1581

Dudley is obviously a Martian

1582

Technically that still makes him black.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/31/Marvinthemartain.jpg/200px-Marvinthemartain.jpg

1583

  1. Dem lips!

  2. He has an IQ of about 50, and probably dropped out of school before 9th grade.

  3. He licks his chains, doesn’t know how to speak at all.

1584

joined the argument late, but jesus the brony kid is pathetic.

socially inept is a proper way to put it.

1585

Aww, I like his lips. XD
Well, some people who drop school do it because they can’t afford going anymore, and his IQ doesn’t define how much of a good person he can be (if he wants…)…and still, Balrog-Boxer’s ending in Alpha 3 proves that Birdie has a brain, under his mohawk.
But anyway, don’t mind me, I’m a lost cause. XD

1586

They better drop half the cast of 4 when they do 5 if they bring back a lot of older characters. Do you really want there to be 60+ characters in SF5???

I hope Urien, Q and Gill are playable characters.

1587

@OrochiDemon

Well, I think the older (speaking of their ages.) characters should be removed. I mean…Akuma (speaking of which, they could use Ryu as the final boss.), Gouken, Sagat (Adon could take his place. With all the sad backstory where his master died and Adon finally understood that he’s been an arrogant prick for at least four games…)…and these are just a few examples.
And anyway, Capcom already has a lot of young characters for a new game. And we like them. For how much time people have been asking for Rainbow Mika, Karin (but please, they should give her a different voice. That’s the only thing I’m begging for.), Alex? With an original story and some good new entries a lot of people wouldn’t miss the old characters.

Annnd…just so I can pretend this post is relevant to this thread…the new character is going to be Dan’s MOTHER, who will fight stealing El Fuerte’s pan and smashing it on her son’s head because she’s tired of all the mess he does.

1588

Replacing old characters? Get your Soul Caliber out of my SF

1589

60 plus characters is a possibility, no character’s story is really finished even Gen who’s been dying of lieukimia forever!

But what I’d like is a fresh roster, keep the main characters Ryu’s, Ken, Chun Li, Akuma! And the rest new.

K. Wolfman (UK)
Bratken (Netherlands)
King Kobra (Canada)
Santamu (Vietnam)
Kung Fu Clown (USA)
Ojou San (Japan)
Elderly Aboriginal Woman (Australia)
Kolin (Ireland)
New Grappler (Greece)

Anymore ideas?

1590

I just hope they get rid of Rufus

1591

But yeah, that’s the beauty of videogame characters. They don’t need to age, like real actors. And even if they do, it doesn’t have to be visible, or affect them in any way. The only decisive factor is the storyline. Which is all kinds of awesome. A SF game without the core SF2 characters…isn’t a SF game.

1592

That game has been made already, its 3rd Strike. Which is technically a sequel to 4.

1593

I said this many times before. A grizzled middle aged Ryu (possibly with mountain beard) is your only returning character. Ken’s son, mentioned in SF3, makes his debut as a wild flashy shoto. That is your only 2 shotos in the game. The rest of the cast is brand new.

Considering each iteration of Street fighter gets a bunch of installments SF2 (WW, CE, HF, S, ST) SF3 (NG, 2I, 3s) Alpha (1, 2, 3, upper) SF4 (Vanilla, Super, AE, AE2012, Ultra, ?) I think each new numbered street fighter should be a fresh start while preserving the spirit of street fighter. That means a fresh new or mostly new roster. Not a bunch of returning characters with a few additions.

1594

As long as they keep Juri around I don’t care what happens with the roster.

1595

Sakura will be stronger than Ryu in the future,

1596

And in a M Night Shamalan twist Ryu will look better in a skirt.

1597

I think Ono hinted in a future Street Fighters Ryu and Ken are definites. Get Mel out of your head!

It’s also hinted that Juri and Abel will be in future Street Fighters.

Little bit of a fact for you, my avatar is what I always expected Ojou San to look like!

1598

I know it wouldn’t ever happen but I’d prefer if they actually followed through with their original intention in SF3 to not bring anyone back and leave out Ryu and Ken. Just to make us learn to like some new characters (look at how poorly adopted almost every new SF character was in SF4. Gouken, Juri, Hakan, Abel, Rufus, Viper, El Fuerte, Seth, Oni are all new characters.

Rufus, El Fuerte, Hakan and Seth are among the least popular in terms of the fan base (Rufus is played a lot but that his moveset is good not because they like the character.)

Juri and Viper are pretty popular in terms of their fanbase but neither are played terribly often (Viper is decently popular but even though Juri is by far the most popular new character hardly anyone plays her.)

Gouken, Abel, and Oni are pretty much middle of the road nobody cares about them. There aren’t that many people who like the characters for their move set and there aren’t that many people who like their designs.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about any of those characters designs or their move set (I kind of like all of them except Seth and Oni both of whom are still fun to play as but I vehemently dislike their design.) I’m a big fan of Juri and Gouken but they simply aren’t played by many people.

I’d love a SF game with no Ryu/Ken/Akuma/Chun for ONCE.

Hell, if they continue with the SF3 story arc I think Yun and Yang could make for a good pair to be the “main characters” of the series. If they continue with Alpha I think they should strongly consider Cody and Guy who have important roles in the Alpha storyline (mostly Guy) and a large fanbase.

An SF game with no returning characters would be cool and allow designers to flex their muscles and create some really interesting new characters or new takes on old ideas. (A shoto clone with new properties / way of using their moves would be fine in a game where Ryu and Ken aren’t already in it.)

None of that will ever happen though.

1599

They should do a “Only Grappler Game” without ELF, but with Haggar, Hugo, Alex and other grapplers. But also only as a minigame, maybe add some of the guys from the game with Haggar(Saturday whatever).

In a game, where 9 out of 10 opponents pick a Shoto, well we will see them in different games.

1600

That would kind of suck (just because it limits the number of options for the designers and players. I like games where they are lots of ways to play.)

HOWEVER. I love that Capcom took a big chance with Alex and made a GRAPPLER the face of and main hero of SF3. You almost never see a grappler being the main character in a fighting game, it’s a well rounded character (Ryu, Kyo, Terry, Jin, ect.) with varying flavors of rushdown or zoning. Never a grappler oriented character or a pure zoner. I think a pure rushdown occurs every now and then but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.