XBLA - SoulCalibur - 800pts

[Richlough]

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5981/bannerdefault32qw4.jpg (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/s/soulcaliburxboxlivearcade/)
Features

Soulcalibur®, the highest-rated console fighting game, has returned to the next generation! Sharpen your blades as you relive old grudges against classic adversaries in new high definition graphics. Prove your mettle against the world with a variety of leaderboards spanning every character and mode, or challenge a friend in local-play Versus mode.

Nineteen playable characters: All of your favorite fighters are back including Kilik, Ivy, Siegfried, Edge Master, Nightmare, and many more!
Eight modes of play: Try the different game modes including Story, Versus, and even Museum Mode that allows players to view artwork, character models, and animations.
Leaderboards galore: Compare stats in sixty leaderboards spanning across each character and mode.
High definition support: Soulcalibur has been given a whole new coat of beautiful paint to support HD resolutions up to 1080p.


Achievements: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/soul-calibur-arcade/achievements/

DC Soulcalibur swings onto XBLA

New features for the XBLA edition of Soulcalibur will include the expected high-definition graphics and assortment of character- and mode-specific leaderboards. Unfortunately, cross-continental swordfights appear to be limited to the upcoming online-enabled Soulcalibur IV (set for a July 29 release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3), as Namco Bandai promised only that players could "challenge a friend in local-play Versus mode." Other modes include fighting genre staples like Arcade, Training, and Survival.

Source Gamespot.com (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6189383.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;1)

Screens at post #49 (http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4355898&postcount=49)

[seanr1221]

fuck yes!!!

[Azumangaman]

Amazing!
Sucks about no online though...
Maybe they'll surprise us?
It better not be any more than 800 points...
But I'll still get it.

[Chacrana]

Sold even without online. SC1 is by far the best.

[Strell]

It's already better than SCIV.

Better have all the extras the DC version had - art galleries and the like. The artwork was beautiful and the music was exquisite.

[dmes65]

I wonder how many other dreamcast games are going to make there way to xbla? This is a must buy!

[eswat]

You Win!

But how the heck will they fit it within the 150MB limit?

[JDUB X]

You Win!

But how the heck will they fit it within the 150MB limit?

They probably won't

Microsoft has started lightening up the rule more and more for games like Bionic Commando and Street Fighter HD so they will probably allow it for this too

[jollydwarf]

Hol...ler.

I guess it "still burns" after almost--count 'em!--nine years. Good God!

[RAMSTORIA]

very very nice. not only do i love the first soul calibur, i hope this opens the door to more DC games getting a 2nd round a love.

[hankmecrankme]

The best SC in the series. I bought a DC day one and this game just to play it 18 hours straight.

Throw in online play and I'm sold. No online, probably no buy for me. Unless it looks pimp in 720p. . .

[Nelo Ice]

The best SC in the series. I bought a DC day one and this game just to play it 18 hours straight.

Throw in online play and I'm sold. No online, probably no buy for me. Unless it looks pimp in 720p. . .

well as long as they can do online*points to mr driller* :lol:

[Logg]

Day One no Question

[Kendal]

If I had friend who liked video games, I would be all over this!

[tokitoki50]

They know if they put online in this that it'd get more players than SC IV... I'll probably get it just because I've played the crap out of it on DC.

[DarkRider23]

Even though it's going to be great, it won't be that popular. SCIV is about to come out. Why release SC right after it? >_<

[ighosty]

Nice, sucks theres no online plus I could see this being 1600 points.

[FriskyTanuki]

Seems kind of half-assed if it doesn't have online like their other downloadable fighting game.

[RAMSTORIA]

If I had friend who liked video games, I would be all over this!

fixed

[sendme]

With all the games that are comeing out sucks you cant just burn then to a disc. That way you dont have them all on the HDD. 20 gigs does not seem like it will last long.

[akilshohen]

It shouldn't be anymore than 700 MB.

[bardockkun]

Awesome, awesome to the max.

[sleepy180]

HELL YES! No online play BOOOOO

BUT HELL YES.

1 down, 2 to go!

Soul Calibur
Street Fighter 3rd Strike
Marvel vs Capcom II

[LinkinPrime]

Wow, so the rumored Dreamcast games on X360 comes true! Bring on Jet Set Radio...Chu Chu Rocket...Power Stone...Power Stone 2...Marvel vs. Capcom

[seanr1221]

Power Stone with online play...:drool:

[ighosty]

Wow, so the rumored Dreamcast games on X360 comes true! Bring on Jet Set Radio...Chu Chu Rocket...Power Stone...Power Stone 2...Marvel vs. Capcom

I pray for power stone 1 & 2 on XBLA. Probably won't do anything, but theres a petition for a power stone 3.

http://www.petitiononline.com/pwrstn3/petition.html

[Mid Boss]

No online sucks, but this is still fucking great news! One less reason to fix/replace my Dreamcast.

[AshesofWake]

omg so much awesome possum

[twen]

It shouldn't be anymore than 700 MB.

I love how you base this on absolutely nothing except that Dreamcast games are ripped to fit on a CD, regardless of the fact that most of the good Soul Calibur rips were mononized, let alone the fact that the XBLA version would be completely redone, compression wise. (Look at SOTN)

[PenguinMaster]

I love how you base this on absolutely nothing except that Dreamcast games are ripped to fit on a CD, regardless of the fact that most of the good Soul Calibur rips were mononized, let alone the fact that the XBLA version would be completely redone, compression wise. (Look at SOTN)

It will probably be completely redone which will make it far less than 700MB which is "no more than 700MB".

Personally I really don't see the point of this, Soul Calibur II is already backwards compatible and I'll just continue to play that until SC4 gets cheap.

[Friend of Sonic]

Good. Though I wonder if they're leaving online out to sell #4.

[integralsmatic]

i still have my DC hooked up with SC in it. I would be all over this if i didnt have a hard copy already.

powerstone would make me shit in my pants with online play.

[anomynous]

The amount of win from this is massive

[Poor2More]

Only Soul Calibur that I actually sat down and beat numerous times, all other Soul Calibur games pale in comparison to the original, since where on the topic of DC games, I would love to see Skies of Arcadia & Record of Loddess War

[KaneRobot]

I don't really need it since my DC still works fine, but I may pick this up for convienence sake...and to try to convince them to push out more Dreamcast stuff in the future.

Kind of wish they did an updated SoulEdge/SoulBlade first for my own nostalgia reasons (and it still has the best music of the series), but I understand why that didn't happen.

Hope they include that thing that lets you edit the game's intro.

[twen]

I'll at least be buying this for the nerd points. My estimate is this game will be in the 200-250mb range.

[paintball745]

as cool as this is i still have a dreamcast that works just fine and i have this game also. which will mean i probally wont buy this and know microsoft i wouldnt be suprised to see a 1,200 point price on this.now if you exccuse me i think i will go play Soul Calibur.

[garrett_in_the_hat]

Power Stone with online play...:drool:
That would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[InuFaye]

This is already better then SC4.

Fuck Online Play for the most part people are assholes, and I hate lag in every fighter that is not VF5.

[danked]

its sweet but if it gets released long after SC4 whats the point

[InuFaye]

its sweet but if it gets released long after SC4 whats the point

It will be better then SC4.

[danked]

It will be better then SC4.

lol I doubt that, plus I still have SC 1,2 and 3 so no need for it on XBLA

[InuFaye]

Yeah considering SC4 has fatalities, and SC2 or 3 has not come close to how good sc1 is.

[PhoenixT]

fatalities fit with a group of characters that slice each other open with 7 foot long swords and never kill each other its about time "someone" died. While I love SC1 I"m going to withhold judgement on SC4 till I play it. As it stands right now SC1 and SC2 were about equally good save the adventure mode SC1's was far better IMO.

[thingsfallnapart]

pretty sad how soul calibur looks better then the third one after all this time.

[Serialkilla]

Well, fuck SC IV then. Even though I have and still play Soul Calibur on my DC, this is a definite purchase for me. None of the sequels have come close to it, imo, and IV... well let's just say I'm not looking forward to it.

[62t]

the original Soul Calibur is better than SC2+3

[sendme]

It shouldn't be anymore than 700 MB.

I would think it would be about a gig seeing how they were 1 gig discs that they were put on. However it was one of the earlyer games for the dc so I guess they didn't fill up the disc all the way.

[sleepy180]

They just released some screenshots of it.

http://forums.exophase.com/showthread.php?t=7139

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2435/sc20xbla20screen201go7.jpg
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[Rig]

I just got my DC out yesterday to play some Samba de Amigo. Guess I'll pop SC in next.

Don't think I will be picking it up on XBLA...but I might change my mind.

[XxSmityxX]

wow, I hope its full screen and not chopped up like most fighting games on XBLA

[astromanluca]

I couldn't care less about online against random people but I just realized it also means I won't be able to play against my friends unless they're in the same room. So that's kinda too bad.

[SNAKE EYES EX]

4:3 can go fuck itself in the grotto. This would have been a must buy for me.

[Poor2More]

If its choped on the sides like that, I will pass, have our technology not come this far for some fucken full screen action

[seanr1221]

Im assuming it's because the game wasn't made in widescreen....

[akilshohen]

I just hope you can make the bars black, that's my only gripe

[sleepy180]

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34558.html

New video released. It looks like it plays really well even though i wish it had widescreen. Now the only thing holding me back is the no online play. That would be so awesome i cant believe they wont have it. But we shall see.

[Tsukento]

wow, I hope its full screen and not chopped up like most fighting games on XBLA

4:3 can go fuck itself in the grotto. This would have been a must buy for me.

If its choped on the sides like that, I will pass, have our technology not come this far for some fucken full screen action
ITT: People who never owned a Dreamcast and didn't know the game was never made to be viewed in Widescreen.

[Pylis]

Just watched the trailer. Is this the arcade version, and not the vastly superior DC version? If that's the case, then forget it.

[Tsukento]

No, it's clearly the Dreamcast version. The arcade one looked like major ass. The Dreamcast version looked beautiful as it was. The fact that it's going to be available in HD is like an answer to those who couldn't get or use a VGA connection for the Dreamcast.

[sleepy180]

No, it's clearly the Dreamcast version. The arcade one looked like major ass. The Dreamcast version looked beautiful as it was. The fact that it's going to be available in HD is like an answer to those who couldn't get or use a VGA connection for the Dreamcast.


yup yup

dc>arcade

man the dc arcade stick was tits too. probably the best ive ever used. I wonder how that hori 360 arcade stick is. has anyone used it?

[SNAKE EYES EX]

ITT: People who never owned a Dreamcast and didn't know the game was never made to be viewed in Widescreen.

I most certainly played it on Dreamcast (to death!). And I loved it.

But 3D game remakes aren't like 2D remakes. There is little to no reason why they can't change the view frustum to make it widescreen.

I still own the Dreamcast version. So with no online play or widescreen I'll probably pass on this. Which is sad, because I was really excited about it when it was announced.

[Tsukento]

But 3D game remakes aren't like 2D remakes.
Found your problem. It's NOT a remake. It's a port with leaderboards and upped visuals due to the 360's capability of using Component, VGA and HDMI, whereas the Dreamcast's highest possibilities were S-Video and VGA. And even then, few TVs or monitors supported VGA at the time.

[Pylis]

No, it's clearly the Dreamcast version. The arcade one looked like major ass. The Dreamcast version looked beautiful as it was. The fact that it's going to be available in HD is like an answer to those who couldn't get or use a VGA connection for the Dreamcast.

Yeah, you're right. I had forgotten that the DC version also featured the "Insert Coin" prompt for the second player. Been a long time since I've played it.

[GodlyOne]

Achievement list is up if anyone's interested:
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/soul-calibur-arcade/achievements/

[danked]

Yeah, I downloaded and played this today.... yes at work we get access to content on partnernet early so BLAH ... seemed complete didn't get a whole a lot of time with it.

[Dandeschain]

Coming this week? Review is up at IGN http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/885/885060p1.html

[LinkinPrime]

Confirmed for 7/2: http://gamerscoreblog.com/press/archive/2008/06/30/soulclbrxbla.aspx

[seanr1221]

NICE! I can't wait.

Comeon, gimme MvC2 and Chu Chu Rocket, and I'll never turn the DC on again.

[MisterHand]

I, for one, am shocked that Namco didn't make this 16:9 for the 13 or so DC owners who were playing it on a widescreen television in 1998.

[Dandeschain]

Yea, I'm a little disappointed in that fact as well.

[benjamouth]

No online, thats a bit crap, I kind of expect that as a given on 360 now.
Might give this a miss.

[ighosty]

I was going to get this, but since I have a new wide screen HD the absents of 16:9, online multiplayer, and an arcade mode have made me rethink it.

[KiLL3r]

What? No, Mission mode(yes Story Mode is In)!! I was already disappointed with no online mode, now this and no 16:9, No purchase for me.

[heavyd853]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I think I can wait a month to get my Soul Calibur fix.

[vlv723]

Let's hope Namco does something to add in online and bring back story mode via an add-on just like what they did for Tekken for the PS3.

[ZForce915]

What? No, story mode!! I was already disappointed with no online mode, now this and no 16:9, No purchase for me.

Wait so this game is less than the one on the DC? Leaving out online was one thing, but if this is a shell of the original game I've got no reason to buy it.

[Danimal]

What? No, story mode!! I was already disappointed with no online mode, now this and no 16:9, No purchase for me.
Agreed. Sadly. :cry:

[lordwow]

What on earth is going on here

[Decker]

I decided that if I can still play SC3 on the PS3, there doesn't seem much purpose in spending 800 points on this game. I'll pass.

[typeRJ]

and here i was thinking i could put away my DC and the 480p VGA connector for good...i guess i'll play the demo first. i miss the old Survival ranking page. you know the one through dricas.net.jp or whatever (don't bother looking, it's completely gone, won't even show the rankings through webarchive).

in the IGN review, what does this mean:

...standard arcade mode (which offers a text story for each fighter upon victory)

isn't that what it's always been? and isn't Arcade Mode what you'd call "Story Mode?" a unique dialog at the "destined battle," a picture boook ending, done.

or when you guys say there's no Story Mode, are you talking about no Mission Mode?

[Mid Boss]

No online I can deal with, but no mission mode either?

Fuck that. I'd love to play SC again since my DC broke, but it just ain't worth it like this.

[s0undwav3]

Has anyone purchased this and seen if it does have the story mode ? If it has the story mode and all the awesome art, I will purchase this, even though it's not 16:9, the upgraded visuals and the only fighting game my wife would ever play with me because she also thought SC 1 was just kick ass. But if is really dummed down, then I will continue to use my Dreamcast, as we just played a tournament last week of SC 1. She liked the Gamecube version of SC 2 with Link, but that's about all we liked about SC 2.

[Mid Boss]

According to the IGN review, it has the art all unlocked from the beginning but doesn't have the Mission mode of the Dreamcast version.

[coolsteel]

With mission mode being MIA , no online multiplayer and no widescreen support i'll be passing on this, rather save the points for whatever downloadable content Soul Calibur 4 will have

[KiLL3r]

and here i was thinking i could put away my DC and the 480p VGA connector for good...i guess i'll play the demo first. i miss the old Survival ranking page. you know the one through dricas.net.jp or whatever (don't bother looking, it's completely gone, won't even show the rankings through webarchive).

in the IGN review, what does this mean:

...standard arcade mode (which offers a text story for each fighter upon victory)

isn't that what it's always been? and isn't Arcade Mode what you'd call "Story Mode?" a unique dialog at the "destined battle," a picture boook ending, done.

or when you guys say there's no Story Mode, are you talking about no Mission Mode?

The Arcade/Story mode is still there.The Mission Mode is mode you can gain points to unlock weapons,outfits, and artwork in the DC version. Since mission mode is not in the XBL version it take away a big part of the replay value.

[Agrippan]

With mission mode being MIA , no online multiplayer and no widescreen support i'll be passing on this, rather save the points for whatever downloadable content Soul Calibur 4 will have


Yup, looks like there's gonna be some nickel-and-diming if anyone wants Vader vs. Yoda.

On Topic: glad SC's coming out, too bad it's a gimped version.

[Dandeschain]

Any impressions yet?

[fart_bubble]

Any impressions yet?

played the demo. If you still have your DC, I would still stick with that. Though its supposed to have touched up graphics, hell if I couldn't tell and I've spent countless hours playing it on the DC

[DJSteel]

i'll pass with no online mp...this isn't a complete game..

[danked]

yeah been playing it at work, and no mission mode kills it, yeah its still fun but that was the best part of the single player game

[Radioactive_Man]

lmao one of the tags for this thread is button masher

[coolsteel]

played the demo. If you still have your DC, I would still stick with that. Though its supposed to have touched up graphics, hell if I couldn't tell and I've spent countless hours playing it on the DC

I had been playing with the vga cable so a clear picture is nothing new to me, game looks worse due to that huge border.

[Suraph]

It'd be fine if they had included mission mode or even widescreen support, but missing both? I'll hold out until SC4.

[typeRJ]

the new blog thing caught my eye and i posted a mini-review earlier today:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/blog.php?b=150

but basically i said:


-There's no opening sequence. Didn't have a chance to check if OPENING EDIT is in the Museum Mode/Options. But Museum Mode does have everything else.

-Everything has more shadows. If you remember it on the DC, characters looked like the rays of Christ were shining behind them. Oh not just that...IT WAS ALL OVER THEIR FACE. But now it has shadows....seems overdone though. I watched Hwang's exhibition video and half of his body was covered in shadows. And same with Kilik. This was a quick inspection, I'll look it over more later.

-Graphics are pretty good. I mean it's better than the 480p VGA box I have for my DC. 720p or whatever this game runs makes SC look a lot better. But it's not spectacular or anything.

-You know what I miss most? The online rankings from dricas.net.jp. I had some crazy 118 win streak in Survival. For like 2 days I was 6th or 7th on that DC leaderboard...and then the Japanese players took me down to like 150th place or whatever. Those boards are long gone, but this version has rankings for Survival, Time Attack, etc. This is one of the main reasons I bought this game. I never really knew after the DC boards went down how other people were doing. Nice to compare yourself to others (again).

-What's with these achievements? OK all of them are ok but 20 points for performing Ivy's Summon Suffering?? You might as well give me points for spin the analog in a full circle and mashing the all the buttons....oh wait you just did!

-No Mission mode is disappointing. But only disappointing ON TOP of not having online play. Stupid MS and their XBLA size restrictions. Oh well.

-Load times between battles are less than 2 seconds. I don't know what happened, but mann the load times on my DC are painful. This would be my 2nd reason for buying this game.

-I'm not gonna talk about controls really. Mainly because I haven't tried the joystick yet. I assume it's on point, but we'll see.

-There's a main option screen with a fire background with 4 Soul Caliburs on it with PLAY GAME, LEADERBOARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS, OPTIONS. The music on that screen sounds better than the ones in the actual game. I guess it's just a port of all the sound effects, voiceovers and music with no update or anything.

[CouRageouS]

Of all the things its missing, if it was just in 16:9 I would have bought it. I'll have to wait for Star Wars edition to come out now.

[typeRJ]

haha yeah i can't wait for the Sith and Jedi editions either.

i forgot to mention that it doesn't have 16:9, but it has FULL. it takes up more of the screen than REGULAR (4:3), but it's no 16:9. still has borders on the sides though. let's call it...5:3?

[coolsteel]

haha yeah i can't wait for the Sith and Jedi editions either.

i forgot to mention that it doesn't have 16:9, but it has FULL. it takes up more of the screen than REGULAR (4:3), but it's no 16:9. still has borders on the sides though. let's call it...5:3?


I played the demo on a widescreen and it had borders on all 4 sides, was really, really distracting since it had the soul calibur logo within the border like a cheesy wallpaper.

[akilshohen]

It's decent, looks a little better than I was expecting. Amazing that they got all of that in 188MB

[refusedchaos]

ill just stick with my DC

[tenzor]

I guess I will be saving my points for Super Street Fighter II HD Remix

[bigdsinferno]

i don't have a dreamcast, so i bought it. it's pretty good. I understand all the complaints and i agree with them, but if you don't have a DC i think this is definitely worth a purchase.

[depascal22]

Looks like I'm waiting for SCIV and SFII HD then. What should I use with my other 800 points then? Rez? Ikaruga?

[Decker]

Looks like I'm waiting for SCIV and SFII HD then. What should I use with my other 800 points then? Rez? Ikaruga?

Rez is TOTALLY worth it. The game is beautiful, trippy and brilliant.

Ikaruga? It's awesome, if you're really good. If you can't get past the damn demo like me, I'd say take a pass on it.

[lmz00]

I went ahead and bought it, since I never played the original on Dreamcast. It seemed pretty generic (which is the same reason why I never picked it up in '99), but was fairly decent.

[MikeydCT]

Is this a easy fighting game? I played the demo and didnt get hit once through 3 fights.

[mtxbass1]

Even with nearly 22,000 points in reserve, I still can't bring myself to buy this one. I'm just not impressed with all that has either been removed, or the lack of online play that wasn't included.

[mrcheapo11]

I bought this and already have all the achievements :razz: I found the game to be pretty fun, and since I never played/owned the original, this wasn't that bad of a purchase.

Tip for the Ultra Hard Arcade Achievement: Just set health to unlimited and time to unlimited and play as Voldo, and just get ring-outs for all 8 matches :D

[twen]

Tip for the Ultra Hard Arcade Achievement: Just set health to unlimited and time to unlimited and play as Voldo, and just get ring-outs for all 8 matches :D

Awesome to know, thanks :)

[distgfx]

No Mission mode and no 16:9? Bah, if there was just one of those I'd of bought it. I'll stick to my DC version.

[Scorch]

I can't believe there's no online play! I'm glad I didn't blind buy this.

[akilshohen]

Tip for the Ultra Hard Arcade Achievement: Just set health to unlimited and time to unlimited and play as Voldo, and just get ring-outs for all 8 matches :D

exactly what move did you do? I tried it and was still losing. Yes, even with infinite health.

[typeRJ]

exactly what move did you do? I tried it and was still losing. Yes, even with infinite health.

Hold Forward (Dash Forward) + B (Vertical Attack, default is Y button).

[mrchainsaw]

Even with nearly 22,000 points in reserve, I still can't bring myself to buy this one. I'm just not impressed with all that has either been removed, or the lack of online play that wasn't included.
Wha? You might as well pick up any game you have even the slightest interest in or else you'll have a lot of points doing nothing for you.

[SNAKE EYES EX]

I still own the Dreamcast disc and I just can't see buying this with no real improvements.

It was fun to play the demo and get a quick fix of nostalgia, but it's a hard sell when Dreamcast games like Rez are 5.1 and widescreen on XBLA and Soul Calibur is not.

I can kind of understand why it's not online; that would have meant a massive amount of work to completely re-write most of the collision and I/O code. Widescreen is a fairly easy addition for a 3D game. It would seem they had to open up the code anyway to add achievements and presumably render at a higher 4:3 resolution, so I really can't understand the lack of widescreen.

[Halo05]

The frustration about this not being online stems (for me) from the fact that F-ING Fatal Fury Special is online! I mean, you're going to whip up online capability for an okay fighting game from the early 90s that you're only charging $5 for but can't do the same thing for what is probably the greatest launch title in the history of videogames?! (Yes, better than Super Mario World) Fuck you Namco.

[depascal22]

The frustration about this not being online stems (for me) from the fact that F-ING Fatal Fury Special is online! I mean, you're going to whip up online capability for an okay fighting game from the early 90s that you're only charging $5 for but can't do the same thing for what is probably the greatest launch title in the history of videogames?! (Yes, better than Super Mario World) Fuck you Namco.

To be fair, they were probably putting in a lot of work on SCIV. Also, a couple guys were probably sleep walking through the development for Legends last year so there might not have been enough people to get this online.

[Rei no Otaku]

The rumor is that it's because of the size limit MS has on XBLA games.

[depascal22]

The rumor is that it's because of the size limit MS has on XBLA games.

That's another reason. I also heard that the limit was raised at the last minute but it was too late to get the online and mission modes in. Hell, wasn't that earlier in this thread?

[toper]

The original dreamcast version didn't have widescreen or online support...so those "omissions" didn't really bother me. Taking out the mission mode was a headscratcher, tho (unless it was done for space-saving purposes).

[akilshohen]

Hold Forward (Dash Forward) + B (Vertical Attack, default is Y button).
that's what I was doing too. Mitsu has a move like that too, you can juggle them twice for a ringout. I'll try it later.
It still feels like there's a lot to do in the game. I just miss the mission mode stage where you in voldo's stage and the rats were on fire.

[Megalith]

Game is worth it for the upgraded resolution alone.

[porieux]

Was this really based on the Dreamcast version or is it the arcade version? It seems more crude than I remember for some reason...

[akilshohen]

the Arcade version was a playstation game. look it up in all it's jagginess.

[Strider Turbulence]

Soul Calibur was an arcade game before heading to DC, unless your thinking of Soul Blade/Soul Edge, which was the arcade/psx game that came before Soul Calibur.

[fart_bubble]

Soul Calibur was an arcade game before heading to DC, unless your thinking of Soul Blade/Soul Edge, which was the arcade/psx game that came before Soul Calibur.

yep and I seriously miss Li Long and his three piece staff. Though he died in his ending (TB), I still always hope to see his name listed when ever a new Soul Caliber game is announced

[Mid Boss]

Soul Calibur was an arcade game before heading to DC, unless your thinking of Soul Blade/Soul Edge, which was the arcade/psx game that came before Soul Calibur.

I'm pretty sure he means it looks like a PSX game, which makes sense since the arcade version was running on arcade hardware similar to the PSX. The arcade Soul Calibur didn't look nearly as good as the DC version. Look here (http://www.system16.com/screens/soulcaliber_xianhwa.jpg) and here (http://www.system16.com/screens/soulcaliber_sophitia.jpg) to get an idea of what the arcade version was like.

[akilshohen]

Exactly. I saw SC at an arcade and was amazed at how better the dc version looked

[RelentlessRolento]

well, just an hour ago I easily with barely any effort got all 200/200

[akilshohen]

I'm having trouble with close call and the extra survival

[PhoenixT]

I downloaded the demo to this and as much as I was a fan of the orignal (god did I play that alot) I thought this one was horrible. The gameplay was there yeah and its fine but they left out a wide screen presentation and it hardly looked like they updated the graphics at all. It looked like they did minimal work to port it over to XBLA which is just crap IMO. I definatly won't be buying this.

[integralsmatic]

im going to pass....i still have my DC version..but i will miss Online play though.

[depascal22]

I also tried the demo. It's not too bad considering it's only $10. If this had come out on a disc, they'd try to charge $20-$30 for it. I might get it later if I have points burning a hole in my pocket.

[Mrcapcom]

Wheres the Soul Cali 4 Thread?

[akilshohen]

general gaming....you're late homie

[mrchainsaw]

It's in the general gaming forum.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169641

[Layd Dly]

This was my favorite dreamcast game and fighter of all time, but i am still super pissed i paid 10 for a 10 year old game that they took features out of. I mean the Story mode was the meat of the game on DC and what kept me going back time and time again to unlock everything.