Oct 27, 2009 -- 4:39PM, PG > C wrote:

I would like more female characters, but new ones and not like Juri. Also one that can hang with the top characters instead of the weak, fast, and low health type of fighter. I'm tired of those.

agreed. more variety

@Slappy - lol, maybe I was a little pissy earlier and I apologize for derailing the thread.

ON topic, I'd like to see a few new females, although I'd love to see some old favs (with interesting movesets) to return, Elena and Ibuki are good examples. As for new female chars, I'd like to see at least one of them a charge character, Chun-Li is the only female (half) charger (Juri?) on the roster so far so I'd like to see that changed.

Gotta vouch against the "low health female char" idea too. Variety is key.

Oct 28, 2009 -- 5:43AM, kenjiharima wrote:

I really Ibuki, Elena and Makoto from the SFIII series since these girls are real girl fighters. Doesn't matter if they're young as long as they can fight with the big boys and women. Also always to balance out things they have low HP and more combo's or high damaging supers.

 

Bingo!

I like my SF characters to come across as being actual fighters.  I'm sorry to say, but characters like Poison don't strike me as the type to go 1-on-1 in a fighting tournament.  Sakura in her sailor uniform may be appealing to a certain crowd, but as a fighter I have a hard time taking the character seriously.  Given that she is supposed to be in her early 20s I had hoped that Capcom would have given her a costume that was better suited to a fighter.  If she's as serious about fighting as she claims, you would figure she would start to dress the part at some point (just my opinion of course).

Oct 28, 2009 -- 5:51AM, blueandwhite wrote:

Oct 28, 2009 -- 5:43AM, kenjiharima wrote:

I really Ibuki, Elena and Makoto from the SFIII series since these girls are real girl fighters. Doesn't matter if they're young as long as they can fight with the big boys and women. Also always to balance out things they have low HP and more combo's or high damaging supers.

 

Bingo!

I like my SF characters to come across as being actual fighters.  I'm sorry to say, but characters like Poison don't strike me as the type to go 1-on-1 in a fighting tournament.  Sakura in her sailor uniform may be appealing to a certain crowd, but as a fighter I have a hard time taking the character seriously.  Given that she is supposed to be in her early 20s I had hoped that Capcom would have given her a costume that was better suited to a fighter.  If she's as serious about fighting as she claims, you would figure she would start to dress the part at some point (just my opinion of course).

Like we said in the SFIV Sakura Thread long ago. If we get an alternate gym teacher uniform like in the Sakura Ganbanru manga, it's better. But they sticked to the student gym uniform.

This image represents a more womanly Sakura in her early 20's.

I agree with what was said about Ibuki, Makoto and Elena being legit, keeping it real fighters. Look at their age for a start and then look at Sakura.

I know it seems theres a lot of Sakura hate recently but just look at the character. She's "supposed" to be in her early twenties, and she acts all goofy, running around in her school uniform acting like a horny teen around Ryu. I blame Capcom for this for putting her in to appeal to a certain crowd of people. They should develop her story.

When Ryu was her age, he was kicking ass and beat Sagat. Sakura is nowhere near that level. Ibuki is younger than her and I would argue, a MUCH better fighter. The point is, Ryu and Ken have BOTH developed as characters, in terms of personality AND power as the games have progressed. Sakura has not.