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But on which future release, Street Fighter 4 or Soul Calibur 4?

Do the Beteons prefer one over the other, will some be buying both?

I presumed SF4 will be arcade only for a fair while. Is that erroneous?

Which one has Yoda in?

Being a mahoosive Street Fighter II fan, it would have to be Soul Calibur 4 for me.

No, wait, the other one.

I'm not really into my beat 'em ups. Can someone change my mind? I quite enjoyed the demo of Soul Caliber on XBLAH.

Soul Calibur is the best beat-em-up I've played since the original Street Fighter II; the only game I've played since which improves on it is its own superb sequel (Gamecube version in my exp.). Oh! Apart from Tech Romancer, another great Dreamcast one-on-one.

@Dimrill: You're not wrong.

I will be buying SCIV as soon as possible.

I will not be buying SFIV, after the insult that was SFIIXBLA.

I'll probably end up with both, but I'm not a huge fan of technical beat-em-ups that require perfect timing and ridiculous memory skills. I do love Soul Calibur on the DC, though. Still play it with my arcade stick to this VERY DAY.

I'll probably get both, maybe not at launch though. Shame XBLA SC doesn't have online play, really.

I'd love them to get an old version of Tekken 3 or similar up on XBLA. I loved them. I enjoyed Soul Blade, etc, but it never had the depth that Tekken did, IMHO. Button bashing or relying on repeating two moves over and over seemed far too useful in it.

Tekken was awesomes. That is all.

Tekken was great. I'd probably prefer 2 over 3 though, I thought it started to get a bit cluttered at that point.

I quite liked 3.

Mmmm. Spinny Ling Xiayou death.

While Soul Calibur does have some insane combos, I've never felt the need to use them over much simpler stuff - and I am fairly good at Soul Calibur. *Points at 200/200 GS on SC, as well as general insanely goodness on it's sequel. And not buying of SCIII due to wanky PS2 pad*

The only other fighter I've spent any serious amount of time with in recent years is tekken 5. I've never really connected as well with Tekken, for instance. SC has some kind of consistent internal logic. Horizontal, vertical and kick attacks all do pretty much what you would intuitively expect them to do (aside from the odd headbutt here or there). Tekken, you have 4 buttons, one for each limb, but no real idea about what each limb will do when you summon it into action. So yes, you do need a good memory for that.

Can you press all four buttons at once and watch your fighter jump in the air and mong out?

The Tekken games were slow and dull. I loved playing Tekken II with my ex when we were stoned, until she banned me from playing as Baek and I stopped winning. Oh, and I liked Gon in Tekken III.

I think I might get Soul Calibur IV next week. It comes out close to pay day. I really shouldn't, though, so might give it a miss.

But Third Strike was much more technical and time-demanding, and fans of SFII rarely got into it on 'brand recognition' alone. I wonder if this one will be any more accessible...

Neither will beat Darkstalkers. That is all.

Virtua Fighter on the 360 is mint. I dont own it though. I had it on the Ps3 and it was ace also.

Soul Caliber looks ace, but the only one of that "series" i have played was Soul Edge on the PS1. That was a great game.

I should get my Soul Calibur IV tomorrow or Friday. Very much looking forward to it, though I don't really need it, as I got Super Smash Bros last weekend.

I've pre-ordered SC4. I didn't know SF4 was out in the near future, though.

Bloody Roar 2 was, IMO, the best fighting game so far.

The last beat-em-up I properly enjoyed was Shadow Fighter. But then I don't have a console.

Rival Schools.

And Marvel vs Capcom, natch. But there's already a thread for that.

My copy arrived today. Ladies and Gents, you get an achievement for pressing 'start' on the menu.
I
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They've nicked that off The Simpsons Game, then.

"Whore!" - Koo Stark

In my day it was reward enough to get the fecking game loaded.

Kids today don't know they are born!

She never said "Whore!", it were the bloke what was raping her who said that.

There's also John Woo Presents Stranglehold, which gave you an achievement for visiting the shop from the main menu - yes, without even starting the game at all ever. The fucking bastards.

Why do games need fucking achievements? Achievements are the kind of things that make me tetchy.

Did I mention I'm tetchy today?

I dunno, why do games have scores?

Just to mention, Soul Calibur IV is great. Hugely addictive, lovely character creation - and you can have great lightsaber duels as a little extra. Shame custom characters can't use lightsabers, though.

I'm still not sure about it. I'll give it more time.

Acheevemnets r teh BOM!

I got no such acheivement - my first (and only so far) was for completing Story mode on normal.

You think level 18 is bad? Just wait until level 56 of ascent - that cost me a pair of headphones, that one did (You have to do levels 53,54,55 and 56 with one character, each has 3 or four really quite tricky opponents, 56 being 4 lizardmen, and they managed to take me down from full health to death without me dealing any significant damage on them)

Oh, and level 15 of descent has another cat woman, who's even harder - Again beating me from full health during my only attempt at descent to date.

It's certainly doable, but not easy, and will require a fair amount of patience.

As far as I can tell, the only hard levels on descent up to 20 are 5 and 15, so long as you have something like HP drain A equiped (It's vital for most of the tower of souls, the only time i've had to change away from it was two floors around ascent 45 which require an entirely different character).

I tend to go for the highest hp drain available (To recover HP) and either something to increase damage (helps HP drain too) or the nullify ring out (You really can't afford to lose a character that cheaply, and Zalasamel in particular is very good at lobbing you out of the ring with no warning)

Although chucking on several soul draining options is a good idea for levels where critical finishes are more likely.

The final option I use is where you have two or more characters have a offensive powerhouse and a defensive guy. Bring in the defensive one when the attacking one is heavily damaged and wait for him to recover to bring him in.

There's a fair amount of depth to the system, but unfortunately you can end up with a character looking like a complete goon in order to get the stats you desire.

I'm annoyed as my game disc has gone missing. Except there's nowhere for it to go missing to, so I'm confused, and unable to kick people in the face.

Checked the lot of them. And under everything, and bins... I've run out of places to look. I think I'm going to end up buying it again.

Sigh... Just found it.

IN THE SAME PLACE I CHECKED ABOUT 20 TIMES!!!

So, anyone want to buy a copy os Soul Calibur 4?

How much would you want for it?