert doing Raiden's flying torpedo in a harness and recording ADR gibberish to go with it? Dude didn't even do any fighting in the actual movie, he wasn't gonna spend weeks learning pantomime kung fu for a game
Capcom's late 90s character design is the best in gaming history imo. Though I think they held themselves back a bit for street fighter since it was the flagship franchise
>>12384725>>12384730Long hair just waving around maybe, and that's why the cartoon are that old strategy guide video tape gave him a surfer dude accent, but tying it in a knot/tying it in a bow is pushing it
>>12384476Alpha got you a big titted Italian woman and Guile's former army buddy, it could spare having a fun schoolgirl And I can only imagine what her upskirts did to a young mind
>>12384580I miss Raul Julia.>>12384589I actually think of both of them as jokes yet also enjoyable.
>>12384476Confirmed bachelor.
>>12384476Same.
>>12384476I always hated her too anon, and the demographic she brought in.
>>12384589MK didn't need to because it incorporated the changes from the movie that worked into future entries.
>>12384816>Can you really imagine Christopher Lambert doing Raiden's flying torpedo in a harness and recording ADR gibberish to go with it? Dude didn't even do any fighting in the actual movie, he wasn't gonna spend weeks learning pantomime kung fu for a gameChristopher Lambert, famous for never doing any choreography or fight scenes.
>>12386150Why? Because they beat your ass at fighting games?
>>12384397>Fake Ragebait bot threadsYou will never be a human! Seriously.
>>12386180Because they're creepy weirdos.
Alpha 2 was the last mainstream fighting game
>>12384816>>12386161>Dude didn't even do any fighting in the actual movieWell there was the shift of Raiden just being another competitor in the tournament who was a neutral or arguably villainous character in the first game, to being the non combative in lore guardian figure of the heroes
>>12384990>>12384476Who wasn't maining Sakura back then? and yes, both ways, we were kids and teens back then, nigga I was fucking 11 when this game came out, faitain anime gals were HOT, Mai, Sakura, Ellis, Power Stone Rouge, sweet.
>>12386192>You were born in the late 2000sMan you are so fucking cooked.
>>12384397Thought it look phenomenal, especially the colors and animations. Darkstalkers struck that same chord as well.
>>12386192>um, that's heckin' problematic, chud!I hope you get Dhalsim'd.
>>12386520No, they're just creepy smelly weirdos
>>12386220Mai is hot. Sakura isn't.
>>12386564mai is tryhard. sakura is pure
>>12386567creepy weirdo spotted
>>12386568go flirt with someone else
>>12386224Millennials talk like that too
>>12384492That's a disingenuous to pretend there wasn't an art style shift between 2 and Alpha, the Japanese probably wouldn't even deny it Alpha took influences from the literal anime movie at the time
>>12386195No one played Alpha 2. More people played Alpha 1 in the arcade than Alpha 2.
>>12386564If you wouldn't fuck both, you're actually gay.
Sakura looks too boyish for me
>>12386859You might be gay.
>>12384723That doesn't make it ok.
>>12386879what a cope
>>12384723>I do wonder what the reaction was in the 90's>Viscerally positive. People craved animeHistorical revisionism. Anime was considered weird in the 90s, and out you at the bottom of the nerd hierarchy
>>12384702>I do wonder what the reaction was in the 90's, the way more colorful and stylized art styleI remember most people loving it. Although supposedly, in one of the Gamest magazines, some people were complaining that Sakura felt too otaku-coded and felt out of place with the "grittier" feel SF had with 2. We gotta remember that in SF2 characters would puke after getting hit and whatnot compared to the cleaner look Alpha had, Super also made everyone look more badass with Blanka and Honda looking more menacing in the character select screen so it would make sense for part of the fanbase to prefer that type of look.Shame /vr/ was only decent for a few months and the people who actually discuss the content of those Japanese magazines rarely post nowadays.
>codedGo back
>>12386998SFII was plenty anime but at the same time not. It was mainly riding on the wave of martial arts popularity than anime by a longshot. It's not surprising to hear that people didn't like Sakura because SFII was macho martial arts while Sakura was a tomboy Sailor Moon, these days the fanbases are blurred between anime and fighters but not back then
>>12384476idk why, but at 5 years old I had a crush on her but I thought she was a boy but at the same time I knew she was wearing a skirt, but still thought it was a boy. The short hair is what made her cute to me
>>12386989Utter nonsense.
>>12387124I didn't like Sakura because she broke the immersion of all the fighters being lifelong dedicated martial artists who were the best of the best and trained in secret arcane knowledge. For Sakura to be able to throw a fireball trivializes the efforts of the other characters.
>>12387271No, I was a 90s kid into anime and I can tell you we were a minority. Anime was viewed as weirdo shit and it was, we were watching shit that was softcore or hardcore porn too young to see it .Reminder 2000s isn't the fuckin 90s, Pokemon was 1998 and DBZ didn't pick up until around the same time. Anime fandom before that was just little girls into Sailor Moon and the edgy OVA crowd
>pic rel
>>12387278Zoomers and westaboos are in denial. There's a legitimate reason Japanese box art was always changed
>>12387278>>12387310Both of you are faggots for watching anime, there is a reason you were bullied in the 90s for watching it.
>>12387348i could kick you ass
>>12387278You have no idea what you're talking about.
>>12387348>>12387348Yeah but idc because when I liked anime it was edgy and contrarian and shit like this not what it is now or "ironic" parodies of shit like this >>12387368Shut up Faggot larper/foreign
>>12387278I meant it was viscerally appealing to the kind of nerds who play video games. The people who were desperate for anything anime.
>>12384397Coming off the phenomenon of Street Fighter 2 of the day, I was very hyped for the movie and it delivered. Friend got the LD and we definitely rewatched it a lot. The fight against my main at the end paired with TK's music is so iconic to me: https://youtu.be/thoKXsqqn-MIt even was a big inspiration for the Alpha series that they'd even have a code to recreate that very moment of the movie with the song: https://youtu.be/Q3buZCuR1jIAlpha 2 even has that grassy field at the start of the movie for Ryu vs Sagat, just like the movie: https://youtu.be/GZtv8o_z0vE
>>12384397*comic book
>>12384702>longer hair >gayIn an era of grunge and mullets. Its was the opposite u stupid zoomer. Metallica was called gay for cutting their hair short.The alpha series character designs are based on the phenomenal Street Fighter 2 Animated movie.>Ken has longer hair>Bison having a shit-eating grin>Sagat being absolutely yolkedetc...
>>12387307Hehehehehehe
>>12388551Too bad most of us only got the US dub after 96 on VHS with the rock and ost, so this whole "dramatic battle" with the jpop music was lost on us.
>>12386803>It's okay to be subverted, assimilate,.>AAAAASSSSSSIMILATENo
>>12386824>I love revi$ö¥nism
>>12386989Calm your $ö¥filled mantits already! What do you think you are accomplishing by trying to rewrite history for everyone, Including people who were old enough and in the right age range yo be there at the time.
>>12386998>Oh noes, those creepy weeeeeevil OtakusJeez, even japanese corpos and writers were prejudicial jerks towards geeks in Japan, all because them being so damn stupidly gulllable for media narratives, case in point "the otaku killer".
>>12388397are you really old enough to post here? nerdblob culture didn't exist in the 90s, most gamers wanted nothing to do with anime or otaku.
>>12387307get cha dick slit
>>12388572That's the x-men and Marvel games, the first "anime" fighters>no that's darkstalkersyou mean the games whose animations were inspired by shit like tom & jerry?
>>12388872Again, utter nonsense. Lurk more.
>>12388919you're fooling nobody.
>>12388908Also Darkstalkers doesn't really have the combo system of an anime fighter.
>>12386824Clayton...
>>12386989Anime aesthetic in the mid-late 90 was considered fine if you pulled it off.
Unrelated to the topic, but Alpha 2 feels like it gets worse the more you understand the game.
I hate what the Alpha series did to Zangief.Wouldn't it be funny if Zangief was GAY and had the hots for Ryu? LOL!
>>12388857Even the Ken and Ryu fireballs combining to one at the end of the Alpha 2 intro resembles that last battle in the movie: https://youtu.be/8igseI4DtWQThey definitely took those flashback scenes of young Ryu and Ken as the inspiration for their looks in the Alpha series. The art team did take a lot of influence from comics of the day.
>>12390991fuck it, have a (You). Cammy is indeed the best SF girl, but Blue Mary would put her in a headlock and is the true queen of 2D fighting games.
>>12388923If you don't think people weren't thirsty for literally anything anime in the 90s you weren't a geek at the time.
>>12386202It's crazy how much that movie changed the MK lore. Rayden was some evil deity who destroyed the world in his ending and then by MK3 was exactly how he was in the movie. Also the forces of light vs the forces of darkness shit and Kano being Australian.
>>12384723I think the fact that it's the first entry with only CPS-2 assets also helped. People would have accepted many directions as long at it looked like a true graphical improment. The technology developments at the time allowed for mainstream action games to go for various aesthetics like shonen anime.
>>12391337SF Alpha also wasn't like completely generic anime. Bengus had a unique style, and the shift from the SFII style was softened by people already being familiar with the character designs anyway
>>12384992>I miss Raul JuliaWhy idgi
>>12391793He played M. Bison. The Street Fighter movie was his last role before dying of cancer.
>>123886011995 was already well past the era of mullets.
>>12391807And he did that role for his kids.
>>12391845It really wasn't. People thinking mullets were an 80s thing moreso than first half of the 90a is a misconception just like people thinking neon is more 80s than early 90s, or thinking nu metal or mainstream anime popularity is more 90s than early 00s
>>12391853They were a thing in the '80s and very early '90s. No one had a mullet in 1995.
>>12391856You just saw a picture of someone with a mullet in 1995. And I was born in 89 and knew a lot of people with mullets basically until the late 90s boy band era took off bridging the 00s where every white trash kid switched to undercuts or spikey gelled crew cuts
>>12391860You posted an exception that proves the rule.
>>12391861Again I knew multiple kids with mullets past that date. They were all white trash cliches sure but that's the only people who ever had them. It was purely a metalhead or country thing. This disinfo is just like people designating turquoise/fushia neon color schemes to the 80s when it was really more prevalent in the 90s
>>12391867You're talking about a small minority of people in rural areas who were stuck five years in the past and not representative of the culture at the time.
>>12391870I'm talking about most of America you pompous Faggot. I grew up in a metropolitan area in Michigan. Nobody cares about your nigger shithole on the coast you fucking pussy
>>12391845>1995 was already well past the era of mullets.Not really. Public trends lag behind popular media. If Billy Ray Cyrus had a mullet in 1992 you can be sure it was still popular in 1995 among his commonfolk imitators.
>>12391015Although Blue Mary is no slouch, I'm confident Cammy is ranked higher in the combined universe lore rankings.
>>12392039Blue Mary is more fun and interesting to play tho.
>>12392030You don't have to guess about what things might have been like if your were alive during that time.
>>12392094I wasn't guessing.
>>12391849It was honestly worth it. For him it was apparently a lot of vacationing, and you can tell he's just having a lot of fun playing such a riduculous and exaggerated character, something which really lifts up the entire movie. He's just a fun villain.Street Fighter as both a film an adaption has problems, but it IS fun to watch, and Julia's memorable performance as M. Bison is a big part of why. Without someone charismatic like that putting a lot of energy into one of the key parts, the movie would probably be mostly forgotten about by the 2010s already.
>>12391845No, that shit carried on for a while beyond that.My favorite example is fighters in the Yugoslav wars still rocking them, but it's hardly the only.
>>123922061. Eastern Europe doesn't count.2. That image is from 1992 at the latest.3. It's not even a mullet. His hair is just tucked behind his ears.
>>12388601I don't recall anyone saying they were gay-gay, just sellouts. That accusation would resurface when they were involved in the Napster lawsuit that ended with nearly everyone considering Lars Ulrich to be a complete bitch.>>12391853>people thinking neon is more 80s than early 90sThat's a direct result of Tron, Blade Runner, and the Memphis design style prevalent in the late 80's. Why people look at the pastel blues and pinks of Memphis design and think neon, I have no idea, but it is what it is.
>>12392190He was great M. Bison. This movie is the only time I've cared about Cammy.
>>12391268Wasn't Rayden already basically the wise guru for team good guy by the second game or am I misremembering?
