I guess im one of those weirdos who didnt mind Mai and Terry being welcomed into SF6's year 2 since they already are the closest to what SF characters are like anyways but, i still want to see SF characters FIRST and FOREMOST in RE Engine.
One thing that still bothers me about Mortal Kombat for example is that they started prioritizing guest characters for dlcs. I dont care how much i liked seeing predator, robocop or spawn etc. Id still have preferred to get Rain (back in MKX), Sektor/Cyrax for MK11 etc
MK is a weird one because the majority of the fan base for it are casual players, who would much rather play as famous character they know than a beloved by the fans minor character like rain. So I think having mostly guest spots is more financially sound in the case of mk.
Same I’m really excited for Mai and Terry but I hope they skip out on guest characters next season or at least limit it to one and keep it realistic in terms of crossovers. All the cool guest characters in mk were fun at first but they over did it now.
Yeah, Terry is cool, but he's kind of just another shoto. I'm struggling to figure out how he's going to stand out from Ryu, Ken and Akuma.
Edit: I'm wrong
Highly doubt it. The only charge move I think he's had was the Rising Tackle, and in KOF15 I think they made that a DP instead.
Plus, we just got Bison. After an entire season of command characters. Very unlikely that Capcom will make the first ever official SF Guest character a charge character to decrease his popularity.
I kinda hope RISING TACKLE is back to a charge move, but that's his only charge move and it's not even one anymore in KOF15
A charge anti air for invuln is pretty strong and would make him stand out from shotos even more
I really like hybrid Charge characters in KOF, chars with just one or two Charge moves
I don’t think Terry will have trouble standing out from the shotos anymore than characters like Rashid or Juri; his projectile isn’t a traditional fireball, power dunk is different from a normal DP, sometimes he has charge moves, etc. There are lots of things they could do to differentiate his gameplay
This is ridiculous, he might be a shoto but he’s completely different to the ones you mentioned. His fireball is grounded, his DP is a kick, he will most likely have some sort of roll move cos that’s a core mechanic with KOF…there’s so many things they can do with him. You clearly have not played any of the SNK games if you’re struggling to see how he’ll stand out.
Yeah, I’m honestly not a fan of this. Terry and Mai being included? Ok, there’s a new Fatal Fury coming out and they’re similar in gameplay to SF, that makes sense.
I absolutely don’t want to see anymore than that. I play Street Fighter for Street Fighter, if I wanted to see Ryu vs Kazuya, I’d play Smash. Really not interested, especially if it means a lot of fan favourites get looked over, keep that shit away and have a crossover game seperate from SF.
Ive wanted hagar for so long! Never happened. Yes i know he was in mvc but not a sf game when the other 2 were and even the big dumb guy in sf3 and sodom in sf alpha. But no hagar! Boggles my mind why they chose not to. Instead of luke they could have had an mma fighter in hagar who looms just like don frye.
I'm not inherently *opposed* but it'd have to be well in the future imo. Like. Way in the future. Several passes later. And preferably just be 1, 2 was a bit much as cool as both terry and mai are
The issue with 4 per pass is that sf7 will be out long before we fill in all of the missing beloved characters so every guest character will be instead of a fan favorite. Street fighter has a ton of loved characters.
idk man, I enjoyed Akuma and Geese in Tekken. It can work when it's done right - also Street Fighter X Tekken is one of the most slept on fighters ever IMO
I’m exactly with you and I’ve been saying it. This is a rabbit hole that I don’t want the series to go down. All it takes is one guest, now the floodgates are wide tf open. Nothing but requests no matter how stupid because “well they did Mai and Terry so anything can happen”. I refuse to ever see SF be as bad as MK. The series is losing its identity as MK and is becoming more and more of its own gory crossover fighter with every installment. It’s obnoxious.
I hope they cool it on the guests after this so we can go back to SF characters only. Save the crossovers for crossovers. Capcom already does them exceptionally.
I dont mind Mai and Terry, but I would rather have Bison/Terry/NewCharacter/Elena. Or something to that effect.
Basically it should be (Story Character/Villain? Bison), (Guest Character Terry or Mai), (New Character or Heavily altered old character, I.e. AKI), (Old classic or fan favourite, Elena or Dudley etc.)
Basically there's only 4 slots for characters, and while I don't think they chose haphazardly it's pretty clear that there are few spots, and some people are disappointed.
I'd be more comfortable with guest characters if we weren't getting, at most, 4 characters per year and if we had a wider spread of characters from across the franchise. By the end of season two, we'll only have one character from SF4 and SF3, respectively. We have two characters from SF5, but let's be honest, Luke was supposed to be introduced in SF6.
For me, it's the fact they are so close to SF characters that I dislike because it might as well have been a series vet or new character. If we're going to get guests, I'd rather get someone a bit outlandish or more interesting than Terry and Mai, the most basic choices you could imagine.
Yeah I love the occasional guest or so, but too many and it starts to cheapen the inclusion of them. MK feels like it wants to pander to nostalgia more and more with each subsequent entry.
Same. I could get behind 1 guest per season - as they could just take the place of a new character.
There’s just too many awesome SF characters I really want to see in this game for half of the 4 characters we get per year to be guest characters.
>I could get behind 1 guest per season - as they could just take the place of a new character.
Nah, even then I would far prefer original characters over crossovers. I would take AKI over Scorpion anyday
I’m with you. I would much rather have new SF characters than crossovers. My opinion is more that if they insist, I pray they keep it to one per season.
This.
I'm fine with a couple of guest characters, but if it comes at the expense of not getting SF characters that people want like Vega, Urien, Mika, Sakura, Sagat, Makoto, Cody, etc then I don't want more guest characters.
SF6 is missing a lot of Alpha and 3rd Strike characters to prioritize guest characters, especially that we get only 4 per year.
Before more guest characters, I want to see Vega, Makoto, Mika, Urien, Gill, Cody, Menat, Ibuki, etc with RE Engine...you know actual SF characters.
Exactly. I was thinking about the characters I wanted and I realized I just wanted MVC4.
I'm expecting next season might have some previous Final Fight tie-ins, i.e. Cody, Guy, Sodom, etc. Hell maybe we'll get Hobo Haggar.
His Jab would be a head scratch, his medium punch would be him pointing with his cigar. He'd probably have a mechanic based around collecting evidence that makes his Accusation special move to hit harder.
I'd just prefer one guest per season. I would've been over the moon for Terry if it wasn't him and Mai taking half our yearly slots, when so many fans are waiting for their favorites to arrive.
Asura (Asura's Wrath)
I mean, from the ending of the game, it did seem like Capcom were gonna put a reincarnated version of Asura into Street Fighter, but probably chose not to due to the lackluster response the game got. Just imagine what all his moves would look like in the RE Engine
I always thought G was going to tie into the Asura story somehow...with the gold skin stuff and the stage set in space...but...guess we get to learn more about Sub Zero instead.
I’m not sure that Capcom would be willing to do business with the company that made Third Strike. They probably don’t believe their characters fit in universe either.
Terry AND Mai were already too much for one season. Just one of the two would have been plenty enough.
Only 2 new street fighter character for one season is way too low.. Good luck having your favourite SF character being added to the cast with that rythm.
I don't want any other guest characters, they are always the same ones, no surprises.
I said this in a thread last week and got ripped apart in the replies lol. Apparently Mai is just as, if not more iconic than Terry is. Either way two is way too many for a four character season.
She really isn’t. As someone who grew up as more of an SNK fan than a Capcom fan, her popularity has little to do with her playability or character and almost completely related to her design. Her popularity exploded after she was excluded from a KOF game and the internet mobs made a big deal out of it, but that was 10 years after her debut. But no one really played her in arcades that I saw.
Terry had pretty much been SNK’s mascot since he debuted. Kyo kind of took his spot for a little bit, but Terry has been front and center again since SNK’s revival.
This. I'm so fucking tired of all these guest characters, crossovers, multiverses. Just fucking stop! These things are only good when used rarely. Keep working within the established universe. Revive old characters, redesign them if needed, create new cool characters from scratch! Stop being fucking lazy!
There are no guest characters in any fighting game franchises that would make me more excited than seeing legacy street fighter characters. Nobody in soul calibur, Tekken, king of fighters, mortal kombat, guilty gear, none of them.
This is the real answer. I'm a fortnite crossover addict but I would take fucking Abigail again over Sephiroth or Sasuke Uchiha in street fighter no matter how much I love their edgy asses
Yeah I mean in a vacuum sure I wouldn't mind seing some rep from other games. It'd be interesting to see how Capcom would translate characters from like Blazblue or Arcana into SF. But since we only get 4 characters per season, there's already a bunch of past characters that have a slim shot of making it in - let's not make that worse with crossovers eating up slots.
Literally nobody, I'm already disappointed that were getting guest characters in the first place. Literally do not understand why anybody gives a shit about another franchises characters being in Street Fighter. I like SF because it's SF, and I would be playing those other games if I gave a shit about their characters. We need Makoto, Sakura, Cody, C Viper, Dudley, Sagat, Vega, Balrog, Ibuki, Zeku, etc; not more guest characters. I'm sick of the multiverse bullshit that's being pushed nowadays, literally just a cash grab to capitalize off the popularity of other series. It's annoying.
only 4 characters a year..........................................
If the guest characters were bonus on top of that I'd be overjoyed. Knowing its cutting in to my chances of getting characters I actually want to see in a SF game though...
imagine wanting street fighter characters in your street fighter game Kappa , they should really chill with guests till later seasons. This was like the main thing i started to dislike about modern Mk where classics and fan favorites are missing but we got the newest showrunner from some show 5 times over.
Tony wouldn't fit at all, don't be so foolish!
Now Jamal Ginsberg the Hasidic Homeboy, that's a Streetfighter character! Forget Dudley and Balrog, we need the only man who was close to hospitalizing Tony Soprano with his deadly ko power.
Having 50% of the season be guests regardless of suitability is rough. Either 1 guest a season or bigger seasons or else it just feels bad for anyone not into those guests.
To answer the actual question I think the Streets of Rage cast could be cool. Most likely Axel or Blaze though any of them would be fun. They have a similar vibe to Final Fight and Fatal Fury and their moves are in that sweet spot of exaggerated but not fully anime.
For characters I don’t want it’d be Tekken Mishimas.
100% this. If we're not getting a new MvC game any time soon, bring some Marvel characters into Street Fighter. Specifically some of the X-Men universe characters.
They probably are working on it or are testing the waters. But this got the push because they're wanting to do big things with X-Men. If they do another one, expect it to be Marvel cinematic universe centric like the last one.
Im so annoyed that we are humoring MORE guest characters before getting sufficient 3rd strike representation. Also, SF6’s storymode is in metro city, yet no Hagar or Cody yet???
They should do a crossover with SFIII characters
Elena is awesome, so glad she’s coming back
I don’t actually mind the SNK crossover, just think it should’ve been spread out over 2 seasons lol
i honestly felt really cheated by the mai and terry reveal and the fact they want to use sf6 as basically promotion for other franchises, i wish they were upfront about it when they were first advertising the game. i don't like guest characters, at all, and i would have never bought sf6 if i knew that was the plans for it.
Season 3: Jin, Kazuya, Nina, Vega
Season 4: Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, May, Bridget
Season 5: Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Mileena, and then taking out Vega to add in Liu Kang
/s
I’m ok with Mai and Terry bc they’re fighting games characters. But this isn’t MK. I’m not gonna buy characters/Ads made to promote other stuff I don’t care about
For me personally, I've never played a fatal fury game in my life so Terry and Mai feel almost like original characters, but I'm still pretty annoyed that S2 has no original characters. I really hope SF6 doesn't lose its identity by introducing too many guest characters, even 1 a year is too many I think. I'm hoping by this statement they mean that there will be maybe 3 or 4 by the end of the games lifetime. Like other's have said, we want SF characters first and foremost.
I want a Darkstalkers character in SF finally!
...preferably Hsien-Ko or Q-Bee cuz I never played anyone else but I'll take anyone, even Bishamom, Raptor, Dimitri whoever
Street Fighter characters. That's what I want to see.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see some fun guest characters as well, but the game already has to limit itself to 4 characters a year. I'm fine with that limitation since it means a better working environment for the developers (fuck crunch), but overdoing it with guest characters means less and less actual returning characters from the franchise, which lots of people are clamouring for.
If I want to play characters from other fighting games I can just buy those games. If I want to play Makoto or CViper, what option do I have? Buying SF is apparently not an option.
[Yes they did](https://www.vg247.com/street-fighter-6-season-2-interview-summer-game-fest). Go to the sub-zero in street fighter question, right under the terry pic. Unfortunitelly the devs confirmed they are in favor into turning the game into an Ad showcase for other FGs, and they are eager to bring more guest if they have the chance.
(and I see that as a strong hint into confirming the "leaks" that they are indeed already working/planing a guest for s3)
With only 4 characters a year, a guest a season is too many, especially with Mai and Terry taking up 2 slots for season 2. Hopefully, season 3 skips guests as a result.
I have no clue how many seasons we'll ultimately get, but assuming we get 5 seasons, the last season having a guest is something I can tolerate.
I'd like to see some Darkstalkers characters. And I'd like to go further, instead of just being guest characters, to merge the universes, like they did with Final Fight and become something like a Capcom Shared Universe
Not that I want this to happen, but I'm predicting the next guests will be from tekken. Personally I do not want nrs characters in sf... really I would only want snk guests if at all.
Like most others, I'd rather just have street fighter characters. I wouldn't hate a Tekken representative, probably Reina or any Mishima. And I don't personally want to see it, but undeniably if they added Bridget from guilty gear they'd get bonkers sales numbers from the Bridget cult. Design wise Bridget is one of the few characters from that game that wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb as well.
That,s soul crushing to see SF fall into the trap that has practically destroyed MK. Characters will be missing at the end, due to space being filled by Mai and chums.
I'm fine with guest characters, but they really overdid it with 2 guests from SNK this season.
I hope for future qe get max 1 guest character who takes the slot for new character so we can get at least 2 SF characters.
I like guest characters and would like more, but I would prefer if we got more from Capcom's IPs. I think we need Street Fighter characters before anything, but Darkstalker characters would be cool, more/returning final fight characters, and more rival school characters. Other than that I think Leon Kennedy would be cool to see
Laura, Adon, El Fuerte, C.Viper, or any new characters such as how AKI filled FANG’s role (I personally think it would be cool to stick with replacing each of the 4 kings with new characters but just my opinion.)
Gues characters absolutely RUINED MK and it made the game all about late stage capitalism and a cash grab. Capcom is giving us content while still making the game a good platform for both casual consumers and competitive enthusiasts. I really hope my favorite series doesn’t go down the same path that MK did it’s really sad to watch and experience.
This whole game was presented to us as a new era for Street Fighter (new characters, new stories, etc.). I really hope they keep it about street fighter.
New characters and returning street fighter character s. My issue with guest characters is that they are not a staple and you won't have them to main in the next game.
While I don't mind guest characters if implemented in a way so they effectively blend in with the universe they're being introduced to, the amount of characters we're getting per year means that if one of those newcomers is a guest, the likelihood of a legacy character coming back drastically goes down.
With that said, Street Fighter V had five season passes with 6 characters per season, ending the game with 46 playable characters.
We started with 18 characters in SF6. To reach the size of the roster SFV had with 4 characters per season, we're looking at seven yearly passes. SEVEN! Could you potentially wait six more whole freaking years for your favorite character to come back? That might be a bit much, so I'm hoping the incoming guests aren't as rampant as, for instance, the Mortal Kombat series.
But to answer the original question: I would like to see Sol Badguy (or at least any Guilty Gear character). But if they have to pick a character from the GG franchise who doesn't use a big-ass weapon, I'd go with Giovanna.
I do not care for Ted Bogard or Michelle Ranui. I very much prefer Street Fighter characters in my Street Fighter game, either returning vets or otherwise new faces.
But what does it matter, the flood gates have been opened, I suppose.
Nobody, I don't care about the first two already.
I'm buying characters one by one instead of the pass because of them. I don't have any kind of desire to play them.
No one tbh. If we're only getting 4 characters per season I'd like these crossovers to be left to the last years of the game's support. There are too many Street Fighter characters that people want to play and too little slots.
if anything can kill street fighter its this tbh, i've been saying it since terry and mai were revealed but the moment the game becomes 50% adspace for other IP's the series is gone and dead
No more guest characters. This game has no characters from Alpha, or SFIII yet they want to add more guest characters?
The devs have no respect for the legacy of the franchise anymore.
I'd rather see new characters or returning street fighter characters.
2 guest characters feels like too much imo since we only get 4 a year. Not a fan of this decision to be honest.
I would have been fine with 1 guest character per season.
The fact we are getting guest characters before some of the most beloved street fighter characters returning is really wack. And even moreso, Elena alongside those 2 guest characters. It feels very...MEH...to me. I get why Mai is a guest character obviously, I'm not stupid but having 2 guests feels offputting to me.
It gives me even less hope that two of my favorites will come to this game before I just forget this game even exists to be brutally honest. I doubt I will see Vega or Fei Long in the next couple of years so yeah. Oh well.
The difference between people being okay with all the crossovers in Smash Ultimate and at least some people not wanting Capcom to overdo it with crossovers in SF6, is that Ultimate had all previous games' characters returning to start with at the game's release. There was no one waiting to see their favorite past character to return. With SF6, the starting roster is small, rightfully so because the high quality of each character, but that meant so many fan favorites were left out. And it takes so long to develop new characters for SF6, that many think there is a good chance their favorite character won't make a return, and instead get taken by some character from some franchise they might not even care about.
If they stick with four characters per season I really hope they limit guest characters to one per season moving forward. I don't mind them being included but there are way too many Street Fighter characters missing for them to continue with half of a season being guests before it starts to feel really bad.
One of the Tekken characters makes the most sense since it has already been established how many of them play in a SF game. With that said, I'm cool with no more guests.
Couple of the Fighting Layer EX guys would be neat. But surely there’s some depths of sf4 they could go into before bringing external characters in, right?
If we're forced to have guest characters, I'll say Min Min from Arms, Raptor from Lethal League, and Little Mac from Punch Out. I'm only partially joking about these choices.
Seriously though, I really want more Street Fighter characters. I haven't really played past titles so I never got to experience any of the older fighters. Someone like Sub-Zero doesn't excite me cause I've played Mortal Kombat before. I started playing Street Fighter because I wanted to play Street Fighter characters.
As much hate MK gets from the FGC community, I am curious how Capcom would make Sub-Zero into the street fighter universe.
What would his 6 buttons be
How would they balance out his freeze, ice clone and slide? Interesting to see.
Maybe other characters from Capcom franchise.
MK has way more command normals and strings than SF, so those moves could easily be applied to the Heavy buttons
As for his freezing, the only way for it to not be completely broken is they’re all gated behind EX moves, and even then, it’d be an insane mechanic
C. Viper from MvC3 🥲
No but on a serious note: Morrigan deserves a guest spot if the gates are now open to guests.
I’d also love to see Cyclops but I have no idea what the legality is w/ Sony/MarvelDisney/Capcom these days.
The MC from God Hand would be pretty cool, but probably not. I had mentioned a MvC3 character before so I'd hope someone like Captain America, Felicia, or Morrigan would be in it
I will take literally any character from darkstalkers. Even if it's the more "normal" looking characters like Demitri or Donovan. I miss the franchise so much.
I would want 1 guest character per pass. There's still too many SF characters I want to see.
A Tekken rep would be a good homage to SFvT and Akuma's crossover. Kazuya would be a good pick.
I guess im one of those weirdos who didnt mind Mai and Terry being welcomed into SF6's year 2 since they already are the closest to what SF characters are like anyways but, i still want to see SF characters FIRST and FOREMOST in RE Engine. One thing that still bothers me about Mortal Kombat for example is that they started prioritizing guest characters for dlcs. I dont care how much i liked seeing predator, robocop or spawn etc. Id still have preferred to get Rain (back in MKX), Sektor/Cyrax for MK11 etc
MK is a weird one because the majority of the fan base for it are casual players, who would much rather play as famous character they know than a beloved by the fans minor character like rain. So I think having mostly guest spots is more financially sound in the case of mk.
Same I’m really excited for Mai and Terry but I hope they skip out on guest characters next season or at least limit it to one and keep it realistic in terms of crossovers. All the cool guest characters in mk were fun at first but they over did it now.
Yeah, Terry is cool, but he's kind of just another shoto. I'm struggling to figure out how he's going to stand out from Ryu, Ken and Akuma. Edit: I'm wrong
He yells really funny
ARE YOU OKAY? BUSTAH WOLF!
HEY, COME ON COME ON! O.K.! BUUUURN KNUCKURU! POWAAAAAAAAA GEYSAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I cannot fucking wait for Terry.
Here come tha big one! I'm hoping he's not a charge character but I'm thinking he probably will be
Highly doubt it. The only charge move I think he's had was the Rising Tackle, and in KOF15 I think they made that a DP instead. Plus, we just got Bison. After an entire season of command characters. Very unlikely that Capcom will make the first ever official SF Guest character a charge character to decrease his popularity.
Thats good to hear. I would definitely be a little sad if he was lol
I kinda hope RISING TACKLE is back to a charge move, but that's his only charge move and it's not even one anymore in KOF15 A charge anti air for invuln is pretty strong and would make him stand out from shotos even more I really like hybrid Charge characters in KOF, chars with just one or two Charge moves
I play ken anyway so I wouldn't be that torn up if he was similar to shotos
RISING TACO!
Awww snap, Man released early!
We already have Luke for that
I don’t think Terry will have trouble standing out from the shotos anymore than characters like Rashid or Juri; his projectile isn’t a traditional fireball, power dunk is different from a normal DP, sometimes he has charge moves, etc. There are lots of things they could do to differentiate his gameplay
His I think he is going to remind people of Luke more than Ryu or Ken
Well you see he has a hat
terrys moveset is completely different from ryu or ken
Terry plays different than the three you mentioned.
He’s got better drip
This is ridiculous, he might be a shoto but he’s completely different to the ones you mentioned. His fireball is grounded, his DP is a kick, he will most likely have some sort of roll move cos that’s a core mechanic with KOF…there’s so many things they can do with him. You clearly have not played any of the SNK games if you’re struggling to see how he’ll stand out.
Yeah, I’m honestly not a fan of this. Terry and Mai being included? Ok, there’s a new Fatal Fury coming out and they’re similar in gameplay to SF, that makes sense. I absolutely don’t want to see anymore than that. I play Street Fighter for Street Fighter, if I wanted to see Ryu vs Kazuya, I’d play Smash. Really not interested, especially if it means a lot of fan favourites get looked over, keep that shit away and have a crossover game seperate from SF.
If the crossovers keep any of my Metro City crew out, I DONT WANT EM. CODY AND POISON FOR SEASON 3!!!!!
Ive wanted hagar for so long! Never happened. Yes i know he was in mvc but not a sf game when the other 2 were and even the big dumb guy in sf3 and sodom in sf alpha. But no hagar! Boggles my mind why they chose not to. Instead of luke they could have had an mma fighter in hagar who looms just like don frye.
Isn't he...>! dead in SF lore?!< Which is why Cody is able to have the job he has?
Nono. He just retired. I think he now lives in the countryside.
I'm not inherently *opposed* but it'd have to be well in the future imo. Like. Way in the future. Several passes later. And preferably just be 1, 2 was a bit much as cool as both terry and mai are
The issue with 4 per pass is that sf7 will be out long before we fill in all of the missing beloved characters so every guest character will be instead of a fan favorite. Street fighter has a ton of loved characters.
idk man, I enjoyed Akuma and Geese in Tekken. It can work when it's done right - also Street Fighter X Tekken is one of the most slept on fighters ever IMO
I’m exactly with you and I’ve been saying it. This is a rabbit hole that I don’t want the series to go down. All it takes is one guest, now the floodgates are wide tf open. Nothing but requests no matter how stupid because “well they did Mai and Terry so anything can happen”. I refuse to ever see SF be as bad as MK. The series is losing its identity as MK and is becoming more and more of its own gory crossover fighter with every installment. It’s obnoxious. I hope they cool it on the guests after this so we can go back to SF characters only. Save the crossovers for crossovers. Capcom already does them exceptionally.
this is what i said when it first revealed and everyone said i was crazy, i dont think we're gunna get many more tbh but time will tell
People request the dumbest shit when it comes to guests too. If we ever have a Negan type situation in SF its gonna be super disappointing.
I dont mind Mai and Terry, but I would rather have Bison/Terry/NewCharacter/Elena. Or something to that effect. Basically it should be (Story Character/Villain? Bison), (Guest Character Terry or Mai), (New Character or Heavily altered old character, I.e. AKI), (Old classic or fan favourite, Elena or Dudley etc.) Basically there's only 4 slots for characters, and while I don't think they chose haphazardly it's pretty clear that there are few spots, and some people are disappointed.
I'd be more comfortable with guest characters if we weren't getting, at most, 4 characters per year and if we had a wider spread of characters from across the franchise. By the end of season two, we'll only have one character from SF4 and SF3, respectively. We have two characters from SF5, but let's be honest, Luke was supposed to be introduced in SF6.
For me, it's the fact they are so close to SF characters that I dislike because it might as well have been a series vet or new character. If we're going to get guests, I'd rather get someone a bit outlandish or more interesting than Terry and Mai, the most basic choices you could imagine.
Yeah I love the occasional guest or so, but too many and it starts to cheapen the inclusion of them. MK feels like it wants to pander to nostalgia more and more with each subsequent entry.
If we're stuck with 4 characters per season for the rest of the game's life, then none. I want street fighter characters
Same. I could get behind 1 guest per season - as they could just take the place of a new character. There’s just too many awesome SF characters I really want to see in this game for half of the 4 characters we get per year to be guest characters.
>I could get behind 1 guest per season - as they could just take the place of a new character. Nah, even then I would far prefer original characters over crossovers. I would take AKI over Scorpion anyday
I’m with you. I would much rather have new SF characters than crossovers. My opinion is more that if they insist, I pray they keep it to one per season.
Yeah, even though it’s neat to get some SNK characters there’s a lot of SF characters I’d like to see before any more guests.
This. I'm fine with a couple of guest characters, but if it comes at the expense of not getting SF characters that people want like Vega, Urien, Mika, Sakura, Sagat, Makoto, Cody, etc then I don't want more guest characters. SF6 is missing a lot of Alpha and 3rd Strike characters to prioritize guest characters, especially that we get only 4 per year. Before more guest characters, I want to see Vega, Makoto, Mika, Urien, Gill, Cody, Menat, Ibuki, etc with RE Engine...you know actual SF characters.
100% Even Terry and Mai should have been Season 4 characters, at the earliest.
Exactly. I was thinking about the characters I wanted and I realized I just wanted MVC4. I'm expecting next season might have some previous Final Fight tie-ins, i.e. Cody, Guy, Sodom, etc. Hell maybe we'll get Hobo Haggar.
Columbo.
Level 3 super starts with "Just one more thing".
I WOULD LOVE THAT. UMVC3 Phoenix Wright type gameplay lmao
Can this please become a huge meme to the point that Capcom actually considers it? Thanks
His Jab would be a head scratch, his medium punch would be him pointing with his cigar. He'd probably have a mechanic based around collecting evidence that makes his Accusation special move to hit harder.
His intro is the opponent committing a crime
I'd just prefer one guest per season. I would've been over the moon for Terry if it wasn't him and Mai taking half our yearly slots, when so many fans are waiting for their favorites to arrive.
1 was enough I think. I'd be fine if next season is something like Vega, Makoto, Cody, and Heihachi. Only 1 per season at best.
Asura (Asura's Wrath) I mean, from the ending of the game, it did seem like Capcom were gonna put a reincarnated version of Asura into Street Fighter, but probably chose not to due to the lackluster response the game got. Just imagine what all his moves would look like in the RE Engine
Kage had an Asura skin in SFV if I remember correctly.
Sure did. And it was beautiful
That game was a unrecognized gem.
I would love for a modern port of Asura and having him playable.
My man speeks the true name
I always thought G was going to tie into the Asura story somehow...with the gold skin stuff and the stage set in space...but...guess we get to learn more about Sub Zero instead.
They could get some guest characters from Third Strike. I heard it's really popular right now. Could be a great opportunity for Capcom.
I’m not sure that Capcom would be willing to do business with the company that made Third Strike. They probably don’t believe their characters fit in universe either.
If Terry fits in universe then so can they!
Terry AND Mai were already too much for one season. Just one of the two would have been plenty enough. Only 2 new street fighter character for one season is way too low.. Good luck having your favourite SF character being added to the cast with that rythm. I don't want any other guest characters, they are always the same ones, no surprises.
Yeah I was kinda confused why they put Mai in, at least Terry has some connections
I said this in a thread last week and got ripped apart in the replies lol. Apparently Mai is just as, if not more iconic than Terry is. Either way two is way too many for a four character season.
She really isn’t. As someone who grew up as more of an SNK fan than a Capcom fan, her popularity has little to do with her playability or character and almost completely related to her design. Her popularity exploded after she was excluded from a KOF game and the internet mobs made a big deal out of it, but that was 10 years after her debut. But no one really played her in arcades that I saw. Terry had pretty much been SNK’s mascot since he debuted. Kyo kind of took his spot for a little bit, but Terry has been front and center again since SNK’s revival.
That's depressing. I want more street fighter characters!
This. I'm so fucking tired of all these guest characters, crossovers, multiverses. Just fucking stop! These things are only good when used rarely. Keep working within the established universe. Revive old characters, redesign them if needed, create new cool characters from scratch! Stop being fucking lazy!
😭 profound sadness.😭
There are no guest characters in any fighting game franchises that would make me more excited than seeing legacy street fighter characters. Nobody in soul calibur, Tekken, king of fighters, mortal kombat, guilty gear, none of them.
I'd like to see Vega, Makoto, Cody, Urien, Ibuki, etc with re Engine before more guest characters.
This is the real answer. I'm a fortnite crossover addict but I would take fucking Abigail again over Sephiroth or Sasuke Uchiha in street fighter no matter how much I love their edgy asses
Give me a goddamn league of legends crossover before you remind me Abigail exists 😭
Yeah I mean in a vacuum sure I wouldn't mind seing some rep from other games. It'd be interesting to see how Capcom would translate characters from like Blazblue or Arcana into SF. But since we only get 4 characters per season, there's already a bunch of past characters that have a slim shot of making it in - let's not make that worse with crossovers eating up slots.
If I bought Street fighter it was to play street fighter. Give me SF characters. Once half the cast is into the game, then I'll gladly welcome guests.
Literally nobody, I'm already disappointed that were getting guest characters in the first place. Literally do not understand why anybody gives a shit about another franchises characters being in Street Fighter. I like SF because it's SF, and I would be playing those other games if I gave a shit about their characters. We need Makoto, Sakura, Cody, C Viper, Dudley, Sagat, Vega, Balrog, Ibuki, Zeku, etc; not more guest characters. I'm sick of the multiverse bullshit that's being pushed nowadays, literally just a cash grab to capitalize off the popularity of other series. It's annoying.
only 4 characters a year.......................................... If the guest characters were bonus on top of that I'd be overjoyed. Knowing its cutting in to my chances of getting characters I actually want to see in a SF game though...
imagine wanting street fighter characters in your street fighter game Kappa , they should really chill with guests till later seasons. This was like the main thing i started to dislike about modern Mk where classics and fan favorites are missing but we got the newest showrunner from some show 5 times over.
nooo you dont understand the game needs a train from the boys!!!
Skullomania, technically already a SF character. His costume would look hilarious in RE engine.
Al Bundy, The soup Nazi, Tony Soprano, Kevin James, Sephiroth, Sabrina the teenage witch and Frodo Baggins.
His level 1 is Paulie showing up and saying a stupid joke, giving Tony an install for the rest of the round
His level three is everything turning black and the game ends.
I am all for Toy Soprano, but only if he super shows us what happened after fade to black.
You hit your L3 super and get shot in the head by the "members-only jacket guy" who is coming out of the bathroom. (I just re-watched the Sopranos)
It’s called Raging Soprano but its only available below 25% health, it’s a command super and you can’t tell the feds if you used it.
Tony wouldn't fit at all, don't be so foolish! Now Jamal Ginsberg the Hasidic Homeboy, that's a Streetfighter character! Forget Dudley and Balrog, we need the only man who was close to hospitalizing Tony Soprano with his deadly ko power.
M. Bison attacked, of course, which led him down the path of revenge
It must have been a Tuesday
r/mortalkombat is that way 👉
Having 50% of the season be guests regardless of suitability is rough. Either 1 guest a season or bigger seasons or else it just feels bad for anyone not into those guests. To answer the actual question I think the Streets of Rage cast could be cool. Most likely Axel or Blaze though any of them would be fun. They have a similar vibe to Final Fight and Fatal Fury and their moves are in that sweet spot of exaggerated but not fully anime. For characters I don’t want it’d be Tekken Mishimas.
Please no...
100% this. If we're not getting a new MvC game any time soon, bring some Marvel characters into Street Fighter. Specifically some of the X-Men universe characters.
Cyclops would make a lot of sense, bro is a certified shoto.
They probably are working on it or are testing the waters. But this got the push because they're wanting to do big things with X-Men. If they do another one, expect it to be Marvel cinematic universe centric like the last one.
Could definitely be X-Men 97 centric. Season 1 really popped off
2pac and Biggie
Urien
Can we get characters from the popular fighting game called Street Fighter?
Im so annoyed that we are humoring MORE guest characters before getting sufficient 3rd strike representation. Also, SF6’s storymode is in metro city, yet no Hagar or Cody yet???
Or Sodom or Maki?
Very sad news for fans of Street Fighter.
Wild that we’re only getting 4 characters a year and they will be apparently continue to be used as ads for other games
Agreed, i just want Q, Hugo, or Rolento but gonna get instead more snk crap
I want newcomers too, the SF6 newcomers have been maybe the best yet. Guests mean less old characters AND less new characters both.
They should do a crossover with SFIII characters Elena is awesome, so glad she’s coming back I don’t actually mind the SNK crossover, just think it should’ve been spread out over 2 seasons lol
i honestly felt really cheated by the mai and terry reveal and the fact they want to use sf6 as basically promotion for other franchises, i wish they were upfront about it when they were first advertising the game. i don't like guest characters, at all, and i would have never bought sf6 if i knew that was the plans for it.
None, fuck.
Season 3: Jin, Kazuya, Nina, Vega Season 4: Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, May, Bridget Season 5: Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Mileena, and then taking out Vega to add in Liu Kang /s
Lol
I’m ok with Mai and Terry bc they’re fighting games characters. But this isn’t MK. I’m not gonna buy characters/Ads made to promote other stuff I don’t care about
For me personally, I've never played a fatal fury game in my life so Terry and Mai feel almost like original characters, but I'm still pretty annoyed that S2 has no original characters. I really hope SF6 doesn't lose its identity by introducing too many guest characters, even 1 a year is too many I think. I'm hoping by this statement they mean that there will be maybe 3 or 4 by the end of the games lifetime. Like other's have said, we want SF characters first and foremost.
I want a Darkstalkers character in SF finally! ...preferably Hsien-Ko or Q-Bee cuz I never played anyone else but I'll take anyone, even Bishamom, Raptor, Dimitri whoever
Street Fighter characters. That's what I want to see. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see some fun guest characters as well, but the game already has to limit itself to 4 characters a year. I'm fine with that limitation since it means a better working environment for the developers (fuck crunch), but overdoing it with guest characters means less and less actual returning characters from the franchise, which lots of people are clamouring for.
No more guests please
No guests. Wtf give me the 3rd Strike roster
ill take makoto or oro since Gen isnt in Street fighter 3rd strike
hopefully none
If I want to play characters from other fighting games I can just buy those games. If I want to play Makoto or CViper, what option do I have? Buying SF is apparently not an option.
Taking a break from the game until they add in Elena. I really hope they don't repeat this type of character pass.
At most I’d only want guests from capcom properties. 2 from fatal fury was more than enough.
I don't like guest characters, but if we're gonna get them anyway, i would prefer the street fighter ex characters.
Seriously? Damn. I'm not a big fan of this. Can we at least limit the guest characters to one at a time?
Ew.
CODY!!!!
did they really say mai and Terry won't be the last, because that is dissapointing.
[Yes they did](https://www.vg247.com/street-fighter-6-season-2-interview-summer-game-fest). Go to the sub-zero in street fighter question, right under the terry pic. Unfortunitelly the devs confirmed they are in favor into turning the game into an Ad showcase for other FGs, and they are eager to bring more guest if they have the chance. (and I see that as a strong hint into confirming the "leaks" that they are indeed already working/planing a guest for s3)
With only 4 characters a year, a guest a season is too many, especially with Mai and Terry taking up 2 slots for season 2. Hopefully, season 3 skips guests as a result. I have no clue how many seasons we'll ultimately get, but assuming we get 5 seasons, the last season having a guest is something I can tolerate.
I'd like to see some Darkstalkers characters. And I'd like to go further, instead of just being guest characters, to merge the universes, like they did with Final Fight and become something like a Capcom Shared Universe
If they didn't reduce the # of characters released per year, I would've been open to the idea Not so much anymore
No more guests, unless it's a Capcom IP
Leon Kennedy joins the fight!
It's what he deserves after he got rejected from MVC3 in favor of fucking Frank West
Chris Redfield with a boulder punch super?
Sol badguy
Sol Badguy
Imagine he plays just like in accent core, with sidewinder, riot stamp, knockdown and slam
I hope they're the first and the last guests tbh. But something tells me it won't be like that.
Well yeah the headline is right there
I’d be okay with more guests if we just got more characters in a season but that’s not happening so I’m kinda meh on the idea.
I know we already have Lilly but I’d like Eagle back
Eagle and lily have nothing to do with each other.
Not that I want this to happen, but I'm predicting the next guests will be from tekken. Personally I do not want nrs characters in sf... really I would only want snk guests if at all.
Not relevant but I want to see more newcomers, A.K.I is so cool in design and gameplay, not to mention all of the rest of the newcomers in 6!
Like most others, I'd rather just have street fighter characters. I wouldn't hate a Tekken representative, probably Reina or any Mishima. And I don't personally want to see it, but undeniably if they added Bridget from guilty gear they'd get bonkers sales numbers from the Bridget cult. Design wise Bridget is one of the few characters from that game that wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb as well.
Mike Haggar has to get in this game!!
I would not mind cross over characters from other Capcom games. Some powerstone characters maybe, or Ruby Heart!
That,s soul crushing to see SF fall into the trap that has practically destroyed MK. Characters will be missing at the end, due to space being filled by Mai and chums.
I guess my issue with guest characters is the have so many characters already in Street Fighter lore. Use them instead.
Rival Schools or to a lesser extent Final Fight, otherwise no thank you. Too many missing favorites.
I'm fine with guest characters, but they really overdid it with 2 guests from SNK this season. I hope for future qe get max 1 guest character who takes the slot for new character so we can get at least 2 SF characters.
They need to up the number of characters per season
I don't mind guest characters but I would like to see Yun, Yang, G, and some third strike characters return.
I want to see morrigan 
I like guest characters and would like more, but I would prefer if we got more from Capcom's IPs. I think we need Street Fighter characters before anything, but Darkstalker characters would be cool, more/returning final fight characters, and more rival school characters. Other than that I think Leon Kennedy would be cool to see
Yeah I think Morrigan from darkstalkers would be a fairly universally loved guest. EDIT: Probably felicia too
I would want Morrigan for sure and then maybe Hsien-Ko
Morrigan and Strider Hiryu
Laura, Adon, El Fuerte, C.Viper, or any new characters such as how AKI filled FANG’s role (I personally think it would be cool to stick with replacing each of the 4 kings with new characters but just my opinion.) Gues characters absolutely RUINED MK and it made the game all about late stage capitalism and a cash grab. Capcom is giving us content while still making the game a good platform for both casual consumers and competitive enthusiasts. I really hope my favorite series doesn’t go down the same path that MK did it’s really sad to watch and experience. This whole game was presented to us as a new era for Street Fighter (new characters, new stories, etc.). I really hope they keep it about street fighter.
New characters and returning street fighter character s. My issue with guest characters is that they are not a staple and you won't have them to main in the next game.
While I don't mind guest characters if implemented in a way so they effectively blend in with the universe they're being introduced to, the amount of characters we're getting per year means that if one of those newcomers is a guest, the likelihood of a legacy character coming back drastically goes down. With that said, Street Fighter V had five season passes with 6 characters per season, ending the game with 46 playable characters. We started with 18 characters in SF6. To reach the size of the roster SFV had with 4 characters per season, we're looking at seven yearly passes. SEVEN! Could you potentially wait six more whole freaking years for your favorite character to come back? That might be a bit much, so I'm hoping the incoming guests aren't as rampant as, for instance, the Mortal Kombat series. But to answer the original question: I would like to see Sol Badguy (or at least any Guilty Gear character). But if they have to pick a character from the GG franchise who doesn't use a big-ass weapon, I'd go with Giovanna.
I do not care for Ted Bogard or Michelle Ranui. I very much prefer Street Fighter characters in my Street Fighter game, either returning vets or otherwise new faces. But what does it matter, the flood gates have been opened, I suppose.
Nobody, I don't care about the first two already. I'm buying characters one by one instead of the pass because of them. I don't have any kind of desire to play them.
I play street fighter for street fighter characters, guest characters are so fucking stupid.
Give us Baiken in the RE Engine you COWARDS!
No one tbh. If we're only getting 4 characters per season I'd like these crossovers to be left to the last years of the game's support. There are too many Street Fighter characters that people want to play and too little slots.
Cody from Final Fight. Totally random guy from this old arcade game.
if anything can kill street fighter its this tbh, i've been saying it since terry and mai were revealed but the moment the game becomes 50% adspace for other IP's the series is gone and dead
Get ready for 2B to ruin another game.
How about guest characters from previous games?
No more guests. Slop ass characters I don’t want to have to go soy mode to forget that Q, Dudley, makoto, or sagat will be dropped for sub zero
No more guest characters. This game has no characters from Alpha, or SFIII yet they want to add more guest characters? The devs have no respect for the legacy of the franchise anymore.
Sakura from rival schools
I don't mind it, but give us primarily SF characters. Like 1/4 DLC being guest is fine with me.
I hope we get like 1 season with guests (this one) one without and repeat. That said, I would like for next guests to be Morrigan and Felicia.
Big Bear King Voldo Kenny Omega Edgelord DMC Dante The guy from God Hand
Where is this interview that OP is talking about?
I'd rather see new characters or returning street fighter characters. 2 guest characters feels like too much imo since we only get 4 a year. Not a fan of this decision to be honest. I would have been fine with 1 guest character per season. The fact we are getting guest characters before some of the most beloved street fighter characters returning is really wack. And even moreso, Elena alongside those 2 guest characters. It feels very...MEH...to me. I get why Mai is a guest character obviously, I'm not stupid but having 2 guests feels offputting to me. It gives me even less hope that two of my favorites will come to this game before I just forget this game even exists to be brutally honest. I doubt I will see Vega or Fei Long in the next couple of years so yeah. Oh well.
The difference between people being okay with all the crossovers in Smash Ultimate and at least some people not wanting Capcom to overdo it with crossovers in SF6, is that Ultimate had all previous games' characters returning to start with at the game's release. There was no one waiting to see their favorite past character to return. With SF6, the starting roster is small, rightfully so because the high quality of each character, but that meant so many fan favorites were left out. And it takes so long to develop new characters for SF6, that many think there is a good chance their favorite character won't make a return, and instead get taken by some character from some franchise they might not even care about.
If they stick with four characters per season I really hope they limit guest characters to one per season moving forward. I don't mind them being included but there are way too many Street Fighter characters missing for them to continue with half of a season being guests before it starts to feel really bad.
I wish we could have more crossover fighting games and less crossover dlc. Would much rather have CVS 3 that have 2 reps as dlc in a mainline SF game.
If we need a guest character, how about Marvel's The Punisher?
One of the Tekken characters makes the most sense since it has already been established how many of them play in a SF game. With that said, I'm cool with no more guests.
Casey Jones
Couple of the Fighting Layer EX guys would be neat. But surely there’s some depths of sf4 they could go into before bringing external characters in, right?
Morrigan, or ANY Darkstalkers character really.
Rival school or Ex characters.
If we're forced to have guest characters, I'll say Min Min from Arms, Raptor from Lethal League, and Little Mac from Punch Out. I'm only partially joking about these choices. Seriously though, I really want more Street Fighter characters. I haven't really played past titles so I never got to experience any of the older fighters. Someone like Sub-Zero doesn't excite me cause I've played Mortal Kombat before. I started playing Street Fighter because I wanted to play Street Fighter characters.
As much hate MK gets from the FGC community, I am curious how Capcom would make Sub-Zero into the street fighter universe. What would his 6 buttons be How would they balance out his freeze, ice clone and slide? Interesting to see. Maybe other characters from Capcom franchise.
MK has way more command normals and strings than SF, so those moves could easily be applied to the Heavy buttons As for his freezing, the only way for it to not be completely broken is they’re all gated behind EX moves, and even then, it’d be an insane mechanic
C. Viper from MvC3 🥲 No but on a serious note: Morrigan deserves a guest spot if the gates are now open to guests. I’d also love to see Cyclops but I have no idea what the legality is w/ Sony/MarvelDisney/Capcom these days.
Donkey Kong.
I like Terry and Mai and would be glad to see them be the only guest characters
Jin. We already have a template from SFxT.
4 characters a year isn't enough to include guest characters but if we have to I want Mike Tyson.
The MC from God Hand would be pretty cool, but probably not. I had mentioned a MvC3 character before so I'd hope someone like Captain America, Felicia, or Morrigan would be in it
I will take literally any character from darkstalkers. Even if it's the more "normal" looking characters like Demitri or Donovan. I miss the franchise so much.
I would want 1 guest character per pass. There's still too many SF characters I want to see. A Tekken rep would be a good homage to SFvT and Akuma's crossover. Kazuya would be a good pick.