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

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except that jedis were cloned, as proven in Timothy Zahn's thrawn series where Mara Jade has to fight a clone of Luke Skywalker, or Luuke. these clones also had a long shelf life and could be revived whenever (Joruus C'Baoth).

so shut up for fuck's sake don't make me whip out my Star Wars canon (darkest shame).
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except that jedis were cloned, as proven in Timothy Zahn's thrawn series where Mara Jade has to fight a clone of Luke Skywalker, or Luuke. these clones also had a long shelf life and could be revived whenever (Joruus C'Baoth).

so shut up for fuck's sake don't make me whip out my Star Wars canon (darkest shame).
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Is this the same canon that had the giant force-eating hamster, Boba Fett blasting his way out of the Rancor, Leia stronger than Luke in the force and a moon flattening Chewie?

"Anything not in the current version of the films is irrelevant to Film only continuity."  so you can keep your "canon" in your pants, as it has no bearing on the conversation at hand.
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Is this the same canon that had the giant force-eating hamster, Boba Fett blasting his way out of the Rancor, Leia stronger than Luke in the force and a moon flattening Chewie?

"Anything not in the current version of the films is irrelevant to Film only continuity."  so you can keep your "canon" in your pants, as it has no bearing on the conversation at hand.

Except Lucas expressly granted EU canon (when he forbade them from going into Ep 1 territory until it was done, he acknowledged that people believed in EU as part of the story) and has frequently taken things from the EU, and the Thrawn trilogy is widely regarded to be the real sequels to Star Wars by pretty much everyone.

Also, Ysalamiri are average sized lizards, not hamsters, Fett got out of a Sarlacc, not a Rancor, neither Luke nor Leia were ever established to be stronger or weaker as far as I know, and Chewabacca was killed by the collapse of a moon into a planet, and never expressly "moon flattened", and for someone who thinks EU has no bearing, you sure do seem to know a lot of trivia about it.

Guess what? It is just as possible as Star Wars to be in Soul Calibur because you have to "extend the universe" (What?! What possible thing could have done this?!) to accomodate it, just like you extended the Spawn universe to accomodate Soul Calibur, using what details you have left. We know from Ep II Star Wars has clones, so, hey! Check it out! I just came up with an in-film canonical explanation for Yoda and Vader! Whoah! :fogetlaugh:

Also, no one anywhere should care! Jesus Christ! Soul Cailbur doesn't have a fantastic story that you need to gripe about a tie-in, ever! It isn't fucking "Citizen Kane II: Featuring the Terminator"!!
Last Edit: January 22, 2008, 04:49:43 pm by Jester
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Except Lucas expressly granted EU canon (when he forbade them from going into Ep 1 territory until it was done, he acknowledged that people believed in EU as part of the story) and has frequently taken things from the EU, and the Thrawn trilogy is widely regarded to be the real sequels to Star Wars by pretty much everyone.

Also, Ysalamiri are average sized lizards, not hamsters, Fett got out of a Sarlacc, not a Rancor, neither Luke nor Leia were ever established to be stronger or weaker as far as I know, and Chewabacca was killed by the collapse of a moon into a planet, and never expressly "moon flattened", and for someone who thinks EU has no bearing, you sure do seem to know a lot of trivia about it.

Guess what? It is just as possible as Star Wars to be in Soul Calibur because you have to "extend the universe" (What?! What possible thing could have done this?!) to accomodate it, just like you extended the Spawn universe to accomodate Soul Calibur, using what details you have left. We know from Ep II Star Wars has clones, so, hey! Check it out! I just came up with an in-film canonical explanation for Yoda and Vader! Whoah! foget laugh

Also, no one anywhere should care! Jesus Christ! Soul Cailbur doesn't have a fantastic story that you need to gripe about a tie-in, ever! It isn't fucking "Citizen Kane II: Featuring the Terminator"!!

This is the worst post I've ever made on GW.
Last Edit: January 22, 2008, 04:50:14 pm by Jester
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Really guys... it's just two bonus characters in a fightning game.

I never did like Sektor in Mortal Kombat 3... I mean, a robot with a giant crushing compactor in his stomach... I can't believe they totally ignored the timeline and added robots to a game that obviously isn't set in the year 2500 but rather in the early 90's (just look at Sonya's clothes and hair). Totally unrealistic, what did they use, a timemachine?!?!?! Don't get me started on Kabal, everyone knows he's a Tusken Raider from Star Wars in secret...
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Wow, just wow guys.  I dont think its this serious like 4 real.
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I love Soul Caliber, I'm not much of a Star Wars fan so I could careless about the inclusion of Yoda & Darth Vader. In fact I would have rathered they include a character for each console that relates to the console (such as Kratos from God of War in the PS3 version) or hell even just include Namco characters (like Stahn from Tales of Destiny, it'd be interesting to see how his moves would translate into a fighting game).

But even after saying all that my opinion of the game doesn't really change at all because of this. If they decide to include them in the actual story I'm pretty sure they won't be a major part of it outside of their own storylines like Link & Co. before them so it doesn't really matter to me. I've always liked Soul Caliber's core story but at the same time I feel that the story of nearly all fighting games, Soul Caliber included is just an excuse for me to go on slashing more asses, this isn't a story-driven RPG we're talking about here.

So really I just see them as 2 new characters who like all new characters could potential be badass or just suck, atleast we'll probably get a Light Saber based job class for our created characters out of the deal.

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i read through some replies and at first i was arguing simantics but lets put it this way:

if it wasn't darth vader and yoda and it was just two random new characters that had what LOOKED like lightsabers, and had what APPEARED to be force powers, then you wouldn't say anything and play the game. So why is it that the character design is such a big deal? I mean if it plays solid and its a decent character to use idc if its a naked guy holding a chicken, im playing as him. can you honestly say that you wouldn't buy the series if it was just two random new characters apposed to yoda and vader?
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"Citizen Kane II: Featuring the Terminator"!!
I'd watch that.

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Really guys... it's just two bonus characters in a fightning game.
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I can't wait to play  as Vader.
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This is the worst post I've ever made on GW.

Worse than the ones in Goku vs Superman?
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Doesn't actually look that bad....

Darth Vader looks pretty cool at least. Yoda looks pretty meh.

They also have some elf chick with small boobs which is funny cause I swore this was MEDIEVAL DOA. This would be like putting a FAT CHICK in a DoA game.
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You could already play as Darth Vader in SCIII If you were pr0 at the customization thingie...but.. Yoda?
Hes going to unbalance the game plus he just sucks balls.
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Here's to hoping yoda isn't the next Gon.
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They look ok, but watching Vader's lightsaber not cut through that guys sword... You're not playing as Vader, you're playing as a guy dressed like Vader with minor telekinesis and a red glow stick
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They also have some elf chick with small boobs which is funny cause I swore this was MEDIEVAL DOA. This would be like putting a FAT CHICK in a DoA game.

explaint his I dont getit.

also if yoda can ride a sword, game owns.
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somebody should develop a fighting game that's like...

super smash brothers RANDOM CRAP where a bunch of characters (and non-characters??? like a fighting palm tree or a regular cat maybe) like mersault and mickey mouse and gandhi all fight
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Holy shit, did Yoda just surf that axe at the end? If so, I hope this means there's a really cool counter system in this.
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