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Jay Shadow · May 11, 2011

Kimosabae said:
I was honestly hoping they'd save it for next gen. It looks like Soulcalibur 4

That trailer WAS SC4.

fernoca · May 11, 2011

Big One said:
It isn't Ivy's daughter I just said I hope she looks something like this. It's an unused design for a seemingly young Ivy for SCIV.

Thanks for ruining my dreams!!!

Well, there's always the possibility of Maxi's son...so the dream lives on!!!! <3!

SouthernDragon · May 11, 2011

The new art for Seigfried and Patroclus have me... interested. Then again, SCIV had designs that were either GREAT or TERRIBAD.

Also, I dig that design for Ivy's replacement, if there is one.

NeonZ · May 11, 2011

Kimosabae said:
I was honestly hoping they'd save it for next gen. It looks like Soulcalibur 4

Most of that was just Soul Calibur 4 footage. And I don't mean only the models. They added the crystal effect and the new Soul Edge teaser at the end, but everything else was taken from SC4's cutscenes.

Remember when the Calibur series gave off a sense of inspired art, score and leading technology like no other?

*sniff*

Soul Calibur 4 still looks really good though... Mortal Kombat has better backgrounds, but that's it as far as fighting games go.

enzo_gt · May 11, 2011

holy shit the new art looks awesome, especially Siegfried :O :O :O

*reminds self to pick up SCIV*

Also, so happy Siegfried still has a massive sword.

Erigu · May 11, 2011

Acquiescence said:
Siegfried and Sophitia have never been romantically linked in the franchise.

They were going for that in Soul Edge, but dropped the idea in the sequels.

It's Ivy that seems to be his canonical love interest

?

jett · May 11, 2011

So much for revamped character roster. 17 years later...Siegfried looks exactly the same.

Skilletor · May 11, 2011

SC4 looks fucking amazing. Better than T6 (console) by far. Never seen T6 arcade in person so can't comment.

sixteen-bit · May 11, 2011

Skilletor said:
SC4 looks fucking amazing. Better than T6 (console) by far. Never seen T6 arcade in person so can't comment.

SC4 looks way better probably because it's technically newer than T6 (2008 vs 2007). The image quality is especially phenomenal on the 360 version of SC4 too due to some resolution magic, IIRC.

BrokenEchelon · May 11, 2011

I really hope the character customization mode returns for this one. I had hours of fun with that thing in SCIV. They could add a whole lot of awesome features to it, and possibly let us use whatever weapon we want with whatever combat style, but that might be tricky.

mikeGFG · May 11, 2011

Im so sick of japanese character design.

Izayoi · May 11, 2011

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

I'm so sick of non-Japanese character design.

New designs look great.

Show us more, Namco.

Kimosabae · May 11, 2011

While I like SC4's art design and animation more than anything else on the market, it looks dated, IMO. It always came across as a higher rez version of SC3.

WanderingWind · May 11, 2011

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

THEN DON'T PLAY GAMES MADE IN JAPAN BY JAPANESES COMPANIES STAFFED BY JAPANESE PEOPLE.

sixteen-bit · May 11, 2011

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

Then why enter a Soul Calibur thread?

Neuromancer · May 11, 2011

jett said:
So much for revamped character roster. 17 years later...Siegfried looks exactly the same.

I'm shocked people took the 17 years thing seriously. That would require a radical redesign of every single character at the very least.

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

I bet Japanese characters don't care much for your design either, ever think about that?!

Kai Dracon · May 11, 2011

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

As opposed to American character design, where everyone is either a bald space marine or a 30 year old stubbled white man with Nolan North's face, voice, and artfully tousled black/brown hair?

Roto13 · May 11, 2011

Neuromancer said:
I'm shocked people took the 17 years thing seriously. That would require a radical redesign of every single character at the very least.

What, of course it's going to take place a long time after IV. Patroklos was only born slightly before Soul Calibur 1.

And Siegfried looks much older in that character art than he did before.

hikarutilmitt · May 11, 2011

Kaijima said:
As opposed to American character design, where everyone is either a bald space marine or a 30 year old stubbled white man with Nolan North's face, voice, and artfully tousled black/brown hair?

Don't forget big, chunky armor with huge guns!

And by guns I mean both types!

Kimosabae · May 11, 2011

Seigfried clearly looks older. 17 years worth of aging going by that pic is debatable, IMO.

Soul Team's art is the only anime art I truly love. It's got that overt attention to detail that gives it a western appeal.

Izayoi · May 11, 2011

Kimosabae said:
Soul Team's art is the only anime art I truly love.

Avatar quote...?

Ushojax · May 11, 2011

I like the new art. I just hope they tone down the boobs on the female characters. A jokey character like Ivy is fine, but when everybody's boobs swell to ridiculous levels between installments it just gets creepy.

Kimosabae · May 11, 2011

Izayoi said:
Avatar quote...?

I love the character's gameplay more than his art design:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419105

sleepykyo · May 11, 2011

_dementia said:
I love Capcom, but what? How exactly have they stepped up their game?

They actually started putting out fighting games again. And they weren't as awful Capcom Fighting Jam or some thrown together game like Street Fighter Collection CE or whatever the heck that was.

Outside of that I clicked on the yoda/vader reveal thread. The first 3 pages might as well be gaf obituary, the psn outage has claimed many an account.

LowParry · May 11, 2011

I just went out to repurchase SC4. I hear there's people who still play

Bill Rizer · May 11, 2011

Why does Patroklos have Deutsches Reich military decorations?

Skilletor · May 11, 2011

SC art is top tier.

Dahbomb · May 11, 2011

One thing I am hoping for is awesome SC music.

Fuck even the menu for SC4 had epic music. SC as a series has some of the best music in FG history.

CountAntonius · May 11, 2011

As far as Guest characters go....

It's...it's... LU BU!(Dynasty Warriors)

Guy already fits is Soul Calibur..

Freshmaker · May 11, 2011

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

Then go play MK where the ninjas tastefully wear paintball gear and Liu Kang looks like a potato.

Kimosabae · May 11, 2011

Freshmaker said:
Then go play MK where the ninjas tastefully wear paintball gear and Liu Kang looks like a potato.

hahahaha wtf?

SatelliteOfLove · May 11, 2011

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

You pick this art to say this? C'mon dude, there's a ton of generime flooding out of the East every week to hate on. Dudes shown so far be rockin.

Dizzy-4U · May 11, 2011

That Patroklo guy kinda looks like the bad guy from Valkyria Chronicles. I like his design.

Freshmaker said:
Then go play MK where the ninjas tastefully wear paintball gear and Liu Kang looks like a potato.

I lol'd so hard.

Kurtofan · May 11, 2011

Freshmaker said:
Then go play MK where the ninjas tastefully wear paintball gear and Liu Kang looks like a potato.

I knew there was something wrong with his face.

Freshmaker · May 11, 2011

Kimosabae said:
hahahaha wtf?

They kinda mauled his character model and then made him into a humorless prick so the effect is even stronger.

Oh, forgot... Creative western character design = All women in thongs and bikini tops.

FallingEdge · May 11, 2011

Peeps be sensitive in this thread.

Erigu · May 11, 2011

BrokenEchelon said:
I really hope the character customization mode returns for this one.

They said it was still in.

Roto13 said:
What, of course it's going to take place a long time after IV. Patroklos was only born slightly before Soul Calibur 1.

I believe he was born in-between SoulCalibur and SoulCalibur II, actually.
And yeah, they said it was set 17 years later (but Siegfried should be 40, then, not 39! what is this travesty?).

Slamtastic · May 11, 2011

Rahxephon91 said:
Yeah then he would be in actual good fighting game.

jk?

Do you have like, some sort of bet going where you get paid $5 every time you get your tag quoted?

Mike G.E.D. said:
Im so sick of japanese character design.

Here you go.

mikeGFG · May 11, 2011

Freshmaker said:
Oh, forgot... Creative western character design = All women in thongs and bikini tops.

This is literally a reply in a Soul Calibur thread.

Freshmaker · May 11, 2011

Mike G.E.D. said:
This is literally a reply in a Soul Calibur thread.

Yes. MK managed to outdo SC in terms of raw objectification. It bears mentioning.

sleepykyo · May 11, 2011

Freshmaker said:
They kinda mauled his character model and then made him into a humorless prick so the effect is even stronger.

Oh, forgot... Creative western character design = All women in thongs and bikini tops.

I thought Liu Kang came across as one of the better designs.

SatelliteOfLove · May 11, 2011

Freshmaker said:
Then go play MK where the ninjas tastefully wear paintball gear and Liu Kang looks like a potato.

Liu Kang lives in the Mojave in a Winnebago?

Kimosabae · May 11, 2011

Kang definitely looks funky in that game - model, attacks, stance and all.

Bring back Soul Edge's cinematic and ironic endings.

Freshmaker · May 11, 2011

sleepykyo said:
I thought Liu Kang came across as one of the better designs.

It only really comes across like that in the unskippable cut scenes of doom.

Squire · May 11, 2011

Let me do the math for you!

Amy: 14 > 31

Astaroth 7 > 24

Cassandra 21 > 38

Cervantes 55 > 72

Ivy 32 > 49

Kilik 23 > 40

Lizardman 36 > 53

Maxi 28 > 45

Mitsurugi 29 > 46

Nightmare

SoulCalibur Wiki said:
Existed since ancient times as Soul Edge

Raphael 32 > 49

Rock 42 > 59

Seong-Mina 23 > 40

Setsuka 24 > 41

Siegfried 23 > 40

Sophitia 25 > 42

Taki 29 > 46

Talim 15 > 32

Tira 17 > 34

Voldo 50 > 67

Xianghua 20 > 37

Yoshimitsu... has no age?

Yun-Seong 18 > 35

Zasalamel

SoulCalibur Wiki said:
Unable to determine due to his ability to reincarnate.

Notes:

All ages taken from Soul Calibur IV/Broken Destiny.
Most of the characters have exact birthdates, so their actual ages in the game may give or take a year.
In terms of real world history, at the time anything over 40 was definitely considered old. By modern standards though, most of the characters are still relatively young. The game is of course partly grounded in fantasy, so we really have no way of knowing which line of thinking they're on.

Yay! Xianghua's not even 40!

Slamtastic · May 11, 2011

Doesn't seem too bad to me.

SouthernDragon · May 11, 2011

I am actually really surprised it does not say Kostume Koncept.

CcrooK said:
I just went out to repurchase SC4. I hear there's people who still play

Sucker. I did the same when it went on sale.

Deleted member 81567 · May 11, 2011

Hopefully it's better than 4 which was a decent game but expected more. It's also one of the few fighting franchises I actually like so I'm pumped.

Neiteio · May 11, 2011

Roto13 said:
None of that is canon. They just stick some random excuse in guest characters' profiles and never speak of it again.

It was part of the timeline you could view in SCIV. But even if the guests weren't canon, it's still a case of awful, make-up-as-you-go-along fan fiction. Just enjoy the cool characters and don't worry about story.

Roto13 · May 11, 2011

Inorigo said:
Cervantes 55 > 72

Cervantes doesn't age so it doesn't really matter how old he is.

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