Part 11: The T.Hawk Chronicles

T.Hawk has been one of the hardest characters to balance (along with Fei Long and Honda). On the one hand, he has an extremely damaging command throw, a great Dragon Punch-type move, and an aerial dive. These moves could conspire to make him terrifying, so I understand why the original SF2 developers were so careful to keep him check. Hit the jump to get the full story…

New cast member annouced, portraying Gen, the sage kung-fu master and Chun Li’s mentor, will be none other than…Robin Shou! Sound familiar? It should.

This guy loves his video game tribute films, more know for bringing to life Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat films. He also played the lead pirate in the DOA film.
Not only stopping there he also helped in as a fight choreographer in both Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Official Blog

This is part ten in an extended series of articles from David Sirlin, detailing the changes we’ve made to the rebalanced mode of the new Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix project. The previous articles can be found here.

Much time has passed since these articles were first written, but tweaking of the game has continued non-stop, even for the characters whose changes have already been revealed. As a result, in honor of the tenth article, this article provides a quick recap of “the changes to the changes!”

Part 10: The Story So Far

A lot of time has passed since I wrote the first parts of this series about the balance changes in Street Fighter: HD Remix (remember, I wrote them many weeks before they were posted). Some things have changed since then, so here are the updates.

Ryu
No change. He still just has the fake fireball, and it’s great. It tricks people like Honda into jumping at the wrong times and Zangief into doing lariat at the wrong times. He can also use it to pressure with stuff like low roundhouse, cancel into fake fireball, walk up throw.

Film is finally rolling! The official blog on the upcoming movie, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, is now live… again… (After being brought to its knees earlier). Currently the blog has an entry from their first week of shooting in the exotic location of Bangkok, Thailand. A quick cast bio is also up, with promises of future exclusive cast interviews and scoops as well. Finally, they also present us a page direct from their early storyboards. Cool stuff indeed!

VSfighting.com

Electronic Dojo have now setup there own video share site for beat’em up games. Working along side Neo Empire, Ranking Battles and other gaming communities from around the globe, we aim to provide a community where you can show off your skills, combos and tournament result to the world.

This is part nine in an extended series of articles from David Sirlin, detailing the changes we’ve made to the rebalanced mode of the new Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix project. The previous articles can be found here. This week focuses on the character so cliched that he stands out even among a strong field of cliche contenders: Hitenryu kung-fu master Fei Long!

Balancing Fei has been a long and rocky road, so this is a long entry, but it’s also a ton of fun for Fei Long fans and game design nerds alike. Read on!

Part 9: Fei Long

Fei Long is usually considered one of the five worst characters in the original Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, but he’s still pretty deadly if he can get close to the opponent and get his offense going. The trouble is, it’s very hard for him to ever get close enough to most characters to get it going. Also, his Flying Kicks move (aka Dragon Kicks, aka “Chicken Wing”) is just too hard for most players (including myself) to physically execute. Unlike the other Tiger Knee-like moves, the Flying Kicks required you to start with *back* on the stick, then go down/back, down, down/forward, forward, up/forward + kick.