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X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
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#1251: Sep 12th 2013 at 1:25:13 PM

@ Other: Ah, I knew I was getting something wrong. I need to get reacquainted with SCIII once I find a replacement PS2 controller (the one I have still works, but the left arrow on the d-pad doesn't always pick up double tap inputs).

@ Demo: Yeah, it is a potential catch-22. It's hard to argue if having the series continue at the possible cost of continuing on with the bumbling effort Daishi & co. had with V (in the story department, at least) is worth it.

I have to wonder if Lost Swords will have its own gimmicks like Tekken Revolution does.

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#1252: Sep 12th 2013 at 2:17:09 PM

Well there goes our idea of a Soul Tag-style game. sad

Knowlessman hey i dunno, why don't you tell me from Stupidtown, USA (FL) Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#1253: Sep 12th 2013 at 2:26:36 PM

Making progress with them CAS's. First three of (uh...) nineteen (I think) done and ready for upload.

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#1254: Sep 12th 2013 at 6:48:32 PM

[up][up] Our only hope is for the general public to elect Harada as the new series director.

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#1255: Sep 12th 2013 at 6:51:12 PM

Eh, I don't really think Tag would work well in Soul Calibur. I would love a return of Team battles, though.

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X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
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#1256: Sep 12th 2013 at 7:35:03 PM

They already had something similar (and faster-paced) with Active Matching Battle in IV. It could work, if done right.

But yes, Team Battle and all of the other extra goodies need to make a comeback.

edited 12th Sep '13 7:35:25 PM by X2X

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#1257: Sep 12th 2013 at 8:04:05 PM

If I recall, the active matching thingy in IV wasn't utilized that well. Basically, only in story mode and the Tower of Lost Souls. That's it. No team battle or anything.

Which is a shame, because I liked it.

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#1258: Sep 12th 2013 at 8:10:28 PM

Yeah, I wouldn't have minded it in Local; would've made things interesting.

Bound to be some way to exploit it and unbalance things, though. :/

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#1259: Sep 12th 2013 at 10:06:46 PM

The fact that you could only use it three times consecutively before you had to wait for each node to recharge was likely done to circumvent that, but the fact that Active Matching Battle didn't see much use in IV (not every as an option for Vs. play) means that any potential game breakers probably went undiscovered. Still, the combo opportunities provided by attack canceling was fun. It added a layer of strategy to things and I think it'd go hand-in-hand with what we currently have (as long as you can't do anything crazy like switch cancel out of a Critical Edge and then use another Critical Edge; something along the lines of that with Natsu/Nightmare would be a literal nightmare).

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#1260: Sep 13th 2013 at 7:05:59 PM

Created characters incoming!

EDIT: Goddammit, Artemis's backward. How in the hell did I miss that? -_-

edited 13th Sep '13 7:07:24 PM by Knowlessman

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#1261: Sep 13th 2013 at 7:34:17 PM

You might want to use an offsite image uploader and link to it, as those are rather hard to see.

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#1262: Sep 13th 2013 at 7:42:08 PM

If they're hard to see, it's probably because I took them with my phone. :/ Haven't the faintest idea how to get the images from the 360 directly to the computer. Also, each picture is only 250x200.

Still easier to see than some of the others people've submitted here.

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#1263: Sep 14th 2013 at 5:10:51 AM

Yeah, they were a lot better quality than mine. Unfortunately I don't see the point for chucking my I Phone just yet...

Good to see what you came up with anyway.

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#1264: Sep 14th 2013 at 10:05:04 AM

Heck, I might do some for my own. Not today though, big events happening today!

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#1265: Sep 14th 2013 at 1:59:24 PM

I'm forgetting this, but how long did Patroklos study under Setsuka again?

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#1266: Sep 14th 2013 at 2:01:20 PM

Long enough to learn her style and consider her a mother figure (at least, subconsciously)

It isn't specified.

edited 14th Sep '13 2:02:30 PM by Otherarrow

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#1267: Sep 14th 2013 at 2:20:07 PM

[up] Thanks, and in the intro movie of III, I heard there were Wolfkronian troops there gettng beaten up by Nightmare. Is that true?

edited 14th Sep '13 2:31:48 PM by HallowHawk

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#1268: Sep 14th 2013 at 2:27:04 PM

Probably not. It might have been retconed though.

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#1269: Sep 16th 2013 at 8:36:29 AM

[up] Thanks

How come Siegfried doesn't get Goldion Hammer as a joke weapon, I mean, weren't Namco and Bandai (the latter which owns Sunrise, who made Gao Gai Gar) about to be merged when SC 3 came out?

edited 16th Sep '13 8:38:36 AM by HallowHawk

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#1270: Sep 16th 2013 at 8:43:12 AM

Because not everything has to be a reference to something else? Also, I haven't seen Gao Gai Gar, so I don't know why Siggy would get it as opposed to say, Rock.

Namco Bandai are still merged, btw. People tend to blame the bad direction this series has gone in on "Bamco".

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#1271: Sep 16th 2013 at 10:01:15 AM

Well, Bamco was probably (at least) partially responsible for the vastly rushed development of V, so I wouldn't say they're blameless.

But yeah, I don't think it'd make sense for the guy with a zweihander to get a hammer as a joke weapon when Rock and Astaroth are already in the game. And I'm pretty sure those weren't Wolfkrone soldiers in the intro to III; timeline-wise, it would match up with Hilde fighting off Nightmare and his forces some number of times prior to IV, but the banner on their flags doesn't seem to be that of Wolfkrone.

As for Patroklos' tutelage under Setsuka Neve, like Other said, it's not specified, but it was sometime during a four-year window between Patroklos winning a sword-fighting tournament and learning of his mother's fate from Rothion at age 15 and the events of SCV. He was learning from multiple masters at that point, so it's unknown how long he was staying in Istanbul with Setsuka Neve, but he was noted to be a quick learner.

edited 16th Sep '13 10:07:29 AM by X2X

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#1272: Sep 16th 2013 at 3:28:13 PM

And why should Siegfried getting Goldion Crusher be a Actor Allusion, the answer is simple, Nobuyuki Hiyama.

edited 17th Sep '13 1:10:47 AM by HallowHawk

Otherarrow Since: Jul, 2010
#1273: Sep 16th 2013 at 3:31:41 PM

Not everything is about casting gags. And, yeah, it would have made no sense considering Sieg's own choice of weaponry.

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#1274: Sep 17th 2013 at 1:09:15 AM

[up] That's why it should have been a joke weapon. Also, edited [up][up].

edited 17th Sep '13 1:11:16 AM by HallowHawk

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#1275: Sep 17th 2013 at 7:09:55 AM

Except the joke weapons are still at least in the general shape of the weapon they wield. Siegfried wields a big ass sword. Which is nothing like a hammer.

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