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| TiamatRoar
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|  "Re(1):TiamatRoar"
, posted Fri 26 Apr 23:16:
Ack! *is poked and wakes up* I need to pay more attention...
Erm, yea, Street Fighter's storyline is... mostly more just comprised of individual storylines than grand overall epics. You can pretty much see this in the plot guide. A lot of individual characters have individual storylines but there's no grand "Everyone bands together to save the world" storyline like there is for King of Fighters for the most part. For example, in the King of Fighters plot guide, there's a story explained for each King of Fighters game. Meanwhile, for the Street Fighter plot guide, several games say "Well, this game is mostly consisting of many individual stories, so refer to the character list for the specific details of the storylines within the game."
Note that Mark of the Wolves follows this type of story more, too, instead of KOF. But Fatal Fury keeps one main character while Street Fighter switches up main characters often (Ryu is main of Street Fighter 1, Street Fighter Alpha 2 really doesn't have any mains, Ryu, Cammy, and Guile are all mains of Street Fighter Alpha 3 with each a plot to their own that don't really intersect, then Guile is the most likely main of Street Fighter 2, then Alex is the main of SF3... erm, yea. Very different from Fatal Fury's "Terry is the main character of everything until Garou jumps ahead 10 years"). And even Mark of the Wolves takes place in a tournament, which centralizes everything, and Fatal Fury 3 (which wasn't a tournament, I believe) has the scrolls which EVERYONE is after, so that's a centralizing plot point there. This is as opposed to Alpha and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, which are not tournaments and are basicaly all characters just living out their own individual stories.
So... in answer to the Poll, I guess I wouldn't say that Street Fighter has -a- storyline. I'd say that it has many different small storylines within it :P
...in all honesty, I'm still trying to figure out where the plot is in Street Fighter 3 saga. ^^; It has a beginning and a middle but no end from what I can see O_o The main bulk of the plot can be found in the Alpha series, really. Since Street Fighter Alpha 3 was Capcom's 2nd last new canon storyline game, I guess Capcom hasn't completely forgotten about storyline, but IMHO, the SF3 storyline could use a bit of work. Mainly, it needs a freaking END. Left on a giant cliffhanger, there, and contrary to popular belief, Street Fighter 2 did in fact have a beginning and end and resolution to everything, but Street Fighter 3, I'm still trying to figure out... ehe... ^^;;.
As for the resolution to Street Fighter 2, well, just assume that EVERYONE'S ending besides M. Bison's happened and voila! You have your resolution for everyone in Street Fighter 2 :P Make sure you're going by SF2 Revival, though it's really only slightly different from other SF2 games with the exception of Balrog's ending and Akuma getting an ending. ...oh, and Fei Long's, but not like that guy has much of a storyline anyways.
Anyways, this link should help a lot. But you need to bear in mind that it's not in 'fanfic' format like the King of Fighters plot guide at gamefaqs is. I mainly designed this plot guide to let people see how the stories fell into place and the small details and facts of each story, not to present an actual story in and of itself (that, I decided to leave to the reader to do for himself). It's a plot guide and not an actual plot story, after all. But I guess I could 'fanficicize' it some day if I ever get the free time (in fact, I probably should. As it is, a lot of it just seems... not as clearly written as I would like)... for the closest thing to fanfic within the plot guide, just check the masters character list, I guess.
http://www.tekken.nu/fightermania/sf/sfplotguide26.htm
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Total list of SF storyline games off the top of my head, eliminating all games that were 'overridden' by later versions
Slammasters 1
Slammasters 2 (like anyone cares about these two for story, though...)
Street Fighter 1 (1st World Warrior tournament)
Final Fight One
Final Fight Revenge (probably. Capcom of USA producers stated in a recent EGM that Capcom of Japan made them okay every single storyline detail with Capcom of Japan, so this game is probably meant to be canon if CoJ cared about its story so much)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 (or Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. Doesn't matter since there are no storyline changes in the latter)
Final Fight 2
Rival Schools? (it seems like Capcom more and more wants to actually REMOVE this series from Street Fighter canon...)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 [Upper]
Rival Schools 2? (See note about Rival Schools)
Final Fight 3
Super Street Fighter 2 Revival (2nd WW tournament)
Street Fighter 3 Double Impact (3rd WW tournament)
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike
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| TiamatRoar
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| "Re(5):TiamatRoar" , posted Sat 27 Apr 13:42:
Urien tells Chun-Li in SF3 that she was the one responsible for bringing down "that organization", and IMHO, you'd have to be pretty dense to not think he was referring to Shadaloo. Due to this, LOTS of people think that Chun-Li was the one that won the tournament. After all, if she beat Bison, then she took down Shadaloo, right?
In actuality, I'm starting to lean more and more towards that Guile was the one that won it. Balrog's ending in SF2 Revival shows that Shadaloo might have lived on for a while after Bison was defeated, and thus Chun-Li could still be responsible for tearing it down whether she beat Bison or not. Furthermore, Chun-Li's ending in SF2 Revival was actually changed. She no longer says "Father, I have destroyed M. Bison." She now says "Father, I have destroyed the Shadaloo."
It is wholly possible that Chun-Li was thus the one mainly responsible for tearing Shadaloo down but she never got to defeat Bison, herself (not that she really cares so long as justice is served).
Guile, meanwhile, is the only character who's ending completely relies on him beating Bison. Well, Akuma's too, but Akuma wasn't an official tournament participant :P I'm nearly positive he jumped in to kill Bison after the tournament had ended, since that's the only way Guile's ending could hav happened. At any rate, everyone else's ending could easily have happened whether they beat Bison or not with only small changes, including Cammy's and T. Hawk's where they could just walk up to him and ask and I'm sure he'd gladly oblige with the answer because the answer is something neither Cammy nor T. Hawk wants to hear. :P While Guile's ending, defeating Bison is required in order for his family to stop him or else he'd be a murderor just like Bison was.
On a side note, I'm pretty positive that everyones' ending in SF2 Revival with the exception of M. Bison's (for obvious reasons) happened. It pretty much explains why Capcom considered most of their SF2 characters' plotlines resolved and didn't return them for SF3.
SFA3 is my favorite game for storyline in the Street Fighter series, though I do have to admit the robo-speak for the Dolls was stupid. Fortunately, they all get rid of the robo-speak by the end of the game, though :) I probably really should fanficicize that plot guide someday just to show how many emotional intricacies you can find in SFA3 by careful evaluation of the dialogue, even with Capcom of USA's butchered translation, but... eh, I'm in the middle of finals now. ^^;
I just wish Capcom had a better presentation of it, but admittingly, with a story as complex as SFA3 was, it's rather hard to present such a thing in a fighting game. But did they REALLY have to have Bison blow up in EVERYONES' endings? My guess is that they were too used to that happening in KOF with KOF's last bosses and didn't realize that SFA3's storyline format really wasn't conducive to that type of thing at all, unlike KOF. Bleh.
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One of the worst,IMO.