I became awesome at Soul Calibur 2 after spending heaps playing it at the arcades. I bought it the PS2 version so I could fine tune my madskillz at home and I played it to the point of thoroughly knowing the ins and outs of every character. My difficulty setting was on the highest which was called Extreme or Expert or something to that effect, and it was still pretty easy.

After SC3 was announced as a console-only game, I lost a lot of interest the series. They're still good games, but for me, the real fun came from playing it in the arcade environment. I still bought SC3, but was disappointed with a lot of the characters' changes (particularly Ivy) and only ended up refamiliarising myself with my two favourites (Cass and Siegfreid). The difficulty setting had to go down to Very Hard. It's stayed there for SC4 as well.