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1UP pointed this out a few days ago, but I think it needs reiterating on Destructoid -- Chun Li's hands are nightmarishly huge in Street Fighter IV. Did she just inject collagen directly between her fingers? Did she eat something she was allergic to? Is she pulling a Poison? I have to go with the latter. There's nothing wrong with transsexuals (they're hot and you know it) but some people really should not make the jump from male to female. Like, for example, if they have hands the size of giant squids! It's not just the hands either, but everything about Chun Li that crosses the line into pure male territory. Her arms are now bulked up considerably, resembling big, steroid-infested Chris Benoit limbs. Any sense of a waist also appears to have disappeared. Just check out this screenshot and tell me that's not in the least bit disturbing. Seeing such a mannish, hulking brute in a dress trying to act girly as if nobody has noticed the python arms and monstrous ham fists is creepy, to say the least. All I'll say is, I dread to think of the view that Ryu gets the next time she does one of her signature moves ... Can anyone say Meatspinning Bird Kick?
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Well, she was kind of sort of lady like back in the day...
thats what communism does to you.
wonder how many sainsburys bags she can hold with those grabbers.
those thumbs are really thumbthing
That photo is hilarious.
She just got big hands thats all
What's with her thumb? Jesus, who is making this game?!?
Well you know what they say about a gal with big hands... or was it hairy hands. Dun Dun Duuuunnnnn.
The artistic side of this game is just one trainwreck after another.
Thumb...?
oO'
wtf man?
What the fuck did they do to my chun li? How am I supposed to fap now?
Jim...Jim...Jim...Jimmy Boy...now why did you have to go and ruin a poor old man's (woman's?) dream?
The issue isn't the hand size persay (on a good day, I'd dismiss it as foreshortening), but the real issue is that thumbs don't fucking WORK THAT WAY.
I mean, it looks like an arm is jutting out of her hand and flexing to form a thumb.
I can only imagine what kind of hand turkeys she made on thanksgiving...
No, see. They're transplanted hands from Yao Ming. You can clearly see that they're attached to the block of wood with spikes coming out of it. That's it. She just wanted... an... advantage?
post-op or not, still a hot spinning bird kicker
Holy shit, what did they do hire Matt Hughes and put him in drag. shit! Chun li dick beaters are fucking huge..
It seems video games can't ever get a female to look fuckin normal.
I saw this headline on GameTab and immediately thought "Ah, another fine article by Mr Jim Sterling".
Although I myself aren't particularly attracted to these ladies, your affinity for them tickles a part of me. The part that keeps going back to 4chan I think.
Keep up the good work Jim.
My poor ChunLi... so much fappable material getting destroyed now. What nest... making Mai Shiranui an A-Cup with a buzz haircut?
<awaits the photoshoped picture...>
I live just outside Tokyo. I`ve been to game shows and anime fairs. I've seen plenty of guys trying to pass themselves off as authentic Chun Lis and failing miserably. All that makes this new look very easy to accept.
Haha, Street Fighter can really go off the deep end with their character designs sometimes. Its been that way since the original if you asked me.
Yeah, the cuteness of her "yatta!" pose in that screenshot is kind of canceled out by the beefy legs and man-hands. Her fist looks as big as her damn head!
Also, this: http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7843/chunlicosplaypixnf8.jpg
Well fuck then. I can't get SF4 now. I hope they fix this terrible art direction before the games release.
gosh that is alarming aha, oh dear! what were they thinking?!
What the fuck? Did they hire a bunch of school kids to draw this? Whoever is responsible for the character models from this piece of crap really needs to go back and do some more work on anatomy, proportions... Hell I think they should just fire the shitbird and start over.
Even if a tranny I would prob still have sex with her
Everyone relax. That is just a little swelling from slamming her thumb in a door.
She'd have a pretty strong grip though...
Is it my imagination or Jackie Chan in the Chun Li's costume, from the City Hunter movie, looks more femenine than SFIV Chun Li?
Yeah, they need to de-musclify her arms a bit. Out of all the models, Chun Li's is the worst. I hope they work on that some more.
I'm telling you George, she has man hands!
Don't you all watch Sienfeld?
MAN HANDS!
MAN HANDS!!!!
Also, cock.
I didn't know Xena: Warrior Princess made it to Street Fighter. Wow, she looks kinda Asian now.
@ Trevsweb;
Ahahaha, that's so funny! ^_^
This thread had me in stitches.
Jim, you didn't put your hands on her in the manip?
The man hands are one thing. But sweet monkey Jesus, What the in the Nine Hells is up with that thumb?!
Damn it Agent MOO beat me to the man hand's comment. That is one creepy looking woman. She gives the term handjob a scary new definition.
That thumb is horrible! She should get it seen to, really it looks bad!
well...from a distance...they look...normal? damn...
But yeah. SF IV hands-down has the worst art direction and looks of any Street Fighter game thus far. Absolutely laughable.
Why do I get the feeling this article was created for the sole purpose of that horrible pun at the end?
@Novakaine: ROFL.
Also to further this effect on my friend, I was trying to find the deformed hand/penis picture but for some reason I just couldn't find it at ALL even though I know it was on this website. So anyway, if anyone needs it... http://www.filedropper.com/chunlipenis
In all seriousness, it's kind of normal for hands to suck on quickly rigged characters. Hell if I know why they would use such a terrible shot for promotional purposes (as if nobody would notice that). Most games do sport sucky hands. Pay attention to them, the next time that you play something. Short of the hands of the main character in a FPS, it's still pretty terrible.
Granted, not THAT terrible, but I'll let it slide since it's still in development. Nobody in their right mind would stamp "final" on this.
you put all that to work and then realize that NO man has thunder thighs that good.
I'm still surprised people are taking SFIV artwork seriously. I kinda stopped that when everyone looks like a bulky 3d version of their Alpha counterparts.
Id still hit that. gotta have an open mind here folks.
haha Novakaine
I agree with you Jim...trannies are hawt, but Chun Li, not so much :P
Holy horse flies, no, trannies are not hawt! It was all about Cammy anyway...
hahaha Novakaine, you are awesome
Chun Li scares the shit out of me. Those thighs... *shudder*
It's not a tumor!
Just imagine the "Super Arts" she can do with that hand...
or better, not
This is true for all the characters in the game. They are all bulked up and look ridiculous.
Novakaine wins the thread. XD
c'mon chun- li and her thunder thigs were geek fantasy heaven, especially for someone who like big butts. now is ruined, RUINED I SAY!!!!
fap...fap...fap...
Wait. Chun-Li is a guy!?!
fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap
skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
1. you queers understand forced perspective right?
2. if you saw the blog you'd see that's an old model that was photoshopped over. they haven't revealed the final model yet.
fuckin..drama queens
@ Flay
What makes you think that they will actually change her in the final version? Every other character looks like that.
Faggot princess.
C'mon people, the site already lost Linde due to community retardation.
Image from the Seinfeld episode with man hands.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Why do I say this? Because its a capcom game. Go and look at Capcom's other games and their previous character designs.
Get with the program. SF4 is not hyper realism of Tekken or VF, the designs though in 3D are still stylised along that traditional manga route, where anatomy is exaggerated on certain characters in certain places.
Over the years, SF series has had different artists take up the main character design duties, hence the change in looks across the series. Daigo Ikeno is on art direction for SF4, so the characters have his look. And to be honest, I think his work translates well into 3D, judging by the game footage I've seen, they've done well to retain that manga style look, without getting too realistic like Tekken. Check out over at 1up.com for an interview with him at the link below.
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3165156
Lastly, if you check the art or screens of the superb SF 3rd Strike, you might also notice some similarities to SF4, that's because Ikeno worked on both these games. Understand, love or hate it, its up to you, but do read the interview.
I still say give Capcom a break, as anything they are doing, is still streets ahead of Midway's horrid work with MK.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Why do I say this? Because its a capcom game. Go and look at Capcom's other games and their previous character designs.
Get with the program. SF4 is not hyper realism of Tekken or VF, the designs though in 3D are still stylised along that traditional manga route, where anatomy is exaggerated on certain characters in certain places.
Over the years, SF series has had different artists take up the main character design duties, hence the change in looks across the series. Daigo Ikeno is on art direction for SF4, so the characters have his look. And to be honest, I think his work translates well into 3D, judging by the game footage I've seen, they've done well to retain that manga style look, without getting too realistic like Tekken. Check out over at 1up.com for an interview with him at the link below.
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3165156
Lastly, if you check the art or screens of the superb SF 3rd Strike, you might also notice some similarities to SF4, that's because Ikeno worked on both these games. Understand, love or hate it, its up to you, but do read the interview.
I still say give Capcom a break, as anything they are doing, is still streets ahead of Midway's horrid work with MK.
You guys know how I feel about this game's art direction. Even with SF's Alpha art direction which had wild proportions she had small hands. I don't know what the hell they are thinking.
Then again, it could be worse:
Chun-Li is a woman. It's just botox.
TTop: I actually like the art style in general, and I defended the original images. My original post is more just fucking around than anything else, but she is the one character so far who I do think looks bad, and it's not because of the Manga look they're retaining, it's simply that she looks like a fucking pro-wrestler -- a male one. That image of her doing the Yatta stuff looks ripped from Cho Aniki.
But like I said, I was mostly fucking around. Maybe they'll fix the hands. I hope so.
It's a video game, a stylised artform based on the stylised exaggerated visuals pioneered by American cartoons in the depression era. Anyone working in any visual medium should know these basics, the human form needs to be exaggerated in the right places to highlight and emphasize movement - features such as the head, hands, feet, and eyes are made bigger or bolder - in videogames and any stylised animation, if you were to keep the human form within realistic proportions it would actually look wrong.
Capcom have obviously gone for a chunky style based on their earlier SF illustrations where the emphasis is on dynamic body parts used as weapons, even the facial expressions in this game are chunky and over the top. If 1up are looking for visual subtlety from a SF game then they are bigger morons than I previously thought.
Yeah...that thumb just doesn’t look right. Also, Novakaine wins.
Madonna's veiny, old woman hands haunt me in my nightmares. Look at those fucking things!
Her thumb looks like a raptor claw.
Chicken nugget thumbs ftw.
Mmmmm, the best of both worldsdroooooooool. . .
I mean, that's awful. Just awful.
Wow her hands are as big as her freaking head. I don't understand the whole issue with Street Fighter its not like theirs some unique interpretation, why the sudden ugliness with the whole series. I think Capcom has really lost its touch.
I can see why everyone is bothered by this, but at the same time I must respectfully request they go play Street Fighter Alpha 3 again and look at the victory screens. You'll notice the portraits show the characters having hugely disproportionate body parts in their hands and feet sometimes. This is for two reason:
1) The larger parts are larger to indicate that they're being thrust out at stationary POV. The most recognizable example I can think of this would be in the Matrix when Trinity gets right next to an Agent on the roof of a building and shoots him in the head. When she says, "Dodge this," the gun is right in front of the camera while her arm trails back to her much smaller body. It's a perspective trick and it's not that hard to see this in the Chun-li picture.
2) The hand is larger to emphasize it's ability to crush the life from you. It's a stylistic emphasis that apparently isn't being interpreted very well because I keep seeing comments like, "WTF?!?! Her hand is bigger than her head!"
By the way, do you really think someone who kicks the crap out of people like Zangief or Sagat and destroys cars with her bare hands is going to have no muscle tone and cute, little manicured hands? I know it's not real bur for crissake Chun-li is supposed to be a hardcore fighter, not a debutante.
I honestly see the art director sitting there thinking to himself "I am soooo getting fired for this" after every character model he makes, yet every time he turns them in, he's praised for his artistic genius.
*Takes a bow*
To the people saying SF characters were always disproportionate: No one said they never were, but the difference is they at least didn't look absurd.
Even though Makoto, Ibuki, and Elena had big hands and feet, they were still very feminine and graceful in form. Chun Li always had huge thighs, but she was still a pretty girl. They didn't look like they were overdosing on steroids, nor looked like you swapped a woman's head on a man's body, nor had tumorous growths on them.
This is not exclusive to single profiles or dramatic images, either. It's exactly like Jim Sterling said: When Chun Li does her "yatta!" celebration now, it looks really gross and like a body-building tranny is doing it.
I'd still hit it.
Maybe this'll shut up all of those people who say that women are just portrayed as sex objects in video game, but I doubt it.
yeah she looks pretty manly...
See? Chun-Li's hand isn't giant. It's just in the foreground.
I think those hands look pretty good to me... they've shuree been busy... fapping off Ryu and Ken no doubt.. in this perverted theatre of mine...