• Geni noticed that there's a Hugo icon in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition. Some people are theorizing this is because he's in one of the backgrounds, while others think this could have implications he'll show up in the future.
• Dhim, a.k.a. nutsVSguts did an animated Street Fighter music video.
• ReNiC has more SSF4 online escapades up, Week 2 and Week 3, for those of you who enjoyed his first session with Hakan that was posted a ways back.
• IPlayWinner has interviews with AndyOCR and Lamerboi, talking about how they got their start in fighting games, preparing for tournaments and stuff of that nature.
• Lynaken posted today's SSF4 AE BP ranking.
F*** Hugo. Why do people like this guy? He's a dated design from 1989, and Capcom somehow found a way to make him look worse in SF3. He had no eyes, his face looked like it was made of jello, and his costume looks like something David Bowie threw up.
Though I will admit that SSF4 doesn't have too many grapplers. Oh wait, it totally does. Hugo can go suck his manager's chode.
Benjeezy
No, no, no, you misunderstand. I don't hate that Hugo MIGHT BE in SSF4 AE; I'm totally cool with speculation. I just hate Hugo. I hate everything about him. I hate the possibility of him being in any game ever, and I hate the fact the anyone in the community would see Hugo and not scoff. Seriously people: RAISE YOUR STANDARDS!!!
So because a character LOOKS bad he's a bad in general? How about you play him first? He's actually very interesting for a grappler. If we somehow get more 3S characters I'm cool with that.
@ Aftermath1349
Then make a new character who doesn't look like feces. It doesn't have to be anything spiffy. It can be a giant stick figure. We'll call him Todd.
Just because a character plays good does not justify artistic FAIL.
v@ Aftermath1349
Sorry, should clarify: Give him a new design is what I meant.
@Otter_of_Death
Hugo looks awesome, and he's based off a real person. Just because he's not good looking doesn't mean he's not "artistic." Street Fighter's artistic style has a tradition of over the top manliness. Hugo fits in pretty well.
If you want every character to be pretty there's always King of Fighters, DoA, Guilty Gear, Melty Blood...
@Butterknife
I don't think that's a fair justification because the other Street Fighter characters, for the most part, look good.
Actually, it's really just Hugo and Oro. Urien's design was a bit lazy, but it didn't look BAD. Hugo actually looked better in his debut rendition in Final Fight.
@otter
Hugo, Oro and Elena were my favorites. Hugo and Oro and Elena would be cool, but I have to give up any of 'em for Rolento. I think the whole community collectively misses him these days.
Playable Poison with Rolento and Hugo would be the perfect trio of new characters.
tbh i think its pretty clear there are more characters coming when AE hits console, capcom have been adding characters since the start of sf4, sf4 arcade to sf4 console (8 characters) sf4 console to ssf4 (10 characters) ssf4 to ssf4 AE (2 characters) ssf4 AE to ssf4 AE console (0 characters) ? -_- yh f*cking right lool theres obviously more characters coming.
other than Otter I am glad to see so many Hugo supporters out there, i think bringing Hugo to the table will help the SSIV community Grow. its a whole new character!! and not just Hugo. there are many other characters to. if i am wrong please correct me but besides yun and yang there are going to be 4 more characters!
its most likely an icon but as geni said really look at ae select screen obviously there gunna add four more characters two on top of either yun or yang but who they put in will be all up to them i mean look at ae as a whole they had to atleast run it in the arcades first to see if the hype was there and stayed and then they could market it to all although they knew for sure everyone wanted it the moment they heard of it and definitly after people seen it
As long as hugo pops in playing like his 3rd strike self ill drop my other grapplers for him. Such as his running grab set ups being useful...unlike giefs >:( palms claps doing crazy hit stun, and wall throw into megaton press(hopefully ultra 2)
and last but not least the slew of normals he had that doubled as overheads :D
Going back to what I said earlier, this year is the 20th anniversary of SFII and I think commemorating it with one new character from each series for the console release and even a special edition store version would be an amazing finale to the SFIV series.
I don't understand how Andore can look worse than his Final Fight rendition when he is a better looking Andore wearing the same exact clothes that they named Hugo
@CVS
Actually, Blanka's design is pretty good.
@Gammabolt17
The original Andore had human eyes and didn't look like he was made out of melted ice cream.
Did you ever consider the artist gave him sunken eyes (if you played 3S you'd know he has eyes) for a reason? Like maybe because he's supposed to live into the stereotype of wrestlers being big, dumb apes? SF characters have always been as stereotypical as possible and Hugo is no exception. Once again, a characters looks don't matter if they play well. If your playing fighting games for "cool" looking characters your investing in the wrong company. Arc System Works would happily have you though.
And you think Oro is a bad character design? Let me guess, "he's old and wrinkly... And looks like melted ice cream" thats your reasoning right? No wonder 3S gets shunned in America...
@Aftermath1349
If you truly believe that having good gameplay gives Capcom license to make characters look terrible, then I don't know what to tell ya. But your old/wrinkly assumption is nonsense. Gen is old and wrinkly, yet he manages not to look like ass. Gen is actually one of the better designs in Alpha.
Oro looks like the corpse of a steroid-enhanced Halloween witch with her head shaved. I don't see how anyone with decent vision can defend that design. That fact that exponentially more people have requested Q than Oro for SSF4 AE... even though Q is way lower on the tier list, demonstrates that point.
And so what if Hugo has sunken eyes? Is that a reason not to animate them? Sure, graphical limitations may have made that difficult, but if implementing an idea makes a character look worse, ditch the idea. And that still doesn't explain why his face looks like it's about to fall off.
@Otter_of_Death
You have the right to not like Hugo, but he looks exactly the way he's supposed to look: like an homage to the great André the Giant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly
That's what granted André his immense stature (and unfortunately, eventual death), and it was exaggerated for Hugo in typical Street Fighter fashion.
"The forehead and overlying skin is thickened, which may lead to frontal bossing (an unusually prominent forehead sometimes with a heavy brow ridge)."
@Creeper
Although that's a fair response, the way it was implimented looks awkward and strange. Artistically, there's no pay-off past the reference. Fei Long is a tribute to Bruce Lee, but looks kinda cool at the same time, so if someone doesn't get the reference, the design still works by itself.
On a side note, doesn't it seem strange to a create a character homage to someone and then include features of their illness into the character? I'm a big "Princess Bride" fan; I totally dig Andre the Giant. I just don't think a tribute should be that comically unattractive. Andre was not a bad looking man.
I think otter has a point. I've looked at Hugo's face for a bit and it really does look like melted ice cream with hair on top if you think about it.
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/...
Tell me those flabby cheeks don't remind you of ice cream!
Its fine to not like a character based on appearance but it seems just like in life.. In games, you don't always get what you want... Now granted if you want to go that way... There are "beautiful" people and there are "ugly" people. Not much you can really do. Just stay clear from him if needed. Because that design has been around for awhile and it seems like they will most likely keep it... If anything it might get a slight modification but nothing to your liking. I mean its not impossible to have ugly people that can fight too right?
I'm always struck by an urge to flag every video by nutsVSguts for sexual content, but I can't ever bring myself to do so.