Spiderbite

Is that a deal? I thought that was the normal price?

mhg83

someone made Solid Snake and Raiden :

http://kotaku.com/5030235/metal-gear...soulcalibur-iv

Drexl

Now we need Brian Peppers, Star Wars Kid, and Bat Boy!

zero

From winning! j/k I was playing in training mode until a friend wanted to do some fighting so after some really good battles I had to call it quits for the night. However I'll be back on again in the morning.

edstein

How does this game compare with DOA4?

lordzeppelin

From a fighting system standpoint, I think Soul Calibur is better in many regards. It's got a bit of a deeper fighting system, although it's got less counters than DOA4. But the AI isn't as cheap. There are times on DOA4 when I just might as well put down the controller, and let the CPU do it's thing. Which kinda sucks, because it will corner you, bounce you off the walls for 10 seconds, and you're done. SC doesn't do that. SC seems more methodical to me.

It's tough to compare the 2, because they're both good fighting systems, it just comes down to pref. I like what Namco has crafted over the past decade with this game much more than Tecmo with DOA, which has really evolved a lot. However, now that Itagaki is gone from team ninja and tecmo, you'll never see another DOA the same again - perhaps there will be a new fighter from another company involving Itagaki, perhaps Tecmo will try to take it in a different direction, or perhaps it just dies out.

fujishig

Isn't retail for the LE 79.99?

lordzeppelin

Zero, must have missed you on Live tonight. Hopefully soon!

PopcornTreeCt

I really dig the game. Though I did unlock all the characters minus Darth Vader in only a few hours. Yoda and The Apprentice are the most unbalanced characters in the game. The Apprentice is ridiculously hard on Arcade. Story mode is easy. Even on "Hard" it's easy. Though the Arcade is cranked up a few notches. I made a pretty good Altair. I like how you can make up to 50 guys, though armor and clothes seems very limited. I couldn't play against anyone online. It couldn't find any matches. Is everyone playing Ranked or Player? Good game though.

RyoHazuki

Are there unlockable outfits or do you start with all the clothing options?

slop101

I was able to play a few single-round matches through PSN. But they were mostly against people in Japan - they'd send me messages in Japanese....

As far as the matches they felt unbalanced - I would destroy them in one round, and the next round I would get destroyed - every match was very one-sided.

XavierMike

There are quite a bit of clothing options that you have to buy. But, you seem to earn gold at a pretty good clip. I wish there were more artwork/videos to unlock though.

Overall, I'm having a good time with it. Story mode is a little shallow, but the Tower of Lost Souls fills in for it pretty well.

PopcornTreeCt

Another thing about this game. When you start story mode, each character has a long neverending scroll of text. I mean, seriously, they couldn't just make an FMV for the background stories?

Things like that bother me. When a game is as huge and expansive as GTA IV, it makes Soul Calibur feel like a mini game.

I still like it and all. But it should be $30 and not $60.

RocShemp

Okay, I'll bite. What is the story for Vader? Is it the same for Yoda on the 360? If not, what is Yoda's story?

RocShemp

They're still doing that? Given how epic the storyline in this series tends to be, you'd think they would have added FMV sequences for this one.

Decker

Yoda was in the swamps of Degobah. He felt a small disturbance in the force. It grew stronger so eventually he left to investigate. That led to the fighting, I guess. Never thought anyone could make Lucas look like the Coen brothers, but they come close here.

RocShemp

Damn. That's weaker than Heihachi's storyline in the PS2 version of Soul Calibur II.

Deadpool

You should try floors 45 & 46 ...as for the 2nd bold...

Ring her ass out!!!!!

I myself am loving the game thus far. I just haven't had enough play time yet...hopefully this weekend I can grab a few hours on this.

slop101

Pretty much the same for Vader, but instead of Degobah, he's on some star destroyer. And when he wins he "gains power" - yeah, it's that dumb and plain.

Drexl

Yeah, it's especially bad when you consider that some DLC for SC4 is already up. Frankly, I think it's a bad PR move to release DLC this early. It just seems that this was left out of the game intentionally to get more money.

I understand that a game may have to be finalized about 2 months before it hits the shelves, and during that time they can create new content that can be released at around the same time as the game. However, from the perspective of the average gamer, it just feels wrong. It feels like you're paying for stuff that should have been included in the game. Even if was already finished, if they would just space it out and not release it for a few months, at least it wouldn't feel like it was left out intentionally (not to give them any ideas).

That's why I try not to pay $60 for a game that will have DLC. I don't want to spend more than $60 on the game itself.

lordzeppelin

I haven't had a chance to look...what's already up for DLC?

And to further discuss your point, I don't know if it's that bad of a PR move - you have to realize that the meat of the market, centered on "new & now" is going to pick this up, play it as much as they can, ditch it, and move on to the next new game (example - madden). Namco knows this, so they're providing DLC so those players get more immediate gratification. It's easier to get an "add-on sale" right away than it is, say, a month down the line when the initial purchase is all but forgotten. Especially with this type of game. However, that approach doesn't make sense for a game like Halo, where extra maps get people back into playing it again for a longer period of time than, say, a character DLC for a fighting game.

fujishig

I see on the PS3 side there's DLC for less than 2 bucks with some outfits or something. Anyone know whether this is one of those "DLC-for-the-lazy" ones, where you can actually unlock this if you play enough, or is this exclusive content.


edit: I guess it is something like 9 new accessories/items from past soul calibur games. You can also buy new soundtracks for the game for like 15 bucks, which seems pretty high.

PopcornTreeCt

One thing I like about this game that I haven't seen any other game do, is that certain amount of achievements unlock more equipment. Like 10, 15, 20, etc.

I played a little online. Only have 1 win so far. Since then I've upped my character pretty well. There's some people that have upped their character so much they have nearly two full life bars. I've been able to do that to a certain extent.

Anyone know a good website for the create a characters? There was some good pics in here and I'd like to see how they did them. I made a pretty good Altair from Assassin's Creed and now he's leveled up and can actually fight.

I've heard (but probably not true) that someone played as Darth Vader by selecting Random. That's such a smack in the face. Hopefully, they'll give us some real DLC like Darth Maul or Luke Skywalker.

squidget

Just got this in the mail today, I'll see some of you folks online later

PopcornTreeCt

I'm stuck. How in the world do you pull of a critical finish? Are you supposed to press LB when the other guy's life bar is blinking red? Because nothing happens.