It's effective against casual players such as myself who don't have the flawless, split-second timing to pull off that super shield block move where you block at the perfect time to send the oponent stumbling backwards. I pulled it off once or twice during that fight, but SC was never my favorite fighter to begin with, as such becoming a master of it was never my goal........mainly because the concept of Ring Outs was something that I found to be incredibly lame.fwlzdxil said:Don't know about Vader, but wasn't Taki lowest tier in SC4? (unlike Natsu, who is fucking everyone's shit up now) That move is probably only abusable against inexperienced players.RJ 17 said:One of my better ones was when I realized that playing Soul Calibur 4 online was like trying to stuff a cactus up my ass because everyone that plays it uses the same cheap/unavoidable move (I'm looking at you, Darth Vader...) that just murders the fuck outta you and there's nothing you can do about it. Evidently Taki has a move where she just does a quick little swipe with one of her blades down at your ankles. This is enough to cause you to stumble for a moment, which is just long enough for her to do it again, effectively stun-locking you if you get hit once by it.
I only pulled the plug once, when I just started playing MK9 online. I don't remember details, but the situation was similar to yours: I didn't know how to defend against the attack he was abusing. Since then, whenever somebody's playing like a douche, I just stand there and don't press any buttons. If you want to win so bad, here's your win.
Also, I never experienced it because Vader wasn't out for the 360 by the time I was done with SC IV, but a buddy of mine had it on PS 3 and Vader had this move where he can essentially stun-lock you with his force moves, keeping you all the way across the screen the entire time.
Think it's like a force choke-slam, then force lift you back to your feet. Or maybe throwing the lightsaber and then lifting you back to your feet only to have the lightsaber thrown again. Something like that. All I know is that once he got started it was basically impossible to break out of.
n00beffect said:LOL. I had a simillar expirience once. It involved me, my foot and my oldest, boxy monitor. You know, the kind of monitors you never see any more, the proper old-school ones. Also, the back of my wall, which apparantly had been made out of cardboard, because when I kicked my monitor, it lodged itself right inside. Should've taken a picture, but as I would soon find out, I was suffering what I now understand to be some puny, teenage attempt at a nervous breakdown. Got as far as the door before I collapsed, waking up a couple of hours later in my bed. I forgot to mention that almost all of my equipment was destroyed in the whole 'accident'. Keyboard was snapped in two over my knee and now there were buttons all over the room; the mouse had lost its cover and now you could see the inner workings of all of the wheels as you moved it.RJ 17 said:Having had enough with these bullshit players and their bullshit tactics, I stood up, threw my controler, and turned around to punch a hole in the wall. Turning back around, I see that my controler had found its way into my TV set, requiring that I get a new one.
It was rather embarassing, really.