Give me Sokaku over a character like Alice any day. Or Sokaku's disciple since it's MOTW. He's been criminally neglected IMO.
You want to talk long shots, good luck me getting a Jubei or Tung with this being set however many years after MotW, itself set a decade after RB. Even if it's present day, that would make Jubei 102 years old. Even Eastwood will stop pretending to throw punches before he hits 100.
Yeah, just wheel out the wheel chairs for all the DLC fan service they're gonna do.
Rain Man update: Rick will be 53 in 2025 when City is released, if the games continue to be set present day, as they were from FF1 to RB2. On the other hand, if it's set pretty close after MotW, that would mean City takes place sometime in the early 2010s. Maybe they'll try to avoid specifying.
I would be pleasantly surprised if SNK respected the timeline. I never played Street Fighter after III, but that was my biggest gripe with IV and on - all the characters stayed the same age, zero growth. No respect for the canon.
The overarching stories from each mainline SF proceed in a chronological plot order of 1, 2, 4, 5, 3, 6. Visually speaking in terms of 6's ensemble, It's very much apparent how characters like Dhalsim, Chun Li, Akuma, Guile, Cammy, & Ryu have aged. Juri Han & Ed both looking "static" are notable contradictory exceptions, but that's a digression for another time.
Man... Fighting games really are back if this is happening.
I will now buy your game.
