Xiba Non-Gameplay Discussion Thread

That's another issue, the face is too young, unless he has had soul edge magically remove half his jaw.

Have to ask how he got that ring around his right foot. It's too small to fit around it.
 
Fuzzieviking said:
however I think he is merging a little to much with the all muscle all the time deal. seriously he is young it is the PERFECT excuse to break that stereo type...
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What exactly is there to gain for breaking this "stereotype?" Feminine men is a stereotype too. Do you really think there's gold somewhere in that gray area between them?

Why don't you show us an example of a body type you think would work?
 
Lasercakes said:
What exactly is there to gain for breaking this "stereotype?" Feminine men is a stereotype too. Do you really think there's gold somewhere in that gray area between them?

Why don't you show us an example of a body type you think would work?
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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/imag...2455_6f47c54d-2444-497c-a01b-d98babc044fb.jpg
^this.

this isn't ultra feminine girl man, this is a teenager.

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360...89/dead-or-alive-part-2-20051202113831159.jpg

^ a relatively appropriately portioned teenage male in doa

http://us.cdn3.123rf.com/168nwm/eas...ool-asian-teenage-boy-on-white-background.jpg

^ this is an asian teenager. omg hes so ripped the veins are popping out of his arm!!! oh... wait...

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010..._moonjunyoung_zea_leader_elle_march2010_2.jpg

^ a Korean teenager more specifically.

People his face is perfectly fine... People in high school look nothing like the movies, baby faced teenagers are EXTREMELY COMMON. Its his body that is screwed up not his face...

Edit: http://www.fightersgeneration.com/np7/char/doa-dimensions/2/elliot-screen2.jpg

^ here you can see that Eliots biceps are not anywhere close to the size of his face...
 
Lasercakes said:
What exactly is there to gain for breaking this "stereotype?" Feminine men is a stereotype too. Do you really think there's gold somewhere in that gray area between them?
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Unrealistically super-buff men is the prevailing design in fighting games. After a while they all start to seem very similar. I would welcome more variety among body types for men and women.

I'm honestly more irked by female character design, though. The prevailing theme always seems to be "Boobs! omg!"
 
People were hotter in middle ages. Done.

Now, can we talk about something that really matters? I find it funny how Kilik was just replaced and you people worry about his body looking realistic; while you were bitching all around because Taki was replaced. That's kinda bipolar.

I myself wonder how he'll look in action. He looks too weird to just directly inherit Kilik's or Mina's style.
 
norik434 said:
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there was no septic system, and no showers... People stunk, and had greasy hair, and statsitcally were the shortest humans have ever been, so I don't know how Z.W.E.I is 6 feet, but okay...

since they took height and weight from modern day, why can't body types also be similar, even back then not everyone was sculpted...
 
Fuzzieviking said:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/imag...2455_6f47c54d-2444-497c-a01b-d98babc044fb.jpg
^this
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I Lol'd :D

Put him against Asta,or Night or some other warrior(even Le Bello aka Dampierre) :D

Not all teen are 4okg all bones boys,deal with it

SC characters are not just supposed to be warriors/fighters/duellers
SC characters are supposed to be in the best of the world,or anyway very very elite level fighters
If they chosed to give him an athletic look i find it right and normal
He's a 16 boy that's supposed to be grown on mountains and trained for years and years,he's a 16 years boy that's going to fight against 15okg monsters,legendary warriors and elite fighters. Why he MUST look like an average nerdy teen that never trained a single day in his life? Lol

Specially since he's not Swarzy level ridicolous,seem natural and build for agility(yes,agility require muscle too)
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Sorry Fuzzie, I just don't see the appeal. I'm not sure I'd be convinced seeing any of those bodies taking out someone like Nightmare.

Fatal_Exodus said:
i love that Namco is taking pop culture and saturating SCV with it to make a cashcow that everyone will love </3
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Iconic characters are a good thing. You may not agree with Xiba's likeness to Justin Bieber or Natsu's likeness to Naruto, or what Zwei seems to stand for but these characters instantly make an impression and are way more memorable than the old cast to the casual mind.

Have you ever seen this?:
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That's how much strength the Street Fighter cast has iconically.
 
Gatsu said:
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Most teens are either that or obese. . .

that and thats not true at all. If it were yun would stay the fuck out and hwang would have come back, along with natsu and leixia.

Lexia is how a teenage girl should be shaped as was talim and amy, small lean, light voiced, and baby faced.

and girls are supposed to hit puberty way before men. LEIXIA IS ONLY ONE YEAR YOUNGER THAN HIM.

and women can be muscular as well so don't go there.

videos games, for the most part, have teenagers all wrong. Gatsu you already have your bad ass bull shit. Not everything is bad ass all the time, get over it.
 
Gatsu said:
Oh well there is a solution for that debate
What the pic
Seen?
The character is here,and is'nt an average teen nerd
Now
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we aren't talling about highschool stereo types. we are talking about highschool aged people.

Leixia is the least muscular thing I've EVER seen in my life... aside from paris hilton.

and she is in it. WHY does a boy, regardless of age, always have to fit the muscular stereotype in this game? Its not fair, its not realistic and quite frankly its sexist.
 
Gatsu said:
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seriously I agree with some of the stuff you write here. But Bruce Lee was a martial artist, it was the thing that defined him and he was Asian as well as this character and he never build up this amount of muscle, he was very lean at almost all stages in his life. Not to mention that the biceps on Xiba don't look very bicep-like... More like he has a very thick bone inside and some mildly defined muscle over it. But again, this is the 3d modeller's fault I guess.

Oh well I hope you'd try to understand that some people would like a little more variety than just two body types. On guys we get muscular and monstrous, on girls we get no boobs and boobs. Not to mention that if we get no boobs, the girl is overall very thin and if we get boobs she also has a big ass. It's not like a character with Ivy's hips but smaller breasts than her is automatically unattractive or anything...
 
He has a staff. He's replacing Kilik. If he had a chinese-style sword, than he'd be replacing Hwang.
 
norik434 said:
Now, can we talk about something that really matters? I find it funny how Kilik was just replaced and you people worry about his body looking realistic; while you were bitching all around because Taki was replaced. That's kinda bipolar.
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Well think that i was hoping for a badass 40's Kilik,it's fun i'm end up "defend" Xiba chara design :D

But still, at least Xiba try to be a SC char.
Ridicolous hairs and fighter feeling nothing compared to Kilik,but they try with him
You see in that chara design some solid inspiration from a folkloristic chinese legend... just as comparision,Xiba is monkey king wannabe exactly like they taken Sieg from german's Ring of Nibelungs. He's someway legit,then can be appreciated or not,but the chara design process is very SC style. Plus as i said in another thread Kilik's very early concept was exactly a boy(even younger) based on monkey king,with tiger motif
They replaced a SC char with a SC char,if for better or worse i don't know(at least let's wait a vid),but at least is a SC char

Taki-Natsu?
They throwed out of the window an icon of the series to put in what?
A simple Naruto blowjob for otaku kids, without sense,iconic or etnic or historic. She's not a SC chara design, or at least she's not created with classic SC design process
Probably if she was lokking like that
who-s-your-favorite-female-video-game-assassin-_5.jpg

You will have seen less bitching. Is not that they removed Taki,is who they put at her place :D
 
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