So as we all know Poison is back. And by “back” I mean pretty much making her debut in a fighting game (I refuse to count obscure Sega Saturn games). Poison’s popularity is very odd because she has really never been more than a background character but fans love her. Why, you ask? Most likely because she has a rather interesting back story. To make a long story short, When the first game she was in, Final Fight, made its way to US shores back in the late ’80s a very conservative Capcom USA thought people would not be happy with the game’s heroes Haggar, Guy and Cody punching Poison and her fellow female partner Roxy in the face (of course not too long after that gamers were punching Chun Li all in her face and liked it very much!). So Capcom Japan came up with the bright idea that Poison was not a female at all but man dressed as a woman or a former man who had gotten an operation to become female. Which story is correct depends on who you ask. This all created controversy as there are not too many transgender/ transexual characters in video games. As with anything controversial some people loved and some people hated it. However instead of embracing Poison’s cult following, Capcom avoided Poison like the plague and other than some background cameos, she hadn’t been seen since Street Fighter III when she appeared as Hugo’s manager. More recently many people were asking asking for Poison to appear in a current Street Fighter game. Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono often dismissed the notion, chalking it up to being too controversial and complicated to actually happen. However Ono surprised us all and revealed that Poison is indeed going to be a fully playable character in Street Fighter X Tekken (boy was I wrong about that).
Poison’s inclusion in Street Fighter X Tekken can only be described as pure fan service. We aren’t talking about Elena or Rolento here, we are talking about a character that had never even been playable. Yet Capcom listened to the fans and rewarded them for not letting up. So what does this mean?
Firstly, it means the flood gates are open. Up until now Street Fighter X Tekken should have been called “Street Fighter 4 X Tekken” because every character on the Street Fighter side was from Street Fighter 4 and were even sporting their game model from that game. Poison being added means Capcom is not going to be completely lazy on the Street Fighter side of the game and simply port over half the cast of SF4. Its exciting because who knows old friend we are going to see next. All things point to Hugo being added also. It’d be nice to see some off the way additions such as Eagle, Oro or Q. Until Poison was shown I found myself more excited about who was being added on the Tekken side because the Street Fighter side was so predictable. That has all changed now.
Secondly and probably most importantly, it means the fans mean something. Often companies talk about how they listen to the fans but they have nothing tangible to show for it. They pose like they are taking the fans suggestions when the things they do could very well have been things they were going to do anyway. For some time now Capcom has been showing itself to be a company who cares about the thoughts of the people who keep it it business. The last few years it has been quite a treat to be a fan of Capcom games and Poison is like the cherry on top of a great public relations sundae.
On the flip side Capcom may have opened up Pandora’s box in that if fans begin to feel like they have a heavy influence on the content of games, their voices may only grow louder and more demanding. At the end of the day, though players have great ideas, there is a reason why they play games instead of making them and if a company like Capcom tries too hard to please everyone who makes a suggestion or complains, the overall quality of games may go down.
Truth be told there is likely a group of people out there who are already thinking Poison as a playable character was the beginning of that lowering of quality.
Capcom Unity is having a question and answer session with Yoshinori Ono. Fans will be able to get their questions asked. No telling how much concrete info will come of the event but maybe we’ll get some long standing questions surrounding Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition answers. The session starts at 9 am PST (12 pm EST)
As We approach the release of Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition fans are stuck with one persisting question, “Are we getting more characters or what?”
It is a question that is yet to get a clear cut answer. Yes, we know about Yun and Yang and though I’m sure they are great, many fans want more than just “kung fu Ryu and Ken”.
Rumors have been floating around for months that SSFIV: AE would be getting a whopping six new fighters. However, other than the above mentioned Yun and Yang there has been no solid info about new fighters. Series producer Yoshinori Ono has been especially vague when answering such inquieries on his Twitter account.
So when are we getting those four other characters that will brings us to a total of 6 like the rumor says? Well, with the game due out in a matter of a few weeks, one of two things is likely to reveal itself as truth. The first is that the new fighters are going to be time released much in the way some were for the original SFIV Arcade. This would be it could be quite some time before we learn the identities of those fighters and see them on our consoles. The second is that there aren’t any other fighters. Yun and Yang are it. While that would quite disappointing just keep in mind that Ono or Capcom has never said that there were more fighters coming. At least not directly.
Like mostly everyone else, I’m hoping we do get a few more fighters but when your info is coming from the drama queen Yoshinori Ono, who knows what is really the case.
There seems to be a bit of a drought around here when it comes to Street Fighter news even though there are several Street Fighter games in the works right now (SF3 Online, SFxT, SSFIV:AE). It seems like we may be getting a bone thrown to us soon courtesy Mr. Ono-san.
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Seems like Capcom has heard the complaints and they have revised the release schedule for the new custumes in Super Street Fighter IV. Thank Gawd! Yoshinori Ono said this to a fan on the subject via Twitter.
The drama queen is back! Yoshinori Ono has a way of trolling the masses and getting them all riled up. And it works. The guy is a one man hype machine thanks to Twitter. Today he posted a tweet in which he announced that Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition is complete. That in of itself is a great thing but Ono added a picture along with the tweet that has everyone playing the guessing game. The picture shows Dhalsim roasting an unknown fighter. So who’s the fighter? Some are saying they can see dark leggings. Ingrid Maybe? Some are saying that are seeing overalls. Alex Maybe? Some are saying they are seeing a thong. Urien maybe? With Ono it is very possible that it could be an unannounced fighter but to me it honestly looks like Yang. What do you think?
You gotta love Ono-san. He is constantly be harassed by fans on Twitter. He get everything from people complaining about the existence of ultras to people wanting to know why Chun Li’s hands are so big. More than anything lately though he has been getting requests for a new Darkstalkers and a Poison appearance in a Street Fighter game. While we all know Ono wants to make a new Darkstalkers, the Poison thing is another matter. I addressed the whole Poison issue here on X-ism a while back and it seems like I may be wrong about her chances of a future appearance.
Well if you go back that, we may see Poison popping up in Street Fighter X Tekken which would be interesting considering Ono had said int he past that he’d want to stick with an “all star” line up of the game. Also Ono made mention that he was doing a proposal to the higher ups at Capcom to get the additions to the Arcade Edition added to the console versions.
Once again Yoshinori Ono blesses us with another batch of alternate costumes. Here’s the new ones for Zangief, Guile, E. Honda, Gen and Dhalsim. Zangief gets the Uber Homo erotic get up. Guile gets a military dress uniform. E. Honda gets for Kabuki attire. Gen gets a classic Chinese outfit. And Dhalsim is a snake charmer with what appears to be moving snakes!
Here’s are the new Super Street Fighter IV alternate costumes for Akuma, Vega, M. Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Gouken. I gotta say I’m impressed. Akuma looks demonic. Vega looks like a Spanish dancer. Bison is look like he will “royally” kick your @$$. Balrof is looking gangsta. Sagat got a throwback to before Ryu got all up in his chest. And Gouken is rocking the monk look. What do you guys think. Which is your favorite?
So here is the new alternate costumes for C. Viper, Rose, Makoto and Ibuki. Our lil teenage ninja gets some street clothes. C. Viper gets a S.I.N. lab coat with a Doll sweater to go underneath. Rose seems to have some sort of ball gown on. Makoto gets the school girl treat which seems to be given to every teenage Street Fighter female. What do you guys think of these? I actually like both of them.
So here are the new alternate costumes for Ken, Rufus, El Fuerte, Abel And Hakan. Courtesy of Yoshinori Ono’s Twitter of course. What do you guys think? Overall I think I like them. El Fuerte’s is especially nice. Abel is actually kinda wack though.
Fans keep begging Yoshinori Ono to see more upcoming alternate costumes for Super Street Fighter IV and he keep giving them up (even though he says he can get in trouble for doing it. So far he has showed us Sakura, Fei Long and blurred versions of Cammy and Juri. Now we get a shot of Chun Li who is sporting her outfit from the Street Fighter Alpha series. All I can say is Chun Li is built like “DAAAAAAYUM”.
Yoshinori Ono has been leaking some images of new character alternate costumes via his Twitter account. Amongst the leaked images was an image of Sakura‘s new costume as well as blurred out looks at Cammy and Juri‘s.
For the longest time we have just been refering to the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV as just that, the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV. However it now has an official name and it is superb and grand, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. Nice right?
Yoshinori Ono debuted the name via Twitter with the following message…
Many have taken this to mean they are almost done with the game. I kinda got the impression that he was saying this is going to be the last version of Street Fighter IV we get. Of course no one really knows because Ono’s English kinda sucks.
When it comes to controversial characters, it doesn’t get much more so than Poison. Since the days of the first Final Fight people have been intrigued by the fighter while others have been somewhat offended. It all comes down to the fact that depending on who you ask the very feminine character Poison is either a male cross dresser, a post-op transsexual or something in between. This confusion has only fueled the characters cult following. We are talking about a character that has never truly been playable and is only in a handful of games. Yet now there seems to be this swell of support to get Poison into Super Street Fighter IV. Though it seems odd, Yoshinori Ono is fanning the flames on Twitter.
So is Poison coming to Super Street Fighter IV? I highly doubt it but the question must be asked why does Ono tease like there is a chance? Maybe Hugo is coming and Poison as a sidekick?
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