SOUL CALIBUR 4

[James]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/12/soul- ... ut-teaser/

YES!
LOL IVY'S BOOBS.

[Siva]

Well fucking done Namco.

You ruined my favourite character on Soul Calibur.

If this is the same thing in Soul Calibur: Legends, then I will have to find a new favourite character. Shame too. That sword\whip thing was fantastic.

[Allan]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/12/soul-calibur-4-unveiled-for-xbox-360-ps3-in-this-debut-teaser/

YES!
LOL IVY'S BOOBS.

She looks scarily like Kuja from FF9...

[clyzm]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/12/soul-calibur-4-unveiled-for-xbox-360-ps3-in-this-debut-teaser/

YES!
LOL IVY'S BOOBS.

LOL YES

[C:Enter:£££]

Nice, Soul Calibur is the shit.

[Big Daddy]

I could not stop playing number 2! Literally, I was hooked on it for at least three quarters of a year on my gamecube. Unfortunately I never made it to the third one , what was it like compared to 2?

[James]

I think it was better, mine broke in like 2 weeks...or my PS2 did rofl.

[Big Daddy]

At least your Ps2 can withstand mo'foin' San Andreas!

[clyzm]

Number 3 was the shit, fuck I made SOO MANY CHARACTERS

[Spiderbot01]

I've never played any of them

[clyzm]

That one tree chick, she had BOOBIES

[James]

TIRA WOULD BE A GOOD FUCK IF SHE WAS REAL. Good until she slices off your cock.
Fucking psychopaths.

[clyzm]

I just wanna touch her boobies.

That's all.

[James]

Her tits are ICKLE.

[clyzm]

NO THEY'RE SO BIG THEY RIP THROUGH THE SHIRT

AND SO NSFW THAT NAMCO BLURRED THE IMAGE OF HER TITS

[James]

LOL YEAHHHH YEAH. : Her tits were small but firm, SO firm they didn't spill under the top, rofl... Wait why am I saying these things?
Also inb4 "lol sad fuckers wanna fuck a videogame character" ITW people wanted to fuck Jessica Rabbit when WFRR came out, and she looks like a FISH.

[James]

[Siva]

The pictures of Ivy there actually made me feel physically sick.

They ruined one of my heroes.

Bastards.

How the hell will she fight now that her sword can't go past her breasts. =/

[James]

She can use her stomach now? XD, its not a case of her tits are bigger, her entire body has gone 'healthy'.

They downgraded Taki (thank god) and upgraded Tira too.

[Siva]

Healthy?

How can flossing your vagina be healthy?

[James]

I SAID shes got fat.

[James]

They slimmed her down I think, anyway yeah bumping old topic. (1 year and a month, God Damn)

I've had a very good time with Soul Calibur 4, it is a very interesting game for me and my favorite 3D fighter for definite, although not as balanced as say Virtual Fighter.

Online is fun yet extremely annoying at times because of the usual tournament fanatics who will use every single cheap opportunity to abuse frames of certain attacks to ensure you'd never get back on your feet. That means that Kilik, Cervantes, Misturugi are overused characters and to make this worse, Ivy can do an infinite attack so easily... that you won't have control of your character at all til she has KO'd you or she gives up. This is why the game is broken.

OTHER THAN THAT, every other character seems to be VERY balanced now, Rock and Astaroth are very easy to play with and can rival fast characters such as Talim and Taki. Nightmare's new moveset has been revamped and is now an equal match for Siegfried, Taki has been made slower, Setsuka has been more useful and Hilde is incredible! The boss character is very balanced also, and not one move is overpowered.

It is missing a lot of modes, but all the essentials are there such as Arcade Mode, Survival (in the form of Decend Tower of Lost Souls), VS, Special VS... sadly it is missing Team Battle from what I know but this actually exists in the story and Tower Of Lost Souls modes which confuses me...
The story mode (which now allows special abilities) has been made shorter and more interesting, unique reactions to characters at the beginning of each round are common and sometimes numerous, my only complaint is that some endings were worthless and it is a chore to read 3-5 paragraphs for the character's opening. Reading material is not what I'd like to see is a Fighter.

Ascend Tower Of Lost Souls is our typical 'alternative storyline mode' for this game, although it has no story which is good because SC's, SC2's and SC3's were lame. You pick your team, put into series of battles where you can finally just simply kill everyone normally, but if you follow a certain guideline hinted by the opening of the battle you win a Treasure Chest with either clothing for CAS or money if you already own the item. This is great because of the rules they forced onto you in previous games were annoying, now it is optional to discover what you need to do to win with a chest.

Character creation, is fucking AWESOME. I've made a few characters one of them are notable is loosely based on (common design for SC4 apparently haha) the cop from The Village People. Other than creating original characters or basing them on existing people or characters is the fact you can edit existing characters!!! I've remade SC Nightmare, Soul Edge Siegfried and Soul Edge Cervantes... and Ivy in Amy's costume rofl. Character creation sparks the best part of the game because how flexible it is despite not having a huge library of parts. (The only thing I'm disappointed in is that you can't might an obese guy.) Your created characters must follow a discipline for existing characters which means none of the hybrids and new stuff you seen in SC3, mainly because they were broken or useless. (I do miss Grieve Edge though, I wish they made a character for SC4 like them.)

The anime characters are useless and clones of existing characters, avoid them at all costs unless you have an odd attachment to them.

The story changes so far, in the famous Soul Embrace scene in the opening of Soul Calibur 3 (which was the canon ending for 2), the hero king's soul contained within Calibur was released, and replaced with Siegfried's soul. The canon ending of SC3 was Siegfried and Nightmare had their fight, Zasalamel was about to absorb both soul swords when they reached their completion during the middle of the battle then suddenly he had a vision of a huge tower, a magnificent pillar of memories of thousands of years in the past. He, as a scholar decided to abandon his quest for suicide to see if this structure ever rises to give meaning to his eternal life.

The concept and promotion art of the women seem to be very exaggerated, the sexual body parts of characters are much more normal looking in game and more 'realistic' big breasts (exception of Sophitia, her boobs are too huge) rather than unrealistic and sickening blobs of flesh, as seen with DOA4's odd engine. Also kinda related, Ivy is still canonically a virgin.

Critical finishes are beautiful, Cassandra's is funny as fuck.

All I've got to say for now.

[Siva]

DARTH VADER IS


THE BEST
THE BEST
THE BEST

[clyzm]

Just got this about an hour ago.

So far I can say it's fun but disappointing in terms of complication (Soul Gauge? Force Gauge? Finishing critical move? SKILLS? WTF?) I would just prefer it lets me pick a character and a weapon and make the other guy lose as much of HP as possible.

I also don't like how they switched a couple of commands from SC2: Yoshimitsu's Door Knocker, for example, used to be my favorite move but I can barely execute it now.

I dislike how they slowed down some character's moves, especially Cervantes. Though they gave him some teleportation shit so that makes up for it I guess.

Also about weapon selection: It won't let me select any weapons for characters in Story Mode thus far. What the fuck.

Also I don't know about character creation. It just lets me modify existing characters with some clothes and shit. Kinda boring and shit.

More on the way, LOL YOSHIMITSU AND FLYING AROUND, LOL REVENANT BEING A CHEATING GUY

edit: lol finally found character creation. OH YEAH DON'T TELL US WHICH ICON IS CHARACTER CREATION, WE HAVE TO FIND OUT FOR OURSELVES. i created some kind of Predator-esqe yoshimitsu character.

edit 2: WHAT THE HELL IS A CRITICAL FINISH AND HOW DOES I EXECUTE IT :'(

[James]

Hello Derek, when an opponent guards far too much his Soul Gauge bar flashes red, this is your time to keep throw powerful single attacks (guardbreaker ones are perfect for this, the attacks that use lightning) in about 1-3 hits your opponent will release a red energy from his model, when you see this press A+B+K+G within 2 seconds.

[clyzm]

Hello Derek, when an opponent guards far too much his Soul Gauge bar flashes red, this is your time to keep throw powerful single attacks (guardbreaker ones are perfect for this, the attacks that use lightning) in about 1-3 hits your opponent will release a red energy from his model, when you see this press A+B+K+G within 2 seconds.

Well that just makes it too easy then.

I miss the old Soul Calibur 2 fighting style, without the skills and shit.

Also, when I first started up the game, it didn't ask for a storage device. Naturally I thought all my data had been saved and shit. I got to the 20th floor on Tower of Lost Souls, made a few characters, went to lvl 8 with Apprentice, Astaroth, Yoshimitsu and Taki, and acquired about 200k of gold, bought a shitload of equipment, hell even played online a couple times, and unlocked/purchased the rest of the characters.

Then I wanted to take a quick nap so I closed the xbawks.

I woke up about an hour later and opened it again to play, ONLY THIS TIME, it asked for storage data.

... Puzzled, I selected my harddrive.

then

"SOUL CALIBUR 4 DATA WAS NOT FOUND ON XBAWKS. WOULD YOU LIKE TO CREATE IT NOW?"

So I did, and then I went back to 20k gold.

...



Some final things to say about the game before I begin my hapless quest to gain what I lost:

• Apprentice is practically useless with the force, excluding the ZAPPITY ZAP ZAP attack
• Yoshimitsu has made harder but sillier moves, and some are downright amazing (see: Indian stance > warping > SWORD ON FIRE BEHIND YOU LOOK OUT)
• Revenant is the new Inferno
• RAPHAEL IS A FUCKING VAMPIRE
• Voldo is not as unpredictable as he was in SC2, in my opinion
• Tira is still annoying
• Skills should be called perks damn you
• I like this game, despite losing all memory for it I still want to continue playing on and on. It's addicting.

[James]

When you get an achievement, go to museum and battle records to save your game to make sure of it.

Playing right now.

[clyzm]

Alright so I got all my shit back in a day, plus more.

This is really fun and addicting when you get the hang of it - some of my diehard Soul series friends at first said it was shit, then I call them two days later to hear "I can't stop playing - even though it's shit but w/e, Taki's too slow etc. etc. etc. etc. etc Pretty good game, not the best. Ok the finishes ARE a little cool I admit."

I love customizing characters - I created a team of "Shadow" people, Black Shadow, Red Shadow, White Shadow etc. They all have different strengths and abilities, for example Red Shadow has a shitload of HP. I'm almost done with Tower of Souls ascension.

I do have a tiny complaint though - some characters' faces, particularly Setsuka's and Sophitia's, look a bit too "childish" and young for their age.

The combination of skills (perks) and level-based systems rival COD4's weapon customization and upgrading.

Star Wars characters, at first I thought they were going to ruin the game but they actually aren't even noticable; I barely use Yoda or Apprentice anymore.

[xProtocol Rain]

The Apprentice is instant win.

[James]

He's shit now.