Soul Calibur V - Page 6

On February 04 2012 17:56 neoghaleon55 wrote:
Most of the complaint I've seen has been that they've removed some old fighting styles from the game
namely Zasalamel (friend of mine said it's like a horror story, where they killed off the black guy first! But he was suppose to be immortal and they still killed him off!!!)

That and a lack of story...
...seriously, complaining about story in a fighting game.
people need to learn that there are RPGs around.

On February 04 2012 23:43 Flicky wrote:


Soul Calibur has always been very popular for the single player though. As far as I'm concerned, this is the first iteration where a decent percentage of people were really interested in it for competitive multiplayer. Before then you had multiple branching storylines for every character with intro videos and ending videos and now you got whatever that Patroklos mode is which, let's be honest, forcing you to play one character in a fighting game (an annoying prick at that) is really dumb. Compared to what you used to have with Weapon Master, Chronicle of Souls, Story Modes and so on, I can fully understand the complaints.

Either way, I'm fiddling about with Tira after not being any good at her in 3. If I can't figure her out I'll go to Aeon. I got Nightmare to fall back on though. He's a badass. I'd quite like to try Omega Pyrrha if I can stomach playing through the story mode.

On February 05 2012 01:41 NIJ wrote:
The thing is competitive scene was better the further you take the series back.

On February 06 2012 13:15 MilesTeg wrote:


Was it? I had the impression that SC4 was the best in that regard. It's the first I played seriously though so I'mm not sure.

On February 06 2012 18:05 Brett wrote:

There was a very solid competitive scene built around Soul Calibur 2, I think it was pretty downhill from there.

This used to be an incredible series

On February 07 2012 14:37 NIJ wrote:
How is any of that any indicator that things are looking up. New game in the series having a boom in the beginning is totally not out of the norm and if it didn't happen it would indicate just how bad that game is for it to fail right from the beginning. You can release a garbage sequel and there's still SOME hype initially regardless of quality. Evo featuring is obvious when they just want to follow on the hype. It still remains to be seen if this game will stick around for the long haul.

On October 21 2011 02:19 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Why was SC4 considered the worst? I didn't really like it because of the poor online experience (significant lag in a game that's all about low/mid/high/sidestep mixups) but I'm curious to know what the reason is for most people. Hopefully it goes beyond the Star Wars hate which I think everyone pretty much agrees was terrible.

On February 06 2012 18:05 Brett wrote:

There was a very solid competitive scene built around Soul Calibur 2, I think it was pretty downhill from there.

This used to be an incredible series

On February 09 2012 04:24 Avean wrote:
Honestly there isnt a competetive scene in fighting games and never have been outside of Asia. There are so many fighting games spread on two different consoles. For any esports game to succeed there needs to be a common platform and focus for years like Starcraft, Starcraft 2 and Counter-Strike.

If i should focus on fighting games right now and win alot of money ? What would i do ? Buy Soul Calibur IV ? What about Mortal Kombat 9 ? Or Tekken 6 ? Or wait... Tekken 6 is going to be replaced by Tekken Tag 2 or what about Street Fighter IV ? No its going to be replaced by Street Fighter x Tekken. Did i mention Tekken x Street Fighter is coming also ? Confused yet ? haha

There is a tournament going to happen in Oslo, Norway soon. In Soul Calibur IV, but only PS3 so they are forgetting a whole another scene of gamers on Xbox360. I really cant take esports on console seriously cause of this.