Where the fuck is Soul Calibur 7

Where the fuck is Soul Calibur 7

There's a high chance that it won't be what we want if it does get made.

dead hopefully

What
And that is a big *if* we even get a SC7.

Just wait a little longer, soon Tekken as a franchise will be dead and SC7 will be made to replace it.

hopefully. would also like for them to tone down on the weebshit style and aesthetic of the games after 3 and return more to 2's style, but with the single player content of 3. also they need to stop relying on le guest characters as a main selling point. it needs its own aesthetic and character to run off of to make the game stick out more in peoples minds beyond just "oh yeah that one fighting game with link in it"

Man I hate that this is probably true to some extent. Either that or it comes out alright and gets ruined in an update. I don't know what's worse.

SC was always weebshit

Given Harada confirmed the series is dead and it'll now just be used in collabs...

That's wishful thinking, anon

sure, but the shit in the image i posted is too fucking much and the over the top SC6 anime kamehameha super and transformations is gay as fuck. like just tone it down a bit.

In English, please?

the primary of aesthetic of the games post-SC3/4 has been to go all in on over-the-top anime shit rather than the relatively grounded fantasy feel of SC2. i also had a typo. i meant to say "over the top SC6 anime kamehameha supers". its just fucking gay and lame, mate.

Soul Calibur was never good

Good for you?

it pushes people away from the games. just saying.

When someone at Namco steps up to make it.

The first two games were godlike. Soul Edge was good, too.

All they have to do is just make SoulCalibur II again and they'll have made a better fighting game than the majority of the current popular titles.

They did. 6 is a remake of 2.

Dead for this part in the cycle

Reversal Edge sucks ass.

the sole caliber 7 will be released soon

This. Having a super bar ruined it. Just play the older games.

Just port HD Online to PC holy fuck

True. I'd buy it day one.

6 sucked so not happening.

Yeah, looking at Tekken, I'm glad they're still sleeping on it. We should be happy waiting until DEI properly washes away from the cultural miasma.

I hate that it sucked! I really didn't want it to suck.

This has to be the horniest design not just for a game character but even for Ivy's standards I've ever seen. Design wise I like her SC2 look the most but in terms of how hard I can nut it's this by leagues. Speaking of which, I tried playing SC6, got bored and didn't really find it fun. Tried SC2 on a whim and I thought it was so much more fun and charming, everything from the game feel to the sound design to the art direction.

Hey, 6 was the horniest game in the series.

The faggoty manlet crying about T8 will never not be amusing. I hope the devs stick to their guns, and don't cave, but they will, sadly

samefag

Can't be, look at the times.

Raphael looks pretty cool in 2. His 2d illustration in SC6 looks cool too. The thigh high boots and the frilly parts of his costume bother me though. And especially his glasses, but they don't look too bad in the illustration.
But his 3d model's face doesn't look cool at all. He has this weird glossy look and his glasses stand out too much. He just looks kind of lame in game.
Definitely a lot more masculine and cool in 2 than in 6.

Tried SC2 on a whim and I thought it was so much more fun and charming, everything from the game feel to the sound design to the art direction.

It's such a great game. I pity anyone who didn't get to play the arcade cabinet.

retard

I just said I played SC6 on a whim and didn't like it, and I said Ivy's SCIV is the horniest, why would I suddenly say SC6 is the horniest

I like tits as much as the next bloke, but what's the justification for Ivy, a brit of Spanish decent, galavanting the world in nothing but shoelaces and handkerchiefs?

What's difference between the PS2 version and the cabinet?

Looks nicer, but mostly I just mean the experience of standing next to somebody and playing it with a joystick and big, clicky buttons.
Give the GameCube version a try too if you get the chance. Link is lots of fun to play as.

what do you think her nipples taste like?

Nothing, I genuinely can't think of anything. Any time I look at hentai of her it feels like I have to block out everything about her character cause it just feels so out of place compared to how she dresses. I've seen some people say that since she took a vow of celibacy, she wears skimpy clothing to further blue ball anyone that sees and wants to fuck her since she just doms them anyway. I really don't get it though, her alternate more conservative outfits look great too. I'm sure she wouldn't have been nearly as popular if those were her main looks but either way it perplexes me. At least she makes for great wank material.
It fucks me up that I've only recently gotten into fighting games but fighters in arcades are pretty much extinct in my cunt, it's only racing games, maimai, taiko and rail shooters.

Wasn't it something like rebelling against her dad Cervantes?

idk bout you guys but sc6 ivy is obviously peak fertility

boot up training mode with ivy

press 4BK and cancel the animation with G

yea bros...

I thought it was to better control her whip sword, or something like that

They need someone to help the ship (IP). Harada said something about that once. Also, the last game was supposed to sell 2 mil in one year with a smaller budget than Tekken. Bamco basically sabotaged it.

your main

your favorite design for the character

for me it's SC4 Astaroth

i always found soul calibur way more fun than tekken, especially with friends

Nightmare

SC2 Nightmare

Honorable mention to the alt skin where it's just shirtless Siegfried because that version of Soul Edge is cool as hell.

Would he even have an issue with that though? Doesn't he hate her anyway?
There's still some stuff that could get in the way like her shoulder pad and her massive tits, she could just wear something like Taki in that case.

Zwei looked cool and had a ghost wolf stand but his gameplay was so fucking lame. Waste of a character slot

absolutely adore yoshi's SCIII design. especially his red octopus alt costume. couldn't find a good picture of it unfortunately.

nobody knows how to make fighting games anymore, just remaster the first 3 and put good netcode in it.

they should make a SCII+SCIII hybrid game with online and good netcode and just put it on steam. most of the work is basically done for them right there. III already has a shitload of single player content with the largest character roster too. only thing it doesn't have is le guest character but who gives a shit about that. just remaster those two so they look nice, rebalance, put it on steam with online. boom.

Tekkenman would rather crash the company and kill everyone who works there than let Soul Calibur re-enter the spotlight after his series fails.

How do they not spill out of her pitiful excuse of a top?

This.
I accepted that SC6 is a good place to end on.
SC7 would be censored to hell and back in the current game climate.
Just because pushback is starting to happen in the west, doesn't mean Japan has caught on to that.
Personally I just wish SC6 had Weapon Master Mode.
That should have been a staple of the series, and the f act that they abandoned it still baffles me. Still love SC games though.

Agreed. I'm too bad at these games to play with other people online, I prefer there being singleplayer content, which 2 has over 6 imo.

Im always in that awkward fighting game player level of skill.
I like the genre a lot, but I'm always too good to play with my real life / local friends because I shit all over them, but too bad to actually play online because then I'm constantly shit on. None of my friends ever want to put in the effort to learn a fighting. I get it, it can be a pain. But its actually fun to learn WITH a friend. But that sort of mentality just doesn't do it for em.
Ah well, I still enjoy them in their early days online when theres tons of casual on, many tending to be around my level.
But yeah SC2 will always be king in terms of single player content for Soul Calibur.

you can ask her that on libra of soul

Same here man. I'm lucky I have one irl friend who's gotten into fighting games at the same time as me. He's way better at things like Street Fighter and Tekken but we're around equal in Darkstalkers 3 which is what we play the most. I get absolutely bodied online though, I can win a few rounds or matches once in a while but otherwise I get completely stomped.

it should, so the SC devs can go back to the series, so the tekken project can clean itself.
except Nakatsu, he must be fired soon

Honestly, Soul Edge had the best aesthetic. Not very over-the-top but colorful. SC1 was their first attempt to make the games look gritty and mature and SC2 had stuff like Necrid and the guest character who didn't fit the art direction of the game, which people tend to forget about.

Don't know, don't care. Post Taki's slightly darkened from excessive sucking pink nipples

False, his fighting style was the most fun shit ever. Still bitter wasn't in SC6

They certainly won't go back to the simpler gameplay design of the earlier entries, they'll probably just slap modern controls and some universal mechanic that's more broken than S1 RE in a misguided attempt to get more casuals into the game and call it a day.

Not true, SC6's main story ends right when SC1 ended in the old timeline. Yes, SC2 characters are in it (except Yun-seong lol), but so are characters from SC3 and SC4. Their stories do go a bit further, but not too much. The plot has not gotten to most of the events that canonically played out in SC2 in the old timeline.

Gameplay-wise, the only thing that it has that's similar to SC2 is the movement speed. Really, that's it. Movement is still more constrained because of run counter on sidestep, it has tracking verticals, stun extensions, super meter, guard meter and a completely different take on Soul Charge compared to SC2. If you ask me, putting in SC2's movement speed together with all of those other things wasn't a great idea because it just makes the timing of some punishes more difficult to get right with its online latency and increases the amount of knowledge checks (some moves can be sidestepped, but only if you hold 2 or 8 for long enough, for instance).

SCV was the last time they tried to cover up their female characters (after replacing most of them, which was the primary cause for outrage) and the game flopped so they doubled down on fanservice with SC6 and probably won't do it again. Also, DEI in Japan was only ever there to cater to Western markets. The games released the same in Japan so that people couldn't call it censorship like in the old days. SF6 isn't very popular outside of Japan right now and they recently added the hottest character in the game so far. If DEI dies in the West, it automatically dies in Japan, too.

If DEI dies in the West, it automatically dies in Japan, too.

Hopefully so, but its not fully dead yet, and it will take some time to fall off in Japan after it does here.
Though some companies (Capcom, SquareEnix, probably others) have already hired westerners abroad in Japan, so thats another hurdle to get over eventually too.

Same, when they showed off that mode that looked like weapon master I had hopes they'd finally make a game as good as 2 or 3 again.

He was the worst character in the game by far, though. And not "bad" like SC6 Maxi where he's still viable competitively and totally viable at lower levels of play. No, Z.W.E.I. was ridiculously weak even in mid-level gameplay.

what's the justification for Ivy, a brit of Spanish decent, galavanting the world in nothing but shoelaces and handkerchiefs?

My soul still burns thougheverbeit

shalom

Cassandra
Probably SC3 1P

Why? Every game After 2 has been utter shit. Namco kept shitting the bed with dumb fucking mechanics nobody wanted and retarded guest characters. They killed that series and it's not coming back bro.

I'd be happy with SC2HD Online ported to Steam.

Japan tends to lag behind America 4 or so years when it comes to these sorts of cultural trends. Get ready for a drought.

I'm not into BBC but I'm surprised there's none. 5144 posts for Ivy and r34 alone and you're telling me not one is BBC?

2 was the first one to have retarded guest characters, though. 3 didn't. It honestly bums me out that people said 3 was too broken for competitive play but accepted SC4 Hilde for so long

Every game After 2 has been utter shit.

I liked 4 and 5 well enough. They weren't as good as 2, but I had fun with them.

In the trash where it belongs

Why on earth would you want a censored sequel? Ask for ports of 1, 2, 3, and 6 instead. Buy the rights to Assassin's Creed for five bucks and port 5.

Oh I'm with you on the Hilde shit. But I still stand by the fact the best the gameplay ever felt in the series was 2. But I mean ARCADE 2. Not the dumbfuck home console ports. those killed the balance with all their dumbass re balances and guest characters who just ignored the rules of the game.

SC in general is the biggest mashfest out there and sc6 had gayer mechanics than Heat. It's dogshit which is why it's dead

mashing in SoulCalibur

Asking for that guard impact

Are the nipples canon?

It's in basically all official art and it's visible in-game so yes. Very canon indeed.

Is SC6 bad?

elementary school

have gamenow magazine covering SCII

has 2 renders of the very nippy Taki

show it off to some classmates

one guy goes "hey, anon, can I borrow it?"

"sure :)"

they borrow it

next day

ask guy for mag

"sorry but the teacher took it up, anon"

"what the heck??? why!?"

"I don't know man, you should ask her"

ask teach

"because, anon, video game magazines aren't allowed during class. you can have it back at the end of the year."

it was the fucking September Issue

I was so fucking indignant about my her taking my coomer material, bros.

no, and it's fun

Meleefags insist their Gamecube title is the best one

Turn Melee into a thriving comp scene with a huge online casual playerbase just with community support

SC2fags insist their Gamecube title is the best one

Fucking crickets

Actually play the game

Waaah just port SC2HD

You can just play SC2 on Dolphin. There's even a version that has playable Spawn and Hiehachi on Dolphin.
It's good enough for the Meleefags why isn't it good enough for you?

Stop asking for more Soulcalibur 2. It already exists in its most playable form. Go play it.

No. It had a rough launch but it's in a good position right now as long as you don't play with people in a different fucking country from you.

Always hear SC6 has bad netcode

Those people are always either Australian or European, or playing vs Australians or Europeans

Sorry nigga move to the US

The game itself is quite good. The problem is the the online is dead as fuck and the netcode is atrocious, if not outright unplayable. Bamco held a public beta for the game and learned absolutely nothing from it.

Sadly, the best way to play SoulCalibur online is by emulating 2 with netplay. Nintendo Switch 2 Online's SoulCalibur 2 is shaping up to be a shitshow, but there are a lot of diehard Nintendo Soulcalibur fans that will be willing to exchange friend codes in order to play with each other, so at least you'll have people to play with.

What were the issues at launch? Was it reversal edge being too strong or something?

Won't they get in the way of her fighting?

It's called tekken 8

Was it reversal edge being too strong or something?

Fucking lol. No. It was mainly Azwel and his F1 backdash and SIegefried the unstoppable incarnation of Guts made manifest.

Reversal Edge was way too fucking ubiquitous. Now you can play an entire match without seeing it once, it's basically only used if someone's spamming and you're not sure what to do.
In Season 1 it was all the fucking time and it make the game a fucking slog.

eh, I'd rather play the version of the game with Sophitia and Seong Mi-na in it.

fuck off chang

Anon Babble still doesn't know what it's talking about in regards to fighting games

Never change

SoulCalibur is not a 2 touch game decided by 50/50s while everyone moves as slow as molasses.

SC2 was a multiplat. It's less of a Gamecube title than TTT2 is a Wii U title, it didn't even have timed exclusivity. But yeah, your complaints are valid and part of the reason why I fear it won't be played online on the Switch 2 very much either.

Hopefully never being made.

It is not SC's fault that Tekken players never played anything but Tekken and are too fucking stupid to realize blaming 8 on SC is fucking retarded.

Sadly, the best way to play SoulCalibur online is by emulating 2 with netplay.

SC2 online is hardly better than SC6 online. It doesn't have rollback, so you have at least 4 frames of delay when playing with someone in the same continent and around 8 when playing across the pond. The SC game with the best online right now is SC1 on Fightcade with rollback. In that game you get 3 frames of delay, but between Europe and Venezuela. Matches within the same continent have 1 frame of delay most of the time.

I can't wait to play Soulcalibur II again on the switch 2

Heat's retarded. Its definitely the same as the install that resets neutral in SC!

Supers in Tekken are given as a reward for low health in Tekken. Let's pretend its the same in SCVI where its attached to a resource!

Tekken 8 doesn't have universal mechanics so the game becoming more offense oriented is clearly because of SoulCalibur! Ignore that SoulCalibur has equally strong defensive mechanics!

I just don't understand where people are to make that retarded comparison. Tekken has never played like any other 3D fighter and its slow evolution is its own fault.

I read on Pixiv wiki that she's wearing that outfit on purpose to fight bandits who'd come for her tiddies as an excuse to use her sword in the first game, but idk how accurate that is, I dont know SC lore

Isn't it an offshoot of Virtua Fighter?

The most logical thing is that they wanted a femme fatale archetype and designed her before writing out her lore and it stuck because of how memorable it is. Ivy is one of the faces of the genre. You ask because you're curious. She pulls eyes to the game. Its straightforward.

There's potentially a chance that VF is why Tekken exists but they still play nothing alike. There IS a supposed theory that Tekken's movement, specifically the KBD, was lifted wholesale off VF having a similar technique but I'm not knowledge enough to say for a fact.

Reversal Edge has a big reward on hit. It does some immediate damage to your opponent, forces an RPS cutscene where you have a big advantage as the attacker (auto-win on second draw, a chance to guard break your opponent), if you do win then it gives you half a bar of meter and there are also RE followups. In S1 you couldn't block it and the online in this game is such that you often can't sidestep with good timing if you don't have godly reaction time or not at all with low connection bars. Now RE just does some tiny bit of chip damage and gives medium frame advantage to the attacker when it gets blocked.

Every 3D fighter is, but Tekken is the only popular series that doesn't have a block button.

The game is finished, they're just busy deciding which characters to cut out of the game to sell as DLC later.

This will be the guest character

How do you respond?

She has more or less kept the game relevant in Japanese circles so why the fuck not

i don't recognize this character

Fight games don't have lore.

But look here there's a wiki that's 200 pages of schizo shit attempting to stitch together things that were never written to be coherent in the first plac-

Shut up.

Japanese Vtuber that plays Soul Calibur

A proper 2D fighting game with Hololive characters would be kino. Make it like Marvel/DBFZ.

vtumor

is he at least good at the game?

Anon. There is a Hololive fighting game.

I don't know, I don't really watch her to be honest. I just know who she is.
I know that Korone is actually decently good at Street Fighter though.

Honestly, at least they did make most DLC characters play different (not necessarily better) than in previous games and gave them showier animations. But yeah, the Tira launch DLC was really scummy and probably something that the higher-ups forced Okubo to do. There is absolutely no indication that she was supposed to be a DLC character in the game. Her Soul Chronicle is short and nothing special and there are less changes to her gameplay vs. SC5 compared to Siegfried/Nightmare ffs. It looks like they literally thought: "Well, Tira is popular so she's sure to sell well if we made her a launch DLC." I didn't really care because I'm not a fan of hers, but still.

Wonder if that's why she sucked for the majority of the game's health

Blaming it on soucalibur is completely different from blaming it on the retard devs from soulcalibur.

You fuckers say this and somehow forget some of the fucking issues in 8 were telegraphed from 7. You fuckers want to pretend all you want but I remember the early versions of Tekken 7. I remember early Akuma.

Yeah and I remember soulcalibur 5 but man do I love being a soulcalibur fan defending tekken against a retard.

What about 5? It was flawed sure but it was still a better step in the direction from 4 and its horrid neutered neutral.

Where the fuck is Soul Calibur 7

Transcending history and the world, obviously.

I played both Tekken and some Soul-Cal 4. Both are good games, if they released Soul-Cal 7 they should do a focused single-player campaign with a character you can customize from the start and play as and level up to earn new moves and all that JRPG sort of shit and challenge a tower that goes hard on your ass. Make it releasable to Switch 2 as well and it will not flop.

Hopefully dead until the nickel and diming and absolute retardation that plagues the fighting game genre dies.
I would wait 20 years for it.

I don't think so, I watched the newest shot video and it just looks like she's having fun playing casually with F-rank people and below. Nothing wrong with that, but it bothers me that it's literally all just CaS characters. I get the feeling that few people actually give a crap about the proper SC roster or like the games because of it. If it's not guests, then it's CaS. It's like watching an MMO where Siegfried, Nightmare, etc. were turned into classes.

Soulcalibur 4 has no have specials Tekken 6 doesn't have specials.

Soulcalibur 5(2012) has specials, Tekken 7(2015) has specials

Soulcalibur 6(2018) has Burst/install state/Tekkken 8 has burst/install state(2024)

SoulCalibur V literally didn't have Soul Charge. It had nothing resembling Heat.

I love being a soulcalibur fan defending tekken against a retard.

What the fuck are you even talking about?

SQUIRM YOU FILTHY MAGGOT

SoulCalibur had fatalities, guard gauge and armor break mechanics, did Tekken 6? A lot of Project Soul members left following SC4 and were replaced with others for SC5. Go on MobyGames and see how many of SC5 devs worked on earlier Tekken games.

Take a wild guess which game came out first.

Soul Edge and SC1 were almost Tolkienesque. the lines blurred in SC2 then it turned into weebslop

yeah I loved the part of Return of the King where a dude in mummy bandages and knives for hands turned over like a crab and started hip-thrusting

I always find it funny how both anons here and redditors both try to say that SC2 was the last game without any anime shit in them when the character designer for SC1 is the same guy that would later go on to be the character designer for Idolm@ster, or how the various interviews the devs did for SE and SC1 would bring up lots of anime and manga as inspiration, or even how the plot of SC2 originally involved summoning a demon lord. Even shit like the malfested has been a thing since SC1 but most fags don't know that because a lot of the anime shit was never translated and only in Japanese.

90% of SC porn is from Westerners doing 3D stuff that looks so shitty that it makes me wonder if the "artists" are aware of concepts such as lighting.
In terms of animation, most of it is from one guy focusing on Ivy fucking lizardmen from Skyrim, hence a lot of anons joking that Ivy likes fucking lizardmen.

but accepted SC4 Hilde for so long

Funny thing is that they eventually released a balance patch for SC4... on the PSP. Literally one of the common complaints (aside from ToD combos) is that the 8-Way Run is too slow in SC4, and they sped it up in Broken Destiny on the PSP. There are also retards who defend SC4's slow movement, saying that it makes the game "more strategic."

Funny thing is, as much as Reversal Edge is hated, it's basically an anti-mashing defence since it powers through everything except for unblockables and guard breaks.

A lot of the earlier SC and Tekken games were in development at around the same time, so I wouldn't surprised if each team borrowed stuff from one another. I know that in SC1, Lizardman, Yoshimitsu and even Hwang have a couple of moves that appears in Tekken Tag 1, but it's hard to say which game those moves originally came from since both games were made around the same time and having a one-year difference in release.

your main

your favorite design for the character

I main and love every Alexandras design

Looking back, it's crazy how they were totally fine letting Link anywhere near those perky nipples

Tekken 6 only released earlier in the arcades and ONLY in Japan and USA.

mobygames.com/person/274774/michinori-ozawa/

Assistant Producer for SC5, worked on Tekken before we worked on any SC game.

mobygames.com/person/147722/yoshito-higuchi/

Senior Producer for SC5, worked on Tekken before we worked on any SC game.

mobygames.com/person/274725/haruki-suzaki/

The other Director for SC5, worked on Tekken before he worked on any SC game.

mobygames.com/person/299385/akiya-ikeda/

Game Designer for SC5, worked on Tekken before he worked on any SC game.

mobygames.com/person/263339/masanori-chida/

Game Designer for SC5, worked on Tekken before he worked on any SC game.

Honestly, I probably should have used SC4 as an example because that game has A LOT more overlap in devs with Tekken 6 and they were developed in parallel. People who have worked on SC4 are more likely to have worked on Tekken 6 than any previous SC game. You are literally complaining about Tekken devs using SoulCalibur as testing grounds/arcade releases for their games because it's less risk for them and their series, learning nothing and then insourcing the same retarded ideas back to Tekken.

Definitely no underground dwelling freakish characters in Middle Earth, or characters resisting the temptations of an evil power object. Go to your village theater and watch the LotR VCDs again, the first two games lean more western fantasy than jarpig

Soulcalibur 2 across three different platforms with loads of marketing sold worse than an average Tekken game did on one platform. You guys insist Bamco has some vendetta against this IP, and Bamco does do lots of stupid shit but in this case it's just them being a standard moneygrubbing company chasing whatever makes them the most profit, which Soul Calibur doesn't

Speaking of Soul Calibur, which games are worth playing? I only learned about series because of Ivy porn.
t. never played fighting games

It was more like 90s/early 00s fantasy anime than anything else.

Why the fuck does anyone want a SoulCalibur 7 made by current Bamco?

90% of SC porn is from Westerners doing 3D stuff that looks so shitty that it makes me wonder if the "artists" are aware of concepts such as lighting.

Yeah a lot of Ivy porn makes her tits or ass way bigger than it should be, her proportions are perfect as is.

In terms of animation, most of it is from one guy focusing on Ivy fucking lizardmen from Skyrim, hence a lot of anons joking that Ivy likes fucking lizardmen.

Just to be clear, the early animations were using the Argonians which are lizardmen from Skyrim, but most of the popular animations especially from Noname use a different model, much more lizard/beastly looking.
I'm basically in the same boat as you anon. SC2 is fun for me, but SC4 is the best for wanking because Ivy goes full whore mode in that game with her outfit. But SC2 has ass physics while SC4 doesn't which is a damn shame.

2, 3 and 6

You have SC devs ruining Tekken 8 with their slop binary decisions

arcade soul blade
SC, 2, 3, 4, 6

You know a good chunk of Tekken 8's dev team were folks from Soulcalibur 6's dev team right? If Tekken 8 sucks ass and the same folks make a new Soulcalibur what do you expect to happen?

Honestly I would love to see what they cook up that's actually worse than RE.

Whatever you wanna call it

Even shit like the malfested has been a thing since SC1 but most fags don't know that because a lot of the anime shit was never translated and only in Japanese.

Yeah, I actually found out that the scene where Kilik triggers his malfested transformation to fight against Astaroth and lizards when they attack Maxi's crew in that Indian port was described in LEGEND OF SOULCALIBUR fan book all along. The thing is, that was only scanned in 2019. Maybe is also there, I haven't read Ivy's entry. SC6 is just the first game where Kilik being malfested was expressed in gameplay. It's also worth mentioning that the Japanese word for "malfested" is "イビル" (basically Engrish for "evil") and clearly connected to the Evil Seed (which is "イビルスパーム" in Japanese), yet I'm pretty sure that the first game where the word "malfested" was used was SC4.

Don't say that you might hurt someone's feelings.

git gud at 6 so that you have a functional character to win with for when you play offline with the bros who have a passing interest in SC.
also for the dumb custom characters for the memes.

Gollum is Tolkien's Voldo; a guy who forsook his humanity to pursue a single obsession, walks on all fours and spends most of his time underground.

it's basically an anti-mashing defence since it powers through everything except for unblockables and guard breaks.

If you time it correctly. The attack itself has a long startup time and you lose the armor when you start doing it, so it can still be punished by sidestepping and waiting long enough. The hits you take during the armor period also do a lot of damage to your guard gauge.

Anon, you didn't need to read the Legend of Soulcalibur; a lot of that shit was on the Japanese website for SC1. In fact, if you go to SC6's museum, you can read up on a bunch of shit like the Fygul Cestemus and the Schwarzstrom... all that shit is taken straight from SC1's Japanese website, with the only changes being that they changed Aeon Calcos' name to just "Lizardman Chief."
I also just checked, but the English Soulcalibur website at the time of the first game's release also detailed this attack in Maxi's bio.

It's also worth mentioning that the Japanese word for "malfested" is "イビル" (basically Engrish for "evil")

Yes, I'm well aware; they used the term "evil" in the English version of Soulcalibur Legends.

Maybe is also there, I haven't read Ivy's entry.

If you want to know the actual reason as to why Ivy dresses skimpy, it's because it allows her to have a deeper connection to her sword (which is a living weapon), allowing her to control it better. This was mentioned somewhere in SC6 (maybe her story mode?) but I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in some supplementary material that predated SC6. Of course, that's the in-universe reason. The actual reason as to why she dresses like that is because, in SC1, the devs just wanted a dominatrix character in the game to go along with the snake sword weapon.

The one who mishandled the series the most was no doubt Hiroaki Yotoriyama himself and it annoys me when he's credited as the creator of SoulCalibur nowadays because the setting was already there in Soul Edge/Blade, he just made it worse in SC1. See . Soul Edge/Blade doesn't have shit like the malfested, lizardmen and secret dark cults. It actually parodies and takes inspiration from real-world history rather than fantasy tropes that have been done to death a thousand times. Even Soul Calibur the sword feels like an afterthought in SC1. Have Xianghua's sword NOT tranform during her battle with Inferno and keep it as Krita Yuga, basically nothing changes. She still wields a powerful sword that is one of the three holy treasures of the Li Sheng Su temple and has a connection to Kilik because of it. This is further showcased by the fact that they literally gave her a random unnamed sword in the later games, they had no idea what to do with her weapon because SHE WAS MEANT TO KEEP WIELDING KRITA YUGA. The only reason SoulCalibur is called "SoulCalibur" is because of Edge Games lawsuit, which probably happened during the development of SC1 arcade version, when the story was already finished. But still, that is nothing compared to the things that he did afterwards, particularly during SC3's development and launch. Rushing the game and making it a PS2 exclusive was his responsibility. Even he himself admits as much in that Kimagure Watcher interview if you read between the lines. And then he was promoted and gave up on the series after he fucked it up. But he doesn't work at Bamco anymore, only Harada does and I'm still mad at Harada for exploiting Yotoriyama's attitude by doing this . He's not the primary culprit here, but he's the only one who works at the company that owns the IP and so the only one that I can still blame.

Ivy is a sorceress and alchemist, she dresses skimpy for the fanservice but what she's wearing is the attire you'd expect from a dark arts user, even if her costume was more covered up

Is SoulCalibur comboslop? I don't like how every modern fighter has too much emphasis on dealing a gorillian damage with 20 hit combos.

Combos exist, but they last for like a few seconds generally. 15-30 second long combos suck ass and I hate that in most fighters nowadays.

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Not a single Xianghua

Fucking uncivilized Philistines all of you

Because everyone else hates fighting her

Is SoulCalibur comboslop?

No, not at all.

Hey, at least I talked about her. But she's lucky that she's a cute girl, because I'd hate her guts if she had a design or personality that I didn't like. Like says, she's a character who can effortlessly jab you to death and she's top tier in every game she appears in. SC1 is actually the only game played online where she's not extremely prominent. That's only because Hwang is almost a move set clone of hers in that game and he's even more broken.

I hate that Bamco doesnt see the market for old installment of their fightan game series like how capcom did with their fighting game. I really want every tekken and soulcal ported to modern console

The harsh reality is the Harada, regardless of your opinion on him, is the only reason Tekken or SoulCalibur games have been made since the mid 2010s. The rest of the higher-ups think they are a complete waste of time. Once he's gone, you will only see animeslop from this company.

What I'd really love is for Bandai Namco to go bankrupt. They have no reason to exist for me if they're not going to work on their original IPs.

Rejoice, you're getting SC2 exclusive to Switch 2's online subscription model and probably with more online latency than SC6 on PC or Dolphin.

Looking forwards to it

Only way I see a new SC happening is if Nintendo funds it. Which I wouldn't mind at this point. Link fits in SC gameplay wise than most of the other guest characters that have shown up.

SC6 has better gameplay than SC2 thoughwhenceforth

I don't think we'll get sc7 because fighting game fans have shit taste. Fighting game fans want boring and safe garbage like sf and Tekken.

No one seems to remember that in SC1 they were painted into the bodysuit's texture in such a way that it almost looked a bit sheer. That or they just didn't play with a VGA adapter back in the day

fpbp. Please don't tempt them, it's likely already in development but I'm happy enough with SC6.

I don't know why they never added his fighting style to the character creators as "Soul of Courage" or something

It's a technique called normal mapping: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping
The character models in this game look amazing for their age. Those high-res textures make them look like they're from a mid 2000s PC game when you upscale them (and a good one at that!). Most stages look somewhat barebones compared to SC2, SC3 or even SBE, though.

Btw, it's weird that they don't have a normal sword + shield user/fighting style, do they? They've got a girly version with Soph/Cass and an animal version with Lizardman, but you don't quite have one with moves for a normal dude iirc.

Wait, I feel like I've missed something. Why is Soul Calibur dead, aside from the fact that they just haven't made a new game yet?

Patroklos had a weird neutral pose, but otherwise was just what was needed.
Also one of the most fun to play characters in the series.

Bamco always treated it as a more experimental fighting game. Now they don't have the money for experiments anymore and it doesn't bring home the bacon. The nature of this series is also why its fanbase is so passionate but divided in their preferences at the same time. Some SC games have stuff that can't be found anywhere else in the genre, but every one of them also plays different and skills from one often don't transfer to others. It's an amazing game series, but also a bad fighting game series in terms of maintaining a competitive community. Every game after SC2 except for the last one died fast in terms of pro appeal.

Finally, a place to dump all those Nintendo swordsman

basically, the main man who pushed SC within bandai namco departed the company, and nobody left who 'could' produce SC7 feels they can do it justice.

I know what normal mapping is, sure. Wasn't aware that the DC SC1 port used it on the characters though, and yeah reloading it and fooling around she does appear to be, that's wild

Don't worry guys Lionel Messi is calling we got the funding

I didn't like Patroklos in SC5 because he's a retard but also because I have autism and it bothers me that he plays totally different from both Sophitia and Cassandra in both of his forms. I like the two Pyrrha move sets more because they're more similar to the two mentioned above.

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Hmm. While that all does sound unfortunate, it also doesn't sound impossible that a new SC will be made at some point. "Experimental" or not, it's still a well-known and beloved franchise that's been around for many years. It's gotta get a new installment eventually.

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Let's see if there are any NEETs like me around willing to play right now.

I really miss when Seung Mina's outfits simpler and not so over designed...

Gotta wait for bamco to get well and truly out of their retard arc before having hope.
LMAO NEVER bamco is the stupidest big vidya publisher

I'd swear that the changes to Cassandra's move set in SC6 were partially inspired by Link. Link has that boomerang throw, Cassandra has a shield throw. Link has bombs, Cassandra has geyser moves that launch opponents about as high and are usable at about the same distance. Her 214A is a mid horizontal just like Link's 214A in SC2 and she never had that move before. SC2 is also the game where both of them became playable for the first (and it case of Link, last) time.

SCVI Mina

The only character more insufferable than Xianghua

Talim
SC6 P4

The simpler outfits are, well, simple due to the technological constraints at the time; you couldn't put as much detail into character designs because the textures you'd use for the models would be pretty small (remember that the original arcade version of SC1 looked more similar to Tekken 3).
Many people have complained about Soulcalibur 4's outfits being overdesigned. The reason for that is because the designers wanted to take advantage of the fact that the PS3 and Xbox 360 could handle having that much detail in the character models, so the designers went really overboard to show that off.

After going through years of failed games, Bamco is at a phase where they're just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. However, it's not really an "experimental" phase; most of the shit they're trying is more "safe," like they focus-tested to see what would sell a lot.

Lol, I remember people hating Astaroth's 1P outfit in that game back in the day. I like how unique it is compared to his other outfits, even if it is a little plain (seriously, the clothing bits around his waist always seemed to bother me due to not really fitting in with the rest of his design). I wish the devs experimented with more "monster"-like designs instead of sticking to the ol' executioner design they do with his 1P outfits and the executioner + random theme for his 2P outfits.

I always mained Alexandras but when I tried Mi-na in SCVI, she quickly shot up to be my highest ranked character and stayed there for a long time. Only recently did my Cassandra manage to overtake. Then again, I don't think it matters much because I'm stuck in E ranks with both of them and have less and less desire to play ranked. Point is: zoning is extremely easy with Mi-na + SC VI online lag and she's not even bad up close either.

I made a few goofy characters in SC6's creator mode but I made a point of going in and trying to recreate a version of that SC1 outfit for her, also holy hell what I would do for a version of the game that resembled SC1's 2D art

also holy hell what I would do for a version of the game that resembled SC1's 2D art

I know, Seung Mina SCI was a hard crust, so cute AND sexy. I am not sure what the adjective is when you strike that balance (foxy?) not sure what is was but SCI Seung Mina had it. And she had a romance arc to get invested in.

so the designers went really overboard to show

Kinda why I lost interest in the later games, also the stupid guess characters destroying immersion didn't help

that SC1 outfit for her, also holy hell what I would do for a version of the game that resembled SC1's 2D art

her shapely body in a simple outfit, cute look and flowing loin cloth with modern graphics would be nice.

Getting censored like all other fightans. SNK already bent the knee to westerners and put Mai in a burka. We all know BAMCO would be more than happy to do the same, especially since they've already been neck deep in pandering to woketrannyism with body type cancer and the like, even in golden goose Soulshit like Elden Ring.

2 gets remade, but Mina plays more like she does in 6. How long does it take for her to get banned by the community?

she wasn't main cast in two.

unable to join room

She was added in the console ports as a clone of Kilik.

which kinda sucked. kinda why I liked SCI better. after all she was an came before kilik

no idea why that would be, I put in other regions and there's a guy from America playing with us right now.

No Tira no buy

nvm game was being dumb.

You know what else kinda sucked?

Mina before 6

Sophitia

SC2's sells her the best as a baker's daughter that happened to pick up a sword and shield, instead of going full holy maiden. So that one.

Sophitia
SC6 version that slips a few small details from her dresses across the series into her classic outfit.

because they turned her into lesser Kilik in 2, also she got out ranged by taki for some damn reason

I haven't played match against her in SC2, but she can also be pretty annoying in SC1. Her 3B spam in that game is pretty annoying and that's how the last online tournament was won.

lizard man fucks her.

She's earned my respect as a true lover of the game. Having it paid back as like a skin, chara creation outfit set or something would work great. Having her as an outright character would be a bit much.

lizard man can't keep getting away with this...

Anon, Mina was shit in every game she appeared in until 6 where Bamco completely reworked her.

tentacles too

It's good enough for the Meleefags why isn't it good enough for you?

It's not good enough for meleefags, they made their own rollback client. It'd be sick if SC2 could get that, but alas...

I like ring outs but holy fuck I always seem to be the one getting ringed out.

no that's Seung Mina

nah lizard men have sophitia alot, and what's fun is she isn't even the blonde they were looking for, but she was hot, so...

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if they don't have faith in making SC7 they could always do SC2 HD on modern consoles and pc, and they could always get a deal with nintendo to get link as switch 2 exclusive
getting link on all platforms would be perfect, but we all know there's no chance for that happening

And good for my boy Aeon

I disagree, she was nasty to fight against in SC1 (sometimes harder than Kilik) and as I said, the last online tournament was won with Mi-na's move set (even though it was Edgemaster).

God ain't that the truth

>you're open

>you're open

>you're open

>you're open

SC1 is still the best

there wont be, largely because she herself cant really move as much and would be at best, voice a guest character.
soul calibur SHOULDNT be a fortnite of fantasy guest characters.

Unironically inside season 2 of tekken 8. Have you seen Clive? That dude is a, SC fighter.
Also cause of this guy in pic related

not happy about getting double CE'd, not one bit

fucking bitch has been pulling this shit for 2 decades

Cervantes is my boy

4

That was just Tekken with weapons

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there wont be a soul calibur because bamco tried to fund a super mega multi media project starrring a pajeeta which ubermegaflopped

youtu.be/EPU9DEoWvAw

Azwel really reminds me of Jared Leto for some reason.

king of the iron 'fist'

Shit looks like a final fantasy cross over with soul calibur
Lmao

Did they totally sleep through the entire Forespoken debacle which literally killed the dev studio and lost SE several millions of dollars?

no they thought india = bollywood = infinitely hungered poos

Discount Algol

Indians don't even like Indian women unless its their own auntie

so beautiful...

It's really sad that of all the companies Namco has merged with its Bandai.

day 1 dlc

why did they do us so dirty?

This also means they will never actually ever run out of money or go out of business since Bandai has infinite cash and multiple money-printing properties, but at the same time they are Jewish as fuck and refuse to spend more than a pittance to invest back into making anything good.

So we're stuck with Namco never getting enough money to make anything fun or experimental, but at the same time can flop forever and keep going and their IPs will never go to better hands

I'm still in awe that they got a FF guest character and went with clive over fucking tifa
god that's funny

Last few fighting game entries were really bad. I can see why the companies are holding off, they look fucking stupid for letting blacks ruin their games

holy shit I forgot I bought SC6
will people actually play against me (I’m on WiFi) in this game?

Catering to tourneyfags was a mistake across the board.

I like him more than Algol. Unlike Algol, he can be entertaining. And he also has better lore.

please get ethernet.

I got ethernet and it didn't improve my connection. Unless the latency is between your PC and the router (which you can change my pinging your gateway), it changes nothing.

please let me get a weapon raph anon

I only use SC6 ot put waifus into sexy outfits and ryona them... wasn't that the point of this game?

Your connection will be shit regardless

SC6 wasn't bad just that stupid rock papers sisscor shit was dumb

the planets truly did align for that moment.

Why did they have to homofy Raph after 2?

old ass house we’re renting is lucky to be set up for fast WiFi
the router has to be kept in the kitchen as they decided to run the only high speed connection to the old landline socket there

dunno but his VA in 2 is definitely a lot more suave than in other entries.

Okubo left Namco 3 years ago. Series is stuck in limbo hell now until Namco says otherwise.

Also Soul Blade ACTUALLY deserves to stay dead. The story reached it's conclusion back in IV and everything after is just more filler and trash with every single game now.

fast wifi

lmao

*which you can check by pinging your gateway

I also do that, but only the first part.

lets just stick Werewolves and Time Travelers into our roster

Calibur character additions were so fucking garbage. Soul Edge/Blade just had people from different fucking countries and it WORKED effortlessly. Everybody had a cool aesthetic, style, weapon and story.

SC2 was the perfect aesthetic balance (minus guest characters)
3 went off the fucking rails and it was downhill from there

Quest characters

iirc it had Link (GC), Spawn (Xbox) and Heihachi(PS)? I only had the Gamecube version and Link was rather fun to play, were the other two lame?

They don't fit aesthetically. Link is a goofy giant-eyed anime cartoon, Spawn is an edgelord 90s gun-toting cape (they didn't even use the Medieval Spawn version ffs), same with Necrid. The only one that MIGHT fit in was Heihachi.

They also fucked the games because from then on, everyone just wanted to turn SC into SSB with guest characters and Nintendofags especially only played it for Link and would never touch another one without that faggot in it.

Necrid isn't a guest character, he's in every version and you can't convince me that he fits the aesthetic of SC. His move set is pretty fun, though. None of the characters in SC3 look more outrageous, IMO.

Where the fuck is Soul Calibur 7

Safe, that's where it is
Do you want it to get the SF6 treatment? Are you even a fan?
Let it fucking sleep

the only reason i don't want a SC7 is because it'd be more censored than it already is...

He is a guest. "Guest" does not mean version exclusive. He has zero story or setting relevance, is never mentioned again, and his only purpose was to have another Todd McFarlane character as part of the deal with his company making the toy tie-ins.

same, kinda... not the ryona part

The wokeslop era is over though.

Taki

Her P2 costume in Soul Calibur 2

It looks like something a ninja would actually wear. Plus, it helps that in certain victory poses you could see her crotch. It's a genuine shame they never game her an outfit that looked that good on her in any game since or how hard it is to find on the Internet (for some reason). Her default outfit is good, but this is something else.

I used that one a lot as well.

Sc3 doesn't need guest chars it has insane roster plus all those weird bonus characters and a good cas system

recently added the hottest character in the game so far.

who still look like shit with that down syndrome moonface

SC7 is taking so long because modeling a K-cup breasts on modern hardware is difficult and resource intensive.

I bet devs are watching JAV of K-cup actresses to replicate the jiggling animation

She's a femme fatale and she looks hot.
Why do you need lore for that?

is never mentioned again

He is in extra material, being purified by Talim and seemingly finally getting to die, so he is never coming back.

There's been a zombie shambling around since SC1.

He's still canon and his story is set in the SoulCalibur universe. He isn't a guest just because he was designed by someone outside of Namco.

This series was always garbage, the fans are just bitter it couldn't compete with tekken.
Its like DQ to FF

They know we'll pay for her...

Which extra material mentions that? I've seen this claim before but I never got an answer.

The SC team should make a Final Fantasy weapon fighter

Soul cal needs to abandon these extra mechanics and stick to the basics like in sc2. I love these games but they really aren’t fun anymore, it’s not the same game is use to be. Delete the custom character feature as well, it ruins dev resources. Get a 30 character roaster and bring back all the characters from past titles as secondary unlocks (35). >Link, Spawn, Vader, Geralt and Ezio.
Give me Kilik and sc2 Yoshi and we’re back to good gaming

>Link, Spawn, Vader, Geralt and Ezio.

No, cut these too. Waste of money for licenses and add nothing to SC itself.

Do they have to pay for them again if they were already in the game before? Idk how that shit works

Where the fuck is Soul Calibur 7

Fightans is dead besides Street Faggots and Guilty Gooners. In an industry where games are no longer FOTM but FLAVOR OF THE WEEK, nobody wants to dedicate months of their time to gitgud at some shit genre that offer little.

Yes, thats one of the reasons 2HD was taken down and hasnt returned, and why the GC version has taken until Switch 2 to get reissued.

Agreed. Just make the game design a little closer to actual history and it's fine

Raphael's outfit isn't even the most historically inaccurate in VI. It was impossible to manufacture polymers necessary to make Cassandra's pantyhose or Taki's bodysuit in the 16th century, among other things.

you'll also want to try the VR mod.
litter.catbox.moe/lhyax2.mp4

clearly connected to the Evil Seed (which is "イビルスパーム" in Japanese)

イビルスパーム

Evil Sperm

SE bukkake'd the entire world when it was grabbed by Sieg

Gives a new meaning to "malfestation", doesn't it?

GGs to SC6 lobby, need to spend some time in training mode tonight against raph

Yes, I mean, I don't want to make the game full-on historically accurate, just tone down the anime stuff

Kek, is that really the source word of that Engrish? I assumed it was "Evil Spawn" or even "Evil Spam" or something like that.

GGs. I can't be bothered to lab, to be honest.

It is, I guess the american translator found the word too dirty and that's why it was changed to "seed".

Kilik killed his sister while driven mad by the evil sperm inside him

I wonder if he penetrated her with his rod.

GGs. Definitely need to practice him more. Been checking out other characters like Amy or Nightmare the past few days.
I think his gameplan is to basically put the opponent into his prep loop for easy plus frames. GI seems to be the counterplay, but then he can delay his attacks or go for a break attack against GI.
Either way, my brain got overloaded, too many things to consider in this game.

I usually did PR A(B). And if you blocked it and mashed successfully, that's probably because I was trying to do a different follow up instead of A(B) again.
I wish I got more reward off prep A(B)...

more reward

you get 60+ damage on CH, you're a bit greedy

prep A[B] is still -2 on block and i14, so it takes 16 frames until your next attack becomes active after I block successfully and I can insert with an i12 if I get the timing correct (I only have 4 frames for it). Basic prep AB is unsafe on block (-14) and can be punished with an i12 regardless of what you input afterwards. I'm tired and I made a mistake in the post above, but what I said still holds. Both of those moves are vulnerable to fast counters.

i haven't labbed ch combos yet ok..

Are you implying "goon" (aka hot babes, as it should be) is bad, of is the game actually bad

here they are:
PR A[B] CH
-> PR 6B (easy)
-> PR KK:B (can whiff on a shallow PR A hit, but best oki)
-> PR BB:B (hard)

on PR (A)[B] natural hit, you only get the first and second option

I haven't labbed CH combos either and I don't think I ever will because I can't hit confirm for the life of me. Maybe it'd be different If I played offline.

Thanks.

do you know how to iPR?

Okubo quit

Harada admits that without people like Okubo to advocate that Project Soul is done for

Never ever ever

Idk I might be blind, but I feel like determining if the starter hit was a counter hit is difficult in this game. After all, I just realized there's a blue flash indicator for a CH when the opponent gets hit.
that's just doing 6B46 isn't it? I guess so.

yeah, 6 after an AG transition
that's your true + on block transition to PR, abuse it

Link is so ass in SCII. There are so many openings with his attacks. The only character worse than him is Yun-Seong

Personally, I like Talim and Kilik. It’s so satisfying to successfully pull off their festival of the damned/monsoon grab

Any anon lucky enough to find a cosplay who'd do kino Taki or Ivy or whoever your fave SC character is and bang her while playing this on the background?
youtu.be/uA5LTWiJkKU

Love me George Washington Ivy costume

Her voice in SCII was amazing. Why did they have to replace her and all the other English voice actors in SCIII?

imagine being a poor country boy and you witness these female exhibitionists in the 16th century

Have her as an alternative narrator voice.

4 looked good though, it is the definitive coomer SC

The only character worse than him is Yun-Seong

I somehow have trouble believing that. KNR initially picked him for the grand finals during this years Frosty Faustings. Then he switched to Kilik and still lost against Xianghua.

spawn

dogshit, never bothered to learn him

heihachi

way more usable than spawn. he gets some pretty great damage out of his twin pistons and demon uppercut launchers, but he has really short range. also his 10-hit combos after soul charge are way better than in tekken

your stupid SC chink is killing tekken

It's karma.

I never liked the art style in this game. Everyone is so pale that they look ill and there's too little color in the environments.

lol

Usually anime-style vidya is like that, kinda of a plastic feel

No, SC6 is plastic feel. SC4 is closer to the classic 7th gen "mature" brown and gray aesthetic and I hate it.

Nightmare's voice was fucking perfect in 2, its never been good since

They released it a little while ago, its called Tekken 8 Season 2 for some reason though

I play with Japanese voices so I'll disagree. SC1 and SC6 voices for Nightmare are the best because it's Nobuyuki Hiyama with low pitch shift. The SC2 voice is also decent but it only fits Nightmare's 2P in that game. There's no pitch shift and he sounds just like Siegfried, which he really shouldn't when he wears a helmet. SC3, SC4 and SC5 are definitely his worst voices. They just make him sound like a generic monster, which he became in those games. He was much better as the corrupted version of Siegfried.

Is Cassandra going to be a DLC like in VI? I can't play that game without her.

SC bombed..

i'd buy it if they give astaroth his tit jiggle physics back

Shut the fuck up Cassfaggot. God you're a plague.

I play with Japanese voices

Then what's that got to do with my comment?

They say its a 'mask', but we all know exactly what they were going for

:) spreading

It's a Clark Kent type of situation, I suppose.

A lot of the character models looks so fucking bad in SC2. SC3 was a marked improvement, and anyone who says otherwise is talking from nostalgia.
Compare Talim and Sophitia from both games.

his only purpose was to have another Todd McFarlane character as part of the deal with his company making the toy tie-ins.

No, Necrid isn't a guest. Both McFarlane and Yotoriyama have gone on in multiple interviews saying as much. Anybody who says this is a fucking retard because Namco has many other connections to companies that would make toys for them without being forced to make a brand new character, especially when they've got only a year to port the games to consoles and have publicly complained about how stressed they were at the time. This anon () is right.
Necrid was made because Namco approached McFarlane to design a character for them based on specific guidelines they give him. After that, they asked McFarlane if they could put Spawn in SC2. McFarlane owns the design of the character but Namco owns the concept (though legally speaking, the concept was based off the design, for some reason. Probably a McFarlane thing of wanting to own everything he makes). Necrid is still mentioned by name in Soulcalibur: New Legends of Project Soul yet there's no copyright disclaimer mentioned McFarlane.

In fact, the reason why Spawn: Armageddon exist is because McFarlane liked working with Namco on SC2 and asked if they could make a new Spawn game for him.

being purified by Talim and seemingly finally getting to die, so he is never coming back.

Not true. This is fanfiction from the Soulcalibur fandom wiki. Someone wrote that he "may" have been purified by Talim (since she was his destined battle). Then someone later on changed it to remove the "may" part, and then other people kept editing that line to make it say he died. There's no official confirmation on his fate.

horny bruh

trying to hard zoomer

Who would be the big meme guest character in a modern Soul Calibur? Maybe someone from Baldurs Gate 3 or Elden Ring or something

Soul Calibur 1 Ivy > other Ivys

sword... give me STRENGHTS

Didn't Namco approach McFarlane for Spawn specifically because he was decently popular in Japan so they figured he'd make a good Xbox guest and Necrid came later?

Why do retards keep saying this?

i like 2 and 6.

I like 2 and 6 and 3 too, but 1 is best, Ivy looks best when wrapped up in a tight fit

Everyone is so pale that they look ill and there's too little color in the environments.

The trend at the time was for all games to be "realistic," i.e., to be as desaturated as possible.
Funny thing is that SC4 is the only game where the armour pieces (and weapons!) have real time reflection so, technically speaking, it is the best game in terms of visuals if you consider little details like that.

The Art Director has said (via the soulcalibur twitter account) that they're glasses.

Didn't Namco approach McFarlane for Spawn specifically because he was decently popular in Japan so they figured he'd make a good Xbox guest and Necrid came later?

You're sort of right. They did consider those factors when asking if they could put Spawn in SC2, but Necrid came first.

gamespot.com/articles/todd-mcfarlane-qanda/1100-2909455/

big meme guest character

idk who could top the recent guest characters in other fighting games. I'd rather much have someone who fits with the game's style somewhat. I think Cloud would be pretty cool.

The SC devs seem to be aware of having guest that sort of fit the style of the games after the backlash the Star Wars guest characters got in the west (2B being the only notable exception)

The real question is which meme guest character would you put in? You're completely unrestricted by the popularity or genre, but the character has to be able to match the aesthetics.

Compare Talim and Sophitia from both games.

Sophitia's model sucks in SC2, that's true. Talim looks all right on the other hand, they just hadn't decided to make her a loli at that point.

I dont want to see bamco make any more fighting games until there's like an intervention with the people working on them. It feels like they neither care nor understand anything they've produced in the last 8 years.

Nightmare as main main

SC 2 P1 and SC 5 P1, then his P1/Edit Color 1 from SC3 and P1 from SC 6 and SC 1

Siegfried and Raphael as other mains

SC1 P1 followed by SC 5 P1, SC 4 P2 and SC 3 P1 for the former

SC 2 P2 followed by Edit Color 1 from SC 3 and SC 4 P1 with color adjustments to have the costume in black in true vampire fashion then his SC 6 P1 without glasses and SC 2/3/4 P2 for the latter

I don't want anymore guest characters but if I had to choose it would be Richter (honeslty any Belmont would be fine but Richter fits the style the most)

I remember lots of people comparing him with Nicolas Cage.

Talim looks all right on the other hand, they just hadn't decided to make her a loli at that point.

No, they did. She was a loli from the beginning, even back when they were originally planning on replacing Mitsurugi and Taki, or making Nightmare's 1P outfit just his 2P outfit except he's wearing a face mask and wearing torso armour (the very first announcement trailer for SC2 had all those three things, so this is really, really, really early on). It's just that her personality was different (more serious) before they changed it later on. It's just that a couple of voice lines and facial expressions they forgot to change. Her model still looks like dogshit. That's why I get perplexed when people say that SC2 doesn't have an anime-aesthetic when Talim in SC2 looks like those "how to draw manga" books from the early 2000s.
Pic related. Compare Talim's eyes in SC2 and SC3; the lack of shading on the former makes it seem bigger than the latter despite both eyes being roughly the same size.

the very first announcement trailer for SC2 had all those three things

Link?

I will never not be mad that they ditched based Rock after 4 and had the audacity of not giving us Bangoo with a revamped gameplay of his father's in 6. I missed wielding a big ass mace or hammer, Soulcalibur needs more blunt weapon users.
At the time of SC3, I'd have been the happiest man alive with Kain and Raziel, especially the former. Now, I'm not so sure who I'd pick.
With an option to switch between his Rondo of Blood Ryu-inspired outfit and his more era-accurate SotN one, that'd be neat, but wouldn't his or any Belmont gameplay be a bit too similar to ivy, from a certain point of view? Not like it prevente dto have two zweihänder users with Siegfried and Nightmare, though.

The trailer's never actually been released but it was written about at the time, which is how I know: dengekionline.com/data/news/2001/5/19/67c4284e948575959e72e93a139d49f2.html

It's hard to tell that it's not actually Mitsurugi and Taki in the pictures but Yoshinori Takahashi had confirmed that those two were going to be replaced (in fact, Taki's 2P outfit in SC2 is actually the original design of her replacement)
Check the replies of this tweet if you want more info: x.com/masuooyama/status/1257230359227318273

No, they did. She was a loli from the beginning

It's about her face and height more than anything. In SC2 she looks like an older teenager, similar to Sophitia in Soul Blade/Edge. In SC3 onward they made her look like a child. I don't really mind it, but it's a fact that she looks much older in SC2 and much different from how she looks in the rest of the series.

With an option to switch between his Rondo of Blood Ryu-inspired outfit and his more era-accurate SotN one, that'd be neat

They just need to bring back 2P alt costume

, but wouldn't his or any Belmont gameplay be a bit too similar to ivy, from a certain point of view

I mean the Belmonts also use sub weapons that can also be used and also don't forget that there are four sword and shield user in SC II.

Artorias

Sekiro

Since you seem keen on digging into stuff like this, do you have any info on SoulCalibur: Unbreakable Soul? It was an always-online iOS game and the story was centered around Cassandra. It possibly contained some of what happened between the time when she disappeared inside Astral Chaos at the end of SC4 and when she emerged from there in SC6 to meet her other self. It's a lost medium nowadays, there's only a recording of the first 30 minutes of gameplay on YouTube, .ipa isn't publicly available anywhere, some guys were trying to make it playable again a few years back, but they gave up when they noticed that some of the files were encrypted.

How would CERO go about massacring SoulCalibur VII

Unfortunately, I don't; I didn't have any sort of smartphone up until 2016 (and it was a cheap $99 one at that). Used dumbphones up until then.

Again, that's more of a consequence of her personality changing mid-development.

SC2 Talim still the best for me
She got more cuter but less homely and down to Earth

There were plenty of decently placing ZWEIs in tournament though, "plenty" is like only a handful when considering how low tier he was, but still that just makes it even more impressive. And I was just saying his style was fun, which it was. Just sucks how weak and occasionally glitchy it was.

SC6 was the first game that actually almost killed me from laughing too hard at shit like Theodore Roosevelt vs. Luigi, John Cena vs. Megumin.

I don't want meme guest characters, but I like the idea of putting two guest vidya characters at max every game.
I'd pick either a MK character like Scorpion or Lord Deimos from Mace.

Bring back Link, Ezio, and Geralt

Lucina so I can put her in lewd outfits

Soul Calibur 6 was a passion project with a releatively low budget and it still underperformed. I dont think we'll ever get a 7th installment. Especially since the fighting genre is a dying genre that relies heavily on microtransactions

I always found it funny that Tekken 7, despite having a relatively low budget after Tag 2 failed financially, people praised it (even though all the characters look like complete shit) but when SC6 released with an even lower budget, all the casuals and normalfags complained about the obvious budget constraints like the story mode being a visual novel instead of a 48-hour long CGI movie.

Peak design

Especially since the fighting genre is a dying genre that relies heavily on microtransactions

you've been saying this for the last 20 years, fighting games are bigger than ever

Unmatched. I miss when the sexiest characters were in cool stuff like action and fighting games, now it's all gacha or multiplayer games.
Ryu Hayabusa, but give him his Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword moveset instead of his DOA hand to hand moveset.

The popularity of fighting games have waxed and waned over the years. SF4 brought in a whole new audience in '09 and Strive brought in a whole bunch of newfags and literal faggots in '21.

festering in a toilet with every game after 4,

just Free soul calibur 1/2 and edge for pc in a bundle with cross play, then fuck off forever.

Certain games are bigger than ever. Mortal Kombat sells well but also reigns in tons of mtx. Street Fighter will always be popular but Capcom is a monster publisher. Tekken is currently getting dragged through the mud and apart from maybe SNK, there really isnt a lot of known fighting franchises.

I get it. Tekken 7 had a real lack of fun modes. Just arcade/story and treasure arcade. I dont even think you could play the computer in just regular versus. It felt like a partial game. I remember being disappointed in it.

2 and 3 have fun single player, 4's is just okay but still better than 6

all the casuals and normalfags complained about the obvious budget constraints like the story mode being a visual novel

Why would they? SC story modes have always been written text since SE because it fits the concept of a centuries old legend only preserved in books.

Unmatched. I miss when the sexiest characters were in cool stuff like action and fighting games, now it's all gacha or multiplayer games

I miss DOA. Just over-the-top in all the best ways. Super sexy women, badass ninjas and assassins, knocking people off cliffs or into explosions. Fucking dinosaurs being stage hazards. Such a good franchise killed by greed. Soul Calibur used to be like that too. Just over the top but great because of it.

SC4 Yong Sung
my other character is Raph, And i like his SC4 look the best as well.

keep seething

4's is just okay but still better than 6

WTF? The Tower of Remembrance was shit, only 5's single player content was worse.

4 is arguably below 5. 6 is much better.

I started with DOA5 and to date I probably still have more time in that game than any other fighting game, it's just so much fun. The characters have so much personality especially with their movesets, the characters look hot as fuck, the stages are badass, and the music rocks. I hate that DOA now is just gacha and legal lolis instead of badass action and busty babes.

Why would they?

Lmao, you should've seen what they were saying on release

Soulcalibur always had a cinematic story mode!

Why is it so cheap? Soulcalibur story modes had lots of cutscenes!

Basically, everybody just remembered the endings in SC2, SC3 and SC4 and, using nostalgia-goggles, misremembered how the story-telling has been 99% text only in the past games. I even argued with one person saying that SC3 was FULL of unique cutscenes for each character even though 90% of the cutscenes were shared between characters with only a few changes in dialogue, but arguing with casuals and nostalgiafags is a losing battle.

I'd say the SC4 is the worst in terms of gameplay. I can't get over how slow the movement is, and it baffles me that there are people who unironically defend it (though they're probably just 20 year olds who played SC4 when they were kids)

That's what they said before 6 released. Wasn't censored.

yeah but the game itself is better and doesn't give you supers or limit how much you can gaurd impact in anyway. Those changes are what wrecks soul calibur in my eyes. SC2/3/4 are all similar gameplay wise (that good shit) with varying levels of balancing, I guess if were talking about the single player offerings specifically, then maybe 5 is better than 4 but Overall, I had more fun with 4's single player because the gameplay is more fun

Voldo walks on two feet, he just crawls sometimes lol, its not like he's crabwalking all the time and attacking people with his mighty thrust.

Cervantes is my boy

0-2 Taki

About to go 0-3

you did him dirty anon.