Soul Calibur IV meets Star Wars

[-Zer0-]

I'm tired of seeing Yoda in ranked matches doing nothing but that forward lunge

[Melena]

so uh yea, are they just not clear on what you need to do to get the bonus items from tower of souls? was playing around with it and beat floors 1-4 and got no items.

[-Zer0-]

Clicky

[Krandor]

Nerd Powers activate!

Once it updates on PSN, I should be in the top 500-550 for Arcade mode scores, now if only the online play would stop being laggy for me : /

[HAcoreRD]

i dont quite get why i cant block for shit anymore, but otherwise i'm satisfied with this game.

Too bad 90% of online players use Maxi/Taki or Yoda.

[isladar]

I'm a Soul Edge/Blade whatever fan from like, back in the day, played the shit out of the one on Dream Cast.. (I'm still banned from playing Voldo ever again, goddamnit) I'm pretty happy with this one. To be honest though I haven't even touched the actual characters -- I've been making created ones since my friend brought the game over like a fucking fiend. Why play Siegfried when you can make your own? I have my own stable of hot dudes in heavy armor, and then I make my friend and BF play fanservice matches.

[Elcura]

I'm a Soul Edge/Blade whatever fan from like, back in the day, played the shit out of the one on Dream Cast.. (I'm still banned from playing Voldo ever again, goddamnit) I'm pretty happy with this one. To be honest though I haven't even touched the actual characters -- I've been making created ones since my friend brought the game over like a fucking fiend. Why play Siegfried when you can make your own? I have my own stable of hot dudes in heavy armor, and then I make my friend and BF play fanservice matches.

I pretty much do the same thing but the opposite. It's fun as hell making characters, I just wish there were more styles apart from the character ones (dancer wru). I also wish you could use Vader/Yoda/The Apprentice's styles as well. Maybe you can, but I haven't found a way yet so I doubt it. But it would be sweet.

[Tempyst]

No Hwang makes me angry

Yun Seong is a gay shitty knock off of the original

[deshende]

Ok, Astaroth is an absolute monster in this game. I didn't even bother brushing up on his changes since the previous games and blew straight thru Arcade without losing a single round. After spending time in Training now, jesus christ, he can easily take off half your life bar if make even a single mistep.

I experienced this in a ranked match yesterday. He has this wind up double axe swing thing that I kept walking into. Even though my character had like a full blue (double health) bar, I died in like 3 or 4 hits. Craziness.

[Krandor]

For the special matches (specifically Tower of Lost Souls), where I think the Astaroth I made for that purpose has like 180% attack, I actually one shotted someone with Astaroth, and not even with one of his unblockables, just good ole fashioned 2*8B.

Broke 500k in Arcade mode, but without cheesing it (like the top ranked person for Arcade mode is on PSN, just look at their time relative to everyone else on top), I'm definitely seeing the upper limits of how you can score in arcade mode, since there's only so many rounds you can get a perfect on.

[Kiarax]

Ordered this off Play.com and it's been "packing" for the past 4 days. Want to play it so bad but Play are being retarded. Wont even let me cancel it through the site once it's in the packing phase, so I can't cancel and order it elsewhere or pick it up from the store.

Regardless, any Europeans with the game know if it's somehow possible to get the LE costumes? Sucks that we miss out on the suit if there's no way to get them.

[Tricen]

This makes me want to get a PS3. Well, I've actually wanted one anyways. Stupid money >=(. I hope the gameplay is a little more... Technical than #2, more fluid or whatever.

[Neosutra]

This makes me want to get a PS3. Well, I've actually wanted one anyways. Stupid money >=(. I hope the gameplay is a little more... Technical than #2, more fluid or whatever.

Every soul calibur is the EXACT same game as the previous games, with 10% more pixels and 2-3 extra characters.

[Xanthe]

Every soul calibur is the EXACT same game as the previous games, with 10% more pixels and 2-3 extra characters.

And the entirety of the extra pixel count is used to increase Ivy's bust size.

[Korietsu]

Well, I'll have to get a couple of pictures of some of the create a characters that actually look good and have great stats. Last night we managed to make a stalin character, and because we're texans, the lazy mexican stereotype character. Also, I'm largely disappointed you have to have some retarded character setups, IE Nightmare with 200% HP, ~160% Attack to beat some of the levels. After playing a bit more through, I'm disappointed with the skill system, seeing as that you cant even use half the skills, and often cant get more than two or three to fit out of your four slots.

[Cyn]

Gameplay is exactly the same. All you need to know how to do to completely dominate is parry, throw, and mash out simple combos.

[Krandor]

The equipment you unlock as you go along is stronger in terms of stat distribution. I unlocked a chestpiece last night with 100 points in Special, and a headgear with like 60 in Power I think. It varies character to character, but the only skill I find really essential for Tower of Lost Souls is HP Drain, then Unblockable Attack A for heavy hitters and Venom Drain for speedy characters. The Soul Calibur/Soul Edge weapons for each character usually come with a strong skill preattached on the weapon, which helps alot for stat distribution.

The only thing I don't really like with the character creation is that alot of good gear looks really dumb, but I'm just compensating by making 2 customs of every character I make. One for stats, one for looks.

And in regards to the gameplay comment, this one actually feels a little slower then the previous Soul Calibur games, and characters have ALOT less safe moves then the other games. Mitsurugi in particular is like a 100% gamble character now.

[Korietsu]

Figured I'd show off my character. Decent stats wise for single player, and he looks pretty good imo. A better camera would probably do it more justice though. Only had my camera phone on hand though. Edit again: Fuck, noticed I missed the skill choices, ill try and get a recording of him in action with my computer sometime.

[Elcura]

The only thing I don't really like with the character creation is that alot of good gear looks really dumb, but I'm just compensating by making 2 customs of every character I make. One for stats, one for looks.

I've been doing that as well, no wonder they give you 50 slots lol. I've made a couple of Touhou characters (of course) and they wind up looking pretty good. Might make a Claymore character soon, that should be easy.

[Krandor]

If anyone missed it, since I just realized it like 2 days ago, the "special" slot for equipping gear is only available if you're using a characters P1 or P2 costumes (i.e. not customizing anything). They're just invisible stat pieces that typically give +70 and +120 to 2 stats.

Works fairly well because Astaroth's P1 costume is fucking awesome.