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Did you SEE the tits on vader?
Sorry, couldn't resist!
Soooooo you don't like boobs?
I would agree...except I'm a guy so Woo-Hoo!
Honestly, I don't mind the boobs at all. Actually I'll admit to liking them. They are going a little overboard in this one, but it's not going to hurt the gameplay or anything. If they started using the boobs as a gimmick (cough*DOA*cough) then I guess I'd agree with you more but it's not.
blehman: If Soul Calibur was a game where you, say, had sex with your opponents instead of fought them to the death, then their costumes would be reasonable. In fact, that would be a rather interesting game. But the female athletes I see in sports tend to not have massive breasts or clothes that are practically going to rip themselves off. I don't mind a little fantasy, but Soul Calibur is trying to sell itself solely on breasts. I'm just afraid that the gameplay will suffer because pretty visuals and pretty girls are the focus, like what happened with Soul Calibur III.
@WDot
Yeah, well the female athletes I see in sports would get alot better ratings if they had massive breasts and clothes that were falling off. And as long as the fighting mechanics are good, why does it matter what them girls is wearing? I do have to admit, I'm not a big fighting game fan (I'll play them, but won't usually buy them), so I know not how SC3 played, but it doesn't really seem giving them full length dresses and chastity belts is going to "fix" SC4.
Also, If Soul Calibur was a game where you had sex with your opponents to death, I think I'd be a loyal follower.
@blehman
Actually, that game is called Battle Raper........I'm serious, google it. There's two of them.
blehman: I'm not asking for chastity belts or full length dresses, but if you are, say, fighting against a guy who has a sword, and it only takes one good accidental slash for you to be completely naked, your costume probably isn't a good one to fight with. It's about as realistic as fighting with stilts or high heels. I'm not offended or whatever by the costumes, I just think it's silly and that if they don't watch themselves they WILL go the way of DOA in terms of banking on sex appeal.
Although I completely agree with the sex-with-your-opponents game idea, but that should be its own game, not as a minigame in a fighting game.
Giant boobs are a staple of SC now, and theres nothing you can do to change that
@WDot
Look at that top picture. Besides the large breasteses, what stands out. IMO it's the sword that's a freaking whip. I don't think realism is what they're going for here. That, and the games should play more like Bushido Blade since they're fighting with weapons.
And I see where you're going with this, I don't want to argue, I just think it's odd that you want to back up the "I want this not to be over-the-top boobalicious" arguement by saying that the costumes are killing the realism. And I do agree that it looks like they're starting to go down the DOA path of banking on sex appeal.
@Guitar Atomik
I remember seeing something about that game. However, the freaking wiki page is semi-NSFW. And I'm at work. Imagine my surprise.
I'd have to agree with blehman. Soul Caliber has never been about realism, it's about what's the most fun and outlandish. Like Bleh said, if they were going for any amount of realism, this game would be one-hit-one-kill.
I understand your fears of the ART direction of the game, but it really only affects the ART direction not game play.To argue that the costumes and characters should look different because it's not practical is almost as ridiculous as the people saying Darth Vader and Yoda don't belong in the game because light sabers would cut through anything.
It's a GAME! Have fun with it!
I'm actually in agreeance with WDot. I think they're going too far.
Also, Ivy =/= sexy
Ivy was sexy before the above abomination. Seriously...wtf did they do to her?