I just got this game yesterday, for free, with my $60 store credit that was left, and its been great so far. The story mode in this game is a rather disappointing replacement for the game's previously extremely addicting missions mode, but at least it more than makes up for that godawful strategy map type mode from Soul Calibur III, IMO. The character creation feature also works out much better in this game, than it did in SC3, with much more freedom to make the character look exactly the way you want. I myself have made a completely bad-ass looking character, named Lord Raizen, and have made 4 versions of him, each in a wielding a different weapon, and using different character's fighting styles.
The Star Wars characters are a nice addition, but both of them can be a bit too cheap, in their own ways (see my post on talonmalon333's Resident Evil 2 blog, for a more detailed explanation of that).
Anyways, the game is really fun, and the online mode is extremely addicting. In fact, I haven't even bothered to unlock too many characters and weapons right now, because I have been having too much fun playing against human opponents, who are much more skilled than the AI of this game, even on the highest difficulty setting. I needed to practice, since I hadn't played and SC game in over a year, and since I had forgot a lot of the best moves for my favorite characters. However, after warming up last night, I was doing pretty good today. I had a total of 8 wins, and 4 losses, which means that I'm still not quite as good as I used to be, but I'm pleased with these results. What's kind of funny though, is that I got 5 wins in a row, meaning that I got more than half of those 8 wins consecutively. For a while, I actually thought that I had become a pro again, but then I got some sense knocked back into me 
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Anyways, there are ton of things about this game that I have not yet covered, but all I can say is that this is a Soul Calibur game, and if anyone here is a fan of the series, or of fighting games in general, than it is definitely worth purchasing 
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Aside from Soul Calibur, I would just like to mention that the new HP trailer has been released. As some of you may know, I am actually a fan of the novels. I'm not really too big on the movies, but for the most part, they have been pretty good, and mostly faithful to the book series. Anyways, I haven't been really excited for a Harry Potter movie since the 1st one, but the trailer for this one was just great. It featured one of my favorite parts from the 6th book, which it is based off of, and the 6th book was my 2nd favorite in the series. Honestly, I can't see how so many people to criticize it. Most of its criticism was just nit-picking, and if you ask me, the fact that a lot of this book explored the past of the main villain, rather than focus on Harry's story, made things a bit more interesting, since, for once, things weren't centered around Harry and his friends, like they usually are. It just had a unique feel to it that the other books didn't have, and if their was one movie adaption of any one of the HP books that I would really want to see done well, it would be this one. Of course, this one isn't my favorite in the series, and my favorite HP book has already been adapted into a movie, one which wasn't as great as I had hoped for it to be, but which was still done relatively well, overall, IMO.
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My favorite Harry Potter book was The Goblet of Fire, and my 3rd favorite was The Deathly Hallows
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For Harry Potter, I'd say the 6th one is my favorite. The trailer looked pretty cool, along with the Dumbledore and the flames and everything. Anyways, can't wait to see the movie adaption. I didn't think the 5th movie was made into its best capabilities though.
.Yep, it wasn't until I saw the announcement on comcast's site earlier this week that I knew about the HP trailer and immediately went to YouTube. The fourth book was my favorite, so in terms of HP movies I wanted to check out, that's already been dealt with (awesomely, BTW). Though, of course, since I'm a HP fan, I've gotta check out the others. Although I had the book spoiled for me, I agree that book six ranks way up there (I don't really bother putting 'em in order
). Seeing Dumbledore in the trailer just look behind him and set stuff on fire like it was nothing was priceless.Do you remember if it was the sixth or seventh movie that they plan on splitting into two movies? I haven't exactly been keeping up to date on any news...
.Wait, what is this I hear about 1 of the books being split up into 2 movies
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.Master_M2K: Well, its been a bit tougher for me to pull of guard-breaks and counters, but that may just be because I have lost a lot of my touch with the game, since its been a while since I've last played an SC game. Other than that, I have had no problems with the controls. They are very smooth, and very responsive.
.talonmalon333: Yeah, and I'm sure you actually have skills at this game
. [/sarcasm]Well, one thing I know for sure is that I would wipe the floor with you in any SC game.Too bad you don't have an X360, because then I could kick your ass online
.qtwanderer: Alright, what system do you have this game for. If you have it on the X360, then I challenge you to a match online, and I guarentee that you will never be able to pull a critical finisher off on me, because its nearly impossible (also, because I won't even give you the chance to
). Out of all of the matches that I have either played or watched online, nobody has been able to perform a finisher, yet.
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Sorry, but even in a virtual world, with virtual characters, you still only rank on the lower spirit world scale, where S classes believe that they are powerful, but cannot even come close to the rank of an E class demon on the superior scale, which powerful beings such as myself are ranked on
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. talonmalon333: S+ (Superior Scale)
ensatsu-ken: E-
Even on your superior scale I am at the top.
. It takes an expert to be able to efficiently use a character like Nightmare, and realize his awesome potential.Wow, what a genius comeback
. [/sarcasm]Face it, even if my scale had an F class on it, you wouldn't even be able to rank at that level, lol
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. It's quite affective for the newbies/ensatu-ken's to swing a giant sword without thinking .Thank you
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. And you call yourself a fan of the series ?Seriously, if you can't even handle a mere fighting game like Soul Calibur, I can only imagine how badly you would get your ass kicked in hardcore games like Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden, lol
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Cervantes: is cool but was botched up in the third one. They had better made him cool again in the fourth.
Nightmare: ...need I say more
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I didn't even know that you actually waist your time listening to what the characters have to say (especially considering that its the English dub
).I can pleasantly assure you that they made-up for their screw-up with Cervantes in the 3rd one. He's just as great a character in this one, as he was in SC2, and he's the character that I use the most online.
Nightmare is amazing for people who actually know how to use him. Its the same with Mitsurugi. The reason for why I like both of those characters more than most others, is because they actually take skill to use, whereas most other characters can be used by n00bz. In other words, you can button mash with most other characters (including Cervantes), but you can't get away with button mashing when it comes to Mitsurugi and Nightmare. However, they are extremely powerful characters for those who know how to utilize their specialties.
Actually, realizing that, while Soul Calibur is a game that involves a lot of skill, many people can get away with just button mashing in a match, I'm not so sure that I would rank SC2 in my top 10 anymore. When I think about it, even though it lacks all of those unlockables that makes the SC games so addicting to play on singe-player, Dead Or Alive has a much better combat system, because button mashing rarely works in that game, and the combat also feels much faster and swifter (partly thanks to the much more fluid animations done by Team Ninja).
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.Well, I'll tell you in advance, if you ever get the face me in a match online, then button mashing won't be able to do sh!t for you
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. Only people who only care about mindless, brute force would consider him .
.Actually, only mindless players who don't know how to play the game, don't see how it takes an expert to use Nightmare. His attacks are mostly to slow for people who like to button mash (namely you), whereas his attacks are deadly, and efficient, for experts such as myself, who know how to get out timings down.
Honestly, seeing as how you can only barely manage to play Soul Calibur, I'd love to see how badly you would get your ass kicked in a game which you doesn't allow for button mashin, like Dead or Alive, or Ninja Gaiden
. Hell, I bet you wouldn't even be able to get past the 1st level of NG, and I mean on Ninja Dog mode (the easiest difficulty setting in the game, lol ).
.I never played Ninja Gaiden or Dead or Alive but I could get through both of them right now with no trouble.
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Tell that to the thousands of people who keep b!tching about how hard those games are on their normal difficulty settings alone. Of course, for an experiences gamer such as myself, I can handle both of those games on their much harder difficulty settings, because unlike some people (wonder who
), I actually have skill to rely on, and don't just mash buttons. Anyways, you obviously don't know much about games made by Itagaki, because his games are meant for hardcore gamers, only....except for those stupid DOAX spin-off games 
(but those don't count, because he only made those games as a hobby, and never took them seriously ).
"because his games are meant for hardcore gamers"
I was well aware of that when I made my last post
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.Pshhh, as if you know what hardcore is
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.Oh, BTW, you might want to check out what a little someone wrote about Death Note on the animation board (in that Death Note and NGE topic)
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