Thread 11804961 - /vr/ [Archived: 689 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:10:34 PM No.11804961
befunky_2025-5-1_15-8-57
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Who was the best fighting game "main protagonist" to you
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:11:26 PM No.11804963
Ryuko_no_Ken_Art_09
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>*AHEM*
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:13:04 PM No.11804965
>>11804961 (OP)
Ryu > Terry > Kyo > Tekken Guys > Liu Kang > Virtua Fighter > Samurai Dude > JAGO
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:20:55 PM No.11804984
siegfried
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:23:40 PM No.11804991
Unmasked_Sub-Zero_concept_sketch
Unmasked_Sub-Zero_concept_sketch
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9 year-old me always saw Sub Zero as the face of Mortal Kombat. Bear in mind that I hadn't seen the movie or read up on the lore in previous games.

>>11804961 (OP)
>Kazuya and Jin are the main characters

Not in North America.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:26:23 PM No.11804998
>>11804991
kazuya and jin are the main characters everywhere, dumbass
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:33:00 PM No.11805014
DIWRC8
DIWRC8
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Not sure why all you homos are so into men. I choose DoA Kasumi as best main character.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:33:13 PM No.11805015
>>11804998
Not saying they weren't. You just had to be there to understand.
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:34:08 PM No.11805016
>>11804963
I do like Ryo, a combo of Ryu and Ken is kinda less cliche than either, and his motorcycler youngblood energy I like more than pretty boy Kyo's similar schtick
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:37:05 PM No.11805021
>>11805015
>Not saying they weren't.
you literally just did, you fucking moron.
>You just had to be there to understand.
I was there. everybody knew that Jin was the protagonist of T3, given that he was front and center in all the marketing, on the cover of the magazines, etc. It didn't matter that most people picked Eddy or Yoshimitsu or Law and mashed around like scrubs.
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:48:54 PM No.11805045
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>>11805014
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:49:12 PM No.11805046
Terry Obari 15
Terry Obari 15
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>>11804961 (OP)
Terry. Dude just seems like he'd be chill.
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:51:17 PM No.11805050
>>11804961 (OP)
>no mitsurugi or siegfriend
sad thread.
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 9:52:53 PM No.11805056
Kaede_b
Kaede_b
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Last blade protag Kaede
Replies: >>11805068
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 10:00:01 PM No.11805068
>>11805056
>outshone by hibiki
grim
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 10:38:17 PM No.11805143
>>11804961 (OP)
i never played KoF or FF but everything i've seen of terry bogard makes him a better character personality wise.

>>11804984
i like the idea of every soul calibur game having a different main protag...
>SE - siegfred
>SC - kilik
>SC2 - raphael
>SC3 - siegfred
>SC4 - hilde
>SC5 - patrokolos
>SC6 - create-a-character
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Anonymous
6/16/2025, 11:21:24 PM No.11805217
>>11804991
Liu-Kang is the hero, but not the face of Mortal Kombat even to this day.
Same thing happens in Killer Instinct, Jago is the hero, but Fulgore is the face of the franchise.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:40:46 AM No.11805321
How to spot a fighting game protag
>see of wacky insane characters
>normal guy, maybe the most generic martial arts look
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:00:55 AM No.11805352
>>11804961 (OP)
>fighting game "main protagonist"
Guile
t. Every American adaptation
Replies: >>11808927
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:02:48 AM No.11805358
[AEOG][1080p] Fatal Fury - OVA 1 [BD HEVC 10bit Dual Audio AC3][B1634B8C]-0003
Terry is probably the best one. He's cool without trying too hard, simple and straightforward without being wooden or boring, not angsty despite having seen some shit, no cliche evil side or demonic powers or "chosen one" burden. Just a likeable, good-looking stand-up guy who loves to fight. Can't go wrong with him.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:14:21 AM No.11805586
>>11804961 (OP)
I liked Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct a lot as a kid, so Liu Kang and Jago were my favorites. I also liked Tekken a lot, but neither Kazuya nor Jin were my favorite characters, IIRC. I'm pretty sure I always liked characters like Yoshimitsu, Kuma, Alex, and Roger the most.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 3:57:09 AM No.11805636
>>11804991
>>11805217
Although Liu Kang is the hero and Scorpion is the most popular character, I believe that Raiden is the most important character in the Mortal Kombat franchise. He has appeared in nearly every game in the franchise, and he plays a significant role in the story.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:09:02 AM No.11805651
>>11804961 (OP)
Fighting game protags are usually incels.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:15:55 AM No.11805659
RyuIndianGirl
RyuIndianGirl
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>>11805651
Volcels. They don't care about anything else.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:16:36 AM No.11805660
>>11804961 (OP)
Akira had the coolest martial arts style
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:18:46 AM No.11805665
>>11805651
excuse you. Terry Bogard has SEX. Terry Bogard FUCKS.
Replies: >>11805689 >>11815298
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:35:23 AM No.11805681
>People here acting like men are worth talking about

>>11805014
except you
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:38:47 AM No.11805689
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>>11805665
>>11805651
Your generation is fucking doomed.
Replies: >>11805691 >>11805707
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:39:02 AM No.11805690
>>11805014
playing as a female character is troon behavior
Replies: >>11815332
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:40:14 AM No.11805691
>>11805689
I'm 37
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:48:46 AM No.11805707
>>11805689
Yeah millennials are worthless
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:49:47 AM No.11805710
>>11805014
Kasumi still fits the trend of fighting game main characters as being the more generic looking and easy to play character
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:51:47 AM No.11805714
>>11805659
volcels are the biggest pussymagnets!~
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:08:27 AM No.11805831
>>11805143
yeah SC seems to like switching protagonists. but i always felt like the core one was always siegfried since he's involved with the main plot one way or another. except for 5. but 5 sucks.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:16:05 AM No.11805847
>>11804961 (OP)
Jago is not the protagonist of KI.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:18:24 AM No.11805851
>>11805710
And being cloned in the sequels.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:45:25 AM No.11805904
>>11804961 (OP)
I like Haohmaru the most even if I don't play Samurai Shodown that much. Love '95 Kyo too.

It's complicated with retro Tekkens. Kazuya in T1 was a rather plain character with some cool moves. T2 protagonist was Jun. Kazuya got a little bit of personality but he was a secret character there. T3 Jin was the coolest Tekken protagonist but in T4 he was changed onto some emo karate kid and Kazuya took his spot of a cool protag. Thing is: Kazuya was never as cool before T4 and this shuffle felt forced. So for me, it's T3 Jin.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 6:52:45 AM No.11805914
>>11805847
He is, but orchid is also.
Replies: >>11807191
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:09:47 AM No.11805927
Liu Kang is almost a mythological figure - heโ€™s the quintessential kung-fu hero who must defeat evil. Heโ€™s a champion, a dragon - heโ€™s everything good you can imagine in a kung-fu hero from a mythological standpoint. Killing him in Deadly Alliance and resurrecting him as a zombie in Deception was a cringy mistake. Making him a side character in the new revival series also shows a failure to understand what Mortal Kombat is.
And God Liu Kang? For fuckโ€™s sake - it only works when heโ€™s an ordinary guy doing the impossible when itโ€™s necessary.

Ryu is the best example (maybe alongside Terry) of that โ€™90s street-fighting mentality that inspired kids.
Children playing Street Fighter, watching Bruce Lee and Van Damme movies, and casually fighting each other in the streets or at school, was a very healthy and one of the best things the 90s gave us.

Kazuya is a strange case in a good way - an antihero as the hero? That was cool. Especially when they went 3D - they turned the game into a different kind of beast. Jin didnโ€™t have the same coolness
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:19:34 AM No.11805946
>>11805636
Raiden is probably the most favored after the ninjas, as much as he's become known to fans as "Blunder God" since the 3D era to now, I remember Raiden always being a "cool" choice with the ninjas moreso than the main hero squad

>>11805904
I always found Kazuya more cool, but I have a thing for edgy vengeance fueled assholes. His design was kinda boring compared to Jin, but I liked his persona more and the chest scar being a visual que to his motivation and driving force
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:10:41 AM No.11806054
test your might
test your might
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>>11805927
I always felt like Liu got done dirty and under appreciated. I know the ninjas are gonna be the show stealers and that's whatever but then they got up on the special forces retards and that sucked but Liu is, as you said, THE guy. He's the wuxia hero. The monk who achieves clarity and saves the day.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:15:29 AM No.11806067
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>>11805358
I feel like there's something really HUMAN about Terry. POWAH WAVES aside. He's your "always striving to become the best" type fighter like Ryu is, but rather than just being the stoic traveling warrior he comes off more sociable. You can see him going to bars, shooting hoops and generally hanging out with his friends. It helps that South Town itself is very well defined through the series but it's easy to see him do stuff that's not fighting. And I'm not slagging on Ryu or anything either mind you, I realize I'm being more than a little reductive but all the same.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:16:06 AM No.11806069
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For me the main character of KI is Fulgore.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:32:34 AM No.11806218
>>11805904
Yeah, Jin was 'a cooler Kazuya' when he debuted in Tekken 3. Idk why Namco decided to ruin him and bring Kazuya back instead.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:40:44 AM No.11806225
>>11806218
They all thought he was dead, but he was holding all the cards at the time.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:41:29 AM No.11806226
>>11806218
They all thought he was out of the game, but he was holding all the cards at the time.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:58:10 PM No.11806898
>>11806069
That ad looks so weird
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:06:32 PM No.11806919
>>11805358
I also feel like he's the most powerful of the bunch, at least naturally since as you mentioned he doesn't have any evil demonic side or chosen one status. He's like if you took Cody Travers (canonically a top tier in the Street Fighter verse) but also gave him some random formal training on top of his already otherworldly natural talent.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:09:49 PM No.11806927
>>11805659
Is that supposed to be the Indian girl he gives money to in the animated film?
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:14:00 PM No.11806934
>>11806919
I miss when Ryu's whole Satsui no Hado shit was less a dark side power and more him on the fence on how much of a dick he wants to be.
Replies: >>11806940
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:14:34 PM No.11806936
>>11806919
Who's most powerful is interesting. Terry and Ryu have massive "ki flow" potential or whatever, Liu Kang has taken down bassically supernatural demigods who on paper make the villains of the others look weaker, and then there's Kyo who has his mystical pyromania shit though it's hard to say what his "Feats" against bosses are since in KoF whole teams fight, and then the Tekken guys turn into demons, or at least in the retro era, Kazuya does, which should make him pretty high powered
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:15:36 PM No.11806940
>>11806934
Well technically, dark hadou Ryu isn't canon anyway. Ryu never succumbed to it in story, "Evil Ryu" is a non canon "what if" character
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:21:25 PM No.11806949
>>11805143
Isnโ€™t Xianghua SC1โ€™s protagonist considering sheโ€™s the wielder of SoulCalibur in that game?
Replies: >>11807034
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:37:49 PM No.11806990
>>11805143
Canonically, Hilde never did anything much of note. The main SC6 Soul Chronicle also pushes Kilik really hard as the protagonist, even though the protagonist of Libra of Soul is the Conduit.
Replies: >>11815031
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 8:52:21 PM No.11807034
>>11806949
She should be, but I honestly doubt Namco thought about it that way. I think that there's a good chance that they didn't even originally plan on introducing Soul Calibur into the story. They'd decide on it quite late into the development in order to be able to change the series' name after the Edge Games lawsuit happened. When you think about it, Soul Calibur has no relevance in SC1 at all. Yes, Xianghua wields it, but would the story change too much if Krita Yuga was just a "normal" legendary sword? It was already established that Soul Edge could be shattered by other powerful weapons back in Edge. They may have even wanted Kilik to shatter it with Kali Yuga, given that his story has much more buildup and he holds two of the Ling Sheng Su temple treasures while Xianghua only has one. All of this would explain how much they sidelined her in SC6. They even gave the final fight with Inferno to Kilik. Technically Xianghua is still the one who delivers coup de grace, but it happens in a non-interactive cutscene. There's just a lot of evidence that Xianghua ended up with a much bigger plot role that she was originally intended to have by accident.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:03:08 PM No.11807191
>>11805847
>>11805914
Glacius seemed like the protag given his popularity
Replies: >>11807204
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:09:35 PM No.11807204
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>>11807191
The only licensed KI figure ever released back in retro times was in Argentina, and it was a Glacius one.
I think KI isn't mean to have a single protagonist. cinder and glacius were basically KI's response to Scorpion and Sub Zero
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:10:20 PM No.11807205
PF
PF
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for me, it's ty
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 10:25:50 PM No.11807238
Terry hair is gay af and ruins the design.
Replies: >>11807309 >>11807320
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:07:39 PM No.11807309
>>11807238
rockers are straight, rappers are gay. you got it mixed up
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:14:27 PM No.11807320
>>11807238
Hello Negroid man, SNK games were very expensive in the 90s you wouldn't have afforded them
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:20:50 PM No.11807337
>>11804961 (OP)
>Ryu

Boring, but cool moveset

>Terry

Middle ground, Nishiyama always with one of the wackiest moves for his characters

>Liu Kang

fun Moveset and probably the funniest battle cries

>Kyo

It's like Yusuke

>Kazuya

It's the best protagonist

>Jin

Boring replacement although I like the heel turn in T5

>Akira

Fun gameplay, boring everything

>Jago

He's there

>Haomaru

idk, I don't have much of an opinion on him
Replies: >>11807451
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:08:03 AM No.11807451
>>11807337
Well Hoahmaru can create whirlwinds with his sword
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:22:30 AM No.11807473
>>11805143
>SC2 - Raphael
???
Replies: >>11807917 >>11808402
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:33:37 AM No.11807493
>>11804961 (OP)
Liu Kang mogs, that man has been through some shit and itโ€™s crazy that heโ€™s the only Bruce Lee expy who isnโ€™t a joke. Bicycle kick rules.

Kazuya is cool because heโ€™s an asshole, Jago is a cool ninja but loses points for being a boring shoto, and Ryu is just Goku with all the interesting shit sanded off into a perfectly generic mascot. Akira is somehow even more boring than that.

Jin is kind of edgy cool. Donโ€™t care about Hat Ken or those other fags.
Replies: >>11807515
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 12:46:28 AM No.11807515
>>11807493
Do you think Fei Long is a joke Bruce Lee? The Laws are obviously cheeky but I never got that from Fei.

Also Ryu/Goku comparisons are apt though I find Ryu less annoying, one trope I hate in anime is "silly manchild who eats ALL THE TIME but gets serious when it comes to winning"
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 1:00:23 AM No.11807540
morrigan
morrigan
md5: a316071b2bf7ced6c65ab563f3078a57๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Morrigan
>overshadows the intended MC of her series so much that people just presume she's the main
>kick starts an entire genre of fetish in Japan, land of perverts
>sprite is so good they barely ever change it
Replies: >>11808254 >>11825019
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 3:20:42 AM No.11807805
>>11806067
I like how his extra character info changes from regular Fatal Fury to Mark of Wolves.

Favorite food goes from fast food to Rock's homemade club sandwiches

Hobby goes from video games to mural painting/graffiti

Special skill goes from guessing women's three sizes to shooting 50 basketball three-pointers in a row
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 4:13:20 AM No.11807915
>>11806069
for me it's Spinal, skellingtons are so cute
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 4:14:21 AM No.11807917
>>11807473
Yeah I thought that one was either Kilik or Xianghua (although for me it was of course Astaroth)
Replies: >>11808402
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 8:24:01 AM No.11808254
>>11807540
Mirrigan is one of the evil darkstalkers though, only Felicia, talbane, the monk, and the Chinamen vamp are good
Replies: >>11809759 >>11825019
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:19:09 AM No.11808402
>>11807473
>>11807917
No, that's right. Raphael was the one who canonically fought Nightmare at the end of SC2. Nightmare almost killed him, but he made one desperate strike for the eye if Soul Edge in the last moment. That strike weakened it enough for Siegfied's consciousness to break free and take control of his body again. Siegfried walked away, sparing Raphael. Then he stabbed Soul Calibur through Soul Edge to make the Embrace of Souls, which he carries in SC3 (Soul Calibur had magically appeared out of Astral Chaos). Raphael was infected with evil energy from Soul Edge through his wounds, which manifested in vampire-like traits in later games.

Kilik and Xianghua were the protagonists of SC1, they didn't really do anything in SC2.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 6:06:02 PM No.11808790
batsu-hr
batsu-hr
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>>11804961 (OP)
Replies: >>11808798 >>11809518 >>11809618
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 6:11:59 PM No.11808798
>>11808790
batsu is a jobber. hinata clears
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 7:16:17 PM No.11808927
sunglasses
sunglasses
md5: db1f35a4195ea2b132adac5a80c68408๐Ÿ”
>>11805352
Guile definitely has more physical charisma than Ryu.
Replies: >>11809489
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:48:33 PM No.11809471
>>11804961 (OP)
Out of those, Terry. Overall, Kasumi from DoA.
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 11:55:43 PM No.11809489
>>11808927
guile is a faggot.
Replies: >>11809494
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:00:13 AM No.11809494
>>11809489
Go fuck yourself Bison.
Replies: >>11809497
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:02:05 AM No.11809497
>>11809494
I mean, what do you think i'm doing with all those female backup bodies
Replies: >>11809762
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:12:20 AM No.11809518
>>11808790
My 12 year old headcanon was that Batsu was a ninja descendant because his appearance and clothes and colors are typical of anime/Japanese ninja
Replies: >>11813945
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:14:14 AM No.11809521
haohmaru cuz hes basically goku and his rival genjuro is vegeta
Replies: >>11809576
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:26:21 AM No.11809551
VJ2
VJ2
md5: 201f6417c16585be1e1b70c9164bb014๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Henshen a Go Go Baby
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:27:18 AM No.11809554
>>11804961 (OP)
Akira. He's boring old karate guy but doesn't have the most newbie friendly cookie cutter moves, in fact he has the hardest to do motions and hardest to remember throws. Completely casual unfriendly character.

Except he also godly overpowered and has a move to do killer damage in any situation, if you get some of his throws of combos done it feels like you are blowing up the opponent.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:27:48 AM No.11809556
>>11804961 (OP)
Goku
Replies: >>11809576
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:35:07 AM No.11809576
>>11809521
>>11809556
I hate Goku, if he was alive today he'd have an overgrown beard and paint his nails.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:49:35 AM No.11809618
1747946732176087
1747946732176087
md5: 593988bcf3543dbb06d9665894edbea4๐Ÿ”
>>11808790
>30 years later
>still no translation for the real game
>stuck with the butchered west version
Replies: >>11809652 >>11809694
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:09:12 AM No.11809652
>>11809618
Capcunt didnt even bother to gives us an english translation in their latest Stolen Emu App Rom Bundle.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:39:45 AM No.11809694
>>11809618
All it's missing is a dating sim broski, which has never been a popular thing in the West, maybe that genre has gotten more demand these days but it definitely would have probably even hurt the games rep in 1997 or whatever by making it feel cutesy or weird otaku-y
Replies: >>11809709
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:57:26 AM No.11809709
>>11809694
it was essentially fighting game rpg with CaC. It would have made it an even bigger cult classic. If you haven't noticed people love that type of stuff which is why nowadays many of those aspects are slapped onto every game. This was way ahead of the times
Replies: >>11809717
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:58:53 AM No.11809715
>>11804961 (OP)
Liu Kang, not even close.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:00:42 AM No.11809717
>>11809709
Well, the US home port still has a lot of content compared to most fighting games. It has full story mode, unique good and bad endings, secret characters, custom modes etc. I loved it even without the sim mode.

Other than some early Fatal Fury games having story cutscenes, and SFA3 home port as well, you usually didn't get a lot of single player content in fighters
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:23:31 AM No.11809743
Shujinko
Shujinko
md5: e4511f2a17104404adadc9097971c05f๐Ÿ”
>>11804991
>>11805217
>>11805636

Scorpion and Sub-Zero are the mascots of the franchise (Scorpion more so than Sub-Zero).

The canonical hero depends of the game
In MK, MKII, MK3, MK4, MK11 and MK1 it's Liu Kang
In MKDA and MK(2011) it's Raiden
In MKD it's Shujinko
In MKA it's Taven
In MKX it's Cassie Cage
In MK vs DC it's Raiden and Superman
In Aftermath it's Shang Tsung
In Khaos Reigns it's Noob Saibot
In Mythologies it's Sub-Zero
In Special Forces it's Jax
In Shaolin Monks it's Liu Kang and Kung Lao
Replies: >>11809748 >>11810197
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:27:35 AM No.11809748
>>11809743
How was MK1? How badly did they butcher the story? Also, did they continue to baby the storytelling of it with saturday morning vibes? I feel like all the edge to MK was lost after MKX.
Replies: >>11809757 >>11809769 >>11809785 >>11809805
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:33:31 AM No.11809757
>>11809748
I haven't gotten around to playing it yet. Though I've heard the MK1 story isn't anything special, and I've heard nothing but bad things about Khaos Reigns story.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:33:33 AM No.11809758
300-2601870488
300-2601870488
md5: be26139bd2e27cb596db759cedb68ba2๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Bad Mr frosty.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:34:08 AM No.11809759
>>11808254
She's basically an anti-hero then. Demitri isn't exactly good either, and he was originally meant to be the MC but they're both in opposition to each other iirc
>the monk, and the Chinamen vamp
Donovan and Hsien-Ko
Donovan has some pretty good MC qualities but they leave him out half the time
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:35:09 AM No.11809762
>>11809497
Why is he like this.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:45:20 AM No.11809769
>>11809748
NTA but MK1 is fun gameplay-wise (if you get accustomed to the kameo system). Plot is still Marvel-esque multiverse dumbfuckery. There are some bright ideas and clever character revamps but almost all of them are lost due to rushed nature of the game. I'd say it's the weakest game of modern MK quadrology but I had some fun here and there so it's okay...ish. But it almost never feels like "proper" MK in terms of atmosphere.
Replies: >>11809781
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:53:39 AM No.11809781
>>11809769
>But it almost never feels like "proper" MK in terms of atmosphere.

This is why I didn't buy it. The first MK game in 20 years I didn't buy.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:58:59 AM No.11809785
>>11809748
The worst MK they've ever made, and that's actually saying something.
Replies: >>11809787 >>11809794
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:01:35 AM No.11809787
>>11809785
>and that's actually saying something.
Aside from MKvDC and Armageddon, MK franchise is pretty solid.
Replies: >>11809795
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:06:32 AM No.11809794
>>11809785
Nah, the worst fighting game in the MK series would be MK vs DC, and if you don't count that one it would be either MK4 or MK:DA. The worst MK game of all time would be Special Forces. If you count ports though, the worst MK game would be those shitty GB ports, including MK Advance.

Maybe MK1 is the worst modern era MK, but there are way worst MK games than that.
Replies: >>11819194
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:07:05 AM No.11809795
>>11809787
Special Forces is ass.
Replies: >>11809797
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:07:59 AM No.11809797
>>11809795
That was more of a spin-off title, not really a mainline entry, like Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:11:06 AM No.11809805
>>11809748
>How was MK1? How badly did they butcher the story?
Pretty bad, full on "MULTIVERSUS OF MANIA" crap plaguing all fiction these days.

It also makes no sense, so Liu Kang becomes God....and reimagines the world so that evil can't prevail. Some things make sense, like making Shang Tsung live as a petty charleton instead of a grand warlock. But then everything else is like, what the fuck? Why did Liu Kang decide the younger Sub Zero should be the original Scorpion, and that Scorpion should be his son? Why did he decide Tarkatans are a disease that turns you into a feral zombie and not just a race? Why did he make Tanya black? Why did he make Mileena a lesbian who catches Tarkatan disease instead of just being a clone who really doesn't need to exist anyway? Like it's kind of funny to imagine Liu Kang being a nerd making all his fanfiction reality but it makes no fucking sense
Replies: >>11809816 >>11809823 >>11809834 >>11809875 >>11809996 >>11813870 >>11813889
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:17:08 AM No.11809816
1743112521315159
1743112521315159
md5: ef4f49d79725042404be25a77e82f2fe๐Ÿ”
>>11809805
>Why did Liu Kang decide the younger Sub Zero should be the original Scorpion, and that Scorpion should be his son?
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:18:04 AM No.11809823
>>11809805
because blundergod is forever even if he's fire god or whatever
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:22:13 AM No.11809834
>>11809805
The whole time-keeper story is completely retarded marvel-schlock dogshit nonsense. Where's Onaga? What about the Elder Gods who, ya know, are supposed to be the arbiters of all the realms? What about the Pyramid of Argus?

They just abandon all the lore to do a clean swipe on everything...It's like the dumb millennial writers were incapable of comprehending the universe so they re-wrote it to be more succinct and neater.
Replies: >>11809860
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:28:59 AM No.11809847
They need to fire everyone at NRS and bring back John Tobias.
Replies: >>11809856
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:31:57 AM No.11809856
>>11809847
Only way they can earn back any good will at this point is by irrevocably killing off a major character and quietly erasing the whole time travel schtick.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:33:39 AM No.11809860
IDW_Publishing_logo.svg
IDW_Publishing_logo.svg
md5: 4c08924aa1c1d47213228fc12ddd1abd๐Ÿ”
>>11809834
Well the problem with most media these days, especially nostalgic properties, is that the people who actually love this shit are nerds and the people in "the business" are nouveau rich hipster kids of liberal "laid back" gen-x parents who likely never were into this shit, but got jobs because their parents paid for art school degrees
>hey nice IP you got there....think i'll improve it heh
Replies: >>11809883
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:42:44 AM No.11809875
>>11809805
I would say that the only foreseeable way I can see them reverting any of this is by having the Elder God council revoke Liu Kang's status as Keeper of Time by undoing the balance of nature or something, but I don't know how badly they fucked with the Elder Gods in MK1.
Replies: >>11809878 >>11809885 >>11810025
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:45:45 AM No.11809878
>>11809875
Elder gods are completely irrelevant in MK1, replaced in all manner by the titans.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:49:34 AM No.11809883
>>11809860
Art degrees don't get you jobs.
Replies: >>11809889 >>11809972
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:50:45 AM No.11809885
>>11809875
Liu Kang is a Titan, Titans are above Elder Gods.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:53:52 AM No.11809889
>>11809883
Not necessarily, but those are the only people in the elitist creative field entertainment industry. People with art degrees, from the right schools, and who have the right parents that know the right people already in said industry. Why do you think everything always feels so similar, /co/ bitch about Calarts for a reason, and it is why all those modern cartoons look and feel exactly the same, they were all bred from the same crop of "creatives"
Replies: >>11809905
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:57:14 AM No.11809897
Ryu is really the alpha, to the point that most all fighting games of the era had a character who was basically "the Ryu," either in appearance or playstyle (or both)
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:01:48 AM No.11809905
>>11809889
People who hire artist don't care if you have a degree or not. They only care about your portfolio. A good art school will help you build a portfolio while you're there, but you don't need to go to art school to build an art portfolio. Art schools are mostly a grift.

You seem to have a version of "born in the wrong generation" syndrome, but with writing instead of music. The true is modern art is just as good or bad as old art. Old art only seems better in comparison because the shitty old art gets forgotten. The shitty modern art is waved in your face because it's new and has marketing forces behind it.
Replies: >>11809913 >>11809936
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:06:04 AM No.11809913
Debret_-_Premiere_distribution_des_decorations_de_la_Legion_d'honneur[1]
>>11809905
>The true is modern art is just as good or bad as old art.
Objectively wrong.

>because the shitty old art gets forgotten.
There is little to no "shitty" old art unless you count avant garde art. The "truth" is, old art was objectively better, because there was more gatekeeping and a more rigid adherence to standards of quality.
Replies: >>11809916 >>11809927 >>11809938 >>11811976
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:08:00 AM No.11809916
>>11809913
>There is little to no "shitty" old art
you don't have the first clue what the fuck you're talking about
Replies: >>11809918
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:08:41 AM No.11809918
Battle_of_Somosierra_1808[1]
Battle_of_Somosierra_1808[1]
md5: ab38c445979bc16dbc5acd61b5d36276๐Ÿ”
>>11809916
You don't have the first cunts-sucked-fucked clue what the fuck YOU'RE talking about peon, Begone.
Replies: >>11809923 >>11809938
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:10:48 AM No.11809923
>>11809918
art is a universal human activity. at all times throughout human history art has been made by a wide swath of the people living at the time.
you really think it's all perfect genius masterpieces?
you're fucking retarded.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:11:59 AM No.11809927
188r
188r
md5: 04971d3c4db42a47970d778d68fded52๐Ÿ”
>>11809913
Replies: >>11809974
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:14:55 AM No.11809936
>>11809905
>People who hire artist don't care if you have a degree or not.
Yes they do lol, industry plants aren't a conspiracy theory, it's a conspiracy but it's a well known reality, if you actually KNOW anything about the people making media which you clearly do not. I study this shit, and am an expert on the comic book scenes, animation scenes, and music scenes. It's pretty much an autistic fixation of mine as some nerdy douche who just is a fan and artistic hobbyist. I know way more than you do about creators and where they come from, you're living in a bubble.

>You seem to have a version of "born in the wrong generation" syndrome, but with writing instead of music.
I was born in 1989, so no, I'm just an active nerdy fan of creative mediums of all kinds because art/entertainment is my primary hobby.

> The true is modern art is just as good or bad as old art.
I mean I didn't say it wasn't, some eras of certain mediums are objectively better than others, like the 20s or 30s, or 90s being better than the 60s or 70s for animation. But that's getting off topic. Every era has good shit and bad shit, not always equal amounts, but certain trends can be enforced in media by people who run the show and right now, the only people in entertainment are all pulled from the same high connected gatekept sources

You're going to hear celebrity voice actors and Tara Strong a million times, somebody isn't breaking into that field no matter how talented they are, because it's guarded and gatekept, for example
Replies: >>11809962 >>11814514 >>11820671
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:15:23 AM No.11809938
>>11809913
>>11809918
You know, posting good old art doesn't prove that there is no shitty old art.

Posting good old art to demonstrate that all old art is good would be a very retarded thing to do. I'm not saying that's why you're posting it, but if it is then that would be retarded.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:25:31 AM No.11809962
>>11809936
I know a professional artists with no collage education, I know someone with an art degree that's a manager and another that mops floors. It's not the degree it's the portfolio, you're supposed to make one on the way to getting the degree. You can make one without getting the degree (though it may be more difficult).

Now art school really push to make people think they need the degree to get into art as a profession. But it's a grift.
Replies: >>11809970
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:29:01 AM No.11809970
>>11809962
Professional artists like what, generic graphic design for random businesses and companies, or working in entertainment with the celebrity bigwigs, doing music, games, cartoons, comics? Because there's a difference here, like someone can be a professional musician who does studio work, but that's not being a rock star or a pop star
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:30:20 AM No.11809972
stemcels
stemcels
md5: f4f50414f7c59a2f405f720b8d1ce1b2๐Ÿ”
>>11809883
lol
Replies: >>11809981
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:32:50 AM No.11809974
file-20221125-3308-71a3q5
file-20221125-3308-71a3q5
md5: fb69685ce5dd9e24179dffbe15571a1c๐Ÿ”
>>11809927
That's pretty rad, actually

Also a big fan of this
Replies: >>11810003
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:36:07 AM No.11809981
>>11809972
AI is coming after STEM harder than it is for art history. Computer science will be the first thing AI fully phases out.
Replies: >>11809983
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:37:42 AM No.11809983
>>11809981
Actual historians will be important after all the shit AI makes up
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:49:02 AM No.11809996
>>11809805
>Why did Liu Kang decide the younger Sub Zero should be the original Scorpion, and that Scorpion should be his son?
To be fair, that's exactly the sort of shit I'd do if I were rewriting the universe. I'd change, like, Hulk Hogan to be Obama's son for shits and giggles.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 4:54:03 AM No.11810003
>>11809974
kitty <3
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 5:11:36 AM No.11810025
>>11809875
They should just continue on from MK9 as if X, 11, and 1 never happened.
Replies: >>11810040 >>11815038
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 5:16:08 AM No.11810040
mortalkombat4
mortalkombat4
md5: 0b14b42d09135502968597efd16c4c20๐Ÿ”
>>11810025
MK9 was truly a great celebration of the brand's classic era. I wish that exact same approach was taken in adapting like the next era, mashing together Mythologies, MK4, maybe even a little Special Forces and leading into the 3D era, but they said "NOOOOO WE HAVE NEW CHARACTERS NOBODY WILL LOVE OTHER THAN SONYAS DAUGHTER WHO'S JUST SONYA IN HER 20s!!!!"

You think they would have learned from MK4 and (a lot) of the 3D era characters that replacing the old doesn't always work, like sure some shit is cool like Nitara, Kenshi, etc, but even still literally nobody cares about Kai, Kobra, or the Kombat Kids
Replies: >>11815280
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 5:34:02 AM No.11810064
vrfgrepts
vrfgrepts
md5: 3c0bf1d9a19c2b7f0bd111790e72592a๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
side topic, who's your favorite reptillian?
Replies: >>11810997
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 6:09:40 AM No.11810097
>>11805358
Imagine if Terry was in Tekken instead, how much more popular of a character he would be even now.
Replies: >>11810195
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 7:30:22 AM No.11810195
1725078722293
1725078722293
md5: 7929cb962176deb3936c67195e5621c2๐Ÿ”
>>11810097
Tekken has Paul Phoenix.
Terry is a grown ass man wearing a 1980s teenager outfit. He wouldn't stand a chance
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 7:30:56 AM No.11810197
>>11809743
MK went a bit crazy with it, but replacing the protagonist is something most fighting game series end up experimenting with at some point, usually to mixed results. The guys in the OP pic are the "classics" but most of them got replaced at some point.
The protagonist in SFIII is Alex.
In Garou MotW it's Rock.
In KOF99 it's K', then in 2003 it's Ash, then in XIV it's Shun'ei.
Not too sure about SamSho but I think Shizumaru was the protagonist in III.
And obviously Kazuya into Jin.
>>11804963 even AOF, in 3 the protagonist is Robert.
Replies: >>11811004 >>11815634
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 7:33:44 AM No.11810198
>>11804961 (OP)
Terry's the only one that seems like a cool guy. I don't really like Ryu very much, but everyone they've tried replacing him with from SF3 onward has been worse.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 8:34:01 AM No.11810279
>>11806919
i think it's up in the air between him and Ryo desu, at least in the FF timeline.
KOF makes it muddier with a lot more characters sitting near the top.
Replies: >>11824981
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 6:38:53 PM No.11810997
>>11810064
Reptile for just being the most different
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 6:41:02 PM No.11811004
>>11810197
>The protagonist in SFIII is Alex.
no, its still Ryu.
capcom tries to claim with every new SF that there's a new protagonist, but nobody gave a fuck about Alex in III, Abel in IV, Rashid in V, or Luke in 6.
Ryu is the SF protagonist, period. only way to change that is to not include him in the roster.
Replies: >>11811112 >>11811146
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 7:25:19 PM No.11811112
>>11811004
Chun Li was a popular protagonist for SFII though.
Ryu was MC in 1 but in II him and ken are more like the mascots, this copied with Scorpion and Subzero.
Replies: >>11811136 >>11811146
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 7:39:48 PM No.11811136
>>11811112
chun li was never the protagonist of anything.
Replies: >>11812071 >>11824563
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 7:44:41 PM No.11811146
StreetFighterIITMP
StreetFighterIITMP
md5: 16e9867127bd6acc5647a861fe453cb1๐Ÿ”
>>11811004
>>11811112
If we're talking fan perception, Ryu is the "main character", but if we're talking story, he's never been central to the plot of any game because Ryu's only story is Akuma/dark hadou, which is basically a sideplot

Even the Japs copied the Hasbro template and made this movie about Guile and Chun Li taking down Bison, while it cuts away to Ryu doing random unrelated shit until the final act where he only fights Bison to save Ken, straight up shoehorned into the hero position at the last minute lol
Replies: >>11811180
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 8:00:24 PM No.11811180
>>11811146
doesn't matter. Ryu is the main character of street fighter.
all the other random shit with people fighting bison or gill or whoever is secondary to the eternal path of the warrior that Ryu walks. Just background noise essentially.
the "main story" of a given SF game has always been suggested rather than explained and has never mattered.
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:00:24 AM No.11811935
>>11805358
Terry is great, hes just fun in general.
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:23:03 AM No.11811967
>>11805358
>He's cool without trying too hard
he wears a red hat in a matching James Dean jacket and jeans and sneakers, this is as tryhard as cool gets.
Replies: >>11812140
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:30:26 AM No.11811976
>>11809913
>There is little to no "shitty" old art
youre experiencing survivorship bias
Replies: >>11815036
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:38:52 AM No.11811989
GPgJANjXUAAcoTX
GPgJANjXUAAcoTX
md5: b588b848f2045a8625db9e7ec62ae245๐Ÿ”
>MFW Terry Kills a god with a laser burn knuckle
The motion picture was good times.
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 4:40:10 AM No.11811990
Terry bogard more like Harry blow me i'm hard
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:37:55 AM No.11812071
>>11811136
Capcom says she's the SFII protag though
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 6:27:03 AM No.11812140
>>11811967
Denim was normal in the 90s bro. Back then denim was default casual wear, tight blue jeans and converse were the equivalent of seeing everyone today walk around with baggy sweatpants in public which used to be considered slovenly but now is casual

I will admit Terry is supposed to be "cool" but it's not stylish cool like Kyo is, he's a pretty good cartooned version of a non square but humble blue collar adult, urban white guy circa early-mid 90s.
Replies: >>11812310
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 8:18:39 AM No.11812310
>>11812140
Where are you from? Terry's look was ok by the late 80s kids standards but nobody dressed like that in mid 90s. People were rocking either grunge look with flannel shirts and ripped jeans or they were wearing oversized shirts/hoodies and cargo pants. Terry was too 80s to be cool.
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 8:27:23 AM No.11812326
And nobody wore tight jeans in the 90s, they were gay and uncool. People were wearing regular or loose fit. Emo kids appropriated skinny jeans a decade later but they were gay too so whatever.
Replies: >>11812595
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 8:39:34 AM No.11812346
It's not whether or not jeans were normal. Hell, if they were normal at the time then it reinforces how he's supposed to a "cool guy" because he wears the popular clothing instead of proper battle attire, next to Ryu he looks like a dweeb.
Replies: >>11812375 >>11812595
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 9:01:32 AM No.11812365
Left side guy, Urban Champion
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 9:13:08 AM No.11812375
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>>11812346
Both battle attire and casual/trendy look are fine. Tekken in the retro era had both for every character - player 1 costume was a traditional/battle/pro look and player 2 was a casual look.
Kyo was supposed to have some kind of karate gi in early designs but modified school uniform is just much better for him.
Terry problem is how out of place he looks. His fashion looks very outdated next to Iori or Orochi team. If we assume that he doesn't try to look fashionable but rather practical, he falls short of Ralf and Clark who wear the same jeans and sleeveless jackets in early KoF but manage to look like professionals.
Replies: >>11819315
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 12:46:32 PM No.11812595
alice-in-chains
alice-in-chains
md5: 71cf154b8cbd88e86599b26b97c396b6๐Ÿ”
>>11812326
>And nobody wore tight jeans in the 90s, they were gay and uncool. People were wearing regular or loose fit.
Lol this is like fanfiction from someone who wasn't alive, but has a cartooned image of the 90s entirely based on Kurt Cobain and Limp Bizkit.

Here's a news flash, AiC was famous before Nirvana, and Metallica and GnR were bigger bands than Nirvana. Know it's hard for you to believe since born in 1999.

>>11812346
>proper battle atire
>calls someone else dweeby
Bro, it would take a massive dweeb to go out in public wearing a karate gi. That's part of why Street Fighter never made sense, it's not even about street fighters, it's about like cartoony martial arts stereotypes from different ethnicities representing their "culture" or whatever, there are no gritty streets in the game despite the SNES box trying to sell you that idea

Fatal Fury, should have been called Street Fighter, since it's actually an urban setting, and SF should have been called "World Warriors", since that's what it is.
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 12:59:39 PM No.11812620
Who's supposed to be the easy to play protag of the marvel games
Or smash, or any licensed fighting game
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:00:08 PM No.11812621
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1722443184591
md5: f773f75a8ca51ba120b03225fe1ef1d2๐Ÿ”
>>11812595
Stop larping, you will never be a white American who grew up in the 1990s.
Also go fucking google the 1990s photos of Metallica or AiC, not the 1988 or whatever your picrel is.
Replies: >>11812634 >>11812664 >>11812670 >>11812678
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:13:52 PM No.11812634
>>11812595
Nobody dressed like your pic back in the mid 90's unless they were some old farts like Ramones.
>>11812621
This kills the redditposter.
Replies: >>11812664
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:24:46 PM No.11812664
>>11812621
>>11812634
You're a black zoomer tranny, AiC isn't for you queer.
Replies: >>11812742 >>11813984
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:28:32 PM No.11812670
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IMG_20250620_072632593_HDR
md5: 1b9172a077a7f0e37839dc0a8e8c7351๐Ÿ”
>>11812621
90s guy here, we don't like faggots who wear baggy clothes. RATM and Shitvana was woke faggot music
AlphaMetalCaucasianUSAPrideJingoist
6/20/2025, 1:32:25 PM No.11812678
Metallica-1
Metallica-1
md5: 7322bab35d70256d00727f038fbd8f8d๐Ÿ”
>>11812621
This is Metallica in the 90s you poser retard. Load/Reload isn't 90s Metallica, it's queer alt country that zoomers like you pretend is good now, because you're fuckin' plebs.
Replies: >>11812740
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:34:08 PM No.11812680
marvel-cinematic-universe-film-408767
marvel-cinematic-universe-film-408767
md5: c395a2de1b9d9c350d2247729d5069f2๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Ryu is the worst, I've come to hate all Capcom games because the Marvel series allowd MCU faggots to pretend they're "into" fighting games. I don't play games pretended to be enjoyed by people with blue hair or wear glasses/overgrown beards, sorry.
Replies: >>11812684 >>11813848
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:36:06 PM No.11812684
>>11812680
ryu is the worst but that's not why, it's because he's boring and has zero depth as a character.

>im a devoted karate guy....and autist, and have no woman
yeeee too incelly for me
Replies: >>11812717
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 1:58:28 PM No.11812717
>>11812684
He succeeds at being the Japanese ideal, it's just too bad that ideal is boring. Stoicism is lame and "desire to win" is the worst motivation a character can have.
Replies: >>11812746
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 2:09:52 PM No.11812740
>>11812678
Which one looks like Terry Bogard to you, redditposter?
Replies: >>11812746
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 2:11:53 PM No.11812742
>>11812664
>still pretending he's a white american
>projecting hard
Replies: >>11812749 >>11813984
AlphaMetalCaucasianUSAPrideJingoist
6/20/2025, 2:13:25 PM No.11812746
>>11812740
Long hair, non baggy denim. That's the rock/metalhead wardrobe poser beta male. Go back to your Kanye and Nirvana albums.

>>11812717
Japanese heroes are never good unless they're anti-heroes. They can do edge decently, but they have no idea how to write a noble character.
>MUH GOKU SAN
He's just an overgrown infant who wants to prove he's strong. Small dick complex.
Replies: >>11812765
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 2:13:43 PM No.11812747
sperg thread
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 2:14:31 PM No.11812749
>>11812742
White Americans only play Mortal Kombat, this thread is obviously 90 percent Mexican.
Replies: >>11812754 >>11813984
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 2:16:47 PM No.11812751
1728847584770
1728847584770
md5: 8b0c19dbe608c4ecc58c11ec3a2fc15e๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Out of OP pic, Haohmaru is the only one who is not a tryhard, not an edgy teen and not a plain karate guy. He's just naturally cool.
Replies: >>11813987
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 2:18:44 PM No.11812754
>>11812749
Redditposter is an obvious mexican with his Terry obsession and American culture larping.
Replies: >>11813950 >>11813984
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 2:23:31 PM No.11812765
>>11812746
Metalheads didn't dress like Terry Bogard you dumb zoomer
Replies: >>11813950
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 5:53:27 PM No.11813048
people calling ryu the worst.
but Akira is literally nothing, only just above Karate Guy from mugen,
Replies: >>11813129 >>11813809 >>11813816 >>11820696
Anonymous
6/20/2025, 6:49:03 PM No.11813129
>>11813048
Akira's thing is that he's anti noob. You have to be very good at VF to use him.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 12:17:54 AM No.11813809
>>11813048
Actually you are correct
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 12:25:30 AM No.11813816
>>11813048
his fighting style is very cool, and somewhat unusual for a mc since it's not easy to master either. older ryu isnt bad anyway, like in sf3.
Replies: >>11813825
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 12:32:49 AM No.11813825
>>11813816
it's kinda all he has really.
i'm sure VF has a story, but i'd be surprised that anyone actually knows it as well as other games.
guess that's why they are supposedly trying to focus on that more for 6.
that wolf trailer told me more about him than i've ever knew about him in 32 years
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 12:45:35 AM No.11813842
Mizoguchi-3d
Mizoguchi-3d
md5: 18b9b5284978d722cab9e7a67c18e83d๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Where's Mizoguchi?
Replies: >>11813962
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 12:47:37 AM No.11813848
1728610328735744
1728610328735744
md5: 338ef29233f5d9c94129217748ff54a9๐Ÿ”
>>11812680
I don't understand what this schizo is trying to say, it's just too schizo.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:01:45 AM No.11813870
>>11809805
>But then everything else is like, what the fuck? Why did Liu Kang decide the younger Sub Zero should be the original Scorpion, and that Scorpion should be his son? Why did he decide Tarkatans are a disease that turns you into a feral zombie and not just a race? Why did he make Tanya black? Why did he make Mileena a lesbian who catches Tarkatan disease instead of just being a clone who really doesn't need to exist anyway?
Well there's akchually some level of lore explanation for that (in the fucking intro dialogs, my god). Something like you could do whatever you want with the timeline but some things are JUST DESTINED to fall into certain places so Liu kinda couldn't just make everything ponies and rainbows. Like Kronika who relaunched timelines many times but Raiden and Liu have always become enemies fucking everybody else over and destroying their respective timeline. That can explain tarkat disease and Mileena's story. Like, disease that kinda could be cured is better than the whole race of cannibalistic barbarians. Also in some endings new tarkatans are shown as just normal people just with scary faces.
SZ being Scorpion brother could make sense actually. Maybe Liu thought that family bonds will stop their eternal feud.
Black Tanya, femSektor and some other changed appearances is just diversity thingy I guess. Modern MK plot writers aren't particularly good in what they're doing so some things can't be explained logically.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:12:37 AM No.11813889
>>11809805
MK has always dabbled in multiverse stuff. I think that in these non-retro games, they've started to push the plotlines to the point of parody. Like, you've got a bunch of Bison clones, Ryu's โ€˜evilโ€™ side has left his body and become its own thing, Seth is trans. There's a certain kind of โ€œwink wink nudgeโ€ in these decisions that go beyond the visuals but also fall into the character's kit. Ken is now his own character instead of being fire shoryuken ryu. So you have to look beyond the text, but also at the meta text.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:42:38 AM No.11813945
tiffany
tiffany
md5: 39720470a9b97e286d89525ca2f97258๐Ÿ”
>>11809518
Wasn't he, though? As far as I remember, Raizo (his father) was supposed to be the head of a ninja clan, but nope'd out. His brother takes over, dies, and passes on his world-conquering ambitions to Hyo, his son (and Raizo's nephew, and Batsu's cousin). Hyo is initially unsure, but his father, who's spirit lives in his sword, possesses Hyo, who hypnotises Raizo, who hypnotises the teachers of Justice High, who hypnotise the Americans, one of whom eventually becomes the President. I think. Pic unrelated.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:44:43 AM No.11813950
IMG_20250620_192112662_HDR
IMG_20250620_192112662_HDR
md5: 4f486bd1beebf10a62c1ac993b88cc74๐Ÿ”
>>11812765
I'm a metalhead, you're not, shorthair. I'm literally wearing the same outfit as Terry but Death hoodie instead of sleeveless jacket and black not red.

>>11812754
You accuse lot of people who argue with you of being the same guy because you're butthurt about constantly getting told to fuck off from every FGC threads. You did the same thing before saying all SNK and MK threads were "a Russian". Not sure why you're obsessed over nationality, but picrel I'm door dashing in Ohio with my wife right now, born in Michigan, half Lebanese half German born late 80s, clearly not Gen z like you. And if you even are American, yer probably a gay coastie and JS, the coasts aren't real America. Only what's in between, under, and above them is America, "chick".

I'd ask for your fightcade ID to stomp you in literally any Capcom game but we all know you don't play by now lol
Replies: >>11814628 >>11815040 >>11815251
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 1:50:49 AM No.11813962
>>11813842
Nobody cares, even Power Instinct survived longer
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 2:05:58 AM No.11813984
>>11812664
>>11812742
>>11812749
>>11812754
Arguments don't work like this
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 2:08:40 AM No.11813987
>>11812751
He's generic Kurosawa samurai man, which I mistake for another generic samurai man but with an eye patch
Not the coughing twink samurai or the gambler samurai, they're unique
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 2:19:53 AM No.11813994
You guys are forgetting that each fighting game needs a palate swap character who's either friends or rivals with the protag and share 90% of the same moves and is as easy to play as him
Replies: >>11814138
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:01:36 AM No.11814138
>>11813994
SNK seemed more obsessed with a team of heroes who are friends
>Terry Andy Joe and Mai
>Ryo Robert and....his sister idr
>Kyo Benimaru and the other Jap
Replies: >>11825037
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:30:44 AM No.11814476
new gen ryu
new gen ryu
md5: 32f3629532d8f5845a0f1a423dbecf63๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Dude just likes fighting and getting stronger
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 9:08:39 AM No.11814514
>>11809936
Where can I learn more about this?
Replies: >>11814607
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 11:19:31 AM No.11814607
>>11814514
Just start paying attention to creators in media, you'll immediately start noticing how many come from the same places and are the same privileged connected type of people.

You want a popular and funny example, Billie Eilish is another brat with a rich family connected in the industry, they manufactured her hype under the guise of "this unknown indie artist girl got millions of SoundCloud followers overnight what a hot new trailblazer and now she's the biggest popstar haha!" and it was painfully obvious that she was created, and had followers paid for to blow her up and immediately covered by media, endorsed by other industry tools, put on radio and every magazine etc
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 11:41:33 AM No.11814628
>>11813950
>everyone who I argue with is the same person
Sure bro. Btw lol at le youtube thumbnail face expression
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:32:51 PM No.11815031
>>11806990
>Canonically, Hilde never did anything much of note.
true but her ending is the only ending in SC4 with siegfred where he actually lives. which IS something to consider since we see him again in SC5's story.

every other SC4 ending has him either die or crystalize.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:35:11 PM No.11815036
>>11811976
It's not survivorship bias to point out that pieces of dogshit modern art don't belong in museums next to pieces that have survived 200 years.
Replies: >>11816413
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:36:52 PM No.11815038
>>11810025
Keep the aesthetic of X, the gameplay of 11, and the roster of 9.
Replies: >>11815046
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:37:17 PM No.11815040
>>11813950
Post your fightcade bitch
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:38:28 PM No.11815041
george
george
md5: 29c87fa10d5895843cb2d4cb0a2d3776๐Ÿ”
>posting your own face on 4chan
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 5:41:52 PM No.11815046
>>11815038
Anon has a point. I would also have ditched the universal fatality system, it's not that the animators are incompetent, but it's clear that everyone sharing the same bodykit isn't working anymore. That's allowed, right jannie ?
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:28:35 PM No.11815251
>>11813950
>redditposter who loves to rant about nonwhites is a lebanese doordasher
Can't make this shit up
Replies: >>11815342
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:38:14 PM No.11815280
>>11810040
Unironically M1K implemented Kobra and Kira perfectly, bravo Boon
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:45:23 PM No.11815298
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1738104812891612
md5: 0d7bd9b1a901281101f729d0f2a7c383๐Ÿ”
>>11805665
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2YTujddWDM
>our story protagonist, face of the IP
>commits sexual assault
>in an ad
Replies: >>11815321 >>11815598 >>11815613
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 7:58:41 PM No.11815321
>>11815298
based terry, but he shouldnt slap his brother's gf ass. unless he got his permission.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:05:18 PM No.11815332
>>11805690
>playable women in video games is a pipeline to homosexuality

stop being mentally ill please
Replies: >>11828156
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:12:01 PM No.11815342
>>11815251
No, that's me not him. He's ok though for not liking rap like Gen z (you) and is old enough to have been a 90s kid not a 00s kid LARPing (you). Go back to the faggoty Gaypube nostalgia threads nonwhite
Replies: >>11815385
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 8:42:30 PM No.11815385
>>11815342
>nonwhite
Ironic level of self-hatred from a lebanese immigrant
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 9:58:44 PM No.11815518
for me Ukyo is the main protagonist of Samurai Shodown, and yes he's a volcel too out of social status of his lover Kei and his tuberculosis and diminishing health

I cri everytiem I realise Ukyo and Kei just can't be together while they're so perfect for each others
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 10:57:39 PM No.11815598
>>11815298
>CHINA ccp spondered trash
>Later SNK disabows it

Dont trust china, china is ASSHOE
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 11:07:41 PM No.11815610
I always liked Heihachi. Didn't play Tekken past 5 but in those he was just an exceptionally well trained old guy who was also a gigantic asshole. No mystic powers, no demons. Just an old dude beating the shit out of everyone and being a dick about it.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 11:08:00 PM No.11815613
>>11815298
I thought this was some porn animation at first
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 11:20:46 PM No.11815634
>>11810197
Mixed results is being very generous
Nobody gives a fuck about the new protagonists.

Sf? They tried Alex, backepdaled in the next game? Rock Howard and not Terry? Fuck that. That little faggy kid with an umbrella in Samurai Showdown instead of Haohmaru? Fuck that. Jin is the only one I think kind of took root more than the original.
Replies: >>11815645
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 11:27:56 PM No.11815645
>>11815634
In SNK games worked fine, Rock and the KoF new guys were well received. Alex is cool too, but the audience idea of a fighter was to spam hadouken, so they had to bring Ryu back.
Replies: >>11816376
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:19:49 AM No.11816376
>>11815645
Rock and Alex were one game wonders
Replies: >>11816391
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:32:51 AM No.11816391
>>11816376
Rock is a much safer shoto shounen design. Alex is acquired taste.
Replies: >>11818238
Anonymous
6/22/2025, 7:49:13 AM No.11816413
>>11815036
it's survivorship bias to think the surviving art that has been preserved through history is representative of the totality of human art which has been made
Replies: >>11820848
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 3:46:26 AM No.11818238
kofk-
kofk-
md5: 5a4abbbed101cce11b1ca5b22f76441c๐Ÿ”
>>11816391
Rock is safer, the problem is he's just another one in the same template of Kyo, and he came out around the same time as another one, K', who has been more popular since then
Replies: >>11819170
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:27:51 PM No.11819170
>>11818238
>Our new character, K', he is Kyo but dark
>Our new character, Rock, he is Kyo if he was the son of Geese and Terry
Replies: >>11819183
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:33:35 PM No.11819183
>>11819170
yet they all play different
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:50:47 PM No.11819194
>>11809794
Ah yes, the classic tier list of pain for the Mortal Kombat franchise, where every entry has to be ranked not just from "bad" to "worse," but to the truly sacred title of "worst of all time" โ€” because obviously the only way to talk about video games now is in sweeping, absolute declarations like we're carving it into a granite slab for future civilizations.

But hey, letโ€™s play along:

MK vs DC? Too tame, no gore โ€” so of course it's heresy.

MK4? 3D jank and those incredible Lego-face cutscenes.

Deadly Alliance? Mortal Kombat but with stances and the charm of a mid-2000s action figure commercial.

Special Forces? We donโ€™t talk about Special Forces. That one feels like it was programmed on a dare.

MK Advance? Actually illegal in some countries for crimes against hit detection.

And yet somehow, MK1 (2023) gets dragged for being the "worst modern one" like we didnโ€™t all survive the wilderness era between Trilogy and Deception where the franchise was running entirely on blood fumes.

But sure, letโ€™s keep naming the "worst MK game of all time" like that title hasnโ€™t already been buried six feet under by Special Forces with a broken frame rate and Jax moonwalking into walls.
Replies: >>11819205 >>11819221
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:56:54 PM No.11819205
>>11819194
Anon, hate to say it as a millennial, but the 2D era isn't modern anymore. Kids who were born the year Deadly Alliance came out are now adults.
Replies: >>11819214
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 4:58:45 PM No.11819214
>>11819205
Anon, hate to say it as a millennial, but the 3D era isn't modern anymore. Kids who were born the year Deadly Alliance came out are now adults.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:00:22 PM No.11819221
>>11819194
Anon, hate to say it as a millennial, but the 3D era isn't modern anymore. Kids who were born the year Deadly Alliance came out are now adults.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:46:21 PM No.11819307
blizzard
blizzard
md5: 550b200b054ec2385b4dd734de1a7e5c๐Ÿ”
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 5:51:00 PM No.11819315
>>11812375
The only thing that dates Terry's design as a casual look is the bright red, because bright colorful clothing has now become the domain exclusively of like "hip hop attire".

At the end of the day it doesn't matter though because it's iconic, just like no "blue collar worker" in the modern age wears mustaches or hats like Mario because now that's an indie hipster ironic thing. A lot of characters looks are a little outdated, but if they're iconic you don't expect them to change. Jpop/rock idols don't dress glam anymore but I still don't want to see Benimaru look like one ofthese new Asian musicians who just imitate the Backstreet Boys
Replies: >>11819992
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:44:42 PM No.11819987
8112254
8112254
md5: 687b23d547273b97f79d5a766c48567c๐Ÿ”
Who was the protag in Rise 2?
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:46:53 PM No.11819992
1991624c5f4f469bafd73fdbeb14dcdc
1991624c5f4f469bafd73fdbeb14dcdc
md5: 2a012f3acc1ea764730a166aaa9b9cde๐Ÿ”
>>11819315
>Jpop/rock idols don't dress glam anymore but I still don't want to see Benimaru look like one ofthese new Asian musicians who just imitate the Backstreet Boys
Based
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 3:46:16 AM No.11820620
I like Terry and Kyo both for how a lot of their qualities are antithetical to ideals in the context of where they were made, yet are presented as entirely endearing and cool. Terry sums up a lot of negative stereotypes that a Japanese might have of an average American: loud, loutish, staunchly opposed to the idea of a steady job, would rather pig out on fast food all the time than ever cook (unless Rock does it). Kyo similarly can't even finish high school, hates the idea of diligence and hard work and chooses to coast on raw talent instead. But both are nonetheless infallibly heroic, with Terry being 110% affable and Kyo being cool as fuck.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:15:30 AM No.11820671
>>11809936
>I was born in 1989, so no,

Nah, you were born at the worst time. Too late to properly appreciate the 80s/90s/00s.
Replies: >>11820691
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:27:43 AM No.11820691
>>11820671
The 00s were my teen years, just because it was better than the 10s doesn't mean it wasn't still shit. Nu metal? Emo? Fuck off. Better than mumble rap doesn't mean good.

Also, the 90s was MAINLY good to be a little kid. Toy, cartoon, and video game standards were at the all time high either would ever see, but metal suffered in the 90s, by the time I was a teen in the 00s I could see good bands headline again like Slayer and Judas Priest, I wouldn't have done anything but beat ass in the era where Lilith Fair and Lolapalooza were popular.
Replies: >>11820693
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:29:56 AM No.11820693
>>11820691
nu metal is godlike. you're a pretentious faggot afraid to admit that limp bizkit fucking rips
Replies: >>11820750
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:30:47 AM No.11820696
sub_akira_p01
sub_akira_p01
md5: 1c76b895af269f0fd9d305807d008bbd๐Ÿ”
>>11813048
Akira *looks* literally nothing, and that's the trick, he is actually the most unorthodox controlled character in the game with the highest execution ceiling.
Like, most characters have f+K for a launcher and PPPK or PPfPK or dfPPPPK for combos.

Meanwhile Akira launcher is: P+G, release G after 1 frame, and your average combo chain is P+K+G b df P+K d b/f P and you have to execute each hit in 2 frames or it won't work. He also has throws that don't throw, just mess up the enemy stance and puts him at a 1 frame advantage. And don't get me started on his counter attacks (G b/bd/d P, if it whiffs he just punches).
Replies: >>11821436
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:57:40 AM No.11820750
>>11820693
I don't listen to wigger fag music nor music with cuck lyrics. That's everything wrong with gen z in a nutshell, cucked.
Replies: >>11820752
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:59:32 AM No.11820752
>>11820750
nu metal is a millennial hallmark, retard
Replies: >>11820758
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:01:32 AM No.11820758
>>11820752
The only people who look at nu-metal with fondness are gen zs who were 1 years old, and millennials who didn't listen to it back in the day but are LARPing now like they were. All of us who were, regret it, because it's poser metal and we evolved past teen/normie angst.
Replies: >>11820780 >>11820852 >>11820908 >>11824569
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:07:52 AM No.11820780
>>11820758
entirely false. the current nu-metal revival is being led by millennials who aren't insecure fags too afraid to admit that nu-metal grooves hard. it's based entirely on nostalgia.
I saw Limp Bizkit on their tour last summer and the audience of thousands was almost entirely late 30s to mid 40s like myself.
you're a dumb faggot still concerned with not looking "cringe" to anonymous 4chan posters, trapped in the high school mentality of allowing the hypothetical opinions of others dictate what you allow yourself to enjoy.
Replies: >>11824023
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:49:19 AM No.11820848
>>11816413
Nobody here has said that.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:51:13 AM No.11820852
>>11820758
I was listening to Limp Bizkit and Korn during their hey-day, and they were good. People don't like to admit it because of how Limp Bizkit is so cheesy and over-the-top (which is part of the act) but there's some real talent in there.
Replies: >>11821230 >>11823490
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 6:19:40 AM No.11820908
>>11820758
>All of us who were, regret it, because it's poser metal and we evolved past teen/normie angst.
I used to listen to Linkin Park and Eminem, so I can confirm this.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 8:40:46 AM No.11821173
>>11804961 (OP)
It's funny how buff and tall they made all those azns, only Terry looks his race. Liu Kang has a China face, but body was too built
Replies: >>11821234
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:44:10 AM No.11821230
>>11820852
Limp Bizkit was genuinely good because of Wes Borland and his riffs. Korn was decent on the first album but later stuff is too light and poppy. Same about Deftones and Mudvayne.
My favorites were groove bands like Pantera, Sepultura and Soulfly.
Replies: >>11823628
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:47:55 AM No.11821234
>>11821173
>tall
Ryu, Akira, Kyo, Jin Kazuya, Haohmaru are all under 6'0"
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:59:46 AM No.11821241
mario smash 64
mario smash 64
md5: e27edb999100a0f1e596d4ab579adc8e๐Ÿ”
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:18:46 PM No.11821406
>>11804961 (OP)
Ken masters
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 1:47:08 PM No.11821436
>>11820696
His gameplay is really fun and I kind of like his bushy eyebrows and spiky hair. Apart from that, he's pretty lame compared to Jeff and Hawk, who Sega thought were the coolest and made them have cameos in other games. Akira only got cameos nowadays.
Replies: >>11823515
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 3:51:37 AM No.11823467
LiuRyuBogard
LiuRyuBogard
md5: 03d545d2b4cd513f718b4e814c5ff77f๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
The top row are the top three
Replies: >>11826935
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:02:33 AM No.11823490
>>11820852
I think it's very millennial to hate what you liked when you were 12 and refuse any potential merit it might have had. They always seem so hostile about their old musical taste.
Replies: >>11824023
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:12:01 AM No.11823515
>>11821436
Every VF character only got cameos, because the series got blacklisted over at Sega after what happened to Yu Suzuki. It took only recently that they picked it up again.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:18:10 AM No.11823628
>>11821230
I liked early Devildriver. First 3 albums were fucking ace Groove metal.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:59:28 AM No.11823714
1732509813857725
1732509813857725
md5: 55b01102e993ab563a918e1cd5d9e1fa๐Ÿ”
Replies: >>11823780
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 6:00:32 AM No.11823719
1725054087213421
1725054087213421
md5: 5543cb522e3189b19039fcb76166bef3๐Ÿ”
Replies: >>11823780
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 6:40:58 AM No.11823780
>>11823714
>>11823719
Why are their legs so fuck long?
Replies: >>11824532
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 7:06:33 AM No.11823814
>>11804961 (OP)
Terry is probably coolest, but Ryu is the ideal fighting game protagonist.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:52:17 AM No.11824023
>>11820780
Late millennials-zoomers "reviving" nu metal aren't the people who liked it from its actual years, those are retroactively nostalgic people who missed out on it

I enjoy what I enjoy, and it's not rap even if it has shitty guitar riffs. Wes Borland isn't a metal player, he plays heavy funk rock, and funk sucks

>>11823490
Honestly I like a lot of music I liked back then still, I was into all metal. I just won't give nu metal any credit at all because it was part of the downfall of America, aka hip hop crossing over. It's unforgivable
Replies: >>11824558 >>11824562 >>11824568
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:38:35 PM No.11824532
>>11823780
Fujo appeal
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 4:56:20 PM No.11824558
ToeJam_&amp;_Earl
ToeJam_&amp;_Earl
md5: 5c395e9d774e1e02f1af0b4e7ca6e1d3๐Ÿ”
>>11824023
>funk sucks
You better take that back.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:01:52 PM No.11824562
>>11824023
you could not be more wrong. the current nu-metal revival is spearheaded by people who enjoyed it back in the day and aren't stunted faggots like you living in fear of someone on the internet calling them cringe.
also, funk kicks ass. you sound like an extremely boring person.
Replies: >>11825021
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:04:15 PM No.11824563
>>11811136
She got her own movie
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:06:53 PM No.11824568
>>11824023
>people who missed out on it
the fuck? nobody missed out on nu-metal. it was inescapable.
you're a zoomer I bet. nobody who was alive back then would actually think anyone could have missed that shit back then
Replies: >>11824952 >>11825614
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:07:18 PM No.11824569
>>11820758
I liked nu metal until I was about 17 and started listening to the rolling stones
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:14:46 PM No.11824586
sddefault (3)
sddefault (3)
md5: 3c519d2b328a32ef2dbfb1aaae6ae4b3๐Ÿ”
>>11812595
>Bro, it would take a massive dweeb to go out in public wearing a karate gi. That's part of why Street Fighter never made sense, it's not even about street fighters, it's about like cartoony martial arts stereotypes from different ethnicities representing their "culture" or whatever, there are no gritty streets in the game despite the SNES box trying to sell you that idea
>Fatal Fury, should have been called Street Fighter, since it's actually an urban setting, and SF should have been called "World Warriors", since that's what it is.
Street Fighter 1 had a bit more of that I guess
Replies: >>11824589
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:16:30 PM No.11824589
6267c5784325b
6267c5784325b
md5: ebfda1293dcc5b5fcdfb28a918afc8cb๐Ÿ”
>>11824586
Mugen mod and not the actual game, but good picture showing all the characters and stages
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:20:10 PM No.11824596
>>11812595
Why the fuck is this the game which inspires dickheads write like this to rant about how unrealistic it is?
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 5:36:29 PM No.11824616
>>11812595
>Bro, it would take a massive dweeb to go out in public wearing a karate gi.
Ryu is in fact a massive dweeb.
he's literally a hobo who wanders the world looking for fights
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 8:55:29 PM No.11824952
>>11824568
>the fuck? nobody missed out on nu-metal. it was inescapable
People who weren't coming of age until 2005, when nu-metal was dead in the water and the only bands who remained on the radio were those who changed to another style

Korn tried to ape NIN, Slipknot, SOAD and Disturbed threw in guitar solos and more melody to fit in with the more traditional metal crowd best they could, Linkin Park became indie hipster LARPers and calling their music a "mix of classic rock, classic hip hop, and electronic" totally denouncing the nu-metal label etc

If you were like a toddler in the early 00s, you didn't "witness" nu-metal, you witnessed the aftermath and few remaining bands who already changed styles still being on the radio as emo/scene/core took over for the current adolescents
Replies: >>11824972
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:09:28 PM No.11824972
>>11824952
The only people who "witnessed" real nu-metal are the people who understand this music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoAAbu2LUWQ
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:16:41 PM No.11824981
>>11810279
I personally disregard the KoF timeline since they just jerk off the flavor of the saga, which will never be the AoF or FF characters.
Replies: >>11825002
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:26:15 PM No.11825002
>>11824981
KoF was started as like a dream match type crossover game
>what if we put in all out favorite snk characters from different games into a fighting game
then somewhere, they also said
>let's make an original cast of characters to focus on to so it can have a story
and that's pretty much it, the FF, AOF, Ikari Warriors, etc are basically alt universe versions of themselves who live in a crossover world centered around some twinks with demonic flames
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:32:06 PM No.11825019
>>11807540
>>11808254
What makes her evil? I remember feeling this character was lame when I found out she doesn't even succ people to death, she just succs their dreams or some shit?
What's the point of a succubus that doesn't fuck you to death?

Oh noooo don't feed on my dreams!
Replies: >>11825053
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:33:05 PM No.11825021
>>11824562
>living in fear of someone on the internet calling them cringe.
>also, funk kicks ass. you sound like an extremely boring person.
I'm boring just because I reject African American music styles, ok, you sound very gay, how about that?
>the current nu-metal revival is spearheaded by people who enjoyed it back in the day
I was the tail end of the nu-metal generation and I'm 35, if they're younger than that which they all are, they didn't experience shit. They experienced power metal Disturbed and Slipknot morphing into Stone Sour, while the nu-metal era faded in favor of bands like Atreyu and Killswitch Engage
Replies: >>11825036 >>11825206
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:38:30 PM No.11825036
>>11825021
>if they're younger than that which they all are, they didn't experience shit. They experienced power metal Disturbed and Slipknot morphing into Stone Sour, while the nu-metal era faded in favor of bands like Atreyu and Killswitch Engage
Or none of that, to add on, for the zoomers. If you were born around 98-00 you were 10 by 2010 lol, which means your "nostalgic era" is fucking mumble rap and you kind of witnessed the end of the scene/emo era and indie/hipster era while your gens music was mumble rap and billie eilish, which yes is already past it's prime, 2015 was a decade ago now, do math.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:38:36 PM No.11825037
>>11814138
>Kyo Benimaru and the other Jap
I like how despite being protagonists of SNK's most popular fighting game, Benimaru and especially Daimon are kind of just... there.
They wank the emo and pretty boy characters too much in KoF for there to be space for the likes of Benimaru or Daimon so they end up just sidelined. If they were Fatal Fury or Art of Fighting characters they would probably get more love, but in a game series with the like of K', Ash, or Iori, they're like the invisible best friends of the really hot girl everyone ACTUALLY notices, Kyo.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:43:06 PM No.11825050
1750525309201480
1750525309201480
md5: 5ace70524bb5910e62ef6772ceeed9e5๐Ÿ”
Just wanted to say that Mai is canonically a metalhead.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 9:44:31 PM No.11825053
>>11825019
Well, she's a Darkstalker so she's evil because she's a monster/demon who feeds on humans and wants to be the ruler of hell and take over Earth. She has beef with Demitri because they both want to be the evil ruler of Hell
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 10:11:00 PM No.11825107
liukangrobinshou
liukangrobinshou
md5: 47754b64082f9aefd93a6db003b4e3df๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Liu Kang but really only because of the movie. In the games he's a pretty standard "meant to be the hero" guy but I liked his basic, but endearing character arc in the MK movie, going from angsty and vengeance filled to letting go of his brothers death. Robin Shou was a perfect casting, too bad that guy apparently was a huge diva so he never made it further in Holywood, definitely more charisma than say Jet Li.
Replies: >>11825170
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 10:35:07 PM No.11825170
>>11825107
He also appeared in Beverly Hills Ninja, and before MK he was one of the turtles in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 10:44:56 PM No.11825206
>>11825021
>I was the tail end of the nu-metal generation and I'm 35, if they're younger than that
they're not. whoops!
I was at Limp Bizkit last year and it was almost entirely 40-somethings. whoops!
guess you're a dumb faggot!
Replies: >>11825540
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:30:00 AM No.11825540
>>11825206
First of all, nobody cares about Limp Bizkit. They were a joke by 2000 and Slipknot ate their lunch, Korn was already considered "too old" as well but they were still accepted, Limp Bizkit was rejected out of the nu-metal fanbase because they got too corny, too pop, too wigger, etc, it was first gen and the second gen was more goth and hated "preps"

Second of all, I don't care about a bunch of nostalgic 30-40 year old meth heads who remember Rollin blasting during the summer trying to relive their youth, Limp Bizkit, Blink 182.....literally don't care about this normie bait shit.

When it comes to "nu metal revival" aka new bands anyone barely cares about these days it's all millennioomers and zoomers
Replies: >>11825549 >>11825557 >>11825575
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:33:34 AM No.11825549
>>11825540
Limp bizkit was the best nu-metal band
Replies: >>11825638
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:37:41 AM No.11825557
>>11825540
>nobody cares about Limp Bizkit
they just did a massive tour last year, drawing 10k+ per venue all over the country. whoops!
>secondly, I don't care about the stuff that proves me wrong
yeah, I know! you're retarded, everybody gets that, you don't have to explain it to us!
Replies: >>11825638
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:44:39 AM No.11825575
>>11825540
>a joke by 2000
>the year in which they dropped their most successful album, which went 6x platinum and charted singles well into 2001, going on to sell 10 mil worldwide
Holy ignorant zoomer who wasn't there, batman!
Replies: >>11825638
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:56:29 AM No.11825614
>>11824568
Do you intentionally misread people? He's talking about late-millennial early zoomer kids who were aware of it but couldn't partake in it back then. I should know because I'm fucking 28 and he's talking about people my age. I didn't like it as a kid and I still don't, but there's tons of people who do.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 1:04:30 AM No.11825638
>>11825557
Yeah gay nostalgia
>>11825575
I was at Ozzfest while Zakk Wylde held up a "FUCK LIMP BIZKIT" shirt cheering him on with the rest of the crowd. Limp Bizkit was for faggot wiggers and we were racist mall metallers with black nails and dyed hair.

>>11825549
Lol no, not even the best "dumb wiggercore", even Saliva and Papa Roach pre-emo/buttrock were better wanna be rap bands.
Replies: >>11825684 >>11826009
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 1:25:37 AM No.11825684
>>11825638
>Ozzfest
gay nostalgia lol
Replies: >>11826026
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 1:33:53 AM No.11825708
Numetal is gay and is the origin of the term numale
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:14:36 AM No.11826009
>>11825638
>we were racist
A racist lebanese is ironic but also sad
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:21:15 AM No.11826026
>>11825684
I was talking about going to Ozzfest in the 00s, it's not a nostalgic thing. You're really dumb aren't you. Ozzfest hasn't even existed in like over ten years for it to be a nostalgia thing.
Replies: >>11826083 >>11826089
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:53:31 AM No.11826082
>>11804961 (OP)
Sol Badguy
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:53:34 AM No.11826083
>>11826026
>Ozzfest in the 00s
Ozzy was relevant in the 80s lol
gay nostalgia
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:56:48 AM No.11826089
>>11826026
Ozzfest was for boomer queers and boomer-queers-at-heart who listened to godawful butt metal written by alcoholics and wannabe bikers. Zakk Wylde is a faggot lol
If you went to Ozzfest in the 00s people like me definitely bullied you. You probably also thought Five Finger Death Punch was a good bad years later. lmfao.
Replies: >>11826095 >>11826138 >>11826142 >>11826154
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:59:38 AM No.11826095
>>11826089
FFDP is the nickelback of metal
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:00:08 AM No.11826097
>>11804961 (OP)
Ryu obviously, but the guy from Fatal Fury and Haohmaru also were good.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:21:36 AM No.11826138
>>11826089
Lol this LARPing zoomers is steaming over a cuck jogger rock (not metal n any way) band like Shrimp Dickspit

ICP fans even bullied the losers who liked Learning me after 99, where they were a laughing stock because the new, relevant artists like Slipknot and Eminem called them pussies and posers.

And Ozzfest was literally the festival that nu metal exploded on after Family Values was old because nobody gave a fuck about the corny adidas side of nu metal anymore. Slipknot blew up from Ozzfest, Mudvayne, SOAD, Disturbed, Coal Chamber etc
Replies: >>11826148
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:22:49 AM No.11826142
>>11826089
Limp was uncool by the album results may vary, they got clowned in the media. They were done until faggot bbc cucks brought them back
Replies: >>11826159
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:24:51 AM No.11826148
>>11826138
Slipknot and ICP were cool with each other lol
exposed for larping zoomer faggot who wasn't there
Replies: >>11826151
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:26:08 AM No.11826151
>>11826148
LMFAO HE DELETED THE POST BECAUSE HE KNEW IT EXPOSED HIM
BTFO
T
F
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Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:26:50 AM No.11826154
>>11826089
Lol this LARPing zoomers is steaming over a cuck jogger rock (not metal n any way) band like Shrimp Dickspit

ICP fans even bullied the losers who liked Limp after 99, where they were a laughing stock because the new, relevant actually edgy and dark artists like Slipknot and Eminem called them pussies and posers, which they were. Only sheltered posers who shopped at Old Navy and didn't drink or cuss liked that faggot band.

And Ozzfest was literally the festival that nu metal exploded on besides Family Values was old because nobody gave a fuck about the corny adidas side of nu metal anymore or faggots like Ice Cube. Slipknot blew up from Ozzfest, Mudvayne, SOAD, Disturbed, Coal Chamber etc.

You can't be metal and like rap, kill yourself poser faggot cuck
Replies: >>11826162 >>11826167 >>11826175
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:29:33 AM No.11826159
>>11826142
Results May Vary was shit on (and rightfully so) because Wes wasn't on that record
nu metal's resurgence is the result of a lot of millennials who loved the shit in high school, got embarrassed of their love for the genre as young adults due to cultural backlash, and then matured enough to not give a fuck what people had to say about what they like.
nu metal is not deep or challenging, its not complex or virtuosic. it's just accessible, groovy, heavy shit. if you don't see the appeal, I feel bad for you.
Replies: >>11826160 >>11826163
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:30:44 AM No.11826160
>>11826159
Rap is garbage and black people music isn't metal
Replies: >>11826171
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:31:19 AM No.11826162
>>11826154
dont give a fuck what you think, i'ma listen to all the heavy shit and that includes nu metal.
keep seething about what other people like though, that's metal as fuck!
Replies: >>11826174
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:32:33 AM No.11826163
>>11826159
They're all cucks
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:33:06 AM No.11826167
>>11826154
>edgy and dark artists
>Eminem
Holy kek
Replies: >>11826179 >>11826285
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:34:11 AM No.11826171
>>11826160
yeah zakk wylde wanking out generic pentatonic box solos is soooo metal bro
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:35:05 AM No.11826174
>>11826162
Metal is elitist, rap is gutter trash . Can't be elite and also a mainstream wigger rap rock radio sheep sorry brah
Replies: >>11826178 >>11826180
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:35:14 AM No.11826175
1000030206
1000030206
md5: 35eafaa8227579527fe8c5ff58c62f08๐Ÿ”
>>11826154
>actually edgy and dark artists like Slipknot
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:36:09 AM No.11826178
>>11826174
>Metal is elitist
Metal is essentially pop music
Replies: >>11826181
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:36:41 AM No.11826179
>>11826167
He makes fun of queers and makes songs about murder and rape, so yeah compared to Shrimp Dicklets cuck songs, he was. Eminem was cool in the 00s, fatfuck Durst wasn't anymore
Replies: >>11826185
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:37:22 AM No.11826180
>>11826174
>don't be a rap rock radio wigger sheep! listen to actually edgy and dark artists
>like Eminem (radio rap wigger)
>and Slipknot (actual nu metal band)
Holy fucking bait
Replies: >>11826216
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:38:03 AM No.11826181
>>11826178
Only nu "metal" is poser, literally wear the same clothes as the backstreet broads and dance around like dirty chimpoids
Replies: >>11826192 >>11826194
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:38:36 AM No.11826185
>>11826179
Eminem is leftoid cuck. And his music sucks
Replies: >>11826223 >>11826954
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:43:26 AM No.11826192
>>11826181
metal comes in three flavors
1) poppy and accessible (this includes nu metal, every band that ever played ozzfest or any other summer festival, every band that was ever on the radio, Tool, Metallica, and generally most metal bands that people have heard of. also djent)
2) technical wank (basically every death metal band, "progressive" metal like Between the Buried and Me, and anything where guitar and drum virtuosity are the selling point. also djent)
3) unlistenable garbage (black metal, grindcore and all related subgenres, thall, and anything where blast beats are a selling point. also djent)
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:44:25 AM No.11826194
>>11826181
Most metal is catchy verse chorus verse shit with basic rhythm to dance. Esp bands like SOAD and Disturbed.
Replies: >>11826196 >>11826216
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:46:04 AM No.11826196
>>11826194
most metal you've heard of is like this. there are thousands of obscure and generally terrible metal bands who do at least have inventive song structure going for them
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:57:20 AM No.11826216
>>11826194
That's nu metal

Pop is a state of being, mainstream sheltered suburban trends, that's pop

>>11826180
Learn reading comprehension, im talking about how the era was, all ny metal is gay to like now regardless because metal isn't faggots with baggy pants who rap and cry
Replies: >>11826224
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:59:58 AM No.11826223
>>11826185
Limp Bizkit is leftist, they're black people fans. They also literally make songs about being cucked like "nookie" and many others. At least Eminems cuck songs end with murder, but you're not an edgelord, you're a faggot
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:00:36 AM No.11826224
>>11826216
>mainstream sheltered suburban trends
so like Slipknot and Eminem lol
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:14:25 AM No.11826249
Limp Bizkit fans in 2025 come in three varieties and none of them are metal
>A. divorced meth head dad, also fan of Nickelback, FFDP, but mostly just rap and country
>B. Ironic nostalgic soibois who were into like Franz Ferdinand in reality but are jumping on the y2k nostalgia trend
>C. Zoomers who like mumble crap, tranny zoomers who like 100 gecs
Replies: >>11826289
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:19:41 AM No.11826256
Devil Jin is the best fighting game character ever.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:31:31 AM No.11826285
>>11826167
Dude, Eminem was the definition of edgy. He's the stupid white kid who hangs out with da ganxta hood and sings shit about taking ALL the drugs, fucking da bitchez, mentally ill stalkers who want to murder suicide their pregnant girlfriends, or talking a shit about Moby/FCC/Limp Bizkit/Elvis Presley/MTV while dressed up as Adam West Batman & Robin. The lyrics in some of his songs literally talk about kids wanting to be edgy shit and he'll have to be the edgy shit for them to stay relevant.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:33:09 AM No.11826289
>>11826249
>mostly just rap and country
kek
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:33:46 AM No.11826291
This irony here is that on /vr/ we can have 100+ posts about 00s numetal junk but if you talk about romhacking.net you get banned.
Replies: >>11826316
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 6:42:17 AM No.11826316
>>11826291
j-jannies?
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:31:13 PM No.11826935
>>11823467
Ryu Kang Bogard, and his rival is his brother Ken Lao Bogard.
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 4:48:02 PM No.11826954
>>11826185
wtf I love eminem now
Anonymous
6/26/2025, 5:10:29 PM No.11826981
I love music but I hate people who talk about it.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 3:42:15 AM No.11827964
Terry
Terry
md5: d260715181342eef049d184ea0f30726๐Ÿ”
>>11804961 (OP)
Terry and it's not even close.

Capcom settled for Ryu after rejecting some aryan guy pitched by Nishiyama. Sometime later, he pitched Terry to SNK and they accepted. Ryufags got mindbroke so hard that Capcom couldn't help but came up with Alex and other 2 Terry wanabes.
Replies: >>11828072 >>11828129 >>11828136
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:42:28 AM No.11828072
>>11827964
I always found it hilarious how many times the companies switched teams completely. The Street Fighter 1 team quit and made Art of Fighting for SNK, the Virtua Fighter 1 team quit Sega and made Tekken, etc...
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:44:03 AM No.11828076
>>11804961 (OP)
Lara Croft, because she's fighting an uphill battle against breast cancer.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:09:11 AM No.11828129
>>11827964
Barely anyone cared about Terry when Kyo and Iori debuted and up until the Playmore era. Terry obsession is a zoomer thing. Zoomers think he was THE SNK protag in the 90s for some reason while he was just one of the protags and his series was mogged by KOF and SFA.
Replies: >>11828137 >>11828264
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:12:40 AM No.11828136
>>11827964
>Ryufags
No such thing. Akuma has replaced Ryu in peoples minds and hearts.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:12:49 AM No.11828137
>>11828129
Nah, everybody thinks Terry is cool. I don't what you mean by caring about him, but I've never met anyone who doesn't appreciate the character.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:19:48 AM No.11828146
>>11804963
Ken Shiro
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:21:52 AM No.11828150
>>11828137
>everybody thinks Terry is cool
As I said, that is a new thing. Back in the 90s only japs and mexicans cared about Terry. Among regular people he was as popular as World Heroes or Power Instinct characters. It's when SNK started whoring him out to other franchises zoomers went larping like "in the 90s we wuz snk fans and shiet, terry was my nigga".
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:24:46 AM No.11828152
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md5: a763082ebed3b374f4bfbccc252654e4๐Ÿ”
>>11805014
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:28:05 AM No.11828156
>>11815332
You tell em, anon. btw check out my all-age DoA Roblox game. I gave Ayane pretty big honkers for players to play with :3
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:39:37 AM No.11828168
>>11828150
>As I said, that is a new thing
Well yeah obviously I agree he's more widely known now with him being put into Smash and everything else. But everyone who actually knew about the character liked him in the past too. It wasn't like SNK was totally unpopular in the 90s either, even in America. Neo Geos were everywhere.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:59:32 AM No.11828264
>>11828150
>>11828129
Just because you are repeating this does not mean it's true. SNK was plenty popular in the 90s with the kids who didn't play SF2/MK2, either as a counter culture thing or because the arcades only had neogeo cabs. Obviously not as popular as SF2/MK2, but to say he was completely unknown is bullshit.

It's true that their popularity exploded in the early 00s, thanks to Neogeo emulation and Capcom vs SNK 1-2.
Replies: >>11828392 >>11828407
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:00:32 AM No.11828265
>>11828152
>Ryu Domesticabusa
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:29:13 AM No.11828352
>>11828150
I'm from the 90s and I think Terry is cool. Some of us dug harder into games than you, that's all. I wasn't casual as a little kid, martial arts media in general was an obsession

And to be honest I never played an SNK game until the Capcom crossover. I could never find SNK games at stores or for rental. I knew about them from magazines and anime, and was obsessed with playing the games one day
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:13:45 AM No.11828392
>>11828264
>the kids who didn't play SF2/MK2
No such thing, unless they were born after the fighting games boom
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:15:36 AM No.11828396
>>11828352
>I wasn't casual as a little kid
And what were you into as a kid?
Replies: >>11828408
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:24:42 AM No.11828405
>>11828352
Fighters were as to what fps is now, everyone had at least a couple around just cause it was a multiplayer thing. Lotta people liked these games who never got better than mashing randomly and praying for a hadouken (like James and Mike)
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:26:30 AM No.11828407
>>11828264
>counter culture thing
Come on. The only counterculture fighting games were those doujin ones with rape cutscenes. I guess, the first Mortal Kombat with its cheesy digital actors, blood and gore could be called counterculture when it was still being made but it stopped being it once it was accepted into the mainstream culture.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:28:22 AM No.11828408
>>11828396
I just told you martial arts media was an obsession. As well as anime which all crosses over to fighting games. The fatal fury anime was better than all the rest, it made me like the characters before I even played the games
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:34:23 AM No.11828413
>>11828408
>The fatal fury anime was better than all the rest
Nah, for us who were really into martial arts anime, Hokuto no Ken was our thing.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:50:10 AM No.11828420
>>11828413
Yeah well I never heard of that when I was like 10.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:10:53 AM No.11828446
fatal fury
fatal fury
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>>11828408
Based, I was going to bring up the 90s Fatal Fury anime.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:26:44 PM No.11828927
>>11828392
>Latin America doesn't exist
lmfao. retard
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:28:02 PM No.11828930
>>11828413
confirmed for larping zoomer faggot
nobody called it HnK back then, it was Fist of the North Star
also barely anybody knew about it, "martial arts anime" in the 90s was almost always referring to Dragonball Z
Replies: >>11828982
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:38:09 PM No.11828963
Little Mac
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:47:15 PM No.11828982
>>11828930
>barely anybody knew about it
Exactly. Hence why I am more elitist than you
Replies: >>11828984
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:49:16 PM No.11828984
>>11828982
you didnt know about it back then either.
Replies: >>11828997
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 4:53:43 PM No.11828997
>>11828984
I did, don't be jealous. You're probably larping about being into Fatal Fury anime back then since you assume everyone a liar by default
Replies: >>11829009
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:00:28 PM No.11829009
>>11828997
no you didn't.
I never saw the Fatal Fury OVAs back in the day. I did rent the Battle Arena Toshinden one though. Sofia has a shower scene, shit was money.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:15:43 PM No.11829039
>>11829009
>no you didn't.
What are you, five?
Replies: >>11829090
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:36:16 PM No.11829090
>>11829039
i'm old enough to know that HnK was insanely obscure in the 90s and you didnt know about it.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 5:47:51 PM No.11829120
>>11829090
>HnK was insanely obscure in the 90s
Hence why I am an elitist and you're a casual
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 6:08:40 PM No.11829158
>>11829090
You're right that it was insanely obscure compared to anime that appeared on TV, but among people who got anime tapes it was pretty well known. Even my dad brought home a Fist of the North Star tape in the 90s (he got it from a work friend). And Fatal Fury wasn't hard to find in rental places either, at least in my area. If you were into anime back then beyond stuff on TV you probably were aware of it.
>>11829009
>I did rent the Battle Arena Toshinden one though. Sofia has a shower scene, shit was money.
Based. That and the Chun-Li shower scene in the SF2 movie were both great.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:23:01 PM No.11829280
>>11828392
>No such thing, unless they were born after the fighting games boom

Yeah, there could be kids who actually liked the SNK fighters more, and there were people who played them simply so they do not mix up with the little kids who think SF2 is the hottest shit ever. When I used to go to arcades in the 90s, SF2 machines were almost never played, but Fatal Fury, KOF95, and even the SNK Double Dragon fighter always had people playing it. MK2 and MK3 was also frequently played.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:26:30 PM No.11829286
>>11829280
>When I used to go to arcades in the 90s, SF2 machines were almost never played, but Fatal Fury, KOF95, and even the SNK Double Dragon fighter always had people playing it
this isn't a board for your faggoty creative writing.
Replies: >>11829298
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:33:03 PM No.11829298
>>11829286
That was the arcade I visited on summer holidays. SF2 wasn't as popular everywhere as it was in the USA.