Soul Calibur/Soul Series

3 games took place over the course of a single year?

One thing I always hated. There was three years between Soul Edge and Calibur. Four years between SC1 and SC2. And then the timeline just... stopped.

I blame their fear of middle-aged women. They didn't want to risk making Taki and Ivy unappealing by adding more years to them.

Yes, Soul Calibur II up to IV take place on the span of six to eight months.

Didn't they say Ivy stopped aging because of her connection to Soul Edge?

edited 20th Jun '18 9:15:13 AM by windleopard

Yeah, she stopped aging because she was heavily exposed to Soul Edge.

She stopped aging because the designers didn't want to make a new Fanservice character :P

Yeah, but she can’t say that in story.

So SC’s creator isn’t going to give the kids the Hsu Hao treatment? Shame.

And that’s a wide swath of history. Does that cover Soul Blade as well?

Being Ret-Gone isn't enough for you?

And nope, he's not covering the first game. For some goddamn reason.

edited 20th Jun '18 10:05:48 AM by ZeroDozer

The same timeline stagnation happened in Tekken around the same time. Going from character's ages, there were two years between Tekken 1 and 2, nineteen years between Tekken 2 and 3, two years between Tekken 3 and 4, and then Tekkens 4, 5, 6 and 7 have all supposedly taken place in the same year.

edited 20th Jun '18 1:37:47 PM by Ryuhza

Man, the Mishimas have been busy on the last year.

@Beatman: As much as you wouldn't like it, but they're not Ed Boon. They felt that slamming him in that one profile thing and then retconning him was enough. People deal with disliked characters differently.

And I think I'm getting unnerved in people getting Catharsis Factor in turning a game into a "Kill Characters You Don't Like" show.

That character was liked, it's just the game that was disliked, so the character was salvagable. If the character is disliked on both sides, end of the line. Tremor clearly is on a different league than Patroklos or Hsu Hao.

edited 20th Jun '18 7:23:50 PM by ChrisX

Well some characters from bad games find life in good ones. Remember Tremor?

Tremor's the bomb.

edited 20th Jun '18 6:58:41 PM by slimcoder

Don't you mean Tremor rocks?

edited 20th Jun '18 8:12:25 PM by randomdude4

He's good for shaking things up.

He fights pretty dirty though.

I am leaving this thread and letting the door hit me on the way out in the hopes of the trauma possibly causing forgetfulness.

I have no idea what's going on here, but getting the topic little back on track I've heard nothing but positive from hands-on impressions. So if anyone wants to share any gripes with the game that be cool.

My only gripe is that I'm not playing now, and Voldo has yet to be confirmed. Oh and Koreans.

Now you get why I'm condemning the risk of not all of the original nineteen appearing.

Criticize my "doomsaying" all you want, but I have at least some points when doing it.

edited 21st Jun '18 1:30:50 PM by ZeroDozer

Just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right.

Would you mind telling me what do you define as right? Being a jerk (as in the posts that had lead to my suspension) may be indeed a crime, but having an opinion that goes against the flow isn't.

People should stop judging others by the first impression.

edited 21st Jun '18 1:51:16 PM by ZeroDozer

Despite how much I like that dialogue from Unlimited Blade Works, I often wonder how seriously I should take that quote. I like what it means, but it just sounds so stupid when you say it out loud.

People die when they are killed?

I mean Shirou is a genuine moron so of course he would say some stupid-ass shit.