what's your definitive version of street fighter?

[Skykid]

Allow me to add shitty music to the minuses.

Uh what.

Mind blown. Salient soundtrack coarsely degraded with words.

[null1024]

+1 for 3rd Strike having horrible chara design.

Hey, it's not terrible:
Elena's cute as hell.
Sean's boring but okay.
Alex looks cool as fuck.
Q looks like a badass creeper or something.
Necro is eh.
Oro is ugly as sin.
Twelve's animations are great, but it's kind of boring.
Gill and Urien are terrifying with their nakedness, but it's pretty hilarious to watch Urien dissolve his suit and fight in his undies, haha. They'd make great Jojo villains.
Remy is almost cool. Almost. Not quite there.

Everyone else in the cast is from SF2 or is Hugo. Overall, the cast design is weird and has some issues, but isn't bad overall.

[Pretas]

Oro is ugly as sin.

You wouldn't care either if you were the strongest fighter in the world. Within canon, it's suggested he could practically body Gouki in his sleep if he took out both arms.

[drauch]

Third Strike has never been of favorite of mine as well. I hate all the characters and find it a bit slow for my liking. Still, I dig it, and that music is groovy as fuck.

[Eaglet]

Xyga's on crack.
3rd Strike har awesome music and is the best game in the series so far.

[ciox]

The "controversy" with 3rd Strike's music is that it used a lot unmodified preset synths, which offends the ear of the knowledgeable electronic musician, but to the average guy it's not that noticeable, at least that's what I heard
I want to like Alpha 3 but it's full of infinites that the average Joe can do online, I think Alpha 2 is likely a better bet but I haven't played that one in a very long time. NG and 2nd Impact have some too.
3rd Strike does have nasty traps with Urien and Oro but they don't last long and even if they get you they end the match early instead of keeping you in the air for half a minute.

[Stevens]

+1 for 3rd Strike having horrible chara design.

Hey, it's not terrible:
Elena's cute as hell.
Sean's boring but okay.
Alex looks cool as fuck.
Q looks like a badass creeper or something.
Necro is eh.
Oro is ugly as sin.
Twelve's animations are great, but it's kind of boring.
Gill and Urien are terrifying with their nakedness, but it's pretty hilarious to watch Urien dissolve his suit and fight in his undies, haha. They'd make great Jojo villains.
Remy is almost cool. Almost. Not quite there.

Everyone else in the cast is from SF2 or is Hugo. Overall, the cast design is weird and has some issues, but isn't bad overall.

I've always felt Capcom looked at Pyron, tweaked him a little, and came up with Twelve. He really feels like a Darkstalker.

[Xyga]

Xyga's on crack.

"I do not use crack nor am I an addict of crack cocaine"

[KindGrind]

I'll echo the thoughts of many, it seems, but for me 3rd Strike stands tall on all the others. I do have a thing for Alpha 2 also.