Next Soul Calibur Guest Character Speculation

[Taylor Long]

Definitely Sackboy for the PS3 version..he could slap! 360.........Chief with a brute stick? The Wii could have the Red Steel guy or something...but who really cares about the Wii...

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

The first game i got was Soul Calibur 3, i thought it was pretty cool.

I was then severely disappointed when i saw what happened in Soul calibur 4.

so make the women SC3 size again, no stupid guest characters that are completely unsuited, and i think they should keep the dress up to custom characters only.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Travis touchdown, easily. I dont care that he doesnt fit in, he's getting a PS3 game soon, there's your excuse, now go do it.....

NOW!!!!
Failing that, how about some skies of arcadia characters?
Or Ryu Hyabusa?

 

[Joshica Huracane]

I gotta say, I like the idea of having Hawke in it. And by Hawke, I would say the male one that's on the cover.

Hrmmmm... perhaps Bayonetta?.. Now that I have a reason to think of any random melee based characters.. i find myself mostly unable to..

 

[Ampersand]

They should give the arbiter a shot, that would be excellent....oh and Samanosuke needs to be in something again because i'm beginning to suspect that i'm the only one who knows who that is.

I'm willing to bet you a considerable amount of money and panda-costumes that this isn't the case.

Good to know =D. I'm always surprised more people haven't played onimusha, I mean it's resident evil with samurai....and pandas! What about that isn't made of brilliance?

 

[evilstonermonkey]

I quite like the Ezio idea actually. He could be a fun character to play if done right, though it would admittedly feel wierd switching from the combat controls of AC to a full-on fighter style game. Or maybe Altair - I can imagine his back story being done as a series of journal entries, in a similar style to the codex pages Ezio finds, where he details his search for "a weapon of great power, spoken of in legend, capable of manipulating the minds of those around it. Potentially another piece of eden, it is regardless a great temptation to those who covet power and as such must be controlled or destroyed."

Although with that said, I think the Creed characters would seem quite out of place in the Calibur verse.

 

[evilstonermonkey]

I quite like the Ezio idea actually. He could be a fun character to play if done right, though it would admittedly feel wierd switching from the combat controls of AC to a full-on fighter style game. Or maybe Altair - I can imagine his back story being done as a series of journal entries, in a similar style to the codex pages Ezio finds, where he details his search for "a weapon of great power, spoken of in legend, capable of manipulating the minds of those around it. Potentially another piece of eden, it is regardless a great temptation to those who covet power and as such must be controlled or destroyed."

Although with that said, I think the Creed characters would seem quite out of place in the Calibur verse.

2 bladed robed figures
I reckon they'd do just fine

I meant more because of how they are presented in their home games - based in reality (or should I say "reality"), and the person playing the game is actually playing Desmond playing Ezio/Altair. Although they could get really meta and say that Desmond has hijacked the Animus to play Soul Calibur and imported Ezio into it or something...

 

[evilstonermonkey]

I'm not saying it is a bad idea - I'm just pointing out that the feel of the assassins in Creed would be completely different to the feel they would have in Soul Calibur. And in all fairness I did offer suggestions as to how they could be justified in the SC verse (though admittedly the second might have been slightly flippant).
My other thought on the subject is: why the hell would an ASSASSIN, master of the surprise attack and instant kill, be in a fighting tournament? Wouldn't Ezio just wait til Nightmare was walking to the john after giving Maxi a well deserved thrashing, slip a poisoned blade into his spine and disappear into the night with Soul Edge for it to be never seen again (until the Templars unbury it in Assassin's Creed 3)?

On that note, what the hell is Taki doing in the tournament? She's a ninja. That's like assassining, just without the wenching!

 

[Spookimitsu]

Ezio Auditore di Firenze
and
Ryu Hayabusa
Dante and Virgil
and
Marth.

That is all.

 

[Spookimitsu]

They should give the arbiter a shot, that would be excellent....oh and Samanosuke needs to be in something again because i'm beginning to suspect that i'm the only one who knows who that is.

I'm willing to bet you a considerable amount of money and panda-costumes that this isn't the case.

Good to know =D. I'm always surprised more people haven't played onimusha, I mean it's resident evil with samurai....and pandas! What about that isn't made of brilliance?

I'm all for it. as a matter of a fact I've been extolling a need for a reboot of onimusha on joystiq with little support

 

[Crelda]

I would much prefer that they do what they did with SCIII and not add any guest characters and add back in the extra move sets that they removed in SCIV. The character creation felt totally pointless when you could only copy the main characters...
I can not fathom why the designers would consider removing 17 different in favour of... erm... no new features... I suppose they added online play but I never bothered with that.

 

[The_State]

This won't happen, but for ages I've been wanting to see Kain and Raziel in SC. They're well developed characters with very different fighting styles whose motivations are based heavily around the possession and elimination (respectively) of an ancient weapon of great power.

They've got it all, except the necessary popularity. Also, I doubt they could get the original voice actors for the two, and anything less would be a travesty.

 

[emeraldrafael]

... and Shepherd from Mass Effect as a 360 exclusive. ...

I dont see that working cause Shepard is a shooter. Thats why you didnt see a Halo Master Chief character.

Anyway, I dont know who it should be, and I dont feel there should be (mainly cause I dont feel there should be a new one), but i would say it would be Marcus Pheonix from Gears and maybe ratchet for sony.

didn't you just throw your own argumentout of the window

or do you count the chainsaw as a blade?

The way I thought about it, he would just get an assortment of chainsaw blades and then the gun could work as a short single fire sorta thing like Cervantes pistol in his sword does.

 

[M0rp43vs]

I'm gonna make a bet that they're gonna put into Kratos in the game. I know it in my bones. And there will be this hilarious fourth wall breaking moment in the opening cinematic where he slashes someone and wonders aloud why there seems to be no visible scratch on the person.

I'd like to see deadpool put into the game... what? I mean, they put those star wars guys in number 4 with less justification. You could say he got horribly lost and ended up there. He could make fourth wall breaking quips as he fights and beat people with their life bars

Altair is also someone I'm betting to be in one of the coming games

I want to see spawn again in one of the games, He was one of my favourite fighters.