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TORO
The cat who wants to be human
Lonely but pampered. A cat that is very pure-hearted and simple-minded. Toro awakened the power of the Hadou while attempting to remember as many words as possible in a quest to become human. Toro loves tuna, wrapped fermented beans, shrimp, and is an accomplished sewist.
KURO
Two Dimensional Justice
A cat that has been around the block a couple of times. Kuro possesses knowledge on a wide variety of miscellaneous topics, and loves games, the occasional adult beverage and the company of beautiful women. While staying up late at night playing games, Kuro unexpectedly awakened the Devil Gene within him naturally. Kuro dreams of a future where he can live freely and do whatever he wants at any time.
Cole MacGrath
For the PlayStation©3 version, the star of inFAMOUS, Cole MacGrath, makes an appearance! Is this man a hero, or a villain?
In a flash, Cole became a man with the power to wield electricity.
Able to fire electric-based attacks from his hands, this hero is shrouded in a tempest of electricity, and can mow down anyone who opposes him.
There's no way I'm playing these two cats though Cole MacGrath is someone I can manage.
less talk bout the exclusive characters and more about the SF and Tekken characters that should be being revealed..
I like them the're cute, but are they for the Ps3 and vita or just vita? And is xbox excpected to get a character? Im afraid to get a vita cuz the Psp ruined fighting games with that little circle dpad thing that was aweful.
I was kind of looking forward to this game. I was kind of hoping that the character list might expand beyond anyone's expectations.... but I didn't mean in this way! My dream was Gen(Street Fighter) X Wang(Tekken). Now, all I see is Cats X Cats. I shouldn't be so hard on the game though, because you can always customize you Cat with gems. With the gems one cat might not fight the same way that you are used to your cat fighting.
(They should reveal more cats when they do Phoenix Wright/Rocket Raccon reveal - the internet will die from salt overdose!)
These characters seem like a waste of resources. Hopefully they're using this Sony money to make real characters too...
@14,15&19
The truth!!!
I'm sooo thankful to Ono for providing me with so many troll chars in this gen of SF!!! ;)
"Toro awakened the power of the Hadou while attempting to remember as many words as possible in a quest to become human"
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man I really ain't feeling Cole but I would be the little cats all day long uh.. I won't be getting a vista though I just hope we dint loose out on sweet characters because of them
(#25 they give away vista for free now man, don't be afraid :P)
Well as far as the cats are concerned I think Coles is wasted on SFxT, he should be in MvC3, he would fit easily in there. Maybe licensing issues but you would have to agree.
All im saying is Cole just seems out of place but I guess when you add the cats I guess it does'nt matter.
These cats are the true meaning of trolling, We wanted DAN, not cats! the fact that their just clones of Ryu and Laser eye guy proves they did that just for lolz. If your getting the ps vita version, Have fun with them, is all i can say, I dont love nor hate.
@13: it's not that we don't have a sense of humor, it's just that capcom is known for puttin' in BS characters in place of characters that belong. Where are these cats from? I've never seen them in neither SF or Tekken.
I bet these cats will be the reason we don't see Eddy, Law, Alex, Elena, or any SF/T character that warms the bench.
I have both PS3 and 360, but even with the extra characters, I'm still not buying the PS3 version.
You guys are thinking about this all wrong. Imagine if Gon was an exclusive character for the PS3 or Vita, how *****d wud u be then? If I had a Vita then I might try them for 5mins decent characters need to be on both console versions so I'm pretty happy about it and so should you be!
I don't understand how the game gets these schmucks, but it doesn't get Dan.
I say Xbox 360 will not get Exclusive Character i say it be just like Mortal Kombat did on PS3 got Kratos and Xbox did not get nobody, I say if Xbox 360 did get Exclusive Character it be Master Chief because think Halo is making a big Comeback they Halo 4 coming out next year and Halo Anniversary is coming out
And here I thought that Capcom won't waste slots for joke chars in this game but guess I was wrong. Capcom can't make a game without joke chars (excluding some game like SF3). What I would like would be Kratos instead of Cole in this game, he would be mad beast.
@37 It's optional to play as them. It's optional to buy the game. It's even optional to get rid of the game after purchase because you can't take a few a characters as a joke. In the most part, the content is optional just like your whining.
@38
How does exclusive characters mess up an actual roster? If they don't get in its the developers choice.
"Street Fighter x Tekken with Friends and Friends: Double Rainbow Friendship Edition Upper Upper Upper Plus"
Vina Pinata 360 Exclusives, and Sackboy for future PS3 DLC, complete with costume changes to match your ultimate fighter!.
Watch out, we may have Yoshi and Baby Mario as a team for the Wii U release!
That's what kills me people complain about capcom and DLC and freaking halo just adds levels over and over again not saying anyone in here is saying anything about DLC I got a whole bunch of friends that play it and once I saw the needler weapon I laughed at how stupid it looked and just couldn't bring myself to play it but my friends are religious about halo and it is weird chic never gets character exclusives maybe its a super secret PS conspiracy personally I would be more than happy to give the xbox Cole he looks stupid as crap to me but maybe he will be enjoyed by others
you just watch. they'll announce someone from Gears or Halo for the 360 and PC version.... all those people who bitched about sony will be praising Microsoft.
@38
im sorry i rather have the cats then elena, shes terrible.
@57 58 59
like i said, i rather the dam cats then elena, doesnt mean i want them. We prob wont see them in the game anyway, there ps mascots in JAPAN so thats were they will prob stay.
@57
i dont use fighting games as wank material so i dont need an all female cast but i guess some of us there still have to deal with parental controls. LOL.
@chickenwings Can you tell me again why you don't like Elena?
Is it because of her great normals? Because of her incredible mixup opportunities? Her multiple overheads that destroy your charge characters? Is it because she's black? Because she's just in a bikinis?
What do you have against her? I forget. I honestly am curious as to what you hate so much about her.
@65
lol the tiers say other wise, mind u without parrys or radical character changes to the point where she isnt even the same anymore(ur better off with a new character) she will just get mauled by other members of the cast.
All of the character worth saveing have already appeared in sf4, the rest arent worth the time since we have a better better character(guile>remy) or they will just get trashed by characters with a more robust design(seriously what would elena do versus honda or balrog). ANd when u think about it we have already seen alot of sf3 character brought back. Ibuki,makoto,dudley,yun,yang and now hugo. No need to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
@68 Okay, you didn't answer my question. What's your problem with her?
@69
SHES GONNA SUCK. thats the problem. Adding a character that will do nothing but add plus 1s to the tier list is a waste.
@70 How do you know that? They change the normals/special properties from iteration to iteration (Ryu's cr.mk for example), imagine from game to game.
What's to say her move priorities and hit/hurtboxes are gonna stay the same? What makes you think her frame data is gonna stay identical?
Tier lists change from one version of the same game to the next, why not from game to game?
Personally if they tweaked her alittle (Elena) I wouldn't mind seeing her I thought she was cool she wasn't that great in 3S but hey she has a little following going on as long as we can still get alot of other fan favs. Sakura, Karin, asuka, Lars to name a few then I'm down
@71
what do u think there gonna do? Make her kicks safe on block, make her over heads fast(most of the overheads suck in sf4), make her normals plus 5 on block? It aint gonna happen and without parrys all thats gonna happen is she'll get pushed in the corner and raped or some of the stronger zoning characters ala guile/dhalsim will keep her across the screen. Her design isnt strong enough to work outside of sf3(it doesnt work in sf3 as it is, shes free wins for all the top tiers).
Its not even against elena, its against bad characters. Look at hakan, he can be alot of fun and he has some interesting gameplay but whats the real deal, he sucks. Hes crippled by the fact that he needs oil to do anything worth it and the other guy can just rush hard and keep him from geting that oil. Thats why i wouldnt want him in sfxtekken and thats why i dont want elena. We are better off with like juri or something.
@72
i highly doubt she has any following. Its just the same hand full of people spaming about her in every thread. I was watching that Ono troll dance vid before and bestalgorithm was spaming the same crap on there too.
@75
cause capcom has high tier trolling on lock.
Ono's dance should be the cats super or something.
@73 I've got no idea what they're gonna do. Does SSF4 Makoto wreck stuff like her 3S version? No. Is Chun the near unstoppable force she is in 3S? No. Characters can and do change, so why do you think they can't change Elena to be a high tier character?
You want high tier characters... but let's look at a Jan. 2011 tier list.
http://iplaywinner.com/storage/images...
Makoto is fourth from bottom. Ken is the lowest B tier character. Chun is mid-A tier.
Now compare the SSF4 tier lists with the AE tier lists.
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2011/ja...
Characters change a lot, don't they?
can't wait 'till they reveal the 360 exclusive character =D
@77
ur comparing sf4 tier lists, tier lists that will be in motion for atleast another 5 years(and i mean 5 years after they stop updating it). ELena has been a lost cause in sf3 since day one. Seriously, shes bad and that wont change thats why capcom didnt revive her in sf4.
@80 Those were high tier characters(all top 4) in 3S but they all fell down quite a bit in SSF4.
Why can't Elena go all the way up if she's put in SFxTekken?
@78
it has to be master chief(or a halo spartan). THey already had one in doa4 so they can prob go off that as a direct for some of the moves. Maybe have a super involving some of the halo equipment(sticky grenades spartan lasers etc)
Only my 2 cents, but at this point I am more hyped on “Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver.2012 Upper” than the other games coming from Capcom. I am so scared that when “Street Fighter 5” is finally announced that it will be a tag-game or 3-on-3 fighter with your choice of V-ism, X-ism, or Gem-ism complete with good and evil versions of all characters as well as your choice of X-Factor or Pandora with the option of choosing ultimate or unlimited versions of your character/characters with selectable parry or focus-attack and the option of six-button or 4-button control to which you can enable simple-mode or regular-mode in which 1 to 4 players can do button-checks easily within the menus for one-on-one, one-on-two, or two-on-two combat. I've had my days where I hated the “SF4” series, but now I realize how genius it was and is. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for Capcom's fighting games and will be purchasing all future titles, costume-packs, and character DLC.
#80 well not tu burst your bubble, but i have many people i know who handles Elena just fine, because they do not s*ck playing as her...why don't you come out and just accept that you generally do not like her? why you coming up with cheap and pointless excuses to your dislike of her?...or i can tell you this and that probably will be true anyway, so you kind of s*ck playing as her and handling your abilities and you're rubbing it all against her, because you weren't patient enough to learn her technics how about that?
thats about it...some characters are tricky and require patience, while some are easily controlled straight forward rush kind of characters, some of them you need time to learn better, some of them are complicated and requires skill to learn timing, zoning, diversity etc...with that being said there's absolutely NO characters that s*ck, until you know how to handle them, so you could make up concurency with best and most experience top ranked online players like Daigo Umehara or Justin Wong etc...
If ever, I'll pair these 2 and troll the hell out of everyone XD
...sorry but no...with cats its another story, its not about their technics and playability its about how they fit SF and fighting engine in general or better say NOT FITTING...i have no hatred towards them...most of the time i just don't care as i'm playing on Xbox 360 anyway, but these two are exaggeration at its best to put as character in fighting game, i'd expect anything, but not these two...
...i mean like seriously what's next, what could be even dumber than that? nopw lets make characters out of arrows and marks, give them limbs and ability to use specials that gives 404 error or BSOD...isn't it sound stupid? now imagine it actually implemented into fighting game, how would you meet it?
@73: "We are better off with like juri or something. "
Funny that you're arguing against the inclusion of a "low tier" character by citing that another character's inclusion would be better even though the character you cite is also perpetually "low tier."
Anyway, people are too uptight.
If Sony wasn't assuredly paying Capcom for the additional characters, guess what, there wouldn't be anyone replacing them from whatever dream list of SF or Tekken characters you or I hold.
Same thing if Microsoft is joining in the action.
@chickenwings - to say they cant change a character to become viable or to work in a new game/system is personally ridculous to me. They've done it for years now without taking too much away from the actual character and playstyle. They can change frame data, add or remove one or two moves, add different properties etc etc. I also feel this has proven elena is still a viable and possible inclusion for future games, as they have already that elena missed the cut for ssf4 which shows that she is debatable to be revinvented and reimplemented. This is coming from a person who is neither for or against elena, however open to expansion and different styles to keep the game fresh.
Tbh i think you don't suck with or against her or generally hate her for no reason, however are more obsessed and refer to tier lists (let's be honest, they will always be low end characters and high "op" characters, no matter how well they try to balance game) and/or desiring characters which you'd rather see in the game.
@91 - "If Sony wasn't assuredly paying Capcom for the additional characters, guess what, there wouldn't be anyone replacing them from whatever dream list of SF or Tekken characters you or I hold"
Yep, exactly what i think when i see comments like "wahhhhhhhh they could put dan instead of this junk", yep highly doubt it, this is just extra. Plus we wont see them that often online or offline, maybe once or twice in the first few months and then they're novelty will die quick. 99% buying this game is for street fighter and/or Tekken, this is just filler
As long as its fun I really don't care. Its a a fighting "game". And the "NOT FITTING" part your talking about a game where people can throw fireballs like nothing, a baby that was tranaformed into a green monster who can manipulate electricty, and a martial arts knowing bear who has a instant KO fart. As far as I'm concerned 2 humanoid fighting cats doesn't really make me think much different.
#96 yes it is different...because what you're talking about is well konwn and exstablished standard almost fro mthe very beggining of fighting games...it might not be realistic, but it makes sense, like i said i'm all against all kind of not humanoid form characters, especially the ones that you gave examples of, but at least THEY'RE well known and recognized characters that managed to build their fanbase not without a reason, their original and smooth gameplay managed to satisfy many people, so they adapt and accept them as they're, while these two characters simply poorly designed, like being cut from the paper and placed in a fighting game as they're...so yes they're different from all those bears, beasts that you're talking about...
this just shows how people live to complain.
SONY PAYED THEM TO DO THIS. THIS IS EXTRA! IT'S NOT MESSING WITH THE DEVELOPMENT CYCLE! THE MONEY FUNDS YOUR PRECIOUS "unraped" VERSION, AND GIVES MORE FUNDING FOR MORE MODES! THE ROSTER WAS SET IN STONE MONTHS AGO! GET OVER IT! DON'T PLAY THE CATS! THEY ARE MOST LIKELY EASY PREY! TAKE THE FREE WIN AND MOVE ON! IF YOU GET BEAT BY THEM, STEP YO GAME UP! IF EXCLUSIVE 360 CHARACTER IS ANNOUNCED, YOU X-BOTS WOULD PUT YOUR KOCKS ALL OVER MICROSOFT'S DIKK! GET OVER IT!
@100
You really can't just keep a pleasant conversation for nothing. So the community is going to die from the characters? It won't be the gameplay that has anything to do with it, it's gonna be the joke characters that fans want ruin the community right? So to hell with the fans and what they want apparently.
#101 i'll tell you what it is...it is very frequent if not to say regular attempts recently to throw jokes almost into ANY kind of jokes in it...and people are getting tired with it...we want pure, nonsense free serious fighting experience...Dan wasn't serious, but atleast he was human and he made sense...
@Summoner
"nonsense free serious fighting experience"
One of the characters in this game wrestles bears and wins
"nonsense free serious fighting experience"
One of the fighters in this game IS a bear and they fart on you in the end of their "super"
"nonsense free serious fighting experience"
people throw magical balls of energy in this game
"nonsense free serious fighting experience"
almost everyone in this game has atleast one move that defies physics and logic
"nonsense free serious fighting experience"
there is a mechanic named after a Mythological figure, Pandora and there was a device found in a meteor shaped like a box....
Also dude Summoner if I remember all versions of street fighter 4 have taken themselves pretty seriously even with goofy or joke characters(even then there's only 3, Rufus, Dan and Hakan out of 37). MVC3 took it's self seriously (yep even joe and MODOK takes it pretty seriously) the only few funny moments aren't really joke fest. So what?
#105 so these stupid cats are not on the same boat...thats what!...yes even with those goofy and whacky characters...they're just not only whacky and goofy...they serve no purpose, they're plain stupid...its not the case of something funny, its the case of pointless and stupid...if people find this crap funny they should stop taking ecstasy pills...
106......It's the Japanese remember they aren't allowed to show gentile in their porn without a mosic(blur) over it. They brought us video games where people fly around in giant machines. they find the fact a Cat wants to be human humorous kinda like Americans find reality TV humorous. Also dude it fills the wacky qouta since we know we're not getting Dan, also they annoy people like you.
You believe there's some logic you like that they should follow, well it's not they're appealing to all the audiences they can.
I cant see what people are complaining about. I want a Dan too but if he not in it he will be or jsut play another game with him in it. They are for fun. Who works on something and doesnt try to have fun especially if its THIER passioin and they are making a living with it. Why are people so angry over something that doesn't affect anything but 2 extra slots that will barley be picked later on. Buy the game play it have fun and be thankful that they are enjoying themselves. What would happen if they didn't wanna make this game. I'm pretty sure COD:MW2 is a result of that
@105 you forgot Blanka and El Fuerte. And Zangief to an extent.
Half of MVC3 is comprised of midgets. Lol. These franchises have been turned to jokes already so what's a few little fluffy cats gonna hurt?
MORE LAWLZ CAPCOM!!
@75
Except it's been confirmed by every proper news source that didn't jump to conclusions after seeing an untranslated conference and the site itself that the cats are also PS3 bound. And they've been long since confirmed by Sven and the official freaking site that they're coming to the west as well.
Also, lol@ the little kiddies with their panties in a twist because the new characters aren't "mature" enough. Can't wait to swim in your salty tears come March.
I love it a nice dose of humour, for the super serious fighter generation. Wouldn't mind getting a taster of Elena and vita online play though.
The good news is, this thing is only playable on the vita, which I wont be playing other people anyway...
Frankly, capcom really needs to stop being stupid and making dumber and dumber characters. Fuerte, Hakan, Rufus? Those are pushing it. Dan is where it should end. He fits the comical area just fine, but then you go and throw dumb characters like them, is when it just start ruining it for me.
*sighs* people are such a tools...they so easily accept nearly anything developers feed them these days...i miss good old times when fighting games used to be nonsense free, back into the deep deep 90's when first MK got released, first Street Fighter etc...do you remember all that nonsense back than? no...there were no beasts, animals and other weird stuff and people enjoyed those games just as much as now...why can't it all be like those days? *sighs*...
@116
MK was nonsense free? Johnny Cage, Friendships, Animality's and more silly stuff. And when being a tool means accepting things the way they are with no way to really change it except with people just complaining because they can't get what they want is. Oh well. Adapt to change or die out.
@116 Was Blanka a joke? He was a beast, the problem with fighting games these days is that everyone takes them so damn seriously. Even in the early 90's when I frequented Arcades I don't remember people being so serious, fanatical or purist about their favourite game.
@115, man it's capcom, it's PERFECTLY fine to make comical characters as well as serious characters like C.Viper, Abel, Juri, etc. You don't want Street Fighter to have an all serious series. Man you need to calm your tits. I may not like certain characters, but at least Capcom is making it more enjoyable. There is no such thing as dumb characters when it comes to Street Fighter. Turo and Kuro are cool, so if you guys are pissed off about that, go ahead and be. You're just entertaining me :D
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