Soul Calibur III

[-Advent-]

Character creation is going to cater more toward the crowd that prefers to play their games solo. Fighting games tend to get really stale in single player mode, so character creation will be a lot of fun. Plus, it's fun to mess around and battle your friend's creation against your own (hopefully there's some sort of 'import' feature).

Yeah, I'm sure they could do that in an arcade version. Konami used it for Dance Dance Revolution, there's no reason Namco couldn't use it here.

Also, I find that custom characters are a lot more fun with other players involved. Sort of a "so this is what I did, what do you do? COOL!" My friend Tracy and I used to do nothing with wrestling games besides the create-a-wrestler function. It got to the point where we were so into each others creations that we titled it our own federation. I suspect this feature will lead to much the same thing. We'll probably use many of the same characters FOR THE MOST INSANE CROSSOVER BATTLE OF THE CENTURY!!!! Are you ready to fight? SWF vs. Soul Calibur!!!! FIGHT OF THE MILLENIUM DREAM MATCH BATTLE!!!

I think lag has something to do with it. DOA and Mortal Kombat aren't the most technical of fighters... so they'd be more forgiving of any sort of lag. Namco doesn't seem to want to risk it on current platforms, so we'll probable have to wait until the next Tekken or SC on PS3 before we'll see online in their games.

[DJZen]

I wasn't talking about online play, I was talking about arcade machines with card readers built in. Online play in arcades is an idea that people have toyed around with, but it's just not considered a good idea.

[KentaRawr!]

I, personally, hope that this game is more like Soul Calibur 1 than Soul Calibur 2.

The Art Direction seemed to be much better in SC1, and also the Music. But that is just my opinion.

[General-Beatrix]

What happened to him there?? It was either Psy or DMKA who was behind him..

It actually looks like he was "flirting" with her and she didn't want that.