Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

tirakai said:
Meanwhile SC is set hundreds of years ago and is weapon based (with primarily fantastical fighting styles as well), so you can't really go into it and find someone you identify with immediately the way you can look at Tekken and think 'oh hey that guy's doing Taekwondo/Karate/Judo like I did as a kid'. Add that to the much bigger (and again, modern day) list of nationalities and it's a lot easier for people to find a character they can identify right away.
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Well, some of the styles you can easily train. Even in my country you can train all of the chinese weapons, there are also schools with tonfas and medieval sword fighting. The more varied nationalities in the roster is definitely a plus, but the quality of the designs of the characters are hardly representative a leave a lot to desire in Tekken. More often than not they look more like bizzaro caricatures than actual people or cool heroes. The costume choices are so random and questionable to me...

I hope SC will get more recognition this time around because it's more aesthetically pleasing.
 
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Tekken was pretty ground-breaking back in the day. I remember unlocking every character with the exception of Devil Kazuya all in one sitting because my friend didnt get a memory card. So we knew we couldnt save his data but we didnt care because we wanted to see all the characters right away. Such was the allure of this game.

iirc you had to get a perfect score or something on that galaga game to get Devil.
 
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tirakai said:
I always figured it's the opposite where a lot of Tekken's popularity is because it's a lot more grounded in reality than SC.

Sure you've got a few animals and monsters but it's also set in modern times and a lot of characters use real well known martial arts, so you've got the crazy monsters for people into that but there's also lots of normal people using recognisable martial arts for fans who want someone to identify with.

Meanwhile SC is set hundreds of years ago and is weapon based (with primarily fantastical fighting styles as well), so you can't really go into it and find someone you identify with immediately the way you can look at Tekken and think 'oh hey that guy's doing Taekwondo/Karate/Judo like I did as a kid'. Add that to the much bigger (and again, modern day) list of nationalities and it's a lot easier for people to find a character they can identify right away.
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well i didn't mean "grounded in reality" more like just grounded in nature. Like the craziest things that happens in SC is that a person transforms into a demon armor thing, there's a vampire guy, magic swords talking to people, a guy can use his body as swords, and the astral chaos realm. Like it's pure fantasy but it's really not that out there.

tekken pretends to be grounded but all the juxtaposition of the crazy magic, mixed with science, mixed with guys punching missiles, mixed with a broadcasted tournament that is just a normal thing that happens, mixed with the WTF cast of characters. It just seems so far crazier to me than SC because on the outside at first glance you're just thinking "oh it's like dudes fist fighting, seems normal" but then you start it up and you can play as a fucking bear fighting a boxing kangaroo, or an anime robot girl with chainsaw arms.
 
You better make peace with the fact that Soul Calibur went full-on fantasy. :) if you want a realistic weapon fighter, For Honour is your place to go, though I don't know how much was it ruined by Ubisoft's gambling aspirations.
 
Maedhros said:
You better make peace with the fact that Soul Calibur went full-on fantasy. :) if you want a realistic weapon fighter, For Honour is your place to go, though I don't know how much was it ruined by Ubisoft's gambling aspirations.
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Exactly, I don’t play Soulcalibur because it’s realistic, because they have generic characters that don’t stand out in any way or ugly women that don’t look sexy for PC reasons. If they retooled the series that way, it’d be the official death of SC.
 
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