Board Thread:Element Knight 375's Discussion Board™/@comment-4743273-20150429004013/@comment-24183810-20151216181752

Personally, I think some of the 6 first batch character DLC (Alex, Urien, Ibuki and Juri) should've been in the initial roster and I'd have wanted Zangief and Dhalsim not included at all. On the other hand, I'm ecstatic about Karin and R. Mika being back.

As for the new characters debuting SFV, I think Necalli most of all left a bigger impression than the others (of course, since he appears to be the major character for SFV). Rashid was pretty well done too and I like how he has the wind theme going with him. Laura for me is the least interesting of the four new characters, when I look at her I think she's SFV's new C. Viper, with that weird hairstyle and how she can electrocute you, personally it just seems to put me off in taking an interest to her. F.A.N.G. I have to say looks like a really impressive character and I look the way he battles you, but the only thing I think Capcom need to seriously change for him is that godawful 'Flappy Bird Critical Art', it just looked really REALLY weak for an attack. I believe F.A.N.G. needs a new, BETTER Critical Art than what we saw in the trailer.

Do I think that the new characters in SFV look way better than the ones in SFIV? Absolutely! I even think Laura has a better character design than some of the abominations that debuted in IV ("cough...cough...Rufus...cough...cough...El Fuerte...cough...C. Viper...cough...cough...Decapre").

Forgotten Waterfall and Kanzuki Estate stages look freakin awesome!