yeaaaaa... see.. online is gonna be pretty much 7 or 8 different characters... with each team consisting of sent and magneto with a kicker character as the third (storm, iceman, cable, etc.). THAT is going to be ALL you see online. Which makes me sad. When playing with friends you can say "okay... we are all gonna NOT pick ___ so that its fair to pick other characters" but you can't do that online. So its gonna be about the broken characters getting picked again and again and again ... and again.... and... a...gain. lol.
If whomever thought fireball "spam" lol... was unfair in SF4 (sf2 it was annoying.. but in 4?? seriously??) should avoid this game completely. Unless you have human reliable friends to play on it with your just gonna hate it. The entire GAME is built off huge loops, infinites, and randomly chipping the person and the most random of times with supers out the ASS..lol.
That being said I'll probably stilll get it cuz for 15 bucks I'd probably just spend it on something stupid like 2 burritoes or something that give me about 20 minutes of happy time each compared with getting to play the game offline with friends. Although I know the control pad will be killer sadly :( fuck my too poor for good stick self...lol.