SFV Character Request/Anticipation Thread

Picture is fake because no Zangief!

*Starts sobbing

Oh, man, Juri reveal would make me hit critical hype. Shit would have me foaming at the mouth. She would just fit so well in this game.

On that note, I’ve wanted to ask this question: If all characters are on the table, and you leave out drastic changes (which are unforeseeable), which character absolutely CANNOT work in this game’s system?

I’d nominate Q. Seems like he’d be so slow in this game, and without parry, he loses his best defensive option/meter building tool. And without taunts that increase his defense rating (unless they made that his v-skill, which seems like a waste), I doubt even Kuroda could make Q work in SF5.

That E. Ryu statue is currently available on Capcom’s shop and maybe a Ryu one is soon to follow. Seems more like product placement than any kind of foreshadowing.

As cool as Sim is I can’t see him in this game b/c of no close/far normals. You could go the route of giving him many command normals but that doesn’t seem to go in the user friendly direction the game seems to be going in.

Q wouldn’t be that hard, even if Capcom went the lazy route. Just give him armor on some moves and make his Total Destruction a V-Trigger. I wouldn’t like it, but it would be the simplest transition from 3s to SFV.

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People need to stop using statues as any hint for character reveals. It’s just hope building for no reason.

That’s Ono for you. We’re definitely getting Juri, it’s basically all but confirmed.

Well… another girl at least.

In the top left corner, above Dhalsim and behind Chun Li, there’s a leg with army combat pants and boots.

Guile?

No different from SFxT, and that game was more user-friendly than this one.

Nash has a ton of command normals, also.

They’re not gonna leave Sim out of the game. Dude is too iconic, especially considering all of the other classic world warriors that have already made it in. This isn’t a 3rd Strike situation where we get 4 returning fighters and 16 fresh faces.

Sim and Claw Top 4 again like SF2, lol!!

Is that really E.Ryu? I mean, it doesn’t look anything like him. It’s just a color swap, that looks more like SF2 jab color.

Of course, purple fireball kind of shows it’s E.Ryu, but E.Ryu looks way different than that. Capcom cheaped out on the statue stuff :neutral:

If Juri really is in the game they better redesign her ass.

Original Ryu and Evil Ryu ingame art: (before SF4, he always had just different colors)

Yeah, that was Alpha E.Ryu though. Most people today looking to buy statues probably don’t know of E.Ryu as a direct color swap of Alpha Ryu, they probably know him as the guy with spikey red hair and a hole in his chest. To be fair, E.Ryu in Alpha is pretty much jab Ryu in SF2 without the yellow headband :smiley: My comment was mostly because of how lazy it was to go the Alpha E.Ryu route rather than making a new statue that differentiates Ryu from E.Ryu beyond a color swap.

Edit: My favorite E.Ryu color was roundhouse in Alpha 2 Gold. It had the cool blood red gi. I used to play him all the time on the Saturn version of the game.

Alpha 2 Gold…my favorite Street Fighter :,)

Juri statue behind a purple fireball conveniently covering Juri’s foot.

Juri is next character.

That looks like Cammy’s leg, and yeah she’s already confirmed. I can see Dhalsim and Juri getting into the game. Ideally, I’d like to see both Dhalsim and Necro be in the game, and both be good. Juri I just want to see because Cammy and Chun’s models in SFV look much better than SFIV and I want to see Juri’s jiggle on P2 side and in-fight.

But what if they give her a reality treatment and she ends up flat-chested?

It’s definitely Evil Ryu. Darker outfit, purple outfit - obvious traits of him from the past games (they only really changed Evil Ryu with SF4, prior to that he looked more of a palette swap rather than a separate character)