Mountain Bike Frame Sizing Question

I am choosing a new mountain bike. I have seen that the front suspension bikes mean that the top tube is relatively high off the ground, so for a given frame size, you might not have that much standover height. I was wondering whether it was the done thing to sacrifice a bit of standover height on these newer bikes. However, I think in general I would prefer at least 2 inches standover height and I think I'll regret anything less than that.

Rgds
 
I bought a 2015 Giant Talon 1 in the end:

http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-gb/bikes/model/talon.27.5.1/19250/77360/

It's not bad, perhaps not my perfect bike but I was very keen to get the bike and had looked around most of my local bikeshops. I really liked the 2015 Cube range for value, but I found their rear chainstays were too wide, so clipped my heels very slightly when pedalling, so that was a no.

Rgds
 
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