[quote=@Dynamo Frokane]

Cass, Mina and Xiang could have their battle and win quotes all conpletley rearranged between each other and most of the fanbase would barely notice.
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That is blatantly untrue and you know it. Xianghua going "JUST KIDDING!" in mid-combo is damn near a part of her character as her annoying feints in the first place. Seong Mi-Na and Cassandra are like tertiary characters at best but even still their battle quotes and win voices are still unique to them. Most of Cassandra's lines are about Sophitia or how shit her opponent wound up being while Mi-man mentions her father and her own bravado. Practically every character's win quotes have something to do with how much better they are than their opponent - that's fighting games - but they all have their unique spin and cadence.

[quote=@Dynamo Frokane]
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Yeah and I found those bits of Godfather 2 boring, unlike RDR2 it wasnt a total prequel and it had 'current' parts to it.

I generally dont like prequels because I feel like all tension is taken from them.

This is why when Han in Fast and the Furious films is in a death defying car chase I dont feel any excitement or tension for his life because I know hes not going to die until tokyo drift.
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Do you not like action movies or Bond movies because you know the hero is going to win in the end? You know the fate of Darth Vader but that didn't make the prequels worse. Knowing that the Titanic sinks doesn't make Titanic a worse movie. Dutch's gang in RDR was down to like three people and RDR 2 is about the gang in its heyday and there are far more characters involved that the story can be built around. You don't even know the scope of the narrative but you're already saying it can't possibly be good, or that it's ruined, because you know the fate of Marston, Dutch, and Ross beforehand. Knowledge of future events doesn't invalidate or lessen a story or its characters. You [i]know[/i] any given action hero in a film or game is going to pull through, the tension comes from the moments where that safety net is yanked away even for a moment. 

And Han wasn't in that many death defying car chases until like the end of 6 - which was coincidentally the last movie before Tokyo Drift re-entered canon. In 4 he was only in the beginning, in Five he mostly hung out with Giselle and was disguised as a cop during the heist, in 6 he had the fight scene with Roman and otherwise just spent the movie saving Giselle because subtle is not in the vocabulary. In that instance the tension isn't from the fact that Han makes it to Tokyo, but that Giselle doesn't. 


And for the record, up until the sixth movie Tokyo Drift was barely canon and considering 4 was all but a soft reboot and 5 retconned Brian and Roman's relationship it's easy to forget that Tokyo Drift barely factors into the overall universe.