I think this is great. The earlier games have already established that the soul swords are powerful enough that they'll draw warriors from other times and even other worlds.

It's flimsy, but it's more than enough for me The sheer amount of epicness offered by this news far outweighs the monumental bitching and whining it's generated on the internet.

And to those who complain about light sabers versus swords... we already know from the movies that light sabers can't cut certain metals at all, or at least not easily. We'll just have to assume that spring steel is one of those metals Besides, both the weapons and the people in the Soul games are remarkably durable, resisting the kind of abuse that would instantly destroy their real-world counterpart. So there.

I'm really looking forward to SCIV's character creation, if it's going to have it.

I'm gonna jokingly speculate about other possible crossover characters... hmm.

Captain Picard is a fencer, so they could give him a rapier and let him go nuts.

Final Fantasy characters have been kind of done to death in crossovers lately, so they'd be surplus to requirements but still cool.

Solid Snake and his commando knife... that'd be neat. Especially since he doesn't like swords.

Indiana Jones' whip would make up for the general lack of flail weapons in the games.

And last, but not least... the Black Knight, of Monty Python's Holy Grail fame. Hell yes. Especially if King Arthur was available too. Plenty of great soundbites available from the movie to give them perfect in-game dialogue.

I know none of this is likely to happen, but it's fun to speculate anyway.