Soul Calibur

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fug, even the mace-pole triggers me

Wasn't that oni girl with the nightmare moveset? Or was the alien designed by the Kekoro Gunso guy?

The pirate girl with Cervantes moveset was cool but had could shoot with her katana

I forgot how grating her voice was in 4.

Well it was never the pinnacle of gaming it was just something I sunk a lot of hours into, always wanted to play the previous games but SC3 ran really slowly on my emulator (when I first got around to playing it) and 2 was cool but I didn't really get by on the lack of customisation and it was only the free version on PS market so I'm not sure if it had all the features of the actual game..

I suppose what I was really looking for was a fighting game with RPG elements, which is why 4 and the concept of 3 interested me so much.

I actually liked the tower for that, it felt cool trying to figure out what the messages meant and even If I cbf with it i'd just look it up online.


I never played the multi because I knew it would piss me off.


Okay you got me there, it was pretty cut and dry, everyone going for one of the two swords yadayada.. For the most part, better than SC5 though because at least it never made me physically recoil or turn every muscle in my face to an active cringe every other cutscene.

The story was not what stood out for me in 4 though in anycase, just used it to level up the weapon styles.

Well I suppose I meant siegfried weapon style was broken(severely nerfed).. In comparison to the previous games *WHICH I CHECKED* and a few standard moves are actually a lot slower in 5, and slower than nightmare's weapon style.

I'd be battling him straight for half an hour at a time yea I know I sucked at 5 as well and he'd just be rekking me because I was so used to the movesets in 4 and they'd just made everything c-c-c-c-combo bullshit.

Ftfy

He starts of as a smug bastard, but when he gets the Soulcalibur, he gets motivated.

Damn, today the board moved fast.


I'm not saying SCIV is the worst thing ever. It's just there are better games in the series that does what it tried to do.
If you like so much RPG elements in a fighting game, you'll love Chronicles of the Sword from III(you should be aware of the memory wipe bug) or Weapon Master from II. For single player, III is by far the best one. I wish bamco ported the Arcade Edition balances and fixes on the console port as an HDrelease like II had. "Soul Calibur III: AE HD" or something like that with online features.
For gameplay, the classic gameplay was nailed with Soul Calibur II and the modern more action oriented was better on SCV.
CAS you have SCIII with tons of movesets to choose and V has tons of customizations and with HEX edit you can even do crazy things like having a secret transformation for your character and have parts in places that shouldn't be there.
Even guest character V handled better than IV (II had Link for the gamecube for version godammit so it's moot point) as Ezio meshed better with the cast and was better balanced than the broken starkiller, Vader and Yoda who couldn't even be grabbed.

As for your Siegfried complain. He's far from being at Tira level but he's not good like Mitsurugi and Viola. He's shit at close range but his zoning is great. Has insane grab range and stances for different purposes. But he's a more defensive character and needs meter for damage.
If you're willing to know more I can upload the official guide for the game.

If you want, read the last thread I posted. We had a nice conversation about the mechanics, future and lore. And I'm up for any of those topics.


By the way the story of SCIV is that suddenly a huge tower appeared with Algol, the first man who used Soul Edge without going insane and the creator of Soul Calibur, wanting to rule the world or something like that. I think Mitsurugi busted his ass into sword limbo. Also Tira made Sophitia protect Soul Edge telling that if Soul Edge was destroyed, Pyrrha, who was a malfested, would die.

I mean, Siegfried is a more defensive character with tools for zoning and a better grab range while Nightmare you can go nuts since his damage and speed are so high but a wrong move and you're fucked. Both are pretty bad at close range.

i likd the oni girl and the edgelord with assless chaps, they were cool

shame this series is effectively toast, i'm sure we'll see it again in a couple years under the guise of a reboot

Fuck it, here's for everyone that have or might try SCV someday.

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