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Soul Calibur 5 Announced - 2012 - [Up 7: Make A New E3 Thread Please]
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.la1n
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I'm going to assume this whole "short sword" thing is just a mistranslation or we aren't really grasping what they are saying. Soul Calibur with every character using a 6" blade isn't exactly appealing to the fanbase. Namco we are the only ones who actually buy the damn games so you may want to appeal to us, just sayin'.
Krauser Kat
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Please have the character creator. Best one this generation. Should be fun.
NeonZ said:
Definitely just something story related, like either the swords' powers are fading, most likely from some new third sword, or maybe they're taking the form of the main character's weapon because it's some big cheesy "the hero must CHOOSE BETWEEN GOOD OR EVIL" device.
Sir Garbageman
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Dahbomb said:
Haha, awesome.
Chet Rippo
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So what does that make Nightmare? I can't imagine them not including Nightmare.
And I still hope they bring back Lizardman.
And I still hope they bring back Lizardman.
They also change at the whim of the artistsRoto13 said:Well, both Soul Calibur and Soul Edge always change their form to suit whoever is holding them. I'm more curious about their creepy new faces.
I'm sure the faces are just to personify the swords a bit more. There will probably be some poorly voiced and animated stock endings for each character where the sword whispers shit to them.
twinturbo2
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I'm guessing that the lady is Hilde. Just throwing that out there.Blueblur1 said:
Sectus said:
Upon closer examination, I can actually kinda/sorta decipher the katakana...Erigu said:
On the left, "Siegfried" / "ジークフリート"(no surprise)... but on the right, that really looks like "Schwarz Wind" / "シュワルツヴィント" (maybe with a kanji before that? "shin" / "新" / "new"?), and that could well be "Salia" / "サリア" in the center.
Damn. Looks like I got it right!
twinturbo2
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Yeah, and she doesn't need to flaunt her sexiness to stand out.LiK said:
twinturbo2
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Aw crap. brb, gotta delete some stuff off of my computer.7Th said:
I am telling you guys right now, any character who was either really young or was a supernatural being in SC4 (aside from boss characters) is going to be in SCV.
That includes characters like Voldo, Nightmare, Astaroth, Cervantes, Yoshimitsu etc. These guys have been in SC since SC1, no reason for them not to be in this. Probably Lizardman too.
Other characters who were older will probably get proteges or offspring.
I just hope Mitsurugi and Taki are in this, those 2 along with Siegfried have been my main in SC since SC1. Ivy and Nightmare here and there too.
That includes characters like Voldo, Nightmare, Astaroth, Cervantes, Yoshimitsu etc. These guys have been in SC since SC1, no reason for them not to be in this. Probably Lizardman too.
Other characters who were older will probably get proteges or offspring.
I just hope Mitsurugi and Taki are in this, those 2 along with Siegfried have been my main in SC since SC1. Ivy and Nightmare here and there too.
Sectus said:
More confirmation: those guys were already around back in SoulCalibur: Siegfried's SoulCalibur ending.Erigu said:
Damn. I'm really glad to see all that obscure stuff resurface so soon after the game's announcement.
"God's Beard!"
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Fuck all your characters, bring back Hwang. Dude's been gone for 3 straight games, goddamn it.
sixteen-bit
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Watch them bring back AssassinGod's Beard said:
Neuromancer
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This is an unsettling trend!Blueblur1 said:
Graphics Horse
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Erigu said:
Whoa.
SiegfriedFM
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Cool to see Schwarzwind, they were kind of Soul Calibur's Delta Red and those guys were awesome when properly used in the comics.
A bit annoyed if they make an actual character out of the girl though, I was using her picture to explain the origin of one of my customs... >_>
A bit annoyed if they make an actual character out of the girl though, I was using her picture to explain the origin of one of my customs... >_>
I see them more as SoulCalibur's Hawk Soldiers. Salia pretty much is the Casca to Siegfried's Griffith, for example.SiegfriedFM said:
(... come to think of it, if they're going to make some guest characters, I wouldn't mind some Berserk in there...)
Then again, maybe they (still) won't be in the actual game...
SiegfriedFM
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Haven't seen Berserk but considering there are four of them with a big guy, a cool guy with spiky hair, a little guy and a hot chick, the Delta Red factor is definitely there.
That kind of thing happens a lot. Look at Johan Durer, who had a backstory and ending all the way back in SC I, was the leader of the Berserkers in SC II (which you never learn about in-game), but didn't actually appear in-game until SC IV, as a minor CAS character in story mode, to no fanfare whatsoever.Graphics Horse said:
Olcadan shows up (with a younger version of Edge Master and some yet-unknown woman, each using one of the "Yugas") in the intro of Weapon Master Mode in SC II, even though he's not a named character until SC III. (Unfortunately, the thread with the character art of Olcadan that matches the guy in the SC II WMM intro, on certain Soul Calibur forum I used to frequent, is gone, so I can't prove it, so I don't blame anyone if they don't believe me. xP)
NeonZ
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I think the character creator, which has already confirmed to be in, makes it very likely that they'll pop up at least as minor team mates of Siegfried in story mode, especially if they're getting new art now. SCIV had a bunch of minor characters in story mode made at least partially with custom character parts, several of them being pre-existing characters, like Sakon, Ukon(Yoshimitsu's two allies, first appeared in his SC1 ending), Revenant (Undead from Zasalamel's group), Siegfried's father, Xianglian (Xinaghua's older sister from SC1's backstory) and Durer.
The Hawk Soldiers have those, too. Plus, medieval setting, a group that mostly consists of young people, [Berserk spoilers]SiegfriedFM said:
Casca becoming the interim leader in Griffith's absence, and of course, Griffith turning into an über-powerful and evil entity named "Femto"
And in SoulCalibur III, you had a story mode-specific enemy called "Berserker" whose moveset had the same name as Dürer's fighting style (in the Japanese version, anyway... I think they changed that in the English translation?)...Roto13 said:That kind of thing happens a lot. Look at Johan Durer, who had a backstory and ending all the way back in SC I, was the leader of the Berserkers in SC II (which you never learn about in-game), but didn't actually appear in-game until SC IV, as a minor CAS character in story mode, to no fanfare whatsoever.
Love those little details.
I also liked Hualin's SoulCalibur III story hinting at her former employer being "the weapon shop's owner", one of the two original characters introduced in a Japanese Soul Edge guidebook that was published back in 1997 (the other original character being Edge Master, who later showed up in the sequel, SoulCalibur).
Damn. I was about to ask. ^_^;
I'm really intrigued by that intro...
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Oh right, makes sense.
That's an interesting find. The three guys to the left on the second picture looks identical to the right guys on the new sketch.Erigu said:
Although that begs a pretty big question, why do those 3 characters look identical when they're supposed to be 21 years older? Especially the little kid.
Yup, I'm wondering if that's not just Siegfried reminiscing about them... I hope there's more to it than that, but...Sectus said:
Salia and Schwarz Wind showed up in a couple of SoulCalibur IV backstories, actually. But I believe the abridged English translations got rid of those details (as well as those concerning Edgardo).TreIII said:
Probably not in the Soul Calibur form though... Xianghua's father knew that sword was Soul Calibur, but I don't think her mother did.Mista Koo said:
Also, those three characters in that introduction should be far more ancient than Xiangfei...
perfectnight
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It's such a great time to be a fighting game fan. Can't wait to see some gameplay.
Sir Garbageman
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Jay Shadow said:Looking for guest characters?
It would never happen because the Japanese market wouldn't give a crap, but Namco Bandai does publish Witcher 2 in Europe, and CD Projekt will probably be trying to put out a console version next year so the timing would be right.
Unlikely, but would be effing amazing.
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