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Soul Caliber 4
carrotosaurus:
Has anyone gotten it yet? What do you think?
I got it last night and the fighting engine has been slowed down a bit, but they really balanced all the characters out and it's a lot more fun to play. Plus the graphics are really purty.
Scandanavian War Machine:
i'm gonna go rent it in a little while (lunchbreak) but won't be able to play until i get off work.
Jackie Blue:
I played it a bunch last night. I don't know about this "character balance" of which you speak. I played online and pretty much everyone used Kilik (or a custom character with one of his weapons) and spammed long-distance attacks.
Also, apparently nobody else in the world has a "block" button on their controller because any time I managed to get in close all I had to do was keep attacking.
SC is supposed to be more of a strategic game yet people are (successfully) treating it like Smash Brothers. :|
It's still really fun, no online lag, Create a Character is pretty good, kind of disappointed in the very limited single player modes, gorgeous graphics, really like the "bonus characters" which I hadn't even heard about.
Looks like 90% of the time I'll be playing my custom Seong Mina style character if I want to win consistently, which is kind of disappointing because that's what I've always done in these games. :-(
tl;dr - Not quite enough new on the table for this entry, but still the best fighting game around.
carrotosaurus:
I haven't played it online yet, and I'm not a big proponent of online fighting game play. But sitting around with my friends playing it last night it was pretty fantastic, because we're all big Soul Caliber geeks and don't treat it like Smash Brothers... If that's the case it looks like I'll still be avoiding online play. I'm in full agreement with Yahtzee in that 360 is full of hooting dicks that have no idea what's going on.
I like the new armor break system, and aside from looking really cool when someone's helmet breaks off and the like, it adds incentive to actually aim your attacks instead of button-mashing like a fiend (Maxi).
I'm a Yun-Seong guy myself, and they did change a few of his moves around, but nothing drastic. They took out a lot of the cheapness of Ivy and Raphael as well.
Anyway, I agree it's not the best, but it's much better than SC3 which I thought was really crippled when compared to the SC1 or 2 fighting engine.
Yeah, it's no Virtua Fighter, but it's the first fighting game in a while I've been excited about getting home for so I can play.
One other thing is that Yoda is kind of terrible, and I'm pretty apathetic towards the whole Star Wars characters thing. The 5 new bonus characters are really cool though.
What I'd really like is some DLC that doesn't suck.
Jackie Blue:
Oh, another thing that really annoys me is that every piece of clothing changes your stats, so instead of being encouraged to create unique looking characters, it seems that unless you want to be handicapped you should just always use the "best" equipment.
I played against one person last night who had some huge uber hammer equipped that did about half my life bar in damage per hit. No exagerration.
I have a PS3, so I feel bad for how much worse it must be to play against the 360 crowd. *shudder*
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