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I work at a video game store, and though I tend to hate almost half of the people that walk into the place, I have still retained my love for games. Anybody who can work in a game store for two years and still love video games deserves a gold medal, in my opinion.
I got crazy awesome deals, so I do own all 3 consoles. Not much for computer gaming.

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I understand that Soul Calibur is an arcade game. It's not made to be an RPG-style
sit-down-and-build-your-file-for-a-few-hours kind of game. With that said, maybe I was just playing it wrong, but there just doesn't seem to be a whole lot to it.
I didn't play Soul Calibur III. But I played the hell out of II, I probably had around 60 hours logged into that fucker.
I remember in II, you had to be good with a character, and beat their story in the weird adventure mode before you could even think about having Soul Edge as a weapon.
So why is it that when I boot up the game and play through "story mode" (someone explain the difference between story and arcade mode?) as Maxi (yes, I play as Maxi) ONCE, which takes a whole ten minutes, I now have the ability to purchase (for a fairly low price) Soul Edge?

With that aside, the fighting was all excellent. Much better than II. All of the characters looked gorgeous and moved extremely well. I was very impressed with the fighting.
Character customization was meh. Being able to change the pitch of my character's voice doesn't really matter to me when everything he says is either "Verily, the night doth become thine suffering!" or "That sure was easy, I'm a cocky douchebag."

I'll still probably buy it, because I'm still a sucker for Soul Calibur.
I would just like more things to work for in the game. Weapons and such.



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Yeah I didn't really like it much either. Alot of what I loved to do in SC3, you cant do in this. Im in it to win it, and if I cant skillfully cheeze the shit outa someone then what is there left fighting for?
Cuz story wise, Algol has the Soul Edge -and- Soul Calibur?

They essentially chose to focus on Custom Characters and Online (which is done admirably well).

It really is unforunate how fast one can burn through just about everything single-player. Though the meat of Single-Player has to be the Tower of Lost Souls. Getting all the chests can be tricky.

I personally would've liked atleast a never-ending arcade mode like Tekken tends to have due to the sheer briefness of the other modes.
Agreed with both. Is your username from the anime/manga Gantz?
yeah, i'm still waiting on my blowjob too.
oh shit! wrong blog..er wait...nevermind, still on topic
i've watched the whole gantz box set. the episodes when they fight the robot bird alien thing were boring but the last episodes were pretty good. also i love zasalmel or whatever. i win with him :D
Wow, fail. I enjoy tat you don't have to work as much for the unlocks. I HATE having to unlock shit. I paid $60 for the game, I want all the toys and doo-dads to play with NOW. I shouldn't have to grind grind grind for money to buy character creator pieces.
Yeah, I agree with air tire.
@Extra
Indeed it is!
Yea, it didn't do it for me either, the A.I is insane even on the easiest difficulty levels, get all the treasure chests is a huge pain in the ass with the vague clues and sometimes impossible to do objectives and the netcode is complete and utter shit.

Stat distribution among the items is retarded to, I try to make my character look normal and I take a bump in HP, I make her look totally stupid with mismatched outfits and exposed skin and suddenly I have 2 lifebars.

Traded it to a friend for Brawl.
I am still buying this... because the main thing I loved about SCII was IN the actual arcade. I played the hell out of it... expensive tho.

Does this have a ranking system like that? I think I was sword of the platnum dragon or... something along those lines.

It is a shame to hear the story mode is rather weak... but online play was very important to me.

In any event, thanks for the heads up.
Aertyr: I actually have to disagree, sometimes, to unlock everything, you have to do ridiculous stunts that sap the fun out. So in the end I can't have access to everything because I didn't get platinum medals in every level in the game on ultra-hard mode. Heck, sometime I don't buy a game for the singleplayer anyway (smash bros), so why do I have to spend so much time in singleplayer?

Actually I think a fair compromise would be to have a button in options that unlocks everything, but puts the message "You're a pussy" under your username or something. Or have an exclusive achievement for unlocking everything without the button.
The gameplay is fantastic. Got a copy last night and turned it on, received an achievement for just scrolling in the menu, then I start the story.... 5 minutes later.... I finished the game.... what the fuck? Tried again, 5 minutes to finish. Tried with 10 characters on Normal..... 5 minutes. So I figure I will try on Hard because that will probably show the entire story.... no sir, sorry sir; 5 minutes yet again.

Love the customization and gameplay but the story mode... fucking what a crock of shit
I didn't dig this either. Either I had to go through the brutal Tower and unlock new stuff, or get achievements that I'll never achieve and get new stuff.

SCIII was buggy, and full of crap, but man, it was much more fun on single player.
Everything about the game is amazing except the singleplayer, which is horrible :(
you people are completely insane. all of you.

"the A.I is insane even on the easiest difficulty levels,"

jesus christ you must just be terrible at it, because it's 10x easier than sc 1.

"I would just like more things to work for in the game. Weapons and such."

lol, wat? no seriously, I think you were playing the wrong game. there are hundreds of items

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