View Full Version : Soul Calibur is coming to XBLA
diskoboy
04-16-2008, 11:06 PM
The Dreamcast's killer app is making its way to XBLA, it seems....
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/866/866935p1.html
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/16/namco-bandai-to-bring-original-soul-calibur-to-xbla/
MegaDrive20XX
04-17-2008, 12:00 AM
Whoa...that is incredible. How did they manage to pull that off??
PapaStu
04-17-2008, 01:07 AM
Whoa...that is incredible. How did they manage to pull that off??
Hai NamcoBandai? This is Bill Gates, I know that your gonna be releasing teh Soul Calibur 4 soon. Whai not re-release the first one on XBLA and make teh 2k monies from teh fanboi's!!1! XBLA has like eleventy million fanbois! Is a total win win! kthnx baibai!
I totally think it went down something like that. If it didn't go down like that then someone from MS suggested it to NamcoBandai and got the ball rolling, or vice versa. I'd be a happy person if they can get it mostly lag free if they take it online.
segagamer4life
04-17-2008, 09:34 AM
good news anyway, I wish they would have online multiplayer... oh well.
MegaDrive20XX
04-17-2008, 03:06 PM
Hai NamcoBandai? This is Bill Gates, I know that your gonna be releasing teh Soul Calibur 4 soon. Whai not re-release the first one on XBLA and make teh 2k monies from teh fanboi's!!1! XBLA has like eleventy million fanbois! Is a total win win! kthnx baibai!
No wai. U liez.
Seriously, I can't wait to see what it looks like.
The 1 2 P
04-18-2008, 11:21 PM
I can't wait...although I already have the US and Japanese Dreamcast versions. But the minor updates will be nice. And like those before me have said, online multiplayer would have been off the heezy for sheezy.
Daria
04-18-2008, 11:42 PM
So wait... you guys would actually buy the game if it didn't have online multiplayer?
diskoboy
04-19-2008, 01:37 AM
So wait... you guys would actually buy the game if it didn't have online multiplayer?
We did for the Dreamcast.....
Daria
04-19-2008, 10:53 AM
We did for the Dreamcast.....
And so you own the game as it's scheduled to be released right now.
I would see the XBLA release as a hold over until IV comes out, but it seriously gimps the fun if you can't play it online ala Dead or Alive. That's the shit that I enjoy.
The 1 2 P
04-19-2008, 07:37 PM
messed up*
The 1 2 P
04-19-2008, 07:38 PM
And so you own the game as it's scheduled to be released right now.
I would see the XBLA release as a hold over until IV comes out, but it seriously gimps the fun if you can't play it online ala Dead or Alive. That's the shit that I enjoy.
Agreed. Online multiplayer is the shit. But look at it this way: Nintendo has had quite a few great games from the N64 thru the Wii that had great multiplayer but no online multiplayer. And yet we still bought and played them(the first two Smash Brothers and the last several Mario Karts come to mind) anyway. So yes, online would have been wayyy better Daria, but sometimes we take what we can get8-) .
diskoboy
04-19-2008, 08:54 PM
Agreed. Online multiplayer is the shit. But look at it this way: Nintendo has had quite a few great games from the N64 thru the Wii that had great multiplayer but no online multiplayer. And yet we still bought and played them(the first two Smash Brothers and the last several Mrio Karts come to mind) anyway. So yes, online would have been wayyy better Daria, but sometimes we take what we can get8-) .
Agreed...
Having it in widescreen, and in HD, is good enough for me. The DC version (which is the version they will be porting) was a surprisingly deep game.
Namco is notorious for not including online multiplayer in their XBLA games. And the one title that does, was overflowing with bugs.
Daria
04-20-2008, 01:04 AM
Agreed. Online multiplayer is the shit. But look at it this way: Nintendo has had quite a few great games from the N64 thru the Wii that had great multiplayer but no online multiplayer. And yet we still bought and played them(the first two Smash Brothers and the last several Mrio Karts come to mind) anyway. So yes, online would have been wayyy better Daria, but sometimes we take what we can get8-) .
And sometimes we save our money for titles with a little more thought put into them. (:
If you absolutely loved the game, yes I can see buying it again. But I still think it's a half assed gesture releasing a versus fighting game to the arcade without online multiplayer. It's just a feature I would normally think of as a given.
VC games are a little more forgivable as in general online on the Wii sort of blows. But then again I'm not buying old N64 titles either. Mostly imports and Turbografx games.