SF4 Development meeting - 12/15/08
"OK everybody let's discuss this. We're almost done here with this amazing game, let's just iron out some details for our final boss. am I clear on these points?"
★you guys remember that game soulcaliber, right?
awesome fucking game, I saw my son playing it the other day. let's make the boss inferno. only, not.
★hey I also saw this show "dragonball" the other day, you guys see that? it's KICKASS!!!!1!!!! I want our boss to look like this guy frieza. but taller, and give him abel's face. that'll confuse people.
★As long as we're stuck in the 90s, let's make his battle stage Hank Scorpio's lair from The Simpsons and populate it with those guys from the wacky Intel ads from the superbowl 10 years ago. God I'm fresh.
★His normal attacks do 150-200% more damage than any character, right? sounds AWESOME!!!!
★He can interrupt other characters "unblockable" attacks with
a grab
★I'm tired of all these "cool sounding" bad guy boss names. I want something approachable, that will really humiliate talented players by having their ass handed to them by the name of a guy they use to beat up in high school. Seth, any comment? ok we'll go with "seth".
★I don't want anyone interrupting his awesome grabs. Let's make them unblockable.
★he will build up special gauge 2x faster than normal, because he's awesome.
★I bet if we made him teleport I'd feel like I had a larger penis
★I love this whole "dragon punch" thingie. Doug, it's sweet. But I want it to have the range of a fireball, do 10x the damage and be able to hit from the front
and from the air.
★finally, I want to make sure some characters don't have any moves to significantly damage him in any meaningful way. After all, we need quarters. We'll leave that function in the home console version and later charge people dlc to beat him
★sounds good, let's ship this motherfucker!
Seth:
Bison's a fucking pushover compared to Seth.
@Usedtabe
Yeah, the same thing happened to me. I ran wild like a hulkamaniac over Seth my first time on Medium... after that I couldnt fucking touch the guy even on EASY mode. So I just said screw it and went to Easiest just to unlock a few people.
And for a heads up, I've been reading online that if you want to beat him on the hardest mode setting, set the rounds to "1" and the timer to "30" seconds. Then pick Zangief and spam his spinning lariat. Apparently this works, haven't tried it yet.
I tried that on Seth.
It went poorly.
"SHE MADE A FUCKING HOLE IN THE FLOOR!?!?!?"
Seth is definitely cheap. I haven't sworn more than I have in the last 2 days in a real long time.
I'm a freak that needs to always beat single player mode before going onto multiplayer (meat and gravy of SF)
I remember beating himt he first round like "that wasn't TOOOOOO bad"
then I was raped.
One of my most satisfying gaming moments is beating Shin Akuma on expert, so part of me is excited about a completely unfair fight.
Then again, cheap broken bosses are a no no in general from a game design point of view.
And I'm an okay Street Fighter player.
But bosses like Seth is why I hate fighting games, it would be nice if more companies took a page from Virtua Fighter and just challenged you instead of making the boss a cheap-ass piece of shit.
I wasn't that interested in playing as Rose anyway . . .
@Haxan
Thanks to Sagat I got that award. Thank you tiger knee.
Ah, that might explain it.
@haxan
I did :)
Still not as bad as Gill from SF3rd strike
The guy can teleport instantaneously and repeatedly in only a second. He has a throw that can be pulled off without a delay and can catch you in pretty much any situation (i.e. jumping, crouching, blocking, in the middle of moves, before completely recovering from falling, etc.) and he spams it repeatedly. He has a suction move, both normal and as an Ultra Combo, that can cancel almost anything you're doing and the only way to avoid it is to be lucky and be in the middle of a high jump when he's trying it. The CPU can predict your jump attempts and counter with an uppercut.
He's just a pain in the ass.
But it was on easy.
On medium difficulty I can perfect him in the first round, but then it gets a bit rough.
He may not be the cheapest boss ever (I can think of several...Devil Jin, Gill, Dark Khan), but Seth comes pretty fucking close.
At least he has no Resurrection move...
I'm glad they gave him the yin yang too, makes him so MYSTERIOUS and gives him the image that he shops at Spencer Gifts in the Blacklight Poster display.