What?
But yeah… “Za warudo” or whatever. It crushes high (including electrics), -1 on block and hits a lot of lows that comes out slower than it. You could literally spam that, uf+3, and b+1+2 and win. Throw a SS2 or SS, arc smash in there once in a while, you just mastered Lars.
How broken can a fighting game be with 100+ characters? Sure, it’ll be unbalanced but there’d be at least 8 playable characters. 200+ and that’s 16 playable.
The select screen would be annoying that’s for sure…
Ever seen those DBZ games where they have EVERY character from Dragonball in them, and they are all clones, and you can’t find anyone on the select screen because it’s a scroll?
It’s fucking dumb.
Yeah, the Tenkaichi games went way overboard with the number of characters. Have you ever seen one of the tier lists for the game? The number of characters in BT3’s S Tier alone equals the current roster total of SSF4.
Spoiler
S Tier:
Broly
Tapion
Syn Shenron
Babidi
SSJ4 Gogeta
SSJ Gogeta
Omega Shenron
Super 17
Nouva Shenron
SSJ4 GT Goku
SSJ4 Vegeta
Kid Buu
SSJ Vegito
Final Form Frieza
SSJ3 End Goku
FP Frieza
3rd Form Frieza
Gotenks Buu
Evil Buu
Dabura
SSJ3 Gotenks
GA Baby Vegeta
Hercule
SSJ Vegeta
End Piccolo
SSJ2 Vegeta2
Super Perfect Cell
Perfect Cell
Android 17
Majin Buu
Super2 Baby Vegeta
Super1 Baby Vegeta
Baby Vegeta
Nam
Meta Cooler
Hirudegarn
Semi-Perfect Cell
Devilman
Videl
A Tier:
Final Form Cooler
SSJ Gotenks
SSJ2 Gohan
Super 13
Majin Vegeta
Pikkon
Mecha Frieza
Android 18
Great Saiyawoman
SSJ Future Gohan
Super Buu
Gohan Buu
Vegito
End Goku
Early Goku
GT Goku
Early Piccolo
Cooler
SSJ2 Teen Gohan
Super Janemba
SSJ Vegeta2
Ultimate Gohan
SSJ3 GT Goku
SSJ Gohan
SSJ2 End Goku
Super Vegeta
SSJ Fighting Trunks
Android 16
Cell
Gohan
Scouter Vegeta
SSJ Mid Goku
FP Bojack
2nd Form Frieza
1st Form Frieza
Arale
SSJ End Goku
Vegeta
Bardock
King Vegeta
Salza
Dr. Gero
Cyborg Tao
Turles
Burter
B Tier:
Supreme Kai
Future Gohan
King Cold
Yajirobe
Uub
Great Saiyaman
Mid Goku
SSJ Broly
Super Garlick Jr.
Monster Zarbon
Gotenks
Nappa
Majuub
Android 8
Android 13
SSJ Teen Gohan
SSJ Sword Trunks
Zangya
Sword Trunks
Bojack
Vegeta2
DK Piccolo
Zarbon
Fasha
Tien
Android 19
Krillin
Nail
SSJ Goten
Recoome
Ginyu
Cell Jr.
SSJ GT Goku
Saibamen
Chiaotzu
Slug
Dodoria
Kibitokai
Kid Goku
Cui
Yamcha
SSJ Kid Trunks
Kid Trunks
Master Roshi
General Tao
Broly
Teen Gohan
Jiece
Pilaf Machine
C Tier:
Kid Gohan
MP Master Roshi
Pan
Grandpa Gohan
Goten
Fighting Trunks
Tambourine
Chi-Chi
Appule
Spopovich
Garlick Jr.
D Tier:
Dr. Wheelo
Janemba
Super Trunks
Giant Slug
GA King Vegeta
GA Bardock
GA Vegeta
GA Fasha
General Blue
GA Nappa
GA Radditz
Radditz
GA Turles
Fusion Pilaf Machine
GA Kid Goku
E Tier:
Guldo
Frieza Soldier
S Tier - Videl
…well now.
4, the minimum number of viable top tiers based on tournament history is 4. Doesn’t matter what the total number of characters is.
Fuck that dumb cunt, god damn HERCULE in S Tier baby.
I AM THE STRONGEST
COUP DE GRACE
100+ characters in a fighting game could happen, if they make Capcom Vs Shonen jump
i loved early goku but i can see two of my other characters were S tier (not surprising) i used to use omega shenron vs four of my friends 
though one of my friends most successful character semi perfect cell was a huge pain in the ass unless i used o shenron
when it stops being fun
While I agree that more characters = higher chance of imbalance, for 25 characters, having 30-40% of the cast as common tournament characters is pretty decent. Just as long as you have around 4 top tiers with a decent high tier, you’re fine, no matter the total size of the cast.
SRK Strikes Again!!!
And me and my friends thought we were beast for winning with them.
Good lord…
That is really a lot of characters for a fighting game and I hope that ssf4 doesn’t go in that direction.
Personally I think that a game like ssf4 would be better if there was 25-30 characters in the game. If there is fewer characters in the game than I mention many people would lose interest in it, but if there are more characters in the game I think there is a higher risk of imbalance and bad matchups unless Capcom somehow gives every character the same tools to deal with certain attacks, fireballs etc.
I am pretty sure that only having 4 would lead to a very stagnant game.
That number was mentioned by Maj based on tournament history. Also, I mentioned “a decent high tier” since top tiers aren’t always the winners.
Heck, look at MvC2 and 3rd Strike, they fit within that description but have had long tournament lives.
MvC2 has more than just 4 top tiers and 3s became very stagnant on USA due how it was always Chun and Jun there with a random Ken showing up.
4 top tiers are simply not enough to have a descent pool of different strategies, going by tournament history 8 sounds more like it, also who the fuck is maj?
Maj is the guy who runs Sonichurricane.com. He wrote the footsies handbook and also makes a lot of impressive combo vids.