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GTCv Deimos has Street Fighter™ 6

Jan 2 @ 2:43pm

A Pitch on Fixing the Lily Problem

Lily is a seemingly dead character, and for whatever reason, Capcom either doesn't know how to fix her, are prioritizing other, more high-profile characters (Telly Bogawt!!!), or just doesn't care about her.

So, how about this as a pitch?

Scrap the character. Wholecloth. And if you want to fill the vacuum that she may leave behind, put T.Hawk in her place.

But... and I'm not usually one to delve into SF lore, but... we know that T.Hawk's wife was Juli, formally a programmed assassin for Bison. And there have been hints that Juli was pregnant and there's some... concerns over the state of the child. Ultimately, we have no idea how Lily was really conceived (someone give me a shout if WTM revealed something I missed), and that she may be... evil...? A little demonic?

So, on top of scrapping the character, make a new one using her name... or likeness. Whatever. You can age her up, keep her the same, but redesign her so she does the usual, evil villain things you see Akuma, Bison and others doing.

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Peddie

Jan 2 @ 3:24pm

That isn't something you could justify to the players. She might not have a lot of them (still more than Dhalsim, and up until last month more than Honda), but people have bought her costume, you really can't just go "Thanks for the money, but we're taking away your main AND that costume you bought"

Also a character takes a long while to develop, and most likely costs way north of a million bucks. That's a good pile of cash to spend on an 18 month old game without getting anything in return as this new character is supposed to replace a base roster slot. I can't imagine any of the higher ups Capcom signing off on this.

Reworking her a little in season 3 would be much, much more affordable. But even then, she still isn't the least popular character, somehow those are faithful SF2 reps.

Doc Holiday has Street Fighter™ 6

Jan 2 @ 3:36pm

Get out of here with this idea of scrapping the character and putting T.Hawk in her place. What a terrible idea.

Lily is here to stay. Even if she is the worst character in the game I still play her.

GTCv Deimos has Street Fighter™ 6

Jan 2 @ 3:43pm

Originally posted by Doc Holiday:
Get out of here with this idea of scrapping the character and putting T.Hawk in her place. What a terrible idea.

Lily is here to stay. Even if she is the worst character in the game I still play her.

Rofle. Well, power to you.

Still, you wouldn't be at least a liiiitttle attracted by the idea of a Shin Lily?