Rich Morris' Comics - YAFGC and The ComixBlog

Some of you old timers out there may remember that the success of games like Street Fighter, Samurai Spirits/Showdown and Mortal Combat, there was a flurry of mano-a-mano fighting games. It seemed that pretty much any genre that could support a flimsy pretext for two people beating the snot out of each other had a fledgling fighting game franchise created out of it, in an attempt to cash in.

Well, in one of White Wolf's lower moments, they too attempted to crash in on the fighting game craze with Street Fighter, the rpg. It used a variation on the standard World of Darkness system, but was entirely based around one-on-one combats with spiffy special effects and wild "martial-arts" moves.

Reading strip 1498: Minotaur vs. Ogre reminded me of this forgotten bit of role-playing game history and I found myself wondering what a YAFGC fighting game might look like.

Ideas for the "main cast," those characters that you could play from the start include:

Nin
Turg
Arachne
Glon
Wolf
Lucas
One of the Harpy Sisters
Arlak Crumblethumb
Clover (pre-queen, of course)
Princess Dewcup (c'mon... it would be hysterical)
Cadugan
The Fox
Adwen
Karak*
Meegs
Tournament Scoreboard Babe**

Of course, were I working from the idea of a table top game, everyone on this list would be an NPC, with the exception of the Harpy - I could see a PC being one of the sisters. (Or ALL of the PCs being Harpy Sisters, for that matter.)

(* Although since Karak won't be able to get away with his usual savage cheating, he's likely to get his ass handed to him. On a silver platter. With garnish. A lot.)

(** Admit it. If you watched someone lose to her, you'd laugh until you couldn't breathe. Especially Karak.)

Don't worry, Bob, Lewie and Mrs. B would also be included, but they strike me as more powerful than beginning PCs/initially playable characters. In the console version, you'd have to get past them to beat the game, and then could go back and play as them later. I'm also thinking that Jone would be a good final boss fight. In the tabletop game, they'd be NPCs.

Cap'n Fang would be a hidden, unlockable character in the console version. The way I've envisioned him, is that he'd be a very powerful character, but almost hopelessly random, with three or four moves mapped to the same control scheme, so not even the person "controlling" him would know what he would do next! -chuckle-

I would play Dewcup to unlock the special "cute attack" and then definitively Glon.

Btw, is this White Wolf trivia true? The "too arty for your stupid DnD" company made a Street Fighter rpg?

Read it and weep. As soon as I find another copy in a used bookstore or somewhere, it's on its way to your mailbox. Promise.

Hmmm... I'm starting to think that adding Sidonie and Astrid to the line up would be entertaining, especially if you threw in a little costume confusion. Sidonie would have Astrid's costume as an unlockable outfit, and Astrid would similarly be able to impersonate Sid. (Just to make matters worse, one you've unlocked one of these changes, both characters' on-screen names change to "?????????" so the other player won't be able to simply read the name to know which character is being used.)

And Kurassa would make either a good sub-boss, or a variant storyline main boss. (Story path #1 would feature Jone as the final boss fight, while story path #2 would pit the player against Kurassa.)

I'm starting to wish I knew how to code games; this could be fun.

I would play the Jarl. I do not know how much of a fighter he is, but his snarky lines will be worth the price of admission.

It has now been proven that Gadgia could hold her own with the best of them, and she is therefore added to the roster. While we're at it, I could see adding Taidor to the line-up. He'd have some funny special attacks centered on dashing in and kissing female characters, leaving them lovestruck (stunned) for a moment - although, of course, Arachne would be immune. (I could see Wolf having access to some of them too... He's pretty much the sex when he wants to be.)