Oh, snap. Setsuka. Just when I was getting worried that SC4 would lack CHEAP-*** MOVES
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holy ****ing ****. This game suddenly shot up high in my 'to buy' list. How did Namco/Bandai strike a deal like this? Only way I can think of is that Bandai has the Star Wars toy license.
They should have made Yoda a puppet.
BuT wHY dONt TeH sAberz cuTZ thru the SWardZ?!?
I'd say this is really ****ing stupid if it wasn't really ****ing awesome. In that "haha, oh wow this is stupidly awesome" kinda way.
Oh ***, can't wait to flip all over the place as Yoda. Awesome.
And oh yeah, GRAPHICS YUM.
http://kotaku.com/343089/vader--yodas-new-sciv-trailer
BOL GAY
I'm still excited.
Cheesy, but not bad.
[quote]But the swords may have met their match.
LIGHTSABERS ARE ON PAR WITH MYSTICAL SOUL-SUCKING SWORDS
Huh, my first reaction to the screenshots were that they looked shopped to me for some reason, but I guess it's legit.
I'm actually not pleased... I love Star Wars, and these are easily the two best characters, but it just doesn't fit together. Maybe if it were just Yoda, I'd get over the technological intrusion of the lightsabre (a tiny, old, green elf with super powers almost seems just Soul Calibur's style), but having a guy running around in a space suit just ruins the look in my eyes.
I honestly hope I get over it, because I can't help but see it as anything but silly.
Things like that "Model X" or whatever the **** it was in the custom character creation didn't matter because it was far removed from the main game - even if you created a robotic-looking character or tried to re-create whatever character it was they were mimicking, it was just your own custom character, nothing was canon. By entering Darth Vader as an actual character, he's entered into a story that he just doesn't belong in, he's given special cut scenes, he's on the box, he's in the official art... even if he doesn't officially do anything and is forgotten in Soul Calibur V, it ruins the feel of the game for me.
As for Spawn, I don't know a lot about him since I didn't have the X-Box version and never actually saw him in action, but didn't he just use a normal hand-axe? He even looked like he belonged in Soul Calibur next to characters like Astaroth and Charade, just like Heihachi kinda did next to Mitsurugi and Taki, and Link did next to Sophitia and Lizardman. Big tin suit? Not so much.
Spawn's way more outlandish than any other character in the game, including Darth Vader if you ask me. Not like it really matters. They're probably just unlockable characters to dick around with. There's no integrity in either franchise to keep in tact.
Somehow, I'm guessing that they're not going to take the characters as far as they did in SC2, as in having their own art, stories, etc. I think it's going to be more like "Hey guess what Vader's in this too lol", like it was when Mario, Luigi, and Peach were in that basketball game.
Who cares? Darth Vader is less ridiculous than Voldo.
In terms of his moveset. Levitating alone is enough.
Still though, why not a "space man"? Look at all the other characters they have in the game. Half of them are more ridiculous than Vader. It's not that much of a stretch. It's just a fighter. I mean, even DoA (which had WAY more "realistic" characters than SC ever had) had a Spartan in it. Not that big of a deal.
This just in!
X360: Yoda
PS3: Darth Vader
They're 'considering' making each character DLC for the respective consoles. jee wizz, money grabbing ploy, or what?
Ugh. And now the character I'd rather have is on the console I rather wouldn't. How nice.
Well, if the opening titles are to be believed, Star Wars happened 'a long time ago'...
WHO'S TO SAY, LOL
well, they had to find some sort of gimmick to keep the soul calibur series alive. and man, they got a good one.
IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE STORYLINES IN FIGHTING GAMES YOU'RE A COCK. PERIOD.
All their storylines are terrible, for all intents and purposes they exist outside the game anyway. They only exist because some pedantic game designer decided we needed a reason to see martial artists being the snot out of eachother. This doesn't affect Star Wars canon and who the hell cares if it affects SCs crappy story either? Look at this as an oppertunity to see Darth fighting Asteroth or some shit because that's all this is.
I just wish they could've picked two better characters. Yoda is just sort of...silly, and I don't know if you guys have ever seen the original trilogy but Darth Vader wasn't the most mobile or exicting fighter. Seeing him zip around like a ninja in this game is just going to look weird. I really would've preferred Luke, but oh well.
They should focus on making the games fun to play, rather than sticking in awesome characters as a gimmick.
Linko is just saying that Darth vader and Yoda stand out more than any other character. To him, Spawn, Heihachi, and Link all seemed to blend in rather well. Unfortunately to him, a space man with a light sabre doesn't. It's like Soul Calibur is the green, Spawn, heihachi and link, are the light green, and then Darth vader is the purple. It doesn't blend.
Think of it what you will, but I don't think trying to tell him that it's not that big of a deal is going to quell his thoughts on the matter of adding two Star wars characters into a game that is themed in a completely different way.
It doesn't affect me at all, don't care too much about a game that isn't releasing on the only next-gen console I own. But you're probably wasting your own time arguing against him about what you think, and what HE thinks is right.
WOOOO YODA.
I remember a while back I was talking about how terrible the game was, what with the clipping of limbs and weapons, the shine of the animation, the moves that didn't connect or connected from a great distance when they weren't supposed to, etc. At the time I also didn't know how popular the game was and upon discovering that I was amazed that it was supposed to be good or something.
What do I know about fighting games, anyway. Oh, yeah, relevance: Too bad this doesn't make me want to play it any more. :/
I'm with Linko, pretty much. The two of them are cool and all, but in SC? Awkward.
Well, if they get a bunch of fighting n00bs on board, more power to them, I guess.
JUST MORE SCUM FOR MY CERVANTES TO PUT DOWN
i like how the xbox has a little bit of green in it ant it has yoda where as the ps3 is all black and they get vader
How astute of you.
Does no one remember Necrid? I used to lay the beat down with his orb...
hells yea necrid was the ****
[quote=Y2kMISFIT;804487]Does no one remember Necrid? I used to lay the beat down with his orb...
haet Necrid. Mitsurugi was my favourite.
At least he didn't knock you across the stage like a golf ball, the way Nightmare could. Easiest ring-outs ever.
I seem to recall reading something about the game developers admitting to a lack of balance in SCII, but the only character I remember them specifically mentioning is Xianghua.
Xianghua was really toned down in SC3.
I hope they keep Chronicles of the Sword in this one, and the character creation. The ninjas were like superior Takis, ownage.
CotS will be replaced by a new mode, but character creation is returning.
Yeah, it'd be a waste to throw away all those movesets they made you learn.
I can only imagine what they'll do to make it better this time. Can't wait!
I just wish you could have both Vader and Yoda on both systems. I am looking foreword to this.
You can. With DLC!
16 June 2008. oh emm gee
That's the release date? Too far away to care. Though I can't think of any decent game coming out around that time, so whatever. Oh, except for Brawl in Europe.
June 2009*
edit: **** YOU, I was actually worried. :(
Armored women? In MY Soul Cali- oh wait I guess there was Hilde...
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Designed by the creator of Tenjho Tenge and air Gear.
There's also some Gantz character, but I can't find an image. Just aother Taki anyways.
Yeah, I can totally see the Tenjho in that character (except for the fact that she doesn't have enormous breasts).
WHERE ARE THE BOOBS
she looks pretty cool.
Yoda's the only character in this game without ****ing tits. jeez
At least this character seems tasteful. Though it wouldn't be hard with this series.
Just wait for different costumes.
I guarantee that each female will have a simple two censor bars as one of their alts.
I'd rather someone guarantee that those censor bars won't be there. :D
New scan:
Oh, snap. Setsuka. Just when I was getting worried that SC4 would lack CHEAP-*** MOVES
Shura's a skank. :cookie:
Gawd, how many characters is this game going to have?
Apart from Mitsurugi and Siegfried... Are there any guys in this game?
The male-female ratio is pretty much even now. Maybe that's what they were going for all along.
Voldo's in it. He's a guy.
wai-
As long as Cassie's in the game and they've un-nerfed her from what they did to her moves in SCIII, I'll enjoy the game.
lol
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Apparently, Vader's apprentice from Force Unleashed is a character now, too!
And, I love the rating. It earns T for "Sexual themes" and "Partial nudity". ZING
It was bad enough when it was a couple of popular Star Wars characters. Now they're adding ones nobody cares about?
Oh gawd more Cassandra it deserves 60 bucks right there
All we need now is GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE, and this crossover cluster**** will be complete.
Geez, Vader must've done the wrong things to get into this game. He has a saber that spits out a laserbeam that can cut through anything, given enough time, but he can't chop through some steel weapons?
Those steel weapons are infused with the power of the fighters' souls, so they're magical enough to counter the equally-impossible science of lightsabers...or some such nonsense.
In any case, does Vader's apprentice have such a gay little lightsaber in Force Unleashed? Give that boy a proper weapon, Lord Vader!
seems like he only uses it to bat away laser beams, so I big saber would be pretty pointless I guess.
As pointless as putting him in the game.