Your Favorite Street Fighter and why

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For those of you with intrest in street fighter, tell me which of all the street fighter games is your favorite and why.

Add in your least liked one if you choose

For me, Street fighter 3rd strike would be my favorite. It took a bold move with a mostly new cast of fighters, and i really appreciate the parry system, which rewards defense. And even though it is a more indepth complex fighter compared to others and even caters more so to the hardcore players, i feel its the true improvement that has yet to be matched.

Least favorite is going to be Street Fighter 4, for reasons i cant quite pinpoint, but it just doesnt have the hype and flare that 2,3 or the alpha series offer. For a game that came many many years after 3rd strike, i dont see why they decided to take a step backwards, in a generation of hardware that could do SO much more. No counter attacks like alpha? no parrying? all in all, sf4 doesnt feel like a deserving upgrade of 3rd strike, but rather the game that should have been before.