Unskippable: SoulCalibur V

[Graham_LRR]

SoulCalibur V

Zany swords are all the rage among fighters in the SoulCalibur universe.

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[yunabomb]

Oh the malfested scene. That's seriously the stupidest part of the game.

 

[MatParker116]

Is that party an engagement party? Future Mr De Vere

 

[leviadragon99]

Quite the sense of disconnect between the ridiculous fightscene and the halfassed revolution/intrigue.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

"...With a hula-hoop?"
best line ever

 

[Irridium]

Ah Soul Calibur V. It shed the small cutscenes for each character for one big story for one character.

It's a shame the whole story is still the same quality, only instead of an acceptable 15-30 second scene, it's hours long. Ugh.

 

[tehweave]

Did he just kill a poor guy?

Are you playing as the villain?

Because that would be an interesting change of pace.

 

[ritchards]

Ooh, you guys should put up bonus videos of the game play you cut out!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Wow that makes even less sense than previous Soul Calibur games.

 

[tenochtitlan]

Just for the record: "Graf" = "count", from German.

 

[Darth_Payn]

The fraking video's not playing because the damn WoW:Mists of Pandaria roll-down ad keeps jacking things up. It's even here on the forum!

 

[Gunjester]

Because that would be an interesting change of pace.

No he's just kind of a self-righteous dick with no idea what's happening throughout the plot...

 

[ciancon]

Well that was wildly entertaining!

 

[garjian]

Its a shame they only managed to include 1/4 of the planned story...
Its also a shame that Nightmare and Raphael weren't replaced, as planned, by 'Dumas', who was supposed to be Raphael hosting Soul Edge... It would've been good to have more new... It would've been better if they had been given enough time to actually finish the game by Namco. :/

 

[Imperator-Zor]

Graf is a rank of German Nobility

Zor

 

[TheSchaef]

I seriously don't get the recent fascination with storybook cutscenes.

I mean, it was one thing when it was a PS2 game with minimal in-game cutscene capacity, though considering that Konami did full cutscenes for MGS1 even though it was the blocky PS1 faux-3d and none of the characters had any facial animation whatsoever.

But this is Soul Calibur, a franchise renowned for its gratuitous use of pre-rendered cutscenes (which these days could even be in-game and still be HD-quality). How in the world are they using, not even "still-imation" storybook images, but literal still-life illustrations with voiceover?

Forget 1/4 of the planned story, apparently they only bothered to do 1/4 of the planned RENDERING.

Guess it's Tekken Tag 2 for me.

 

[Wolcik]

OMG! If all cutscenes from Soul Calibur V could become Unscipable material, then we could have like few months of theme. It would eventually get borring as we would start to undestand the conveluted backstory.

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Cinematic with excessive, pointless powering up and posturing. - Check.
Completely inefficient armor designed for bizarre catwalk modelling and not combat. - Check.
Faux Germanic words and names. - Check.
Storyline that only makes sense in the writer's head. - Check.

Yup. Japanese.