Akuma smacking evil back into Street Fighter IV

If Im not wrong, it was already announced, also Fei Long

Oh one many....

You see, Ryu and Ken were both trained by Gouken (Shen Long in US) and although Dan was trained there too, he was deemed too pathetic and thrown out. Gouken had a brother which pursued the evil path of their martial art known as the Dark Hadou. Eventually, Gouka (Akuma in the US) returned to face his brother and killed him (possibly not permanently since a previoously released SFIV video clearly shows Gouken alive and well). Both Ryu and Ken are on a mission to avenge their master while Akuma only worries about the strongest fighters to challenge him.

Yaaaaaay! I'm a dork!

I think my brain just exploded from all that backstory. I didn't even know Street Fighter had one!

Gouki, not Gouka...just a minor correction. I'm kinda of Street Fighter nerd to.

Hmm...I wonder if Shin Akuma is in this game???

Hadou is the energy they use; the martial art is called Anasatsuken. And Dan was kicked out because Gouken sensed too much anger in his heart; Dan only wanted to learn Ansatsuken to kill Sagat. Gouken modified Ansatsuken to be used for martial arts competition, but the original use of the art was for killing efficiently. Gouki is the only one who still practices the original form of Ansatsuken (Evil Ryu is only a what-if character).

It also comes out on PC IIRC...

Since that won't probably run on my Linux OS I still only have hope for a console version. Let's wait and see.

I agree with you. The lighting looks like it might be outside the Wii's capabilities (but then again, we've been surprised by those capabilities before), but those character models have definitely been surpassed by Wii games

The texture resolution, normal mapping, particles, poly count (seriously.. the wireframes show a huge amount of detail), and speed which the hardware handles it all say "No, this CAN'T be done on the Wii in it's current form. It would have to be significantly scaled back."

Not to mention just to make this title playable, they would have to REQUIRE the classic controller and I don't think Nintendo would allow anybody to do something like that.

@Mr. Khan: I don't really need dynamic lights when the rest of the shading is good. And especially those 2D overlay effects should be fairly low-power to do.

@Sheppy: Reducing the resolution from >720p to 480p would definitely give this a significant boost. Take out some of the background detail and some of the less noticeable effects and I see no reason why this can't be done. I agree the controller is an issue for this type of game but I'm sure you could find a solution. No Wii developer so far has tried to really push the control scheme like for example if you hold the down arrow on the D-Pad, all the buttons get temporarily remapped to different attacks or something like that. This way you would have to do D-Down+A for a strong punch or something but it would at least work. Sure it would be gimmicky but that's what classic controllers (or GC pads for that matter) are for.

Anyhow, I still refuse to believe that Nintendo doesn't get a piece of the pie this time especially after that long lasting relationship. If it wasn't for Nintendo most people outside of Japan still wouldn't know what Street Fighter is.

Couldn't you just run SFIV on your Linux using Wine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

I use Wine all the time but unfortunately the 3D performance usually isn't quite as good. There are some games like WoW that work really well but most of the others are lacking. I tried playing CoD2 and it was choppy as fuck in 640x480 lowest details. Then I put my old XP drive back in and finished the game in 1280 with everything maxed out. Quite some difference. I'm just not a big fan of HD swapping every time I play a game so that's why I prefer Linux native games. Also, as of now, I still only have an ATi card and their Linux drivers still suck badly. I will build a new computer in a couple of weeks and then get me a new shiny nvidia card and I think I'll even install XP on some harddrive again just to be ready for SFIV (true reason being Diablo3).

meister... That's STILL not a strong enough solution simply downsizing the textures and removing elements. As for the control scheme, will, let's put it this way... look up Street Fighter II on Sega Genesis with the three button controller and see what happened.

Wow, you cant be serious. This game would be a joke on the wii.

@ sheppy
i remember 3 button SF you had to press the start button to change between kicks and punches bleh...

@DEEZNUTZ: Nope, just can't accept that point of view. First of all because you didn't elaborate WHY you think it would be a joke (except for the control scheme) and second we have seen nothing yet. No developer really even tried to squeeze anything out of the Wii. I still take RE4 as my reference, if a Gamecube port that is supposed to run on a machine half as fast looks like that on the Wii nobody can tell me there's not enough potential. There is a version of the Unreal Engine 3 for the Wii and RE5 will be on the system too ... whaddya say to that? RE5 will be a joke? I don't think so. I'm just saying, nobody even tried and douchebags like you then say "You can't do it" before anyone ever tried. That's what a joke is to me, buddy.

Sheppy: Agreed, the control scheme is a little overburdened with a game like that. It's a shame though. And like I wrote above, no one even tried so far so I won't accept any more hardware power excuses.

Not to mention the Wii is the only console with a D-pad that is worth a damn.

But RE5 isn't coming to the Wii, supposedly: http://kotaku.com/5028022/segas-president-casually-mentions-resident-evil-5s-wii-release

Basically, Capcom has suggested that such a port would be a joke.

@Rollins: It would not be the first time that a company denies rumors about upcoming projects until the last minute because they don't want to embarrass their "exclusive" partners or they have plans to give those a head start. They did part 4 on the Wii and even for a GC port with little extra features that sold well. I'm familiar with the article you mentioned but where did you get the information that Capcom suggested it's a joke? I mean they're even porting Dead Rising to the Wii. Why should a sequel to a game they've already featured on the same platform be less likely?

All I'm saying is I don't see any implications for it NOT coming in that interview text. All I see is someone who spoke about something he shouldn't have spoken about when he was embarrassed in front of the press and thus the web and wanted to shut them up for good. Look at the news over at WiiFanboy, remember the "only Otakus need a hard drive" or the "Wii is two Gamecubes with duct tape" headlines? These people know well who's listening to them and that's why they tried so hard to make you "un-hear" it. When you spill the beans on something naturally the first thing you do is to play it down and say "Oh yeah, I read about that yesterday ... Slip of the tongue" ... Right. Can't imagine how pissed PS360 fanboys would be if there was an evolved RE5 on the Wii at the same launch date, they can't take that heat. So you simply keep cooking on the Wii version for a few months undercover and after they've given the other consoles about half a year head start all of a sudden "ooops, there was quite a lot of demand and we happened to have a Wii version up our sleeve".

At least that's what I have come to expect from that farce the Wii as a platform has become with the big publishers.

This is where I got the joke part from-

"As far as a Wii port of the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 title, Kramer asked of us 'Have you seen Resident Evil 5?' implying that such a port would be almost impossible, adding that he'd not heard any such product was in the works for Nintendo's platform."

Not saying they couldn't do it, as RE5 looks a LOT like RE4 to me, but so far it doesn't look to be in the cards. We'll see.

The thing is: these games are built around competition. Having a console version is nice for playing without paying, but if you're into this game, shouldn't you have friends that own it? The only reason to really own this for console is the online play, and Brawl has pretty much turned me off to any online game for the Wii that requires more than 100ms of precision. If you're buying it to play with friends, then get someone else to buy it. Honestly, I doubt this game is worth getting just to play the computer.

@ Meister,

What are you like 12? Try to be civil you asswipe fanboi. Can't take anyone saying anything negative about your lame console of choice?

Let's correct your idiotic assumptions about what I wrote. I never said it couldn't be done. I specifically said it would be a JOKE if it was attempted.

Quote:
"No developer really even tried to squeeze anything out of the Wii."
And that is exactly the reason why. Developers would have to "squeeze", hack, downrez, halve framerates, etc. just to get it to a somewhat presentable form on the Wii. Wii owners are not this games target market so why bother with the cost of a lame port?
Instead, developers should concentrate on creating games exclusively for the Wii that maximizes the waggle control scheme. This game simply wouldn't work on the Wii, and again, would be laughable at best. Buy a 360 or a PS3 and just STFU.

Blonde*

paging dr. freud.

LMAO!

I don't know what you're talking about. Third Strike Akuma is mid-tier at best; it's ST Akuma that was broken.

@ Jimisama.Sorry i was a little tired.What i was trying to say was compared to the third strike akuma this one looks like a push over.And that's sad.

Well, all the SF's are different. It still uses the standard 2D view, 6 buttons attack system, qcf motions, etc; if it didn't, it wouldn't quite be SF. I haven't played it yet, so I can't vouch for whether it's better or not.