he probably feels ivy ruined it because he weapon contradicts the game, why have a sword or a whip when I can have a sword whip to slash you fast or whip you from far away, not that she completely demolished the game mechanics (as far as we know) she might have. it should be a weapon fighting game. with the existence of Ivy it makes the rest of the characters have to add properties and moves that wouldnt have to be there if she werent in the line up- that’s something else entirely though, it might be true but we’ll never know.
but what I was saying was that the story and the characters became stale because nothing new was happening just the same old shit. look at what happened to tekken, tekken 2 was very interesting with the role reversal of kazuya and heihachi. tekken 3 spiced things up with the 20 year leap, but then tekken 4’s negative reaction created tekken 5, tekken basically got lost after 4. people stll play it for the mechanics yeah but the popularity has dramatically sunk.
soul calibur’s popularity sunk because the story was just a pale snore fest, you could see the progression in the intro’s
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^seems to be improving the older the title^
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it just seemed like soul calibur ended up going in a direction aiming for the desert, and now that it’s in the desert they may aswell plant a tree because there is nothing from any of the soul calibur games that have amounted to anything.
I know what game is favored is highly subjective but eventhough I played a lot of soul calibur 4 and got quite good at it it just seemed like a half baked mess to me, the just impact is a mess, the 8wr is sluggish, the parry moves seems like it was shoved in, ring outs seem to be almost exclusive to certain characters (who people seem to whore out online)
sc3 had flaws but I prefered the 8wr in this more than anything else, being near the edge was a high risk instantly but not enough for it to not be far, just impact was just right. had loads of flaws that were fixed in AE
sc2 was ok it had some fun things you could do with characters but it seemed just like it’s inclusion of special characters the system was just gimicky
sc1 was just right but its bland, it’s an old game and just right pertained to all it had, adding another style would not let the game stay just right, hilde in soul calibur 1? no way.
instead of there being call of duty every year I think a rethinking and a mastering of what soul calibur should be should be allowed, but the fighting game community is so spoilt this will not happen.
end of rant?