Rusted Blade
[14] Master
I'd much rather someone like Valeria came back with a huge revamp/redesign etc and in the future we can look forward to her return as a possibility. Not Geralt who will probably never even be seen again.
I do honestly think more than 2 guests (especially from unique franchises) is slightly overkill and unnecessary.
Though I guess this is just me.
If we assumed (which I doubt and most people probably do doubt as well) that the game would have DLC past Season 2 then perhaps more guests are logical if its going to be a very long running supported game. It makes sense in that capacity, but if that does not turn out to be the circumstance then I just think it'd be silly to waste the chance on a guest when we can get a returning character we can actually see again.
We have our guests for now and we should move on to SC characters. I don't think at this point in time guests will push as much and we are looking towards Season 2 earliest if more are coming. I think the momentum for something like that wouldn't be there anymore at that time.
It worked out better for Tekken I assume due to the general attention it has in comparison to Soulcalibur (if I'm not mistaken?)
In a dream land where this game was supported for a long time I would have loved a guest like Count Waltz or Claves from Eternal Sonata, but they're obscure and not very big or popular sadly. That and with Amy's SC6 incarnation they seemed to have already mimicked some animations from these characters already so I suppose it wouldn't happen at all. That game has lovely design design though, I'd love SC to perhaps get a male character with a demeanor akin to Count Waltz. The closest we have is Raphael or Azwel and I'd still say they're rather different. A selfish/vain/sadist male character would make me quite happy, we don't really have it nor do we have a particularly old or young male. (Edge Master/Amy, no older females to my knowledge either?)
I have zero hope that any character will come. That being said, I dread this patch.
Dread is all I feel.
Yeah, I have to say, I still don't follow the reasoning behind your "if they can't come back, they aren't worthwhile" logic: it's a shame that IP restrictions and licensing fees stop Kratos, or Ezio or whoever from showing up again, but I don't think that makes any given moveset less interesting while it features. And even more to the point, no single Soulcalibur game is ever going to have enough spots to accommodate all previous characters, thus "ability to come back" becomes a complete non-issue; there are more legacy characters than there will ever be roster spots for characters in any future game, so....who cares if there are twenty characters who won't be in Soulcalibur VII, half of whom are guests, instead of just ten who are all Soulcalibur originals? Do you follow my meaning?
As to Eternal Sonata characters.....yeeeeeeaaaaaah, I'm gonna say that's a long-shot. ;) Probably Project Soul are not looking to cull any characters from a twelve year old niche RPG based on baroque music with cutesy/kawaii-esque art design and zero marketability. I mean, I'm just going to guess it's not at the top of their list!
As to the patch--it's a little out of nowhere and I can't help but wonder what it's all about, but I think that less than perfect translation is suggesting more drastic changes than are likely to occur.