AWKWARD ZOMBIE

TRANSCENDING HISTORY AND THE WORLD. A TALE OF SOULS AND SWORDS ETERNALLY RETOLD.




Seriously though, the collector's edition is actually pretty nice. This is the case and inside is the game, a making of SCV disc, the artbook and the special edition soundtrack (half of which is from older games.) Just look at that velvety interior!

So I'mma enter an SC5 Tourney (Yay Game Mania, sponsored by namco.) I can't wa-

>Dampierre not allowed

Trollshimitsu it is then.

Why? I haven't heard anything about him being OP or anything. Is it because he's essentially a joke character?

It's because only people that preordered the game can download him. Hence, not all tournament goers can play with/ against him, and it's difficult for tournament organizers to have him on all the console set-ups. Once he is available through regular DLC, he'll be unbanned.

Devil Jin style is also banned, because it requires a Create a Soul character to be used. Which means it takes time to do, especially on larger scale tournaments, and there is also no "official" character model to go with it, which can mean hitboxes problems.

Ah, that makes more sense. I haven't had time to play it yet so I didn't know if people who didn't get the pre-order code from Best Buy (or European equivalent) could purchase/download him yet, since I'm assuming they would do that eventually to get cheddar (or they should do that anyway.) Devil Jin being banned makes sense too. That would take forever if you had to wait for people to make custom characters in a tourney.

Interesting to see Maxi still around, though if V is anything like previous versions they've probably screwed his playstyle over another six ways to Tuesday. Wouldn't have thought he'd have much to do with Astaroth being dea...wait, wtf?

TOs would probably do it themselves in any case to prevent people from making their Devil Jin character a dwarf with long limbs (small hitbox, great range). The problem is more about agreeing to one CaS model for Devil Jin, with it working as the dev team intended (it's impossible without Namco's direct help).

Also the guys that wrote the Soul Calibur V think Devil Jin is broken as fuck.

According to Maxi players that got their hands on the game, they actually greatly improved it.

In all honesty I haven't kept up with the series since playing II in the arcade and Gamecube. It's more an extension of "Okay they just released SC III, let's give it a try!...they completely changed the way Maxi plays. Welp, I'm a scrub again."

Yep, just a quick browse through /v/ and I saw probably a dozen people talking about all the devil jin style loli midgets they were making. Guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Also, I see some people complaining about Sophitia's kids being the main characters of SCV. They seem to be under the impression that the devs magically gave her kids in order to continue the series and that it would have made more sense for Siegfried to have a kid to be the new central character. Also a bunch of "HURR DURR GAME SUCKS BECAUSE CHARACTER X ISN'T IN IT!" 46 is too god daisies old to be an active ninja. Get over it.

Iunno mang, Voldo seems to still be kickin and he's in like his late 50s

Man I wouldn't have even cared if this game sucked or not because I love SC that daisies much. I'm having a blast with it so far.

But Voldo is crazy sexy so I'm not sure that counts. Most people I've seen seem to mention Ivy and Maxi in their arguments, which doesn't make much sense when Ivy may as well be immortal at this point and Maxi has super slow aging due the the shard in his body. Mostly just people being mad without actually understanding the universe. But yeah, I'm having a lot of fun playing it regardless of who is and isn't in it.

Weirdly enough one character I've missed in the series is Charade.

He was fuckin awesome, and I love randomized characters like that. Olcadan or whatever the fuck his name was disappointed me in 3, and I was sad to not see any such character in 4 (sorta expected Weapon Master)

Jaxelrod uploaded a few videos of SCV tournament play. Interesting stuff.

I don't know how this looks ingame, but I'm just imagining the most hilarious thing when I read this.

Same oh god