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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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.
Indeed it is!
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.
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.
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.
Love the customization and gameplay but the story mode... fucking what a crock of shit
SCIII was buggy, and full of crap, but man, it was much more fun on single player.
"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