Man, I was hoping he was gonna do it five times straight.

@klarion18 said:

Missed opportunity not having the big swing.

It's already been taken

Gameplay videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpyttNGQ4YB6vzLpepYbNk5zHz4FUM1Iq

His critical art looks soooo bad. God damn.

Oh crazy, looks like if you stop spinning during V-Trigger and the meter slowly drains so you can get like, 2 activations out of it.

EDIT: Also holy shit they gave Bison his teleport-dash outside of V-Trigger. It doesn't cross-up but still, kinda nutty change.

EDIT2: And during V-Trigger Gief can hold down V-Skill and absorb an infinite number of hits holy shit.

I miss Gief being a mainstay in VGCW

@l1ghtn1n: His command grabs better be 0-frame then.

Called it, I'm gonna churn butter all day :D

@starvinggamer: Truly red focus. Hyper armour baby.

@l1ghtn1n: Cool beans. I really REALLY hope nearly all the Critical Art animations/sequences are placeholders though. My god the Zangief one looks so goddamn terrible. Like it's half-finished or something.

@l1ghtn1n: I like Dictator's. It's very similar to Nightmare Booster from SFIV but at least it looks cool. That's about it. Chun-Li's is OK but essentially just her classic super. I'd prefer her to have something like her SFIV Hosenka ultra.

Another character in underwear? Ugh I mean really guys? Just ugh am I right?

@redking56: Don't even try starting dumb shit like that.

@hassun: I'm glad we're in agreement

@redking56: Yeah I'm glad I won't have to explain to yet another person how stupid it would be to say Zangief is a sexualised design.

His air grab keeping him in the air for a moment is neat. Does he still have the ol' green hand? Otherwise he seems like a good iteration of Gief besides the super animation looking really uneven.

Poo, I was hoping to finally be able to play Zangief instead of admiring him from a distance. That 360 (and good lord 720), just doesn't work for me.

@mortuss_zero: I find half circle moves way harder to execute than 360° moves. Especially if it's a double half circle.

I'm the same, T-Hawk's Ultra 2 is two half circles and under pressure I always manage to fluff it up, 360 motions are so simple to execute.

@hassun: Now I have to disagree, Zangief is a very sexual beast to me.

Someone managed to snap a pic of his move set: