SF Characters

I still haven't reinstalled SFV, much less gotten the season five, which I guess is pretty old now. Honestly, after the wonderfulness that was SFIV in it's full version, SFV just feels like a disappointing missed opportunity. Even when it did things relatively well, it was only... relatively.

In the end, SFV ended up (unless something else still gets added yet) with 46 characters, one more than SFIV ended with. Of course, as much as I like SFIV, I don't love everything about it, in particular, I think the character selection could have been somewhat tweaked. (And a lot of the costume options were really stupid.) Other than that, I'd make a few small tweaks to some of the modes. I'd make stage selection possible in every mode, I'd make stage or character music selectable in every mode. I'd make the Omega Mode movelist available in every mode and viewable in the system. It's really bizarre that they didn't do that, actually, and that you have to read the moves off of a separate pdf. What is this, 1995 all over again? (Well, to be fair, if it was, the moves wouldn't be in a pdf movelist. It'd be a text file on Usenet.) I'd have added the Mike Haggar sprite that was already in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, which is another bizarre shame that he still hasn't appeared in any Street Fighter title as a playable character. Ugh.

Anyway, I'd like to post what my ideal character roster would be, drawing from any and all games that makes sense to draw from. This is my own personal list. And I wouldn't want this to be a "dream match" kinda nonsense. I'd like a good story mode. That's one of the good ideas SFV had, although the execution was... still coulda been better. Given that SFIV had 45 and SFV had 46, I'll shoot for about that number of characters, but honestly, I'll just keep adding until I get to the point where I'm "meh" about remaining characters that then quit, regardless of the number.

1. Ryu
2. Ken
3. Chun-Li
4. Dhalsim
5. Blanka
6. Zangief
7. E. Honda
8. Guile
9. Balrog
10. Vega
11. Sagat
12. M. Bison
13. Akuma
14. Cammy
15. Geki
16. Adon
17. Guy
18. Cody
19. Rolento
20. Rose
21. Sakura
22. Evil Ryu/Kage
23. Dudley
24. Ibuki
25. Oro
26. Dan
27. Crimson Viper
28. Gouken
29. Oni
30. Necalli
31. Menat
32. Mike Haggar
33. Strider Hiryu

Well. I guess I came up pretty short after all. One of the advantages of lots of options is that you can afford to not care about a lot of them. Honestly, I only included all of the original crew because it seemed kind of sacrilegious not to. I don't honestly care about playing Dhalsim or Blanka anymore. Or any charging character at all, frankly—they're a real pain with a normal controller.