- Moderator
- #261
Malice
Super Moderator
Sometimes I think people find ways to convince themselves that it's more balanced than it is because they enjoy playing it and must face some cognitive dissonance if they came to the realization that it's quite lopsided.
I call it 'the Soul Calibur religion'.
I don't see this being the case when we have years of tournament data and a general consensus of what the tiers are from the people who actually compete in this game.
Plus I see can see for myself after competing in SC4 for 4 years and SCV for 2 years. I enjoyed playing SC4 more than SCV, but the balance in SC4 was terrible. In SCV, the only unviable character is ZWEI. Compare this to SC4 where a good portion of the roster had no chance at seriously competing and a much larger disparity in tiers.
Even so, we've still had players who put in work with a character who's crap on paper because tier lists only tell part of the story. There's still individual matchups between characters and the players themselves to consider, especially if one of the players doesn't do their homework.
I think people that lose a lot probably tend to think the game is more unbalanced because that's the easiest way to look at it.
Though of course it has its best and worst character, SCV is a very balanced game. P-E-R-I-O-D.
It's easier for a player to blame the game and call it unbalanced instead of themselves as to why they suck.
Yeah, people who understand how to play the game competitively know that it is balanced. You could use the Soulcalibur religion excuse, but then you would have to explain why Soulcalibur players think SCIV is unbalanced.
People want to say bs instead of looking at the facts, or look at one character to judge the balance of the entire roster by which is silly. Plus we just had someone win a big tournament using Leixia who alot of people wrote off after she could no longer do double CE. I don't know what else do they need to see.
I know people don't like SCV for various reasons, but balance is not an issue in this game.