[quote name='shinryuu']haha, same with my group of friends. Actually, we all use a different character in SF4 so we get a variety of matchups. The problem is, we don't have anyone that uses some of the more popular tourney characters like Ryu or Gief. It's funny cause when we all mentioned who we might use in Super, we all said a different character.
Speaking of my friends,
one of them beat Mike Ross.[/QUOTE]
Every fighting game is the same. You have your top-tier whores, your bottom-tier whores, your people that try out every character, your players that will only pick females or only male characters, your players that will only pick strong or quick characters, your players that will only pick shotos, your players that will only pick anti-shotos, your players that will pick characters that they started playing in SF2, or in SF Alpha, or in SF3, or in SFIV, or in SSFIV. You see what I'm saying? Just like we all fought good Vega's, Gouken's, Gen's, and Guile's in SFIV, I'm sure we'll fight a little bit of everyone in SSFIV.
Brings up the question: why do you main who you main? I know Jim played Balrog in SF2 and if I recall correctly he played him in SFIV too. Last I remember, Hank mained Gouken, uraizen mained Cammy and Viper, I know we have a lot of Ryu players too.. a Zangief, and a few others... I main Blanka, as you can probably tell, even if you've never fought me online.
Why? Well, I've always been a charge-character player, for almost 15 years probably... I'm almost 24 now so that sounds like a good estimate. I used Blanka in SF2.. but then again I also used Chun, Honda, and Guile a lot.. I didn't use Bison because by the time SF2:CE came out on Genesis.. I was already used to only having 8 characters to choose from.
He was kinda terrible in SF2 Remix for PSN and XBL (when I started playing SF "for real" again), but I stuck with him because he was always a favorite of mine over Honda... also.. I thought Honda was too strong, and honestly.. kind of cheap. So, I remember my first SFIV match.. I bought the game when the GameCrazy opened at 10am. I played a dude from UMBC.. I picked Guile and he picked someone else.. I beat him. I didn't pick Blanka but after a day or so of owning the game, I knew who my main would be. I already saw that Sagat was ridiculously strong and Vega and Guile were really weak compared to him... Blanka, on the hand, had a lot of things that I liked: short simple combos, a flashy Ultra (w/ good chip damage), lots of cross-up options, etc. He grew on me pretty quick and I probably won't abandon him when Super comes around.. I just hope they don't make him too much worse.. I know he was OK in SFIV, but not great.