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So, Soul Calibur V showed up from Amazon yesterday. Haven't had time to play around with it too much yet. Despite the changes in roster, I was surprised how familiar it all was- Lexia and Patroklos play a lot like their moms. Not that there aren't significant changes to people's movesets- for one, Misturugi no longer has his relic stance. You know, the iai-jutsu sheathed sword stance. Which is kinda disappointing. I was never good enough to fully utilize it, but it was nice having the option all, "my sword is not even drawn and I'll still slice you up".

I also noticed Cervantes only has his vertical guard impact special move. Which is fine since that's the good one (its the one where he shoots them in the face after the block), just surprising they got rid of the horizontal one. But unless they changed the input command, he no longer has that move where he teleports above them and comes down with a sword cleave. (I didn't see it amongst his move list)

Character creation is in full force- you have way more control over your fighter's "body type". I mean, you can adjust height, weight, bust (yes, you can make ridiculous bowling ball sized ta-tas), waist, hips, thighs, calves, muscle tone, etc. And unlike the previous game, you can adjust all those independently.

Plus you have way more control over tattoo placement- the previous game, you had a couple of tattoos fixed to a certain body part. But here, you have dozens of options for the image, and you can adjust the size and basically apply it anywhere you want. You can even have a tramp stamp.

The clothing and equipment seems to be a lot of the same stuff from SC4, though it seems like its not everything. Unless more stuff gets unlocked as you play through.

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Yet another "hottest" list: UGO's 99 hottest fictional women of 2012.

This list is confusing, because I don't think UGO understands the meaning of 2012. Like why the frick is Princess Leia on this list?! She was relevant neither to 2011 nor 2012!

So the top 20 are:

20) Valentine from Skullgirls
19) Juliet Starling from Lollypop Chainsaw
18) Catwoman
17) Moira O'Hara (the young version) from American Horror Story
16) Triss Merrigold from The Witcher
15) Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games
14) Dany from Game of Thrones
13) Quinn from Glee
12) Lydia from Skyrim
11) Lana from Archer
10) Joan from Mad Men
9) Miranda Lawson from Mass Effect (I understand she's voiced by Yvonne Strahovski, but the brunette video game version of her looks weird)
8) Jill Valentine from Resident Evil
7) Jess from New Girl
6) Black Widow
5) Nikita
4) Jenny from the League
3) Shaundi from Saints Row 3 (who has better hair in this outing, but is also no longer voiced by Eliza Dushku)
2) Gloria from Modern Family
1) Tara from Sons of Anarchy

I mean, I guess its "fictional" women, but I am surprised by the variety of genres they cover in terms of fiction. I mean, its one thing to cover comics, video games, and sci-fi/action shows, but its weird they also included things like Glee, Modern Family, Community, and the League.

TV commentary:

Justified- Is it me, or is Quarles just itching to see if his little sleeve rig will make him fast enough to outdraw Raylan? I was a little nervous he was actually going to try and test his luck right there. And I don't know why, but it still weirds me out that Raylan's dad is part of Boyd's gang. I mean, Ava's spunky, but I don't find the rest of Boyd's crew all that intimidating- I mean, an old dude and an idiot? Who's gonna take that seriously?