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Yo D-toiders, I am Aertyr (Air - Tier) and if you cannot pronounce it correctly just call me Nick. I'm a competitive gamer that used to be apart of a sponsored team [Rapture Gaming] for DotA (A Warcraft III mod) but I won't kid myself and tell you that I'm l337. I've been gaming since I was 2 on Sega and on the computer since 3. I am a pure blood geek in all ways shapes and forms, from Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering to every bloody RPG I can get my hands on. Cya round, I'll try not to suck.

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General thoughts on Soulcalibur IV
Aertyr \| 10:55 PM on 07.31.2008	15 comments

After playing it on and off line for about 10 hours straight I just thought I'de drop a little blog to share my impressions.

The Internet play is amazing, no lag at all unless you battling with a Mexican who is also downloading something(Yashoki I'm looking at you).

No hero is Imba with a possible exception for Yoda. Starkiller is NOT under any circumstances overpowered. He is cheap yes, so is most other characters in this game, get over it. Before people beat me to the punch, Yes I do play Starkiller. No I'm not defending him out of sure love, try playing him sometime. It's not auto win.

It really seems like the Soul Calibur team skimped over single player this time. Which has been good and bad. Soul Calibur 4 is going back to it's original arcadey feel. Which is definitely a good thing, but the story mode takes literally 5 minutes to beat the whole thing and there is no fun secondary mode except for tower of lost souls which is really just a giant survival mode.

All and all it feels good, and I really wish you could edit any of the Star Wars characters or any of the special characters for that matter but hopefully DLC will give us that a long with Darth Vader/Yoda at a different date. At least add in a Lightsabre Style. But please make it Apprentice or Darth Vader, we don't need 7 foot Yoda's. Though that could balance him in the long run....

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13 comments | showing # 1 to 13

SWE3tMadness

I agree with the Starkiller comment. He has a lot of big flashy moves, but if you don't know what you're doing, more experienced players can take you out fast when you drain your Force power.

And Yoda is most definitely broken. He can't be grabbed AT ALL and about 80 percent of your attacks will swing above his head, missing the little green bugger entirely. Not to mention his crazy comboing skills. I'll admit, he's fun to play as against CPU's, but don't ever take him into a serious multiplayer match.

Lightthrower

Heh i just beat someone in a ranked match and he sent me an email saying i was a "pig cunt blablabla" whatever. The maturity of losers sometimes..... i hope i don't get these guys everyday.

Gantz

The singleplayer modes feel chopped up and trash-compacted.
Arcade mode =/= Story mode
and the two should never even be close to the same length.

Aertyr

It really seems like they wanted to focus more on the online arcade feel then the Single player let's console feel that Soul calibur 2 had. Now if only this game was Soulcalibur 2 online with Soulcalibur 4 graphics and fighting with the addition of Sword of souls mode from Soul calibur 3. Perfect.

13thDragon

They'll probably add lots of single player content through DLC and force us to pay for it.

Also, I dunno what you are talking about, I get lag on it all the time. Lost several fights because of it, too.

Aertyr

Stop playing people from Mexico then.

13thDragon

Lol, where is Xbox Live's Mexican filter?

dephect

@Aertyr... they actually need options like this on consoles.
Im sick of joining games on COD4 with people from Iran.

Kyousuke Nanbu

I have severe network problems with SCIV, its causing IP errors on all my computers for some reason.

And all 3 single player modes suck, short story mode, arcade mode full of cheap characters and the tower of souls is aggravating to say the least.

BUT ITS ALL SOLVED VIA THE MAGIC OF SPAMMING THE SAME MOVE OVER AND OVER.

I bought this on wednesday, tomorrow I'm shipping it to California and getting Smash Bros Brawl, waste of money.

Puppetpallmich

or if ur dumb go here
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/Puppetpallmich/apprenticesux.jpg

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