Soul Calibur: 3D Model Review/Rant

DevilsDisguise

DevilsDisguise

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Soul Calibur has always been a game series that featured extensive detail to their characters and models however I found it a bit strange that Soul calibur 5's models, though good some characters don't seem to match their illustrations. There are obvious detail inconstancies they seem to have taken when transitioning the characters off paper into 3 dimentions. For some their bust was drastically reduced, for others facial designs look nothing like how they were originally confirmed to be proportioned. Some characters look nothing like the race they're considered to be potraying and some just dont look or match what they're said to be. (Xiba is a kid like Amy and Talim yet his body is extremely muscular and has a large body matched with a tiny head.) I don't know if they were rushed when modeling the characters too but I think some details need to be revised. (I think Leixia should switch faces with young talim)
 

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xXSoulCaliburXx said:
alot of the in-game models dont look like they're artwork...
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a thosand times this
one of the biggest beefs I have with the characters is how their faces were rendered
Patroklos is the worst example, he looks awesome in his art, but in-game he looks like Micheal Cera with fish eyes, and one hell of a trollface. Same for Ivy. her art is gorgeous and she looks like a man in game. [inb4 jokes about Ivy's femininity]
and of course the other discrepancies of how "big" the female characters are

and Maxi's eyebrows are horrifying but that's just me
 
As far as Xiba goes, it actually might fit. Comparing any character, especially a male character, to Talim isn't fair. Talim's freaking tiny. And being a junior in high school, I've seen teens younger then him who are six feet tall and ripped. If someone's trained enough, it can happen. Also, I agree with his hair. Foehawks can be rather sexy. Xiba's is not.

I wish they did a better job with the models. Even just... Little things. Like Viola has tiny boobs when her art shows her with pretty good sized knockers, in the artwork, it looked like Ivy lost a few pounds and had a much more... Regal, I guess, looking face. She didn't and she doesn't. Just a few complaints I have, nothing that turns me off from the game a lot.
 
SorceressSeren said:
As far as Xiba goes, it actually might fit. Comparing any character, especially a male character, to Talim isn't fair. Talim's freaking tiny. And being a junior in high school, I've seen teens younger then him who are six feet tall and ripped. If someone's trained enough, it can happen.
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Pretty much this.
 
It seems pretty clear that Xiba's hair, in his artwork, is in motion and not static, making it almost impossible to tell what it's style should be. Also he's spent his entire life training as a warrior on a mountain - It'd make less sense if he wasn't ripped.

Which, by the way, he is in his artwork as well, meaning it's not even relevant to this thread.

I found the models to be above-par in this game. Especially when you look at SCIV, where everyone was suffering from cancer (those eyes), and were all a bit pale and filthy.

My only issue is the way Nightmare develops temporary size-zero status when you perform his AB stance B move. Seriously, awhat?
 
Le_Bello said:
I found the models to be above-par in this game. Especially when you look at SCIV, where everyone was suffering from cancer (those eyes), and were all a bit pale and filthy.
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Yes, but in SCIV, everyone was suffering for some tragedy. Most of the characters had a giantic evolution, even the purest were maturing, also the game had this heavy aura, very dark....and the game itself had this gothic and melancholic feeling, also most of stages were set in places with little or none sunlight
 
Hikari said:
Yes, but in SCIV, everyone was suffering for some tragedy. Most of the characters had a giantic evolution, even the purest were maturing, also the game had this heavy aura, very dark....and the game itself had this gothic and melancholic feeling, also most of stages were set in places with little or none sunlight
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I don't think that's the reason, given that other Bamco games of that time-period had similar effects. I can only conclude IV was set around the time of some sort of plague.
 
I will agree the models are very beautiful~ An example would include Viola~ She's really nice to look at in-game...same with Pyrrha hell even Raph is appealing to my eye...but when he wears his 2P...DAT CLEAVAGE!
 
SorceressSeren said:
As far as Xiba goes, it actually might fit. Comparing any character, especially a male character, to Talim isn't fair. Talim's freaking tiny. And being a junior in high school, I've seen teens younger then him who are six feet tall and ripped. If someone's trained enough, it can happen. Also, I agree with his hair. Foehawks can be rather sexy. Xiba's is not.
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I disagree on his body type. The tiny body of Talim and Amy are the only ways to distinguish actual children from the adults in the game. Though modelwise it doesnt work because Xiba's head and face is small and doesnt match. If he's a kid then he should actually be a kid.
 
DevilsDisguise said:
I disagree on his body type. The tiny body of Talim and Amy are the only ways to distinguish actual children from the adults in the game. Though modelwise it doesnt work because Xiba's head and face is small and doesnt match. If he's a kid then he should actually be a kid.
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But he's not really a kid. He's 16 and was trained by Martial artist. He's at an age where that kind of training can show really well, which it does.
Though I agree with you on his face. His face makes him look more like he's, maximum, 10.
 
SorceressSeren said:
But he's not really a kid. He's 16 and was trained by Martial artist. He's at an age where that kind of training can show really well, which it does.
Though I agree with you on his face. His face makes him look more like he's, maximum, 10.
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His body is still too big for his age, not muscularity but his size in proportion. I mean Teen Gohan is buff in DBZ and within the same character context but still small and tiny. Xiba just has a terrible 3d model. I like his character but I was hopping for a more younger and youthful character. His voice isnt even child-like.
 
My beautiful Viola was promised a formidable sized bosom.... but was given..... nothing...
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LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE! The renders in terms of bust size for Viola and Tira are horribly wrong. Also, in Viola's art, she looks older than in her render. Just look at the difference... it's huge, isn't it (lol)? I mean, seriously, I could understand if the art were smaller but that's a really big difference between the art and the render.

I demand her breast to be re-sized in SCVI/SSCV/SCTT2. >:[ I mean, come on Project Soul. At least Pyrrha's render's size would be fine.
 
I don't know if its just her, but on Cervy's ship stage(I don't recall the name), Hilde's face looks like that of an oiled up pornstar. Her skin just looks unnecessarily shiny and wet.
 
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