Mortal Kombat has received praise for it's tributes to it's movie adaptation; would you like to see Street Fighter do the same?

[Kalmakov]

MK (11 especially) has featured several callbacks and allusions to it's 1995 movie adaption that has been met with praise, especially the inclusion of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa reprising his role as Shang-Tsung. The 1995 MK film is also one of the most game accurate movie adaptions ever made and so it's transition from film to game is almost seamless. MK's rival series, Street Fighter, also received an even more schlocky film adaption in 1994.

With the recent praise of Capcom's RE Engine and how they have mentioned they have several titles in development with the engine, I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if the next installment of Street Fighter was developed in this engine and featured a more grounded art style. After all, despite how much I personally love it, the art direction of the Street Fighter series is someone that has been criticized, mostly for the bizarre proportions of the characters. Even SFV was initially developed with a grounded artstyle in early stages of production.

With all of that in mind, would you like to see Street Fighter pay tribute to it's movie adaption? Like (as unlikely as this is) I wouldn't say no to seeing Jean-Claude Van Damme portray Guile again. And I'm honestly surprised that M.Bison doesn't have any win quotes featuring the iconic Tuesday line.

 

[Weiss]

Other than memes there's nothing worth salvaging from Street Fighter the Movie.

 

[Hayama Akito]

What are you talking about? Street Fighter: The Movie is a masterpiece.

 

[CalamityPixel]

All tributes from the live action film should be to Raúl Juliá and only Raúl Juliá

 

[Kalmakov]

All tributes from the live action film should be to Raúl Juliá and only Raúl Juliá

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So...would they get his likeness? I know he loved the role and so did his children, but would it be in poor taste to put him in a game considering his death?

 

[Kalmakov]

Other than memes there's nothing worth salvaging from Street Fighter the Movie.

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I mean, literally everything from the MK movie that has been salvaged has been memes.

 

[Vagabond]

Maybe the Street Fighter Alpha movies

But definitely not the live action.

Except for Blanka

 

[The Adder]

Other than memes there's nothing worth salvaging from Street Fighter the Movie.

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Raul Julia's Bison performance was solid, even if the script wasn't, and if he were still alive I'd have said to get him like they did Tagawa for MK. But he's not, so let that movie die too.

 

[CalamityPixel]

So...would they get his likeness? I know he loved the role and so did his children, but would it be in poor taste to put him in a game considering his death?

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Could just reference his lines. If his family give his permission then why not.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Just the "it was Tuesday" line, nothing else tbh

 

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[Sawyer]

I like how no one recalls this turd existing

 

[DetectiveKenobi]

 

[ShinUltramanJ]

The Street Fighter movie was beyond awful so no.

 

[DetectiveKenobi]

Just the "it was Tuesday" line, nothing else tbh

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What about these?

 

[Kalmakov]

I just had a thought; put Jamie Lee Curtis in SF6. Shes an outspoken fan of the series and has attended conventions cosplaying the characters. She's also talked about being a Cammy main, make her Cammy.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

It already did. The animated movie, that is.

 

[Lord Vatek]

Getting celebrities to play cartoonish video game characters is never not a terrible idea unless their voice actually fits.

It gets worse when they start modelling characters after them.

 

[Jamrock User]

I like how no one recalls this turd existing

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Is that Nicholas Cage?

 

[Syril]

It already did. The animated movie, that is.

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Yeah. Alpha was like a love letter to that movie.

 

[Kalmakov]

Getting celebrities to play cartoonish video game characters is never not a terrible idea unless their voice actually fits.

It gets worse when they start modelling characters after them.

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They are only ever a great thing. Take for example;

 

[DiipuSurotu]

 

[Kalmakov]

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YES

 

[Giga Man]

No.
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Just the "it was Tuesday" line, nothing else tbh
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Except this.

If Street Fighter starts looking more "grounded", I won't like it.

 

[s_mirage]

Is that Nicholas Cage?

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That film only wishes it could have Nic Cage.

 

[SilverX]

This thread needs to be deleted, look at what abominations it could inspire being put in our fighting games

 

[Lord Vatek]

They are only ever a great thing. Take for example;

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Honestly that just makes me more sure in my opinion.

 

[Lmo2017]

No. MK actually captured the essence of the game, SF tried to be GI Joe.

Should Bison be talking about Tuesday, though? Yes.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

No.

MK doing so was awesome because the MK movies were actually pretty fucking awesome action movies. MK1 in particular.

The Street Fighter movies, by contrast, were terrible and their reasons for being referenced are entirely for the memes. Not a great reason to spend dev resources on likenesses and scripting to try to mimic anything in those movies.

That said, I would not mind a Raúl Juliá skin or movie outfit and a VanDamme skin.

 

[lupinko]

So...would they get his likeness? I know he loved the role and so did his children, but would it be in poor taste to put him in a game considering his death?

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yūsaku_Matsuda

He died in 89 and Capcom still used his likeness for Onimusha 2.

 

[MaitreWakou]

This thread needs to be deleted, look at what abominations it could inspire being put in our fighting games

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Dragon Ball Evolution had a skrull before the MCU smh

 

[Tuorom]

Nah the movie is pretty bad. The MK movie works for these callbacks because people actually enjoyed it and they got some great performances outta the main cast. I'm pretty sure they made Kano australian because the actor was so well received. What does the SF movie have other than Raul Julia? Not even JCVD was that noteworthy tbh.

 

[Schnee]

Make the in-game currency Bison Dollars.

 

[UshiromiyaEva]

SFxT actually had a lot of fun referencing the cartoon and live action film, but most of these lines went exclusively to Bison. Since you can't exactly get Raul back for a premium skin, the only other marketable options would be JCVD Guile or Kylie Minogue Cammy

 

[The Adder]

I'm glad we're all in agreement. Yes or no, it's a yes to Raul Julia.

 

[Nocturnowl]

SFV could've had the fight money concept go down smoother if they called it bison dollars, there would also be an in game reason for their villainous reduction with arcade edition, like the queen of England escaped ransom by then so capcoms hands were tied by a lesser exchange rate

 

[Deleted member 8257]

This also existed

 

[Deleted member 16876]

Eh, other than Bison the movie is trash. MK movie was a legit good movie and is awesome the whole time.

 

[lupinko]

This also existed

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Those also existed.

The console versions were a re-skinned Super Turbo and were vastly different from the arcade version you posted pics of.

 

[Red Arremer]

If it means Captain Sawada and the Shadaloo grunts finally get implemented into the official canon, I'm all for it.

 

[lupinko]

If it means Captain Sawada and the Shadaloo grunts finally get implemented into the official canon, I'm all for it.

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They already are part of the canon.

Even Cindy from the USA Network cartoon is now canon. lmao