In Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Ken has been made identical to Ryu to please US audience of a Japanese game. Agree or disagree?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Street Fighter II studies

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Agree

Disagree

[NathanDavis]

nothing was ever, is, would ever be... more pleasing than this moment

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JzS96auqau0

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

That counter was very nice indeed, is it SFIII? Ah yes, I've lost track of what happened to SF just before the third honestly, so I haven't seen this competition, or any other fighting game competition not involving the second episode

[NathanDavis]

those were... 14~16 counters in a row... less of a tenth of a second each, as well..

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I meant counter as in the general idea of countering lol, which wasn't clear lol

[TonyMetal___86]

Disagree, there are others too, he's just a character, since street fighter was made out of fighters from qll around the world, they had to make characters resembling people from each country found in the game

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Which doesn't talk about how Ken & Ryu are precisely identical with their fighting style, the only difference between them is cosmetic

[TonyMetal___86]

Because they wanted to make two karate guys, one who is Asian and the other is American...

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

... Yes, we're getting to the point of the question lol

[queenofcardio]

Disagree. Why do they have to please people from the US.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Because 300 millions of people isn't the kind of market you should ignore if you're about to sell a game worldwide?

Because the Japanese wanted to have a second round at 1945, in the form of a duel?

I mean it's not unreasonable, right, look also at how Japan and USA have 2 fighters each. Must be the CIA again.

[queenofcardio]

True. That does make sense.

What do I know ehh? I rarely ever play video games

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Shame on you 🧐

[queenofcardio]

I'm not gonna tag him but I know someone that will jump at the second to teach me if I was interested lol.

I prefer being outside 😅

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

He's going to tell you that you can play video games outside though, get ready for that

[queenofcardio]

Lmao. Let's bet on it.