Underrepresented countries in fightans

>>3368992
Like, i wanted some bellydanzas more often.

>>3368992
>Which ones you wish you got?
Poland

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it's interesting how good SNK was at the whole global diversity thing.

For a long time their biggest hero was pure American. None of this 3/4th Japanese crap and they even had the whole universe bet set in Southtown USA before going international with KOF.

And yeah they got the usual YOUNG JAPANESE HERO thing going now there's still a shit town of Americans, a shit town of Hispanics, plenty of Koreans, a Canadian or two, some Italians etc

>>3369096
I've never seen a Canadian in a fighting game.

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>>3369106

Well now you have.

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>>3368992
>"the World according to SF"
>Dhalsim represents India with made up "Yoga"
Never seen a fighting game using Kalaripayattu tbqh.
Same goes for Indonesian Silat, or any other in South East Asia besides Thailand (Muay Thai) for that matter.

Finland is underrepresented in every genre

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>>3369164
Hey, there is that Tekken stage. And we do get lots of mentions in eroge and stuff.

But yeah, how exactly would you make a Finnish character for fighting game? There's not exactly lots of concrete stereotypes that could be used, compared to lots of other countries.
Maybe a grumpy forest dweller that gets drunk?

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>>3369168
weapons: knife, broken kossu bottle
special move: amanita muscaria fueled shamanish rage

I NEVER see them using Tahitian people.

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>>3369124
It's almost like fighting games are fantastical and not realistic! How shocking!

>>3368992
Pullum Purna's pretty cool. Too bad she never made it out of the shitty EX games.

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>>3369096
>For a long time their biggest hero was pure American.
>pure American

T. Hawk was in Street Fighter, not KoF silly.

>>3369539
T Hawk is Mexican though

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>>3369543
How the white man cut up the continent when he took over isn't super relevant, he's native American. I think he might also even be Apache which is kind of silly and appropriate to the thread.

Anyways, have some Nightwolf.

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Anna and Nina Williams are the only fighting game characters from my country (Ireland) that I can think of right now. You'd think there would be more, given how stereotypical these games usually are and how easy it would be insert a fiery haired, beer guzzling pub brawler into practically any fighting game series. I suppose I should be happy at least that the Williams sisters are so devoid of stereotyping that nobody even knows they're Irish until they look at their bios.

>>3369560
damn I didn't even know they were Irish.
you are right. I am surprised there are no other Irish fighters. you guys got a pretty popular country.
My origins are from Iran. all we got is AstaRoth. I'm okay with that though

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>>3369560
Aran Ryan from Super Punch Out

>>3369578
That's the thing, when Eastern developers get the wrong ideas.

>Make stereotypical Apache indian
>Call it mexican.
>Make blonde babe and a Dragon lady China babe
>Call them Irish.

Only in japan.

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>>3369560
Igniz is Irish as well.

>>3369651
KOF doesnt use stereotypes, they all look like regular people who pretty much blend into each Other.

But remember World Heroes?...

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>>3369668
>they all look like regular people

What the hell are you smoking?

I was gonna post Brazil, but we have plenty of capoeiristas and BJJ practicioners. Only recently with KOF14 did they change the formula a little. Our team has a kickboxer, a batshit ninjutsu otaku and the capoeirista is actually colombian for a change. Kek!

Also Blanka, but that kinda doesn't count as he was thrown in the Amazon.

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Argentina

Olympic gold or world champs in Box, TaeKowndo, Kick Boxing, Karate and Judo.

The only thing we have in fighting videogames is the Clark's Argentine Backbreaker

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Scottland, we get Angus MacGreggor and Morrigan. I think we win.

>>3369681
Still generic (Outside of the Fatal Fury cast) compared to the SF cast.

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>>3369746
SF are the ones I would call generic. Yoga dude, Sumo dude, army dude, boxer dude... they all look like boring stereotypes. KoF has those too, but their characters tend to have more flair and interesting style.

>>3369557
Oh my GOD, it's been 200 years, get over it.

>>3369806
NEVER we have a hula girl in a fighting game.

How many bellydanzas we have so far?

>>3369806
Yeah this. If E. Honda had debuted in SFV everyone would piss and moan over how plain and generic he looks. But because he got lucky and started in SF2 he's forever heralded as a "classic".

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I never saw a Gabonese or Congo character.

>>3369668
>World Heroes
Papua-New Guinea got it's only character in gaming.

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I said this in an earlier Street Fighter thread, but there should be a Switzerland character who fights with a multitude of weapons, like a play on being a living Swiss army knife.

>>3369106
does wolverine count?

>>3369867
In that thread someone posted an image of a Tahitian fighter which is basically a dark skinned gal in a loincloth.

Who did that?

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In Cheonha Mujeok, this motherfucker's from Best Korea.

He's the only Best Korean I know of represented in any fighting game.

>>3369934
The game plays like absolute ass, but here he is in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGVGWK-fJE

>>3369829
Keep that attitude in mind when you get overrun by some other race of people :^)

>>3369852
Midler from Jojo's BA

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>>3369106
?

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>>3369164
>>3369168
>>3369196
Was going to post about Finland but since it is already done here is something else I want to bring up:

>French vidya character
Is always from Paris, France

>German vidya character
Is always from Berlin, Germany

>Japanese vidya character
Is always from Tokyo, Japan

>Spanish vidya character
Is always from Madrid, Spain

>Indian vidya character
Is always from Bombay/Mumbai

>Russian vidya character
Is always from Moscow, Russia

>Turkish vidya character
Is always from Istanbul, Turkey

>Irish vidya character
Is always from Dublin, Ireland

>etc...
I'm sure you see the pattern by now

>meanwhile
American vidya character #1 is from New York, USA
American vidya character #2 is from Los Angeles, USA
American vidya character #3 is from Philadelphia, USA
American vidya character #4 is from San Francisco, USA
American vidya character #5 is from Chicago, USA
American vidya character #6 is from Detroit, USA
I'm sure there are shitload of other American vidya characters from other/smaller cities as well

Now I know that neither Americans or Japanese are exactly interested about world beyond their own borders but would it be wrong to expect them to know more than one city from other countries?

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>>3369852
Not Hula, but Hawaii is sort of represented by Warren from Power Athlele/Power Moves/Deadly Moves. But it doesn't appear to have any relation to the martial art Lua. He's just a guy from Hawaii.

If any face is deserving of a meme image, it's his.

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>>3369604
>A.ryan

>>3369938
What's with Asia and dodgy old DOS games? There's also this bowling game that lets you play as Madonna and Hitler.

>>3370153
Pillar queer shit.

>>3370151

SNK are pretty good about all of those when they specify where a character lived, actually.

>French Character
Vice is rumored to be from Marseilles, Ash Crimson is thought to be from Grenoble.

>Japanese Character
Yamazaki's from Okinawa.

>Spanish Character
Laurence Blood from the Fatal Fury games is from Pamplona.

>German Character
Wolfgang Krauser from the Fatal Fury series lives in a bootleg version of Neuschwanstein Castle, near Fussen.

Also, you forgot one:

>English vidya character
Is always from London, England

>>3370151
I don't really see the problem. I mean, Spain's not that large, where else do you want them to be from that is recognizable to everyone? For all those you could just say city vs country since I'm sure most of the cities in each country will have roughly the same type of people vs the country peasants.

>>3370551

Barcelona. It has almost nothing to do with Madrid.

>>3370580
But no one outside of Spain will know that.

>>3370613

Barcelona is more popular than you think, then

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>>3369535
>It's almost like fighting games are fantastical and not realistic! How shocking!
In his defense, the aforementioned martial arts looks explosive and ridiculous enough it may just work well on a fighting game.

>>3370195
It was a fun thing to do.

>>3370551
There are multicultural countries, just so you know.

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>>3369852
Aside from Pullum Purna from Street Fighter EX, we only have Red Snake from Martial Masters, and this beauty from Perfect Soldiers (the game plays like ass but whatever)

>>3370931
Also the pink haired chick from JoJo.

>>3370935
Which just so happened to be a background character from Part 3 which wasnt even a character and Capcom forced Araki to make her attractive to conterattacks the flamboyant look of his artstyle.

>>3370942
That's hilarious, it also worked.

>>3370151
Whoa, it's as if capitals and large population centers were like, relevant and well known.

>>3369852
Rouge from power stone?

>>3370942
I thought Capcom designed with only some input from him.

>>3370931
Cool design, but appears she's just a re-skinned Chun-Li

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3AzGsMKSs

>>3371142
the problem with these types of fightans is that they have lame physics and momentum as well of lack of gravity and impact in the attacks.

>>3369867
Your girl looks a lot more Swedish than Swiss though. Blond hair , blue eyes and dressed in the colors of the flag.

>>3370195
Koreans, man.

They cannot into games.

>>3372185
Anon, a Korean just won EVO

>>3369709
Wasn't Robert Garcia argentinian?

>>3372492
Italian.

>>3372516
How many italiana we have?

>>3373512
Pizza Pasta (Punch Out)
Rose (Street Figther Alpha)
Vulcano Rosso (Street Fighter Ex)
Claudio Serafino (Tekken 7)

Not so many, as far I can remember.

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>>3370151
>it's a non-american doesn't know the sheer size or diversity of the US episode

There's less distance between Maine and Nevada than there is between Maine and Ireland

Texas alone is bigger than Germany or France

The US has more cultural and ecological diversity than any other country.

Saying a character is from Chicago instead of Las Vegas is a bigger difference than saying one is from England vs Ireland

>>3375282
Shame about Rose. She's more a gypsy than an Italian.

>>3375310
>The US has more cultural and ecological diversity than any other country.
I'm sorry? That's Canada. Their whole shtick is that we're made up of different cultures.

>>3375382
>canada is a melting pot
>the US isn't

Uh what? Is that what you get told up there?

Canada is whiter than most european countries

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>>3375385
cute

>>3375440
This is based on what?

>>3375382
>Canada
>either faux-French or lumberjack

New Zealand is quite under represented in any games.

I mean, sure we aren't much different to aussies.. but what about the Maori folk?

>>3369697
it is the first time i hear from a colombian character in any vidya...

>>3375286
this but unironically

>>3375382
>Their whole shtick is that we're made up of different cultures.

England and France is hardly the diverse spread you think it is

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>>3375469
>pew research center

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>>3375282
>Pizza Pasta
Mad Clown too.

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>>3375310

>It's an american talking out of his ass episode

>The US has more cultural and ecological diversity than any other country.
>One official language vs dozens of official languages, let alone minor languages
>Barely a few centuries old nation vs countries existing since almost two millennia
>Bastardized european culture vs the real thing
>Chicago and Las Vegas are more different that two islands with different tribes, languages and cultures, let alone something like England vs Italy or Spain vs Poland

You guys are so fucking brainwashed it's hilarious, the only thing you have that Europe doesn't is deserts, a few jungles and bad food, and you can keep those.

>>3375714
I forgot about that bear Hugger's pallette swap.

>>3375369
Well, we have a couple of magician/scammers in villages and television, so Rose isn't far-fetched.

Why does this matter? It's no better than "NEEDS MORE MINORITIES"

Russia is underrepresented among normal human fighters

There's Dragunov from Tekken and Millia Rage from GG, the rest are all circus strongmen, mutants, cyborgs or literally Rasputin. And Dragunov is a pretty boring stone cold KGB badass stereotype too

I want to see a Russian character who is a normal human, doesn't work for the secret service or shout "aah motherland!" and just beats people up using Sambo

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>>3369728
More importantly, Lazarus from Time Slaughter

>>3376085
There's Bayman from DOA, but it's pretty much the stereotypical ex VDV/GRU/Spetsnaz assasin combat sambo dude.

>>3369649
SNK was a bit closer with Ramon from KoF.

>>3376085
>russians
>normal

>>3369560

The reason why you wouldn't know is that they have American accents since voices were added in Tekken 4, but they retconned it that their father was an IRA Assassin and their mother was American. Also Tekken doesn't particularly give fucks either

>>3370151

Depends on the effort devs are willing to go. The Williams sisters were said to be from Co. Galway, Ireland in one of the old Tekken guidebooks around when T3 came out but now it's just labeled as Ireland.

>>3375714
>28 and already grey

Poor guy

>>3377084

Rather grey than bald.

>>3377084
I have friends whose hair took on a salt & pepper look as early as high school.

>>3376074
You're not wrong, but a big draw of fighting games is representatives from all around the world. It's like having Pokemon with only water types. People would ask "why are there not more X types too?"

>>3371159

Yes? That's why they all died out and we were left with SF and KoF for years and years until ASW gave us GGX/BB.

But in the early 90s fighting games utterly dominated arcades after SF2 and MK blew up. Everyone wanted a piece of that action. The east got SF2 clones, we got MK clones.

revelations 2012 has aztecs, but what about incas?

Would like to see a Pakistani character representing, doesn't have to be a fightan. At this point I wouldn't even mind if he was a suicide bomber or honor killer.

>>3378042
There was an Inca graphic adventure for the Pee Cee iirc. It was wacky scifi tho.

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>>3378042
>>3378630
this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1RkvlB_wNc

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>>3369124
>bali dancer
at least they get a stage in kof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyk6wEA4AEw

there's also one in one of the newer tekken game if i'm not mistaken

>>3378640
Yeah.

Only remember it from a walthough in a game rag. The description made it sound hilariously silly.

>>3369649
Maybe you are to dumb or young to know anything about how the rest of the world knows proper history.
A Indian would be know in Mexico cuz you fat white Yankee bastards stole the land from everyone.

>>3376048
That is in no way a palette swap of Bear Hugger. Haha.

>>3376478
You know spy's and actors are pretty good at changing the accent thing right?

Bermuda, I want to see Bermuda in a fighting game. We always have these weird as alien stages but never any proper representative in a fighting game.

>>3369853
Well that's kind of the thing? When you are the "first" or one of the firsts people will be more forgiving. We expect more nowadays because that already set the standard.

I fucking love Ryu and think he's fine as is. But Akira in VF doesn't really do anything for me.

>>3376041
>Europe is a country

>>3378852
It soon will be, united under the ISIS flag if they don't get smart and start electing officials with the balls to fight back.

>>3369081
its hard to fit a horse onto a fighting game screen.

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>>3369106

>>3369543
You are aware that Mexico is part of the Americas right?

>>3380445
Speaking of which, some guys from a game rag went once to interview some SNK devs and joked that Earthquake from Samurai Shodown was technically Mexican because he was from Texas in the 17-18th century or some sillly shit like that.

>>3379041
god, can't you keep your armchair general fantasies on your containment board

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>>3376085
Gopnik characte when?
>squats when wins
>beats the opponent with vodka bottle
>has krokodyl power-up move

>>3378662
>this music
TETSUOOOOOOOOOO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6MlA8vNH74

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>>3380445
America means the USA. The only people who say Mexico is also America are people outside of the real America who desperately want to belong.

>>3370151
>/hou/ so rarely represented in video games.

Really, a crime. I just attribute it to the fact that Texas really has no cultural presence outside of the whole wild west thing.

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>>3369124
>Silat practitioner
>Is a Russian acrobat

Eternal Champions' all sorts of ridiculous.

>>3377146
I started going grey when I was 14.

>>3377253
>a big draw of fighting games is representatives from all around the world.

People on /vr/ seem to think everything about fighters is the big draw except actual gameplay. Because people on /vr are dumb.

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>>3378760
It's a Bear Hugger sprite edit.

>>3376095
magnificent Time Slaughter!
let's not forget Haitian Mojumbo or Ainu Jinsoku

>>3384070
A sprite edit isn't the same thing as a palette swap tho.

>>3384021
No it's because back then if it was flashy (mortal kombat) or had more relatable characters (KoF) it made it interesting to the mind of child.
Now game play is more prevalent at an older age. But at that time in our life we rarely cared.

>>3384021
>People on /vr/ seem to think everything about fighters is the big draw except actual gameplay.
Tourneytard autismos weren't invented yet. Most token feeders cared about flashy games that were easy to get into.

>>3384823
>>3384668
This. I read an article saying most girls in 1992 played Chun Li just because she was a girl. They didn't care about tier lists or anything, they just liked her because they could relate, so it's understandable people would want characters from their country too.