Street Fighter 6 adds game face feature for silly loading screens

polygon.com:

Sometimes, it’s the smallest touches that leave the biggest impact. Street Fighter 6 has embraced this with a new feature called Game Face. Here’s how it works — when you’re on the versus screen against another player, you can use the directional buttons to make a face.

Now, this might not seem like a big deal, but even tiny forms of expression can be memorable when used correctly. A great example of this is the “wow” emote in Hearthstone, which was eventually removed entirely. You’d think that a character saying “Wow!” wouldn’t be a major problem, and yet, people were incredibly passive aggressive with their wows.

Street Fighter6’s Game Face is a similar form of communication. You can act smug or spam facial expressions to throw your opponent off. It’s an extremely low stakes and silly form of psychological warfare.

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by pressing directional buttons during the versus screen. Scowl at your opponent, act all smug, or confuse them with a mixture of rapid emotions!https://t.co/TeNl2pTAbd pic.twitter.com/n15Dj50vlZ

They’re wonderfully expressive faces, and it only lasts a couple of seconds before the match begins, but it’s a fun little touch to add to the fighting title. Street Fighter 6 is due in 2023 with a single-player story campaign and a very wide Ryu.