Also no one answered the SFxT question.
Ryu is widely considered the best character in the game. Kazuya, Raven, Zangief and probably Ogre is the the top five, Rufus used to be top 5 until his dive kick nerf.
Vega is okay in that game, his lack of damage is his major problem but since you're most likely to win through time outs anyway it's not that big of a problem, M. Bison is complete garbage in that game, one of the absolute worst. His priority is much worse and he can't do anything against someone holding down back since his scissor kicks are much less safe than SF4 and since grabs have no range in this game his tick throw game is non existent.
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LOL!!!! I hope that's a joke....names don't get more n00bish than that