Okay, lets begin here: first off, what either of us want doesn't matter, so don't even try to use that as an argument. Second, don't speak of "we" as if you were talking in the name of someone else, because you speak only for yourself. Also, projectile character? She has ONE projectile, which is less than what Cervantes has. Also, she doesn't have to use her fan in all of her attacks, only in part of them, look at Viola, she doesn't use the orb in all attacks. Also, no, if guests like Spawn and Darth Vader didn't break the game, Mai is the least likely to do so.
Spawn and Darth Vader didn't break the game because their playstyles didn't. Unless they give us a Mai Shiranui whose entire playstyle is wildly different from the one she enjoys in
literally every single fighting game she's ever appeared in, she will break the game. Why? Because she
is a projectile character. It's not that she's only got 1 projectile (she's actually got 2, one of which is a boosted up Desperation Move version of her regular fan throw), but because of how it works. They have 2 choices, make it useless (i.e. super-steppable) or make it useful in the same way it is in
literally every single fighting game she's ever appeared in, in which case it'll be like Algol's SCIV projectiles. And unlike Cervantes, they can't make hers duckable unless they want it to look and be really stupid. Kicks aside, Viola uses her Orb in about 40% of her attacks and strings. Mai uses fans in... 5 attacks? Also, I just found out she apparently was a guest character on Dead or Alive 5 Last Round.
How does this factor into anything ar all? Who the fuck cares about SSB, this is Soul Calibur, that is the most asinine excuse I've ever seen. Also, what T7 have to do with this? Different games, different communities, but characters still very popular regardless, so its profitable, smart and, specially, cool to add Gladiolus.
Because Bandia Namco aren't pulling these guest characters out of thin air, they're licensing them from third parties. And those third parties will want to promote specific things. "Hey, can we have Cecil from FFIV?" Bandai Namco might ask. And Square Enix might go "Sure!", but they're also a company who want to promote their games and most people don't even know who the Hell Cecil is and FFIV isn't a priority for Square Enix, so they'll probably go "How about you add X character from Y game instead?".
Because of this, Square Enix will probably want SCVI, if they're adding a Final Fantasy character, to add a character from a game that hasn't had a guest character in another fighting game yet because they want to promote more games than just the 2. Also, they don't want franchise fatigue. If every single fighting game franchise adds FFXV characters, eventually, there'll be a backlash from the fans, who're sick and tired of FFXV guest characters. These two reasons make it less likely we'll see guest characters from FF games that have already been guest characters in fighting games.
There's a reason why we rarely see multiple characters from the same game be guest characters in multiple games (especially of the same genre) that are released within the same decade.
We got Devil Jin after Heihachi and Yoshimitsu was never a guest. Neither of them was banned in tournaments for being strong, Heihachi at best got banned for console exclusive, like Link and Spawn.
Did I say Yoshimitsu was a guest character? We got Heihachi that one time, yes. Which precisely the point. And Devil Jin was not a guest character, he was a guest
style. I said he's, and I quote, "a permanent SC character". Try reading people's posts before replying to them. And try to think deeper than "Herp derp, I have no clue what this means so I'll use insults and swear words instead of applying any kind of critical thinking first!".
Stopped reading this part here, this is a joke, right?
I forgot a word:
Playable characters.
Yeah, because Spawn, Darth Vader, The Apprentice and Yoda don't stand out at all. You only want to make arguments to raise a discussion you can't keep going, you did not have a single decent point to provide at all.
How did Spawn stand out in the grand scheme of things? Demon-like being with mystic powers. That's par for the course with the Soul Calibur series, what with the rampart sorcery, magic and demons. Darth Vader, the Apprentice and Yoda were all
swordfighters. The only thing that stood out about them was the fact that Darth Vader had some cybernetic parts if you look closely. Yoda being a little muppet didn't didn't really matter much seeing as how in the Soul Calibur universe there exists lizardmen and demons. And you would never have known the Apprentice wasn't a Soul Calibur based on his playstyle and design alone (lightsaber aside, since there aren't any energy swords in the Soul Calibur series... yet). Even Darth Vader's modulated voice wasn't that different from those of the Malfested. KOS-MOS is an android who says things like "Multiple operating systems" in the weird Uncanny Valley-like way robots speak in movies (but without the vocal effects), with a body that's clearly made out of cynernetic parts, including metallic wings, with a robotic voice, handguns and a machine gun. Almost all of her attacks makes use of machine guns or electronics.[/QUOTE]
