Versus
Link!
SEIYAAA

Port 2 & 3 to modern gen, please and thank you; I wouldn't even care if 2 lost the guest characters.

>>714149364
2 has been re-released on modern consoles several times.

>>714149425
I don't see it in the Series X or PS5 store.

>>714149542
should've gone nintendo faggot

Which games had the best story mode content? Weapon Master in II was the only one I really got into.

Was Link any good? I see him at the bottom of tier lists but I suspect that's anti Nintendo salt. He got me through Weapon Master back in the day.

>>714149658
He's shit because he has no good combos and is very predictable.

Post your top 5 mains.
Post your 3 most hated characters.
Feel free to specify which particular version from a specific game.

>>714149721
SCVI
>Ivy
>Nightmare
>Siegfried
>Xianghua
>Tira
hated
>hwang
>rock
Can't really think of anybody else that I hate, just a few that I have no interest in.

>>714149703
>very predictable
I think in the history of playing that game I've landed his charge spin and jump charge spin maybe once and it was probably against a friend that just didn't understand. The CPU always blocks it.

>>714149593
VI and it's not even close.

Soul Chronicle has a canon main story; the only other game to have that is V, and people hated its story. Soul Chronicle also has side stories for 90% of the roster like the rest of the series, but unlike them, it's all canon.

The mission mode, Libra of Soul, is like II's Weapon Master except you get to actually create your own character instead of pretending one of the existing characters is you. And it's canon.

>>714149542
I have it on my series x though

>>714150197
I'm almost at 300 hours and have barely touched Soul Chronicle and haven't even tried Libra of Souls. Guess I'm still kinda saving it while I train and learn moves.

How do I get good with Tira? I just picked her up.

>>714150197
I actually bought 6 but never even touched the single player shit
does it teach you how to play the game

>>714150925

>>714150958
Libra of Souls does and is extremely easy in the beginning.

I will now post my custom alternate colors.

>>714151081

Think we'll ever see another game in the series?
Even if we don't I see it like an F-Zero GX scenario. At least it went out on a high note.

Page 10 ahoy baby.

No one will ever compare to Starkiller.

Who was the guy who used the pole in this game?
He was my main. I just out-spaced everyone with it.

>>714152348
Vader was the only Star Wars rep that I used.

>>714152397
Kilik

I just tried playing this on my switch 2 for the first time since elementary school and I have no idea what I'm doing

>>714152459
Not sure how I feel about his new malfested form in VI. It makes him a little more interesting but not enough for me to play as him. So many characters get malfested, it would be nice to see some characters with soul calibur forms.

>>714152719
Just push some buttons my dude.
Weapon Master starts with a tutorial.

>bought soulcalibur ii only because of link
>it was actually a fun game with lots of cool characters
Everything went better than expected.

>>714153282
All according to keikaku.
A lot of SC fans are tendies for that very reason. Not sure how Heihachi or Spawn worked out.

>>714153768
You're chillin' with toobs and she gives you this look.
wut do?

>>714149219 (OP)
This could never happen in 2k25... What happened to nintendo, lads?

>>714149219 (OP)
You're PISSING me OFF

>>714154642
They don't have to lend their characters to other series, they come to Nintendo in Smash.

I think Mina is the only one that didn't get some kind of flair to her moves in VI. But that in itself sets her apart.

>>714152854
but I wanna do the cool moves and I'm playing on a gamecube controller
and also I keep getting distracted by how fucking hot ivy is and taki's nipples holy shit how is this even allowed by nu nintendo

>>714153282
>>714153419
I played SC2 as a kid and bought the hd rerelease on ps3 but I've never actually played the gamecube version
playing a game I played as a kid but being able to use OOT link is fucking cool

>>714155598
>shrill squeal

>>714155707
am I supposed to turn the voices to japanese
I didn't even know games from 2003 let you do that

>>714155598
So look at the move list in training mode.
Taki's nipples are quite visible in II, you can't see them as clearly in any of the sequels. She's basically a nude body painted red. The 00s were a different time.

>>714155780
I've always played in Japanese, people will call you a weeb but I think it's much better. The English dubs for SC are usually decent. The English speaking women never make coom noises as good as the Japanese girls.
Switch to Japanese to hear Link's VA playing Nightmare and Yoshimitsu and Ganondorf's VA as Cervantes. I was in love with Ivy's Japanese voice actress, same woman who played Urd in Ah My Goddess, she was replaced by Miyuki Sawashiro for VI though, and she's alright.

>>714149593
Tales of Souls in SC III is better than anything else in the series.

>>714155598
>I'm playing on a gamecube controller
That's fine. SC doesn't require a fight stick. And you can set shortcuts on the shoulder buttons. What separate the men from the boys is actually using training mode and memorizing moves.

>>714156037
well i am a weeb so I'm gonna do that
I don't know how to play this game though there's a bajillion moves and I'm used to street fighter where i can just try all the different move motions on any character and figure out what they have but that doesn't work here
I'm not even sure how I'm supposed to be moving around

>>714155821
>The 00s were a different time.
but nintendo just effectively released 2 as a launch title for their new console and you can see taki's perky juicy nipples upscaled in 1080p right in your face
it's kind of amazing

>>714156174
>And you can set shortcuts on the shoulder buttons
the c stick is set up for macros by default

>>714153419
Spawn was awesome. I don't know if he was any good for serious matches but he looked cool and had a fun move-set for spiking people into the explosion floors.

>>714149219 (OP)
How's that mod coming along that combines all the guest characters in one version?

>>714156221
Move around like you would in a 3D platformer. SC has free 3D movement.
If you're using a GCN controller, B is guard, A is horizontal, Y is vertical, X is kick, Z is soul charge.
It can be confusing because the in game buttons are labeled as G (guard), A (horizontal), B (vertical), K (kick).
Put in the time to practice and you'll get it down. It's not as complicated as you think and you don't have to memorize every single move to get results.

>>714156296
That's because Nintendo is the least cucked dev out there ATM.

>>714156320
Heh, I knew that, was just testing ya.

>>714156602
does the c stick cover every combo that does something besides grab
I don't like pressing multiple buttons on anything that isn't an arcade stick

>>714156296
I'm not paying 60 bucks a year for a laggy rom of sc2 when my phone can run it

>>714150925
>>714150971
She's a difficult character because her move set changes between Jolly and Gloomy mid-match and most of those changes are RNG.

>>714152806
His malfested form isn't new, VI is just the first time when it appeared in gameplay. That part of the story where Kilik turns malfested on purpose to fight against Astaroth and lizardmen who attacked Maxi's ship already appears in the art book for the first SoulCalibur, but it's Japanese-only.

>>714155040
She's the best character in the game who's also easy to use, though. I highly recommend people start with her when learning to play SC VI.

>>714156037
Japanese voices are much better simply because voice actors change less frequently. Reiko Takagi voiced Cassandra all the way from SC II to SC VI, but she has a different English VA in every game.

>>714156659
I don't know, I use button combos. SCII has two different button combos for grabs. There's only one in later games. Have fun trying to do Yoshi's guard and kick button combos.

>>714156683
it's 50 bucks a year
and it really doesn't feel laggy at all to me, I'm a melee fag that hauled CRTs to tournaments for years and that included hustling othermeleefags with f-zero gx and playing it on the switch 2 it feels perfectly fine even doing advanced tech like MTS's and I didn't even bother calibrating the control stick
it also runs better than on steam deck, that drops frames in GX even with tinkering and also needs a glitchy plug-in in order to disable cores to make it run as good as possible
switch 2 literally just works, tinkering is gay I just want to play the fucking game and if there wasn't a subscription service there's no way Nintendo would make these available for any kind of reasonable price anyway

>>714156793
I have an emotional connection to the Japanese cast because I know who most of them are by this point. SCII was the first time I learned a little Japanese.
CHI YO YAMI YO WARE NO MOTO NI

>>714153419
heihachi was so fun

>>714156793
Why is Mina so good? I personally would put Ivy and Nightmare higher but I see Mina usually in top 3.

>>714156870
Does the Switch 2 Gamecube controller have analog L and R buttons? You kinda need that for GX.

>>714157225
yes, it's the same as an original controller
original controllers themselves also work with an adapter with the full analogs being recognized in the gamecube nso app but I had to update the firmware for my mayflash one

>>714156798
Every game has two different kinds of throws. Up until SC V the inputs were A+G and B+G and they were broken with A and B respectively. In those earlier games I map B+G to a shoulder and have A mapped to X and G mapped to A on my Xbox controller to do A+G by pressing those two face buttons simultaneously. SC VI changed the throw system, now the 4 (back) input separates the two different kinds of throws. It's either A+G or 4A+G and they're broken with A, B or K (or combination thereof) and 4A, 4B and 4K (or combination thereof) respectively. In SC VI I change the shoulder binding from B+G to A+B+K from B+G to be able to do CEs and Soul Charge. I don't use RE or RI, which require B+G inputs (IMO, RI should be 4G instead because this input does nothing in this game, it's the same as pressing or holding G by itself).

>>714156793
>Jolly and Gloomy
I'm spending a lot of time in training just to memorize all the different moves for both forms and being able to adapt when she switches. A lot of moves are the same, some that look different still have the same input and timing. But I've been training with her for about 20 hours and only getting average results in arcade mode. As opposed to Nightmare where you're gonna wreck shit pretty much right out of the box.

>>714156870
I think you're lying about Steam Deck being unable to run this game well because my PC has around the same amount of CPU and GPU power and runs it flawlessly. I really doubt Switch 2 online is better than Dolphin on PC. Not to mention, getting third party controllers to work is probably a pain in the ass and Nintendo's official controllers are horrible for fighting games.

>>714157369
I map whatever button combo it is to make Taki jump and the other for grab to make her aerial grab easier.
My dumb ass friends never understood any of that so the first thing I'd do is map some shortcuts on their console when they went to the bathroom. I absolutely brutalized them in SCIV with Astaroth's jump grab.

>>714156954
Same. Except Sophitia's new VA, I still can't get over how they gave her a different one after SC III.

>>714149721
>top 5 mains
Link
Cervantes
Cassandra
Xianghua
Hilde

>3 most hated characters
tira
zasalamel
dampierre

>>714157573
you retarded faggot I literally spent hours MTSing into the first turn out of the tunnel on big blue over and over again while watching what the deck GPU clock speeds maxed out at so I new what to clock it at for consistent performance (it's 1200MHz btw) and I downloaded decky and figured out what disabling SMT and certain CPU cores even fucking MEANS just to try and get this game to stop dropping frames when I'm going 2000kmph sideways into a turn with 30 other cars and on the switch it just fucking goddamn works and doesn't drop a single frame and I don't have to do fucking anything but click a button to start the game and fucking play it
shut up

Why SC Spawn has no cape, it always irks me.

what's one thing to know that would actually make me competent at this game beyond button mashing

>>714157814
Oh, my mistake. I thought you cared about SC II and not some gay racing game.

>>714157962
There's no one thing like that. It's a lots of small knowledge checks and reaction time checks, literally every matchup is different.

>>714157727
I didn't know she switched. VI is the first time I've used her and I love her and Cassandra's banter.
カッサンドラ
怒るわよ
ねっ姉さん!
The stuff they way when they get ringed out is funny too.
落ちるわけには!!!

>>714157907
Probably gameplay visibility purposes.

>>714157907
The consoles weren't powerful enough to animate it properly, sorry.

man i wish i had sc2 as a kid
it would have been my sexual awakening instead of sonic adventure 2

>>714157739
Cervantes was so fun in II. He looks like shit in every game since and his move set has just gotten weird. I do prefer being able to shoot whenever in the later games though. The impact attacks that make him shoot in II are ridiculous, it's hard to time a regular guard impact let alone anticipate whether it's a horizontal or vertical.

>>714158119
Soul Edge and Caliburs from the first to the third one had Michiko Neya as the voice actress for Sophitia, then they changed her to Chiaki Nakamura in SC IV and it stayed that way since. She also voice acted Elysium in SC V. Michiko Neya's impression had the perfect mix of nice and serious, Chiaki Nakamura's side tends to lean to heavily to "nice" in my opinion. I feel like her voice is also slightly more high-pitched, which I don't like.

>>714157739
>dampierre
His only redeeming quality is that he was played by Shigeru Chiba.
>zas
HOL UP *snaps fingers*
I had the pleasure of stomping two Zas players online with Ivy. Both were from /v/, big surprise.

>>714157814
>I literally spend hours fiddling with settings just to get a game to run
PC master race everyone.

>>714157907
Probably didn't want to fuck with physics. Imagine that shit on Talim's stage.

>>714158303
He looks the best in SC I. SC II have him that necrotic diseased purple skin, eww.

I'm gonna go take a shower and then I'll post a lobby.

>>714158617
i don't have sc6 installed

>>714157962
Guard impacts.
High difficulty AI in SCII will get you into ridiculous guard impact battles.

>>714149219 (OP)
What absolue 100% never ever crossover characters would you like to see in a potential SCVII?

>>714158656
Then install it, it will probably take less than half an hour.

Could you beat Chris at SC3?

https://youtu.be/ygVFEiCQEhI?si=D_qvVFkoJStnk-2i

>>714158716
how the fuck am I supposed to figure out how to parry besides memorizing every character's moves

>>714158218
SC art gallery was a lot of lads' first 2D fap, myself included.

>>714149721
Mains+subs
>Seong-Mina
>Cassandra
>Raphael
>Sophitia
>Servantes
Hated
>Nightmare
>Voldo
>Xianghua
All SCII mainly

>>714158718
Don't tell me that it wouldn't be kino.

>>714158550
I thought he looked cool in the art for V but the in game model looked like shit.

>>714158718
Michael Jackson

>>714158727
I'm playing on a steam deck on wifi and I don't know how to play
are you sure

>>714157739
Why do you hate Tira?
She's so quintessentially 00s. Definitely the kind of girl that shops at Hot Topic.

>>714151276
>>714151434
>>714151657
Cute

I always liked proto-Nightmare (I used to see him called "Evil Siegfried" in magazines of the era but I don't know if this name was official or not because I don't remember it being used in the game) from the first game. Shame this costume never appeared because the bone-ish armour is actually creepier to me than anything they even did with Nightmare.

>play with friends/cousins
>KO them
>continuously hit their bodies to play the death scream
>ring out them
>run after them and ringout self

>>714155598
>how is this even allowed by nu nintendo
I mean official splatoon concept art had an octoling girl wearing pasties. They don't show it much but nintendo can still get lewd.

>>714159325
>that one guy who couldn't lose without trying to start a fight IRL
>finally get fed up and stand up to him
>he doesn't do shit

>>714159205
Something like that would make a great throwback alternate costume for Nightmare.
Siegfried's armor looks terrible in SCVI, fortunately you can give him his armor from V.

>>714158218
>>714156498
An amazing wank bank for the days before I had home internet.

>play with friends
>we all keep picking Raphael or Kilik and spamming their 3 hit combo

>>714156793
Thanks for that little lore dump anon

>>714159605
A lot of characters are made to give button mashers a chance but also have depth for advanced players. Nightmare in 6 is like that. As long as you're holding the stick towards the opponent and pushing buttons you're gonna do some damage.

>>714159325
>sprint at KO'd opponent until you both slip off the stage edge

>>714159934
>>714159325
>play on ice stage
>run at each other and do a slide kick until someone is ringed out

>>714158303
>He looks like shit in every game since
He does I really hate it also hated his voice after II. II Cervantes will always be the best.

>>714158407
Never liked them.

>>714158718
A Belmont and Lucina

>>714159090
>She's so quintessentially 00s. Definitely the kind of girl that shops at Hot Topic.
Yeah that's why i don't like her. Too emo not enough goth.

>play as Heihachi
>do his rape laugh at the versus screen everytime my friend picks a female character

>diversity hire character
>had to make up a culture for him to represent because if he represented actual African culture people would say it's racist

>>714158718
Samus

>>714160143
>rape laugh
Elaborate

I'll admit I'm still a bit sad that Soul Edge/Calibur never really managed to get out of Tekken's shadow. It looked like it might for a while in the PS2 era but then 4 and 5 both dropped the ball pretty badly.

>play SC2 as a youngass teen
>see Ivy
>think "eww, she's like old"
>fast forward to now
>AW YEA SHES OLD

>>714160329
press O I think, with the dub voices of course

>>714160435
>younger than Talim when I first played
>now older than Ivy
Feels fine actually because I too have been training the blade all these years. HYAT

>>714159049
I'm still gonna host it. It's up for you whether you want to join. Here it is: steam://joinlobby/544750/109775245013149535/76561199021052341

>>714160417
Maybe there's hope because Tekken 8 was a shit show.
SC requires a little more brain matter than Tekken. Tekken appeals more to the... urban demographic.

>>714160417
SC3 was the first time that the series flopped in Namco's eyes because it didn't sell as many copies as it was supposed to, especially compared to Tekken 5. And then they merged with Bandai and never tried to a make a truly high-budget SC game ever again.

https://youtu.be/Yt4gHFg_Vk4

>>714160761
I hate how SC has supers now. Actually I hate the direction of all fighting games, it made realize it's just better to play all the superior old games of all the IPs.

>>714160914
>SC has supers now
What does that mean?

>>714149721
I only play as Nightmare

>>714161067
SC has attacks that play a long-ass cinematic when they connect and cost meter to use now. They're called "Critical Edges."

>>714158718
Alucard

>>714161715
They're not that long, they shortened them from IV and they were a guaranteed KO in that one. There are also ways to avoid or absorb them.

>>714161964
One thing I hate is how the game gives the losing person a free super when they're about to lose the match. WHY. Just make them fucking lose already.

>>714161873
Raphael's costume in SC4 leaned pretty hard into Alucard worship

>>714162105
Yep, the interest is/was definitely there. Wouldn't be the first time they've telegraphed interest in a potential guest by means of a suspiciously similar costume for a native character. (Raphaelcard was definitely more blatant though.)

>>714161964
>they shortened them from IV and they were a guaranteed KO in that one.
Critical Finishes in IV are a completely different mechanic, but I don't like those either. I don't like Guard Gauge mechanics and penalizing people for guarding in the first place. All of this was only introduced in IV.

>>714162094
I don't mind comeback mechanics, people take these games too seriously and act like they MUST win and everything else is unfair. This is true about fighting games in general, not just SC. That said, I'd rather have no meter at all.

>>714158718
kain/raziel, or one of the ubersreik five

>>714156498
To this day, I’m still surprised how they got away with showing such perky nipples.

>>714165816
things were more relaxed back then, CERO didn't have an Olympics-shaped stick up their ass like they have for the past decade.

>>714157082
She has access to good attacks at any range and easy execution. One of her basic throws leaves the enemy really close after the throw animation plays which is pretty rare and valuable, her other basic throw can ring out. 1B is a vertical low with insane range, 6A is a fast horizontal high with insane rage, both of those become guard break attacks during Soul Charge. FC 1K is a fast low into mid kick whose only downside is that it's unsafe on block, 1[A] is a horizontal low that can ring out backwards, 44A always gives a guaranteed Lethal Hit if the range is right, sidestep B . 6B can easily ring out from great distance, her CE also comboes with sidestep B. Her basic attack strings are mixups with medium range. AAA goes high high low, AAB goes high high mid, BBB goes mid mid mid and BBA goes mid mid low. Oh, and her 2A is a traditional i12. Mina also doesn't have any stances, which makes using her extremely easy.

The execution on both Nightmare and Ivy is more difficult. Nightmare is pretty slow and it's easy to punish his mistakes. Ivy starts having trouble if people get close to her because her 2A is not an i12.

Lobby closed.

>>714149425
>>714149542
SC 2 online got delisted a few years ago. Your only options are console mods for PS3/360 or emulation if you don't already have it.

>>714154687
SUFFER

>>714172780
If you're going to emulate, then emulate the Gamecube version through Dolphin. It has online too, and it's better than HDO. HDO through RPCS3
adds tons of lag and there's no way to skip win quotes in online matches.

Bump

>>714149219 (OP)
The Arcade version should’ve had Ryu as a guest character to come circle.

>>714160143
Ngl, I’m glad the PS2 version went with Heihachi instead of Cloud.

We didn’t need two of the three guest characters to be blond anime swordie twinks, plus Tekken better represents the PS2 era with 4/5/TT while Cloud didn’t even have a presence on the console outside of Kingdom Hearts.

Is the Hero of Time’s journey in Soul Calibur 2 canon to Zelda?
>shows up in your universe after killing Ganondorf and Majora
>says nothing
>destroys Soul Edge
>leaves
>fucks his big titty redhead wife
>becomes a skeleton
>descendant goes on adventure with a living fleshlight and meets him
>never mentions how there are other universes where he fought a multiclassing burning skeleton in hell

>>714149219 (OP)
Ah yes, Soul Calibur 2, that game where I play as Link to beat the shit out of some random dudes. Good times.... When is Nintendo doing another one?

>>714162105
I've heard some people say that Sophitia SC III 2P looks like Saber. It's one of her best outfits IMO.

>>714160214
Actually not entire true because scythes were used as weapons in Africa in like 18th century.

>>714159559
IMO his armor in VI just needs chainmail underneath to look good. I made a custom like that.

>>714159205
He's officially called "Siegfried!" with an exclamation mark.

>>714158718
Amy Rose

>>714149219 (OP)

It's crazy how passionate Zelda fans are about Soul Calibur.

>>714188095
I call that the GameCube effect. GameCube had very few games worth anyone's time so everyone who owned that console played the same ones. It helped create a sense of shared community between GameCube owners later on. Whereas PS2 owners were often only fans of particular series and had little in common with one another, being a GameCube owner implied subscribing to a particular canon of game titles. That's also why they don't care about any SoulCalibur other than II, it's not on their console. Btw, SC1 and SC3 play just as well and any justifications you've heard about the gameplay in SC2 being better are mostly false in that they're a matter of preference and baby duck syndrome rather than objective facts.

SC6 finals in the last large-scale tournament

>>714158792
Could you write a better Tira x Siegfried fic than Yanderedev?

>>714149219 (OP)
Versus voldo in nintendo switch 2 online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQ-HHE503Q

>>714189491
There a lots of great gamecube games. You just have shit taste.

>>714196234
All moments are sex moments in SC.

>>714181440
It's really the hair and vague color scheme that make the comparison more than anything else IMO.

The reason why I'm mad that SoulCalibur VII is never going to release is because Sophitia's and Cassandra's stories had a tragic finale in the old timeline. Cassandra's Soul Chronicle in SC VI was about how she wants to prevent that from happening, but now we'll never know if she's successful or not.

>>714203359
I'm kinda glad I don't really understand what happened, but at least it resulted in Cassandra having her costume from IV.

>>714158718
John Sekiro

>>714149219 (OP)
>His courage and faith are his greatest weapons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkzFDiUQuIM

Praying for a miracle at the Bandai Namco Showcase tomorrow. C'mon, the momentum's on your side thanks to GameCube on Switch 2.

I just want to transcend history and the world.

>>714205407
I still think this is the best version of the zelda theme

>>714191275
In their defense Mugen and Smash illustrate how wanted the idea is, the problem was not making it a separate thing from SC.

I want to marry Ivy and keep her company in her manor. No need to isolate yourself luv. I've been snorting soul calibur dust so I can cancel out your malfested genes.

>>714203359
Analysts think Soulcalibur VI sold double the amount that it needed to be a financial success. Tekken 8 meanwhile has sold less than half of what it needed. I think Bandai Namco is going to want a lower budget fighting game next, and Harada will refuse to compromise on his precious Tekken, so that's how we'll get Soulcalibur VII.

I also think Cassandra is going to be the main character of either VII or VIII. They're not going to give up on Elysium as a villain, but they're absolutely not going to do another multiple-decade timeskip. If they want an existing character who doesn't trust Soul Calibur and has a close bond with Sophitia, they've already got one.

>>714206515
>doesn't trust Soul Calibur
Is Soul Calibur even good? It got malfested in SCII, or something. Fighting game story usually eludes me.

I want Elysium to be my mommy.

Is it me or was Astaroth one of the best characters in IV?

My dream SoulCalibur has every character from every game and every stage from every game. All characters can choose between movesets from different entries. I wish SoulCalibur 6 modding wasn't so jank. Imagine if instead of replacing stages and voices it ADDED stages, voices, and returning characters? Would be so fucking good. Unreal Engine has already been cracked in terms of modding is it incompetence or lack of knowledge from amature modders? Idk I just want the ultimate SovlCalibur experience. I've been playing a lot of 6 and a bit of 4 on a emulator.

>>714207165
It got corrupted by Soul Edge to some extent when Xianghua left it stabbed in Inferno between I and II. That's why it's got that evil variant in II. It did get purified later, but some people think it didn't fully work.

The more popular theory is that it was always evil. Soul Calibur was made from a shard of Soul Edge by Algol, for the purpose of opposing Soul Edge. That ought to mean that other than hating Soul Edge, it has the same nature as Soul Edge.

Soul Calibur is a lot weaker than Soul Edge, so Soul Edge is usually the one threatening the world. Soul Calibur always appeared to be good because it was opposing the sword that's threatening the world, but that's not because it's the good sword. It's just the less threatening evil sword, which has the common goal of destroying the more threatening evil sword.

6 Deluxe is 84% off on Steam.

>>714207165
>Is Soul Calibur even good? It got malfested in SCII, or something. Fighting game story usually eludes me.
No, Soul Calibur is the Order to Edge's Chaos. It takes on the form of a barely clothes Sophitia in 5 to manipulate her son.

>>714207959
So basically Soul Calibur Ultimate.
VI's stages were kinda dull. I never played V so they could have just released a SCV stage pack. Even IV's stages still look on par with VI graphically.

>>714207959
Also I hate that for some reason editing Characters takes up a slot in the creator instead of just being added as a skin to characters like in SC4.

>>714208294
Ye

>>714207959
>is it incompetence or lack of knowledge from amature modders?
They're competent, but they're out of touch. Instead of putting it on Nexus, they all think it's reasonable for anyone who wants to use their mods to join their modding Discord.

They don't understand what players who don't spend all their time modding SC6 actually want. Why work on a system that lets them add more characters, when that doesn't actually create anything new for the game? In their minds, swapping characters in and out is easy anyway.

>>714207165
SC4 introduced a bunch of new lore about how it was basically flawed since the moment of his creation because Algol didn't do it properly. SC6 reaffirms this lore. However, SC5 art book also alludes to Soul Calibur being partially corrupted during the time when it stayed in Astral Chaos in between SC1 and SC2. In SC6, Siegfried is trying to protect Soul Calibur inside Astral Chaos while Inferno takes over his body as Nightmare. However, it's implied that his efforts are just slowing it down more than anything. So really, they left themselves plenty of room to maneuver on this issue and could make it either way in the next game.

>>714207959
>every character from every game
What system do you imagine this Soulcalibur with both Link and Kratos would release on?

>>714208487
I just take a screenshot of the ones I don't use in case I want to recreate it again later.

>>714208670
PC after both Sony and Nintendo start releasing all of their games on it.

>>714208670
A Nintendo console

>>714206515
>Analysts think Soulcalibur VI sold double the amount that it needed to be a financial success. Tekken 8 meanwhile has sold less than half of what it needed.
Source?

>>714208497
Yeah I joined the Vodkalibur discord just for their dumb mod manager that gives me a headache to use. It's a real shame.

>>714208670
I don't really care if guest characters return or not, that's too much bureaucracy and red tape I'm sure. I think all the Soul Calibur characters are interesting enough by themselves.

Azwel has a fun move set. His weapons have pretty colors.

>>714208590
I hope they'll just go back to Soul Calibur being the good sword in an eventual next game. It felt like the usual "the good side is also evil" thing that long-running franchises fall into when they run out of ideas.

>>714203926
>I don't really understand what happened
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/688303789/#q688332712
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/688303789/#q688332820
Feel free to stop reading after SC4 because both of them get removed from the story before SC5 takes place. And then old timeline Cassandra comes to the new timeline (because they're connected through Astral Chaos), loses against her new timeline self and tells her about all of this.

>>714209123
Soulcalibur VI launched to about 1 million sales, and Bandai Namco called that a financial success. It then proceeded to sell 2 million over its lifetime.

Tekken 8 is estimated to need 8 million to be a success. It recently celebrated selling 3 million.

Bandai Namco themselves are the source on all of that except the 8 million number from analysts. Don't remember where I saw that, so I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader. I might have made it up.

>>714209740
>alternate timeline faggottry
Hopefully with capeshit on the decline we will see less multiverse crap. I know they had to do that to clean up the mess they made with V.

>>714209535
Soul Calibur was only ever an unambiguously good sword for one game, and it was less effective at defeating Soul Edge than Sophitia's Omega Sword in that game.

Just because they didn't go all-in on it until V doesn't mean it wasn't always there.

>>714210871
>they didn't go all-in
Should've gone all out.

>>714210871
>Only play 2, 5, and 6.
>See thread saying most lore says Calibur is weak as fuck compared to Edge.
Slightly confusing since 2's Weapon Master said Calibur is equal to edge at least in terms of legend.

>>714211601
Weapon Master is non-canon.

Soul Calibur is still a legendary sword. It's just the lesser of the two. It's evenly matched with Soul Edge in a one-on-one, but that's because it was created to fight Soul Edge. It still outclasses any other weapon it might face off against, but by a lesser extent than Soul Edge does.

Being less effective in the one game where it's unambiguously good is less about the sword being weak, and more about Xianghua having no idea what she's doing. Soulcalibur I/VI is the only time Soul Edge is defeated but nobody tries to destroy it. Sophitia, meanwhile, is the only one to ever damage Soul Edge without Soul Calibur.

Is Cervantes enough of a piece of shit that he would rape his own daughter?

>>714158718
Gotrek Gurnisson. I feel like a superheavy + small profile character would be really fun to play. Actually, now that I mention it, I can't actually think of that combination having been done before in a fighting game.

SCVI has the best looking pussy I've ever seen in a video game. Even way back to 2 it was looking good. Why is that area so hard for many 3D artists?

>>714160417
Soulcalibur was bigger than Tekken for a long time, and if you read between the lines in Harada's story about Soulcalibur's history, you can see exactly how it fell into Tekken's shadow.

The Tekken and Soulcalibur teams had a rivalry, and Harada always believed you need to do whatever it takes to win. He's made that a central theme of Tekken, and he's used it to justify redirecting all the resources from Soulcalibur to Tekken. He bemoans the culture that game directors should move into management, but he did it himself and then abused that power to fuck over the directors who didn't.

>>714149219 (OP)
Hm?

>>714149219 (OP)
SHUT UP

>>714216614
He looks so stupid in VI.
His armor is way too big and clips heavily as a result. The art is fine but in game he looks like crap. He looks like he's got styrofoam blocks for feet.

Am retard so I just bought the 1st season pass for 6 to fuck around with 2B.

>>714218274
A wise decision.

>>714218884

>>714157907
Hi Todd.
Are you still collecting baseballs?