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The Shadow Broker Yeah me too, although it is fasfer to search Day after release for Metacritic and gameplay vids, hé packs everything in one with his personal opinion!
@@silentkonami8056 I wish I could tell you, but I have no idea anymore, I even forgot about commenting this lmao. I think it may have been Wendy, but not 100% sure.
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+Zombifyed That's why I'm considering getting this game. How many hours would you say I'll need to put into it before I have every unlockable clothing item?
Soul Calibur 3 was the best one they made, Bar none. Chronicles of the sword was me favourite campaign. And thats just it. The game had various campaigns.
***** Not just that, but the custom characters were actually custom. They had their own unique fighting styles, that were actually cross breeds between multiple characters. Such as the sword style. It was a very obvious mix between Siegfried, Nightmare and Mitsurugi. The dual blades, a combination of voldo, tira, cervantes etc.
competitive aspect sucked really(it ruined entire community to be fair and left us with nothing for SC4, thats why series are kinda dead)but sc3 has by far best singleplayer content
The reason that the story mode was like that was because of the devastating tsunami in Japan. I remember they said that because of the damages to the studio they lost 25% of their progress on the game. *With not extra money or time to make up for it.* So that is why they have the amateurish still images tell most of the story, because they loss so much data from the natural disaster.
Soul Calibur II: Very well crafted move sets for every character. Everyone was dynamic, complex, & took a while to get used to. The single player modes were time consuming as well as "Weapon Master", that mode kept you playing and practicing as well. Soul Calibur III: Hands down, the best story mode and great addition to Single-player modes. Introduced the newcomers flawlessly, gave them a nice decent backstory which made them fit to the SC main story well... Soul Calibur IV: Online mode was fantastic. Get to choose between "Standard VS" or "Special VS". Every character owned their own unique style, each has their own complexity, and I believe the Online Mode was the most played. Soul Calibur V: Creation and Online mode heavily emphasized. Creation is the best out of SCIII & SCIV. The online mode(s) were a bit more interactive. The gameplay is simple, yet creative to everyone in their own use. The addition to mechanics is much more fluid.
Ooh, Soul Calibur 4 is unspeakably brutal that way. I've been comboed in ways I didn't even think were possible there. Comparing the moves I've seen there to what you see on youtube and tough ai is like comparing a street game of basketball between 6 guys who've been playing since they were teenagers to an ordinary game of NBA. Same amount of spinning about on both sides of the metaphor too lol I'll just say this: I never thought someone could use Siegfried as fast as Raphael...like holy shit...
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Joe, the problem with allowing 'Bits and Pieces' of a 'create your own style', is that it would be obscenely overpowered, and not fun to fight. I played Soul Calibur IV, V, and MK9 competitively, and it would be cancerous to fight someone using Voldo's moveset with random Siegfried/Natsu attacks strewn in. Not to mention, they all have different weapons, so I'm not sure how it would even be possible on a technical level. God... imagine an Algol with Alpha Pat's slides and twister...
This game was such a let down, no talim, no cassandra, no zasalamel and amy was turned into a crappy viola thingie... Game is spam friendly and there's no point in using anyone else but Siegfried and Nightmare, seriously ridiculous speed and damage output. Then you have viola that does no damage with a full combo and quick battle is 200 different ways of spamming wtf happened to the balanced SC4?! Basicaly this game is like the sims for me, since the only worthwile feature is the character creation, everything else is bullshit.
***** Yh hopefully they will remove all those forgetable new chars, like xianhua, taki clone, kilik clone and bring back freaking Amy, viola is retarded, this is a sword game... I'm putting my faith on SCVI to bring the old glory of the series, unfortunately it's gonna be for ps4 most certainly, and I'm not gonna buy it, at least not in some years
Yh, certainly not worth the release price, they'd need to really change the clone characters, because they are clones, even their personality is similar, that's what makes them so forgetable. But I agree with your statement
Yh, originality wasn't the strong point of SCV...Actually nothing was it's strong point. And I agree, Alpha patrokolos is extremely gay, because they left Setsuka's animation on him, that swordstile looks so dumb on him. 3 mimic chars was stupid, the same goes to A partroklos and O phyrra, i bet it was just so the creators could say "look at all the characters we made, they are the same as other characters but with different names... do i get paid now?" Another point, they should be more carefu creating the move list, I know the game isn't meant to be combo heavy, but the level of cheapness present on SCV is ridiculous, there's no point in picking any char other than Nightmare, Mitsurugi or Kilik clone
"Game is spam friendly and there's no point in using anyone else but Siegfried and Nightmare, seriously ridiculous speed and damage output. Then you have viola that does no damage with a full combo and quick battle is 200 different ways of spamming wtf happened to the balanced SC4?!" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Oh my God you have no idea what you're talking about at all. Did you even try to learn the basic of the basics before you start saying totally random shit online? Viola can do over 90% off a single damn combo, and there's at least 10 characters better than NM and Sieg. It also happens to be one of the best balanced fighting games ever made. There's no character who can't win against another, since there's always the potential to fall back on basics and outplay or opponent. From a fighting game standpoint, it's the best of the series hands-down. The single player is shit outside of the character creation which is absolutely fantastic, but if you're playing a fighting game for the story you are looking to the wrong genre in all honesty. And that aside, single player was shit in SC4 already. There's just less overall in SCV. And commenting on the "cheapness" of SCV is hysterical when it's one of the most straightforward fighting games out there. "Cheap" belongs more to a game like Tekken where in order to compete you gotta be able to recognize HUNDREDS of strings; both how to block and whether or not you can punish and what punish is max damage. And that is not even cheap. So, in closing, just let me say that you shouldn't expect a *fighting game* to cater to the casual fan base over the competitive fan base if they're put in a situation where they have to create a fighting game in a short 8 month period. If you want more, you've gotta be supportive of the series rather than hateful. Namco needs to know what people want, since they obviously don't have a clue. SCV is fan-fucking-tastic as a fighting game and I always recommend it to anyone looking to learn a new fighting game. I'm sorry if you were let down by the single player content, but you shouldn't make such uneducated claims about the game as a whole (such as Viola doing no damage. lol. [or really only bothering to play sieg or nm]). If you want a complete game next time, you need to show Project Soul your support for all the wonderful aspects of the game. They weren't even able to put in 25% of the single player content they wanted because Namco-Bandai said "no release it faster" as they don't think people have any respect for the series at all, and with comments like yours I'm not surprised.
I was taking you seriously and thinking I might've been wrong, but then you said tekken was cheap, and you automatically lost all credibility. Tekken is the least cheap game I know, and I can tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about, I just laughed my ass off reading that statement. I've been playing tekken since forever and I have no idea where the cheapness is. If you're problem is juggles, then let me give you a lesson. 1st, that's what makes tekken amazing, you can be original, make huge different combos, while other fighting games is just using the same skill again and again and again, Street fighter I'm looking at you. 2nd if your problem is that you lose all the time against juggle, it's because you don't know jack about punishing. What you mean is tekken is too hard for you to comprehend, not that it is cheap. You just want an easy game where you press 2 buttons, jump around, press 2 more buttons and win. And viola does no damage, you have to waste loads of gauge + doing a huge combo for it to hurt. You said that knowing 100 strings was what was bad with tekken, yet it's ok if Viola is a tekken like char...Then you say Nightmare isn't that good, I think we aren't playing the same game, cause he has 1000 tools to play around, from low grapples to long timed counters and gap closers. You don't need to focus on hard combos or anything, he simply does ridiculous damage. Of course there's no character who can't beat each other, if you're a pro and you are playing against a 5 year old. I've played online a lot both on SC4 and SC5. On SC4 I saw pretty much all the chars being played. On 5 I saw, Nightmare x999999, Siegfried, Raphael, Xiba, Taki clone and Ezio(probably cause of trophy) end of roster. That says a lot of your so called balance. Then I quit playing and went back to SC4. And no, I don't play fighting games for the story, but I do like having some background of a char, I don't pick chars just because they are supper strong, I like to identify with it. But back to the point, remember soul blade? It had that story mode where you had certain rules to defeat opponents, that was challenging (I skipped to SC3 after that one so can't really comment on SC1 and 2), chronicles of the sword? not as challenging, but creative and fun. SC4 had that tower thingie which also had challenges to unlock items. Plus a survival like thingie. Sc5 has a piece of bullcrap"challenger" mode which is just cheap AI, cheap blocking your attacks and spamming, they use like 2 different skills, 3, if it is in a good mood. Quick battle is a fucking joke. When I play ghost battle on tekken, which is essentialy the same as a sc5's quick battle, I see really interesting combos or tactics, on quick battle I see 1 move repeated over and over... Wait there's one thing interesting on SC5, which was quick guard and quick dash. And I don't mind they focus on competitve playing, all games do that, but i don't understand why the fuck do you have to change the rooster, why jump 20 years if the story is irrelevant...Does that make it more competitive? And if you say viola can do 90% off damage with a combo, then she's broken and the game is competitively shit. There's no balance, unlike tekken where there are characters that are easier to play and others that are harder, but overall you can win with whichever char u pick, except maybe mokujin, but that's a gimmiky char. I liked how you jumped to conclusions, like, herpa derpa, did you even see the basics of the game, before saying crap online. I've bought the game when it was released and played a lot of it, that's why I can tell you it's crap. Wanna know the basics? You press 1 of 3 buttons and you perform a move, X button blocks. Directional buttons move the character and if you press R1 while doing a certain attack you perform a move that consumes gauge. Those are the basics. Did you mean I came online without knowing intermideate/advanced stuff? Maybe I don't know the advanced stuff like quick guard since I quit the game way before I got interested in learning more advanced stuff. If you liked it, good for you, project soul will give you a cookie. However I can like Superman 64 and it doesn't make it a good game... You recommend SC5 to people? You must hate everyone... I'd even recommend King of fighters over SC5. And how am I suppose to show my supp to the game? It's not like namco is reading youtube comments on SCV reviews, or accepting fan emails. It's a basic concept, however. You remove previous loved chars, make some bullshit clones appear out of nowhere add that they were apprentices or relatives, make 3 mimic chars just to fill in the roster, release an incomplete game with only online mode completed and hope it'd be loved. It's like baking a cake and saying "you know what? Let's just leave it as chocolate powder I bet it tastes the same." And then you shove some smarties into the powder to make it look more like cake. Anyway if they want me to support, here it goes. TO NAMCO, better take some notes of the obvious things I'm about to say: SCV is shit you did an awful job, bring back the old characters, don't make a quick battle where every match is just a random created character repeating the same shit over and over again. The game only needs one mimic. Get rid of the new chars apart from Z.W.E.I, you can keep that one as it is not a rip off of an old char. Viola is stupid, take magical girl crap out of this game and give my Amy back. Bring chronicles of the sword and/or the tower thingie from SC4 back + Soul blade's story mode challenges. Give more moves to all the characters. The game play was already neat on SC4 why try mimic Street fighter?! Best regards Up till SC4(included) fan of the SC series. P.S: I could make a thesis out of why SC5 is bad and how to improve it.
I'm sorry, but I freaking hate this game. Like Joe said, none of the single player modes are worth it. They also removed every character I've ever used.
ZWEI is german and means "two". So he is two guys in one body. The Wolf and the Man. Which is a nice cameo of Metallica, actually... (Of Wolf and Man. ;>)
I don't get the peole that complain about not creating their own fighting styles. Sure it would be cool as hell, but the we wouldn;t get to show off our characters online because it would be impossible to balance the game knowing that any player can do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING with the character, which would be fine in singleplayer or local matches for fun, but in online where people are invested, especially in the fighting game community which tends to be picky about balance, it could have been poor design to allow people to build the perfect character with infinite combos or what not.Perhaps they could have made you pick one of the normal characters as a template and allowed you to swap out specific moves for other options, but that would still be difficult to balance, and people would still probably complain about not having complete 100% customization like, say, mortal kombat armageddon had.
Thats why project soul shouldve created more styles for the game instead of replacing old characters. Also they made the most imbalanced style SC has ever had with infinite combos by introducing Viola. But you are right there will never be a create your own style option but introducing a lot more styles to choose from should solve that problem
I think a balance could be done if they made some exclusive fighting styles for custom characters. I mean there are far more than 28 martial arts styles throughout the world, just add another set of selections that aren't on the characters in the game and you're set.
The glory of the 3rd game was the fact that you had derivative styles for custom characters that gave you more options than just using the roster styles. This game was entirely skimpy on its movesets, style list, and even character list. Everything about it made me regret my purchase.
I honestly am new to the series and i bought it becuz of character customization and I absolutely love Z.W.E.I he is my favorite style to play and it isn't easy to master but is fun for me!
Pika Yeah exactly, how is anyone suppose to know quickly when they aren't good?! What's worse is that you couldn't play as Siegfried, The Ying to Nightmare's Yang! Siegfried is the just simple and easiest characters to play (imo). Why shoehorn ZWEI into fighting Nightmare when Siegfried is NIGHTMARE'S ETERNAL RIVAL. It doesn't make sense because the problem was time restraints.
Each new Soul Calibur game has some new great things, but they discard all the great ideas of the previous game. They should keep adding new content instead replacing everything. What happened to Chronicles Of The Sword mode from SC3? I fking loved that mode.
9:34 actually soul calibur got big because of the story AND the many different weapons for each character. it started with SOUL BLADE(playstation). if the next SC will not have weaponmastermode AND charactercustomization, i will NOT buy it.
This game was the worst in the series! An unworthy sequel with many dumb new features and only a few good ones, and fewer unique characters with only half their previous movesets. The collectors edition was a joke too.
It's amazing how the game series got progressively less in content. They focus so much on the cutscenes for their crappy story and breast physics that they ignore a proper leveling system, LORE on each character, and decide to offer an hour of campaign of just monotonous fighting with no interesting battle limitations/mechanics such as Soul Calibur 3's chronicles and Soul Calibur 4's(Not as good) Tower of Lost souls. Then after you complete the story mode, you are instantly faced with super hard ridiculous bonus mode with no progression in between. I really would like to stress, a GOOD single player mode for fighting games prepares you for the multiplayer mode. When you complete all the campaign, you should feel better about all the fighting mechanics as the campaign should help you learn these mechanics and disallow you to progress until you master them. This game just threw you in and expects you to figure it out all on your own.
How to make SC6 good: 1. More characters 2.Endings 3.Bonus Content for Single player (And a BIG gallery) 4. Find the person(s) who thought giving Ivy more clothes was a good idea and fire them!
In all honesty, even though I'm a newcomer to the series, I enjoyed SCIV more than SCV - it felt more complete. Ivy has been toned way, way down. Which I kinda like, because she's the only one I like.
I really miss Soul Calibur 3 times...... That legendary Chronicles Of The Sword mode. They created nothing like that after soul calibur 3, and the series continued to dumb down ever after.
well, chronicle of the sword was fantastic, the character creation was (imo) better and the individual stories were much better told. I also kinda preferred the gameplay.
Yea I think 3 had the best Extra mode, and The one thing they should have kept was the exclusives styles that were solely for character creation, that was a nice touch. I'm pretty cool with them all aside from 5 =/
xKingx16 Agree SC3 was and IS the best in the series so far. While the chronicle of the sword wasn't top notch, it was a great way to unlock the original combat styles for your created characters, as well as an excuse to create more characters (you could only make 10 in the Chronicles of the Sword, but another 10 outside). In addition the character creator is still much better since it's not heavily locked like in SC4 (and their stats) and in here, although it gives more possibilities on details and such. Of course story mode was so good that it was enough for the purchase. Personally I hate SC4 more than SC5: SC4 online was laggy as hell and the tower was...nothing great. I give more credit in SC5 at least for giving us a (very small) campaign...but a crappy arcade mode.
Yea SC3 was pretty awesome,I wish they had kept the exclusive styles in, it was awesome. Especially sense later games seems to kind of push toward creating a character,or at least I feel that way. SC5 had Devil Jin style which was alright,but more weapons would be cool. I enjoyed SC4 alot,lol never understood the dislike for critical finishes?It was slower paced but I got over it, the online worked fine for me as did SC5, The thing I HATED about SC5 was, they removed moves,especially from Misturugi,Nightmare, whom are my mains. and Taki was changed around more less. it was extremely frustrating seeing a shorter movelist. I give SC4 more credit for having more content,and not messing up the gameplay. The story was always alright to me, but SC5 is just awkward,half done and bad. The super bar was unneeded,guard impacting is stupid now. I can get over a bad story with games,but if I can't enjoy the game-play overall, I don't have much reason to play. The only reason I own SC5 now after returning it after owning it 3 days,was because it was on sale XBL for $3.74,and creation was still fun as hell.
Hey Joe the best SoulCalibur for character creation model was 3 because we where able to give our characters there own moves that where different from the real characters and it had some of the best office like models.
I miss Talim, Yun Seong, Seong Mina, Sophitia, Cassandra, Zasalamel, and the Weapon Master and Chronicle of the Sword modes. Not to mention the Gallery. T_T I've never played SC IV so I just basically miss playing SC II and III.
I like the way IGN put it. "Simultaneously the best and the worst game in the series." The things that it does right it does exceptionally well, but the things it does wrong it does abysmally awful.
Soul Blade = damn I wish I had a quarter. Soul Calibur = 👍 Soul Calibur 2 = My childhood Soul Calibur 3 = Marry me. Soul Calibur 4 = eh, it'll pass :) Soul Calibur Broken Destiny = the fuck??? The story mode is just a long ass tutorial!!! you're lucky I can take you wherever I go. Soul Calibur 5 = ....... So...... I guess this is it...... R.I.P. Soul Calibur 6 =
EZIO! Anyone else notice whenever Ezio is in something or if his costume is in something he always has his AC Brotherhood suit. Because his other suits suck balls
Mad Hatter It's the most iconic. I personally love every suit he had throughout the series. My personal favourite was his Revelations one simply because it looked like he was a truly experienced master assassin. Each to it's own but I really think you're being way too biased here as there's clearly a lot of effort put into each of his suits.
Zakusho Yes but clearly not many people at all like his first suit. His revelations suit is pretty badass but i love the long dressy thing at the front of the brotherhood one. And it's the only pure red and white suit in the franchise and i love that colours
The game would still be filled with extremely lame characters from Daishi Odashima's fanfiction, story mode would be lazy nevertheless and movelists still would be simplified, since that was main point of this game. The only good thing would be Zasalamel, since he was supposed to appear in the game.
The game wasn't complete. It was suppose to be four times bigger than SoulCalibur IV. The game was gonna have stories for each character too, instead of only playing with Good ole pattycakes, the most hated character of SoulCalibur V.
Your comment was pointless. Yes, I know all those things. By the way, the story mode was supposed to be four times bigger than it is, not than SC IV. Also, Patroklos is the most hated, but it doesn't mean anybody likes all those anime characters introduced by Daishi.
SC3 for PS2 actually had different character classes for creation mode. Quite a few actually. Even the existing classes in creation mode still had unique fighting moves and styles. Whereas this game just puts different skins on existing characters. I'm not impressed. If you want to talk about an insane amount of content, SC3 for PS2 was hands down the best game of the series. It even had a freaking strategy/fighting game built in that was a lot of fun. The combat looked better... too many bright colors and flashing lights in the newer installments. Making a game prettier doesn't always equal better gameplay. They are freaking swordfighting. It's not a rave. This is why anybody who calls SC4 or SC5 the best in the series, I want to kick in the nuts. I challenge any who say this to get ALL of the content in SC3. Guaranteed it will take you way longer than in these 2 games.
i hate the combat for some reason because. its not responsive like the others. The Streetfighter style moves is stupid it basically stops your moves and they hit automatically if you are near them. The guard impact is more difficult to use in this than the past games. Its upsetting, majority the experience players and the soul fans hate this game because its like the old ones and attract the spammy Streetfighter fans
Yeah but character balancing in SCIII is broken as hell, Abyss has ridiculous attack speed, Yoshimitsu can kill you with a few throws, etc. SCV probably has the best gameplay par II
In all honesty I'm going to have to disagree on creating your own fighting style. Pretty much within seven seconds of giving the players that kind of control "Elite" players will optimize their style with moves that will either A. perpetually hit stun you and allow for brain dead links into easy infinite combos and/or B. cover every single base leaving no holes in there style which is the corner stone of fighting games, exploiting weaknesses. It will lead to just a clusterfuck of "Stop having fun" guys turning the game into an elitist and self destructive community. Just my two cents.
GrapeApe That's fair, I think you're right, I'm just saying that that system wouldn't work. But yes if you were to try it SC3 would be the best choice for it.
For soul caliber 5 they should have Brought back Chronicles of the sword and weapon master mode If I knew how to mod I would go ahead and rebuild this game from the ground up.
the brother and sister dialogue was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too close to incest about to happen. and the story mode was frustrating with all the crazy boss spikes
My friend and I always played Soull Caliber 3 which in my opinion is definitly one of there best Soul Calibers because i really liked there character creation.
soul calibur 5 is a stain on the franchise. the graphics are the only redeemable quality. everything else about the game sucks: stiff movement, sucky new characters, halfbaked redesigns of old characters, that stupid fucking critical edge, and a super lazy uninspired story and arcade.
i would say, blazblue have a good "training" mode, with the characters challenges who pretty much teachs you a good amount of commands and combos for all characters.
The single player modes are crap, versus makes up for it, but would have been nice to have something like the adventure modes from the previous games that had some character advancement and light rpg elements.
The Nightmare final boss caused me to RAGE UNCONTROLLABLY. Don't take me for a rager I almost never do, but the difficulty spike was MASSIVE towards the end of the game.
Hardest boos I've ever fought is, get this. Volgog. Ever heard of him? I didn't think so. Out of the 10-15 times I fought him, I've one twice, because I out leveled him and used shit loads of health potions, a healing pet, and a whole bunch of other shit. Only problem is his level changes according to you level. I was level 59 and got my ass kicked after using all my potions, magic, skills, and other shit. WHen you find out who he is and what he's from, you'll laugh at me...
Soul Calibur 3 was the first of the series I played and it was just excellent all around. Excellent story, graphics, customization, fighting mechanics, and campaign mode. There were also many side games too. There was no pvp, which is also a plus. I spent so many hours on that game.
Really wish Soul Calibur 6 would hurry up and be announced. I really missed this game. Story was AWFUL, but multiplayer and character creation is a lot of fun!
I'm all for a SCVI, but I think it's high time they did Soul Tag Tournament. Include every single fighter from every Soul game excluding licensed guest characters. It would be non-canon, and it would be awesome.
The only thing I really didn't like about SCIV was the fact that they had goddamn jedi with lightsabers and force powers. Starkiller especially was ridiculously cheap and annoying, and it pretty much ruined the entire game for me. I still need to play SCV. Or maybe just wait for SCVI.
Soul Calibur 4,1,2 and even 3 destroys 5. Soul calibur V has very interesting fighter designs but most of new characters suck ass and are weak. The Legendary souls mode is just unbeatable and Kilik is a ass along with the other all the OGs of the series. They all God like and they cant be grab or rarely be knock off for some reason. All they do hit the legs, hit you on the floor, and repeat
Arsu Bhai i quit trying to beat it, i almost beat Kilik until he started spamming the same moves in the last round. And the online is just like legendary hoes mode with bunch of cheaters using Asaroth,the random ricochet characters, and the other people using the same cheating moves. V doesn't exist to me that destroys everything soul calibur
+Mario “Mareo187” Sanon Easily the hardest part of that game mode for me was Elysium. Every damn mistake I made was punished with a just-frame stab, with the just-frame pull out. Then we had Alpha Patroklos Edge Master, and just... ugh. He was easier because he'd spam the twirl which is super unsafe, but Elysium... god. The only person I could really do this on was Natsu, and that was just because of her raw damage and speed. I'd suggest using her. Also, I think it's literally impossible to grab the CPUs in that mode. They brake it, and if it's a grab they can't break, they crouch it.
I'm just looking at all these comments hating on Soul Calibur V. Damn, there's a lot. I don't think the game is THAT bad. I mean, if you hate it that much, then that simply means you don't understand how to play.
theres few things I don't like which is the lack of defense and the arcade mode. acade mode is just shit. other than that I think the game is bad @$$. Asteroth is my most fav character in the game its about time that the big slow dudes show how difficult they can be. Im also glad that Nightmare is as difficult as he is too cause in street fighter or tekken if you play a big slow dude your bound to get your ass handed to you no matter how good you get.
"then that simply means you don't understand how to play." Uh, no. There are legitimate reasons that people hate this game, and Joe touched on ALL of them. Just because someone hates the game does not mean that they don't know how to play.
I prefer SC4's Guard Impacts over Just Guards in SC5. Really hope they bring that back (as well as all the characters axed off the list) in SC6. Until then, I'm just going to regular block and use all-out attacks as my strategy.
Here's an idea, Namco: Instead of taking out your popular characters and replacing them with clones nobody likes, how about you just leave your popular characters in?
First and only time I played this game was on a duel (the kind which you pay to enter annd then there's a prize for the winner), they let us practice against eachother for a while since we were the only two entries (me and some kid), I started winning the kid in a fair match... until he uses nightmare or whatever he's called, then he spent like 30minutes fighting my by not even letting me get up, he just pressed the same fucking button for the whole fight and no matter what I choose I'd still have no chance, because I couldn't even get up. By the time the duel started, he changed character.... TO DO THE SAME FUCKING THING Then, after the torture I went through came the worst parts: The weird look the event manager (or whatever his job was) gave me as he let the other guy choose the prize (he even said "wow really?", he didn't even see the match he just showwed up to see the victory screen, so he will never know), then the kid choose the prize, which was one of a bunch of old and classic games, he ended up choosing a lame racing game for a platform he didn't even own (which annoyed me even more, since I had my eyes set on a Pokemon TCG game for pc) tl:dr - got rekt by a noob, humiliated, didn't get shit
Ugh, I know that feeling. When I was little I used to play fighting games with my cousin and he would always spam the SAME FREAKING MOVE in every match. I got irritated so I just started spamming the same move. He eventually learned his lesson, but the move spamming makes me afraid of competitive fighting games. I'm forever scarred for life...
Nice review, although I'm surprised you didn't touch on another of the game's biggest issues: the removal of fan favorites from previous games. Even with the time skip, it still doesn't explain all the absences (especially Zasalamel...come on, the dude's an immortal).
Was I the only guy who liked the story mode? I actually thought it mirrored real history more so then previous games. I know that a lot of people hated Patroklos because of his "holier then thou" attitude in the initial levels and being a self proclaimed "holy warrior" who kills innocents, but what fans are forgetting is that in the real life 15th century there many self proclaimed "holy warriors" some of whom served the Spanish Inquisition. All of those warriors killed innocents who were suspected of serving the Devil or some other evil power. There defiantly could have been more story and a few bits do seem rushed and I wish more of the new characters got more screen time, but I thought it was decent and besides, interactions between siblings can also be dramatic and heartwarming. It disgusts me that everyone thinks Patroklos and Pyyrha are going into an incestuous relationship. I've meet adult siblings who live together and they don't do incest at all. The Soul fanbase needs to do so some major maturing.
What makes you think fans are forgetting that? Just because there there were "holy warriors" in the past that killed innocents doesn't make Patroklos any more sympathetic and why would it? He straight up murders a guy in the street and shows no remorse because the man MIGHT have been infected. He acted on nothing more than an assumption and we're then supposed to root for and feel sorry him.
Corvidae There are many video game heroes who started off a mass murderers. Kratos killed countless innocents durring his service to Ares, and probably the majority of humanity in GOW3. Is he a hated character? No. Dante Alighieri from Dante's Inferno The Game killed 3000 unarmed civilians in the name of God just because they were not Christian, and then framed his best friend and future brother-in law for the crime. Is he a hated character? No, in fact in the game he unknowingly redeemed himself by freely admitted he is beyond redemption. Patroklos kills one guy because he looks different and everyone hates him for that? I refuse to buy it. Besides, all those games I mentioned took place in the past. GOW is in ancient Greece, Dante's Inferno is in the Crusades, and SCV is in 1607. As I mentioned before, in the 1600's there many self proclaimed Holy Warriors who killed innocents who were suspected of being involved with devils. And don't forget, he learned the hard way that that his victims were humans. Nightmare tricked him into killing those people. He regrets his actions which is one of his motivators. And if your going to come at me with the whole "But he abandoned his sister when he learned she was malfested!" Anyone would be terrified if they learned that someone in their family was some sort of unholy creature. The shock he gets from the revelation triggers an adrenaline rush which activates the fight or flight response, and this would happen to anyone in the same situation. Besides, just after that he immediately starts looking for a way to correct his error and save Pyyrha. By the end he has learned from his mistakes and has become a true hero. He accepts Pyyrha and vows to make amends. Plus, he and Pyyrha destroy Soul Edge and Soul Calibur, ending the conflict between the Soul Swords and avenging countless lives lost in their war. If that is not an act of true heroism I don't know what is.
***** Remember, they only show Patroklos kill one person, but we know for a fact that he's killed more. The difference is that neither Kratos nor Dante are meant to be sympathized with. The course of the God of War games makes it very apparent that Kratos is an awful person that does awful things all because he wants revenge. By the end of GoW 3 he has reduced the world to being almost unlivable and the only thing he is ever commended on is releasing hope to the world. Dante's wife being taken by Satan is also directly his fault and we're frequently reminded of that. We are not supposed to forget they have done these terrible things because we are regularly reminded of the what they've done in the past. Patroklos' awful actions combined with his arrogant and pompous attitude make's him extremely difficult to root for. Dante has the bonus of regretting the things the things he's done and he carries that regret. Kratos is called out for his selfishness multiple times and tries to make up for in the end Patroklos however, may realize the things he's done were wrong, but he immediately moves past any regret he may have had and continues to whine about his sister the rest of the time. It's not even clear if Pat became a "true hero". He never really makes up for any of the bad things he did and we're never shown if he does. Dante may have killed hundreds but we also see he also see has the ability to help by freeing the souls of people from their torture in hell. He also saves the soul of his wife even though he doesn't get to be with her afterward. Even Kratos sacrifices himself for the good of humanity. How does Patroklos saving one person make up for what he's done?
Corvidae By destroying both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur, ending the conflict between them that has ended possibly millions of lives. As for the whole whining BS, anyone would behave that way if they were in a similar situation. And as I mentioned in the last comment, Nightmare tricked Pat into killing those people, just as many high ranking people in history ordered people to be killed. If your going to come at me with the whole "But he's also gullible and easy to fool.". Let me remind you that in real life people ARE easily fooled and tricked. We humans are not the perfect beings we like to think of ourselves as, and 1607 had a A LOT of brutal behavior from humanity. You can't expect a game that's set in 1607 to have an environment that behaves like a modern day setting with modern day values. It would have to behave as close to the real historical 1607 as possible so that the environment stays true. This is the reason SCV's story mode worked for me. Because it mirrored real life and real history far more so then previous games. I understand it's meant to be fantasy, but just because something is fantasy does not mean the characters have to behave in a fantasy esque way. One example of a fantasy game having more realistic themes is the current Heroes of Might and Magic continuity. In case you don't know, Heroes of Might and Magic is a turn based medieval fantasy strategy game. After 3DO, the original company that made the games went bankrupt, they sold the franchise to Ubisoft who erased the continuity and created a new one with completely new characters and a completely new world, but the gameplay stayed the same. One of the major differences was the human faction. In the past 3DO games, the humans were always a very King Arthur or Gondor style, always wanting to do the right thing and representing everything good about humanity. But in the new continuity, they are still ultimately a protagonist faction, but they behave more in the way real kingdoms in the Medieval era behaved. There is a clear cut hierarchy, lower class people, especially the peasants are not always treated fairly or nicely, the army is fueled by conscription, the Church is the great political authority and anyone who does not follow their teachings runs the risk of being put on trial for heresy. Yet despite all of that, they are still one of the protagonist factions as they do fight fiercely against the demon faction who desire the end of all life and they also have good relationships with the other protagonist factions. Having a protagonist with flaws to them does not make them less of a protagonist, it makes them human.
***** The fact that that he was fooled into doing what he did doesn't absolve him of his wrong doing. Seigfried was the original main character of the series and literally had no choice in what he was doing during his time as Nightmare. Despite the fact he wasn't even in control of himself he still makes the decision to dedicate his life to making up for what he did. Even sacrificing himself in his ending in to SC4 get rid of Soul Edge. Pat however is content with living out the rest of his days with sister as if nothing happened. Also, considering Pyrrah's deformations from Soul Edge didn't reverse once it was destroyed it like Siegfried's did and the fact that Soul Edge was supposedly destroyed before, it's unlikely that the conflict is even actually over. In addition when I brought up his whining I was referring to him only caring about getting sister while completely disregarding the multiple people he murdered.
As someone who actually speaks German, I can tell you it is pronounced "Zvi". Who ya gonna listen to, a computer or a guy who actually knows the language?
Soul calibur 3 character creator had like 8 original styles...even if it was a similar weapon they'd still fight differently with it they need to invest in that more
Joe why not do a review on another namco fighting game like TEKKEN 6 or TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2 ? I think those 2 games might be fun for you to review I mean I find them fun to play :)
I was really disappointed in SCV because I was always a very defensive player that would try to create an opening for solid attack combos. My mains for this were Kilik, Seong Mi-na, and Yun-Seong. Load up this version and not only has Guard-Impact been almost completely nerfed to the ground, but Seong Mi-na and Yun-Seong are gone, Kilik is now a mimic and the closest style to his (Xiba) just doesn't have the same kind of flow. I got through the story easily enough and actually kind of liked the twist that Soul Calibur herself is the final boss, but as soon as I hit the online, I quickly dropped it as none of my good characters were around.
Not even. I saw what everyone could do and respected that, it's just that ALL of my good characters were gone and I just cbf to get to that same level of mastery with new guys because I figured by the time I got good enough with them to actually be able to stand against others again, SCVI would be out.
I'm fine with the ranges different people have (mained Kilik and Seong Mi-Na for Algol's sake). It's just that having almost every skill I've learned since '96 swept out from under me all at once...kind of sucked.
Shadow11990 Talking about the two emos One with the magic dodgeball and the other with the fail yugioh monster who look like they belong in a final fantasy game. Staffs are fine,but getting poked by range missiles pisses me off. (one of the reasons I hated injustice) Specially considering their win lines are so...Smug. I've been talk shit to but never on the level of bored these two do. Also, the controls in 5 are actually stiff. Like really stiff. Like, I can't duck. And in the argo style the game wants you to play, rangies bully way to hard, considering they only need to know the forward and back for Dodgeball and the grab for wolf guy. To stomp you. It is like having 2 bloody death strokes.
I agree about the tutorial in fighting game problem. I have played several fighting games, and so few seem to be able to get it right. Early Soul Caliber games, and super smash of all things seem to have the best tutorials.
this is the video when i subbed to the AngryJoeShow, still subbed to this day and will never leave, Joe is one of the guys i trust with game reviews because of his honesty
+Alexander Vicious furious fernando
+Niloc Namgreb agreed on that, but i just find it weird if you compare his reaction to the boobies in this game then in mgsv is kind of weird.
Gustavozxd13 Yeah it kinda is, but still he is an honest guy, and i can appreciate the role-playing before every episode xD
Niloc Namgreb the gta 5 is my favorite one lol, and yeah he is the only reviewer i watch on UA-cam because i know i cant trust him on that.
The Shadow Broker Yeah me too, although it is fasfer to search Day after release for Metacritic and gameplay vids, hé packs everything in one with his personal opinion!
While playing online, I once witnessed a battle between Ronald McDonald and the Wendy's girl. It was the most amazing fast food battle in history.
Probably.
You replied to yourself?
@@bobby-blimpsucker6030 my guess is it's a deleted comment
Who won thou
@@silentkonami8056 I wish I could tell you, but I have no idea anymore, I even forgot about commenting this lmao. I think it may have been Wendy, but not 100% sure.
"just shut up, what do u know" 😂😂😂
+Viviane Devillers (Inori) Why Joe likes asses and titties? I don't like asses and titties, I like fast cars
+Khalid NFS You are either 10 years old, or you are asexual.
Big Boss The answer is simple, I'm just 15 years old guy who's likes fast cars and fast bikes
Peter Griffin Cars like Nissan 350z and Nissan Skyline GTR and I also likes Burnout games series by Criterion Games and Need For Speed games series, I always like racing
+Peter Griffin WOW. WOW. You went THERE. Homophobic much? Gays can like the female body, but not be attracted to it. Dumbass
I play this for the multiplayer and character creation.
+Zombifyed the Bimbo creation is the best part of this game for sure.
+Zombifyed That doesn't mean the single player doesn't exist . . .
+David Louis He never said it didn't
+Zombifyed
That's why I'm considering getting this game. How many hours would you say I'll need to put into it before I have every unlockable clothing item?
darkruler64 A month or 2 if you want everything. Only if you continuously play the game on a extremely high basis.
``IT*S FINALY BACK...... Booobiiisss`` that begining xD
You know the story to this game is bad if I have to go on the wiki to find information about the new characters
I know right!
*Insert Destiny joke here*
Well, Patroklos is a stupid jerk who murdered a guy for no real reason.
“ASS, TIDDES, ASS ASS AND TIDDES” Lmao 😂
“DICKS”
“WHAT?!?”
Soul Calibur 3 was the best one they made, Bar none.
Chronicles of the sword was me favourite campaign. And thats just it. The game had various campaigns.
Yeah, definitely right, agree with you.
***** Not just that, but the custom characters were actually custom. They had their own unique fighting styles, that were actually cross breeds between multiple characters. Such as the sword style. It was a very obvious mix between Siegfried, Nightmare and Mitsurugi. The dual blades, a combination of voldo, tira, cervantes etc.
competitive aspect sucked really(it ruined entire community to be fair and left us with nothing for SC4, thats why series are kinda dead)but sc3 has by far best singleplayer content
i'm enjoyed more on SO3 than SO4 and SO5
Agree, the best one
The reason that the story mode was like that was because of the devastating tsunami in Japan. I remember they said that because of the damages to the studio they lost 25% of their progress on the game. *With not extra money or time to make up for it.* So that is why they have the amateurish still images tell most of the story, because they loss so much data from the natural disaster.
Chronicles of the Sword will always be the best single player mode in Soul Calibur (imo).
Oh yes that mode was a masterpeice
omg that was one of one of my favorite modes in Soulcalibur
I had no idea what to do when I played it.
Demon Rantz I loved it the tutorial drilled it into
demetric taylor I was moving around the chess board and stuff but it wouldn't let me fight anyone.
Soul Calibur II: Very well crafted move sets for every character. Everyone was dynamic, complex, & took a while to get used to. The single player modes were time consuming as well as "Weapon Master", that mode kept you playing and practicing as well.
Soul Calibur III: Hands down, the best story mode and great addition to Single-player modes. Introduced the newcomers flawlessly, gave them a nice decent backstory which made them fit to the SC main story well...
Soul Calibur IV: Online mode was fantastic. Get to choose between "Standard VS" or "Special VS". Every character owned their own unique style, each has their own complexity, and I believe the Online Mode was the most played.
Soul Calibur V: Creation and Online mode heavily emphasized. Creation is the best out of SCIII & SCIV. The online mode(s) were a bit more interactive. The gameplay is simple, yet creative to everyone in their own use. The addition to mechanics is much more fluid.
Amy Lionheart god, i remember mastering taki back then
Amy Lionheart z
Ooh, Soul Calibur 4 is unspeakably brutal that way. I've been comboed in ways I didn't even think were possible there. Comparing the moves I've seen there to what you see on youtube and tough ai is like comparing a street game of basketball between 6 guys who've been playing since they were teenagers to an ordinary game of NBA. Same amount of spinning about on both sides of the metaphor too lol I'll just say this: I never thought someone could use Siegfried as fast as Raphael...like holy shit...
Need an update for part 6
They should really go back to characters having their own stories and endings now.
3 hour story? it took me about an hour and a quarter
i agree that nighmare and elysium are hard as crap though
riakami17 That's why it took him 3 hours tho
ah ok
riakami17 i know it's incomparable ,but i think that there are some visual novels with 50+ h play time :P
holy crap O_O
-Soulblade: Good
-Soul Calibur: Excelent
-Soul Calibur 2: Very Good
-Soul Calibur 3: Masterpiece
-Soul Calibur 4: Good
-Soul Calibur 5: Garbage
@Immortal to me soul calibur 4 was the masterpiece
Too true SCV allows so much garbage its not even funny
you forgot this one
-Soul Calibur Lost Swords: Abomination
Doctor Gordon You're right
NOVILA [MUSIC] the 3 has chronicle of the swords and a lot of customization, i hope they'll release an HD version of it
This is the first Angry Joe Show video I watched when my brother bought Soul Caliber V. Who knew 8 years later I would still be supporting and watching all of Angry Joe’s videos even through the tough times the channel had. If you see this Joe much love from Ireland and keep it up brother 👊🏼🇮🇪
Joe, the problem with allowing 'Bits and Pieces' of a 'create your own style', is that it would be obscenely overpowered, and not fun to fight. I played Soul Calibur IV, V, and MK9 competitively, and it would be cancerous to fight someone using Voldo's moveset with random Siegfried/Natsu attacks strewn in. Not to mention, they all have different weapons, so I'm not sure how it would even be possible on a technical level.
God... imagine an Algol with Alpha Pat's slides and twister...
oh god that would be a nightmare
I think they try to do something like that in tekken tag 2 with combot
This game was such a let down, no talim, no cassandra, no zasalamel and amy was turned into a crappy viola thingie...
Game is spam friendly and there's no point in using anyone else but Siegfried and Nightmare, seriously ridiculous speed and damage output. Then you have viola that does no damage with a full combo and quick battle is 200 different ways of spamming wtf happened to the balanced SC4?!
Basicaly this game is like the sims for me, since the only worthwile feature is the character creation, everything else is bullshit.
*****
Yh hopefully they will remove all those forgetable new chars, like xianhua, taki clone, kilik clone and bring back freaking Amy, viola is retarded, this is a sword game...
I'm putting my faith on SCVI to bring the old glory of the series, unfortunately it's gonna be for ps4 most certainly, and I'm not gonna buy it, at least not in some years
Yh, certainly not worth the release price, they'd need to really change the clone characters, because they are clones, even their personality is similar, that's what makes them so forgetable. But I agree with your statement
Yh, originality wasn't the strong point of SCV...Actually nothing was it's strong point.
And I agree, Alpha patrokolos is extremely gay, because they left Setsuka's animation on him, that swordstile looks so dumb on him. 3 mimic chars was stupid, the same goes to A partroklos and O phyrra, i bet it was just so the creators could say "look at all the characters we made, they are the same as other characters but with different names... do i get paid now?"
Another point, they should be more carefu creating the move list, I know the game isn't meant to be combo heavy, but the level of cheapness present on SCV is ridiculous, there's no point in picking any char other than Nightmare, Mitsurugi or Kilik clone
"Game is spam friendly and there's no point in using anyone else but Siegfried and Nightmare, seriously ridiculous speed and damage output. Then you have viola that does no damage with a full combo and quick battle is 200 different ways of spamming wtf happened to the balanced SC4?!"
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Oh my God you have no idea what you're talking about at all. Did you even try to learn the basic of the basics before you start saying totally random shit online?
Viola can do over 90% off a single damn combo, and there's at least 10 characters better than NM and Sieg. It also happens to be one of the best balanced fighting games ever made. There's no character who can't win against another, since there's always the potential to fall back on basics and outplay or opponent.
From a fighting game standpoint, it's the best of the series hands-down. The single player is shit outside of the character creation which is absolutely fantastic, but if you're playing a fighting game for the story you are looking to the wrong genre in all honesty. And that aside, single player was shit in SC4 already. There's just less overall in SCV.
And commenting on the "cheapness" of SCV is hysterical when it's one of the most straightforward fighting games out there. "Cheap" belongs more to a game like Tekken where in order to compete you gotta be able to recognize HUNDREDS of strings; both how to block and whether or not you can punish and what punish is max damage. And that is not even cheap.
So, in closing, just let me say that you shouldn't expect a *fighting game* to cater to the casual fan base over the competitive fan base if they're put in a situation where they have to create a fighting game in a short 8 month period. If you want more, you've gotta be supportive of the series rather than hateful. Namco needs to know what people want, since they obviously don't have a clue.
SCV is fan-fucking-tastic as a fighting game and I always recommend it to anyone looking to learn a new fighting game. I'm sorry if you were let down by the single player content, but you shouldn't make such uneducated claims about the game as a whole (such as Viola doing no damage. lol. [or really only bothering to play sieg or nm]). If you want a complete game next time, you need to show Project Soul your support for all the wonderful aspects of the game. They weren't even able to put in 25% of the single player content they wanted because Namco-Bandai said "no release it faster" as they don't think people have any respect for the series at all, and with comments like yours I'm not surprised.
I was taking you seriously and thinking I might've been wrong, but then you said tekken was cheap, and you automatically lost all credibility. Tekken is the least cheap game I know, and I can tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about, I just laughed my ass off reading that statement. I've been playing tekken since forever and I have no idea where the cheapness is. If you're problem is juggles, then let me give you a lesson. 1st, that's what makes tekken amazing, you can be original, make huge different combos, while other fighting games is just using the same skill again and again and again, Street fighter I'm looking at you. 2nd if your problem is that you lose all the time against juggle, it's because you don't know jack about punishing.
What you mean is tekken is too hard for you to comprehend, not that it is cheap.
You just want an easy game where you press 2 buttons, jump around, press 2 more buttons and win.
And viola does no damage, you have to waste loads of gauge + doing a huge combo for it to hurt. You said that knowing 100 strings was what was bad with tekken, yet it's ok if Viola is a tekken like char...Then you say Nightmare isn't that good, I think we aren't playing the same game, cause he has 1000 tools to play around, from low grapples to long timed counters and gap closers. You don't need to focus on hard combos or anything, he simply does ridiculous damage.
Of course there's no character who can't beat each other, if you're a pro and you are playing against a 5 year old.
I've played online a lot both on SC4 and SC5. On SC4 I saw pretty much all the chars being played. On 5 I saw, Nightmare x999999, Siegfried, Raphael, Xiba, Taki clone and Ezio(probably cause of trophy) end of roster. That says a lot of your so called balance. Then I quit playing and went back to SC4.
And no, I don't play fighting games for the story, but I do like having some background of a char, I don't pick chars just because they are supper strong, I like to identify with it. But back to the point, remember soul blade? It had that story mode where you had certain rules to defeat opponents, that was challenging (I skipped to SC3 after that one so can't really comment on SC1 and 2), chronicles of the sword? not as challenging, but creative and fun. SC4 had that tower thingie which also had challenges to unlock items. Plus a survival like thingie.
Sc5 has a piece of bullcrap"challenger" mode which is just cheap AI, cheap blocking your attacks and spamming, they use like 2 different skills, 3, if it is in a good mood.
Quick battle is a fucking joke. When I play ghost battle on tekken, which is essentialy the same as a sc5's quick battle, I see really interesting combos or tactics, on quick battle I see 1 move repeated over and over...
Wait there's one thing interesting on SC5, which was quick guard and quick dash.
And I don't mind they focus on competitve playing, all games do that, but i don't understand why the fuck do you have to change the rooster, why jump 20 years if the story is irrelevant...Does that make it more competitive? And if you say viola can do 90% off damage with a combo, then she's broken and the game is competitively shit. There's no balance, unlike tekken where there are characters that are easier to play and others that are harder, but overall you can win with whichever char u pick, except maybe mokujin, but that's a gimmiky char.
I liked how you jumped to conclusions, like, herpa derpa, did you even see the basics of the game, before saying crap online.
I've bought the game when it was released and played a lot of it, that's why I can tell you it's crap. Wanna know the basics? You press 1 of 3 buttons and you perform a move, X button blocks. Directional buttons move the character and if you press R1 while doing a certain attack you perform a move that consumes gauge. Those are the basics. Did you mean I came online without knowing intermideate/advanced stuff?
Maybe I don't know the advanced stuff like quick guard since I quit the game way before I got interested in learning more advanced stuff.
If you liked it, good for you, project soul will give you a cookie. However I can like Superman 64 and it doesn't make it a good game...
You recommend SC5 to people? You must hate everyone... I'd even recommend King of fighters over SC5.
And how am I suppose to show my supp to the game? It's not like namco is reading youtube comments on SCV reviews, or accepting fan emails. It's a basic concept, however. You remove previous loved chars, make some bullshit clones appear out of nowhere add that they were apprentices or relatives, make 3 mimic chars just to fill in the roster, release an incomplete game with only online mode completed and hope it'd be loved. It's like baking a cake and saying "you know what? Let's just leave it as chocolate powder I bet it tastes the same." And then you shove some smarties into the powder to make it look more like cake.
Anyway if they want me to support, here it goes.
TO NAMCO, better take some notes of the obvious things I'm about to say:
SCV is shit you did an awful job, bring back the old characters, don't make a quick battle where every match is just a random created character repeating the same shit over and over again. The game only needs one mimic. Get rid of the new chars apart from Z.W.E.I, you can keep that one as it is not a rip off of an old char. Viola is stupid, take magical girl crap out of this game and give my Amy back.
Bring chronicles of the sword and/or the tower thingie from SC4 back + Soul blade's story mode challenges.
Give more moves to all the characters. The game play was already neat on SC4 why try mimic Street fighter?!
Best regards
Up till SC4(included) fan of the SC series.
P.S: I could make a thesis out of why SC5 is bad and how to improve it.
I'm sorry, but I freaking hate this game. Like Joe said, none of the single player modes are worth it. They also removed every character I've ever used.
We want soul calibur 6!
What's so bad about Soul Calibur?
I sure as hell do
+Grimreaperdc793 you can't end a series on a bad note it has to go out string
I think the number is somehow tied to the boob size...
+Thiago Henrique I want a sc3 remaster, but I think a new game would be better
That opening was golden
Dying Meme yes
*BOOOBIIIEEESSS!!!* 😆
lol on the intro
ZWEI is german and means "two". So he is two guys in one body. The Wolf and the Man. Which is a nice cameo of Metallica, actually... (Of Wolf and Man. ;>)
Who is here because of the new reveal of soul calibur 6?
What's Poppin B?
Me cuz I dont want Bandai Namco to discontinue the soul series
I'm here a half hour before the midnight release of Soul Calibur 6. XD
@@Linkman247 I'm about to nut for Soul Calibur 6
The first 60 seconds of this review is still amazing 5 years later.
Soul Calibur 5 pros: Awesome fight mechanics, and extensive creator
cons: SO MANY CHARACTERS GONE!!!!
Thats Japan for you. The relationship between siblings is sometimes to close.
Joe: "Are they gonna kiss?"
Game: "Shut up! What do you know?"
Me: LMAO
I don't get the peole that complain about not creating their own fighting styles. Sure it would be cool as hell, but the we wouldn;t get to show off our characters online because it would be impossible to balance the game knowing that any player can do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING with the character, which would be fine in singleplayer or local matches for fun, but in online where people are invested, especially in the fighting game community which tends to be picky about balance, it could have been poor design to allow people to build the perfect character with infinite combos or what not.Perhaps they could have made you pick one of the normal characters as a template and allowed you to swap out specific moves for other options, but that would still be difficult to balance, and people would still probably complain about not having complete 100% customization like, say, mortal kombat armageddon had.
Thats why project soul shouldve created more styles for the game instead of replacing old characters. Also they made the most imbalanced style SC has ever had with infinite combos by introducing Viola. But you are right there will never be a create your own style option but introducing a lot more styles to choose from should solve that problem
I think a balance could be done if they made some exclusive fighting styles for custom characters. I mean there are far more than 28 martial arts styles throughout the world, just add another set of selections that aren't on the characters in the game and you're set.
The glory of the 3rd game was the fact that you had derivative styles for custom characters that gave you more options than just using the roster styles. This game was entirely skimpy on its movesets, style list, and even character list. Everything about it made me regret my purchase.
Clymaxx i got it for 15 bucks so meh, i didn't really mind
this game was 4 bucks on 360 so i got it :P
Same here! :D
Damn. How the fuck did I miss THAT?
It was just one Week
(Sorry, my english is bad)
Anorep It was perfect (apart from the random capital letter, but shit happens)
Random capital Letters?
Why didnt you review 6 ?
Anyone remember when renting games was a thing?
Shoot, I forgot the days when the customer got to try the product first BEFORE buying it
Vs Nightmare, Nightmare isn't the problem, Z.W.E.I is.
I honestly am new to the series and i bought it becuz of character customization and I absolutely love Z.W.E.I he is my favorite style to play and it isn't easy to master but is fun for me!
Annelmeye you have a good point about that though like in story mode.
Pika Yeah exactly, how is anyone suppose to know quickly when they aren't good?! What's worse is that you couldn't play as Siegfried, The Ying to Nightmare's Yang! Siegfried is the just simple and easiest characters to play (imo). Why shoehorn ZWEI into fighting Nightmare when Siegfried is NIGHTMARE'S ETERNAL RIVAL. It doesn't make sense because the problem was time restraints.
Each new Soul Calibur game has some new great things, but they discard all the great ideas of the previous game. They should keep adding new content instead replacing everything. What happened to Chronicles Of The Sword mode from SC3? I fking loved that mode.
Story mode in fighting games and all games are underrated
Try Blazblue you will not be disappointed with the story mode, but start with the first game or you won't understand a thing.
Thanks Ill check it out tonight ^-^
Still a better love story than twilight
9:34 actually soul calibur got big because of the story AND the many different weapons for each character. it started with SOUL BLADE(playstation). if the next SC will not have weaponmastermode AND charactercustomization, i will NOT buy it.
Of course it'll have character creation/edition
This game was the worst in the series! An unworthy sequel with many dumb new features and only a few good ones, and fewer unique characters with only half their previous movesets. The collectors edition was a joke too.
It's amazing how the game series got progressively less in content.
They focus so much on the cutscenes for their crappy story and breast physics that they ignore a proper leveling system, LORE on each character, and decide to offer an hour of campaign of just monotonous fighting with no interesting battle limitations/mechanics such as Soul Calibur 3's chronicles and Soul Calibur 4's(Not as good) Tower of Lost souls. Then after you complete the story mode, you are instantly faced with super hard ridiculous bonus mode with no progression in between.
I really would like to stress, a GOOD single player mode for fighting games prepares you for the multiplayer mode. When you complete all the campaign, you should feel better about all the fighting mechanics as the campaign should help you learn these mechanics and disallow you to progress until you master them. This game just threw you in and expects you to figure it out all on your own.
nice meme'd friend
***** da meme tho
Well... Tits or gtfo?
Yo, do you think the upcoming 6th will just be barebones in content with just jiggle physics?
How to make SC6 good:
1. More characters
2.Endings
3.Bonus Content for Single player (And a BIG gallery)
4. Find the person(s) who thought giving Ivy more clothes was a good idea and fire them!
Seriousley? Z.W.E.I.? Like the German number 2, Zwei? Because Z.W.E.I. has 2 "Personalities"? Wooooooow... I have to let that set for a minute XD
Just shut up! What do you know?!?!
That Atheist On Reddit German XD
What?
That Atheist On Reddit Sorry, I meant to say: "I know how to speak German XD". My mistake.
123GermanGamer And there's a weapon called the Zweihandler.. two handed sword!
German's a pretty fun language.
Parents: **leave the house for 00000000.1 second**
My search history: 0:40
In all honesty, even though I'm a newcomer to the series, I enjoyed SCIV more than SCV - it felt more complete. Ivy has been toned way, way down. Which I kinda like, because she's the only one I like.
U have to play all the others
deadboy1026 I've heard good things, but I prefer Ivy in V. I've seen gameplay videos of her in previous games, and she does look really cool.
Sapphire. u got a weird fetish for ivy?lol
deadboy1026 I did state she was my main..
Sapphire. yea she has a interesting story if u have 360 u can buy 1&2 not sure if 1 is on ps3
I really miss Soul Calibur 3 times...... That legendary Chronicles Of The Sword mode. They created nothing like that after soul calibur 3, and the series continued to dumb down ever after.
TrojanPiece 6 is also good
@Arnez Willis I played a lot of SC4 on the 360. Loved using Yoshimitsu, Zasalamel, and Tira.
Wasn't SC3 the one that had Link in it on the GameCube?
@Arnez Willis It was 2, that's right. Guess I never even played 3, lol. I remember the Xbox version had Spawn and I was super jealous.
In my recommend 9 years later seems reasonable
None have ever compared to soul calibur 3 ;(
Story Wise Or Gameplay wise?
well, chronicle of the sword was fantastic, the character creation was (imo) better and the individual stories were much better told. I also kinda preferred the gameplay.
Yea I think 3 had the best Extra mode, and The one thing they should have kept was the exclusives styles that were solely for character creation, that was a nice touch.
I'm pretty cool with them all aside from 5 =/
xKingx16 Agree SC3 was and IS the best in the series so far. While the chronicle of the sword wasn't top notch, it was a great way to unlock the original combat styles for your created characters, as well as an excuse to create more characters (you could only make 10 in the Chronicles of the Sword, but another 10 outside). In addition the character creator is still much better since it's not heavily locked like in SC4 (and their stats) and in here, although it gives more possibilities on details and such.
Of course story mode was so good that it was enough for the purchase.
Personally I hate SC4 more than SC5: SC4 online was laggy as hell and the tower was...nothing great. I give more credit in SC5 at least for giving us a (very small) campaign...but a crappy arcade mode.
Yea SC3 was pretty awesome,I wish they had kept the exclusive styles in, it was awesome. Especially sense later games seems to kind of push toward creating a character,or at least I feel that way. SC5 had Devil Jin style which was alright,but more weapons would be cool.
I enjoyed SC4 alot,lol never understood the dislike for critical finishes?It was slower paced but I got over it, the online worked fine for me as did SC5, The thing I HATED about SC5 was, they removed moves,especially from Misturugi,Nightmare, whom are my mains.
and Taki was changed around more less. it was extremely frustrating seeing a shorter movelist.
I give SC4 more credit for having more content,and not messing up the gameplay. The story was always alright to me, but SC5 is just awkward,half done and bad.
The super bar was unneeded,guard impacting is stupid now.
I can get over a bad story with games,but if I can't enjoy the game-play overall, I don't have much reason to play.
The only reason I own SC5 now after returning it after owning it 3 days,was because it was on sale XBL for $3.74,and creation was still fun as hell.
Hey Joe the best SoulCalibur for character creation model was 3 because we where able to give our characters there own moves that where different from the real characters and it had some of the best office like models.
true story yo.
I remember when renting games was a thing... what glorious days those were...
I was just surprised how Joe got a refund from a Sonic game
11:00
So... Shia LaBeouf made the training mode?
3 hours for story mode?? I do it in 1h30!
I miss Talim, Yun Seong, Seong Mina, Sophitia, Cassandra, Zasalamel, and the Weapon Master and Chronicle of the Sword modes. Not to mention the Gallery. T_T I've never played SC IV so I just basically miss playing SC II and III.
And Taki :(, don't forget Taki
I like the way IGN put it. "Simultaneously the best and the worst game in the series." The things that it does right it does exceptionally well, but the things it does wrong it does abysmally awful.
WE need Roronoa Zoro cameo
"Z.w.e.i." is the German Word for "two".
I'd give it a 6/10, it wasn't bad, but it was a big stepback and it's definitely the worst in the series so far
When are you going to do the soulcalbur vi review?
What about soulcalibur VI
Soul calibur v is a joke. 4 was way better.
no three was
Soul Blade = damn I wish I had a quarter.
Soul Calibur = 👍
Soul Calibur 2 = My childhood
Soul Calibur 3 = Marry me.
Soul Calibur 4 = eh, it'll pass :)
Soul Calibur Broken Destiny = the fuck??? The story mode is just a long ass tutorial!!! you're lucky I can take you wherever I go.
Soul Calibur 5 = ....... So...... I guess this is it...... R.I.P.
Soul Calibur 6 =
June Of WRATH 6 better again
Thank you, Joe. That was fun.
EZIO! Anyone else notice whenever Ezio is in something or if his costume is in something he always has his AC Brotherhood suit.
Because his other suits suck balls
Mad Hatter It's the most iconic. I personally love every suit he had throughout the series. My personal favourite was his Revelations one simply because it looked like he was a truly experienced master assassin. Each to it's own but I really think you're being way too biased here as there's clearly a lot of effort put into each of his suits.
Zakusho Yes but clearly not many people at all like his first suit.
His revelations suit is pretty badass but i love the long dressy thing at the front of the brotherhood one. And it's the only pure red and white suit in the franchise and i love that colours
The Stoned Videogame Nerd no, it isn´t!besides, i liked his first outfit!
Mad Hatter black flag was the best costume
beaconcontrol inc. right...good luck with that.
I imagine Joe at the start of this whenever an anime character with dem mammaries appears
I could imagine what this game would have been like if they were able to finish the rest of the game.
The game would still be filled with extremely lame characters from Daishi Odashima's fanfiction, story mode would be lazy nevertheless and movelists still would be simplified, since that was main point of this game. The only good thing would be Zasalamel, since he was supposed to appear in the game.
The game wasn't complete. It was suppose to be four times bigger than SoulCalibur IV. The game was gonna have stories for each character too, instead of only playing with Good ole pattycakes, the most hated character of SoulCalibur V.
Your comment was pointless. Yes, I know all those things. By the way, the story mode was supposed to be four times bigger than it is, not than SC IV. Also, Patroklos is the most hated, but it doesn't mean anybody likes all those anime characters introduced by Daishi.
true
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By the way, Daishi Odashima, the guy who killed the series, was fired. I'm wondering why...
SC3 for PS2 actually had different character classes for creation mode. Quite a few actually. Even the existing classes in creation mode still had unique fighting moves and styles. Whereas this game just puts different skins on existing characters. I'm not impressed.
If you want to talk about an insane amount of content, SC3 for PS2 was hands down the best game of the series. It even had a freaking strategy/fighting game built in that was a lot of fun. The combat looked better... too many bright colors and flashing lights in the newer installments. Making a game prettier doesn't always equal better gameplay. They are freaking swordfighting. It's not a rave.
This is why anybody who calls SC4 or SC5 the best in the series, I want to kick in the nuts. I challenge any who say this to get ALL of the content in SC3. Guaranteed it will take you way longer than in these 2 games.
+ben scott Fuck yeah. This is 100% truth right here
i hate the combat for some reason because. its not responsive like the others. The Streetfighter style moves is stupid it basically stops your moves and they hit automatically if you are near them. The guard impact is more difficult to use in this than the past games. Its upsetting, majority the experience players and the soul fans hate this game because its like the old ones and attract the spammy Streetfighter fans
+ben scott
yup, SC3 had so much god-damn content, was super disappointed when SC4 came out.
There's nothing more to say...
Yeah but character balancing in SCIII is broken as hell, Abyss has ridiculous attack speed, Yoshimitsu can kill you with a few throws, etc.
SCV probably has the best gameplay par II
yeah cleary after 2 three next best thing could remake 2 and have stuff like 3 be best one of them all
When he yelled, "WHAT THE FUCK YOU DO IT YOU TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IM DOING AND WHY IT MATTERS!!!!" I lost my shit!!!!! That was hilarious!!!! :D
that angry review opening skit is definitely the best of all. his yelling of "BOOBIES!" gets me every time
SCV Incest confirmed shipping.
In all honesty I'm going to have to disagree on creating your own fighting style. Pretty much within seven seconds of giving the players that kind of control "Elite" players will optimize their style with moves that will either A. perpetually hit stun you and allow for brain dead links into easy infinite combos and/or B. cover every single base leaving no holes in there style which is the corner stone of fighting games, exploiting weaknesses. It will lead to just a clusterfuck of "Stop having fun" guys turning the game into an elitist and self destructive community. Just my two cents.
i agree but if they did implement a system for that, i think SC3 would be the optimal choice.
GrapeApe That's fair, I think you're right, I'm just saying that that system wouldn't work. But yes if you were to try it SC3 would be the best choice for it.
For soul caliber 5 they should have Brought back Chronicles of the sword and weapon master mode If I knew how to mod I would go ahead and rebuild this game from the ground up.
The game would be more enjoyable if Talim was still in it!
Haha, can't believe they left her out for this roster. She was the youngest yet mature character. I really love her design and moves too.
the brother and sister dialogue was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too close to incest about to happen.
and the story mode was frustrating with all the crazy boss spikes
lol it was awkward
You also gotta consider that it was made in Japan and they are cool with incest
Yea...they are cool with a lot of weird stuff ._.
*shivers* ..
My friend and I always played Soull Caliber 3 which in my opinion is definitly one of there best Soul Calibers because i really liked there character creation.
Yeah I loved Soul Calibur 3. Too bad my PS2 broke. Atleast I can download Soul Calibur 2 on PSN on my PS4
6 was a complete copy of 5 and actually pissed me off. Netherrealms needs to take a wack at soul calibur
Soul Calibur VI should bring back Weapon Master mode. Also, it should either let us build a fighting style, or bring back the styles from 3.
is at $5 bucks on Psn right now, only for this week
not even worth of $5
Hideki Takeshima reaching
Hideki Takeshima really... cmon you cannot say this game isnt worth 5$, why the hate?
perfectmarnon Must be one of the people who can't accept the new game because it's not like the older ones or what he's use to
darkeclipseXD Pretty muh this.
soul calibur 5 is a stain on the franchise. the graphics are the only redeemable quality. everything else about the game sucks: stiff movement, sucky new characters, halfbaked redesigns of old characters, that stupid fucking critical edge, and a super lazy uninspired story and arcade.
i would say, blazblue have a good "training" mode, with the characters challenges who pretty much teachs you a good amount of commands and combos for all characters.
The single player modes are crap, versus makes up for it, but would have been nice to have something like the adventure modes from the previous games that had some character advancement and light rpg elements.
The Nightmare final boss caused me to RAGE UNCONTROLLABLY. Don't take me for a rager I almost never do, but the difficulty spike was MASSIVE towards the end of the game.
Hardest boos I've ever fought is, get this. Volgog. Ever heard of him? I didn't think so. Out of the 10-15 times I fought him, I've one twice, because I out leveled him and used shit loads of health potions, a healing pet, and a whole bunch of other shit. Only problem is his level changes according to you level. I was level 59 and got my ass kicked after using all my potions, magic, skills, and other shit. WHen you find out who he is and what he's from, you'll laugh at me...
yup...
amohotepv I'm too old for this shit...
LOL same with Mortal Kombat
amohotepv I actually love AdventureQuest. I don't care what anyone says.
Soul Calibur 3 was the first of the series I played and it was just excellent all around. Excellent story, graphics, customization, fighting mechanics, and campaign mode. There were also many side games too. There was no pvp, which is also a plus.
I spent so many hours on that game.
Really wish Soul Calibur 6 would hurry up and be announced. I really missed this game. Story was AWFUL, but multiplayer and character creation is a lot of fun!
I'm all for a SCVI, but I think it's high time they did Soul Tag Tournament. Include every single fighter from every Soul game excluding licensed guest characters. It would be non-canon, and it would be awesome.
The only thing I really didn't like about SCIV was the fact that they had goddamn jedi with lightsabers and force powers. Starkiller especially was ridiculously cheap and annoying, and it pretty much ruined the entire game for me. I still need to play SCV. Or maybe just wait for SCVI.
The whole game was a glorified commercial for The Force Unleashed. And STILL it was better than Soul Calibur V.
+JLConawayII Yeah and Yoda had the cheapest hit boxes
Soul Calibur 4,1,2 and even 3 destroys 5. Soul calibur V has very interesting fighter designs but most of new characters suck ass and are weak. The Legendary souls mode is just unbeatable and Kilik is a ass along with the other all the OGs of the series. They all God like and they cant be grab or rarely be knock off for some reason. All they do hit the legs, hit you on the floor, and repeat
Arsu Bhai i quit trying to beat it, i almost beat Kilik until he started spamming the same moves in the last round. And the online is just like legendary hoes mode with bunch of cheaters using Asaroth,the random ricochet characters, and the other people using the same cheating moves. V doesn't exist to me that destroys everything soul calibur
+Mario “Mareo187” Sanon
Easily the hardest part of that game mode for me was Elysium. Every damn mistake I made was punished with a just-frame stab, with the just-frame pull out. Then we had Alpha Patroklos Edge Master, and just... ugh. He was easier because he'd spam the twirl which is super unsafe, but Elysium... god.
The only person I could really do this on was Natsu, and that was just because of her raw damage and speed. I'd suggest using her. Also, I think it's literally impossible to grab the CPUs in that mode. They brake it, and if it's a grab they can't break, they crouch it.
I just can't get into this game when there's only one story to play. Sticking with SCIII.
I'm just looking at all these comments hating on Soul Calibur V. Damn, there's a lot. I don't think the game is THAT bad. I mean, if you hate it that much, then that simply means you don't understand how to play.
theres few things I don't like which is the lack of defense and the arcade mode. acade mode is just shit. other than that I think the game is bad @$$. Asteroth is my most fav character in the game its about time that the big slow dudes show how difficult they can be. Im also glad that Nightmare is as difficult as he is too cause in street fighter or tekken if you play a big slow dude your bound to get your ass handed to you no matter how good you get.
Matt de rap Raponi Why would you play Arcade Mode? That's a waste of time, for me anyway. You play on Xbox LIVE or PlayStation Network?
Im on playstation. I dont play online cause I fel like I havent trained well enough yet. Im still tryin to get good with viola.
Lol today I just got my @$$ whooped by my brother today when I was playin earlier with Viola. I was like fuck it Im training !!
"then that simply means you don't understand how to play."
Uh, no. There are legitimate reasons that people hate this game, and Joe touched on ALL of them. Just because someone hates the game does not mean that they don't know how to play.
I prefer SC4's Guard Impacts over Just Guards in SC5. Really hope they bring that back (as well as all the characters axed off the list) in SC6. Until then, I'm just going to regular block and use all-out attacks as my strategy.
Here's an idea, Namco: Instead of taking out your popular characters and replacing them with clones nobody likes, how about you just leave your popular characters in?
First and only time I played this game was on a duel (the kind which you pay to enter annd then there's a prize for the winner), they let us practice against eachother for a while since we were the only two entries (me and some kid), I started winning the kid in a fair match...
until he uses nightmare or whatever he's called, then he spent like 30minutes fighting my by not even letting me get up, he just pressed the same fucking button for the whole fight and no matter what I choose I'd still have no chance, because I couldn't even get up.
By the time the duel started, he changed character.... TO DO THE SAME FUCKING THING
Then, after the torture I went through came the worst parts: The weird look the event manager (or whatever his job was) gave me as he let the other guy choose the prize (he even said "wow really?", he didn't even see the match he just showwed up to see the victory screen, so he will never know), then the kid choose the prize, which was one of a bunch of old and classic games, he ended up choosing a lame racing game for a platform he didn't even own (which annoyed me even more, since I had my eyes set on a Pokemon TCG game for pc)
tl:dr - got rekt by a noob, humiliated, didn't get shit
That's just horrible
***** ikr
Ugh, I know that feeling. When I was little I used to play fighting games with my cousin and he would always spam the SAME FREAKING MOVE in every match. I got irritated so I just started spamming the same move. He eventually learned his lesson, but the move spamming makes me afraid of competitive fighting games. I'm forever scarred for life...
IggKnight That feel...
darkdave1998 The pain is real, man.
The brother and sister characters are giving me Alabama vibes.
Nice review, although I'm surprised you didn't touch on another of the game's biggest issues: the removal of fan favorites from previous games. Even with the time skip, it still doesn't explain all the absences (especially Zasalamel...come on, the dude's an immortal).
Was I the only guy who liked the story mode? I actually thought it mirrored real history more so then previous games. I know that a lot of people hated Patroklos because of his "holier then thou" attitude in the initial levels and being a self proclaimed "holy warrior" who kills innocents, but what fans are forgetting is that in the real life 15th century there many self proclaimed "holy warriors" some of whom served the Spanish Inquisition. All of those warriors killed innocents who were suspected of serving the Devil or some other evil power.
There defiantly could have been more story and a few bits do seem rushed and I wish more of the new characters got more screen time, but I thought it was decent and besides, interactions between siblings can also be dramatic and heartwarming. It disgusts me that everyone thinks Patroklos and Pyyrha are going into an incestuous relationship. I've meet adult siblings who live together and they don't do incest at all. The Soul fanbase needs to do so some major maturing.
What makes you think fans are forgetting that? Just because there there were "holy warriors" in the past that killed innocents doesn't make Patroklos any more sympathetic and why would it? He straight up murders a guy in the street and shows no remorse because the man MIGHT have been infected. He acted on nothing more than an assumption and we're then supposed to root for and feel sorry him.
Corvidae
There are many video game heroes who started off a mass murderers. Kratos killed countless innocents durring his service to Ares, and probably the majority of humanity in GOW3. Is he a hated character? No.
Dante Alighieri from Dante's Inferno The Game killed 3000 unarmed civilians in the name of God just because they were not Christian, and then framed his best friend and future brother-in law for the crime. Is he a hated character? No, in fact in the game he unknowingly redeemed himself by freely admitted he is beyond redemption.
Patroklos kills one guy because he looks different and everyone hates him for that? I refuse to buy it. Besides, all those games I mentioned took place in the past. GOW is in ancient Greece, Dante's Inferno is in the Crusades, and SCV is in 1607. As I mentioned before, in the 1600's there many self proclaimed Holy Warriors who killed innocents who were suspected of being involved with devils.
And don't forget, he learned the hard way that that his victims were humans. Nightmare tricked him into killing those people. He regrets his actions which is one of his motivators. And if your going to come at me with the whole "But he abandoned his sister when he learned she was malfested!" Anyone would be terrified if they learned that someone in their family was some sort of unholy creature. The shock he gets from the revelation triggers an adrenaline rush which activates the fight or flight response, and this would happen to anyone in the same situation. Besides, just after that he immediately starts looking for a way to correct his error and save Pyyrha.
By the end he has learned from his mistakes and has become a true hero. He accepts Pyyrha and vows to make amends. Plus, he and Pyyrha destroy Soul Edge and Soul Calibur, ending the conflict between the Soul Swords and avenging countless lives lost in their war. If that is not an act of true heroism I don't know what is.
***** Remember, they only show Patroklos kill one person, but we know for a fact that he's killed more. The difference is that neither Kratos nor Dante are meant to be sympathized with. The course of the God of War games makes it very apparent that Kratos is an awful person that does awful things all because he wants revenge. By the end of GoW 3 he has reduced the world to being almost unlivable and the only thing he is ever commended on is releasing hope to the world. Dante's wife being taken by Satan is also directly his fault and we're frequently reminded of that. We are not supposed to forget they have done these terrible things because we are regularly reminded of the what they've done in the past.
Patroklos' awful actions combined with his arrogant and pompous attitude make's him extremely difficult to root for. Dante has the bonus of regretting the things the things he's done and he carries that regret. Kratos is called out for his selfishness multiple times and tries to make up for in the end Patroklos however, may realize the things he's done were wrong, but he immediately moves past any regret he may have had and continues to whine about his sister the rest of the time.
It's not even clear if Pat became a "true hero". He never really makes up for any of the bad things he did and we're never shown if he does. Dante may have killed hundreds but we also see he also see has the ability to help by freeing the souls of people from their torture in hell. He also saves the soul of his wife even though he doesn't get to be with her afterward. Even Kratos sacrifices himself for the good of humanity. How does Patroklos saving one person make up for what he's done?
Corvidae
By destroying both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur, ending the conflict between them that has ended possibly millions of lives. As for the whole whining BS, anyone would behave that way if they were in a similar situation. And as I mentioned in the last comment, Nightmare tricked Pat into killing those people, just as many high ranking people in history ordered people to be killed.
If your going to come at me with the whole "But he's also gullible and easy to fool.". Let me remind you that in real life people ARE easily fooled and tricked. We humans are not the perfect beings we like to think of ourselves as, and 1607 had a A LOT of brutal behavior from humanity.
You can't expect a game that's set in 1607 to have an environment that behaves like a modern day setting with modern day values. It would have to behave as close to the real historical 1607 as possible so that the environment stays true.
This is the reason SCV's story mode worked for me. Because it mirrored real life and real history far more so then previous games. I understand it's meant to be fantasy, but just because something is fantasy does not mean the characters have to behave in a fantasy esque way.
One example of a fantasy game having more realistic themes is the current Heroes of Might and Magic continuity. In case you don't know, Heroes of Might and Magic is a turn based medieval fantasy strategy game. After 3DO, the original company that made the games went bankrupt, they sold the franchise to Ubisoft who erased the continuity and created a new one with completely new characters and a completely new world, but the gameplay stayed the same.
One of the major differences was the human faction. In the past 3DO games, the humans were always a very King Arthur or Gondor style, always wanting to do the right thing and representing everything good about humanity. But in the new continuity, they are still ultimately a protagonist faction, but they behave more in the way real kingdoms in the Medieval era behaved. There is a clear cut hierarchy, lower class people, especially the peasants are not always treated fairly or nicely, the army is fueled by conscription, the Church is the great political authority and anyone who does not follow their teachings runs the risk of being put on trial for heresy.
Yet despite all of that, they are still one of the protagonist factions as they do fight fiercely against the demon faction who desire the end of all life and they also have good relationships with the other protagonist factions. Having a protagonist with flaws to them does not make them less of a protagonist, it makes them human.
***** The fact that that he was fooled into doing what he did doesn't absolve him of his wrong doing. Seigfried was the original main character of the series and literally had no choice in what he was doing during his time as Nightmare. Despite the fact he wasn't even in control of himself he still makes the decision to dedicate his life to making up for what he did. Even sacrificing himself in his ending in to SC4 get rid of Soul Edge. Pat however is content with living out the rest of his days with sister as if nothing happened. Also, considering Pyrrah's deformations from Soul Edge didn't reverse once it was destroyed it like Siegfried's did and the fact that Soul Edge was supposedly destroyed before, it's unlikely that the conflict is even actually over.
In addition when I brought up his whining I was referring to him only caring about getting sister while completely disregarding the multiple people he murdered.
Z.W.E.I. is "Zvi", not "Zway". Zwei is German for the number "2"
Zwei is pronounced "Tch-vie". Like "pizza". And "aye".
Archaos Sephiroth no, unless it for some reason isn't German
Yes.
translate.google.com/?source=osdd#auto/en/zwei
Click the megaphone icon.
As someone who actually speaks German, I can tell you it is pronounced "Zvi". Who ya gonna listen to, a computer or a guy who actually knows the language?
Also, that thing supports what I'm saying, so...
Soul calibur 3 character creator had like 8 original styles...even if it was a similar weapon they'd still fight differently with it they need to invest in that more
The years before Angry Joe had an Adams Apple! Who's watching in 2020?
Joe why not do a review on another namco fighting game like TEKKEN 6 or TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2 ? I think those 2 games might be fun for you to review I mean I find them fun to play :)
This guy..... is basically asking for xenoverse or naruto storm 1
+Jordan Morales Xenoverse is good but Naruto Strom is a big fat ugly shit on screen.
+Jordan Morales i have not seen you in forever but i did not expect to see you on here.
And this is why I stick to Soul Calibur IV. And II. Those were actually fun.
And each character had HD cutscenes for their ending, which was awesome.
Now that SC6 is coming, lets just forget SC5 even existed...
I was really disappointed in SCV because I was always a very defensive player that would try to create an opening for solid attack combos. My mains for this were Kilik, Seong Mi-na, and Yun-Seong. Load up this version and not only has Guard-Impact been almost completely nerfed to the ground, but Seong Mi-na and Yun-Seong are gone, Kilik is now a mimic and the closest style to his (Xiba) just doesn't have the same kind of flow. I got through the story easily enough and actually kind of liked the twist that Soul Calibur herself is the final boss, but as soon as I hit the online, I quickly dropped it as none of my good characters were around.
Let me guess, You got ranged to death? Same problem. Game has too many range specials now.
Not even. I saw what everyone could do and respected that, it's just that ALL of my good characters were gone and I just cbf to get to that same level of mastery with new guys because I figured by the time I got good enough with them to actually be able to stand against others again, SCVI would be out.
I'm fine with the ranges different people have (mained Kilik and Seong Mi-Na for Algol's sake). It's just that having almost every skill I've learned since '96 swept out from under me all at once...kind of sucked.
Shadow11990 Talking about the two emos One with the magic dodgeball and the other with the fail yugioh monster who look like they belong in a final fantasy game.
Staffs are fine,but getting poked by range missiles pisses me off. (one of the reasons I hated injustice)
Specially considering their win lines are so...Smug. I've been talk shit to but never on the level of bored these two do.
Also, the controls in 5 are actually stiff. Like really stiff. Like, I can't duck.
And in the argo style the game wants you to play, rangies bully way to hard, considering they only need to know the forward and back for Dodgeball and the grab for wolf guy. To stomp you.
It is like having 2 bloody death strokes.
When evil is gone, good is there to take it's place.
They took away Talim, and for that I will never forgive them.
2019 anyone ?
I agree about the tutorial in fighting game problem. I have played several fighting games, and so few seem to be able to get it right. Early Soul Caliber games, and super smash of all things seem to have the best tutorials.