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

Star Wars in Soul Calibur IV news from 1UP.com

First off, thank you to the folks at High Voltage for the following:

Stolen Joke:

Originally Posted by The MMK

"*skshhhh* Join me, Siegfried. *skshhhh* Come over to the Dark Side. *skshhhh* Wait, never mind, I guess I'm four games too late on th--"
"Fuck you, Darth."

And second, the pictures pre-uploaded for convenience and posterity.

Finally, if there WAS a Soul Calibur 4 thread, I could not find it via search. That said, call me crazy, I suspect that sales for Soul Calibur 4 will now be exponentially higher with this announcement. Obvious stated. I mean, you've got tits... you've got a whole other fanbase to cater to... who cares if the game becomes another "Glitch" or "Guard" Calibur? Shit, I bet no one was playing competitively to begin with (stop talking about quality then, fags).

Just, wow, how out of left field was this?









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Oh shitz, now it's worth getting the game. I'm not a fan of the series, but cause of these two I'd buy the game.

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Wow, that's insane. I rather would have been Obi Wan or Luke Skywalker instead of Yoda though. I hope custom characters can use their weapons too.

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That is pretty fucking awesome. I haven't been interested in Soul Calibur since part two which is a shame because the first one was so bloody awesome. Either way this game looks pretty damn neat and the addition of Yoda and Vader is pretty sweet.

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I could probably think of some characters I'd rather see in the game. Personally, I'm not a big Star Wars fan, so this announcement kinda makes me not wanna buy the game anymore, especially if what 1UP said comes true -- downloadable content with more Star Wars fandom. Star Wars Calibur? Nah.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'll see how it plays. Bonus characters in a game I don't really enjoy are rather pointless, since I would of course have to actually want to buy the game in the first place. Again, I do see the merit here... I'm just not hard up on the promotion. But hey, get excited if this is your thing, nothing wrong with that.

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Originally Posted by SouthJag

so this announcement kinda makes me not wanna buy the game anymore,

How does bonus characters and DLC you don't have to download make the game any worse? It's not like you'll be forced to use Vader when you're rockin' it up with your pals.

I'm just hoping Yoda isn't to SC4 what Gon is to Tekken 3.

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Keep in mind guys, that Darth is PS3 version only, and Yoda is 360 only.

Which means you have the option to choose the version with the less irritating character.

Though I think it doesn't take a genius to know which dark sided character will generate more sales for fanboys...

And the downloadable content is just speculation anyway, not actual facts. Its likely they will implement this sort of content, but from the article there's no confirmation yet.

Not a big fan of Star Wars myself, though I did enjoy the original films. But as long as Darth Vader fights well enough, I say it would at least be interesting to look at. Not to mention this is probably one of the better looking character models of him we will ever see.

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Or you could, you know, not as play as the extra characters and not download the DLC. Just puttin' that out there.

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Yeah, I just read that at IGN. Just... whatever, Namco.

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NEEDS MORE BLOOM

:eyes explode:

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

Aww, should have been Princess Leia and Jabba the Hutt, to fit in with the whole big boobs thing SCIV already has going! I'm not a big fan of Star Wars, but jumping around like spazzo Yoda would be pretty fun! And he's tiny, everyone would get all constipated with frustration over not being able to hit him.

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All I know is that Vader's ATM Light-Bright had better work in this game. Otherwise it's not worthwhile. ^^

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lol, when i first saw this i was thinking wow this can't be real because they look so out of place. i'm not a star wars fan, so i don't really care if they're added or not. i just hope they bring back character creation and my favourite characters.
this makes me wonder if they're going to add more platform exclusive characters, like what they did with soul calibur 2.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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 don't think I've ever seen anything jump the shark harder than Soul Calibur has. This series went from excellent (SC1) to good (SC2), stayed there (SC3), went to SHIT (SCL) and now will have Darth Vader (in his officially licensed and special made black Zubaz sweatpants) and Yoda using their lightsabers in the most obscene fashion (in a Star Wars fan's mind, anyway) possible: in actual swordfighting. With other people who use SWORDS. And have no concept of the Force.

Did I mention the fact that a lightsaber would break a sword? In fact, the only rational way you could lose in a swordfight with Yoda is if his lightsaber broke off the end of your sword and the broken shard stabbed him in the head.

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Originally Posted by The Dopefish

I don't think I've ever seen anything jump the shark harder than Soul Calibur has. This series went from excellent (SC1) to good (SC2), stayed there (SC3), went to SHIT (SCL) and now will have Darth Vader (in his officially licensed and special made black Zubaz sweatpants) and Yoda using their lightsabers in the most obscene fashion (in a Star Wars fan's mind, anyway) possible: in actual swordfighting. With other people who use SWORDS. And have no concept of the Force.

Did I mention the fact that a lightsaber would break a sword? In fact, the only rational way you could lose in a swordfight with Yoda is if his lightsaber broke off the end of your sword and the broken shard stabbed him in the head.

You're trying to apply sense to a weapon combat game in which the characters shrug off slashes from weapons as if it were nothing.

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Did I mention that you think that SC2 is as good as 3 which is total BS. (and a total matter of opinion I know)

Also Heihachi used his fists in SC2, whech a sword would simply cut off, so I don't see how Lightsaber VS Sword really shines any new light on the same thing different weapon issue.

Also Namco fighting games arn't supposed to be serious. In gameplay yes. Everything else is fair game.

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That's fair. However, from a standpoint of concept, there's a certain extent to which I'd be willing to accept a logic where a lightsaber vs. a sword/hand knives/giant 10-foot axes is a reasonable battle.

My point though was that the Soul Calibur series has fallen from grace and this isn't the most damning evidence (Link and bombs, what?) but I'm really disappointed.

(Arguing about the logic and physics of fighting games is lol)

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Screw concept or sense. The only thing that should matter: is the game fun. When I turn on Lego Star Wars like I did earlier this evening, the last thing I'd consider asking myself is, "do Legos and Star Wars make any sense at all." I just play the game for what it is, and it's entertaining.

I mean Christ, are you crybabies going to pass on Super Smash Bros. Brawl as well because Snake is in the game?

Edit: In retrospect, I think I came off a little harsh there. Don't mind me.

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Very left field choice.

Only thing I don't get is this: All the characters from the SC series come from a 16th Century setting, or can fit into that setting fairly easily. Vader and Yoda are from a Galaxy far far away and their world is very science fiction. It doesn't make sense for them to suddenly wind up in 16-17th century (Which I'm guessing because it'll probably move up a bit in time to the 1600s). You know what I mean?

At any case, very interesting developments.

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So is Jabba or w/e his name gonna be a downloadable character? His fat ass on some platform with some sort of weapon...nice.

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Originally Posted by Parn

I mean Christ, are you crybabies going to pass on Super Smash Bros. Brawl as well because Snake is in the game?

No, and I didn't pass on Soul Calibur 2 because it had Link in it either.

Think about the characters themselves, specifically Yoda. From all we've seen, Yoda is unfuckingstoppable in a fight. Why would Star Wars fans want to ruin that for themselves by foolishly taking Yoda versus some experienced SC player? I'd personally be heartbroken to lose as Yoda.

FELIPE NO

Of course Mitsurugi's katana is impervious to lightsabers.

I wish they'd release Soul Calibur on PSN or Xbox Live with net play, and be done with it.

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What on earth. It's a shame to see Namco selling out to having gimmicks like these in their games. It's no surprise though. I mean, look at the iDOLM@STER planes in Ace Combat 6. Very few people know why the hell anime characters of a game which wasn't even released in English are there, but they just are. For no reason.

The same concept seems to apply to this. There's no reason why Starwars characters would/should be in Soul Calibur at all, it just doesn't make sense. They just are. For no reason.

I still think Soul Calibur looks fantastic despite being 7 years old. They really didn't need to bother making a sequel to that at all (2, 3 and this are irrelevant). The original's just so fantastic, that it should be on Live, or something. Of course it won't ever work unless they magically fix lag in fighting games but hey. It isn't fucking Starwars in my Calibur.

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