SDCC SoulCalibur Talk Summary

[Kostas_Greece]

It is more possible than you may think. If SCVI is actually a thing, and its release happens around the time of the FFVII remake's release, I wouldn't be surprised if Square-Enix actually gave Cloud and/or Sephiroth to appear in SCVI. They did allow Cloud in Super Smash Bros. U, they could do it again.

I wouldn't discard the possibility of characters from Koei as well. Mostly from Dead or Alive or the Warriors/Musou series. Dead or Alive is... well, still alive, and its a famous franchise, and SC already crossed the Warriors series before, as Sophitia is a playable character in Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate. Also, Samurai Warriors goes around the same time period as SC, since Yoshimitsu seems to be involved with the daimyō Nobunaga Oda.

Wow you're right a quest character from Samurai Warriors or Warriors Orochi in Soul Calibur VI will be f****ing awesome!!! :)

 

[Draggonnfs]

Holy shit, I didn't expect this to turn into a discussion (war, really) about the entire series and how the individual games sucked or didn't wirk.... IMO, all of the games in the series are great, even SCV, which I hated when it came out, now I really like it, because of the Creation and how well it plays. Also, SCIII remains my personal favourite, mostly because it's just HUGE with all of the game modes and stuff you can do.

But anyway, from what they're doing now, with the Facebook "activities" and stuff, I'm just getting the impression they thought along these lines : "Oh shit, it appears a franchise we don't give a shit about anymore still has some fans and has an anniversary or something! Quick, think of something! You three over there, you're gonna do the whole thing. I know, facebook! Do some shitty polls or trivia about the series and characters, hopefuly it'll satisfy them. Maybe they'll think we're working on something BTS. What will we do about that? Oh I don't know, it doesn't matter, leave it as it is! Nobody cares! Now, back to Tekken..."

 

[Kostas_Greece]

Holy shit, I didn't expect this to turn into a discussion (war, really) about the entire series and how the individual games sucked or didn't wirk.... IMO, all of the games in the series are great, even SCV, which I hated when it came out, now I really like it, because of the Creation and how well it plays. Also, SCIII remains my personal favourite, mostly because it's just HUGE with all of the game modes and stuff you can do.

But anyway, from what they're doing now, with the Facebook "activities" and stuff, I'm just getting the impression they thought along these lines : "Oh shit, it appears a franchise we don't give a shit about anymore still has some fans and has an anniversary or something! Quick, think of something! You three over there, you're gonna do the whole thing. I know, facebook! Do some shitty polls or trivia about the series and characters, hopefuly it'll satisfy them. Maybe they'll think we're working on something BTS. What will we do about that? Oh I don't know, it doesn't matter, leave it as it is! Nobody cares! Now, back to Tekken..."

I agree with you @Draggonnfs I have exactly the same thoughts as you! I don't know what they're trying to do, but I know that they won't announce nothing till the end of the year! They're focusing only on Tekken! Maybe we'll have some news in 2017 after Tekken 7 console release!

 

[Ryuhza]

I don't really care for guest fighters. That's another reason I'm so fond of SCIII. No dilution. The world, atmosphere, and characters are pure SoulCalibur.

I guess it forgoes a straightforward way of bringing new players to the series, but if I were to design my dream SoulCalibur game, I'd leave out guests. Easter eggs through create-a-soul would be fine, but not something that's going to be given half the game's advertising budget.

That's not to mention that most of the time, the movesets they come up with aren't carried over to the next game. The closest they came was with Kratos, and they dumped his moves on Lizardman, rather than designing a new character. Overwrote more than half of Lizardman's old moveset, which I preferred.

 

[ZER0]

I find so adorable when people try to defend a fucked game saying "Hey, but it has good/decent gameplay". Decent gameplay is not a feature, its a MUST on any game. Also what is the point of having good gameplay if the game itself doesn't encourage people to play it? Online mode is kinda basic nowadays on big fighting game franchises (it isn't even a feature for all of the community) and while the character creation is good, its not core to the gameplay and cannot save it by itself. Look at the different modes from SCII and SCIII, why the hell all we get in SCV is a boss rush (with some characters using costumes we don't have access to, which is even more annoying) and a compilation of random creations from random people? Do you really need me to list what problems SCV has?


A random Facebook spamming would be the worst way to do it. Their poll was already stupid, they didn't explain rules, number of votes and didn't advertise it enough (if at all).

So effectively your counter argument was just "I don't like the way they made SCV cos X,Y,Z and just completely ignoring the key factors..waaaaaaaah"

Sounds about right