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Rynnec Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#3751: Dec 22nd 2017 at 2:39:31 AM

It's funny that Noctis looks more out of place in Dissidia than he does in Tekken. Not seeing how he looks particularly douchey either. He just looks someone you'd see in the Japanese equivalent ot Hot Topic or something.

I thought that was a different Spawn, not Al Simmons?

Al came back recently and the first arc after his return has him wielding a BFS given to him by God to free his wife from Hell. He relinquishes it at the end of the arc but that doesn't change the fact that SC now has a weapon to give Al that he has wielded himself in the source material, as opposed to Agony, which may or may not have been a vague allusion to the Medieval Spawn from an early issue.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#3752: Dec 22nd 2017 at 12:42:49 PM

Here's a potential/hopeful list of characters considering what we know of the timeline and the fact that they've teased that the game would have a little over 20 characters:

25 most likely:

  • Aeon Calcos (Lizardman)
  • Astaroth
  • Cassandra
  • Cervantes
  • Charade
  • Edgemaster
  • Hilde
  • Hwang
  • Ivy
  • Kilik
  • Li Long
  • Maxi
  • Mitsurugi
  • Nightmare/Siegfried
  • Raphael
  • Rock
  • Seong Mi-Na
  • Setsuka
  • Sophitia
  • Taki
  • Tira
  • Voldo
  • Xianghua
  • Yoshimitsu
  • Zasalamel

Possible/Improbable:

  • Ashlotte
  • Bangoo
  • Charade
  • Chie
  • Dampierre
  • Han Myong
  • Olcadan
  • Salia Olschmidt
  • Zwei

Unlikely/removed/DLC/sequel characters:

edited 22nd Dec '17 12:48:52 PM by wanderlustwarrior

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#3753: Dec 22nd 2017 at 12:49:39 PM

Also, I wonder how closely 6's supers will hew to these Critical Edges from the original game.

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MikeBreezy92 Storm King Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Noddin' my head like yeah
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#3754: Dec 22nd 2017 at 1:04:44 PM

Also the paper rock scissors game at the end of reversal edge was in Soul Blade as well whenever you clashed. In that game you had no Dodge options but the ABK options were there.

edited 22nd Dec '17 1:06:55 PM by MikeBreezy92

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TechPowah Just a simple hero from the room down the hall Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#3755: Dec 23rd 2017 at 2:57:30 AM

It's funny that Noctis looks more out of place in Dissidia than he does in Tekken.

That's actually a pretty apt statement. In Tekken, he's just some nerd with magic anime swords. In Dissidia, he's the gamer dude who gets thrown into a Trapped in TV Land plot by getting sucked into his fantasy fighting game. tongue

edited 23rd Dec '17 2:57:58 AM by TechPowah

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CountofBleck Starting to believe in himself from New Wirral (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#3756: Dec 23rd 2017 at 10:40:12 PM

Found some new footage on a whim, as well as a peek at the character select screen, which seems to currently sit at about 20 character if my math is right.

edited 23rd Dec '17 10:43:18 PM by CountofBleck

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#3757: Dec 23rd 2017 at 10:45:06 PM

Screen has 20 slots. I'd seen that before I made my above post. The accompanying interviews suggested there may be more than 20.

Sophitia looks so gorgeous. I'm most interested to see what Seong Mi-Na looks like under these graphics, in her SE or SC 1 era costumes. She was my preferred waifu, but I can concede that Sophitia is more conventionally attractive, and benefits from Western standards. Here's hoping Mi-Na looks more Korean.

Part of why I wouldn't be bothered if Zwei returned, in addition to his age not being locked down, is because in talking to some of my friends I've learned that he's Mr. Fanservice, and while he seems try-hard to me, I won't begrudge them their eye candy.

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Rynnec Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#3758: Dec 23rd 2017 at 11:02:03 PM

His style is also pretty rad and unique, he's arguably the newcomer from V most likely to come back.

CountofBleck Starting to believe in himself from New Wirral (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#3760: Dec 23rd 2017 at 11:45:41 PM

Ya know, I've just noticed Mitsurugi's kinda sounding like Patrick Seitz at times in that preview.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#3761: Dec 24th 2017 at 8:11:50 PM

I'm again looking at the results of the popularity poll (not the head-to-head competition).

  • Characters in IV not playable in SCV ranked: 1, 2, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 31
    • Considering this poll was during the early VI development period, I'm hoping they learned from this poll.
  • The highest placing SCV character (Viola) ranked 21.
  • Moveset clones and copy characters are almost universally disliked, taking the entire bottom 10 spots. Doesn't seem like people are a fan of "functions".
    • Despite having literally no personality, among copy characters, Charade ranked second to Soul Edge. Clearly it's not just me who likes him.
  • Lizardman, Rock and Algol were the lowest placing major characters of IV.
    • This and the previous subpoint suggest fans still held 2 in high regard, but...
  • Hwang, who hadn't been playable since 3, was a Satellite Character in SC, and was only a main character in SE... placed 23 out of the 45 characters. Dude is still held in high regard.

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Ryuhza Brother from San Diego County, California Since: Feb, 2012 Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
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#3762: Dec 24th 2017 at 11:53:17 PM

Still sour about that poll, 'cause they separated Aeon and Lizardman for no good reason, reducing the count for each.

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VutherA Since: Jul, 2009
#3763: Dec 25th 2017 at 1:01:48 AM

[up]Can I suspect from your profile picture that you are a fellow of scaled sympathies?

Darthwyn leader of Inherit from The void Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#3764: Dec 25th 2017 at 9:32:51 AM

Considering the new cast never got to do much minus a handful of them not all that surprising that characters with multiple games would be more popular.

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#3765: Dec 25th 2017 at 10:40:19 AM

Hwang, though.

If you add the Aeon and Lizardman scores together, he fares better.

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Darthwyn leader of Inherit from The void Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#3766: Dec 25th 2017 at 10:57:56 AM

Considering he is ranked 23 which out of 48 is near the middle sounds like a combination of making a good impression, good move pool and any other factor. Point being that overall characters with multiple games have an easier time scoring votes then new characters.

"Shall I use you, or make you mine... I'm not so sure what I'll do." - Dorthy
wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#3767: Dec 25th 2017 at 11:04:54 AM

Then compare Viola vs Astaroth. Or how Talim (playable in only 3 of the 6 games) beat everyone, including Taki (playable since the start).

Is it hard to believe characters place higher or lower in a character popularity poll because people like or dislike their characters?

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#3768: Dec 25th 2017 at 12:05:28 PM

Never played Soul Calibur 5 but I love Viola's orb weapon,I hope she somehow makes it in to 6

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Darthwyn leader of Inherit from The void Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#3769: Dec 25th 2017 at 12:11:56 PM

[up][up] That is pretty what I said my point being the longer a character is around the easier it is for them to gain popularity. Never said it was an absolute truth, but certainly a major factor in who people vote for.

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agent-trunks IHE from Every-where, but there Since: Apr, 2015
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#3770: Dec 28th 2017 at 8:55:47 PM

You know, we had this discussion regarding popularity a few pages back, that being said Talim better not be 11 years old in this game. I don't care how they do it, just don't put loli Talim in.

edited 28th Dec '17 10:54:33 PM by agent-trunks

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#3771: Dec 28th 2017 at 10:26:46 PM

I agree. If this game spans 1586-159X, then she'd be in at her normal age.

And tbh, these games should be spanning some amount of time, considering characters are traveling across Europe, and, at the most extreme, across Asia.

Assuming absolutely zero detours, over the course of 2-4, which all take place in on year:

  • Sophitia traveled from Greece to Germany to Greece to Germany in the course of a year, travelling alone
  • Mi-Na went from Korea to China, got a decent bit of training from Edgemaster, then crossed Asia to Istanbul, met Talim and Yancy, then tracked down Yancy again (this time he only had one night's head start)
  • Talim went from the Philippines, crossed Asia, met Yancy, stopped somewhere to treat a sick child, crossed more of Asia, met the above in Istanbul, then crossed some of Europe. Again, spending most of her time traveling alone, as a 15 year old girl.
  • Tira, who seems to have some equivalent of Littlefinger's jetpack, went from Germany, found out who Sophitia was, that she has kids, and where they live, personally went to (presumably) Japan for a once-a-year festival, evaded most of Yoshimitsu's clan and disappeared his second in command, went to Greece, abducted a child, went back to Germany, established more of her plan, and at some point met with Astaroth, Maxi, Cervantes, and Voldo (presumably back in Italy).
    In one year.
    dafuq?

edited 28th Dec '17 10:27:35 PM by wanderlustwarrior

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agent-trunks IHE from Every-where, but there Since: Apr, 2015
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#3772: Dec 28th 2017 at 10:47:32 PM

[up]

You know, I'm just going to chalk up suspension of disbelief here & call it day.

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#3773: Dec 29th 2017 at 2:51:34 AM

People found some Imperial speeder bikes belonging to scouts that Vader sent ahead of his arrival in IV, and the rest of the cast have been using it for their travels.

Stellar Since: Jun, 2011
#3774: Dec 30th 2017 at 10:54:31 AM

Backing up to guest characters for a moment, Harada stated he would like to throw in Sam Sho characters as guests. Personally I would love to see Genjuro duke it out with Mitsurugi or Iroha tag teaming with Voldo.

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agent-trunks IHE from Every-where, but there Since: Apr, 2015
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#3775: Dec 30th 2017 at 2:12:12 PM

[up]What? Haohmaru is too predictable?


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