If you look at the "OG" characters in SFIV, only Ken, Makoto, Guile, Akuma and Ryu have puke material face. Quite a shame for Ryu, Ken, Akuma and Guile since they're most famous. They've been hurt by the 3D bat. Bad.The rest is fine/to quite good looking ( Yang, Yun, Chun li, Dict, Dudley, Sagat, Claw, Cammy... ) or meant to be ugly in the first place ( Zangief, Blanka, Boxer, Honda, Dhalsim... ).

The new characters design are shit though. Fuerte, Abel, Seth, Viper, Rufus, Hakan ( my oh my... ) ... Screw them and screw Ono. I hope I'll never see they're face again in a SF franchise.  Only Juri looks the part for me, and still her outfit and hairstyle are ridiculous. 

they made COD feel like it came out ever other year, compared to the amount of super duper uper editions a month or two from the last one.
I got excited when the first one came out, but then it was like wtf i just bought this one now i have to buy another and cant download the new characters? idk if you can now, but you couldnt then. it was just so annoying all around for me i gave up on the series shortly before.

The design work in Street Fighter has been wildly hit and miss since the series' inception IMO, both in terms of specific characters and the overall look of the games. SFIV was more of the same in that regard. I love Viper and Juri; Abel is pretty cool; Fuerte is bland as shit, and doesn't match either of the luchador-type characters in the old Slammasters games; the others are shit.

Only the Alpha series was consistently great on both fronts. Even then, you had lame chracters like Birdie and Sodom.

I was looking forward to this game more so than sfxt

Hackers....ugh. Makes the government wiretapping seem tame.

I liked the look of the Alpha series.  I think the best look for the dragon brothers was from the Capcom vs SNK game.