Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

Eji1700 said:
I agree with your top 3, but why is lizard man so certain? Just from the images?
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No, not just for the images, although they do provide some support. But compared to the other characters I mentioned (Hwang, Mi-na, Rock, Raphael, Cassandra, Yun-Seung, Tira, Setsuka and Hilde), Lizardman is the only one to have appeared in SoulCalibur 1 AND to have never been dropped from the roster. And since they're re-telling the story of SC1 (and this is where the images provide support), I don't think they'd want to show him in the art without making him playable. Finally, I think they'll include him because an army of lizardpeople offers the perfect generic enemy for characters to fight in story mode.

Also, I'd just like to say that I hope everyone gets their favorite characters back. While Hwang and Rock are the two I'm most hoping for, it doesn't mean I'm hoping other characters don't show up.

Except for Algol. Fuck that bubble-shooting bastard.
 
It's important to note it's a 'which character do you want playable?' poll and not a normal popularity poll, so people vote differently considering their realistic expectations for the game inclusions over just who they like best (you might be a huge Lloyd fan for example but nobody expects him to be in SC6). Also you could vote 12 times which inflates the numbers a lot compared to the official facebook popularity poll where you voted for your single favourite character.

It's really not a good poll to cite at all if you're looking at popularity. Everyone's going to put in Taki and Ivy and such for example since it'd be wrong to not have them even if they don't care about the characters much personally, and since there's 12 votes you can vote for lots of characters you don't care about that much but think should be around.

The actual popularity poll is a much better indicator of who are the favourites.
 
tirakai said:
Also you could vote 12 times which inflates the numbers a lot compared to the official facebook popularity poll where you voted for your single favourite character.
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:(((((
Damn, I didn't even think of that. So that particular poll gauges interest to play as them, not their popularity. And in a rigged way. *disappointed sigh*

I still like the results of it though...
 
Icarii said:
Assuming Raphael is back, what would you prefer to see: noble Raphael or malfested/vampire Raphael? What do you feel is more likely?
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If I had too choose I would preffer a back to the roots / noble Raphael.

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Well I just want him to be in the game and with his parry dance moves. I really don't care that much about the aspect.

 
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tirakai said:
It's important to note it's a 'which character do you want playable?' poll and not a normal popularity poll, so people vote differently considering their realistic expectations for the game inclusions over just who they like best (you might be a huge Lloyd fan for example but nobody expects him to be in SC6). Also you could vote 12 times which inflates the numbers a lot compared to the official facebook popularity poll where you voted for your single favourite character.

It's really not a good poll to cite at all if you're looking at popularity. Everyone's going to put in Taki and Ivy and such for example since it'd be wrong to not have them even if they don't care about the characters much personally, and since there's 12 votes you can vote for lots of characters you don't care about that much but think should be around.

The actual popularity poll is a much better indicator of who are the favourites.
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Its still who do you WANT playable not who do you EXPECT to be playable. The results are pretty identical when looking at the top 20 of each poll still except for a few characters.

Lets not completely disregard a poll just because the results don't confirm our biases.
 
100Percent said:
Its still who do you WANT playable not who do you EXPECT to be playable. The results are pretty identical when looking at the top 20 of each poll still except for a few characters.

Lets not completely disregard a poll just because the results don't confirm our biases.
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The thing is, the 12 votes combined with that really messes with the rankings of less important/non-face characters.

For example it's possible everyone in that poll's absolute favourite character is either Amy, Rock, or Viola (their votes total to more than Ivy's after all), but they're all the types of characters where if they're not one of your favourites you're probably not going to include them as a must have.

whereas Ivy by comparison is a face of the series, even a lot of people who don't like her will still put her in their votes since you can't have a SC game without her (there's 12 votes after all, and I'd bet most people don't keep careful track of favourites that deep). Even if not a single person there puts Ivy among their top favourite characters she'd still be high since when you've got 12 votes you might as well include the important characters, whether you personally care about them or not.

You see the problems with that poll now? Giving people 12 votes that are all equal weight means you don't see who's actually incredibly popular and who's just liked enough to fill the last couple votes for the sake of using all of them, since a character who half the fans put at #1 and half hate would rank lower than a character everyone thinks is okay and should probably be there but maybe hangs around 11th or 12th in their favourites.
 
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No expectation for it to come back, but I still would love it if SCV's replay mode came back. It was good to be able to save some of your favorite matches, and helpful to review matches from an outside perspective of sorts to see where you want wrong and consider how to improve on things or do away with weaknesses in your performance. Probably most helpful for that when you hit a roadblock and just kinda struggle with or halt improvement temporarily, be it in general or with a specific character(s) you're learning.
 
Just saying there's not much worth in referencing it to say how popular a character is (since it's not what the poll represents).
 
KarotConCarne said:
So wait, is Re B the only way to pop Zasalamel's curse? Sure looks that way.
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Far as I've seen, 1B also does it on hit. Pretty sure there's also another attack I'm not sure of the input on that's an overhead and then it activates on the landing from the jump during/after/whichever it is. Wouldn't be surprised if more moves do it than have been found though. I'm expecting in at least a fair number of characters' cases, we won't see the full movelists for certain until launch.
 
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