Darth Vader also on the X360 version!

[MontanaHatchet]

naznatips said:

MontanaHatchet said:

I must suck at Brawl. After all, I played against my friend who had EXACTLY the same skill level that I did (by the way, I'm making this scenario up), and somehow, he managed to beat me (very much so). I was using Donkey Kong, and he was using Wolf. I could have sworn that the characters were equal, but somehow I still got my ass handed to me. It must have been because I suck at Brawl. What wonderful logic.

And I'm not talking about the characters, but the entirety of the series is based on a gimmick. Everything about it. You have items, characters, stickers, stages, etc...all based on previous Nintendo games or even games from third parties. Yep, they actually broke the golden rule of the game and added two characters which consistently appear on rival platforms. Snake was acceptable since he was asked for by his respective creator, but Sonic? Talk about satisfying the fanboys.

What's wrong with gimmick characters though? We had Link, who fit the theme of the game perfectly. We had Spawn, who came from an alternate comic universe (thus we can say that the time lines are different and it makes sense). And then we had Heieachi (spelling?), who traveled back in time (pretty stupid, I would have picked a different character). If you really wanted a technical fighter without stupid characters, you would buy a Virtua Fighter game.

Besides, the Star Wars characters make perfect sense. Did George Lucas ever specify when the Star Wars universe took place relative to our own? Just because Yoda and Darth Vader are "OMGZ TEH FUTURISTIC!!!" doesn't mean that they don't fit.

 

Not sure why you even wrote the first paragraph when you admit you made it up... so yeah... we'll just move onto the second.

I agree you could call Sonic and Snake gimmicks sorta.  Definitely added as fanservice, but neither is grossly unbalanced.  still, as you said, the whole game is a "gimmick."  It's an entire game based on fanservice, so adding more isn't a big deal. 

Soul Calibur started as a good technical fighter with great balance. I wanted it to stay that, but they broke that to focus on selling the game through side characters.  And no, Star Wars characters don't fit.  Not because of the time as much as the setting.  They stuck Star Wars characters in a world full of magic and martial arts.  And btw, a lightsaber should cut THROUGH swords. >_>

No, I made up the scenario because there is an obvious disparity between the two characters, and besides that, there is no way that a friend of mine and I would have the exact same skill level (it's impossible). But if you had two people with the same skill level, you could easily determine the difference in strength between different characters (Wolf is far better than Donkey Kong).

As for the timeline, I agree somewhat. Actually, the different light saber forms were often based off of Asian fighting styles from real life (such as Juyo, the seventh but incomplete form of light saber battle). If you read about Star Wars, you'd know that Juyo, and the Sith famous for using it (Darth Maul), were based off of old Asian styles of fighting.

But when it comes to light sabers, no comment. Technically, getting struck by a sword should kill a person (even an armored person) in one hit. But that never seems to be the case in Soul Calibur.