Turn Your Voice Into The New Game.
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Egg
[10] Knight
Ok here are a few votes from me at the moment.
1st and foremost. Better online. Improving the netcode would make me happy, im not looking for a lot here, but when I attempt to block the slowest low in the world and normally would block it with ease and instead (since its online) I get hit with the slow move and loose the match because that low leads to a RO or half life. It makes the game incredibly frustrating at times to play online. Also the Idea about Disconnectors having to play dissconnectors is a fantastic idea,we can call it Limbo.And you have to win so many matchs to get out :).
2nd - We want a better story mode. The story in Soul Calibur 1 and Soul edge is the reason I kept playing this game in the beggining. when 3 hit, the sotry seemed to take a back seat to the game which really disapointed me. I liked IvyFanBoys Idea about the story arc Idea, where the single player mode tells the whole story of what happens in this game.
His idea above is, and I qoute;
"Make a coherent reason for each fight. I want to feel like my character is actually reaching a goal, not killing people to get to one of three bosses and a random ending. Have crossing paths and team ups that reflect the story."
If you did this, I would play the game regardless of any other reason, and yes I am a tournament player who understands the game mechanics. Im far from perfect though lol.
3rd - This game needs to be patched post release. All I have to say is one word, Hilde. Also Buff Low tier Charecters when they need it. Personally, I would attempt to follow blizzards lead on patching. They are still patching StarCraft 1 to this day and it is still played heavily around the world. The damn game is over 10 years old now lol. I know this costs money but if its a financial issue, then maybe we could all pitch in 1.99 for the patch? I know its controversial Idea but if it would get the job done I would happily pay that every couple of months. Also if you dont have the latest patch all you would be able to do is pay people with the same version as you.
4th - Some real DLC would be nice (cough) Arthur (Cough) Hwang (Cough Cough) Bangoo (Cough). How Bout some DLC stages that can be realeased over a period of time. A new stage ever 2-4 months would be awesome.
5th - For the love of god Give Rapheal Binds. A Bind is a defensive menuever in fencing that parrys an attack while moving there attack to the oppisite point of line so that a defensive counter can occur. Whats funny about this is that I beleive this the termenology a French Style fencer would use so it would make sense. IN Itallian and Hungarian styles it means to control the blade I beleave. True this is accomplished by auto GI attacks but there is no reward for useing these moves other then 44B. Ive thought about this a lot and instead of bringing back auto evades, make 4A+B,8A+B to have a special animation that occurs when you get the GI where he Binds them and then either can setup for a combo or can do his life sucking trhow. Heck you can mix in a teleport animationand make it really cool. Another idea is to put him into a different preperation stance and force a mixup for heavy damage. The GI window should be made wider as well, Amys Window is far better then raphs. Nothing overpowerd just make these tools useful. Speaking of better tools, He also needs a better step nullifier, be it AA or something else. It doesnt have to be 12 frames but it should catch a stepper. I might be asking for to much with both of those, but please consider them. Really all im asking for Rapheal is to make him a little more authentic as a french Fencer. Also Why not have another style fencer who is rivals with him such as an Itallian style? I know we have amy but she doesnt count imo. If you need information about anything fencing or anything Im happy to help provide information or send you to where to find it. You can find me contact me through Malice if you wish. Im crossing my fingers on this one.
6th- Make the training mode better please. It takes us a long time to devolope frame data and other things. I like how tekken shows safety with attacks in practices mode..It doesnt have to be the same of course. I would love the frame data in the inffo box.
7th - No Hitbox issues with charecters like Hilde and Mina. Mina Got completly screwed by this. Also no charecters like Yoda ever again. The fact that highs and random mids miss this guy and you know youshould have hit him is just wrong. Vader and Starkiller where pretty cool though. If George Lucas is down Id say keep them and put them in 5 as DLC charecters :D. Maybe some Luke Skywalker, Boba fett or Han Solo love too.
8th - I want more Banter before and after the match between charects but not durring lol. MVC3 is the best exampl of this right now.
9th - can we get some Breast reduction on taki and Ivy? Ivys Back has got to be killing her since Cerventes Stole her sould and made her boobs bigger..... Yes I said boobs lol.
Im not asking to break the bank and take a loss, but the more you put into this game to keep it fresh the more popular it will become imo. Also My favorite Soul Calibur is a toss up between 1 and 3. I like 4 a lot but 3 had a lot of things that should hae been in 4 suce as while landing attacks etc. I hated VC though. 1's system seems the most polished to me. I know making a game is hard and long work, but we are a patient community. Any fan of this game wants to know what happens in the story, because the soul still burns.
thx for reading
-Egg
This is a saterical review of SC4 by Yahtzee. Its done more from a comedic stand point but he does bring a lot of solid points to the table. This would be from the perspective of a casual gamer imo. Enjoy
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/189-Soul-Calibur-IV
1st and foremost. Better online. Improving the netcode would make me happy, im not looking for a lot here, but when I attempt to block the slowest low in the world and normally would block it with ease and instead (since its online) I get hit with the slow move and loose the match because that low leads to a RO or half life. It makes the game incredibly frustrating at times to play online. Also the Idea about Disconnectors having to play dissconnectors is a fantastic idea,we can call it Limbo.And you have to win so many matchs to get out :).
2nd - We want a better story mode. The story in Soul Calibur 1 and Soul edge is the reason I kept playing this game in the beggining. when 3 hit, the sotry seemed to take a back seat to the game which really disapointed me. I liked IvyFanBoys Idea about the story arc Idea, where the single player mode tells the whole story of what happens in this game.
His idea above is, and I qoute;
"Make a coherent reason for each fight. I want to feel like my character is actually reaching a goal, not killing people to get to one of three bosses and a random ending. Have crossing paths and team ups that reflect the story."
If you did this, I would play the game regardless of any other reason, and yes I am a tournament player who understands the game mechanics. Im far from perfect though lol.
3rd - This game needs to be patched post release. All I have to say is one word, Hilde. Also Buff Low tier Charecters when they need it. Personally, I would attempt to follow blizzards lead on patching. They are still patching StarCraft 1 to this day and it is still played heavily around the world. The damn game is over 10 years old now lol. I know this costs money but if its a financial issue, then maybe we could all pitch in 1.99 for the patch? I know its controversial Idea but if it would get the job done I would happily pay that every couple of months. Also if you dont have the latest patch all you would be able to do is pay people with the same version as you.
4th - Some real DLC would be nice (cough) Arthur (Cough) Hwang (Cough Cough) Bangoo (Cough). How Bout some DLC stages that can be realeased over a period of time. A new stage ever 2-4 months would be awesome.
5th - For the love of god Give Rapheal Binds. A Bind is a defensive menuever in fencing that parrys an attack while moving there attack to the oppisite point of line so that a defensive counter can occur. Whats funny about this is that I beleive this the termenology a French Style fencer would use so it would make sense. IN Itallian and Hungarian styles it means to control the blade I beleave. True this is accomplished by auto GI attacks but there is no reward for useing these moves other then 44B. Ive thought about this a lot and instead of bringing back auto evades, make 4A+B,8A+B to have a special animation that occurs when you get the GI where he Binds them and then either can setup for a combo or can do his life sucking trhow. Heck you can mix in a teleport animationand make it really cool. Another idea is to put him into a different preperation stance and force a mixup for heavy damage. The GI window should be made wider as well, Amys Window is far better then raphs. Nothing overpowerd just make these tools useful. Speaking of better tools, He also needs a better step nullifier, be it AA or something else. It doesnt have to be 12 frames but it should catch a stepper. I might be asking for to much with both of those, but please consider them. Really all im asking for Rapheal is to make him a little more authentic as a french Fencer. Also Why not have another style fencer who is rivals with him such as an Itallian style? I know we have amy but she doesnt count imo. If you need information about anything fencing or anything Im happy to help provide information or send you to where to find it. You can find me contact me through Malice if you wish. Im crossing my fingers on this one.
6th- Make the training mode better please. It takes us a long time to devolope frame data and other things. I like how tekken shows safety with attacks in practices mode..It doesnt have to be the same of course. I would love the frame data in the inffo box.
7th - No Hitbox issues with charecters like Hilde and Mina. Mina Got completly screwed by this. Also no charecters like Yoda ever again. The fact that highs and random mids miss this guy and you know youshould have hit him is just wrong. Vader and Starkiller where pretty cool though. If George Lucas is down Id say keep them and put them in 5 as DLC charecters :D. Maybe some Luke Skywalker, Boba fett or Han Solo love too.
8th - I want more Banter before and after the match between charects but not durring lol. MVC3 is the best exampl of this right now.
9th - can we get some Breast reduction on taki and Ivy? Ivys Back has got to be killing her since Cerventes Stole her sould and made her boobs bigger..... Yes I said boobs lol.
Im not asking to break the bank and take a loss, but the more you put into this game to keep it fresh the more popular it will become imo. Also My favorite Soul Calibur is a toss up between 1 and 3. I like 4 a lot but 3 had a lot of things that should hae been in 4 suce as while landing attacks etc. I hated VC though. 1's system seems the most polished to me. I know making a game is hard and long work, but we are a patient community. Any fan of this game wants to know what happens in the story, because the soul still burns.
thx for reading
-Egg
This is a saterical review of SC4 by Yahtzee. Its done more from a comedic stand point but he does bring a lot of solid points to the table. This would be from the perspective of a casual gamer imo. Enjoy
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/189-Soul-Calibur-IV
BoxerVictorian
[01] Neophyte
I've always been a SC fan forever but 5 needs to be improved from 4... A LOT!!!
-Dynamic Customization (Variety of face choices and accessories along with clothes, body, etc.)
-All of the original characters( From Blade-4, habe all of the originals.)
-Bring back WM and CoTS mode back (These modes made the game fun and definantly worth every penny.)
-An improved Intro and Storyline (No kidding right? All of the characters should be included in the intro and the story line should be an improved version of 3's.)
I loved 4 but it lacked everything that 2 & 3 possessed. I'm pretty sure that Team won't let us down with 5 though.
-Dynamic Customization (Variety of face choices and accessories along with clothes, body, etc.)
-All of the original characters( From Blade-4, habe all of the originals.)
-Bring back WM and CoTS mode back (These modes made the game fun and definantly worth every penny.)
-An improved Intro and Storyline (No kidding right? All of the characters should be included in the intro and the story line should be an improved version of 3's.)
I loved 4 but it lacked everything that 2 & 3 possessed. I'm pretty sure that Team won't let us down with 5 though.
UnseenWombat
[14] Master
Hiya, long long time SC player here.
One thing that I've been yearning for since SC1 is for each character to be voice acted in his or her native language. Seigfried & Hilde should speak German, Mina and Hwang (Please bring him back) Korean, Xiang and Li Long (Bring him back too) Chinese, Astaroth uhhh?, Cervantes Spanish, etc. I understand having all of them speak English, since basically every video game ever does the same thing for foreign characters, but, in the US anyway, having them all speak Japanese sounds super weird, unless you're an anime fanboy I guess. And either option really destroys my suspension of disbelief (If surviving a hit from a 6 foot long sword hadn't already, but you know). Soul Blade almost had it right, with Western characters speaking English, and Asians speaking Japanese, but then, instead of getting it totally right the next game, they stepped in the opposite direction and now we have this.
Speaking of character nationalities... Okay, Hilde and Seig look very German, excellent. I can believe Amy and Raph are French, good. Rock and Ivy look like they could be British (Even though Ivy is supposed to be at least half Spanish, but okay, she's plausibly that too), but Xiang SURE don't look Chinese, Taki looks more like Megan Fox with those blue eyes than she looks Japanese, Hwang/Yunsung look like some kind of New Jersey guidos, Mina Korean, Talim pinay? Please... and the sisters look more Swedish than Greek. Okay, the sisters can't really be changed without totally re-inventing their whole look, but PLEASE at least make Asian characters look Asian. I don't know WTF kind of problem Japanese have with their own self image, but they must really hate the way they look, because every Asian female in every game I've ever seen has a rare genetic mutation to make her look like she came from South Carolina. SC3 had Taki looking pretty good. (http://ui31.gamespot.com/574/taki_2.jpg) Why did you change? Please, please Jap developers, start to love the face God gave you and quit making every Asian look western.
The next thing I'd like to see is a much better online lobby. I can't tell you how frustrating it was to play "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," ten times in a row. If the game session is full, then don't f-ing show it to me as a joinable session.
Also, I hear MK9 is going to have a "spectator mode" where you can watch other people fighting and make comments and give "respect points." That's a spectacular idea and would really liven up the online community.
Some other game, I forget which, [edit: Oh, MVC3], has a hidden code for detecting people who constantly disconnect when losing. Then, instead of doing something ineffective like displaying a "bad disconnector rating," the game keeps the fact invisible, but starts pairing them up more and more with other people who also disconnect. That is an ULTRA-spectacular idea, and would probably just about solve the problem of pullers.
And please, NO GIMMICK CHARACTERS. I know you want every Starwars/Spawn/Zelda/HarryPotter/Sex&TheCity fan to buy Soul Calibur, but let's make them want to play based on the game's great story and awesome mechanics, not on a cheap shoehorned-in gimmick character. Please?
And speaking of custom characters, please let us modify facial features instead of just giving us 8 default faces of which 3 are decent and the rest are varying degrees of ugly. That guy that posted the Eve Online custom character video had it right. And again, please give us some ASIAN eyes. Not all of us hate the way you look as much as you hate yourselves, Japanese people. Srsly.
Those are my ideas.
One thing that I've been yearning for since SC1 is for each character to be voice acted in his or her native language. Seigfried & Hilde should speak German, Mina and Hwang (Please bring him back) Korean, Xiang and Li Long (Bring him back too) Chinese, Astaroth uhhh?, Cervantes Spanish, etc. I understand having all of them speak English, since basically every video game ever does the same thing for foreign characters, but, in the US anyway, having them all speak Japanese sounds super weird, unless you're an anime fanboy I guess. And either option really destroys my suspension of disbelief (If surviving a hit from a 6 foot long sword hadn't already, but you know). Soul Blade almost had it right, with Western characters speaking English, and Asians speaking Japanese, but then, instead of getting it totally right the next game, they stepped in the opposite direction and now we have this.
Speaking of character nationalities... Okay, Hilde and Seig look very German, excellent. I can believe Amy and Raph are French, good. Rock and Ivy look like they could be British (Even though Ivy is supposed to be at least half Spanish, but okay, she's plausibly that too), but Xiang SURE don't look Chinese, Taki looks more like Megan Fox with those blue eyes than she looks Japanese, Hwang/Yunsung look like some kind of New Jersey guidos, Mina Korean, Talim pinay? Please... and the sisters look more Swedish than Greek. Okay, the sisters can't really be changed without totally re-inventing their whole look, but PLEASE at least make Asian characters look Asian. I don't know WTF kind of problem Japanese have with their own self image, but they must really hate the way they look, because every Asian female in every game I've ever seen has a rare genetic mutation to make her look like she came from South Carolina. SC3 had Taki looking pretty good. (http://ui31.gamespot.com/574/taki_2.jpg) Why did you change? Please, please Jap developers, start to love the face God gave you and quit making every Asian look western.
The next thing I'd like to see is a much better online lobby. I can't tell you how frustrating it was to play "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," "Join game session," "The game session is full," ten times in a row. If the game session is full, then don't f-ing show it to me as a joinable session.
Also, I hear MK9 is going to have a "spectator mode" where you can watch other people fighting and make comments and give "respect points." That's a spectacular idea and would really liven up the online community.
Some other game, I forget which, [edit: Oh, MVC3], has a hidden code for detecting people who constantly disconnect when losing. Then, instead of doing something ineffective like displaying a "bad disconnector rating," the game keeps the fact invisible, but starts pairing them up more and more with other people who also disconnect. That is an ULTRA-spectacular idea, and would probably just about solve the problem of pullers.
And please, NO GIMMICK CHARACTERS. I know you want every Starwars/Spawn/Zelda/HarryPotter/Sex&TheCity fan to buy Soul Calibur, but let's make them want to play based on the game's great story and awesome mechanics, not on a cheap shoehorned-in gimmick character. Please?
THIS. I hated having that big yellow flower on talim's 2p shirt. Most of the other outfits weren't guilty of this though, thankfully.
And speaking of custom characters, please let us modify facial features instead of just giving us 8 default faces of which 3 are decent and the rest are varying degrees of ugly. That guy that posted the Eve Online custom character video had it right. And again, please give us some ASIAN eyes. Not all of us hate the way you look as much as you hate yourselves, Japanese people. Srsly.
Those are my ideas.
My main issue with this game is the character creation. I am a casual player, so i don't really know what game mechanics need improving. To me, they seem fine although I did like SC3's mechanics a bit better. As I was saying before I went off track... The character creation in SC3 was on the right track. It had tons of items for you to combine and make your own character. It had plenty of different faces that add some character into your... character. It obviously coul have been improved with the coloring among other things. Now SC4 seems to be an upgrade yet a downgrade at the same time. Sure they added a better coloring system which was great and they added the muscularity/physiqe system which was also great in my eyes, but they combined so many of the items and took so many out that you really have very few choices of making your own unique charater. I would like to see all the items from SC3 and some additions. I'm not saying SC4 didn't have good items, because there were a few items that really had me awestruck. If they could add all of the SC3 and 4 items with some additions I would be happy. Then theres the fighting styles. 3 Had a whole variety of different fighting styles which i really liked. They wern't the most well thought out of styles but they were good enough. Aside from that they also added again character to your created character. I am personaly tired of having to give every character I make a fighting style of the main character... It just makes me feel like I made a ripoff of that character. They should bring back some of these fighting styles and perhaps include a brawler. We all know at least adding one Brawler into the series would be awsome.
The next big thing I want fixed is the story. Like I said I am a casual gamer so I don't try to be the best at the game. All I really want is some depth in the story. I play most games based on their story. It could have horrible game mechanics but have a great story and I will play it. That being said the story mode for SC4 was terrible. One scrolling text intro and then a few fights then the same cutscene for everyone and then a 2 minute at best ending cutscene dosnt cut it for me. While SC3 had more text than cutscene it made me feel like i was involved in the story especialy since you could make desicions on which path they take. It all lead to the same ending but still it was fun to see how the story would unfold. They also need to make the custom chatarter story a bit more in depth. I know it impossible for Namco to predict all our charater backgrounds but just make a few different stories such as making one for evil characters one for good and another for neutral. Those are my ideas and they were probly said before but who cares =P
The next big thing I want fixed is the story. Like I said I am a casual gamer so I don't try to be the best at the game. All I really want is some depth in the story. I play most games based on their story. It could have horrible game mechanics but have a great story and I will play it. That being said the story mode for SC4 was terrible. One scrolling text intro and then a few fights then the same cutscene for everyone and then a 2 minute at best ending cutscene dosnt cut it for me. While SC3 had more text than cutscene it made me feel like i was involved in the story especialy since you could make desicions on which path they take. It all lead to the same ending but still it was fun to see how the story would unfold. They also need to make the custom chatarter story a bit more in depth. I know it impossible for Namco to predict all our charater backgrounds but just make a few different stories such as making one for evil characters one for good and another for neutral. Those are my ideas and they were probly said before but who cares =P