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Soul Calibur 4 Featuring Yoda and Darth Vader?

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 12:30 AM

When I walked past Blockbuster today, I saw in the window a poster for Soul Calibur 4. I was a little confused at first because the poster featured quite prominently two Star Wars characters. They were just there, standing with those Soul Calibur characters. I don't know their names, but you know the ones. The guys who calibrate souls. Anyway. I can't imagine why this would be a good idea. It looks like Namco or whatever company makes Soul Calibur is just trying cash in on the success of Super Smash Brothers Brawl by having illogical crossovers. But the only time I play that franchise is when I'm in an arcade, so if they want to cheapen their image, that's fine with me.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 01:14 AM

Oh, here's the kicker. Yoda and Darth never get to fight. Darth is going to be on the PS3, and Yoda is on the Xbox 360 (I think). So there's very nearly no nerdy purpose to get the game.

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 04:34 AM

I heard about that Vader/Yoda split
and its the dumbest thing

like really what if you own a PS3 and don't like The Dark Lord
its outrageous but im sure some people out there love Yoda more

Way to go Lucas this is just another way
for you to screw the fans while still making money

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Posted 24 July 2008 - 12:50 PM

The whole Star wars thing it has going on is stupid. Everything else looks like it'll be good though.
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Posted 25 July 2008 - 03:17 PM

I refer you to Soul Calibur 2:
Xbox got Spawn (for some reason)
GameCube got Link
And the PS2 got stuck with Heihachi Mishima from Tekken who was easily one of the worst characters in the game (SC2, not Tekken)

Namco seems pretty adept at this point when it comes to pissing off the people who like the franchise, but don't have the money to buy every console available as well as multiple copies of the game. One would hope that if they're smart, they'll make the character not immediately available to unlock on the console available as a download or something.


EDIT: Wrote "Soul Calibur 3" instead of 2 for some reason.

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Posted 26 July 2008 - 07:17 PM

there are already rumors of these extra characters showing up as DLC
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Posted 26 July 2008 - 09:19 PM

If I may address the problem of the gameplay footage in the ads...

It looked like they're reusing the same stages.
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Posted 27 July 2008 - 01:05 AM

QUOTE (reiner @ Jul 26 2008, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
there are already rumors of these extra characters showing up as DLC

Well for the sake of those who've gone ahead and plunked down cash for the newer consoles, I'd hope so. And it makes sense, considering it's an easy way to make another quick buck off of one of their flagship franchises.
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Posted 27 July 2008 - 02:43 PM

Hmmm, it looks like a color scheming thing going on. Being that Vader is wearing all black, the PS3 is an all black console. And Yoda being green and wearing light beige to white robes, he resembles the color scheme of the Xbox 360.

Oh and Hecc, you said "for some reason" that Xbox got Spawn, well look at his main color scheme, it's minimal white on basic black with green eyes, and the first Xbox console was green and black.

As for the choice of Heihachi for the PS2 version, I guess because he wears black and the PS2 is black... I dunno, they could have picked anyone else, at least someone that uses a weapon.

And the Gamecube version used Link only because of it's marketing value. I never saw any GC's with a green and white covering, just purple and black. And there are no characters in the Nintendo universe wearing purple except Wario or Gravity Suit wearing Samus.

This is all just speculation though...

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Posted 27 July 2008 - 06:21 PM

I have a better explanation.

Tekken's a popular, PS2 exclusive fighting game. They wanted to attract PS2 fighting fans. Go with a guy from Tekken.

Gamecube fans love link.

As for Spawn, I think it's because XBox fans wanted to think of themselves as more dark and gritty than the other two consoles. Hence Spawn.
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Posted 27 July 2008 - 07:50 PM

QUOTE (Otal Nimrodi @ Jul 27 2008, 07:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have a better explanation.

Tekken's a popular, PS2 exclusive fighting game. They wanted to attract PS2 fighting fans. Go with a guy from Tekken.

Gamecube fans love link.

As for Spawn, I think it's because XBox fans wanted to think of themselves as more dark and gritty than the other two consoles. Hence Spawn.



I was thinking this a bit also because of Tekken's history only in arcades and only on PS consoles, so yeah, that works, the same for GC and Link. Your Spawn theory has merrit, but put into perspective with Yoda and Vader, would the Xbox 360 be the Light side of gaming while the PS3 is the Dark side?

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Posted 28 July 2008 - 02:11 AM

You're reading into it way too much. Like...way, way, way too much.
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Posted 29 July 2008 - 01:44 AM

Having seen the new designs for the female characters I am happy to see that someone is attempting to challenge Dead Or Alive's level of bustiness. I feel that this can only result in an arms race in which the consumer is the one true winner.

And those guys in their mom's basement.
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Posted 31 July 2008 - 09:54 AM

Yet they still have more tasteful female costumes (full suit of armor, full dresses, etc.) which offer some actual classy get ups. Little bit more interesting than the constant titty barage (although SC4 still has Ivy)

By the way, the afro inthe creator is one of the best afro's in video game history. It conforms to your headware.

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Posted 03 August 2008 - 11:25 PM

The game actually allows you to strip all the females clothing to the point of bra and panties only.

It also has an extensive Create a Character mode. It might have more fanservice than DOA because of this.
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