Seeing how the franchise seems to be going more fan input based, I thought a topic like this would be good.

To start off, I am reffering to stuff like Street Fighter 5, 6, ext. over updates like Super Street Fighter IV. I am not going to talk about how to innovate the game engine or anything like that.

My recommendation:

As the character pool in the Street Fighter series has grown to massive levels already, I believe every future Street Fighter installment should at least have 10-12 returning characters, no matter how obscure they are. In fact, i'd be all for reusing underused characters every now and then to keep things fresh. Please don't neglect the longtime Street Fighter fanbase like how Sega neglects the longtime Sonic fanbase.

Use this as the future title: Street Fighter Ultra

I dare them to make a game on the side... non-official... that is like what we thought SF4 was going to be when we saw that first trailer.

Oct 23, 2009 -- 11:00PM, Tobias Reaper wrote:

Returning characters is a given. The biggest draw for the series is the SFII cast, but only eight or nine of them are really important as far as the fans are concerned- {Ryu, Ken, Chun, Cammy, Guile, Sagat, Bison, Akuma}. Let those characters stick around for as long as necessary. From there, only the popular ones from III, IV and Alpha should be accounted for.

I personally believe the only frequently returning characters should be Ryu & Ken. Every other character should be determined if they fit in the new games storyline.

Introduce Minoru Takumi or some form of Akuma worthy apprentice. Check out my blog to see a picture of Minoru as well as his introduction. I am certain he would easily fit into Street Fighter V as even Seth Killian said he was worthy of Street Fighter. Minoru Takumi could lead the storyline in a new direction, especially for Akuma, Ryu, and possibly Ken. Probably for other characters too!