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Street Fighter
1994 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Steven E. de Souza
ActionScience FictionAdventure
Colonel William F. Guile leads an international Allied Nations strike force to free relief workers held hostage by the megalomaniacal dictator General M. Bison in the war-torn region of Shadaloo.
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To misquote the street fighter movie: OpenBSD to Linux:
"For you the day you changed your ABI was the most important day in your life, but for me? It was Tuesday"
I enjoy the dichotomy between how bad the Linux project is at changing their ABI and how good OpenBSD is at the same task.
Where for the most part Linux just decides to live with the bad ABI forever. and if they do decide it actually needs to be changed it is a multi year drama with much crying and missteps.
I mean sure, linux has additional considerations that make breaking the ABI very scary for them. the big one is the corpus of closed source software, but being a orders of magnitude bigger project and their overall looser integration does not help any.
In the 90s she was busy being in movies and video games (including the acclaimed Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game)
The part of the player base that cares deeply about the lore of MtG was skeptical of having My little Pony, Warhammer 40k, Lord of the Rings, Fallout and Street Fighter cards (all real btw!).
The other thing is that there's a certain product-fatigue and format fatigue in the community. There are so many releases each year that it's increasingly impossible to give the monetary and time commitment to follow 100% of MtG. It was never a cheap hobby, but the price increases and the proliferation of products really is noticeable.
The old-school entrenched playerbase is also noticing that the formats they grew up with are becoming increasingly irrelevant. In-person standard-events in local stores are increasingly harder to find (and even if an event is planned it often fails because not enough people show up). The competitive tournament scene is almost completely dead. The big money-maker for wizards is Commander and you are thus seeing more and more cards aimed at that format, even in standard-sets.
In short: the extended universe is not aimed at the old-school base and can be seen as an unnecessary money-grab at best or as an "they killed my preferred format for this?!" outrage condensation point.
You are seeing the same thing in the MCU: it's hard to follow /all/ movies and TV shows and even worse: some of the shows are not aiming at the classically young singe male audience and thus shows aimed at female teenagers are produced. Some part of the nerd community sees that as a direct attack on their identity.
The mistakes game movies make is they try to make the movie look too much like the game as if it will please gamers. The movie has to be in the spirit of the game but not too literally. Example is that showing Mario jumping and hitting bricks in real life is just stupid. Or street fighter movie emulating a side view fight is just gonna make it tacky. Doom the movie has these dumb ass fps screens.
Or in Raul Julia's magnificent performance as Bison in the Street Fighter movie.
https://youtu.be/Shxiy7l5b_4
I think he was referring to the highly famous quite (/s) from Street Fighter the movie delivered by Raúl Juliá
Agree, and on top of that isn't it interesting that the more successful game movie adaptations are in those areas where the game plot was thin or non-existent. Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter both fit into that - Little to no plot for the games, then movies come along and are probably successful because they're not so constrained.
> Mostly because videogame plot lines aren't as good as we give them credit for.
I wouldn't agree with that. Sure, AAA-level blockbuster video games have simplistic, unoriginal and derivative stories and that's what most gamers play unfortunately, but there well-written games are definitely out there.
Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 were both better written than any Star Wars movie by a long stretch.
Planescape: Torment is probably the best written game I've ever played, and playing it almost feels like you're reading a novel at times because the world-building and especially the dialogue is so fleshed-out and thoughtful. This game takes a huge dump over the writing in most movies I've seen.
I mean, that's just two examples. I'm a huge sucker for games with a great story regardless of the genre, but genre is a limiting factor in well-written stories.
You generally don't get much of a story in an RTS for example. You are most certainly never going to get a good story from a beat-em up like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter.
I would say the west has failed to make good video game movies, or proper adaptations of an anime.
e.g: street fighter? mario bros? dragonball evolution? death note? ghost in the shell?
You need to be extremely creative to ruin those.
The reverse has also been true: bad game adaptations from good movies. e.g: ET, back to the future, etc.
I like Street Fighter a lot. The Chun Li movie, on the other hand, was a real stinker.
Street Fighter may have disappointed fans of the series, but as an action movie I think it's pretty enjoyable.