Soulcalibur IV Comments by Dan Pearson

So...;

Raphael looks less gay - good.
New Dragoon lady? Mmm. Good.
Sophitia's side boob? Good.
Close-up shot of Ivy's cleavage? Good.

... I'm struggling to find anything I dislike about these screenshots. Oh, yeah, just found it. Voldo is back... ugh. I swear they have some demented S&M freak locked away for the sole purpose of designing that madman...

online - SOLD!!!!!!

vf and this, i need no more fighters on 360!!! :D


maybe FNR3 tho come on EA!!!!

Beautiful.

looks really nice. Im in love with that new girl chara design.

Raphael still looks pretty camp TBH

But otherwise it's all good. Does anyone know if they will still have the character creation mode? Fighting as a Jedi / Link / Indiana Jones was awesome.

I think Raphael will always look a BIT camp (Alucard also looks a bit gay, let's be honest. Oh yes, I WENT THERE!), but here he looks a bit more gothic with less of the heavy make-up he seemed to have last time.

Looks lovely though, and the new girl just looks awesome. Can't wait.

So what if he looks camp and wears make up? Are yo uthat insecure you feel your sexuality is threatened if there might be "one of them gays" in a game?

Grow up children.

*cue insults about my sexual preferences*

That certainly looks very pretty. I would like to give them all a talking to about practical clothing for these physical pursuits, though.

Gojira. "Bugger" off you queer! ;)

If this dosn't have 1080p support I'm going to go 'round to Pacman's house and punch him in the ghoulies!

Love Soul Blade. Hate 780p.

Looks great! Cant wait!

awesomeo.

Its all about Mitsurugi though. The rest of them can jazz right off. Also, get rid of Maxi and put Li Long back in. He was much better.

chicks in armour don't turn me on

Gojira - I was quite careful to use the word "camp" and not "gay"

Raphael always bothers me because he looks like a pantomime villain who went mad in a lace shop. It's not gay. It's just silly.

And he's thoroughly unsatisfying to play with too.

But where are the pretty, primary colours of the first games? Here everything looks quite... pale and bland.

I think it's just the cliché look for male vampires. They just... always look a bit wussy, is all. That is in no way implying that vampires are gay though (other than Spike). I guess it's just an unavoidable fact that male vampires look too breakable whilst female vampires must by rule of thumb be super-hot sex-kitten killing machines.

My point was that this time, Raphael looks a bit LESS camp, not so much of the bright colours. A little more subdued, a little more drawn, and less of the make-up look. It's more tolerable.

... unlike Voldo, who seems to go from super-gay in the last game to raging homosexual in this...

* note; I have no problems with homosexuality or gay people, please don't take me too seriously.

Ivy FTW.

No other comments are necessary.

"If this dosn't have 1080p support I'm going to go 'round to Pacman's house and punch him in the ghoulies!

Love Soul Blade. Hate 780p."


1. Does it REALLY matter?
2. Would you prefer the game running at 720p at 60fps? or 1080 at 30fps?
3. Actually it's probably going to be more like 30fps or 15fps.

I wish Ivy would have my babies.

Jesus some of these artists really need to grow up with their female character designs. The flesh on show in some of these games recently has just been embarrasing. Its a game that would be great to play with your mates except you are embarrased the pornographic overtones are gonna offend the ladies.

Thamuhacha - I wasn't talking to you :P

SIDEARM +1

And never mind offending the ladies how about not wanting to look like a child looking at it going "he he he look at teh boobiez" or it being assumed you want to look at CG sideboob- if I want porn I'll look at porn.

super-gay --> raging homosexual


Is that become more gay or less? I can't tell...

More gay. I really urge the SC team to send whomever does Voldo's costume design off for psychiatric evaluation. Really, this is not normal - it borders on the precipice of something dark and rather nasty.

For real, get them checked out. That Voldo looks even more vulgar in these screenshots from his past outings shouldn't even be theoretically possible! It's wrong on levels that shouldn't exist!

"awesomeo.

Its all about Mitsurugi though. The rest of them can jazz right off. Also, get rid of Maxi and put Li Long back in. He was much better."

Indeed. Li Long was awesomo and Maxi sucks :(.

I agree that Li Long was far cooler than Maxi. But he's dead, and Maxi's here to stay, and I don't really mind him.

Also, with every other female character so ridiculously oversexualised, why is Seong Mina looking so demure? No cleavage, just a flash of leg?

LOLOLOLOL SIDEBOOB! AWESOME!

Some of these shots are super-awesome...good to see some of the characters I hadn't seen the SC4 designs for yet, too, like Astaroth, Kilik, Seung Mina and Somewhat Gay-Looking Piratey Character Who I Can't Seem To Identify.

I know what people mean about the increasingly prurient costume designs and proportions, though. The likes of Ivy and Voldo were always supposed to be fairly slutty/gimpy, so I can accept those ones, but Xianghua's barely-an-outfit seems a bit out of character, as does Cassandra's now near-constant state of pants-flashing. I'm most annoyed, though, about Sophitia's pneumatic overhaul, because she's my best character, and people are now just going to assume that I'm picking her because I'm a perv, and that's the last thing I need with my indecent exposure trial coming up.

What's incredible is that each and every character has the same blank stare...

Looks nice, but they've sold out this time and put Jedi in. They're also making a lame generic 3rd Wii game with gratuitous arm waving. Last time the they sold out and made it PS2 exclusive and also made it shit.
The SC franchise is dead.
I'm going back to SC2 on cube, I'm a twat and only like things when they aren't fashionable.

I guess I'm the only one who actually pissed himself when using the Character voice thingy on Soul Calibur 2, y'know where they'd just stand there and you could play all of their soundbites. Man the fucking fun I had with Kilik's and Cervantes' is out of this world.
''Caaaats, caaaats, uuuuuuughhhhhh, CAAATS!!!''
I'm sure he was saying cats.
With regards to these pictures, I like the gay pirate.

high caliber.

"Jesus some of these artists really need to grow up with their female character designs. The flesh on show in some of these games recently has just been embarrasing. Its a game that would be great to play with your mates except you are embarrased the pornographic overtones are gonna offend the ladies."

I don't see the problem with exposure - it's not like all girls are fighting in microbikinis or anything similar. The new female character fights in an armour, hardly any white bits on show. Moreover, this is fantasy - with better graphics titillation becomes more realistic but also do the ripple of muscles in the well defined, sweat covered naked torsos of male fighters. What is your point, really? Most male characters in this game are muscle powerhouses of perfect proportions with babyfaces and exquisitely arranged hair. They are objects of beauty and attraction as much as females are, so let's not player hate on boobs, shall we?

I really don't see why people are having a go. The base models are they same as they've always been, they just look nicer =/.

Oh man, the lip gloss!

That female dragoon character looks awesome. Very nice overall. Looking forward to this.

Another sequel? The first two were great, although I've never played 3 or 4. I know little of the series beyond the excellent first two, but let's just hope the quantity of the games can match the quality like Tekken.

All the male characters faces are the same just with varying degrees of differing hair and campsuit. Sort it out Namco.

Cervantes is back! Get your crackers ready, it's time to get cheesed! (Sorry)

So the two new characters (ignoring Yoda and Vader) are lance and sword woman (looks cool) and Amy (like we really needed another poncy, gothy rapier wielder). Can we have a new male character as well, Namco?

Gnort, you obviously missed the previous announcements of rapier wielding elf lady Scheherazade and 14,000 years old anime girl Angol Fear from the Sgt Frog universe. I wish I was kidding...

@itamae

Oh, right, I do remember that now. I think my mind is subconsciously suppressing all details of SC4 character announcements in a desperate attempt to stay positive about this game.

Nevertheless, the girl with the red curls and the rapier is very definitely Amy from SC3.

Yeah, Amy and Cervantes look great. ShaftImeanZasalamel... not so much.

"All the male characters faces are the same just with varying degrees of differing hair and campsuit. Sort it out Namco."

Yeah, I noticed that too. Seriously, what the fuck!? Eerie...

Lizard man has changed spieces! :O

IVY is looking well sexy!! :O

Sorry. But I'm off for a wank after seeing that IVy concept pic.

They all look fucking amazing, the amount of detail is sexy.

I am in absolute awe of Lizardman...the detail! The scaliness! The...big lizard face! To be honest, I think I might just play as Lizardman the whole time so I can ogle him.

But not in that way.

I smell bullshot.

Ivy's tits are getting ridiculous, Sophitias tits have turned into Ivy's tits from Soul Calibur on dreamcast. Looks damn good.

"Mitsurugi da! Ooh moy too ke!"

Razz, Lizardman must be some sort of a chameleon type lizard, so that he can fight in a "home" and "away" strip, as all fight characters do. He always did that in other versions, anyway, one fight he was red, then he was green...Used to love his godzillaesque winning pose, with the tongue sticking out right at the end.

This was probably said several times already, so sorry I'm repeating anyone but...

It says secret apprentice screens and I don't see the apprentice o_O