Soul Calibur II Characters.

[Aerozord]

well I haven't personnaly played the x-box version and to be honest I am not touching PS2. So I say Link though Spawn has potential. Though I go more for speed. Heihachi maybe fast but Taki and Talim are faster and have better range and Spawn is just another big hitter with an axe.

In short LINK RULES

[Azeir the lone drow]

I'd definitly have to say That link Pwns man I mean he's so Agile and has a large variety of weapons

[Dac]

actually i find link is the best among them but i mean namco could have gotten ther better characters for the other consoles probably like hmmm could have had a final fantasy character for the ps2 and someone like ninja gaiden for the xbox...

[Death Dealer]

Soul Calibur 2 came out before Ninja Gaiden so that nixes that...and as for a Final Fantasy Character..while that'd be cool..there are liscensing (Can't help but think I mispelled that.) issues with that.

[Magic E-Mail Chicken]

Well personally who could Microsoft get for their own unique character? Master Chief, boy that would be great I could stand across the ring and pull out a machine gun or a rocket launcher and bam easy win.

Ha Ha Ha. I can just see it now!

Nightmare: "Need more souls!"
M-Chief: "I got your souls, right here!" (Shoots rocket launcher)
Nightmare: "Uh oh......." BOOM!

[Fifthfiend]

I've got to go with Link... because honestly, who gives a fuck about Heihachi?

I still say the PS2 character should have been Tony Vercetti.

[Azeir the lone drow]

How would He fit into the story line? He's from a more realistic world and hundreds even thousands of years into the future....He'd be all like Gimme your sword so I can pawn it off on the Black market. someone like link would Just cut him, Limb from gruesome Limb.

[Otaku Son]

Originally Posted by Death Dealer

Soul Calibur 2 came out before Ninja Gaiden so that nixes that...and as for a Final Fantasy Character..while that'd be cool..there are liscensing (Can't help but think I mispelled that.) issues with that.

Wrong. Ninja Gaiden came out on the NES in 1990. Then Ryu Hayabusa continued to live on in the Dead or Alive series. Ryu Hayabusa could have been in the X-Box version if Namco wanted him to be there; after all, DOA3 was on the X-Box before SCII was.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Originally Posted by Otaku Son

Wrong. Ninja Gaiden came out on the NES in 1990. Then Ryu Hayabusa continued to live on in the Dead or Alive series. Ryu Hayabusa could have been in the X-Box version if Namco wanted him to be there; after all, DOA3 was on the X-Box before SCII was.

Hmmmmm....Namco sends a polite letter to Tecmo. "Say buddy, how 'bout letting us use one of your most recognizable characters for one of OUR games. We're only software rivals.....no harm, no foul......"Not happenning.
Either Namco looks like they're putting Hayabusa in 'cause they think the DOA series rocks, or Tecmo looks like they're letting it happen 'cause they think the SC series is pretty slick. Neither company would give the that much credit to the other, it's bad marketing.
Link is owned by nintendo, who's console Namco released it on. Win, win.
Microsoft, and Namco got McFarlane to do it 'cause it's a cool character when they've none of they're own. Win, win again.
Namco getting a character not owned by them or Sony, but by a rival software company like Tecmo, specifically from one of their rival FIGHTING titals. It'd be really great, and the fans would love it, but it can't happen.

[Fifthfiend]

Hmmmmm....Namco sends a polite letter to Tecmo. "Say buddy, how 'bout letting us use one of your most recognizable characters for one of OUR games. We're only software rivals.....no harm, no foul......"Not happenning.
Either Namco looks like they're putting Hayabusa in 'cause they think the DOA series rocks, or Tecmo looks like they're letting it happen 'cause they think the SC series is pretty slick.... It'd be really great, and the fans would love it, but it can't happen.

Can we not pretend we can read the minds of videogame executives... executives that only exist in an alternate, non-existent reality?

I'm sure, had it not actually happened, there would be plenty of people willing to argue "Nuh-uh, no way would Nintendo agree to put Link in a fighting game, it just wouldn't ever happen."

Maybe Tecmo would have decided to be possessive, maybe both companies would have realized that this would allow them to score a huge publicity coup, boosting sales of SCII and also whetting the already powerful public appetite for the forthcoming Ninja Gaiden. "Win, win," so to speak.

The original argument was that it wasn't even possible, presumably Death Dealer either a. was not aware or b. had forgotten that Ninja Gaiden existed before the X-box game. As it did exist, such an inclusion would at least have been possible.

It was possible, it would have been cool, arguing how likely might have been, had anybody thought of it at the time, seems like an incredible exercise in futility.

How would He fit into the story line? He's from a more realistic world and hundreds even thousands of years into the future....

The whole point was that he would be such an anachronism. 20-odd medieval warriors with swords and one Mafia nutcase with a bat and an Uzi (i don't think the Uzi would be considered out of place -- the SC guys regularly get swords shoved straight through their stomachs and get up for more, so a quick spray of bullets couldn't do 'em overmuch harm).