Soul Calibur 4

Not that I'm complaining or anything, but why do all the female's tits keep getting bigger with every iteration of this game?

Taki had a nice set of B's in the original Soul Edge which became C's in Soul Calibur. Then SC2 came along and all of a sudden she had a pair of jiggletastic D's.

Ivy had a reasonable rack for a woman her height in every game, now the things are bigger than her head.

And wasn't Tira flat chested in SC3? I guess that change is acceptable since was 15 (16?) then and has aged since then.

To my knowledge the only SC women who haven't had surgery are Kilik...I mean Sueng Mina, The Sisters, Xiunghua and Voldo.........oh, wait.

New Ivy is fan-tastic, though these games' idea of boob-physics is pretty bizarre.

The Wii game is going to be terrible.

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Originally Posted by Master of 7s

And wasn't Tira flat chested in SC3? I guess that change is acceptable since was 15 (16?) then and has aged since then.

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Nah, they weren't huge or anything, but she had enough to notice. You're probably thinking of the South American Indian chick with the daggers.

Because Japan's idea of female character design has been tending more and more to "enormous jugs" over the last few years. I never thought I'd reach the point where I'd say that enough is enough, cut it out, and yet here we are.

James

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Originally Posted by LordPerrin

Nah, they weren't huge or anything, but she had enough to notice. You're probably thinking of the South American Indian chick with the daggers.

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Who, Talim? Yeah you're probably right.

I thought she was Filipina though.

Maybe, I don't know.

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Originally Posted by James

Because Japan's idea of female character design has been tending more and more to "enormous jugs" over the last few years.

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Japan's? It's not like huge breasts have been a part of western comic art for the past couple decades or so...

Still, I bet a big part of it is the increase in polygon count. You can't make a very big, round shape with few polygons, so gals back in the day had to settle for modest busts. Technology upgrades and they're able to render closer to the original concept. Besides, Namco's character illustrator draws them bigger then they appear in the game (seems like most people are reacting to the concept art more than the in-game); I don't think SC is too bad overall.

Ivy - Huge, but appropriate to the character. I actually think her thicker look is pretty hot, but it doesn't seem to show so much in game as it did in that one scan. Taki - really big, and not really appropriate to the character. Pretty cheesecake, in the same vein as Mai Shiranui. Everyone else seems pretty tame by character design standards. By normal human standards, even Sophitia and Seung Mina are suspect, but we're going for idealised beauty here.

I like that at least they have different body types, and I wouldn't mind more variety in that regard. Not just in bust size and hair color, but different hip, shoulder, thigh, and waist proportions. Compared to something like DOA, where the men are pretty varied, but the gals all seem about the same except for cosmetic differences.

Oddly, the original DOA was jugalicious to the point of absurdity. DOA2 and 3 followed a progressive downward sizing of the busts, but it jumped back up again for 4. I agree totally about the same body types, which only gives them more of a feeling of plastic dolls.

And Mai is the one who started it all. Ninja slut.

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Originally Posted by Master of 7s

Who, Talim? Yeah you're probably right.

I thought she was Filipina though.

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I thought she was Malaysian

Did a quick check. Amazing what you'll find on Wikipedia.

Turns out she is from the Philipines. So technically she is Southeast Asian (or Pacific Islander depending on who you ask).