This would make for a great trolling video
-Still has stupid long wind ups before moves
I love how people like to judge an unfinished game that they barely, if ever, played.
I'd say right people, wrong slots:
That's the thing, it really depends on where you got into the series. If your first game was SoulCalibur II, then your reaction to Li Long, Hwang, and Arthur in SoulCalibur III was like, who are these random people? Whereas people who had played SoulBlade and SoulCalibur before it were happy to see some old faces return. Arthur less than the other two, given his circumstance, but I'm sure some people were still appreciative all the same. Those same people are likely to prefer Seong Mi-na's return, because they're still low-key (or not) distasteful of Kilik for essentially stealing her spot by taking her style and running with it, and being critical to the plot, while she just kind of chases idiots around for a living.
It's a combination of relevancy in this time period and that Seong Mi-na has been disrespected time and time again, and this is her second chance. Setsuka and Hilde are already known and popular, while Seong Mi-na has always fallen by the wayside, due to so many people starting the series with SoulCalibur II, where she was already pretty much irrelevant, and Kilik was in the spotlight. She got differentiation of moveset starting in SoulCalibur III and even moreso in SoulCalibur IV, but when she remained not important to the story, she got hardly any attention.
Yeah, but since they teased Astaroth, Cervantes, and Lizardman back at E3, I feel like they're going to drop those sooner rather than later. EVO seems right to do it, along with Tira to round out the "evil" folks. It's a lofty expectation, but isn't impossible. It could also just be Tira. But it would then remain a mystery why they would tease those three characters so heavily and then not officially reveal them for more than a month, maybe two if the trend continues. Like Voldo, we basically know that they're going to be in anyway, so we're not going to get a big reaction, so saving them for later, I really don't see much point. Whereas Tira would generate a lot of hype, as would Raphael, Cassandra, or Seong Mi-na.
You mean you don't also fight like this in real life? Just me?
Valeria was best girl among the 3 shopgirls. I'll always hold on to my belief (and endless hope) that the Grieve Edge moveset needs to come back someday.Rock, Arthur, Li Long, Revenant, Chie, Salia orDampierre.
I would like to see the iconic
Something vague I heard about Grøh's dad was that he might also be his master. Whether that means he's Ozuru/Odr or Grøh's dad just also trained Grøh, I don't know. But I did find it interesting when I was told that in passing.
Grøh's dad*I'd say right people, wrong slots:
That's the thing, it really depends on where you got into the series. If your first game was SoulCalibur II, then your reaction to Li Long, Hwang, and Arthur in SoulCalibur III was like, who are these random people? Whereas people who had played SoulBlade and SoulCalibur before it were happy to see some old faces return. Arthur less than the other two, given his circumstance, but I'm sure some people were still appreciative all the same. Those same people are likely to prefer Seong Mi-na's return, because they're still low-key (or not) distasteful of Kilik for essentially stealing her spot by taking her style and running with it, and being critical to the plot, while she just kind of chases idiots around for a living.
But that's why I'm happy with the prospect that Hwang may actually make a return here, since this is his territory, and it can be seen as somewhat a compromise, where Li Long sadly has zero chance, Yun-seong is also quite meaningless to the plot, while Maxi is quite important, so Hwang can take his spot back and not only flesh out his character more, but give Mi-na a second chance at life too. While it's possible Yun-seong could also do this, he abandoned Mi-na in SoulCalibur III to pair up with Talim instead, which led Mi-na to chase Talim in SoulCalibur IV... it's just so backwards.
But if we can only have so many characters, I feel like what you listed is the best compromise to have the old and new with styles and all included. Setsuka and Hilde can come via DLC, so we'll have their styles too. Cassandra maybe too, though I think she's got a chance of being on the main roster too, instead of "New" on your picks, since @Vergeben highlighted that Grøh would be a boss character, I've just got this mental image that he's going to be like Night Terror, some overpowered monster who would be too much to be playable.
Whoops, flubbed that one, thanks for the correction. And that's what I mean, you say he's a boss, and he's got a unique style, which while that may suck to not be able to actually play with, if it's an interesting and powerful boss moveset, it may be something to remember regardless.
Why do you assume he wont be playable. I suppose i haven't been playing a lot of the most recent fighting games for a few years now but i thought they were moving away from this trend.
It's disappointing if the poll was heavily affected by duplicated votes and Project Soul is taking it seriously. I would be curious to see an honest list of the popularity of all SC characters.
If you are wrong I will hunt you down and throw exactly one potato in your general direction.
I don't honestly have any real evidence that he won't be playable, it's just that someone in the Cassandra/Seong Mi-na/Raphael/Yun-seong group won't make it in if he does end up being playable, due to limited roster space. The alternative could be that Grøh's dad is unlocked in the center where we're putting Inferno, and Inferno is not playable instead, but then we won't have a mimic, which some would be happy with, but others wouldn't. It's one of those "you can't make everyone happy" kind of things. The only way we'll know for sure is when the game comes out, since I personally doubt that we'll get a reveal trailer for Grøh's dad, that he will be one of the secrets the game holds close to its chest. That, or he's revealed at the last minute with little to no real information, like a teaser like Grøh was teased at the end of the launch trailer.