Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

I don't know, after showing Maxi's stage it would be odd not to show him soon after. Especially since it was shown only in the released screenshots, instead of being shown in Sieg's trailer. It's almost as if they were planning to release both at the same time but decided to separate their reveals by a week in the last minute.
 
I think CaS will be shown at E3 along with some hype characters, that is why I think they are holding Taki. Midway through the year is a good moment to show modes and such to revitalize hype.


Also, I think Maxi is the next to be shown as well, maybe along with Asta, but a 3 character reveal for this month seems a bit wishful thinking.
 
It's kinda funny that everyone is referring to Seigfried's hair as the one that a reused asset, but Ivy's hair is the same style that's been used in IV and V. The only difference for all the characters' hair now is how they move, which is more fluid and looks like they may slightly separate now. Aside from the ponytail I believe Kilik's hair is reused as well as Xianghua's possibly. Granted Sieg's looks the worse, but I was pretty upset when I saw Ivy's for the first time because I haven't liked the style since it was introduced. It looks kinda messy and full, whereas her style in the first few games was more sleek, flat and imo stylish.
 
Himiteshu said:
Choosing different weapons to each character like in SC3 would be so awesome
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I think SCII had this as well. I honestly don't understand why they took this feature out. Characters still have 8 weapons to choose from, but we have to make an alternate costume for them just to use it? WHY? It's so stupid. I miss the days of unlocking and selecting weapons in SC :(

SCIII just did so many things right. I really hope they're drawing a lot from that since it seems to be a popular opinion that SCII-III are the best in terms of content.
 
Kilik has the ponytail he had in SC1. Also Sophitia's braid can get undone.

And weapon choices can't exactly come back if you can recolor them in CaS. Maybe you can recolor the weapon itself... (IE make Ivy's Alraune green instead of red but you can only use it while it's green)
 
sytus said:
Are Raphael and Amy really vampires? It only seems that they have contracted a minor form of the evil seed, cursed blood like Ivy but not as extreme as Kilik bloodlust rage. They're more vampiresque than actual vampire IMO, doing it for fashion/rollplaying which kind of suits them considering Raphael has a theatrical personality.
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You know, this brings up an interesting point.

I'm sure everyone is already somewhat aware of this, but the idea of vampires goes back hundreds of years (if not more). Vampires would definitely have been a thing in the 16th century of SoulCalibur. However, our modern image of vampires as an aristocrat who lives in a big castle and can transform into a bat is heavily, heavily influenced by Dracula (first published in the 19th century). This is the imagery that Raphael draws on to inspire thoughts of "oh, he's a vampire I guess."

But obviously the traditional vampire superstitions don't really match that. The basic idea of a vampire was that of a corpse that returned to life to feed on the living. Not necessarily by drinking blood either, but sometimes just draining a living person of their soul.

From this perspective, a character like Cervantes is actually closer to contemporaneous vampire ideas than Raphael. Unless they retcon it so that Raphael died after his battle with Nightmare in SC2, Cervantes is the only re-animated corpse in the series.

Not really relevant to anything. But I thought it was interesting.
 
Rex Dart said:
But obviously the traditional vampire superstitions don't really match that. The basic idea of a vampire was that of a corpse that returned to life to feed on the living. Not necessarily by drinking blood either, but sometimes just draining a living person of their soul.
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Very similar to Raziel from legendary dark fantasy game "Legacy of Kain 2 "
BTW Soul Edge is very similar to Soul Reaver from this game
And Raziel is very similar to Jago from Killer Instinct
 
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EvangelioN said:
What do you guys think the next reveal will be ? I am thinking it will be either Maxi or Taki.I also really like character reveals but I am curious about CAS too since its such an important part of the game for me .
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Im thinkin Maxi. I hope its Cass but Cervantes seems like he might get revealed soon too.
 
I can’t wait for the B’Astaroth and B’Maxi reveals which I hope are next in line.

Maybe it’ll be a story driven trailer to mix it up from the straight showcase type reveals we’ve been getting.
 
MichaelJackson said:
I can’t wait for the B’Astaroth and B’Maxi reveals which I hope are next in line.

Maybe it’ll be a story driven trailer to mix it up from the straight showcase type reveals we’ve been getting.
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Maybe we shouldn’t expect anything. I keep getting the feeling that they are behind schedule even with the long development. Also, does anyone know what “big” events are coming up that might have a chance of getting reveals?
 
JayShadow said:
June: E3
July: Comic-Con
August: Evo, Gamescom
September: Tokyo Game Show
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Good list. I would add to this list major tournaments like EVO, where we are likely to get new playable demos and possibly even some reveals.

May 18: Stunfest (Rennes)
May 25: Combo Breaker (Chicago)
June 29: CEO (Daytona Beach)
August 3: EVO (Las Vegas)
August 31: Summer Jam (Philly)

Though I will say, given how all of the major reveals have simply been YouTube uploads with no attachment to a particular press event, all of these big conferences and tournaments are likely to have nothing but the same old demo we've been seeing. We'll have to wait and see.
 
I don't see why we can't have both recolorable weapons and trails and also default colors and trails. Like, using the main characters, being able to pick any of their weapons with default colors and trails while using default costumes, but picking a particular weapon and trails color for a customized version of that character. Custom characters also would have the one weapon and trails color, but this makes sense, because you'd have designed the character to be used with that weapon, its colors, and its trails color. But the default main cast can select default weapons without making a custom slot.
 
I wish this game was comin out on the fake(?) leaked release date.
The end of June sounds fine honestly. By then they will have had a whole half year to wrap up a 3rd of a game.
 
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