I know we’re moving on from the idea of what to expect from a create a character mode and what’s reasonable and what’s not and that’s obviously fine. But personally, I’d love to see Namco use SC VI as an opportunity to expand on create a character move sets in a more organic way that could still give people a feeling like they have an original character (to an extent), without giving players the ability to put their move lists together from scratch or combine character move lists in ways that would create something overpowered.
In that vein, I’d love to see them do the following:
-Create weapons that are only used in CAC with their own move lists: I know this isn’t easy, so I certainly wouldn’t expect a lot of these, but a few would be nice. Maybe… Five? Six?
-Create weapons that are only used in CAC with their own move lists as DLC: Perhaps when they sell characters or as part of the season pass, they could also add a few CAC weapon/move lists as well. Again, this doesn’t have to be a large number. Two, maybe three?
-Making alterations to existing weapons/move sets: Obviously we’d still want the original weapons and movesets from characters already in the game, but I think they could up the number of available move sets a bit if they could put in variations on those move sets where a few different moves behaved differently or they added some animations, changed moves, took some out and added some in, etc.
Again, I know that’s not an easy thing to do, it’d be nice to have more options with Raphael’s rapier than just “fight exactly the way Raphael fights.” Again, not looking for anything OP and not even asking for anything huge like a new super animation or anything like that, but if they could reuse some already existing animations for certain kicks, or from certain attacks or slashes or whatever, I think mixing things organically, that made sense (ie not giving someone with Seigfried’s sword the speed of Maxi’s attacks etc), that could be a nice way to mix things up.
To be clear, I’m not certain how realistic any of this is and I’m obviously NOT expecting any of it. I’m just saying that it’d be kinda nice if they could go a little further with the customization options where it pertains to how your character actually plays.
More choices, but still well within the realm of what the designers intend the characters to be able to play like. Nothing OP or mixing and matching moves and move speeds that have no business being together in a competitive game.
I think I’d probably enjoy CAC a bit more if that were the case, but who knows. I just feel like having something that’s a bit more of my original creation and a bit less “guy who isn’t Cervantes but has his weapon and does everything exactly the same as him” would be kinda nice. Maybe the returns on that wouldn’t be enough to justify the work put in. Who can say…