SOULCALIBUR 6: News, leaks and information discussion.

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They could also just include the younger characters you know. Amy's, what, about 11-12 yo physically in SCIII-IV? Including a 10 or 11 yo Talim and 12-13 yo Tira wouldn't be much of a stretch, Japan's not exactly opposed to putting young characters in fighting games.

The only one that'd maybe be a bit too young to include would be Amy but even then I'm sure they could work something out if they felt she has to be there (with the whole vampire thing she could just stay the same physical age).
 
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Raphael's profile in SoulCalibur II says Amy was "less than 10" when they met, which, I assume they met a little while before the opening, since Amy helps Raphael escape from the soldiers chasing him. So, for the sake of argument, let's assume she's 9 years old in SoulCalibur II. SoulCalibur II is 4 years after the original SoulCalibur, so Amy would actually be like 5 years old in the original SoulCalibur. Amy's vampirism didn't set in until after the events of SoulCalibur II, when Raphael was defeated by Nightmare but pierced Soul Edge and was infected, and Amy nursed him back to health.
 
Macaulyn said:
If they're simply rebooting it, then it requires no justification and all characters can easily appear at a different time. If they'll make SC6 a follow up to a still canon SC5, however, its more likely they'll just appear in late events. Thats why I think they'll just reboot without it being an actual follow up, it makes it easier to place anyone at any place of the timeline without explanation.
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This is basically what I meant. The reboot IS the justification for them to be able to have the roster while remaining canon.
 
Does anyone know the actual name of the weapon Edgelord is holding?

Also in the PSX trailer we see GB attack beat RE when Sophita does her SC BBB, Rugi sword is glowing red like RE and then that's when the last hit hits him.
 
AndyrooSC said:
Also in the PSX trailer we see GB attack beat RE when Sophita does her SC BBB, Rugi sword is glowing red like RE and then that's when the last hit hits him.
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Yo can see that the GB attacks break RE in the PSX trailer too
(min 0:31)

Btw don't know if anyone pointed this out yet but that low from Mitsu is hella broken, it has a GB or a K option, with the K it seems super unsafe but is NC and it's damage is just insane, it does more than a throw in this early build and is very hard to see I would say.
 
Psykai said:
Eh, I'll take it over no Amy. I think...
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But her popularity is beyond any doubt and yet she wasn't exactly included in SCV and besides, her story induced so many fan theories, that it would be silly of Bamco not to use it to their advantage and give us Amy in SCVI.
 
garjian said:
In Phantasy Star they're called Double Sabers, so I call them double swords or perhaps double-ended swords, but they're also sometimes called twinblades.
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In PSO, Double Swords (dual-wielding swords) and Double Sabers (twin-blades) were different things. It was awesome!

The rumor is that the new character's weapon will be able to do both.
 
rentao12 said:
But her popularity is beyond any doubt and yet she wasn't exactly included in SCV and besides, her story induced so many fan theories, that it would be silly of Bamco not to use it to their advantage and give us Amy in SCVI.
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From what Verge has said, we'll only ever get Viola from now on :( I never liked that theory anyway (that Viola is Amy) because even though I like Viola's character, I don't like her enough to replace Amy with her. My sad pathetic emo soul needs a kindred spirit, lol.

I hope you're right though. With the rumor that Talim is coming back for the same reason and the fact that they said most Lost Swords characters will be in, there's hope, but I'm so used to things never going my way that I just feel very cynical and pessimistic about seeing Amy return.

tirakai said:
I feel like we probably will get Amy, but maybe as DLC or a pre-order bonus or something rather than in the base game.
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See above. But if they did include her as a pre-order bonus then that would mark the first time in my life I ever pre-ordered a game, lol.

I'm excited to see Edgelord's fighting style and how he uses his weapon. I'm hoping he will use it similar to a staff (which would make sense as Kilik's rival) for the most part but with some stances or moves that make him separate and use the blades individually.

I have a feeling we'll find out at EVO. I'm curious as to who the other characters will be though (someone mentioned as many as 3 revealed?). I guess Kilik is the most likely. I bet there'll be some sort of cool trailer-type thing showing Kilik and Edgelord fighting.
 
Rex Dart said:
In PSO, Double Swords (dual-wielding swords) and Double Sabers (twin-blades) were different things. It was awesome!

The rumor is that the new character's weapon will be able to do both.
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I'm more from the PSU era, and in that, they were Twin Swords and Double Sabers.
 
I was bored and craving so I keep watching the 10 minute gameplay videos and I think it's driving me crazy. I need moar, lol. I wish they were like an hour long or something so I didn't have to feel like a weirdo for keep rewatching the same ones over... It's making me so hyped though because the gameplay looks so sleek and smooth. Even without touching it, I can tell the feel of controls are probably the best yet. I've reached that point where I anylise every little stupid thing I see, just for something to do.

The more I see of Reversal Edge though, the less I'm worried about it. It looks pretty fun and so far doesn't appear to break the gameplay flow too much (at least in the videos I've seen), though I imagine it could if both players spammed it and from what people have played the game have said, it does. I feel like it should cost a small bit of meter (enough to matter, but not enough to make it not worth it) just to prevent spamming really. I noticed in one video that it seems punishable because Sophitia missed the RE initiate move and Mitsu hit her directly afterwards and it played a weird sound effect and appeared to be in slow motion a bit (similar to if it worked). It looked to stun her too but that may just have been the move he used. So there are reasons not to spam it too I guess.

I like that GI doesn't cost meter anymore because I never used it. My timing with that kind of thing is awful and not worth spending CE meter on when 95% of the time I WILL f**k it up, so at least now I can actually try to learn the mechanic. My solution might've been to only have it cost meter if it actually deflects an attack so that it feels like meter well-spent rather than wasted but that might've been funky.

Something I found odd is the 'Select Colour' thing on the character select screen. I wonder if that's temporary because the 2P costumes just aren't in yet, or if 2P costumes will be switchable with a button and each costume has 2 (or more if you make them with CAS) colour options.

The VS screen seems a little plain and doesn't get me hyped for the match compared to previous games. I think SCIII and SCIV had the coolest looking VS screens and I liked being able to make the character's say something too. It's little details like that which are surprisingly missed, lol. I do like the way the camera zooms in and the way they blend stage selection into it without loading screens and such though.

EDIT: Something else I love is that if you kill an enemy with a CE, you get a little zoom in quote. That's a really nice touch.

Here's a (debatably) fun game; If you could choose 3 things in SCVI to see a preview/teaser of at Evo, what would they be? Mine are:
1: Character Creation (I'm really curious to see how detailed it is this time and if they finally gave us more options that fit the period and if our CAS's can finally look like they belong in the game as actual characters).
2: Single Player mode list. (Sounds bizarre to request this over seeing an actual game mode in action, but just seeing how many single player modes there are would be enough to satisfy every concern I have about the game).
3: New/Returning Characters, obviously. XD
 
Since it's EVO, I'd only expect to see characters and mechanics, nothing about creation or story/single player.

1. New Characters, and my money is on Kilik and Xianghua, with tease of Edgelord Papi but he won't be playable.
2. More information on battle modes, if there's going to be Extra, Tag, Team, maybe other variants.
3. New Stages, preferably again two new stages to go with the two new playable characters.
 
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