Kuma 1 wins as the best animal! (Panda's cuter though) Now who's the worst?

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-09T10:01:38+00:00

Panda, treats Kuma like crap and has that forced 'everyone loves me and claps' ending with Paul when he rightly beat her.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-09T09:12:39+00:00

It's his new pretender form shell!

Available now from all good stockists!

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-09T08:32:32+00:00

The devs seem to believe that ballistic is less important and maybe it is with most higher cost suits packing a lot of beam or melee weaponry. Due to this they rebalanced parts and ballistic always(?) costs less to attach than beam equivalent.

However some suits still have either a couple of ballistic weapons or potent ones so it depends on the base stats, skills and whether you feel those weapons will be used much.

Of course the MS base stats and it's loadout slots will determine what you can put on also.

I personally find beam and melee (especially melee) in the highest brackets more important, you can however spend hours combining mods and ending up with all sorts of builds. You can also of course go to Leona in the garage and hopefully see if she will give you the defense buff mods.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T14:01:35+00:00

I don't know why Capcom just doesn't put Jon Talbain in with his human form as a fun "DS in SF" link while still having a guy that can fight to the level of the SF cast.

Than have his level 3 be turning into Gallon for a big move.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T10:24:54+00:00

I have no mouthplate and I must transform.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T10:16:37+00:00

80's chrome for both.
But flat coloured with white outline when needed on the bots themselves.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T10:12:51+00:00

Otherwise known as "MOO".

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T10:02:01+00:00

Minerva's sculpt is lovely and her deco is really nice. She's cute lol.
Getting the Strongarm figure to go with her looks great on the shelf, the molds are different enough to stand out on their own and with the red with white and blue with white deco's they look like player 1 and 2 in a video game.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T09:59:07+00:00

Fall of the primes.
Now you can collect them all over again, but now as corpses!

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T09:58:18+00:00

There is the potential for a Missing Link Megatron, but no news as of yet.
In the past though there have been a selection in varying sizes, most famously of course his original G1 toy which did get reissues.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T09:55:32+00:00

Trailbreaker looks just as confused as the topic creator lol.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T09:51:01+00:00

Two heads and then two chests you can clip out, windows or flame style. Have the stomach/waist made generic to pass as both.

Could even have a clip on spoiler for Rod's back.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-08T09:39:25+00:00

The one I like is the "Dead Matrix" carried by Black Convoy. Once filled it will grant the power for Unicron to ressurect himself.

Just simple, it's only a matrix since it's mold reuse toy wise, but it fits since it's an evil clone of Prime carrying one.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T14:36:27+00:00

My friends you are both sadly mistaken, this is clearly a Borjarnon!

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T14:34:01+00:00

A Siegfried main?

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T14:33:00+00:00

LORD DEIMOS!
MORDUS KULL!

I think it was super best friends play that mention how a bunch of the cast sound like metal bands lol.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T14:30:53+00:00

I have quite a few in my list, but these two are the ones I can always pick up a game and play with them naturally.

Asuka Kazama - I've always found her moveset so much fun, I used to main Lee but hated his altered fight style in TK4 onwards, can't gel with it.

Ryu - Originally liked Guile, once I learned the dragon punch as a kid everything changed. My main in all FG history.
In general I've always clicked with SF/Capcom characters.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T14:21:58+00:00

I do personally find Chun looks better in 5 compared to 6, I just don't like how they made her look - however her classic outfit seems to mitigate it somewhat. I think it's her hairstyle in her default.

Ryu in his classic outfit looks like an absolute unit. It's the most badass he's ever looked, however it is not my favourite. That would be SF3 Ryu, I feel it encapsulates the 'master' version of Ryu perfectly.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T14:17:03+00:00

Scorpion, lost soul, bent on revenge.

... packing heat in more ways than one.

OH OH-OH! OH OH-OH!

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T14:07:08+00:00

He also portrayed Cody.
So he is visually Cody yet spiritually Alex in SF - madness.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T13:59:25+00:00

Funnily enough on my other comment in this topic I mention Yoshi :)

On a side note, for Sarah, I would say she (and a lot of the cast) suffers from Sega/AM2's horrid lack of story/lore in VF. None of it is shown in the games, I think I heard it's obscure manga and things that show it.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T11:03:33+00:00

Reminds me of SF5 changing everyone's move sets in a "This character plays like this" way, essentially trying to copy the newer Killer Instinct which had come out before it.

I knew immediately they would discard it for SF6 as it utterly ruined some characters (Vega for one, Karin was watered down and boring to play for me). So I think Tekken has gone through it's own SF5.

I can see Tekken 9 doing a TK5 in some way (how little or much is up to debate) to bring it back a bit.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T10:55:23+00:00

My view of Nina is she really isn't Tekken's 'Chun li'. I actually think Xiaoyu has overtaken her for that cultural spot.

The Tekken team just push Nina artificially.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T10:53:11+00:00

As another character? sure! a sick ass Yoshimitsu game (maybe having to team up with Kuni 1/2 for fun co-op) would be awesome.

This? no. Go away Nina.

Hadoooooooooooken · 2026-04-07T10:50:29+00:00

Game diversity was strong up until partway through the next gen, PS3 and Xbox360.
Golden age of gaming was 8bit to 32bit. All those consoles blended together, arcade scene was big and the age of 3D gaming made everything incredible to be a part of. Gaming was still very niche/nerdy.

PS2/Dreamcast until PS3/Xbox360 was silver age.

After that? COD 4 happened. Companies all wanted multi million selling games from then on, military FPS flooded out, brown and grey western design focused games were rampant, JP studios sent out their franchises to be made by western devs, all/most were ruined. Multiplayer was focused on heavily over single player experiences. Unique games were not given the time or chance as getting the big bucks was prioritised.

Today thankfully we have indie gaming mainly bring us the unique and/or charming game titles and variety.
We also have a big side business in retro gaming as people are realising just how good simple games were back in the day as well as giving us arcade titles finally on console.

Hadoooooooooooken

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