Newegg has SC 5 for $49.99 with coupon code.
EMCNJGJ78 - PS3
EMCNJGJ79 - 360
Shipping is free. Still not sure about this one. I rarely play these games alone so online multiplayer is important for me. Hopefully the net code is better on this one than the last.
I'm interested, but I don't really have time to play it at the moment, and I have a lot of other stuff I've already bought and haven't played.
Still, I do like getting new pants for my dudes...
I'm interested, but I don't really have time to play it at the moment, and I have a lot of other stuff I've already bought and haven't played.
Still, I do like getting new pants for my dudes...
I'm waiting for the day someone dumps a AAA development into just a character creator. Sadly, I'd wind up paying $60 for it.
Giant Bomb's got a Quick Look up.
Yup. Looks like more Soul Calibur. I think I might hold off until either a price drop or my birthday, whichever comes first. I've got no real-life friends who can hack it against me in Soul Cal and I can't hack it against crazy people online (or deal with even the slightest bit of lag in a fighting game), so the one thing that might've made this a Day One Purch for me was a more robust single-player campaign mode, and on that front it looks like they've gone backward, not forward.
Yeah, the IGN review said it sported the weakest single-player content to date.
What a shame.
That is a shame, although the best thing about Soul Calibur remains full-random local play.
I'm a bit torn. I'm tempted to just buy SC IV for $20 in Games On Demand, because all I want is a fighting game to casually when I want something more than Peggle. Seriously, I just think SC is the fighting game that just feels right to me. I don't care about career modes and such.
That said, there does seem to be an interesting score chasing component in addition to the online play. Is this right? And character creation would actually be kind of a cool feature. Plus, Ezio is kind of a big deal for my daughter, who is not only a big AC fan, but plays SC like me, as pure arcade distraction.
I just don't know if that is worth $40. I imagine there will be a good sale on it within a month or two.
By the way, I would strongly recommend switching to Japanese voices, unless you feel a certain nostalgia for over-acted, oft-repeated, unreasonable lines in the middle of your fight.
Ah, c'mon. Can't hate too hard on a dub that gives you material like this.
The character creation is freaking awesome.
I'll second this emotion. Here I surrender my last pretense that I ever was or could be considered in any way, but I was really delighted that I was able to make rough approximations of two tiefling characters I play in D&D campaigns, with something sort of like the weird-ass horns I imagined, and I hope I get something more antler-like soon.
>sigh<
Character creation can be kind of neat!
SpacePPoliceman, I just hit player level 10 and unlocked some horse legs. They're furry enough to look like goat legs to me, if that's your flavor of tiefer.
I got those last night, too. They aren't for my doods, but I hope they're indicative of the other crazy parts waiting to be unlocked.
I put in some more time with Taki (NOT Natsu... well, yeah, Natsu) and Ivy. Natsu has some pretty significant changes, which makes sense since she is technically a new character, but most of her moves seem to do something similar to what you'd expect having played Soul Calibur 4.
I need to spend more time with her because I know she has a bunch of teleporting zaniness, but all of the AI spamming kicks I use on Taki seem to be still there. Xianghua, on the other hand, has some moves I haven't found on Leixia yet.
The real tragedy, I feel, is the loss of Cassandra, even though she's technically still there. Most of her moves now seem to belong to Phyrra, who possesses those traits everyone wants in a fighting game character: frightened and cowardly. Her opening animation has her backing away and shaking her head. Cassandra was fun, Phyrra's pathetic, and it's annoying.
The Elephant in the Room question, I guess, is "Will you pay for the inevitable Old Characters DLC?" I think I might.
Character creation can be kind of neat!
Pshhh.... Like we all didn't know how that fight would have gone down.
I will pay for Sophitia DLC, because it isn't a Soul Calibur game without Sophitia. I would also pay to get Setsuka back, because Setsuka > Patroklos.
Other than that, they have all my favorites covered (Ivy, Mitsurugi, Siegfried, and Hilde).
Why do the girl's butts look like 12-year-old asian boy butts?
(Just assuming that's what they'd look like, of course.)
Why do the girl's butts look like 12-year-old asian boy butts?
(Just assuming that's what they'd look like, of course.)
Uh-huh...
*Hits the red Fed alert button*
I'm not sure why teenage boys would be interested in playing dress-up with virtual dolls. That sounds more like something that teenage girls would like.
Why do the girl's butts look like 12-year-old asian boy butts?
(Just assuming that's what they'd look like, of course.)
Because Asian girls' butts aren't any different.
Character creation can be kind of neat!
Oh, man. Is that what the announcer sounds like through the whole game? What a lame Mortal Kombat reject. Soul Cal announcers are supposed to be over-the-top and bombastic.
My copy should be here from gamefly today. I grabbed it on the 360 and would love to get some matches in with some of you all this weekend. Just add me.
I played a few hours with Yoyoson last night (thanks for the games, my friend, you were a worthy adversary). Again, I'm not hardcore enough to know much about timing but the online play felt exactly like the offline play. No lag whatsoever. I felt like every hit was earned (except when I was playing as Ezio, who is incredibly cheap with his ranged attacks) and I never felt like the game had robbed me of a hit or a win. Yoyoson seemed surprised when he realized my custom characters did not come pre-made on the disc, which I will take as a compliment. Oh, and Lance sends his regards.
Indeed, thank you, my friend, for helping me acclimate.
You did have a lot of inventive characters. I'll keep that image of Lance in my heart for the rest of my days, whether I'd like to or not. Good times
I agree that Pyrrha's kind of a bad character. One of her "throws" has her literally falling on top of her opponent. You unlock a different version of her playing through the story mode so maybe that one's a little more assertive. Or at least doesn't end rounds by falling over whilst proclaiming quietly that she is hungry.
I wouldn't say she's a bad character, I would say she's just being passive-aggressive. During her critical edge attack, she expresses her heartfelt regrets at the same time as she's ripping you a new one.
LobsterMobster wrote:I agree that Pyrrha's kind of a bad character. One of her "throws" has her literally falling on top of her opponent. You unlock a different version of her playing through the story mode so maybe that one's a little more assertive. Or at least doesn't end rounds by falling over whilst proclaiming quietly that she is hungry.
I wouldn't say she's a bad character, I would say she's just being passive-aggressive. During her critical edge attack, she expresses her heartfelt regrets at the same time as she's ripping you a new one.
Which is very much a Sophitia thing. Sophitia was all about saying "sorry" and "are you OK?" while breaking your neck, then flipping you head over heels. I read that Pyrrha Omega has a moveset that is almost identical to Sophitia too, so maybe Pyrrha is more than just a nod to the Sophitia fans. You know, besides being her daughter and all.
Man, now I really want to play this.
I prefer Ivy's method of laughing at your pain.
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