Characters not making the sequel

Current Fighting Games Fighting Game Discussion
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Do you know of characters you wish made it to the sequel of their series but didn’t for some reason.
If so who and why did you think he/she didn’t make it.
Alternatively do you know a character who has been revamped to the point he/she didn’t feel the same at all to the point that it wasn’t really that different from removing him/her?

Personally I only had Elena so far but ultra is on the way and with that I will potentially play sf4 somewhat. (it not having a likable character to play for me was a big thing being solved)

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Karin.

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Zasalamel and Talim missing from Soul Calibur V was like…what the fuck?

Also didnt they get rid of the sumo guy from Virtual Fighter for like 10 years?

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The Rage of The Dragons characters, that didn’t make it for the next iterations of Matrimelee.

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I hated how Scorpion was not in Mortal Kombat 3.

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It was bittersweet, we knew UMC3 was right around the corner.

Now Sonya Blade missing from the playable cast in Mortal Kombat 2…

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I knew people complained that Akuma was not in Street Fighter EX 3.

I still miss Captain Commando in MvC3 :confused:

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Karin, Rick, Momoko, Remy, Alfred.
I would love to see all of them make a comeback.
Karin at least got out of the A3 series by showing up in Capcom Fighting evolution.
Rick…got his moves stolen by Vanessa.

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Urien.

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Yamazaki, Wolfgang Krauser, Franco Bash, Tung Fu Rue, and Tizoc in KOFXIII would’ve made my head explode.

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Karin, Genan Shiranui

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Top tier CFJ Karin with them standing kick CCs.

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What about Oswald.

I would play KOF14 for that

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Donovan, Phobos, and Pyron not making the cut for Vampire Savior (original arcade release)

Storyline reasons and the fact that they couldn’t fit all of the characters into the game. So Capcom released two updates to the original Vampire Savior (Vampire Hunter 2 and Vampire Savior 2) which re-added those characters at the cost of removing previous characters:

Bulleta, Jedah, Q-Bee, and Lilith were cut from Vampire Hunter 2
Gallon, Aulbath, and Sasquatch were cut from Vampire Savior 2

The home releases of Vampire Savior (the Saturn version and EX Edition for the PS1) included all of the characters, as well as Vampire Chronicle.

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No Raizo in Project Justice.

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Urien would be so beastly in a non parry game though. Then again no charge partitioning would be wack!

No Cable and Cyke in MvC3 was hella bunk!

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Still dunno what they were thinking since they were in some pretty important storylines during that time. Then again, I guess Marvel would rather promote characters related to the Avengers.

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I dunno about Savior 2 being bad. I’m sure a lot of people would love a game with Talbain, Rikuo, and Sasquatch removed. I know Raptor definitely would.
Were any of the three that were added in the update actually top tier? I know the console versions weren’t held to as much competitive scrutiny, but I am curious to see if anything drastic would have affected character usage had one of those been the go to version.
And I love how Capcom still kept Anakaris. Suck it, Talbain scrubs!

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You say that like Raptor didn’t already beat those characters, you know he’s the best in the game right? And the VS2 and VH2 games sucked, removed character specific Dark Forces and didn’t do much to make anything interesting. They’re weak as fuck compared to VH and VS.

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They put Phoenix in the game and Jean has been dead for years. Marvel seems to stop giving a fuck about the X-Men after the Avengers became their beard winner.