I like Ken’s new design. They actually changed him up, and people complain, because of the graphics for the hair. I think the hair design itself is fine. I’m not the biggest fan of Birdie’s new design though. Bison doesn’t have the most drastic of changes, but I do like the extended coat, and his new moves and game-play look great. The game-play and moves are the things I would hope they change up after all these years, and they did rather extensively for some.
My (unreal) wishlist:
Q, Oro, Urien. Especially Q
Love Q. Love SF3
Well I think it should be pretty solid by launch. Pretty much no fighting game has ever tested its netcode with the players 8 months prior to release. Honestly every fighting game would probably have solid netcode if they did what Capcom is doing now. Part of the issue might be that PSN’s servers just aren’t as good as Xbox’s, but fighting games are peer 2 peer so it’s usually just about how strong the connection is of the two players. One player has a bad connection it makes things worse if the netcode is already having issues. Most mainstream fighting games have bad netcode though and it’s only recently that games like KI, Tekken and now SFV have pushed towards actually creating solid netcode.
SFV is having a rough start with the beta, but with this much time left to fix things we should be good by launch.
As for the game in general, I like that it plays a lot more like the older SF games. I wasn’t much of a fan of SFIV at all since everything other than the basic spacing game was nothing like the older SF games. Too many ways to escape pressure with invincible backdashes and doing a combo off a jab or a stun would pretty much kill all your damage. With the game having almost no true block strings other than jabs there was also a general over reliance on jabs for pressure. SFV seems to be focusing on medium and heavy normals for pressure. I like that the game is bringing back heavier emphasis on juggles and things that can change up the combo game like the V Triggers. Combos should be much flashier and varied now.
Getting rid of hard knockdowns on things other than supers and certain specials is a push in the right direction also. Gonna have a lot more quicker transitions between knockdowns like the older games. V Reversals gives everyone at least some type of defensive option while not being as strong as shoryu fadc ultra.
I sold my Xbox to get a PS4 and play the beta and so far it’s been really shaky, but I guess its an excuse to have a PS4 incase anything else comes out that I want it on. I just got a new PC before SFV was announced so I was planning on just playing the PC version originally. When/if I buy my Xbone again this week I’ll be back to playing more KI and have something to do until the SFV beta restarts.
I only play fighting games so KI and/or this SFV beta is going to have to hold me over for a while. Once SFV launches it looks fun enough where it will most likely be my new main game.
Ken’s face I don’t like. Cool new design I’ll say. And Ryu with the same outfit and moves.
Ken’s face is okay, but that hair is BAD. I just wanna run up to him and pull out the scrunchy holding his little ponytail looking thing out and make him wear his hair like in SF4 like it should be, then I’m gonna hide the scrunchy from him so he can’t tie his hair back.
I played a little on the Beta last night, and I’m no good at using a controller. If I get SF5, I gotta get a fightstick for it.
I will stick to KI, I never did enjoy Sony Playstation ever and since Xbox came on the scene I’ve been here. I see it as KI gives me my fill in the fighting game department and I’m so over Street Fighter since I got bored of it after mastering Vega, Sakura, Abel, Ryu, Ken, Fei Long etc. from SFIV. I find myself never bored of KI since Day One Season 1 with the original 6
So Mika is in Street Fighter V. Sorry, can’t copy a link from anyone that has it at the moment due to work security, but just check Game Informer. They posted her trailer on Twitter).
I’m glad that they went off the board a bit with this pick, and I know that some people like her a lot, but dear god, Capcom… Be a little more 90’s in your character design.
I mean, I guess it makes sense since that’s what she wore originally, but yeah, not a fan of her design at all. Giant cans tumbling out of her outfit, the pigtails, the 80’s wrestler look… I hate to use the word embarrassing but, yeah. Not a fan of all the rear end smashes (it really shouldn’t be that hard to find a word for rear end) either. Just silly looking.
However, all that negativity out of the way… I love a good wrestler character and she looks really fun to use!! Also love the assist character for her V-Trigger. Awesome idea, and probably the best V-Trigger I’ve seen so far. Wish KI had an assist character for someone in Instinct mode along those lines. Not sure how it would work, but that’d definitely be cool. As always, the animations in her movements are fantastic. A+ in that regard, for sure.
So yeah, from a gameplay perspective, she looks great (minus the bum bum moves, which are just ridiculous). Every other perspective though, ehhh… 
I always thought Mika was eh. I hope everyone that wanted her in happy.
I need Juri though 
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YES. Agree 100%
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She is baaaaaccccckkkkk! Still waiting for Akuma…
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On the recently hotly debated topic, I think R Mika’s outfit will make SFV M rated LOL 
@TempusChaoti
I’m hoping for…
- Juri
- Elena
- Dudley
- Balrog? Hope they’ll explain the kid he picked up.
- Abel
- Crimson Viper
- Remy
- Oro
- Q
Hey those are 3 of my five hopes too lol
The other two are Sakura and Makoto
I also forgot about Sakura… AND SEAN!!!
I want Sean but they guys at capcom said they wanted less shotos which would means 3-4 for SF5
my perdition is:
Ryu
Ken
Akuma
Sean
R.MIKA is my 2nd Favourite Street fighter character, Number 1 was revealed time ago (M.Bison) and my number 6 as well (Ken Masters), So this reveal made me super happy!!!
now I need the last 7:
.Q (Fan Fave and Almost as requested as Alex)
.Makoto (Mediocre but she is Awesome)
.Sagat (Hope so)
.Alex (The most requested character…so yeah)
.Rose (Unlikely since bison has her skills)
.Juri (Likely
.Akuma ( Very Likely)
But Capcom…HAIR FIX ON KEN (face included) , VEGA AND MIKA!!! (looks like play-doh)
R. Mika = Obligatory fan service character.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
R. Mika rule 34 coming soon…
Wow that’s insane that no one U.S. Fighting against that outfit when MS was up in arms over Orchids true ki2 outfit. She’s all t and a. And two spaghetti hair tails.
I’m buying the ps4.
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Actually, I read somewhere this is supposed to be the first Street Fighter that is getting an M rating. The ESRB website has every known current iteration at around a T level, but this one is looking like the first M rated iteration in the series.
I forget where I saw the article, otherwise I’d post it if I saw it again. But that’s what I’ve heard. Could be wrong though.