>Filipino fighter
>Doesn't even use a Filipino fighting style (arnis/kali/escrima) or Filipino weapons

I'm not even Filipino but this shit pisses me off. Instead of researching the culture in depth they just went "Southeast Asia let's anime that shit up and make it all pseudo spiritual yeah they worship the winds and shit" her home level doesn't look anything like the Phillipines of that time, just generic anime land. At least I can look at seigfried and know he's from Germany. And wtf kind of Chinese name is kilik?

Sex with Talim

>>11812637 (OP)
No one has cared in the 20+ years this game has been out.

>>11812637 (OP)
those weapons are way cooler
i don't know what you're on about they're basically police batons.

>>11812637 (OP)
It's a fantasy game.

>>11812640
oh yis

>>11812674
>>11812637 (OP)
Apparently Yoyo's are invented by the Flips, could have been a decent replacement

ah germany....

>>11812637 (OP)
The way the devs designed the characters (at least in SC1) was that they had the weapon first and then made a bunch of different designs and picked the one they liked the most. Not sure if this is how they made characters for SC2, but I remember seeing an old gaming magazine that had screenshots of an earlier build of the game where Talim was called "Tungfa," meaning they at least had an idea of a character who used tonfas.

>And wtf kind of Chinese name is kilik?
It's not Chinese. It's how Japs pronounce a Sanskrit character (hrīḥ), pic related. Though they normally pronounce it as "Kiriiku" (キリーク). Kilik even says a Sanskrit Buddhist chant that has hrīḥ in it (though the English translation replaces it with Kilik's own name) in a couple of games like his ending in SC1 or after winning a round with his super in SC6.

>>11812712
Kilik is a pajeet?

Although not optimal for melee combat, Colette uses chakrams, which is pretty cool.

>>11812724
He's very likely to be Chinese; his backstory has him be left abandoned as a baby outside of a Chinese warrior monk temple. It's more likely that he's a Buddhist (or was raised as one). It's not really clear since there's never any explanation or elaboration.

>>11812637 (OP)
There are also two blonde Greeks in the game and Ivy who apparently is British and has the Egyptian Crypt as her home stage.
I wouldn't think too much about it.

>>11812724
>>11812736
>>11812712
Maybe he's Nepali or Tibetan

>>11812637 (OP)
Your desperation to take offence on behalf of a foreign culture for something that doesn't actually offend them is disgusting.

>>11812856
It has nothing to do with virtue signaling, it's just that as a professional autist i require extreme attention to detail in world building for me to fully immerse myself. Nigga all they had to do was read a fucking history book

>>11812856
OP is clearly a Filipino.

>>11812690
Wow she basically giving him a Naizuri.

>>11812637 (OP)
Nobody knew anything about the Philippines before the 2000s. They gained a lot of their cultural visibility / soft power during the internet era.

>>11812640
she is a child you sick fuck

>>11812759
>Blonde Greeks
Not without precedent

>>11812896
So were you when I banged your mom

>>11812904
my mom isn't into pedos

>>11812637 (OP)
I like Japan's 90s vision of the malay/pacific islands. All they knew was that there were brown people there

>>11812864
>It has nothing to do with virtue signaling
So says every virtue signaller ever.
>>11812876
He explicitly stated otherwise.

>>11812864
what history book has the Soul Edge in it

>>11812953
>He explicitly stated otherwise.

You never lied on the Internet?

>>11812698
germans live like this though

>>11812976

Sex with Talim

>>11813010
she is a child

>>11813020
Shes a sex priest
are you going tell her that her culture is wrong?

>>11813025
White Culture is the only culture that is correct, and we must enforce it on all the chud savages of the world.

>>11813025
no she is not

>>11813020
out of 10!

Off topic thread.

>>11812637 (OP)
you're 20 years too late to be offended for someone else, stupid

>>11812640
>>11812690
I remember thinking she was cute and sexy ever since I was her age. Now I'm bigger than her, and she's still cute and sexy.

>>11813020
>>11812896
She's actually not a person.

>>11813246
if you are imagining sex with her you are imagining sex with a child.

>>11813302
And?

>>11813312
and that makes you a sick fuck.

>>11813314
And?

>>11813319
And I think you, and all people like you, should be exterminated.
>aAaNnD?
no wonder you want to fuck children. you have the mind of one.

>>11813357
>People are thinking thoughts I don't like!
>IN THEIR HEADS!!

And there's nothing you can do about it

>>11813239
Based

>>11812637 (OP)
>arnis/kali/escrima
There isn't a single fucking person in the entire world who isnt a flip and has ever heard of these shit

>>11812690
She's tiptoeing her tummy against his bulge. Hottest shit I ever seen, as a tummyfag.

>>11812637 (OP)
The Filipinos weren't a thing yet!

>>11813520
I like women my age as well, I just never stopped being attracted to the same characters as I was when I was a teenager.
They're not real people, so I don't think it's a problem.

>>11812637 (OP)
There's a lake island named "Talim" in the Philippines and its shape suspiciously resembles her weapons...
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talim_Island

>>11812759
Sophitia and the rest of her family are blonde because she was based off of Namco's Valkyrie on one hand and Alexander the Great on the other (hence her surname). The Greek letters on Sophitia's and Cassandra's swords in high-res 3D renders are actually supposed to be the Priene inscription of Alexander the Great, but most of them butcher it because Nips can't into Greek: https://the-library-of-alexandra.neocities.org/pages/misc/trivia/omega_and_digamma_sword_inscriptions Alexander was at least traditionally thought to be blonde. Some Greeks are blonde nowadays and many probably were in the 16th century. But why are Sophitia and Cassandra so pale and why do their stages feature icy breath or snow most of the time? They live in Greece ffs, they should be tanned throughout the better part of the year. No one in Europe associates that country with deep, snowy mountains like these. The mountains in Greece aren't even very tall. That's definitely Scandinavian/Germanic influences from Valkyrie creeping their way into stage design a little too much. More modern SoulCalibur games like SC4 or SC6 have Greek stages that look more like Greece, oddly enough.

>>11812759
SC2 is just lazy where it comes to its stages. There aren't enough stages in the game for every character. Multiple characters can share one stage. If you encounter both characters who use the same stage in arcade mode, one of them will use a different stage from a character who doesn't appear. Some other SC games have Valentine Mansion stages, which make more sense for Ivy.

>>11813540
>that vein mark on his forehead

>>11813641
>When they got more politically correct and accurate they got worse

Many such cases

>>11813540
The pic is really hot in just a size difference sense, besides just the whole lolicon angle.

>>11812637 (OP)
>They're just like us

>but with a tan

Japan hardly knows the places they travel to like Hawaii or Brazil.

>>11812690
Not sure what's supposed to be suggestive about this picture or the one anon>>11813981
just posted. You all need a break from porn, it's frying whatever brain cells you’ve got left

>>11813990
Look at his groin, now look at where her chest is.

>>11813981
I'm short so this will never matter to me and I prefer not to think about it

>>11814028
Sucks, I guess. I like being tall.

>>11814034
We know.

>>11812662
>>11813054
I care about it

>>11812698
>>11812976
>germans live like this though
True facts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-V0VB_Zi8

>>11814039
Have you considered like an Asian girl or something? You might still be taller than many women.

I don’t really understand this weird obsession with height as a marker of sexual attraction. I’ve met guys who are married or in relationships with women of similar height, or even where the woman is slightly taller, and they’re doing fine. Is this just another phenomenon created by dumb consumer culture?

>>11814142
It's just more foreveralone coping for why they are unattractive to women. It always has to be placed on something they cannot change so that they have an excuse to do nothing but whine an seethe. If you point out that plenty of guys who look just like them or worse, or are as poor as them or more, have a girlfriend or wife and kids and a perfectly fine relationship, they will then cope by claiming the woman is surely cheating on him with their own gay fantasy of the 'ultimate male'.

That's why they are justified in continuing to be awful people, in their minds.

>>11814028
>t. average filipino male

>>11814120
Everyone has considered an asian girl or something.
They're only the most popular.

>>11814168
I'm white thoughever

>>11812637 (OP)
Filipino and pedophile sound the same... and they are

>>11814142
It's a subjective thing, to a lot of men, it doesn't matter much. Some want a short girl, a few men want a girl who's taller than them.

>>11814147
If you mean people lamenting their height a lot, sure, because while a lot of women want a tall man, a lot of women don't actually care that much, and a few want a short guy.
Personally, I like being tall though, because almost all women are shorter than me.

>>11813957
SC4 is the game with the most risqué character designs to date and SC6 isn't far off. They're definitely not politically correct, but they do have more accurate Greek stages and yeah, they aren't as good as the old games IMO. You can see the budget for this series decrease in real time after SC3 flopped and the Bandai merger happened. They were never willing to take risks with this series again. SC6 is the cheapest looking. It's the only game in the series whose logo looks like it was typeset with some off-the-shelf font rather than drawn by hand.

>>11813556
Same here. The Talim from the OP image and the other images in that set is an extremely attractive fictional female human of indeterminate age. A close-as-possible real-life recreation of her would probably look too much like a little kid for me, because she would in fact be a kid. And also she'd look too much like a Filipino (for me - they are generally not my type) and not enough like a perfect beautiful anime girl of indeterminate race.

>>11814147
I’m not that anon, but modern dating and the court system make getting into a relationship risky, with a high chance of getting MeToo’d. So I get why some have grown wary of modern relationships.

That said, a big part of it is bitterness and resentment from some men toward women, assuming they’re all one single group.

>>11814142
Taller women have less feminine figures - it's a biological fact. The taller she is, the more manish she is. Despite this, I don't see the big deal

>>11812637 (OP)
>let's anime that shit up
HELL YEAH
LET'S FUCKING GO

>>11813556
>never stopped being attracted to the same characters as I was when I was a teenager
This. I liked older women when I was younger too.
People expect your tastes to change and for you to become a different person or something?

>>11814905
Soul Edge & Calibur series has always been anime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eglynkuono

>My heart is still pounding

For me, it's Cassandra.

>>11814042
Because you're a fucking LOSER.

>>11812637 (OP)
She doesn't even look Filipino, she looks like a tanned white girl.
Would still smash though.

>>11817863
I always thought she looked Mesoamerican or something