Even because of him people want Q again. Obviously the ‘For dummies’ version or because he looks tough or some shit.
For some SFV is the chance to give some characters a better version of their original counterpart. Bet my balls there’s someone in this planet who wants this BS character again with buffs. God have mercy.
And wtf is wrong with that? FANG is FANGtastic! It’s just that his tier placement in S1 and S2 has gravely impacted his popularity. He is leagues above and beyond characters like Remy and Twelve!
He’s not even that bad, but his best moments are tied with the best 3s player ever, just sayin’. There’s no chance Q could carry a player to new heights in 3s, but Capcom could do the magic in SFV.
It really wouldn’t be hard at all to make any returning character good if they wanted to (see: R. Mika, the buffs some S2 characters got or even Juri in SFxT), problem is that they hold back on the tweaks that some characters would need to be good or change/remove stuff from them that kills the appeal of the character for some players (Karin Rekkas locked behind v-trigger and no counter/cmd grab for me, Juri’s store mechanics being changed for others or even Vega being transformed into a motion character). I don’t think it’s people being posers or whatever, it’s that the developers don’t always deliver on their expectations of what the returning character would be like. Why settle for that when they could’ve done better?
Making Mika good wasn’t hard since she was arguably the weakest character in SF history next to Dan.
SFV is meant to be an honest, closed ranged SF with modest zoning options and omitting charge moves from most characters, so the characters get changed to reflect that. Charge moves and fireball spam scares the kids.
Inspector Gadget fell on hard times. Once it was revealed that his niece and dog were solving all his cases he was let go. To hide his shame he donned a metal mask and fought in underground pit fights to make ends meet. Thus Q was born.