qcf x2 said: . If the target audience is 30+ then that works, if you are targeting 25 and under at all (and that's a major demographic) then who the heck is Guile and why would I want to play as a boring looking fat guy. New demo, they are gonna like different characters, and I'd actually argue that a bunch of the outcry for Alex came from younger gamers who might not have ever played SF3. You know some (relatively) old Joes. If the target audience is 30+ then that works, if you are targeting 25 and under at all (and that's a major demographic) then who the heck is Guile and why would I want to play as a boring looking fat guy. New demo, they are gonna like different characters, and I'd actually argue that a bunch of the outcry for Alex came from younger gamers who might not have ever played SF3. Click to expand...

I'm 25 and I know who all these people are. Everyone I talked to about the game before launch asked if characters like Guile or Sagat or Bison were in it. People know who these characters are, even if you don't want to acknowledge it. As for the other part of your argument, how the hell does that make any sense? If they're new to Street Fighter, and they really have no idea who anybody is, then every character is a new character to them. They have no reason to think that Guile or Honda or Zangief are any more or less boring than any other character on the roster.Personally, I think it's dumb that we even break the roster down into SF2 characters and SFA characters and SF3 characters at this point. They're just Street Fighter characters. It shouldn't matter what game they originated in. If a character has appeared in four out of the five games at this point, I don't think you can argue that they keep showing up because they need to fill a quota of Street Fighter 2 characters. They keep showing up because they're the cast of Street Fighter and this is a new Street Fighter game.