Street Fighter V Roster Discussion |Thread 2| Deal with it & place your hope for DLC

Kinda funny of the 6 SF4 newbies (excluding bosses), Hakan and El Fuerte are probably the most likely to return after Juri. (Viper's Seismo was given away, Abel doesn't really have a point with Laura in the game, Rufus....is Rufus.)
Crimson Viper is pretty popular, & they could make the Optic Laser her V-Skill to set her apart from Necalli.
 
Why is everyone suddenly jumping on the Sagat hype train? I love Sim, but The King is such a manly character, I would love see him in the initial roster.
 
Why is everyone suddenly jumping on the Sagat hype train? I love Sim, but The King is such a manly character, I would love see him in the initial roster.
  1. I've never been that crazy about Dhalsim to begin with.
  2. The recent "classic characters don't necessarily mean SFII characters" comments may lend towards someone like Sagat, who originated from SFI.
 
  1. I've never been that crazy about Dhalsim to begin with.
  2. The recent "classic characters don't necessarily mean SFII characters" comments may lend towards someone like Sagat, who originated from SFI.

Not really, at this point it feels like sf1 is disregarded or else Birdie wouldn't be an Alpha character.

It's just there's nothing really to talk about, why not speculate about Sagat? He fits as hints as Sim does.
 
Not really, at this point it feels like sf1 is disregarded or else Birdie wouldn't be an Alpha character.

It's just there's nothing really to talk about, why not speculate about Sagat? He fits as hints as Sim does.
Fair enough. At least we agree that Sagat could fit the annoying male zoner description as much as Dhalsim does. Plus Sagat's no slouch up-close, which seems to be the big thing with Street Fighter V.
 
Fair enough. At least we agree that Sagat could fit the annoying male zoner description as much as Dhalsim does. Plus Sagat's no slouch up-close, which seems to be the big thing with Street Fighter V.

Sure, and I agree.

I think Sim and Sagat are more synonyms with being an annoying zoner and I don't think we'll see another America character in the launch roster.
 
I still don't understand how the story would work with another old character. Either we will see characters that are not in the game yet, or the story in vanilla will revolve around Shadaloo and continue later through DLC or something.
 
In no world is Juri a classic, mainstay, who is a staple of the series. Obviously Mtt means multiple, multiple entries, 2 games don't count.

You have to keep in mind they give you hints all he time that aren't remotely true to throw you off.
 
It BLOWS my mind Capcom's most popular fighting game ever, SFIV, has absolutely NO reps in the initial core roster of SFV. They made sure to rep SFIV in UMVC3 by including Viper despite the very limited roster slots and here you would think at the least Juri would make it. So weird.
 
It BLOWS my mind Capcom's most popular fighting game ever, SFIV, has absolutely NO reps in the initial core roster of SFV. They made sure to rep SFIV in UMVC3 by including Viper despite the very limited roster slots and here you would think at the least Juri would make it. So weird.

Capcom's most popular fighting game ever was Street Fighter 2 by a large margin. It blows SF4 out of the water.
 
That's what I mean. Juri's on her way to being within the ballpark of a mainstay Street Fighter, but she isn't there, yet.

That's actually a good summary of why I have some problems with Capcom 's tendency to start each new roster by re-using the same core SFII/Alpha characters (in IV and V so far at least): if they themselves do not elevate a few others like Juri or Alex to mainstay characters that are pretty much guaranteed to be in new iterations, most people might never bother with picking them up and sticking with them. This in turn further decreases their chances of staying in the limelight as Capcom will see that they are not being used or being voted on in polls, hence their return to the shadows after one game. There are exceptions like Karin, but mostly it's the same predictable, most used roster that gets voted up and selected again and again at the cost of prolonging the obscurity of already lesser used characters.

That's why I made that earlier comment about "being unknown/underused results in being unloved" - the general audience might be loving those characters the most that they see return the most frequently as well. That's why it could be considered Capcom's responsibility, more than ours, to promote those lesser known characters as well, especially if they do have some fans already that are clamoring for them.

Capcom should give every character a shot to become a mainstay when we move from one iteration to the next is what I'm saying in summary, not just the already well established ones.
 
It BLOWS my mind Capcom's most popular fighting game ever, SFIV, has absolutely NO reps in the initial core roster of SFV. They made sure to rep SFIV in UMVC3 by including Viper despite the very limited roster slots and here you would think at the least Juri would make it. So weird.
There's like 8 WWs tho

Oh sfiv?



Oh
 
It BLOWS my mind Capcom's most popular fighting game ever, SFIV, has absolutely NO reps in the initial core roster of SFV. They made sure to rep SFIV in UMVC3 by including Viper despite the very limited roster slots and here you would think at the least Juri would make it. So weird.

Well it's not like USF IV isn't readily available on the platforms SFV is launching on. Part of what made Street Fighter IV initially take off was having the SF2 cast and setting it post SF2... and really the new characters were pretty universally hated at first.

This is a huge investment from Sony and if you look at Capcom's fiscal report that came out this week... they literally cannot afford another Street Fighter x Tekken mistake. They're playing it safe with a formula that's proven to sell... and really getting upset over the launch roster is pointless as we're going to see a steady stream of DLC characters.
 
Wait Laura has a belly button ring?

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Worse than Fuerte? Nah

Fuerte at least kind of fits within the Street Fighter aesthetic becaus he's wearing fighting garb. They're both annoying as fuck though.

SF4 is popular because of the SF2 characters in it, not because of SF4 newcomers. Initial reviews and hype were all about people who wanted to come back after having not played SF since they were kids.
 
Well it's not like USF IV isn't readily available on the platforms SFV is launching on. Part of what made Street Fighter IV initially take off was having the SF2 cast and setting it post SF2... and really the new characters were pretty universally hated at first.

This is a huge investment from Sony and if you look at Capcom's fiscal report that came out this week... they literally cannot afford another Street Fighter x Tekken mistake. They're playing it safe with a formula that's proven to sell... and really getting upset over the launch roster is pointless as we're going to see a steady stream of DLC characters.
Oh, I'm not upset. I'd rather have a focused fighting game than a messy Gem situation like SFxT.

But wasn't SFIV Street Fighter's "revival"? The cast is popular enough to be recognized by a lot people (iconic even, maybe?)
Sure, the characters might not be the most liked, but then again Blanka is certainly not on a lot of people's favorite characters list yet he is considered a classic character.
 
Was about to say in what world is SF4 more popular than SF2.

Yea I think SF 2 was Capcom's biggest game ever , by quite a huge margin.
RE5 sold more , but if you count the massive $3bn+ in Arcade revenue and the Genesis version. Its pretty convincingly the biggest. Arcades were just so huge back then ,


SF V would need to become almost as big as LoL for it to make similar money.
 
Fuerte at least kind of fits within the Street Fighter aesthetic becaus he's wearing fighting garb. They're both annoying as fuck though.

SF4 is popular because of the SF2 characters in it, not because of SF4 newcomers. Initial reviews and hype were all about people who wanted to come back after having not played SF since they were kids.

I don't disagree with what you're saying about the popularity thing. Juri is far more tolerable to me than Fuerte, though. What a shit character.
 
For those that missed Max playing SF5 today, this is some cute stuff he found with Mika.

twitch.tv/maximilian_dood/v/20650849?t=14m43s

twitch.tv/maximilian_dood/v/20650849?t=24m34s
Mika looks like a monster in the corner, good lord

And thank god you can train on any stage. Somebody gotta record all the music tho
 
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