How does this play compared to Tekken?

[Sh. Fred]

I come from the old school era Tekken so I don’t mind playing against bots for a thousand rounds just to have fun, I know nobody plays this online.

Do combos from Tekken translate to combos here?
Does it use the limb system with hit confirms or does it have that disgusting dial-a-combo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Is it closer to the vibes of the older Tekkens (6 and earlier) or the newer ones?

Is there a story?
Are the microtransactions?
How deep is the customization? Are we talking 5 ugly t-shirts or RPG levels of customization where the customization itself is a separate game you’d spend hours on?

[Arkadien]

It plays like ♥♥♥♥ tbh

[Sh. Fred]

How so?
I’ve never played a Soul Calibur before.

[Sh. Fred]

Just discovered the Deluxe Edition doesn’t actually include everything.

Yeah, I’m good.
Bamco has been funny recently I see.

[ShadowSplit]

Shorter combos, better movement, somewhat wonky hitboxes (depending on character), not really good balanced. Better than Tekken.

[CZI]

Get Deluxe (= Base + Season 1) now and buy Season 2 when it becomes sale.
It will be complete. And no micro transactions.

Yeah, shorter combo compared from Tekken.

One side step can avoid virtical attack in many cases.

Low, mid, high are same as other 3D games including Tekken.

Guard button is common to DOA and VF, but different from Tekken.
Tekken's guard is more similar to Street Fightger.

Here's some customizations
https://youtu.be/IxNsOyopNdQ

[{disaster} Take]

Originally posted by Sh. Fred:

Tekken Combos do NOT translate at all. Tekken is very linear and juggle heavy. Soul Calibur 6 has much shorter combos by comparison, and combo routes let you slap your opponent left and right for wallspats and ring outs, or reposition yourself.

Hit confirms are a thing, kind of. Technically, any 'combo starter' move is always unsafe, but with avenues to make it safe against one type of attack or another. Most of the moves are checks, and a lot of combos only work if the initial hit is a counter hit.

It only resembles Tekken in visuals and has some shared history. It plays more similarly to something like DoA, but even then, it's not like that either.

There is a story. It's not bad, especially considering whatever the ♥♥♥♥ happened with SC4 and SC5.

There are micro-transactions. DLC characters, and clothing for dolling up your characters.

The customization is good, but being a budget SC, it ended up with less options than SC5, but SC5 was genuinely hours and hours lost in the wardrobe, so SC6 is still up there.
Races is a new thing to SC6, and it was promising, but we didn't even get Lizardman as a playable character, and the monster races can't equip most of the clothing anyway, so it ended up not being that exciting sadly.
Face's can't be deeply customised, though, which is a bit dumb.
But, other than that, yeah, I've spent hours on customisation.

Originally posted by Sh. Fred:

Just discovered the Deluxe Edition doesn’t actually include everything.

Yeah, I’m good.
Bamco has been funny recently I see.

Aww rip, that sucks man. I just went and got each one as they released because I love Soul Calibur, so I didn't even realise that's how they were selling it. More dumb business choices from Bamco.

[Saint.Million]

Originally posted by Sh. Fred:

Just discovered the Deluxe Edition doesn’t actually include everything.

Yeah, I’m good.

If you're not already a Soulcalibur fan then you'd likely only try online, get your ass kicked and then quit forever anyway.

Sadly this game was not well designed with new players in mind. And 6 years later it certainly hasn't become any more newbie friendly. Much less if anything.

This game is clearly not for you. So save your money. Because if you buy this you'd only be flushing your money down the toilet.
This game is for existing fans of the franchise (and even many of those are disappointed with the new mechanics and how overly-technical it is).

Sad, but that's the truth.

[Newb Always Ask]

I hate how Namco treats the SOULCALIBUR series so bad
A better story mode or simple CG scene makes a big change

[LordOfTheBread]

Tekken 8 is miles better in terms of content, combat is great in both. Asa far as story goes this one is very bland.