Astaroth and Viola Announced at TGS

Tokyo Game Show started today (half a day ago, due to timezones) and already a metric ton of information has been released about various fighting games for the upcoming year. Soul Calibur V is of course no exception with Famitsu getting the details on two new confirmed characters!

The first revealed character is a returning favorite... Astaroth; who if my math is correct, is now 23 years old. The second new character is "Viola"; who attacks with disembodied jewels, very similar to Z.W.E.I. She is working with Z.W.E.I. to accomplish something or another.

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Hopefully it'll be uploaded in all its HD glory very soon.

 

fuuuaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkk i wanna see it so bad

 

me too!!!! i wanna see it!!! DDDDx

 

Maxi actually has some changes. for one there is some added safety since he is recovering a lot faster after some moves although I don't know the notation but I remember the animation. I think he's cancelling out of stances faster but I'm not sure, a Maxi player could probably break it down thoroughly. But either way it seems Namco is listening to some extent.

 

Oh, was hoping for guest characters at TGS.


Anyways.

Yay! Flat chested non-loli! And she has real shoes too! It's too bad she doesn't have a shirt (prehaps in her P2 or P3...)

Hope she isn't Amy, though what was it about seeing old characters in a new way or something? What was that quote.

 

http://www.gamespot.com/events/tgs-2011/story.html?sid=6334357&tag=top_stories;title;4

"During the initial presentation, Namco Bandi announced that it would be working with CyberConnect2 (the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series) on the animations for SoulCalibur V. In the previous games, all the character animation was motion-capture based. And while SCV will have some motion capture as well, it will also include some handcrafted animations--perhaps culminating in some very unorthodox attacks."

Do you think this means SCV will slowly change and become better than SC4 animation-wise?

I think that means we'll see more moves which are physically impossible to do. I don't think the animations themselves will become better as doing animations by hand is much harder than motion capture, especially when trying to make them look realistic.

 

Tell that to Troika and Valve. The end result is generally less uncanny valley too.

 

They are now streaming Ace Combat trailer, last time SC5 came pretty soon after it. So if you hurry, you might see it
http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/cs/event/tgs2011/bnlive/

 

What's come out so far is pretty interesting, but if this is all we're getting then I'm pretty disappointed. Has Namco officially unveiled Asta/Voila, all is it all by way of gaming sites?

 

They are now streaming Ace Combat trailer, last time SC5 came pretty soon after it. So if you hurry, you might see it
http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/cs/event/tgs2011/bnlive/

Thanks! Looks like we'll be able to do mini-Evo moments with repeat JG. Viola looks very interesting. I want to hate on the out there character styles but that shit is dope.

 

The stages are so beautiful....

 

I can finally rest easy now that Asta has been announced. Also the new girl seems really cool.

 

Figures, I turned on the stream in the middle of it and video buffering messed up the flow of it.

 

The stages keep getting better and better. I gotta feelin' that this game will be EPIC.

 

Viola looks as if she is replacing Amy with the loli goth look. Though I like her design a lot more then I liked Amy's.
And Asty has been turned into a green zombie!
The slots left for my main just keeps going down. Lol.

 

I feel like an overly excited fanboy drooling for more. Viola looks promising. I'm a college student and it amazes me in a bad way that I would rather look and wait for updates to this game than do my essay that's due tomorrow. I finished it, but I still can't believe I'm putting this as a more important priority than my school work. Time to stop.

 

I feel like an overly excited fanboy drooling for more. Viola looks promising. I'm a college student and it amazes me in a bad way that I would rather look and wait for updates to this game than do my essay that's due tomorrow. I finished it, but I still can't believe I'm putting this as a more important priority than my school work. Time to stop.

Please don't let that happen! Gotta get dem A's so you can make that cash

 

Please don't let that happen! Gotta get dem A's so you can make that cash

Right? I need to lay off on the Calibur and get me some good studying time. Ya noe?

 

If this trailer loop is same as before, SC5 should be on again pretty soon... or will they pull the plug?

Edit. false alarm, it doesn't seem to start again

 

Was Voldos 4K in SC4? I think i haven't seen it since SC3

And Astas awesome lol