Soulcalibur VI General Roster Speculation Thread

[Ramus]

Tell me again how Flambert is important or particularly iconic.
If weapons don't change because they are iconic- why then do the most iconic, imp

ortant weapons in the franchise(Calibur and Edge) always change? Them transforming for new users are not an excuse when they've been used by Siegfried and Nightmare for the vast majority of time.
Raphael using a rapier is more important than using a specific rapier.

The weapons that common characters use are particularized as theirs because in SC, unlike most fighting games, they give themselves the freedom to make new costumes, as long as in theme, to old characters.

Even characters that are meant to replace old ones get new weapons for that very reason, when you think of Sophitia you will think about her, yes she had many design changes, all in theme, but you also think about a blue shield with golden angel wings in them. Weapons are important for a character in Soul Calibur because they can easily show their essence. In other fighting games however they usually have one iconic costume, which is their character signature.

Cassandra is yet another good example, when people think of Cassandra the pink shield comes to mind before her original one, because it is more iconic to her.

There are, of course, exceptions, but in general a lot of one character identity comes from their weapon.

Algol is a boss character, that is his identity, in fact it is so painfully generic it hurts , he got this and this and this and thing, but other than making him a boss character it doesn't do much else.

 

[Nyte]

Yo, what the fuck is going on? We're supposed to be speculating the roster not arguing about whatever this is. I don't want this to get locked for going off-topic so PLEASE stop.

 

[mokamoka827]

So, to be a little more on topic, what cultures that haven't yet appeared in the series would y'all wanna see as far as new characters go? I'd really like to see an Egyptian character. I always found it odd that there was an Egyptian stage, but no Egyptian character. Could make for a really interesting addition to the roster.

 

[Ryuhza]

So, to be a little more on topic, what cultures that haven't yet appeared in the series would y'all wanna see as far as new characters go? I'd really like to see an Egyptian character. I always found it odd that there was an Egyptian stage, but no Egyptian character. Could make for a really interesting addition to the roster.

That'd be cool. Hopefully not just another Cleopatra though. Too many of those already, Menat from SFV most recently.

 

[mokamoka827]

That'd be cool. Hopefully not just another Cleopatra though. Too many of those already, Menat from SFV most recently.

Ugh, part of me dies every time I see a Cleopatra lookalike in a video game. I'm convinced game devs don't know anything about Egypt beyond Cleopatra.

 

[Foot]

Natsu will replace taki again.

 

[Nyte]

Natsu will replace taki again.

Only in your dreams.

 

[Crimzin]

I like the idea of an Egyptian character, the only problem is that most of us know about ancient Egypt not 16th century Egypt. The weapons and design may not be very historically accurate, but at the same time not much is with this game... Screw it.

Make an Egyptian character fight with a Khopesh as those look really cool even if they are not accurate for the time period.

 

[Foot]

 

[Ryuhza]

IF YOU BELIEVE IT

 

[Nyte]

We can already safely say that the Passion Republic concepts are NOT real.

 

[Aven Kujo-Gin]

Every other character you mentioned had a defined weapon. Even though Night Terror was an "Ogre" he at least had a defining zweihander. On the other hand, Algol is like Necrid in that he instantly generates weapons from his body. His most signature weapon is actually this throne, which isn't even that common.


but then how do you block ?

If Valeria can block with her own hands, anyone with some kind of weapon can.

 

[Mage]

I always found it odd that there was an Egyptian stage, but no Egyptian character.

That's because Ivy is the female version of Howard Carter

 

[FluffyQuack]

Here's some speculation about the roster by me and my friends. We tried to be somewhat realistic rather than making this a pure wishlist. Roster speculation part of the video starts at 11:00.

If you don't wanna watch but are curious about the results, here's what what we ended up on:

If roster size is 24: https://abload.de/img/podcast2017-12-1411-1zxjhl.png

If roster size is 28: https://abload.de/img/podcast2017-12-1411-1a2jko.png

A couple of explanations:

* The silly characters at the top represent guest characters and all new characters.

* One of the things I'm most certain of is that we'll get a bunch of guest characters (probably 3). Tekken 7 has shown Namco is having no issues making deals with various companies for borrowing their characters.

* As much as I'd love to see it, I don't think we'll get a huge roster. I think 24 characters is more likely than 28, this is due to a few reasons: Harada has said the development for the game has hit some major obstacles so it probably hasn't been progressing that smoothly, if Vergeben is right about characters having multiple movesets at one point then they were probably going for a smaller roster, and this is the first SC game in ages and it's also for a new console generation so the team would have needed a lot of time to warm up than if it were a straight sequel.

 

[jtdam09]

lol. How ironic.

* The silly characters at the top represent guest characters and all new characters.

* One of the things I'm most certain of is that we'll get a bunch of guest characters (probably 3). Tekken 7 has shown Namco is having no issues making deals with various companies for borrowing their characters.

* As much as I'd love to see it, I don't think we'll get a huge roster. I think 24 characters is more likely than 28, this is due to a few reasons: Harada has said the development for the game has hit some major obstacles so it probably hasn't been progressing that smoothly, if Vergeben is right about characters having multiple movesets at one point then they were probably going for a smaller roster, and this is the first SC game in ages and it's also for a new console generation so the team would have needed a lot of time to warm up than if it were a straight sequel.

I could settle with the simplified roster tbh.

 

[Ryuhza]

I don't think a simplified roster will go over well. Especially not one game after SCV.

 

[mokamoka827]

Yeah, I have a feeling we'll be getting a pretty big roster this time around, since they'll be competing with other popular fighting games that have some pretty sizable rosters. That and they know they're under a lot of scrutiny from fans after SCV, so I can't imagine they'd risk a smaller roster tbh.

 

[Project Bokuho]

Why is Garfield, Barry Burton, Jar Jar Binks, Yoda and Phoenix wright in there again? That's the one thing I've noticed from those screenshots l0l

Edit: Nevermind, I read the rest of your comment.

 

[FleshMasher]

Natsu will replace taki again.

Still hoping for both being in, but the darth maul-ish weapon natsu has in the middle artwork going to some new character makes me think the artwork died along with different styles per character as vergeben hinted at.
That being said i'm afraid Natsu is much too similar to Taki for them to coexist in 1 game.
Giving her a new weapon or more Arahabaki-mumbo-jumbo like in the artwork could have mitigated that, but doesn't seem likely now, with VI jumping on the nostalgia train(really hoping for SCII Soundtracks being selectable) i believe Taki's chances are much, much higher.
Still hoping for master and pupil though, after all the swordnshielders, would two steakknifeninjas really be asked too much?
I'm sure they could come up with some stuff to set them apart, like Sophie/Cass and all the others who shared weapon types.

 

[Project Bokuho]

I personally think we'll be getting around 28 characters for SCVI, possibly more. After the previous game's backlash, I don't think they'll go any lower.