I'm sure SC3 had great single player content, but as a fighting game it was irredeemably broken and single handedly nearly killed Soul Calibur in the fighting game community. Combine that with the fact that it was PS2 exclusive, effectively alienating 2/3 if the huge fan base that SC2 had garnered and ensuring all the forward momentum into the mainstream was rapidly killed, and I think it's safe to say SC3 is the worst game of the series in terms of the massive negative effect it had on the franchise's overall health.
kinda hurt that you said there isn’t much for SC3 when it had the most single player modes in any game. The character creation was amazing and the fact that you can use a custom weapon/moveset for that specific class is super cool imo. It gives your character a more original feel. The story modes were amazing and cool how can get different ending for each character
In 3 my Mitsurugi was God Tier. I wish the game had tournies for it and kept the free ranged of movement instead of becoming so rigid in later games. They did Mitsu so dirty when his double vertical slash that allowed him to move across the board in 3 was restricted toonly being used out of his stance. So limiting.
SC3 had a lot of quirky fun stuff and single player content which a lot of the Soul Calibur games kind of struggle with, it had the best character creator by far as well. He's way underrating it imo.
SC3 : Has 10 times the content of any SoulCalibur game "That's about it, not much to talk about" Heh, a little weird, didn't seem to give this one a proper chance
I 1000% agree. SC3 was always my favorite and i thought it had the best character creation with many different and unique classes you could use. for sure didn't get the spot light it deserved.
issack west It also has two ENORMOUS bugs. 2G breaks the entire game like awfully. Then there's the common file corruption. It just happens, for no reason.
The tales of souls is the best arcade mode in the series. It's a choose your own adventure mode! Granted all paths bring you back to the same ending, but no 2 adventures are exactly the same.
11:03 ''...and that's about it for modes.'' - said about the SoulCalibur game with the biggest number of modes. Tales of Souls being a ''straightforward story mode''? Yeah, no. You can actually take your characters through several different routes, and the story and the enemies you encounter are different for any fighter. You might meet bonus characters (Revenant) and random created characters (Assassin, Berserker, Keres...) and special characters (Will-o-the-Wisp, Night Terror). You might find the shortest way to the boss, or you might dive deep into the hidden labyrinth to unlock new stuff and get more money. Then, there is the whole Chronicles of the Sword mode which, while a bit sub-par in execution, gives you a whole story parallel to the main one, as well as stages with extra properties that you praised in SCII, such as a slippery stage, or a stage where your health decreases. Then, there is the Mission mode, a simplified version of the SCII Weapon Master, where you can fight in various different (and fun!) circumstances. I was always intrigued by that huge Hephaestus's statue, for example. There is also the shopkeeper level (they keep running around), the hot-potato stage, a spinning stage, etc. The Practice mode is probably the most detailed one in any SoulCalibur. There is the regular Arcade and VS (and you can also play on special stages). There is the (kind of random) Tournament mode. There is the Character Creation mode with ACTUAL NEW (and quite interesting, though admittedly underwhelming in terms of command list size) FIGHTING STYLES: So much stuff to unlock. The museum with battle exhibition, artwork, etc. And that's about it for modes.
If this youtuber is going to do a series where he plays every game in a series then he should actually give them all a fair shot and try to delve deep. Otherwise there's no point
You really did SC3 super dirty here. An Arcade and Tales of Souls is actually amazing (the latter having multiple endings per character depending on choices and QuickTime events), Chronicles of the Sword is by far the most creative thing to come out of the series with the RTS and incorptation of a long going story of armies and corruption. No word of the Coliseum with its special rules and boss fights. No mention that the character creator has 17 original sets of moves that don't belong to existing fighters separated into classes of RPG staple roles. No mention of usage of this extensive customization system to bring back legacy characters like Hwang and Arthur, and no mention of the fact that this Create-a-Soul mode has never been used ever again, as every other SC game just steals its moves from existing characters. Did you know this is the only SC where you can explicitly play as an old woman that can look the part? Also, Abyss isn't "basically Inferno," he's like a roided up Zasalamel meets Tekken 5 Jenpachi. Hearing that from you honestly makes me doubt you played the game at all, if longer than one session and a TV tropes skim.
Hm, I agree with all but your final point here. It's totally possible he just didn't feel the game, and so didn't play it fully, and that makes total sense as the souls series for me is great. But 2 is trash to me in nearly every way, and while I Did play it...even beat it once...I can in no way say I experienced the game like at all. Just trudged thru it, got it finally over with never to be played again. So if I were to review the whole series, that would be my weakest part, sadly. As I'd Have to do a bunch of internet research to tell ppl all about the game, and when I review a thing I just kinda..review my experience with it? Shrug.
@@kamenanew9867 The best things about 2 were the obvious: the intro and guest characters. Spawn is probably a lot cooler than any other guests outside of Darth Vader. Obviously, it looks a lot more appealing than SC1, like it is the game where Ivy and Taki became waifu's, so it definitely stepped the bar up at the time, but when people say it is definitively the best uncontested I feel like they definitely never played 3 or even 4 or 6: all 3 are probably a lot better, and I only really played the PS2 version, so my Link/Spawn experience is limited, and Heihachi wasn't special because Tekken 3, etc had far cooler characters like Ogre, Jin/Kazuya, Law, Bryan, I think even Eddie would have been funner.
Yeah, SC3 is definitely the best, I think Zasalamel transforming into Abyss is the closest we get to an inspiring boss outside of Nightmare becoming Night Terror, which is also in the game as the secret boss, so ironically every other SC game feels like actual whimpers. Did he ever try and fight Colossus or the challenges? The single player mode is literally the ONLY good Single player mode in the entire franchise. I was so damn addicted I couldn't really put it down. I made so many cool characters too, and I think overall they added a lot of good customization to standard characters in later games (allowing tattoos and items with custom placements is awesome), but they must have forgotten they cut all the extra movesets from 3 and so they too feel inferior. I think 2's intro is the best, but that's like the only thing any other game has over it.
@@Goblin_Hands I'd say the ps2 version is sadly the weakest. But I say sc2 is my personal favorite despite not.only.playing but also owning several others, some you mentioned. To me it's the combat. It was so fast and smooth, none of this special ultra win instantly moves, and with each game they tweak the combat some and to be honest I'm not a fan of the combat in several SC games. Maxi is all but ruined as is mitsirugi, they slowed them down and changed their combos to where they no longer play like they used to. So due to that 2 is still my favorite.
Kinda disappointed that you just didn’t give SC3 a chance. The story mode is superior to literally every other story mode in the series. It’s a choose your own adventure , has little quick time events that can give you an advantage in the next match, plus you can fight secret bosses if you make the right choices. Not to mention the in depth writing for each character and their paths .
Sorry that he didn't spend all fucking day playing some OK fighting game that he even admits he isn't the best at. Also qte are dumb and can go to hell. Nothing better than secret bosses that you'll never face unless you know the very specific path you have to go on to face them.
The soul calibur 3 chronicles of the sword mode will always be the coolest soul calibur thing ever. It felt like I was truly in the game, fighting my story. I played it hundreds, maybe a thousand hours just on chronicles of the sword, playing and replaying it. It made me actually want to get good at the game with every character, which I did, which was kinda pointless because none of my friends played it. I figured I would try and recapture the spark with 5, but was very disappointed. I made alot of friends online though, and we played it to death, fighting other online "clans" for months. I also became really good at zwei, and hated that his playstyle was gone in 6.
SC3 was my entire childhood. That game had so much single-player content in it for a fighting game of its time and even after its time. I spent a fuck-ton of time playing Chronicles of the Sword, trying to find all the different paths in the arcade mode to get the different story bits and all the different final bosses, trying to unlock all the cool extra characters (I still love Revenant and remake him in every game), and grinding for money to unlock all the extra character parts and weapons and gallery stuff. The created characters in the game also featured original movesets unique to them. Something no other game in the franchise has done and, for me, one of the coolest things about the game. I was really disappointed you just didn't give it the time of day because there's a lot to the game from a single-player perspective. Even if it was a bit clunky at times, and it was, it was still the most solid single-player experience in the whole series.
was watching this on the way to work, not only a fun listen but very interesting to listen to all the differences in the series as they refined their craft, cant wait for "I played every Metal Gear "!
Soulcalibur 3 also had some extra, slightly smaller moveset in regard to the custom characters but they were quite interesting also… like the thief knife moveset having a Shoryuken reference done with a bomb in hand lol. And it had bonus modes too like the Statue boss battle, coin battle, hot potato etc. it actually had quite a bit of single player content.
@@beegdawg We have a discord community that had made some modifications to the original SC3 game so it can play more closely to the AE version. It is still a work in progress. Feel free to check out the SC3 content on my channel!
My favorite was definitely SC2! Literally remember spending hours on it on my PS2 back in the day. Great video! Informative and very well put-together! I learned a lot about the series in general and it brought back some great memories!
Great video! A few months ago I started playing Soul Calibur VI and I fell in love with it to the point I started following the plot of my favorite characters and even played older titles such as SC IV!
Seigfried was one of my favorite characters, and sadly after Souledge, I sorta fell off from the series until Soul Calibur 2. Simply due to the fact that I recognized Taki, Cervantes, and the name Soul Edge. By the time I started playing Nightmare, I didn't even put 2 and 2 together, not until the Ending and after reading his Bio, which is were my mind was blown! The Tale of Souls and Swords never died. It was just on a New Chapter! :)
My first actually was soul calibur 3 so... I really loved it and it was my introdution. Love chronicles of souls too it was interesting and fun. Also opening of SC 3 is still one of my favs
The video was going strong until you just skated past SC3, if you didn’t like it that’s fine but I can promise you anyone who grew up or played the SC series as they came out will tell you SC3 is by far the best and strongest entry with its various modes, in-depth character story lines, create a character customization, the unlocks and that story game mode with your own create a character and much more.
SC3 has it's weaknesses in the glitches in the ps2 version of the game. Aside from that, I agree with you that it's an absolutely spectacular entry in the series.
@SpaceBoy I'm not a "new gamer". The glitches I was talking about regarding SC3 happened because it launched in arcades (in japan) and on consoles pretty much simultaneously. This is in contrast to the other games in the SoulCalibur series before that point, which launched on arcades for a while before being brought to consoles. The extra playtesting time in the arcades allowed the developers to find and fix glitches for the console releases. The idea is that there are more glitches in the home console SC3 than in the earlier home console SoulCalibur games because they didn't use the staggered arcade -> console release pattern that they did before.
I hated SC3 and I grew up playing all of them but honestly in my opinion soul caliburs was two before 6 came out and became the best game I honestly hated SC 3,4 and 5 they felt horrible Sc6 however is probably my favorite fighting game this gen
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that really favors Soul Calibur VI over the rest of the series. Yes, II is great and is my second favorite behind VI, but VI is a great game that deserves more praise.
SCIII Arcade Edition is probably my favorite entry in the series so I disagree with your take there lol, but otherwise I think this was a great retrospective! I really love this series and it feels good to know that others still do as well. SCVI apparently turned a profit and sold over 2 million units so it's likely to get a sequel. Only questions are when and if Bamco will give them a higher budget compared to what they had to work with in SCVI? Guess only time will tell but fingers crossed we see and Soul Calibur VII in the next few years!
I miss the cool modes and weapons from sc3 like grenade and knife style along with shape-shifting staff and kick edge. That said, I do agree sc6 plays better, is better balanced, and the creation mode is way better.
@@Niosai Although Soulcalibur 2 was my first game of the series, 3 has lots of nostalgia factor for me. I also loved the various challenge modes where you fight a huge statue, or chase after item store owners to defeat them. For me it had lots options to play. The story mode was also very fun with cutscenes keeping you alert ekle you are harmed etc. And 6, as you said, runs very smoothly and looks amazing. My biggest disappointment was story modes were still not animated but just images with texts like a VN. And hey, that's a fast reply :)
@@lillak8405 Are you talking about the pseudo-RTS mode in 3? And yeah, 6 seemed almost like it was on a shoestring budget in a way? It nailed the presentation, but you can tell they weren't able to put as many resources into the overall production value.
@@Niosai I was talking about the Missions tab under Soul Arena. There you can choose some unique bosses or missions like fighting Night Terror, or the Colossus statur on different difficulties. Yeah without time or budget constraints SC5 and SC6 would have been amazing.
Im honestly surprised on your take of SCIII being that overall its the most popular in the series and considered by the community to be the best one. Great video overall though i love seeing genuine fans of the series giving soulcal some much needed attention. My personal favorite is IV
@@crazycasey1ify615 yes about to say competitively wise soul Calibur 3 is inferior to sc2 they lowered the overall speed in sc3 Taki just doesn't feel as fast and since then Taki just hasn't been the same she's been missing some movesets since the early 2000s and even sc6 she no longer has them still they've been replaced with other ones that fit her ninja background but the character just doesn't move and fight as fluid as SC2
???? Soul Calibur 3 is widely regarded as the worst game in the series by the community. It's broken and buggy, its unplayable competitively and nearly killed the entire scene. It's also PS2 exclusive for some insane reason, alienating 2/3 of the fan base it established with the actual most popular game in the series, Soul Calibur II. I'm sure the story mode is great and all the single player content is grand, but SC3 is not considered a good game by the fighting game community.
SC2 is legendary to me. A very very very special place in my heart and especially its dungeon/single player content. I can clearly remember my time with that mode and how I litteraly played it with EVERY single character. I think I did 6-7 runs with kilik since he was my absolute favourite. Ahhh.. man. SC2 on the ps2 was just something else.. that’s why I’m sad that Sc6 is kind of dead online wise. Bamco completely abandoned it, so it will just die off completely. I really hope that they have a plan with it for the ps5 or something because this game doesn’t deserve to die off. It has the closest combat feeling I got from Tekken 7 and SC2 combined and that’s for a fighting game loving person like me, something very special to have. (Also started with Tekken 4 back in the day, so I’m kind of biased on these 2 games which are SC2 and T4 😋)
@@badwolf2386The original PS2 release had game breaking bugs yes. Made it competitively unviable. But the Arcade Release was good, it's just that very few arcades had it so no scene was built around it (according to veterans. I wasn't there at the time as I joined the FGC in 2009). Nowadays there is the Soul Calibur 3 Definitive Edition (Arcade Edition v1.20) mod of the ps2 game you can find online that fixes all of the bugs of the ps2 version, re-balances the game and adds the arcade exclusive characters into the home console version. It is even played competitively now 👍
I adored SC3 when I was a kid. I think the character creation was crazy fun. Used to love having a friend over where would press a bunch of random crap in the character creator and fight each other when we were done. I have some weird loving nostalgia for the RTS mode as well. I think it was because it appealed to my love of FF Tactics and Tactics Ogre and such. Great video man!
In the section where all 5 of the powerful female characters attack at one time I only had one character defending the area they attacked and I swept all 5. I don’t think I yelled “I DID IT” louder in my life
Soulcalibur 3 was the absolute peak of fighting games for me. I played the hell out of it and I loved it. Especially loved beating my grandma at this game!
SC6 is my first soulcalibur game that I have played and a lot of fun with. I really love the smooth gameplay and the characterization of each playable character and their stories. I felt SC6 is a good way to introduce newer players to the series and might encourage them to play the others one like it did with me. I really like SC3 and the amount of content it offered, I can understand why people consider it their favorite. Despite the gameplay being pretty frustrating for me to say the least I still had fun with it. Though I disagree with your viewpoint on SC3 I will give you this, SC3 is still to this day only available on the Playstation 2 or Emulation the game never received a re-release or a HD version like SC2 had. In the end of the day I hope SC6 shows Bandai Namco that the series is not dead and that their are newer and older players wanting to invested more into the series.
SC3 Chronicle of the Sword mode was never done better ever again. And having weapons not for a main character was awesome! Made your created character feel special.
Soul Calibur 2 for GC is probably my favorite fighting game of all time, and the one I put the most time in. But 6 is, in all honestly, probably the best in the series. Took them a while, but they got most everything right that they had experimented with in previous games--the most amount of story, probably the best character list other than SC2 GC version, refinement of the flashy finishers and other game mechanics, character creation, arcade mode...all of that, all together in one Soul Calibur game. They really got it right in 6.
Yes six is definitely the best in the series they brought back the speed of SC2 which I was quite happy with the only caveat I would say is that some characters don't feel as fluid as they do in CS2 like Taki she's missing some moves specifically the side stepping in SC2 they completely removed it after SC2 sc3 I didn't play enough of because they lower the speed but since then she doesn't have the side stepping slashing moves
Soul fan here since 1997, I still play all of them, mostly 4/5 and yes, nice video, tho SC3 is definitely one of the best. Subscribed. Thanks for this.
SoulCalibur 2 has SO MANY unlockables and extra modes. It’s easily the most content-rich game of the series. It stands in stark contrast to most modern games that are bare or remove these assets and resell them to you in the form of mtx.
Soulcalibur VI is not only a reboot, it tries to connect all the games of the series. Also, it makes the same thing that happened in Mortal Kombat franchise after Armageddon. In fact, Zasalamel receive a vision from his future self from Soulcalibur IV and so he decides to not die and change his plan. Also, Cassandra makes a confront with her future self from Soulcalibur IV too, because at the end of that game, Cassandra get swallowed in the Astral Chaos, travelling in various worlds, like Unbreakble Souls or Broken Destiny, warning finally her past self about what would happen to her family and her sister Sophitia. Also, thanks with the last update happened the last year, we have this mysterious character, Acht, who is nothing else that another version of Iska Farkas from Soulcalibur Legends and apparently a former comrade of Z.W.E.I. from Soulcalibur V. In fact it seems that Z.W.E.I. worked for Nightmare in this new timeline, but unfortunately will never know the truth since the project is over :(
so satisfying to see that everyone besides u appreciates sc3. just because the person has a youtube channel doesn’t make their opinion more valuable comes to mind.
@@Niosai they’re also correct :) the fact u ended off saying “it’s not really that memorable” and ur entire comment section destroyed u proves how invalid ur opinion is
@@ismaeeladams3524 I think the opinions of every single person in these comments is as valid as mine, yours included, friend. No need for negativity! :)
@SpaceBoy he didnt even know about the quick times events from Soul Calibur 3 it must be more easy to mee if he just say "i didnt player soul calibur 3 because i dont have ps2" than say this thing about soul calibur 3, the most unique and best soul calibur game
The Dreamcast was so amazing back in the day I thought it looked real. Mortal Kombat would be cool to cover or If you wanted to step away from fighting games metal gear solid and Resident evil are good choices either way I'm very excited to see what's next for the channel.
I grew up with Soul Calibur IV because of the Star Wars characters. That game holds a special place in my heart, it's also the only Soul Calibur I've really played before. Many memories were made with that game. Also I was hoping you'd mention KOS-MOS as a create a soul in Soul Calibur III, because I am also a huge Xenosaga fan. And then you did. I proceeded to get really excited that Xenosaga was acknowledged. One of my pipe dreams is that she'll show up again in another Soul Calibur, this time as an actual character. But yeah, amazing video. Really enjoyed it!
Sould Edge was my first one on ps1 played it so so much back in the day and loved every single one after but 5 was so disappointing to play. I would say 2 and 3 are the best ones
Nice vid,my favorite SC was Soul Calibur 3 (the reason is..you know, nostalgia). Btw,did you know that in Soul Blade and Soul Calibur 3 if you press certain button during the ending, the ending will be different?
@@Niosai Its not just pressing something for Soul Edge. In Mitsurugi's ending, you have to dodge the bullet, otherwise you'll get hit. I thing you also had to run up and attack him too.
@@Niosai HOW WHAT All of Soulcalibur 3's endings have button prompts you... you didn't actually play it did you? Honestly makes sense given how little you seemed to go into about that game
I actually really liked SC3 and the tales of souls and chronicles modes. They added content and reasons to unlock stuff, also they added my main Tira in it.
Thier needs to be a Soul Calibur ULTIMATE . Every SC notable original characters in the series . Special Guests Link, Spawn, Heiachi, Ezio, Kratos, Darth Vader, Yoda, Galen Marek ( Starkiller ) and Garalt
SC2 was my first Soul game as well. I was lucky (spoiled) enough to play it on all three consoles of the time, and I still own my GameCube and PS2 copies. SC3 is my favorite, though, and subjectively the best! Zasalamel, Setsuka, and Tira were so unique in their appearances and fighting styles, but they merged perfectly into the historical fantasy setting. The stages were beautiful. The music continued to be perfect. The engine ran smoothly. I was immensely disappointed with IV compared to III. None of the characters looked like their ethnicities, the costumes were ugly, (except Sophitia's gladiator costume which is amazing), the custom character system was trash, and the armor breakage mechanic was such a contrived excuse to hit people and watch their clothes fall off. Ever since IV was released under the Bandai-Namco banner, it's been my (salty) opinion that the former brand ruined the series. However, VI did pique my interest as it seemed like a return to the roots. I'd like to play it before it becomes obsolete.
I like some of the costumes in 4 (like Talim's, so cute in that big dumb hat) and the armor break mechanic was really cool! (Of course back then for horny reasons, let's be honest that's always been a big draw to the series) but also because it just makes the fights have more impact and seem more dynamic and badass.
Man, the nostalgia is strong. I put dozens and dozens of hours into II and III. I kind of dropped off after that, but I really want to pick up Soulcalibur VI after watching this. It looks awesome!
I'm kinda sad you didn't see the opening Intro video for SC3< that's one of their Best Openings, felt like an end to an era (in a way). But I can understand how you would miss that if your not fond of sitting through like 4 minutes of what feels like a Screen Saver before it finally cuts to Seigfried Plunging Soul Calibur into Soul Edge's Eye!
I actually cut out talking about the SC3 intro ): I don't remember why, but I definitely talked about it in the raw footage. It's not a bad opening, but it's also kinda long haha
SC2 was my first and favorite Soul Calibur. Played the gamecube version at my babysitters. Own the Xbox one now. 6 is a close second! 3 is awesome looking but I never played it. Also love SC4, and accept 5. But I think that's cuz I paid full price for them and forced myself to like them.
Soul Calibur 3... give it another chance please for the rpg mode they had. I remember making teams and custom characters for the time it was fun. And the story was more in depth than other modes toward the end.
Very insightful video! Didn't even know this many SC games existed. And didn't know it was called SoulEdge and SoulBlade before. I've only ever played 2, 3, 4 and 6. I skipped 5 probably for the best lol and would love to try the first game
I really enjoyed watching this. The Soul series is one of my all time fav gaming series and I own or have played every game except for those two mobile ones you showed and Legends. Also I don’t know if it was intentional or not but you left out the iOS and Xbox 360 versions of SoulCalibur 1 which removed Mission Battle mode but added HD resolutions and online leaderboards to the other modes. Also the digital release of SCII that added online play. It’s crazy because I played all of the games in order; SE Arcade, SB PS1, SC Arcade, and bought my Dreamcast & SC on Dreamcast launch. The Dreamcast version of SC was really the first time that the home console had firmly surpassed the Arcade version of a major game. Great video though, I really enjoyed it.
SC3 to me was the best. Especially Chronicles of the Sword mode. I would play that mode so much. Building up my characters. Challenging myself like if a chapter said you can have 4 characters I'd only use 3 or something. Plus I enjoyed building my characters HP up to Lv. 99. But the story itself was actually interesting. I will say that the game for the Wii... I played it and I was like meh. Its decent but nothing special. Never finished it
I would like to thank you for this video. I forgot how much I loved these games and I just bought 6. Every review for 6 I watched was talking either fighting game nonsense that I don't care about or the online being bad. To see someone inform me that the single player was good actually really made me want to buy it. Thanks 😊.
This guy really said Soulcalibur 3's story was meh Then turned around and said Soulcalibur 4's story was good SC4's story didn't tell the player much of anything except the final cutscenes and most of those are noncannon I know people say opinion's can't be wrong, but these are wrong Glad you had fun though
Stopped watching after SC III which IMO is still one of the best games in the franchise. It had a robust character creation, story mode, and granted Chronicle Mode was gimmicky, still highly enjoyable. Wish the newer games had as large a selection for character creation.
As a kid,seeing Vader and Spawn in a soulcalibur game take on Nightmare was something I never expected to see,but something that I found absolutely awesome and I loved.
Happy to discover you did a soul calibur video! I mostly watch your I played every anime game (Dragonball, Naruto ect) I love this franchise! Mostly because one of the main reasons I gotten into this game franchise was because of ivy Valentine lmao
I’ll be honest I was lil when I played soulcalibur 3 but I do remember I was intrigued and loved the RTS mode. I forgot about it growing up so thank you for reminding me about it after so long 😌your giving Sc3 a hard time. Play it some more
I'm binge watching your videos right now and loving it!! I know this is an older video but it just hit me, please play Virtua Fighter series and maybe Bloody Roar 🙏🏾
This was my first video in this series! Glad people are still enjoying them! I'll have to come back to SoulCalibur sometime! (Bloody Roar is also on the list 😎)
Soul Edge will always be underrated in my opinion Soul calibur 2 Great and was my favorite til Sould calibur 6 My favorite game in the entire series reminds me of Soul edge mixed with soul calibur 2 I like the game so much that it's the first soul calibur game I'd even put in front of Tekken or street fighter
i loved soulcalibur and tekken growing up and playing against my dad and little brother. i played so much of sc3 back in the day. esp chronicles of the sword,until one day i tried to play and my save file was corrupted. i found out only few yrs ago there was a bug that can be triggered if you do something like deleting other games from your memorycard lol
@@Niosai the custom characters wasnt the issue.i couldve started over and earned everything again pretty easy,but i played chronicles everyday staying up till 3 am and was obsessed lol losing all that sucked. despite that sc3 was always my favorite. i think ill play it all over again but def with a blank memory card this time
I found it pretty interesting to watch. Especially your comments on 3. Seems pretty common that most people think 3 is the best of the series, with 6 as a close 2nd. So your comments on both were interesting.
Yeah, I think my tastes might not align with the wider Soul Calibur community, and I actually grew up playing 3, but I do plan on revisiting it in another video sometime.
@@Niosai Since you plan to return to this series, I highly recommend this video ua-cam.com/video/CZK6TAZvWmw/v-deo.html It is a response to a hypothetical tekken 8 with a virtual figther evasion system, but at one point to make a comparison, mention why soul calibur III killed the franchise and it could never be recovered, and how soul calibur started from III It became a joke that no one takes seriously anymore. Good video, And don't be intimidated by SC III fans that their only argument is "muh more single player modes" ( Even though chronicles of the sword is crap) without questioning that the game base is poorly planted.
I loved the stats tied to clothes. I could make my character 170 attack and the rest at least 100 so it made the game easier and better for me. Idgaf about looks. What sold me was making my character stronger and better than main characters
As a Tekken guy at a very young age, when I saw another Namco fighting game in the arcade I was crazy hyped to jump into the series. Especially when I saw Yoshimitsu as a character. I was like "no way!", but also like "this makes sense!" haha. Completely forgot about SC Legends, always gave me Tekken 5: Devil Within vibes.
Soul Blade was my first PlayStation game and first video game ever! Soul blade has a special place in my heart. I was a huge fan Soul blade, Soulcalibur 2, and Soulcalibur 4. After reading some of the comments it looks like I missed out on SC3. I remember briefly playing it but never owning it.
People say SCIII is their favorite but I'll show myself as the minority since SCII is my favorite game, SCVI is really good too but I wish it had better netcode
I get your love for the series man but I think you're underating sc3 too Hard, well maybe it is because that was the game I played first, and I played it a TON it has a special place in my heart
What games should I cover next? Let me know in the comments!
Play every devil may cry game
All Dark Souls games
You should play every Tekken game
BlazBlue or Guilty Gear
Virtua Fighter
Take a drink everytime he says “Not much to say about it” and “That’s about it” in the SC3 section.
You’re doing the game dirty, man.
Game is shit
I'm so happy reading the comments. I love that everyone loves and respects Soul Calibre 3 as much as the next guy. I appreciate all of you.
Yeah right ? SC3 was so huge in term of content, and I think it may even be the fighting game with the most solo content.
Yeah, I love how the guy gets ratio'd in the comments regarding sc3
I'm sure SC3 had great single player content, but as a fighting game it was irredeemably broken and single handedly nearly killed Soul Calibur in the fighting game community. Combine that with the fact that it was PS2 exclusive, effectively alienating 2/3 if the huge fan base that SC2 had garnered and ensuring all the forward momentum into the mainstream was rapidly killed, and I think it's safe to say SC3 is the worst game of the series in terms of the massive negative effect it had on the franchise's overall health.
Same
@@badwolf2386
A huge majority of Soul Calibur fans only remember that the series exists because of 3, so you are clearly wrong.
kinda hurt that you said there isn’t much for SC3 when it had the most single player modes in any game. The character creation was amazing and the fact that you can use a custom weapon/moveset for that specific class is super cool imo. It gives your character a more original feel. The story modes were amazing and cool how can get different ending for each character
I completely agree! Might be the the apex of the series.
I was gonna say too SC3 was dope, usually the 3rd in a series is dope so, idek why he said that also
SC3 was the best, and i loved the single player
In 3 my Mitsurugi was God Tier. I wish the game had tournies for it and kept the free ranged of movement instead of becoming so rigid in later games. They did Mitsu so dirty when his double vertical slash that allowed him to move across the board in 3 was restricted toonly being used out of his stance. So limiting.
THANK YOU!
I play the games of this franchise since the every beginning SoulEdge, my favorite one will always be SC3.
Here, Here! Old School Soul Edge player myself! Even bought a copy to replace the old one I lost from the 90s. :)
SC3 had a lot of quirky fun stuff and single player content which a lot of the Soul Calibur games kind of struggle with, it had the best character creator by far as well. He's way underrating it imo.
@@KirbyGotenksabsorbed maybe because is a ps2 exclusive, but you're right Sc3 is great.
Same! SC3 had the best roster. Li Long is the shit in that game!
almost thought I was the only one whose favorite was always SC3, glad to see I'm not alone
SC3 : Has 10 times the content of any SoulCalibur game
"That's about it, not much to talk about"
Heh, a little weird, didn't seem to give this one a proper chance
Agreed
I 1000% agree. SC3 was always my favorite and i thought it had the best character creation with many different and unique classes you could use. for sure didn't get the spot light it deserved.
issack west It also has two ENORMOUS bugs. 2G breaks the entire game like awfully. Then there's the common file corruption. It just happens, for no reason.
The tales of souls is the best arcade mode in the series. It's a choose your own adventure mode! Granted all paths bring you back to the same ending, but no 2 adventures are exactly the same.
@@ROYBGP Oh wow, i grew up playing it on ps2 and never had any file corruption issues.
11:03 ''...and that's about it for modes.'' - said about the SoulCalibur game with the biggest number of modes. Tales of Souls being a ''straightforward story mode''? Yeah, no. You can actually take your characters through several different routes, and the story and the enemies you encounter are different for any fighter. You might meet bonus characters (Revenant) and random created characters (Assassin, Berserker, Keres...) and special characters (Will-o-the-Wisp, Night Terror). You might find the shortest way to the boss, or you might dive deep into the hidden labyrinth to unlock new stuff and get more money.
Then, there is the whole Chronicles of the Sword mode which, while a bit sub-par in execution, gives you a whole story parallel to the main one, as well as stages with extra properties that you praised in SCII, such as a slippery stage, or a stage where your health decreases.
Then, there is the Mission mode, a simplified version of the SCII Weapon Master, where you can fight in various different (and fun!) circumstances. I was always intrigued by that huge Hephaestus's statue, for example. There is also the shopkeeper level (they keep running around), the hot-potato stage, a spinning stage, etc.
The Practice mode is probably the most detailed one in any SoulCalibur.
There is the regular Arcade and VS (and you can also play on special stages).
There is the (kind of random) Tournament mode.
There is the Character Creation mode with ACTUAL NEW (and quite interesting, though admittedly underwhelming in terms of command list size) FIGHTING STYLES:
So much stuff to unlock.
The museum with battle exhibition, artwork, etc.
And that's about it for modes.
Damn, you shoulda done the sc review 🤧🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
If this youtuber is going to do a series where he plays every game in a series then he should actually give them all a fair shot and try to delve deep. Otherwise there's no point
Yawn
You really did SC3 super dirty here. An Arcade and Tales of Souls is actually amazing (the latter having multiple endings per character depending on choices and QuickTime events), Chronicles of the Sword is by far the most creative thing to come out of the series with the RTS and incorptation of a long going story of armies and corruption. No word of the Coliseum with its special rules and boss fights. No mention that the character creator has 17 original sets of moves that don't belong to existing fighters separated into classes of RPG staple roles. No mention of usage of this extensive customization system to bring back legacy characters like Hwang and Arthur, and no mention of the fact that this Create-a-Soul mode has never been used ever again, as every other SC game just steals its moves from existing characters.
Did you know this is the only SC where you can explicitly play as an old woman that can look the part?
Also, Abyss isn't "basically Inferno," he's like a roided up Zasalamel meets Tekken 5 Jenpachi.
Hearing that from you honestly makes me doubt you played the game at all, if longer than one session and a TV tropes skim.
Hm, I agree with all but your final point here.
It's totally possible he just didn't feel the game, and so didn't play it fully, and that makes total sense as the souls series for me is great. But 2 is trash to me in nearly every way, and while I Did play it...even beat it once...I can in no way say I experienced the game like at all. Just trudged thru it, got it finally over with never to be played again. So if I were to review the whole series, that would be my weakest part, sadly. As I'd Have to do a bunch of internet research to tell ppl all about the game, and when I review a thing I just kinda..review my experience with it? Shrug.
@@kamenanew9867 The best things about 2 were the obvious: the intro and guest characters. Spawn is probably a lot cooler than any other guests outside of Darth Vader. Obviously, it looks a lot more appealing than SC1, like it is the game where Ivy and Taki became waifu's, so it definitely stepped the bar up at the time, but when people say it is definitively the best uncontested I feel like they definitely never played 3 or even 4 or 6: all 3 are probably a lot better, and I only really played the PS2 version, so my Link/Spawn experience is limited, and Heihachi wasn't special because Tekken 3, etc had far cooler characters like Ogre, Jin/Kazuya, Law, Bryan, I think even Eddie would have been funner.
Yeah, SC3 is definitely the best, I think Zasalamel transforming into Abyss is the closest we get to an inspiring boss outside of Nightmare becoming Night Terror, which is also in the game as the secret boss, so ironically every other SC game feels like actual whimpers. Did he ever try and fight Colossus or the challenges? The single player mode is literally the ONLY good Single player mode in the entire franchise. I was so damn addicted I couldn't really put it down. I made so many cool characters too, and I think overall they added a lot of good customization to standard characters in later games (allowing tattoos and items with custom placements is awesome), but they must have forgotten they cut all the extra movesets from 3 and so they too feel inferior.
I think 2's intro is the best, but that's like the only thing any other game has over it.
@@Goblin_Hands I'd say the ps2 version is sadly the weakest. But I say sc2 is my personal favorite despite not.only.playing but also owning several others, some you mentioned. To me it's the combat. It was so fast and smooth, none of this special ultra win instantly moves, and with each game they tweak the combat some and to be honest I'm not a fan of the combat in several SC games. Maxi is all but ruined as is mitsirugi, they slowed them down and changed their combos to where they no longer play like they used to. So due to that 2 is still my favorite.
#ihearyoubutsoulcalibur2dustedeverygamebe4andafterinmyopinion
Kinda disappointed that you just didn’t give SC3 a chance. The story mode is superior to literally every other story mode in the series. It’s a choose your own adventure , has little quick time events that can give you an advantage in the next match, plus you can fight secret bosses if you make the right choices. Not to mention the in depth writing for each character and their paths .
Yeh you can tell that he just finish the few maps and thats about it
Yep definitely da best ever
I “played” every soulcalibur game
Sorry that he didn't spend all fucking day playing some OK fighting game that he even admits he isn't the best at. Also qte are dumb and can go to hell. Nothing better than secret bosses that you'll never face unless you know the very specific path you have to go on to face them.
Sc3 is ok.
The soul calibur 3 chronicles of the sword mode will always be the coolest soul calibur thing ever. It felt like I was truly in the game, fighting my story. I played it hundreds, maybe a thousand hours just on chronicles of the sword, playing and replaying it. It made me actually want to get good at the game with every character, which I did, which was kinda pointless because none of my friends played it.
I figured I would try and recapture the spark with 5, but was very disappointed. I made alot of friends online though, and we played it to death, fighting other online "clans" for months. I also became really good at zwei, and hated that his playstyle was gone in 6.
SC3 was my entire childhood. That game had so much single-player content in it for a fighting game of its time and even after its time. I spent a fuck-ton of time playing Chronicles of the Sword, trying to find all the different paths in the arcade mode to get the different story bits and all the different final bosses, trying to unlock all the cool extra characters (I still love Revenant and remake him in every game), and grinding for money to unlock all the extra character parts and weapons and gallery stuff. The created characters in the game also featured original movesets unique to them. Something no other game in the franchise has done and, for me, one of the coolest things about the game. I was really disappointed you just didn't give it the time of day because there's a lot to the game from a single-player perspective. Even if it was a bit clunky at times, and it was, it was still the most solid single-player experience in the whole series.
was watching this on the way to work, not only a fun listen but very interesting to listen to all the differences in the series as they refined their craft, cant wait for "I played every Metal Gear "!
Yes, the project I definitely am working on.
I played every Yakuza
I played every Super Smash Bros
@@Niosai
Damn, this video is garbage, you've done SC3 dirty, this is the first and last video i watch of this channel.
SC2 was my first Soulcaliber and SC3 is probably my favorite of the series.
Soulcalibur 3 also had some extra, slightly smaller moveset in regard to the custom characters but they were quite interesting also… like the thief knife moveset having a Shoryuken reference done with a bomb in hand lol. And it had bonus modes too like the Statue boss battle, coin battle, hot potato etc. it actually had quite a bit of single player content.
@@beegdawg We have a discord community that had made some modifications to the original SC3 game so it can play more closely to the AE version. It is still a work in progress. Feel free to check out the SC3 content on my channel!
@@TruLuan definitely will b
My favorite was definitely SC2! Literally remember spending hours on it on my PS2 back in the day.
Great video! Informative and very well put-together! I learned a lot about the series in general and it brought back some great memories!
Great video! A few months ago I started playing Soul Calibur VI and I fell in love with it to the point I started following the plot of my favorite characters and even played older titles such as SC IV!
Seigfried was one of my favorite characters, and sadly after Souledge, I sorta fell off from the series until Soul Calibur 2. Simply due to the fact that I recognized Taki, Cervantes, and the name Soul Edge. By the time I started playing Nightmare, I didn't even put 2 and 2 together, not until the Ending and after reading his Bio, which is were my mind was blown! The Tale of Souls and Swords never died. It was just on a New Chapter! :)
My first actually was soul calibur 3 so... I really loved it and it was my introdution. Love chronicles of souls too it was interesting and fun. Also opening of SC 3 is still one of my favs
The video was going strong until you just skated past SC3, if you didn’t like it that’s fine but I can promise you anyone who grew up or played the SC series as they came out will tell you SC3 is by far the best and strongest entry with its various modes, in-depth character story lines, create a character customization, the unlocks and that story game mode with your own create a character and much more.
SC3 has it's weaknesses in the glitches in the ps2 version of the game. Aside from that, I agree with you that it's an absolutely spectacular entry in the series.
@SpaceBoy I'm not a "new gamer".
The glitches I was talking about regarding SC3 happened because it launched in arcades (in japan) and on consoles pretty much simultaneously. This is in contrast to the other games in the SoulCalibur series before that point, which launched on arcades for a while before being brought to consoles. The extra playtesting time in the arcades allowed the developers to find and fix glitches for the console releases.
The idea is that there are more glitches in the home console SC3 than in the earlier home console SoulCalibur games because they didn't use the staggered arcade -> console release pattern that they did before.
I didn't even grow up with SC3 but I was blown away by its content when I first played it.
I hated SC3 and I grew up playing all of them but honestly in my opinion soul caliburs was two before 6 came out and became the best game I honestly hated SC 3,4 and 5 they felt horrible Sc6 however is probably my favorite fighting game this gen
stop stating your own opinion as fact, a lot of people disliked SC3 and its a joke in the competitive scene.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that really favors Soul Calibur VI over the rest of the series. Yes, II is great and is my second favorite behind VI, but VI is a great game that deserves more praise.
6 is good, but... different. And that's why a lot of fans are conflicted about it. It's very different from 1-4
My ownly gripe with six is that that character creation should have had its own movesets like it did 3.
I hope sc7 gets more stuff. I'll always buy the new SC games cause I love them, but it would be nice to have more
@@TheMeremoth I hope we even get an SC7 at this point
Soul calibur 3 was hands down the best story mode and the best arcade mode
SCIII Arcade Edition is probably my favorite entry in the series so I disagree with your take there lol, but otherwise I think this was a great retrospective! I really love this series and it feels good to know that others still do as well. SCVI apparently turned a profit and sold over 2 million units so it's likely to get a sequel. Only questions are when and if Bamco will give them a higher budget compared to what they had to work with in SCVI? Guess only time will tell but fingers crossed we see and Soul Calibur VII in the next few years!
I miss the cool modes and weapons from sc3 like grenade and knife style along with shape-shifting staff and kick edge. That said, I do agree sc6 plays better, is better balanced, and the creation mode is way better.
I remember spending hundreds of hour playing SC 3. That game was ahead of its time.
Very nice video! As a fan of this series I really loved it. Soulcalibur III is and VI are my favorites.
Thanks! I'm probably gonna eventually come back and redo this video to give 3 more of a fair shake, but what is it you like about them?
@@Niosai Although Soulcalibur 2 was my first game of the series, 3 has lots of nostalgia factor for me. I also loved the various challenge modes where you fight a huge statue, or chase after item store owners to defeat them. For me it had lots options to play. The story mode was also very fun with cutscenes keeping you alert ekle you are harmed etc.
And 6, as you said, runs very smoothly and looks amazing. My biggest disappointment was story modes were still not animated but just images with texts like a VN.
And hey, that's a fast reply :)
@@lillak8405 Are you talking about the pseudo-RTS mode in 3? And yeah, 6 seemed almost like it was on a shoestring budget in a way? It nailed the presentation, but you can tell they weren't able to put as many resources into the overall production value.
@@Niosai I was talking about the Missions tab under Soul Arena. There you can choose some unique bosses or missions like fighting Night Terror, or the Colossus statur on different difficulties.
Yeah without time or budget constraints SC5 and SC6 would have been amazing.
Soulcaliber 2 was one of my all time favorite games.
You crazy bro, 3 is the best one from the series with the most content in it.
Im honestly surprised on your take of SCIII being that overall its the most popular in the series and considered by the community to be the best one.
Great video overall though i love seeing genuine fans of the series giving soulcal some much needed attention.
My personal favorite is IV
Soul Calibur 2 is the most popular one in the series
@@crazycasey1ify615 yes about to say competitively wise soul Calibur 3 is inferior to sc2 they lowered the overall speed in sc3 Taki just doesn't feel as fast and since then Taki just hasn't been the same she's been missing some movesets since the early 2000s and even sc6 she no longer has them still they've been replaced with other ones that fit her ninja background but the character just doesn't move and fight as fluid as SC2
@@Ziyoblader agree.
???? Soul Calibur 3 is widely regarded as the worst game in the series by the community. It's broken and buggy, its unplayable competitively and nearly killed the entire scene. It's also PS2 exclusive for some insane reason, alienating 2/3 of the fan base it established with the actual most popular game in the series, Soul Calibur II. I'm sure the story mode is great and all the single player content is grand, but SC3 is not considered a good game by the fighting game community.
@@badwolf2386 thanks for saying what 3 other people already said nearly 2 months after the fact. Good job
SC2 is legendary to me. A very very very special place in my heart and especially its dungeon/single player content.
I can clearly remember my time with that mode and how I litteraly played it with EVERY single character. I think I did 6-7 runs with kilik since he was my absolute favourite.
Ahhh.. man. SC2 on the ps2 was just something else..
that’s why I’m sad that Sc6 is kind of dead online wise. Bamco completely abandoned it, so it will just die off completely.
I really hope that they have a plan with it for the ps5 or something because this game doesn’t deserve to die off. It has the closest combat feeling I got from Tekken 7 and SC2 combined and that’s for a fighting game loving person like me, something very special to have.
(Also started with Tekken 4 back in the day, so I’m kind of biased on these 2 games which are SC2 and T4 😋)
SC3 is the best in the series, no argument. The RTS of CotS is amazing.
Well, the best single player anyway
The single player may have been fun, but as a fighting game it is far and away the worst of the series and nearly killed the franchise.
@@badwolf2386The original PS2 release had game breaking bugs yes. Made it competitively unviable. But the Arcade Release was good, it's just that very few arcades had it so no scene was built around it (according to veterans. I wasn't there at the time as I joined the FGC in 2009).
Nowadays there is the Soul Calibur 3 Definitive Edition (Arcade Edition v1.20) mod of the ps2 game you can find online that fixes all of the bugs of the ps2 version, re-balances the game and adds the arcade exclusive characters into the home console version. It is even played competitively now 👍
This was a FIRE recap and trip down memory lane. Nice work and cant wait to see all the HEAT you put out. SUBBED
I adored SC3 when I was a kid. I think the character creation was crazy fun. Used to love having a friend over where would press a bunch of random crap in the character creator and fight each other when we were done. I have some weird loving nostalgia for the RTS mode as well. I think it was because it appealed to my love of FF Tactics and Tactics Ogre and such. Great video man!
Soulcalibur 3 is my personal favorite and i think its the best one. There's so much to do and the soundtrack was filled with bangers.
Sc3 is always going to be my fav because in the rts area is my most clutch gaming moment of my life
In the section where all 5 of the powerful female characters attack at one time I only had one character defending the area they attacked and I swept all 5. I don’t think I yelled “I DID IT” louder in my life
SC3's Chronicles of the Sword is easily the best mode in a SC game. I love SC2 as well but 3 is my favorite.
I'm not gonna lie- not only was I obsessed with Soul Blade when it came out for PS1- I unashamedly loved the intro
Soulcalibur 3 was the absolute peak of fighting games for me. I played the hell out of it and I loved it. Especially loved beating my grandma at this game!
I think grandma was holding back 🤨
@@Niosai nah man we kept playing on that clocktower like map (i think??) surrounded by water and i kept ringing her out with down combos 💀
SC6 is my first soulcalibur game that I have played and a lot of fun with. I really love the smooth gameplay and the characterization of each playable character and their stories. I felt SC6 is a good way to introduce newer players to the series and might encourage them to play the others one like it did with me.
I really like SC3 and the amount of content it offered, I can understand why people consider it their favorite. Despite the gameplay being pretty frustrating for me to say the least I still had fun with it. Though I disagree with your viewpoint on SC3 I will give you this, SC3 is still to this day only available on the Playstation 2 or Emulation the game never received a re-release or a HD version like SC2 had.
In the end of the day I hope SC6 shows Bandai Namco that the series is not dead and that their are newer and older players wanting to invested more into the series.
SC3 Chronicle of the Sword mode was never done better ever again. And having weapons not for a main character was awesome! Made your created character feel special.
Soul Calibur 2 for GC is probably my favorite fighting game of all time, and the one I put the most time in. But 6 is, in all honestly, probably the best in the series. Took them a while, but they got most everything right that they had experimented with in previous games--the most amount of story, probably the best character list other than SC2 GC version, refinement of the flashy finishers and other game mechanics, character creation, arcade mode...all of that, all together in one Soul Calibur game. They really got it right in 6.
Yes six is definitely the best in the series they brought back the speed of SC2 which I was quite happy with the only caveat I would say is that some characters don't feel as fluid as they do in CS2 like Taki she's missing some moves specifically the side stepping in SC2 they completely removed it after SC2 sc3 I didn't play enough of because they lower the speed but since then she doesn't have the side stepping slashing moves
@@Ziyoblader use periods
Very true
Fun video. Hype for the Taki vs Mitsurugi video it sounds really cool
Oh shoot I totally forgot to do that. I need to get on that lmao
Soul fan here since 1997, I still play all of them, mostly 4/5 and yes, nice video, tho SC3 is definitely one of the best. Subscribed. Thanks for this.
Awesome. I enjoyed this video!
SoulCalibur 2 has SO MANY unlockables and extra modes. It’s easily the most content-rich game of the series. It stands in stark contrast to most modern games that are bare or remove these assets and resell them to you in the form of mtx.
Soulcalibur VI is not only a reboot, it tries to connect all the games of the series. Also, it makes the same thing that happened in Mortal Kombat franchise after Armageddon. In fact, Zasalamel receive a vision from his future self from Soulcalibur IV and so he decides to not die and change his plan. Also, Cassandra makes a confront with her future self from Soulcalibur IV too, because at the end of that game, Cassandra get swallowed in the Astral Chaos, travelling in various worlds, like Unbreakble Souls or Broken Destiny, warning finally her past self about what would happen to her family and her sister Sophitia. Also, thanks with the last update happened the last year, we have this mysterious character, Acht, who is nothing else that another version of Iska Farkas from Soulcalibur Legends and apparently a former comrade of Z.W.E.I. from Soulcalibur V. In fact it seems that Z.W.E.I. worked for Nightmare in this new timeline, but unfortunately will never know the truth since the project is over :(
Chronicles of the Sword still my favourite solo game mod in the souls games, it was so fun to play back in the day,I miss this game mode
Well done! I know how long this took and how much time you put into it. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as you've enjoyed making it. :)
so satisfying to see that everyone besides u appreciates sc3. just because the person has a youtube channel doesn’t make their opinion more valuable comes to mind.
I'm glad people are so passionate about the games they love. :)
@@Niosai they’re also correct :) the fact u ended off saying “it’s not really that memorable” and ur entire comment section destroyed u proves how invalid ur opinion is
@@ismaeeladams3524 I think the opinions of every single person in these comments is as valid as mine, yours included, friend. No need for negativity! :)
@SpaceBoy he didnt even know about the quick times events from Soul Calibur 3
it must be more easy to mee if he just say "i didnt player soul calibur 3 because i dont have ps2" than say this thing about soul calibur 3, the most unique and best soul calibur game
The Dreamcast was so amazing back in the day I thought it looked real. Mortal Kombat would be cool to cover or If you wanted to step away from fighting games metal gear solid and Resident evil are good choices either way I'm very excited to see what's next for the channel.
Soul Calibur 3 bro, lemme tell you that rts was like my favorite thing to do when i was little
WOW lmao Soul Calibur 3 was my absolute favorite. Best music for me too
I grew up with Soul Calibur IV because of the Star Wars characters. That game holds a special place in my heart, it's also the only Soul Calibur I've really played before. Many memories were made with that game.
Also I was hoping you'd mention KOS-MOS as a create a soul in Soul Calibur III, because I am also a huge Xenosaga fan. And then you did. I proceeded to get really excited that Xenosaga was acknowledged. One of my pipe dreams is that she'll show up again in another Soul Calibur, this time as an actual character.
But yeah, amazing video. Really enjoyed it!
Sould Edge was my first one on ps1 played it so so much back in the day and loved every single one after but 5 was so disappointing to play. I would say 2 and 3 are the best ones
NGL this is some really great content, found this on a random search about soul caliber and definitely keeping an eye on what you release next man!
Nice vid,my favorite SC was Soul Calibur 3 (the reason is..you know, nostalgia).
Btw,did you know that in Soul Blade and Soul Calibur 3 if you press certain button during the ending, the ending will be different?
I didn't know this O:
@@Niosai Its not just pressing something for Soul Edge. In Mitsurugi's ending, you have to dodge the bullet, otherwise you'll get hit. I thing you also had to run up and attack him too.
@@Niosai HOW WHAT
All of Soulcalibur 3's endings have button prompts
you... you didn't actually play it did you?
Honestly makes sense given how little you seemed to go into about that game
@@sirrealgaming6913 The dude skipped on SC3 when there's so much content to talk about smh
Hwang coming back was such a shock. I’m so glad they brought back an old character who hadn’t been seen for so long
I actually really liked SC3 and the tales of souls and chronicles modes. They added content and reasons to unlock stuff, also they added my main Tira in it.
The amount of respect for SC3 in the comments makes me very happy, it's the best SC to me! 🙏💗Love your videos though!!
The best SC game is SCIII and nothing can change my mind
Thier needs to be a Soul Calibur ULTIMATE
. Every SC notable original characters in the series
. Special Guests Link, Spawn, Heiachi, Ezio, Kratos, Darth Vader, Yoda, Galen Marek ( Starkiller ) and Garalt
SC2 was my first Soul game as well. I was lucky (spoiled) enough to play it on all three consoles of the time, and I still own my GameCube and PS2 copies. SC3 is my favorite, though, and subjectively the best! Zasalamel, Setsuka, and Tira were so unique in their appearances and fighting styles, but they merged perfectly into the historical fantasy setting. The stages were beautiful. The music continued to be perfect. The engine ran smoothly. I was immensely disappointed with IV compared to III. None of the characters looked like their ethnicities, the costumes were ugly, (except Sophitia's gladiator costume which is amazing), the custom character system was trash, and the armor breakage mechanic was such a contrived excuse to hit people and watch their clothes fall off. Ever since IV was released under the Bandai-Namco banner, it's been my (salty) opinion that the former brand ruined the series. However, VI did pique my interest as it seemed like a return to the roots. I'd like to play it before it becomes obsolete.
I like some of the costumes in 4 (like Talim's, so cute in that big dumb hat) and the armor break mechanic was really cool! (Of course back then for horny reasons, let's be honest that's always been a big draw to the series) but also because it just makes the fights have more impact and seem more dynamic and badass.
Man, the nostalgia is strong. I put dozens and dozens of hours into II and III. I kind of dropped off after that, but I really want to pick up Soulcalibur VI after watching this. It looks awesome!
I'm kinda sad you didn't see the opening Intro video for SC3< that's one of their Best Openings, felt like an end to an era (in a way).
But I can understand how you would miss that if your not fond of sitting through like 4 minutes of what feels like a Screen Saver before it finally cuts to Seigfried Plunging Soul Calibur into Soul Edge's Eye!
I actually cut out talking about the SC3 intro ): I don't remember why, but I definitely talked about it in the raw footage. It's not a bad opening, but it's also kinda long haha
SC2 was my first and favorite Soul Calibur.
Played the gamecube version at my babysitters. Own the Xbox one now.
6 is a close second! 3 is awesome looking but I never played it.
Also love SC4, and accept 5. But I think that's cuz I paid full price for them and forced myself to like them.
Soul Calibur 3... give it another chance please for the rpg mode they had. I remember making teams and custom characters for the time it was fun. And the story was more in depth than other modes toward the end.
Very insightful video! Didn't even know this many SC games existed. And didn't know it was called SoulEdge and SoulBlade before. I've only ever played 2, 3, 4 and 6. I skipped 5 probably for the best lol and would love to try the first game
How about a video for the tekken games?
I really enjoyed watching this. The Soul series is one of my all time fav gaming series and I own or have played every game except for those two mobile ones you showed and Legends. Also I don’t know if it was intentional or not but you left out the iOS and Xbox 360 versions of SoulCalibur 1 which removed Mission Battle mode but added HD resolutions and online leaderboards to the other modes. Also the digital release of SCII that added online play.
It’s crazy because I played all of the games in order; SE Arcade, SB PS1, SC Arcade, and bought my Dreamcast & SC on Dreamcast launch. The Dreamcast version of SC was really the first time that the home console had firmly surpassed the Arcade version of a major game. Great video though, I really enjoyed it.
SC3 to me was the best. Especially Chronicles of the Sword mode. I would play that mode so much. Building up my characters. Challenging myself like if a chapter said you can have 4 characters I'd only use 3 or something. Plus I enjoyed building my characters HP up to Lv. 99. But the story itself was actually interesting. I will say that the game for the Wii... I played it and I was like meh. Its decent but nothing special. Never finished it
I would like to thank you for this video. I forgot how much I loved these games and I just bought 6. Every review for 6 I watched was talking either fighting game nonsense that I don't care about or the online being bad. To see someone inform me that the single player was good actually really made me want to buy it. Thanks 😊.
This guy really said Soulcalibur 3's story was meh
Then turned around and said Soulcalibur 4's story was good
SC4's story didn't tell the player much of anything except the final cutscenes and most of those are noncannon
I know people say opinion's can't be wrong, but these are wrong
Glad you had fun though
MMMM that Soul Calibur II intro music at the start. Nostalgia overload right there.
everyone who actually played this series knows SC3 has the best single player.
Agreed.
I think soul calibur 2 was such a great game due to all the different platform characters, link was amazing in it
Stopped watching after SC III which IMO is still one of the best games in the franchise. It had a robust character creation, story mode, and granted Chronicle Mode was gimmicky, still highly enjoyable. Wish the newer games had as large a selection for character creation.
Great showcase video, nice job man!
Your channel deserves the hype and growth it's getting. Keep giving good reviews man.
I appreciate that a lot 😁
As soon as he starting talking about how SC3 was underwhelming I scrolled down to the comments
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As a kid,seeing Vader and Spawn in a soulcalibur game take on Nightmare was something I never expected to see,but something that I found absolutely awesome and I loved.
Happy to discover you did a soul calibur video! I mostly watch your I played every anime game (Dragonball, Naruto ect) I love this franchise! Mostly because one of the main reasons I gotten into this game franchise was because of ivy Valentine lmao
Not only did I make a Soulcalibur video, I remade it super recently and the new one is WAY better!
I’ll be honest I was lil when I played soulcalibur 3 but I do remember I was intrigued and loved the RTS mode. I forgot about it growing up so thank you for reminding me about it after so long 😌your giving Sc3 a hard time. Play it some more
I'm binge watching your videos right now and loving it!! I know this is an older video but it just hit me, please play Virtua Fighter series and maybe Bloody Roar 🙏🏾
This was my first video in this series! Glad people are still enjoying them! I'll have to come back to SoulCalibur sometime! (Bloody Roar is also on the list 😎)
@@Niosai Bloody Roar needs a comeback , I'll take any form! HD port/ remaster/remake/reboot/ sequel! Anything! haha
Soul Edge will always be underrated in my opinion
Soul calibur 2 Great and was my favorite til
Sould calibur 6 My favorite game in the entire series reminds me of Soul edge mixed with soul calibur 2 I like the game so much that it's the first soul calibur game I'd even put in front of Tekken or street fighter
I looked at the title and I was already like "wow this guy deserves subs"
I thought SC4 was my first game until you showed that RTS mode from SC3. I remember playing and liking it back then.
Thank you, this has been nostalgic for me.
i loved soulcalibur and tekken growing up and playing against my dad and little brother. i played so much of sc3 back in the day. esp chronicles of the sword,until one day i tried to play and my save file was corrupted. i found out only few yrs ago there was a bug that can be triggered if you do something like deleting other games from your memorycard lol
I never ran into that but but that would really suck if you had a bunch of custom characters ):
@@Niosai the custom characters wasnt the issue.i couldve started over and earned everything again pretty easy,but i played chronicles everyday staying up till 3 am and was obsessed lol losing all that sucked. despite that sc3 was always my favorite. i think ill play it all over again but def with a blank memory card this time
Chronicle of the Sword will always be my favorite thing.
"Equal footing"
Inferno would like a word with you with his insane overpoweredness
I found it pretty interesting to watch. Especially your comments on 3. Seems pretty common that most people think 3 is the best of the series, with 6 as a close 2nd. So your comments on both were interesting.
Yeah, I think my tastes might not align with the wider Soul Calibur community, and I actually grew up playing 3, but I do plan on revisiting it in another video sometime.
That's just SC fans the FGC as a whole agree the second game is the best.
@@Niosai Since you plan to return to this series, I highly recommend this video ua-cam.com/video/CZK6TAZvWmw/v-deo.html It is a response to a hypothetical tekken 8 with a virtual figther evasion system, but at one point to make a comparison, mention why soul calibur III killed the franchise and it could never be recovered, and how soul calibur started from III It became a joke that no one takes seriously anymore. Good video, And don't be intimidated by SC III fans that their only argument is "muh more single player modes" ( Even though chronicles of the sword is crap) without questioning that the game base is poorly planted.
Just found this channel! Subscribed! This is a cool idea
I loved the stats tied to clothes. I could make my character 170 attack and the rest at least 100 so it made the game easier and better for me. Idgaf about looks. What sold me was making my character stronger and better than main characters
As a Tekken guy at a very young age, when I saw another Namco fighting game in the arcade I was crazy hyped to jump into the series. Especially when I saw Yoshimitsu as a character. I was like "no way!", but also like "this makes sense!" haha.
Completely forgot about SC Legends, always gave me Tekken 5: Devil Within vibes.
Ahhh Soul Calibur 1, you made my teen years awesome.
Soul Blade was my first PlayStation game and first video game ever! Soul blade has a special place in my heart. I was a huge fan Soul blade, Soulcalibur 2, and Soulcalibur 4.
After reading some of the comments it looks like I missed out on SC3. I remember briefly playing it but never owning it.
People say SCIII is their favorite but I'll show myself as the minority since SCII is my favorite game, SCVI is really good too but I wish it had better netcode
I get your love for the series man but I think you're underating sc3 too Hard, well maybe it is because that was the game I played first, and I played it a TON it has a special place in my heart
Damn Niosai unlocked Super Soul Calibur Turbo: Hyper Figh- oh, you made that joke
Great video dude shine on!!!!!
That "Soul Calibur Legends" game looks like an extra game mode in one of the numbered entries.