Topic: Soul Calibur IV topic - shit. just. got. real. (Read 14062 times)

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I thought he (Solid Snake) came from Terminator 1.

Sort of... yeah. His look is based on Michael Biehn's character in Terminator 1 and the name is taken from Kurt Russels character in Escape from New York. Or something like that, I know almost nothing of the MGS games.
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Yes, Escape from New York is the biggest influence of Solid Snake. That's probably part of why he's so awesome; Snake Plisken in EFNY was awesome as well.
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oh i thought it was a cover, i guess it was just a shot from the movie
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fyi light weapons hav ebeen in soulcalibur before, and i remember at least one INVISIBLE sword.
Also a lightsaber is described as "pure energy", which sounds suspiciously like magic. (specifically the Force)
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I might play it, albeit I suck at the Calibur games.

Only fighting game im quite good at is Marvel vs Capcom 2, which, btw, is the pinnacle of tournament-fighting games IMO.
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I agree the whole Star Wars characters thing was pretty stupid, but Its not going to deter me from buying the game since I usually use created characters anyway. And No Mr Big T, you can sleep easy know the Wii is NOT getting a version. 
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That's too bad because I've seen Lightsabre attachments for the wii remotes.

And I'm pretty sure Darth Vader would own anyone.

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i heard namco bought lucas arts, that pretty much explains everything(except why they aren't including the guy from monkey island)
...where did you hear this? This is patently untrue.

Also because Guybrush is a terrible fighter! (that's 1/3 of the first act of SMI)
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ok u ppl are over reacting.
So what if yoda and the darth are coming in huh? i meand lloyd ivring from ToS is in legends and he really does not fit in too well either.
If what u mean by not fitting in because of them being futuristic.....that is complete bullshit!
Yoda and darth both may be from a galaxy far far away but that does not mean they dont act like characters from a midevil setting. Hell, starwars for all we know could have been in the 1400's in our time! It is shameful that you people are complaining about a dumb little detail like this and have it ruin the game experience for us all.

get a grip ppl :fogetnah:
That's too bad because I've seen Lightsabre attachments for the wii remotes.

And I'm pretty sure Darth Vader would own anyone.

the lightsaber addon was trashed dude :/
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the lightsaber addon was trashed dude :/
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I would have loved that. [/nerd]

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wait a tic... http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/wii-light-sword-brings-out-the-skywalker-in-you/

This is the one I've seen.
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...where did you hear this? This is patently untrue.

Also because Guybrush is a terrible fighter! (that's 1/3 of the first act of SMI)
gamefaqs, but it was 2:00 in the morning when i read it, so my judgment probably wasn't at its best

Also, doesn't he defeat the sword fighting master or something? sounds pretty good to me
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You mean when he beats him by insulting him? :P
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What of the weaponmaster? I'd hate to see another charade. Then again, if he's as scantily clad as voldo, I'd guess his absence would be for the better...
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I can't wait to play as Darth Vader, I mean it's DARTH FUCKING VADER!! how cool is that, but I think Yoda would be funner, Y'know due to his whole jumping like a fucken frog on crack or some shit and he has powers, plus he's faster!

I actually really liked the 3rd game, a lot of fun, I never took the series seriously anyway, just thought of Tekken in medieval times and falling.

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and what's up with the wooden pipes taki used in SC2?

any sword no matter how blunt would easily shatter wodden pipes

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I wonder if you can cut people in half with the light saber.
How funny would that be?

They try to block with a sword, and a beam of doom cuts it and them in half. Why not?
I'd play it.

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I'll just post what I had put in another forum:

"So I just heard on the intrawebz that Vader/Yoda were on respective systems for Soul Cal IV. I had such high hopes for the next game, but now that's been shot down. Apparently Namco has no faith in making a game good enough to sell based on its own name that it has to whore out the Soul Cal franchise to Lucas of all people to throw in characters that neither belong nor even make sense at all.

I thought that the guest characters in 2 were bad, Link being the worst of all, and yet now they throw these two in the game to throw out all semblance of having a good unique game. Why didn't Namco make a new kind of Super Smash Brothers with Yoda/Vader instead of ruining their own running series?

Well, I know that I'm most likely out. I was going to buy IV until I heard what Namco was doing. I hope they are full of fail with this iteration, I really do. If this really is the last of the series, and this is how they are ending it, then I honestly hope that their sales tank hard, to give them a wake-up call.

Maybe I'm coming off as a crying fanboy, but you know what: I'm was a fan of the series, and I didn't want to see them turn to this to sell their name instead of actually making a good game on its own merits. Who knows, maybe the game will actually turn out to be decent, and maybe Lord of the Rings would have been better had Peter Jackson made them all ride My Little Ponies into battle, or if Spongebob Squarepants had led the fight against the English in Braveheart, that would have turned into a better movie. I guess there's just as equal of a chance..."

That should be good enough for now.
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That should be good enough for now.

Heh, by claiming Spawn had more of a place as a guest character than anyone else (even Link), you are admitting that your complaint on the new star-wars characters is nothing more than bias, and does not have a basis grounded in logic or fact.

Maybe there are people that think Yoda and Vader fit in the Soul Calibur universe more than anyone else (even the characters original to Soul Calibur). If anyone came into this argument claiming that, their point would be exactly as valid as the one you just presented.
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man, when I first saw this pic... I thought we were going to see some dodo action:
I'd rather play as a small flightless bird than yoda or vader.
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Heh, by claiming Spawn had more of a place as a guest character than anyone else (even Link), you are admitting that your complaint on the new star-wars characters is nothing more than bias, and does not have a basis grounded in logic or fact.

Maybe there are people that think Yoda and Vader fit in the Soul Calibur universe more than anyone else (even the characters original to Soul Calibur). If anyone came into this argument claiming that, their point would be exactly as valid as the one you just presented.
Unless, of course, you actually read Spawn and realize that there has been more than one Spawn, spanning back countless years over countless dimensions, so a Spawn character within the Soul Calibur universe could work (I didn't say that it was very plausible, just more plausible than the others).

You know what was great about the Star Wars movies?  That part where Vader and Yoda happily skipped off hand in hand into the great Time Machine from Clavin and Hobbes to arrive in the Soul Calibur timeline...oh, wait, that never happened...

Vader/Yoda could fit into Eternal Champions far better than Soul Calibur.  I wouldn't mind so much if they were downloadable additions that had nothing to do with the story of Soul Calibur, but once they get shoe-horned into it, that's when I take exception to it.
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