9th May 2003, 5:45 PM
Yeah :D! Fighting games have ridiculous stereotypical character designs too. Instead of everyone being 50's super hero stereotypes, they are instead regional fighting style stereotypes. I mean, Ryo, Dahlim, E.Honda (Sumo is just for sports after all, you can't actually fight anyone in the real world with it), that boxer from America (forget the US translated name, but in Japan HE'S M.Bison). It's got this serious tone but it's so over the top and ridiculous that you just fall in love with how funny the seriousness is.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)