Soul Calibur 3 Create-a-Character revealed...

[WasFemto]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3141392

They have a link to an interview as well. It's not just changing the characters (already in the game) looks. There are whole "original" characters to work with as well. They look pretty generic and what not, but I guess that's why you customize them.....

[Shin-Fran]

Cool.

I have been waiting for something like this in a fighting game for years.

There was one really bad attempt at a create your own fighting character released back on the PS1.Awful.

I was always waiting on Tekken to do this but 5 was a step in the right direction with customizations but bring on the full create a character love it.

Any chance of a link to the video tour i cant get the one on the website to work?

[AOL Surfer]

Um, sorry to intrude in your discussion gentlemen, but the AOL (http://www.aol.com) website features a lot of information for this, and any particular game you're looking for.

Soul calibur III (http://games.channel.aol.com/main.adp?gameID=26320)

Sincerely,
AOL Surfer

[FusionITR]

SC III = 3D = Button mash = who cares

[Shin-Fran]

AOL sucks

[Shin-Fran]

I wouldnt say that SC is button mashing.

[FusionITR]

Sorry all 3D games are button mash.

[Shin-Fran]

Pretty harsh.

Im also a tekken fan and fail to belive you can be good at that by mere button bashing.

With the Capoeria characters and Steve Fox yeah but you need some skill to play that game and be good.

[TeddyBluegrass]

SC and MKD are 3d and are not "buttom mashing" games...have you played them or are you just some elitist 2d player?

[RaishinX]

Sorry all 3D games are button mash.


The crack is strong in this one...

Oh and have you played VF4? It sounds like you haven't. And if you don't care about/dislike something, the last thing you'd should do is post in a thread about it.

It looks pretty good to me. I'm looking forward to this.

[Foleyeffect]

He's just some random flamer who can't play 3d fighting games so he must spark a flame which has nothing to do with the topic. If you don't like the game then act like a tree and go fuck yourself.

On topic, in the video it looked as tough you can pick tamberines(SP?) as a weapon. That would be so cool to create I-No with a Neil Young guitar.

[LEVA]

He's kidding, he's also mashing on the keyboard. :tup:

[roninwarrior24]

Sorry all 3D games are button mash.

Instead of telling you to play Tekken 5 or Virtua Fighter 4 SERIOUSLY (which you should one day), I'll just tell you that saying that is going to give you a bad rep. You don't probably care, but oh well...

BTW, Button-mashers get owned hardcore in Tekken 5 and Virtua Fighter 4. Just don't be an idiot and you will do fine against the button-mashers.

[KING]

Pretty harsh.

Im also a tekken fan and fail to belive you can be good at that by mere button bashing.

With the Capoeria characters and Steve Fox yeah but you need some skill to play that game and be good.
try my Christie and see if i mash. :badboy:

[Khiempossible]

try my Christie and see if i mash. :badboy:

He meant that mashers could mash with those characters to resonable results.

[SithKilla]

All of this sounds good. But I noticed no one talked about if you can customize the character's weight and overall size. otherwise its all cosmetic. you should be able to make anyone from astaroth to talim.

[Toshin]

anyone got a mirror to the vid for a direct dl? :rolleyes:

[The Demon]

Sorry all 3D games are button mash.

Oh yeah 3D games are definately button mashing yeah tell me about it you fucking idiot.

yeah in Tekken things like Back dash cancelling, wavedashing, instanst sidewalk left, Okizeme mind games elaborate poking and just frames are all button mashing. How about Soul Calibur's Snake Dashing, 2G ect. Cervantes Relaunch, or stance flowing with nightmare, yep definately button mashing. Or the fact that VF you have to learn all of your characters throws to succeed, and be a master at multi throw breaking, and let's not forget that button mashing will also allow you to fuzzy guard which has to be timed down to the exact frame of animation, and it will also allow you to throw elbows that beat low punches at just the right time..yep my friend button mashing is strong in these types of games. It goes on and on.



Do yourself a favor and never come back, you obviously know jack shit about fighting games. And while your at it take your XBL handle from beneath your avatar, I doubt after saying that anyone but true scrubs (that is people of your own ilk) will want to play you.

He meant that mashers could mash with those characters to resonable results.


He would be wrong on that account too. I haven't lost to a christy masher yet.

[Shin-Fran]

Just to get back into this thread.

I think pretty much most people who posted in here cemented my point thanks:tup:

Also Kingdom, I wasnt saying that evryone who uses them is a masher i have played people who actually "use" them.I was just stating that it is possible to select these characters and frenzy the pad and pull off some moves.

And The Demon, i didnt say that would get beat of these mashers, only that mashing was possible.

But back to something i said earlier.Any one got a link to the vid i wanna see this shit.I agree that you should be able to alter stature and such also this could be most interesting.

[WasFemto]

The link for the vid is in the article.

[TeddyBluegrass]

STFU scrub.



Wow, good diss, im preparing to bite down on the cyanide as i type this.

[Banshee]

I'm wondering where the 3D is all mashing crap start, since it sure as hell didn't start with VF.

[Ski11zilla]

It started when you could get strings of attacks that where different by pressing the same button, as opposed to most 2D fighters were you have to press different buttons to get strings of attacks.

Scrubs view this as taking no skill, since you can get strings of attacks to come out without knowing the button combination. Although people with skill will just destroy these scrubs and take their quarters.

Characters like Maxi in SC, Christie/Eddie contribute to this, since these scrubs have no skill (although they believe they do) lose to people mashing with these characters, in order to keep pride they have to make up an excuse. People that know better, already know that Maxi is easy to GI, Eddie/Christie is low parry bait...etc...

Whatever helps these scrubs sleep at night...

[TrueSephiroth]

I guy named Eddy Gordo definetly helped in people signifying they could beat anyone by "button" mashing in 3-D games, although that ain't true worth shit, I'd love to see any of these "button mashers" square off against me Tekken. Anyways to get back on topic, I agree with SithKilla, where is the ability to add mass and weight to your characters, otherwise everyone will be the same size :sad: which will suck, I want to be able to make my Bruce Lee build guy, to my Astaroth build guy. Btw, the customizations seem like some of them come out from an mmorpg, from things like a Knight, Dancer, Samurai, etc, etc.

Anyways, it looks better than alot of the customs I've seen, infact far better than what I've seen from almost any game, and besides, I'm glad that Soul Calibur III will have this feature, as I've been waiting for a fighting game to incorporate the create your own character feature into their fighting game( a solid one, which SCIII seems to show some decency), I remember when CvS2 had the custom color's and name your character as well...I spent like hours just customizing my characters, my cousin's and I all customized our own fave guy...shitty thing was, my bro's fave custom characters happened to be Sagat/Blanka/M. Bison while mine was Ryu/Chun Li/Kyo...got my ass kicked more than a "few" time :sad: so I was like fuck custom characters now.

[FecalPenance]

I'm wondering where the 3D is all mashing crap start, since it sure as hell didn't start with VF.

if memory serves it was soulblade... the predecessor to soulmasher 1.... if u mash in 3s, cvs2 or mvc2 u'll basically get perfected or at least look retarded... but in the latest incarnations of sc or tekken even a handicapped 5 year old can pose a threat... the tactics in 2d are so refined that u just can't get close to winning by mashing...but in the tiny world of 3d (a cage, or an endless cage if theres no walls), accidental changes in strings can be perceived as subtley mixing up ur attacks and combos are just an accidental juggle into a wall away... and in DOA u can even mash to get OUT of combos... i saw a scrub named mashedpotatoes mash buttons against ricky at ecc in t5 and he won w/ a freaking kangaroo... if johnny doughnuts beat me in marvel using lowtier shit i'd retire...

[Anri's boy toy]

Wow, good diss, im preparing to bite down on the cyanide as i type this.


How about this....me and you meet up and play any fighting game, your choice. Winner gets to kill the loser. I live on LI also, just tell me the time, day, and place :tup:

[AreKKusu]

All of this sounds good. But I noticed no one talked about if you can customize the character's weight and overall size. otherwise its all cosmetic. you should be able to make anyone from astaroth to talim.

yeah i know, how cool would it be to have an astaroth moving around with talim's moves. lol :clap:

[{PFH}-Lake]

Sorry all 3D games are button mash. wow u can prove this?

[DavDz]

I wonder what movesets there would be to pick for the custom character. Will it be like the wrestling game style customization where you can give your character any move you want in the moveset and make him uber powerful?

I hope there is something to balance it out otherwise you will have to create the same guy as the other dude,but with a different name just to compete with his custom character.

[CDL]

Hey, thanks Namco! This create a fighter thing is a much better feature than ONLINE MULTIPLAYER! And just in time for Christmas, too!

[HeartNana]

Hey, thanks Namco! This create a fighter thing is a much better feature than ONLINE MULTIPLAYER! And just in time for Christmas, too!
Then dont buy the game and keep playing MK Deception.

Jeez, not every fighting game released now is gonna be online.

Hell, #reload is online and you know how well that's doing. :tdown:

[TheDarkPhoenix]

if memory serves it was soulblade... the predecessor to soulmasher 1.... if u mash in 3s, cvs2 or mvc2 u'll basically get perfected or at least look retarded... but in the latest incarnations of sc or tekken even a handicapped 5 year old can pose a threat... the tactics in 2d are so refined that u just can't get close to winning by mashing...but in the tiny world of 3d (a cage, or an endless cage if theres no walls), accidental changes in strings can be perceived as subtley mixing up ur attacks and combos are just an accidental juggle into a wall away... and in DOA u can even mash to get OUT of combos... i saw a scrub named mashedpotatoes mash buttons against ricky at ecc in t5 and he won w/ a freaking kangaroo... if johnny doughnuts beat me in marvel using lowtier shit i'd retire...


^^ what he said

[The Demon]

if memory serves it was soulblade... the predecessor to soulmasher 1.... if u mash in 3s, cvs2 or mvc2 u'll basically get perfected or at least look retarded... but in the latest incarnations of sc or tekken even a handicapped 5 year old can pose a threat... the tactics in 2d are so refined that u just can't get close to winning by mashing...but in the tiny world of 3d (a cage, or an endless cage if theres no walls), accidental changes in strings can be perceived as subtley mixing up ur attacks and combos are just an accidental juggle into a wall away... and in DOA u can even mash to get OUT of combos... i saw a scrub named mashedpotatoes mash buttons against ricky at ecc in t5 and he won w/ a freaking kangaroo... if johnny doughnuts beat me in marvel using lowtier shit i'd retire...


You have no fucking clue what your talking about. First of all Roger is not low tier, and his tactics aren't low tier shit. Second of all I know Mashed potatoes and he doesn't button mash, so stop saying shit you don't know about. Third of all no one accidentally juggles anyone, you sound like one of these people who constantly get hit by Eddie's f+4~4+3,4,4 and then calls the game a mash fest when only retards get hit by that constantly against mashers. DOA is a different story as that game sucks, but based on the kind of "fecal" matter coming out of your mouth Id say it's probably the only 3D game you have played.

[san-tokie]

it's funny because my friends who are pc gamers will play fighting games with me every so often but they just random mash. they'll look like a idiot on 3s or #r, but sometimes manage to pull off some good stuff in sc2 or t5. :rolleyes: but they still lose anyway :razz:

[FecalPenance]

but based on the kind of "fecal" matter coming out of your mouth Id say it's probably the only 3D game you have played.
ok mr.funny jokes pretend like roger should be beasting on top players and its not the games mash factor... also fast mid attacks should not be overheads... thats retarded especially since some animations look exactly the same as the high counterparts (or even low attacks ie:steve d + 2 into bs)... u should have to earn ur high/low games w/ technical ability and creativity, not mashing some auto-mixup string bullshit...

[Redrover]

i saw a scrub named mashedpotatoes mash buttons against ricky at ecc in t5 and he won w/ a freaking kangaroo... if johnny doughnuts beat me in marvel using lowtier shit i'd retire...

You think i mashed my way to fuckin 4th place.. who the fuck are you and what do you know about shit... mashed through ricky o.. yea fuckin right kid.. i play my fuckin roger top notch.. u think i mashed through devil x... brian h... realyst... game.... rugal b.... etc.. etc... get a clue

[Foleyeffect]

What i'm wondering is why can't the 2d fighter fan boys just fuck off. So far it seems like whenever someone wants to talk about a 3d fighter some 2d jackass must come in here strutting his stuff on a game he has little understanding for. I play both 3d and 2d fighters and appreciate both of them. This is about a create your own character on soul calibur 3 and so far all we've accomplished is arguing over how button mashy one game is to another. Both games have their share of mashers whether it to christie's messed up mixups or the constant HK installs followed with sweeps(not great examples but anywho). With practice such scrubbish actions are repelled easily. Why can't we all just get along.

[axeman61]

The character creation feature here seems to be the best one to come along in years. I might buy it just for that. SC2 was okay, and I liked the design of it, but I haven't played it in a LOOOONNNNG time.
I sincerely hope this CAF doesn't get fucked up somehow. It looks to have almost the whole nine yards already.

[tsubame]

Well, even if the CAF does suck, doesn't mean the baseline game will be bad, and that's the important part.

I expect the CAF to suck. Honestly, I have low expectation for SC3 due to lack of arcade release= higher prob of garbage tactics being found.

[NemoDC]

The crack is strong in this one...





hahaha. i like the way you phrased that.

[mr. newbie]

yeah i know, how cool would it be to have an astaroth moving around with talim's moves. lol :clap:

wait i dont play this much but isn't talim the girl with the tonfas? if so i've seen this. anybody else seen taht hackcalibur vid? was that real? i still have it.

[abacabb]

What i'm wondering is why can't the 2d fighter fan boys just fuck off. So far it seems like whenever someone wants to talk about a 3d fighter some 2d jackass must come in here strutting his stuff on a game he has little understanding for. I play both 3d and 2d fighters and appreciate both of them. This is about a create your own character on soul calibur 3 and so far all we've accomplished is arguing over how button mashy one game is to another. Both games have their share of mashers whether it to christie's messed up mixups or the constant HK installs followed with sweeps(not great examples but anywho). With practice such scrubbish actions are repelled easily. Why can't we all just get along.
word people see a topic about a 3d game and they come in and talk shit if they dont like the games dont post about it that simple

[Banshee]

if memory serves it was soulblade... the predecessor to soulmasher 1.... if u mash in 3s, cvs2 or mvc2 u'll basically get perfected or at least look retarded... but in the latest incarnations of sc or tekken even a handicapped 5 year old can pose a threat... the tactics in 2d are so refined that u just can't get close to winning by mashing...but in the tiny world of 3d (a cage, or an endless cage if theres no walls), accidental changes in strings can be perceived as subtley mixing up ur attacks and combos are just an accidental juggle into a wall away... and in DOA u can even mash to get OUT of combos... i saw a scrub named mashedpotatoes mash buttons against ricky at ecc in t5 and he won w/ a freaking kangaroo... if johnny doughnuts beat me in marvel using lowtier shit i'd retire...

Lol i have a really hard time believing you're good at ANY fighting game, seeing how you've spewed some major retarded shit here.
I don't even see the point of trying to explain the finer points of fighting games to you, as you probably wouldn't understand any of it.

Funny thing is, this douche is probably the kind of guy that gets offended when someone calls MvC2 a mashfest. Irony at it's best.

[FecalPenance]

Lol i have a really hard time believing you're good at ANY fighting game well i beat down ur spiral team easy enough back in the day... and i'd talk shit in 3d games but that would defeat the purpose of calling them random...

[Banshee]

well i beat down ur spiral team easy enough back in the day... and i'd talk shit in 3d games but that would defeat the purpose of calling them random...

It's cool that you actually remember my spiral lol. :p


Your basic gripe with 3D games is strings, from what I can see. And that mashers can abuse them unknowingly. Yeah right. Strings are learned, memorized, just like any strat.

Mashers can't block either, since they're mashing. And they'll always be mashing no matter how far they are from you. Both of these mean they die fast without much problem. So it doesn't really matter how random they are with theire strings, because they don't use them properly.

It's like throwing supers from a full screen away in MvC2 for no reason. That shit gets you killed.


Back OT

Anyone know if the 10 or so jobs in SC3 will have only original movesets, or also the main characters' movesets?

[RaishinX]

hahaha. i like the way you phrased that.

Thanx, been a long time comin'.


Anyway I read that Soul Calibur 3 would make players build up A.I. with the created characters and pit that A.I. against the computers. Imagine how furious I was...

Sometimes the stupidity of these big companies baffles me. Seriously, A.I. sux ok, and forcing us to use it let alone deal with it will surely prove to be frustrating. Comp. A.I. has always been, by default, better than any A.I. on your side. Why won't they just let you do what you want for Christ sakes?!! How fucking furious do they want us to get!?

"hey, I know, instead of allowing people to control their characters, we'll allow our botched up A.I. to fuck it up for them"

I'm no corporate genius, not by a long shot, but I know things like this should not happen