Soul Calibur, yeah!

[KentaRawr!]

Anyone else here big fans of the series? I've really enjoyed them since Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast, but I also really enjoy Soul Blade on the PSX since I finally got introduced to it. I've not been super fond of the series since 4, which I think has a lot to do with the lack of fulfilling single player content. For some reason, even though it's a fighting game series, I always kind of saw the VS mode as the multiplayer mode to a primarily single player experience, which is part of why Soul Calibur 3 is one of my favorite games in the series even with the balance issues. I've always wished that the series would do more to expand on the story, and my favorite character, Maxi, seemed to get the same story repeated since 2, which was unfortunate. Plus why did Bangoo never become playable? That's unfair.

Anywho, how do y'all feel about Soul Calibur? Awesome? Not so awesome? Your least favorite game series ever? Tell me!

P.S. If there's never a Tekken Tag-style Soul Calibur game I'm gonna weep.

[Mirage]

My favourite fighting game series. Too bad it took a nose dive

[Colonel Angus]

I played a couple of them & enjoyed them a lot. I had the one on GameCube w/ Link. The controls weren't that great (mostly the spring-loaded triggers being an issue), but it was fun. I also got the next one on the PS2, which I remember having a pretty good CAC.

[maybee]

Love this series- I love SC V the most because I love because the design your own character system, that has improved greatly from SC III and it's great to just spend hours to create all your OCs into the video game.

[escobert]

My favourite fighting game series. Too bad it took a nose dive

II is my favorite.

[Formalhaut]

Isn't this the game series with all the hilarious cameos? And the lady with the overly marketed breasts?

[Colonel Angus]

And the lady with the overly marketed breasts?

I never heard of them referred to as that.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

But he is still correct. Probably NSFW.

My favorite is Soul Caliber 2.

[Formalhaut]

[QUOTE=sharkythesharkdogg;3562256]But he is still correct. Probably NSFW.

Oh gosh. Me and Pumpkin bonded over our mutual loathing of this poster.

[KentaRawr!]

She doesn't even feature heavily in the story of that game. She just shows up like "hey you in the woods? Me too. Hey I've got a credits screen wanna see?" And then bloop the chain of events to the end of the game.

[Pete for President]

Soul Blade and II are my favourite. There was something about the world traversing kinda thing of those I really enjoyed. I think they ditched it in 3 and that's when I lost interest.

[KentaRawr!]

They had a miniature version of it in 3 in the form of the Tales of Souls mode, I think. Each one was about as long as the Edge Master Mode from Soul Blade, but you didn't collect weapons and you couldn't save. It was also significantly easier, and thus took less time to complete.

[Leigh]

Original Soul Blade for the win. Takes me right back!

[Aulayna]

I loved this series. Right up until SCIV. SCIV and SCV were just dire.

I want them to go back to providing a fleshed out single-player experience again, not just focusing heavily on online multiplayer.

The Edge Master mode of Soul Blade, the adventure in SCII and the quasi-RTS mode in SCIII were what I loved the most. Not paying full price for a shell of an arcade experience and then a million online versus variations with unexciting unlocks.

[Depression Moon]

Isn't No-Mercy the biggest Soul Calibur fan on this site?

I like the series a lot too. I started with the first on Dreamcast and been a fan since then. II was the best of the ones I played. The combat felt perfect. III was a step back and for some reason they seem to continually take out moves from Ivy's movelist since then. I skipped IV, but V played more like II. My only deal with it was the roster. I didn't like anyone except for Ezio. There were a couple of playstyles I liked, but I didn't like any of their designs. Xiba is a terrible replacement for Kilik. With the poll they held earlier this year, maybe VI would bring back the better characters and have a proper Kilik again.