Because they most likely don’t want to make the mistakes of SFIII (while copying it’s good bits).
Did people bitch about Alpha? Alpha 2 was missing quite a few of the original ST cast.
I hope they don’t add too many characters based on old ones. By new I was hoping they meant more than name and appearance.
Yeah. Although it’s nice to have the playstyles return, sometimes I’d just rather have the real thing and leave the new blood actually new.
Daishi said some interesting bits on his twitter:
EVO was great fun. I want to go next year as well, not for work but privately for my enjoyment!
What happened to Kilik? All I can say is, he is what you might call an ill-fated character…
Daishi Odashima
If you guard too much they start flashing and your guard will be broken. RT @Malice215: What are the yellow and red flashing lifebars?
Daishi Odashima
おお、鋭いね。 Another good observation. RT @Klusoya: Leisha wear Kilik’s pendant. Does that means kilik is the father ? and is he still alive ?
Just Guard isn’t as powerful as SFIII’s parry system. Just gives you a little bit of advantage.
You can’t do Just Guard by rapidly pressing G. Just thought I’d make that clear cos some people were worried.
After going to EVO I felt that we need to find some pro players to represent SC at these sort of events.
I was pondering something just now. Any of the veteran SC characters can make the roster in SC5. Each character in the series is either still young enough too not be cut because 17 years older is not a death sentence, or, they are immortal and haven’t aged a second.
Too further my point consider this. During EVO it showed Mitsurugi in the demo version. Mitsurugi was 46 years old in SC2-SC4, and if he’s back in SC5 that would mean he is 63 years old. So, If he can make the cut, anyone can.
But hey. I love Mitsurugi, so if he is back then I’m tickled pink about his return.
Then again, this is also Namco, who put in a 100-year-old dude who could beat up people way younger and bigger than him
Everybody knows chinese and japanese karate men get stronger as they get older. It’s just like in the movies 
I was thinking the same thing when I was writing my post. lol.
But it still doesn’t mean someone like Yun-seong won’t make it back because of the 17 year difference. It just means he can come back and be 35 years old and way more experienced. He might even lose some of his flashy/showboating fighting style because age teaches discipline and humility. Doesn’t it? 
They got around that by saying it took place before sf2, but after sf1.
It doesn’t work by saying it takes place 17 years after? People are fools, lol.
Calling it now, SCV’s guest character is from Star Wars. Again. :oops:
Who cares?
Even Harry Potter is more likely than Star Wars, since SW hasn’t been active a lot lately (not counting the MMO, of course). Around the time SC4 was released we had both SW movies and singleplayer games (meaning proper characters, unlike those in an MMO), that’s why the SW characters were in then.
I honestly don’t think we’ll see characters from movies this time, but games. Most likely unexciting ones from FF13-2, like Lightning.
I doubt they’ll do something crazy like throwing in Ainsley Harriott, Travis Touchdown and Captain Haddock, so just wait and see. If they happen to be interesting and cool choices then that’d be a bonus.
Blistering Barancles! Now that’s a guest character I can get behind.
Nu-uh. Never say it took place AFTER. You do that, people will expect old faces all over the place, and bitch heartily when they don’t show up…like sf3. If you do a radical cast change, you either need to place that game’s date as before the old cast joined, or like 50 years into the future…although for SC’s purposes, 17 yitf (Years Into The Future) could work. Times were hard and uncivilized back then, and there was a LOT of fighting. Wars happen, people die, regardless of skill.
I can’t tell if your’e being sarcastic or not but saying its 17 years later is definetely not a bad thing. Just read up to one of my previous posts where I explain myself more clearly.
In 17 years time either of them could have died, changed careers, retired, started a family, disappeared, ascended, and who knows what else, but they can make it back just as easy as I stated in my previous posts. All of these are pretty self explanatory reasons to why someone will or will not return as a playable character. And if they do return who knows in which direction they will take them. I for one am very hopeful and am excited to see what they will do with the time difference.
Saying its 17 years later isn’t a bad idea at all. And who cares if people cry about it.
I think he’s saying why can some people accept years before not having old character but not accept years after not having old characters?
ie SFA and SF3
I understand that. But isn’t SF3 only 2 or 3 years after SF4? And SFA the same just minus years? Kind of a small window for 90% of the original roster to disapear into nothing, or for that matter, why most SFA characters didn’t make it to SF3 or SF4.
Soul Calibur 5 will definetely develop the time jump better than others did because they are taking a more inteligent approach. Making it 17 years leaves a lot more room to develop a history to why a character does or does not return.
SF4 is a retcon, doesn’t count and basically ignores SF3 ever existed. If I recall correctly, if SF4 respected the original timeline Makoto and Ibuki should be fightiting fetuses.