Is Soulcalibur dead?

out of all my favorite characters to play as xianghua totally kicks fucking ass.

4 was ok, 5 and 6 werent very good.
They peaked hard with 2 and 3.

2 more weeks

I agree. 2 & 3 were my favorite. they were both really good

I only play as Nightmare, he is just the coolest character ever made, why would I play as anyone else.

I never played 3 because I had a gsmecube and for some reason they made it a PS2 exclusive

I like killing people with shitty characters like miser. you wouldn't stand a chance against me

bummer. it's a really good game you should try and pirate it if you have a pc

Its been 7 years since SC6

floppy flop flops we want money the game

we have Namco soul caliber at home

They forgot how to put swords in tekken so they're never gonna make one again.

Pureasu undastandu

Did he died?

we removed half the customization items in the game BUT you can now make a skeleton

we removed the customized skin color of Taki's spandex

No but KT announced they're doubling their work force earlier this year. I'd imagine we're gonna get another DoA sooner or later.

SC6 was the team begging Namco for a very long time to be able to make another one while also undoing the fukkery of SC3 and beyond with its own lore, hence SC6 is a reboot and kinda takes place chronologically where both Soul Edge and the first Soulcalibur do

"I think that the fact that the number of members who had the drive to keep the title alive, even if they had to jump through all kinds of pressure, decreased as the organization changed, and that is one of the aspects that weakened Project Soul little by little. I am not saying that is all But it was a big factor.

Happened due to organizational policy, not individual problems."
theres a really long harada tweet where he says that soulcalibur isnt dead BUT all of the people who worked on the series either got promoted or moved on and he doesnt know of anyone capable of running it like the old guard did

I really dont care about the charscter creation, I actually hate it because it turns the game into a meme and you run into abominations online.
I wish it was removed, but then no one would buy it.

hey quick question. did anyone else call that retarded nigger

ASS-A-LA-SMELL

and he doesnt know of anyone capable of running it like the old guard did

Its not like they were running it very well desu

tfw free DOA 5 on xbox one with my friends got me into fighting games, tekken, and the FGC

man i fucking wish but DOA as a fighting game is probably done after DOA 6 since its easier to get coomers to buy volleyball games

Im sure to win because my dex is higher

no it's because I mastered the parry moves

You might see a new SC a few years from now if VF6 somehow does well enough to renew interest in 3D fighters that aren't Tekken, which itself is struggling right now.

No, why would I do that?

zest a la smell

he's a stinky nigger

Don't get my hopes up for a new DoA volleyball game, faggot.

if VF6 somehow does well enough

So never

zasalamel is one of the shitiest characters in soul caliber 3 even though he redeems himself

miser is a yoshimitsu wanna be with a giant bomb

In 6 I always thought he looked out of place with the rest of the characters

man.... I miss real soul caliber games

the last soul caliber games pisses me off. I'd rather play the good ones on ps2

he's out of place, out of time

it's like star trek deep space 9

after I completly raped him the story line for this nigger is kind of boring.

last year sc threads, everyone posts their waifus and everyone loves 6

earlier this year, we make fun of tekken 8 and joke that the new patch's disaster was due to an inside job done by old sc devs for revenge

now sc threads are all pessimistic bitching and moaning that shit on sc 6 and say sc is dead for good

kekkens coping really hard I ser

play as zasalamel

ugh!

Top tier character design

why can't I find Taki "boob shakes" gif on tenor!?

go to hell feak I'll kill you

DoA with Prism's artstyle

Fate worse than death
Just give me ports of the Itagaki games faggots
Yep been playing 3 up and down for 15 years now
None of the newer games captured me like that one so I'm not really in a hurry for SC7

we could make this an EZ match if you want

oh we suddenly hate sc2's designs now?
Is namco gauging fan interest in this series for you to go out of your way to make this artificial hate thread?

it's no doubt these games are better with friends.

I'll randomize my character. I'll give you the handicap

give itagaki's games

wasnt doa3x just the new characters and ninja gaiden characters, meaning the loli that itagaki said goes against doa and ninja gaiden x doa cross over that itagaki hated so much due to the power level differences?
they went out of their way to make sure ninja gaiden sigma versions are the only ones available. They even took down the 360 version from gamepass and put the new demaster in its place.
these people really hate itagaki's legacy. They dont even credit him in documentaries anymore

the thing about soul caliber is having friends, and rivals to play with. I miss couch fighting games

no way I hate soul caliber 2. it's actually my favorite

Out of touch
Out of time

a remaster of this on steam with online play (and rebalanced, obviously) would absolutely revive the franchise. new generations will see this and have tons of fun with it because its a non-sweat fighting game with A TOOOOONNNNEE of single player content. probably more than any fighting game. miss this game so much, man.

I wouldn't trust it

We're gonna get a new one with a fresh AGGRESSIVE mechanic and new characters no one wants. Trust the plan.

No 2P costumes

Missing basic game modes like survival and team battle

Graphics barely look better an SC4

What a disappointing end to the series

aggressive dlc that RAPES consumers of their money

no more full games

milk the cattle with characters

damn he used to look so good. crazy how fucking awful the designs for after 3.

It's dead. Tekken is dead. DOA is dead. VF is dead. 3D is dead

he's not a bad character. he just sucks, and he's super slow

I want my tits back

My soul still burns........

I doubt it's going to revive the franchise because it lacks that unreal slop look and HOOOOYYYPE mechanics that attract normalniggers like moths to a flame. An AE remaster would be sick though.

Didn't Okubo leave Bamco after SC6?

If so, then yes the series is dead.

every soulcalibur game is directed and produced by different people and most people involved in the project's leadership leave bamco right after the game comes out. it's not like soulcalibur is okubo's baby

Not a sc character

No Yun-Seong no buy some.

SC3 2P is his best outfit.

tfw Takuji's artwork used to look worse than in-game models

Now it's the opposite in SC6.

yeah CAS is NEVER going away with the hundreds of thousands of views a super popular vtuber influencer has every time she streams it.
that being said, it is pretty funny that the reason why there wont be a sc7 is kinda wacky
like how directors always do too much of a good job and get promoted which takes them away from game development director roles, which none of them like and leave the company
or the fact some HR poo in the loo managed to convince the execs to set funds for a potential nu multimedia franchise JUST because they mentioned population of india

Well Tekken just killed itself and DoA has gone full gravure so Namco don’t have many more 3D fighting games to fall back on so maybe we’ll see something new soon.

Honestly with how much of a whimper that last game went out I'm not sure I even want another one.

graf dumbass

???

bloody roar bros?

seriously though, 9000% of soul calibur's problems is they keep promoting the higher staff for doing too well, and have to keep finding NEW directors

I really wish I could play SC3 online with someone.

They didn't nerf him enough. Just like Taki.

VF is backer than back

SC6 lobby, let's see if someone joins: steam://joinlobby/544750/109775243759843724/76561199021052341

Now it's the opposite in SC6.

How? The artwork in 6 is just the game models posed and painted over.

Its over

I just want them to make it less anime, it becomes gayers with every entry. Remove the cinematic special moves and all that crap

Pray for VF 6 to succeed. It is the only hope 3d fighting games step away from streetfighter and anime super moves.

I hope my wife Iroha joins the next installment as DLC!
Cute maid by the way!

are you me? i always felt the same thing but assmad weebs always shits on me when i say this in other threads. soulcalibur is not rooted in historical accuracy nor realism, of course, but that doesn't mean you have to make crazy, over the top weebshit like this.

SoulCalibur was always anime.

Honestly, Groh grew on me. I wouldn't even feel ashamed playing him right now.

Soul Calibur 4 looks gorgeous on RPCS3 at 1080p yet SC5 doesn't go above 720p and is blurry as fuck..anyone now why ? I tried a bunch of things..

left looks like this guy

ill have to download it but ill join soon

Soul Calibur is literally the only fighting game series I like so it's been depressing seeing it sidelined for so long.
Fuck at this point I'd take a SC3 remaster with an expanded campaign

If we ever get another SNK guest, I want Nakoruru.

heres our 1500s norwegian character

fuck no. absolute retardation.
t. norwegian

SC5 requires a fix to render lighting correctly (some 3 options with "color buffers" in the name iirc). That fix tanks performance.

He looks like a retarded Kirito edgelord but I remember him being a bro in SC6's story mode
I also remember wanting to fuck talim's cousin

Its a really common criticism, sc was always anime but not nearly as much as it is now.
This retard doesnt get it
I would really want a sc similar to the new vf with more realistic powers and graphics.

Idk, I've been hearing SCARLET SLAVE and BLACK GAMBIT for so long that it stopped sounding cringe.

Not their fault you people stopped being cool after the Viking Age, just embrace being represented by a DBZ character.

even with all that anime crap and comeback mechanic, i still find this game more fun than any other fighting game, except for previous Soul Calibur games

If only, I miss my girl Shina.

6 is AU, it takes place “after” 5 but there’s some time stuff going on
Setsuka mentions having experienced events prior to 6 (from other entries), seemingly knowing that she’s in a new timeline

desu, using RE is rarely a good idea if the connection is anywhere near decent.

I just assume that SC5 doesn't emulate well on RPCS3. Hell, it only started to look decent a couple of years ago, prior to January 2023 or 2024 (can't remember the exact time), emulating SC5 would only result in a deluge of visual glitches that would either cover the entire screen in random visual rainbow clutter or give anybody a seizure from all the shit flickering and stretching.

i think that the current game is too ani-

BROO BROO WHAT? IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ANIMER! LOOOK, LOOK AT THIS OLD CONCEPT ART THAT LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE GAME, IT'S ANIMER, SEE????

It's always the same attempts of deflecting the argument. Same deal with tekken shills

you people stopped being cool after the Viking Age

if only you knew what we were about, anon

I don’t play video games

Not Setsuka. Zasalamel kinda implies that his other timeline self sent him a message and Cassandra meets her old timeline self. I think there's one more character like that and the wiki doesn't mention them, but I forgot who it was.

Why did SC6 bring back every character except Lizardman/Aeon? They even had his playstyle in the character creator

Literalf Whosen

Literalf Whoersen

look them up they were fucking badass

LOOK AT THIS OLD CONCEPT ART THAT LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE GAME, IT'S ANIMER, SEE????

It doesn't, though. Something very similar happens in one of the endings: youtube.com/watch?v=cjGFuaRQVN0&t=96

sc was always anime but not nearly as much as it is now

People have been saying that SC was never anime when the first game had demons and the second game had lizardmen and people turning crazy over something that was called the "evil sperm". I've even seen people say that the character models in SC2 are more realistic than later games, which is BS when Talim exists and looks more cartoony than later games.
I do agree that the anime-ness of the games are a bit too far. I'm honestly fine with Zwei and Groh in terms of character design--makes them stand out a bit compare to the rest of the cast, being more "serious" in terms of their design--but their moveset is what pushes them a bit too far, in my opinion. Groh's moveset is mostly fine, but then Soul Charge just gives him teleports (although that's something that Cervantes has had since SC1).

It doesn't help that when people say that the later games are "too anime", they don't exactly clarify what they mean. It gets worse when fags from reddit say that previous games had ZERO anime in them when interviews with game devs for SC1 cite some anime as inspiration (Ivy's snake sword being the most obvious one), or how some of the shit redditors complain about being anime in later games appeared in the lore for early games (eg. the malfested/evils).
In terms of mechanics, I feel like two things can be blamed:

the need to justify the existence of a new game, meaning they need to change some aspect of gameplay, which means the introduction of super meters and the revamped Soul Charging in SC6

casuals and e-celebs like MaximilianDood to basedpog at bombastic visuals which, too be fair, was what casuals had already done with SC1 and SC2, leading to the inclusion of these flashy mechanics, as well as stupid shit like the paper-scissors-rock of Reversal Edge and the comeback mechanics.

every character

am i that forgotten?

anybody that complains soulcalibur wasn't anime is invited to look at the fucking design for the soul edge

Best stage and best music

because his previous movesets before his wings were too much of a clone of the alexandras and at this point of the timeline he hasnt eaten kratos yet and grown wings and stole most of his moveset.

i miss this guy and his moveset so much

I've done all sorts of tinkering with settings and SC5 still looks like its locked at 720p no matter what, it seems the KD-1 guy fixed the issue on nvidia cards then said "opsie better let r/Amd know their vulkan driver is shit"

Welp it what it is..

if a more popular fighting game was the 50/50-fest this game was Anon Babble would be shitting on it relentlessly, you guys are total contrarians

Nothing anime about this

That isn't even the best draft stage (that's SC3 Ostrheinsburg Castle).

I guess they thought Rock and Yung Sung were too similar to Astaroth and Hwang
Is it really canon that he ate Kratos?

It's not canon, it's a joke based on a piece of lore that says he absorbs the memories and abilities of the people he eats.

His playstyle is very unfinished; it's basically an unfinished Sophitia with a few of SC5 Aeon moves and a few SC4 Aeon animations.

Rock was doomed the moment they gave Astaroth all his throws. Then again, the moveset he had from SC3-SC4 basically meant nobody would be excited for him due to how dogshit he plays in those games who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to give a character slow speed, zero range and average damage, whilst also being reliant on throws that requires the opponent to have been hit first?

Back when Hwang got released, I remember various Yun-seong schizos coming out of the woodwork to complain about Hwang being a clone of Yun and calling him the worst character ever, with even some redditors saying he single-handedly killed the game, even saying that Aeon should've been in the game instead.
...which is funny because Lizardman has been more of a clone than Hwang ever was:

SC1: Sophitia clone

SC2: Sophitia + Cassandra clone

SC3 and SC4: Sophitia + Spawn clone

SC5: Kratos clone

Like I said in my post, SC5 has only just become barely playable in the last couple of years (despite the wiki saying otherwise for years, since the people rating it didn't take graphics into consideration)

Funny thing is that they decloned Hwang and Yun all the way back in SC3 (PS2), did it again in SC3 (arcade), then completely revamped Hwang in SC6. Feels like the devs were putting their foot in the door for Yun to make a return due to how drastically different Hwang is in SC6, but couldn't since the game never got anymore DLCs after him

character is so good he gets his IP specific references taken out and used for the next game's CaC

I wish we got Link and Ganondorf in the next one. But on every console.

game has bullshit environmental instant kills that only serve so le funny streamer pulls le funny face at losing his permadeath save

wth so it actually died because of disinterest from bamco? i thought that that excuse was just Soul calibur fans coping

considering how hard switch 2 is probably gonna dominate maybe if we get a SC6 port to it we'll get link as an exclusive

less disinterest from bamco and more disinterest or busyness from people within bamco that would otherwise head such a project

RING OUT!!

Soul calibur is over. It's time for Soul Edge 2

That's nothing; Spawn's animations have been in nearly every SC game since SC2:

SC3: Despite being a clone of Ivy, Aurelia uses Spawn's moveset as a base, so she has a lot of his animations (most of the animations that don't have anything to do with attacking)

SC3, SC4, SCBD, SC5 and SC6: A lot of Aeon's original moves are taken straight from Spawn

SC5: Devil Jin's moveset also uses Spawn as a base, so he uses a lot of his non-attack animations

SC6: Azwel straight up reuses Spawn's animations with no changes

azwel is a spawn/necrid amalgam

tfw no character uses Elzo's moveset

A large majority of Azwel's animations are taken from Spawn; he doesn't have any of Necrid's animations. The only thing he has in common with Necrid is just spawning weapons from nowhere, but even then he's completely different from Necrid. Then again, Necrid doesn't have that many animations since most of them were taken from other characters.

I don’t need a new soulcalibur I just want to play the existing ones with good online. SC1 is the only one with Fightcade and that game just makes me wish it was SC2. Soulcalibur drew the short straw and is the only big name series that doesn’t have any title release with good netcode. Doesn’t matter is Strive sucks if I can play Xrd or +R if I want. If a new SC7 sucks donkey dick, and probably would, then I can’t play other ones instead.

I would be content with just playing 6 honestly, but it is so fucking dead I stopped playing completely. I don't want to wait 20+ minutes to find a match except on weekends where it's 10+ minutes. Only to be matched with the same people across the world over and over again.

We'll get a new one, but we may need to wait until AAA collapses. The games industry needs an enema badly, it's bloated with activists that don't want to work and would rather fuck off on bluesky all day, while they 'work' remotely. I'd give it a year or two tops and all these types will be filtered out of a job and we will start seeing the people that do want to make games start making stuff again.

AAA collapses. The games industry needs an enema badly, it's bloated with activists that don't want to work and would rather fuck off on bluesky all day, while they 'work' remotely.

these thoughts aren't actually related

What happened to Necrid? That nigga was never seen again

I usually play in this guy's lobby and I'm like on a different continent than him but it's still fun. I guess part of the fun is playing with some dudes from Anon Babble and just being able to play some SC, even with the delay.

The weapon break mechanic in Soul Edge was cool and had a lot of potential to be explored. Much better than armor break which had no gameplay mechanics. I think in 4 you took like 1% more damage to that body part.

Much better than armor break which had no gameplay mechanics

Wdym? Armor break gives you frame advantage

it's for the better
imagine how badly they'd censor ivy and taki

anon soulcalibur 6 released less than a decade ago

The woke era is over boyo

Tell that to crapcum, squeenix and all other japanese devs

Kill yourself

Too anime, the begining of the end

You're too anime

The Director Yoshinori Takahashi is still with Bamco, so maybe one day

its more like they dont have anyone like what ono was to SF and what harada is to tekken whos willing to fight for the series existence. this is probably why soulcalibur 6 had such a shorter life than tekken 7 despite it being a success according to bamco.

Owned and created by todd mcfarland

Link, Ezio, and Geralt were fun to use and fit in the most

online multiplayer soulcalibur 2 (gamecube version)

just a couple more weeks

I played mostly on psn, the game is slowly coming back to me

meanwhile in kekken

Negan

Akuma

Clive

Noctis

lmao

Akuma is as good as it gets

What if they added Nightmare to Tekken 8. Thats the closest we would be to SC7

I'd unironically play Tekken 8 if they added Cassandra. IMO she'd work really well in that game without her weapons given how many punch moves she already has.

Geese was the best guest Tekken could have.

Tekken was over when they added Sneegan

I like some thinks better about SC1 compared to SC2 but it's just missing too many characters.

Steam died, like every midnight from Tuesday to Wednesday...

Here's a group chat invite link if anyone wants to join, we play SC6 almost every other day.

The character's design is owned by Todd McFarlane; Namco owns some rights to him (the character and concept of Necrid) but, legally speaking, it's based off of McFarlane's design which is funny because Namco literally asked McFarlane to design a character based off of a few specifications, so in reality, it's the other way around
This means that they can't show him without McFarlane's permission but they can mention his name in other media without needing McFarlane's copyright stamped all over the work.

Lorewise? Nobody knows, because Namco never said what happened to him. There was a line on the fan wiki saying that Talim "purified" him, but the person who added that literally made it up simply based off of the fact that he fought her in Arcade mode.

Nice sage.

I think Algol and Edge Master are implied to remember the other timeline

I feel like Im the only one in the entire world who liked him