Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

Are we sure it had to be today? Game released last Friday, tomorrow is Friday...

If it's an announcement, I don't think it's just legacy music though. It's been a long time since their inferno reveal, and there's too few details on their season pass.
 
lori said:
Are we sure it had to be today? Game released last Friday, tomorrow is Friday...

If it's an announcement, I don't think it's just legacy music though. It's been a long time since their inferno reveal, and there's too few details on their season pass.
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I wonder why there wasn't any music from the previous games and only art. That's was disappointing hope its free.
 


Fatal_Exodus said:
To complain about anachronisms when nearly all the characters in the game are super flanderized caricatures or archetypes is a bit hypocritical. Such is the nature of the game itself, which has always been skewed towards historical fantasy.
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Historical fantasy it may be, but there are still degrees. This is still the medieval era. I would have been fine with their Bluetooth-connected Google eyeglasses if they were time travelers or something.
 
Anachronisms do not have to exist in fantasy fiction and in most cases, they dont. Generally, things like this are clearly communicated to the audience ahead of time and its implied the world does not follow or is even loosely based on real world events.

Good examples of this are most of the modern Final Fantasies, the newest Zelda which has long buried "technology" and also Elder Scrolls with Dwemer items.

Bad examples of this are technological characters in a game that otherwise loosely copies real world events. Such that it gives specific dates and strictly follows a timeline, whether fiction or not. That will annoy some people. Maybe not everyone but still...

The main point to consider is the nature of how an object/ character/ ability/ whatever functions. Is it technological in nature or magical/ spiritual. That is the relevant point.
 
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The Turbanator said:
Lol it isn't a huge deal but it's still kinda funny to me. I'm aware that robots didn't exist until modern times and othrr stuff but the wavelength stuff stood out to me because i like to laugh at anime concepts being explained poorly by science, whether it's SC, SF, Tekken, or whatever.

Unlike the above, however, Groh especially annoys me because he speaks of things with a very clearly modern dialect that only a person today should understand. Like the speech makes sense with Lars or Guile because they're contemporary characters, but nobody said shit like "mission objective terminated" or anything close to that in the 1500s and it just comes off as being tone deaf.
Yeah, the massive edge combined with the complete tonal isolation from the rest of the cast makes him feel very out of place. Groh feels like a Tekken or MK character lost his way, while Azwel seems like another take at the "savior of humanity" angle that G and Gill do in SF (and arguably would fit in better in SF than either of those do).
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It’s hard to tell what wavelengths they’re talking about here, but the original discovery of light and sound waves came with Isaac Newton in 1643. Perhaps someone in Japan writing thought that the 16th century in AD form was 1683 and not 1583. Or vice versa.

Either way, this series has been in an anachronism stew for a long time. Under no circumstances would Sophitia or Seong Mina be allowed to dress the way they do, nor did the bondage costume of Ivy exist in the 16th century. We could go on and on about this, but Azwel’s mention of wavelengths is far from the most egregious element in the series.
 
Windstar said:
It’s hard to tell what wavelengths they’re talking about here, but the original discovery of light and sound waves came with Isaac Newton in 1643. Perhaps someone in Japan writing thought that the 16th century in AD form was 1683 and not 1583. Or vice versa.

Either way, this series has been in an anachronism stew for a long time. Under no circumstances would Sophitia or Seong Mina be allowed to dress the way they do, nor did the bondage costume of Ivy exist in the 16th century. We could go on and on about this, but Azwel’s mention of wavelengths is far from the most egregious element in the series.
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Costume designs and languages being an anachronism... i mean we wouldnt have much of a game without liberties being taken in that regard. What would all the characters look like? Women wouldnt even fight period. I dont think anyone should complain about things like that.
 
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