[Multiplatform] Boobs and... Lightsabers - Soul Calibur 4

Well hell, I'll take the Ninja Turtles then if we're adding pointless characters to Soul Calibur. They even already have movesets in the game since you can just clone existing characters (Leonardo --> Mitsurugi, etc) and using their shells to Guard Impact would yield epic hilarity. All you need is their original TMNT movie models (not this new movie shit), an orchestrated or remixed original TMNT theme variation to play in, and a New York stage to go with it.

Nostalgia would win the day in seconds there.

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I've got the 360 Premium Edition, and I've been impressed with the game so far. A little sluggish compared to SC3, and they nerfed Taki pretty hard, but all in all that's alright. Just forced me to go back and relearn Mitsurugi from when I used him back in my Soul Blade/Calibur 1 days.

I landed in the top 100 on the arcade leaderboard for a while, with a score of 520000 using Mitsurugi. I think I was in the 40s when I first got it, then 56 yesterday, and probably somewhere in the 60s today.

Getting close to dealing with the achievements, but that Tower of Souls shit is HARD no matter what unless you fuck around with skills and creation to give yourself an edge.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Tower of Souls is easy enough for the most part with the right skills, even without having to resort to single spamming moves. Speaking of which, I ripped the Thanatos track from the 60F battle in case anyone wants it, it's 8:58 and 11.1MB or so encoded in Standard VBR. There's no sense in encoding in any higher quality from a line-in source, and it's the same quality I usually rip at so it's good until the official soundtrack. Just need a place to upload to.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I can't seem to win a match online at all, and those are the last achievements I really need. I'm more of a reflexive player using Taki or Mitsurugi, but it seems like both of them are out the window because everyone and their dog chooses either Kilik, Astaroth, or Nightmare and then begins spamming the holy hell out of every distance move they can knowing you can't defend from it. That 1 second delay simply does not allow for it.

Any suggestions as to what I can do to neutralize this?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'd concede that if the game were playing at full speed online, however it is not.

I can impact the fuck out of almost every slower character normally, but I'd be lucky to even land a single impact against them online.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Megalith

Online mode is killing me. I am feeling lag even when I'm doing something as simple as 8WR. Throws my entire game off. It's sad when I can't even block or GI Siegfried's strings that end in a low attack. Seems like the frame-intensive stuff like throw break and GI/P need a 2 to 3 second lead time.

In terms of character customization, I hate how you have to put on all kinds of ugly, mismatched gear in order to get the stats you want.

And all those CAS suck compared to my eagle head Mitsurugi.

This would be what I'm talking about, though I've neutralized it by learning a little more with Mitsurugi and taking more advantage of his 8 way run arsenal against the slower characters, so now I'm winning every 4 or 5 matches or so before taking a loss to another Kilik spammer.

Originally Posted by Scarletdeath

By the way, if you want to get-

12500 gold in 13 seconds,

-all you need to do is fight your way up 59 floors of the tower,

and watch Algol jump off the top.

Nice, but will he do that every time? He has about 20 ways to ring you out as well. I love that fight though if only for that stage music. I ended up raping Story on Hard repeatedly until I had enough gold, S Rank is 24000 gold.

Have 48/50 achievements atm.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Scarletdeath

Are you kidding? I got from 600 gold to around 50k in around 2 minutes, including loading time. Just have some common sense to equip Nullify Ring Out A and your last few honors are yours in no time. Going through story is a waste of time.

It certainly wasn't a waste of time for me, but to each his own I guess. I've never beaten Algol at all using that method, I beat him normally each time I fight him. Eventually I got to the point that I decided to just rip the stage music and leave it be.

I don't really regret doing it the way I did.

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Just finished getting all honors and achievements in the game. Got my Hero King achievement and now I can finally brush this aside for a while, but I'd still be more than glad to play with some GFFers from time to time.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Scarletdeath

Too bad the PS3 version doesn't have achievements. I've got nothing to do after getting all honors.

They didn't implement this in their new trophy system? I'm surprised, I would have thought they could since they basically have everything already in place for it.

At least it was built in to this game so you could take advantage of them regardless, which is a good thing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I don't really mind the achievement system at all, because it gives you something to work toward while you're playing the actual game. There are some retarded mindless grinding achievements (Blue Dragon Level 99 rank shit) but for the most part the achievements in this game in particular are built to be opened over time. A lot of the additional challenge that comes from it is opening them up as fast as you can and figuring out ways to do it. Scarlet posted the 12000g in 13 seconds bug whereas I had been slowly doing it a ridiculous way.

Star Ocean 3 was the very first culprit to do this, and even then I got all 300/300 Battle Trophies on that as well. I'm not looking forward to Star Ocean 4's BTs though...

How ya doing, buddy?

Honors are the achievements in the 360 version, and are standalone Honors in the PS3 version. It's the things like 100 Critical Finishers, beating Story on Hard, collecting all the equipment, things like that.

Go to Museum --> Battle Records and you'll see what they are.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Lizardman is the only character I cannot consistently beat thanks to all the upgrades he got since the last game. A friend of mine always chooses him, and chose him again in this game to play against me, and he ended up getting the better of me in the end 3 games to 1. All his moves are crazy confusion now, tons of methods to feint and strike. I've never been good dealing with a primarily low strike game, and that's most of what Lizardman is now.

Might actually have to put in more practice to beat him.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Makes sense, I made the switch from Taki to Mitsurugi because Taki's overall speed was lowered in this game but I might have to pick up Taki again. Though I never was able to use Mitsurugi's UL/U/UR+(A+B) to do that flying strike move. That would throw most of what he does right there.

Is there any way to avoid that crawling unblockable other than a lucky jump?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Haha damn, it looked like to me it was a crawling unblockable, but it seemed like every time I'd try to sidestep it it would nail me anyway. I'll head into training to see what I can do about it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I made the cast from the original Battle Arena Toshinden series earlier today, and trying to figure out what else I want to make. For what I actually use, I made Nel from Star Ocean 3 to use Taki's style, and Georg Prime from Suikoden V to use Mitsurugi's style. Toshinden had a lot of katana-based characters (Eiji/Sho/Kayin) that I can cycle though too.

I tried to make a Lenneth, but it seems like this game makes it impossible to create shit with the limited armor sets. Still, it's a bit of a step up with the other creation tools.

How ya doing, buddy?

I didn't even bother to level past 20 Online because there's little to no point with how shitty the network code is for the game. Soon as they get their shit in order with it I'll be more than happy to return to it.

There's really no excuse that VF5 online is practically lag free and this is full of shit. Get with it Namco.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

You're literally forced into choosing "Custom Match" and looking for those magic 4 and 5 bar latency people no matter what you do. But pretty much every Kilik, Siegfried, Astaroth, Nightmare, and Rock spammer can be dealt with using quick sidestepping and 8 way moves.

GI is simply not an option unless you're playing against a 5 bar latency opponent, and even then it's a high risk move. Just use someone you're familiar with, and wait for the proper timing to do something. Break through a spammer's guard one time, and keep the heat on them to win the match since they have no idea what to do under pressure.

I had a 22 winning streak at one point in Ranked using only Mitsurugi, so it is possible to have decent matches with people. I ended up losing to one badass Ivy player that had my number, but eh. That's the way you want to lose, when you do.

Jam it back in, in the dark.