Weapon styles for future installments.

I'm all for some new weapons -more choices so you don't have to see the same faces over and over again. A couple of earlier threads addressed this, both on new ideas for complete characters (http://www.8wayrun.com/f21/new-character-ideas-t2907/),
as well as just the weapons themselves (http://www.8wayrun.com/f21/weapons-you-wish-were-in-soul-calibur-t1790/).

But, to save some time, here are a list of the ones I found to be decent, and not too similar to existing weapons:

-Double katanas
-3 section spear
-meteor hammer and gauntlet (or shackles on chain)
-giant boomerang (and hand to hand when it's in the air)
-hook swords
-twin tomahawks (or clubs)
-double bladed sword (think Darth Maul)
-ninja straight blade
-gauntlets (for straight hand to hand, they could also be used like double sheilds, like Orry suggested)
-kusarigama (a chained sickle)
-english broadsword
-sai
-bladed gloves and boots
-sword and (actively used) scabbard

Perhaps some concept art for some of these...
 
Spyrl-9 said:
I'm all for some new weapons -more choices so you don't have to see the same faces over and over again. A couple of earlier threads addressed this, both on new ideas for complete characters (http://www.8wayrun.com/f21/new-character-ideas-t2907/),
as well as just the weapons themselves (http://www.8wayrun.com/f21/weapons-you-wish-were-in-soul-calibur-t1790/).

But, to save some time, here are a list of the ones I found to be decent, and not too similar to existing weapons:

-Double katanas
-3 section spear
-meteor hammer and gauntlet (or shackles on chain)
-giant boomerang (and hand to hand when it's in the air)
-hook swords
-twin tomahawks (or clubs)
-double bladed sword (think Darth Maul)
-ninja straight blade
-gauntlets (for straight hand to hand, they could also be used like double sheilds, like Orry suggested)
-kusarigama (a chained sickle)
-english broadsword
-sai
-bladed gloves and boots
-sword and (actively used) scabbard

Perhaps some concept art for some of these...
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by 3-section spear u mean a trident? u could class this under seung mina.

also, alot of those weapons do kinda have similarity's

hookswords, twin tomahawk, duel katanas. there all kinda included in cervantes his style. ;(

sword and scabbard ? think mitsurugi.

the meteor hammer is a nice idea. maybe some cestus ? NO not stereo typed like in the gow 3 gameplay trailer -_-.

rofl, maybe something like in dmc3. like the devil arm Beowulf :p
 
Orry said:
by 3-section spear u mean a trident?
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3-section spear as in 3-section staff with a spearhead on one end.

While Mitsurugi does have a couple moves using his scabbard, a style more reliant on it (in a sense, duel wielding) would be interesting -and a cool fight against the current samurai.

Twin tomahawk (Bagoo!) would actually be like a cross between Taki and Talim, except with stronger (if maybe slower) strikes. An alternative is the "Asteroth" method of using them, like Taki's enemy, Geki...
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Hookswords would move like a cross between Cervantes (multiple hits, advancing attacks), and Zasalamel (an array of push/pull/trip moves).

There are many similar weapons already in the game (look how many single swords there are, really, count them!), it's their style of use that makes them unique.

In the new character forum, someone had the idea of an escaped mass murderer, very good at killing, that still had a shackle on one wrist, with a decent length of chain connecting to another one. Done right, this could be an interesting twist to the meteor hammer weapon -with the connected shackle something to block attacks with.
 
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