Thread 12029852

Does anybody even like these guys?

Honda is cool, I like using him.

As a kid i dressed up as E Honda once for halloween and went to school like that. Everybody laughed at my man tits. One of the popular girls started it because she came up to me and asked if she could pinch my nipples with one of those black plastic clamps that are supposed to hold paper together and I told her no.

>>12029852 (OP)
Real sf fans respect the world warriors. Go back to v, zoomer.

>>12029880
>Everybody laughed at my man tits
kek

>>12029852 (OP)
My dad passed away. Dhalsim was his favorite Street Fighter character even up to SF3's release, and he really liked his SF2 stage with the elephants in the room...

>>12029852 (OP)
i've fapped to e honda before

>>12029852 (OP)
i want Edmund to crush me

>>12029852 (OP)
Dhalsim's dance is timeless and funny

>>12029852 (OP)
underestimate dhalsim at your own peril

>>12029880
>he didn't give her the sumo palm strike
NGMI

>>12029880
Should've gone as Zangief and proceeded to Spinning Pile Drive that bitch.

>>12029880
You should have said sure, as long as you can pinch hers.

>>12029852 (OP)
Deejay and T.Hawk are way more lame than those two.

>>12029885
Idk Ive been playing since SF2 was released, I hate the freak characters. Only play the fit cool ones and hot girls.

>>12029852 (OP)
Pisses me off Dhalsim gets a free pass for being in every new SF in the starting roster just because he was lucky enough to be in SF2 and nostalgia is too strong. Nobody likes fighting this fuck.

I'm a Ryu/Gief main, but I find Dhalsim one of the craziest characters of the OGs and the amount of shit you can do with the adequate execution is great.

>>12030093
What's it like being mentally 13 forever?

>>12029852 (OP)
>>12030112

t. These guys are getting full screened by headbutts and Dhalsim punches

>>12029852 (OP)
T.Hawk is so lame they completely stopped pretending anybody could give a fuck about him

>>12029852 (OP)
dhalsim is fun to use when you want to troll someone who doesn't play.

>>12030120
>there were actual academic studies based around T. Hawk's identity and representation of indigenous people
All this shit just to say the nips clearly didn't know what the fuck a Mexican looked like and just went with some Cherokee-looking motherfucker.

>>12030135
i don't think you need to do a fucking academic study to conclude that a character from a series who's all about exaggerated stereotypes is a stereotype

>>12030135
And the funniest part is he was originally gonna be even more stereo-typically Native American with a long feather headdress and everything, and they toned it down because they didn't want to look racist.

>>12030136
I think the point is they fucked it up so badly that nobody connected to it

>>12030136
The issue is they didn't even get their exaggerated stereotypes right. They used a stereotype of a Native American to represent an indigenous Mexican, none of which look or dress like that. We wouldn't get an actual Mexican stereotype until El Fuerte.

>>12030145
T. Hawk is cooler than El Fuerte though

>>12029898
I want to smell his fundoshi desu

>>12030158
No argument there. Still, this gives me an idea for a little experiment: show a random group of people who aren't familiar with Street Fighter a picture showing T. Hawk, El Fuerte, and Sean the huezillian from SF3 side by side, and ask them to guess which two of the three are Mexican. I'd be surprised if more than one or two chose T. Hawk.

>>12029892
>>12029898
>>12030169
is honda popular among the gays or something

>>12030221
Maybe among the barafags, though I'd peg them as being more into Zangief.

>>12029852 (OP)
> Nigga who has the most creative moveset in the game and is top tier in every appearance.
> Surprising parody of a cultural icon.
In retrospect, SF has always been an equal offender

Half of the World Warrior cast sucks

>>12030310
you're really gonna diss my boi chun-li like that

>>12030093
In fighters, i only pick the freaks or the hot girls.

>>12030315
*unless it's a game with Terry in it. He is the only hot dude in a fighting game I respect and will always pick as the first option.

>>12030319
Based, MotW Terry is just too cool.

>>12030135
I had Daniel Calleros Villareal teach one of my spanish lit courses. He was a pretentious asshole.

>>12030358
The article makes him sound like a little bitch

>>12029852 (OP)
i like using honda

>>12030221
>is [man] popular among the gays?
The answer is always yes. Just like how literally ANY female character will have guys jerking it to her, so too will any male character have gays jerking it to him. Men aren't like women, on the whole they tend to have far more diverse tastes when it comes to attraction. Present one million women with E Honda and you MIGHT find a couple hundred who would find him attractive. Present him to one million gay men, and that number would probably reach 100,000.

>>12030135
Boy are those Marxist fuckers so much fun, aren't they?

>>12029852 (OP)
Dhalsim is fine as the token freak guy, but E Honda is just lame

>>12030172
Sean's supposed to be the son of a Japanese man and an afro-brazilian/mulatta woman from Rio de Janeiro, but his name and appearance just scream that he’s supposed to be from some american inner city neighborhood. His connection to Laura feels tacked on.

Sumos are cool.

>>12030620
>Sumos
>s

>>12030620
>Sumos

>>12029852 (OP)
I respect Dhalsim players.
The same way I would respect a man who painted my front door witch ketchup, making a decent copy of "Girl with a Pearl Earring".
It's malicious, pointless, not fun for anyone involved, but there is a certain level of skill in this sick game.

>>12029852 (OP)
I prefered other characters (mostly Ryu, Ken and Guile) but Ithey're not bad. A competent Honda player specially can be big trouble.

>>12030315
I always went for the monster/alien like character like Blanka or Gen'an

>>12029889
Sorry for your loss, Rajesh.

>>12030441
It is funny though that the fighting game that started the whole craze had two legit token freak guys (Dhalsim and Blanka).

>>12030093
I could understand Dhalsim but what's freaky about a sumo wrestler?

>>12030097
>Nobody likes fighting this fuck.
Precisely why I like playing him.

>>12031459
Can a sumo wrestler move your average Amerilard?

>>12030135
Imagine spending four years in college to do your thesis on the race of a fictional video game character, holy shit.

>>12029852 (OP)
I wish actual Indians were like Dhalsim if anything. He's fun in Super Turbo if you're not the one who has to endure fighting him also.

>>12030620
These dudes get mad pussy in real life. Tons of young Japanese girls show up to the fights to cheer them on.

>>12029852 (OP)
Dhalsim's character is so funny to me. The names of his abilities are absurd.
>Yoga fire
>Yoga teleport
The idea that you can breath fire, or teleport, or stretch your limbs to incredible lengths through the power of yoga is such a ridiculous concept, I can never take him seriously. I thought he was a joke character when I first got into Street Fighter.

>>12033360
>The idea that you can breath fire, or teleport, or stretch your limbs to incredible lengths through the power of yoga is such a ridiculous concept, I can never take him seriously.
every single character has supernatural abilities

>>12033364
Yeah, and Dhalsim's is fucking yoga.

>>12029880
How the hell were you allowed in school shirtless even as a boy? Girls in my school couldn't even wear spaghetti straps and it was a shithole California public school.

He has the most interesting moveset.

>>12029852 (OP)
The only thing I have against Dahlsim is that he is among the OG World Warriors, which means that he is by default way more likely to show up in the roster that anyone outside of that group despite being far lamer, otherwhise he is as appealing as sfiv hakan.

>>12033443
This was in a small school in Alabama in the mid 90's, we still played shirts and skins on the playground. It was also fifth grade so we didn't have to worry about seeing any titties or nothing. Not unless you were a chunky little shit like I was.

>>12031713
I don't think Blanka is a freak character, he's more like a cool monster
I found Shuma-Gorath cool as hell in Marvel vs Street Fighter for example because he looks cool as hell too
When I think of freak characters I imagine weird/ugly guys like Dhalsim, Voldo or Faust

>>12033643
(fuck I repeated a bunch of words while editing my sentence)

>> execute frame perfect yoga teleport
yeah... Dhalsim sucks

>>12033643
When I think freak character, I think pic related

>>12029852 (OP)
Edmond Honda is pretty cool. He is kinda shit but I like him. Dhalsim can be really good but he is too goofy for me.

>>12029880
Pretty based. I only dressed as Batman Bart Simpson.

>>12029852 (OP)
Sim is literally one of the most fun characters to play in the entire series. You must not play fighting games

>>12033360
Yoga is a deeply meditative exercise, so that's probably why it gives Dhalsim special powers. Any yoga meditator would conjure in their mind's eye a wish to take a yoga shit when their bowels start bricking up.

>>12033360
they probably got the stretchy limbs idea from IRL religious yogis that do those weird poses and meditate all day

This is the fist of someone who never punched anything

Dhalsim fills a unique gameplay niche that you can sort of justify his existence with. Honda is just one of the three move human missile charge characters that all play the same except the one move they added to try to differentiate them in later versions and that move also made him into a fucking grappler that's obnoxious for at least half the cast to play against at every range so he's just entirely intolerable.

>>12030135
Why do native americans and only native americans flip their shit when a cartoon character is cartoonish?

>>12033360
Dhalsim doesn't breathe fire because of yoga, he breathes fire because he eats curry all the time.

>>12029852 (OP)
Honda's sprite here is garbage. Mostly because of the arm.

>>12033943
Sumo doesn't permit the use of a closed fist, genius. More slapping and pushing, when it comes to delivering blows.

>>12031370
I like him.
Characters who can shapeshift are my fav anf its a shame 2d is kinda dead because I feel they only thrive there.
Twelve, Zato/Eddie, Arakune, Nrvnqsr Chaos, etc

>>12034570
t. never punched anything

>>12029852 (OP)
Wahh, why these guys more popular than my heccin Midkoto.

>>12034570
>>12034614
who would win? a super fucking fatass trained in pushing your ass out of the ring, or a super martial artist trained in fighting his own weight class?

>>12029852 (OP)
Arino sure does!
Dhalsim used to be my favorite character when I was in high school and didn't play fighting games that often. Didn't become Chun until after I started to again in college and got /fit/ and developed and undying thing for gymbunnies.

>>12033943
that's a thumb snapper iirc. learned that in high school.

>>12033376
At least his weird abilities are handwaved away with him having some eastern mystic thing going on, whereas Guile can shoot energy blasts by the power of being a military dude

>>12030135
What about Ramon from KoF?

>>12029852 (OP)

Fuck yeah, my friend plays a mean Dhalsim.

>>12029852 (OP)

I used to like the one with the skulls in the neck and the bald head, but later after seeing he is bad tier character and also how ugly he is, i prefered later to used vega.

>>12030135
This whole thing falls apart when others like Nightwolf from MK were untouched

>>12030145
Why would some Japanese cartoonist worry about "mexican representation" or have representation as a goal? Indigenous people did and do live in mexico and the US, so for all anyone knows the japanese guy was like "this guy sees himself as huachlacoaxlatltec first and a denizen of the sonoran desert second and he doesn't take no stock in no estados unidos" and from the POV of a Japanese hentai expert that's totally legit

Did anyone ask Japanese about representing the lived experience of Japanese hentai experts?

Is Dhalsim the only SF character confirmed to have had a kid?

>>12036050
Bro... your Ken???

>>12035575
The point of a stereotype is to make it instantly recognizable as being of a certain nationality, ethnicity, or culture to most observers with a passing knowledge of them. You look at Guile, you know for a fact he's American. You look at Dee Jay, if not clearly Jamaican at least no one would bat an eye if you told them so. Close to no one is going to look at T. Hawk and think Mexican as their first guess, and if you told them he is, some may very well question that. That's why he doesn't work as a stereotype: he's not RECOGNIZABLY Mexican, only plausibly so if you're familiar with northern indigenous tribes, which most people aren't, and even then that's stretching it.

>>12036075
Isn't that kinda racist though

>>12036075
I doubt the thought process behind T. Hawk's design was
>let's create a mexican character
It almost certainly was
>let's create an indian character
And then when deciding on a nationality they went
>there were indians in mexico right? it's settled

>>12033976
I feel like FF roster had a better moveset.

>>12036079
It can be, but games like SF2 and Punch-Out mitigate it by stereotyping every nationality more or less equally.
>>12036084
Pretty much what I expect as well.

>makoto fag thread
i like that people stop including blanka after getting proven wrong in every thread

>>12036130
holy schizo, your post is literally the first mention of makoto in this thread. also blanka is cool, that's probably why he's not in a thread about lame characters

>>12036142
cry more makoto fag

>>12036142
I hate blanka's stupid dumb ass whining about his momma all the time. it was literally cool one time, the first time, in SFII
now he's just a bitch

>>12036084
sounds like burger cope to me. Half of burgerland was mexican, including texas and california, so the tribes share a lot of similarities.

>>12036194
>burger
I'm not even american
>cope
? What's there to cope about?
My point is that they probably didn't set out to make a mexican character with T. Hawk, but an indian (native) character, and that's why he does not look stereotypically mexican. That's it

>>12036051
That's Ryu who says that.

>>12034675
The point is that the fatass would break his thumb if he tried to punch anyone with that fist.

>>12036050
Also Ken, Guile, maybe others

>>12036265
Why the fuck would you say that?

>>12036125
Street Fighter makes it work better too since it uses stereotypes to make characters cool or likeable, not degrade them.
Guille and Balrog are both American stereotypes very rarely painted in a positive light in Japanese media but in execution make them likeable characters that you want to play as.
Punch-Out!! To a lesser extent but that's because your opponents are opponents and you don't play as them so the intent is a little different.

>>12036281
I mean, racial stereotypes are a thing in combat sports. Only the UFC has started to blur those lines, and there's even that funny joke about “racially ambiguous fighters.”

>>12036278
Because that's how it IS. Punch with the thumb tucked behind the fingers and ALL THE FORCE is applied to the fucking thumb, INSTANTLY breaking it.

>>12036310
>t. thumblet

>>12036347
>t. strengthlet

Best moveset in WW
RYU > Dalshim > Guile > Blanka > Chun-Li > Honda > Gief

OG Gief is the worst Gief, Honda is lame and still needs a complete overhaul, OG Guile is the best charge character in the game, Chun has one of the best animations in the game, Ryu has the most complete kit, and Dalshim is the best original character. Champion was more than needed. WW in retrospect is a great PVE game but pretty lame for 1v1.

>>12036379
>t. strengthlet-let

>>12036432
you're really gonna diss my boi Gief like that
>blanka that high
don't tell me you're a blanka stan

>>12036265
true, i was more just pondering the matchup instead of paying attention to the anatomy error

>>12029852 (OP)
honda is one of my favorite characters. i like dhalsim's gimmick but i could never get the hang of him. i feel like the biggest retard when i use him in any game.

>>12036494
If I recall correctly, PC Gief doesn't have much meatiness, and his best tool is the command grab, which isn't telegraphed unlike in later games. WW is full of jank, so it's about who can outjank the other. But in terms of moveset design, he's kind of the worst character.

>>12029880
that's based dawg
hope that doesn't haunt you because you have nothing to be ashamed of
what were you supposed to do? be a skinny e. honda?
they could kick rocks

>>12029993
>Honda doesn't have a command grab

>>12036151
When does Blanka do that in other games?

>>12030113
wrong quote

>>12031370
Twelve isn't lame, it's a misunderstood character because SF-fags hate zoners

>>12033643
>I don't think Blanka is a freak character
stopped reading

>>12037027
to be honest i had to cope with the fact that my two best friends enjoy twelve and his zoner ass annoying ass, whereas i just like to jump in and slap their shit with my combos and sheit. like you got TWO best friends, and twelve is their common pick? damn wtf kinda rng did i get

>>12032575
Apu and Dhalsim made everyone neutral at worst to Indians
then real life Indians showed up to ruin their own image

>>12033943
>>12035157
Was rewatching that episode, oddly it depends on the version.

>>12037037
could have told them to only pick X.C.O.P.Y., at least you'd get semi-mirror matches

>>12037304
The 16 bit console ports have completely different art because they have to run 256x224 instead of 384x224.

>>12037323
i wish i did but they never picked that special

>>12036990
NTA but he has a point. They made Blanka lame af in every other game that wasn't WW. He sounds like a Shrek character in 6, it's really cringey.

>>12037326
tell us something we don't know professor

>>12037030
Blanka is freak of cock

>>12036310
Well what a coincidence, he never punches.

>>12039013
that Anon hasn't even played the game

Most people could be beat with Dhalsims fierce attacks and yoga fire.

>>12039038
this anon is blind and doesn't know what sumo is

>>12037304
How odd but also improved

>>12029852 (OP)
cant call them lame if you like being women in fighting games. basically a faggot that hasnt realized it yet

>>12039149
that Anon is a little bitch

>becomes Elena's exclusive anal cavity explorer
Akuma won

>>12029852 (OP)
E. Honda is cool just because he's SF
Imagine being one of the generic sumo guys in literally any other fighting game though

>>12039991
?

>>12029852 (OP)
Both of their themes go extremely hard. I have never elsewhere heard such perfect encapsulations of Japan and India respectively.

>>12040003
>E. Honda is cool just because he's SF
And how does being from Street Fighter inherently makes you cool no matter how lame your design is?

>>12040039
He did it first

>>12030135
was it autism?

>>12036130
>>12036149
don't understand you soz

>>12040039
Because when it comes down to it, Street Fighter and Tekken are the only fighting game franchises that matter. Everything else is a cheap knock-off of one of the two.

Never liked T. Hawk because his style is fuck-all confusing and since it's not based on anything (beacuse there isn't anything it could be based off; both native north and south americans had practically theabsolute least reason out of anyone else in the world to develop hand-to-hand martial arts) it just felt really forced. Blanka worked out just fine as a weird South American fighter, I feel they tried doing something similar with the odd bulking man who throws himself around like a bird but again it just looks retarded.
I know it's a Japanese developer in the early '90s so of course they didn't know that much about Mexican history, but if you wanted to have a Mexican fighter that isn't just a luchador, a modern jaguar would be pretty cool.

>>12040596
What about the game that's a very loving knock-off of all of them?

>>12032580
that means I have a chance!

>>12040598
you have to like all the street fighters or else you're racist
this is why Ken had to get cancelled in six, it's cause he's the whitest malest street fighter

>>12029852 (OP)
Those were literally my favorites in world warrior

>>12040864
you're really gonna diss my boi Zangief like that

T.HAWK is the stoic Native American with a dash of wrestler gimmicks. It's obvious that he's based on something.

>>12040894
Based on what?

>>12030228
Zangief has that unappealing Slavic facial structure.

>>12041293
What's with all the Zangief haters itt? Did all of your guys' gfs get Gief'd or what?

>>12041447
Haggar is just cooler, was designed first, and has more right to be in SF.

>>12040841
>Ken had to get cancelled in six
Pardon?

>>12040894
he kinda looks like the nightstalker
>>12041593
he gets blamed for a bombing in six and has to live as a homeless wanderer like Ryu because everyone hates him so much