» Login to reply to this

» Login to reply to this

Aftermath (181)    Aug 28, 2008 - 02:12 pm

Are the fighters balanced out more? SC 3 kind of fell through on that department and my only qualm left with the game is wether or not the fighters are ALL viable or if three fighters (raphael and mitsurugi come to mind) still own all the others. » Login to reply to this  mr.wielder (1394)   Aug 28, 2008 - 06:30 pm The fighters do seem very balanced with the obvious exception of Yoda who's really there just for kicks, you can't throw him ... but it's really funny to stomp him into the ground with Sigfried. IMO, SoulCaliber series has gotten more balanced with each iteration. SC1 was the most focused with fewer characters, but I fondly remember 8-man random team battles where I drew Cervantes as my first character and completely destroyed my friend's entire squad. SC3 spread itself very thin with all the character additions, bonus characters, creation mode, etc, so while I don't have a strong opinion, it did seem balanced just a little too much going on. SC4 feels like a return to the focus and speed of SC1 but with all the variety of SC3. On top of that the game really does look fucking incredible in motion. So anyway the game rocks. Oh yea I forgot a (-), which is that I tried online play, and it's pretty much a total bust because even the slightest lag can fuck up your movements BADLY and the match becomes a pointless mash-fest where you don't really know what's going on. Another (+) though would be the way they have continued to diversify the move-lists between similar characters like Kilik/Seung Mina, Nightmare/Sigfried, Lizardman/Sophitia. In the first games these comparisons were basically just re-skins with slightly different styles. » Login to reply to this  mr.wielder (1394)    Aug 28, 2008 - 11:20 pm | Edited on Aug 28, 2008 - 11:55 pm I was re-reading my comment and I wasn't very clear on one point, the 8-man random team battles I was talking about could be construed another way, but what I meant was the mode that let you 1 vs. 1 against someone with 8 random characters each, and you didn't know who you were getting next at any point. It was completely awesome and the best optional mode ... the original Dreamcast version did it so right, but they forgot about it after that. I am going to hold out hope that they might just like patch it in, they can do that now right?? » Login to reply to this  Aftermath (181)    Aug 28, 2008 - 06:46 pm I'm glad to hear about the lizardman/cassandra issue. And I won't be playing any fighting games online until I get a direct fiberoptics line to my house :D » Login to reply to this

Labotomizer (989)    Aug 27, 2008 - 04:53 pm

Better blocking and timing than SC2? God, this may be the first game that not having a 360 or PS3 is really going to bother me. I love fighting games and SC2 is probably my favorite still. Gamecube, of course, as Link was the man. » Login to reply to this  mr.wielder (1394)   Aug 28, 2008 - 09:15 am The timing is a little faster than SC2 on the guarding, feels as fast as SC1/SC3 to me. With SC2 I felt they changed the timing a little too much and the art direction was a little regressive from the DC version. They made up for it with SC3 though. » Login to reply to this  DemBones79 (226)    Aug 27, 2008 - 05:15 pm Link was a cheeseball and the GC version's AI was asleep at the wheel. My friend got the GC version and when he came over and was playing on my Xbox, all the cheesy moves he developed wouldn't last past the first few tries with the AI. They learned and adapted. » Login to reply to this  Labotomizer (989)    Aug 28, 2008 - 12:15 pm I was never terribly interested in what the AI did. The only point was Weapon Master mode and that was just to unlock stuff for VS. Link was superior to Spawn or Hihachi. I'm really not sure why AI would be a factor in what's good about a fighting game though. It's all about playing against other people, the AI pales in comparison. » Login to reply to this

DemBones79 (226)     Aug 27, 2008 - 10:01 am | Edited on Aug 27, 2008 - 10:02 am

(-) What's with the environmental creatures that don't react at all to the fight? Yeah really... saw more crowd reaction in SFII. » Login to reply to this

» Login to reply to this

DemBones79 (226)     Aug 27, 2008 - 06:39 am

Just for the record, he did mention Tower mode. But still, I agree. Most of the comments were relegated to the "let's lament the woefully pathetic story" and "omg there's 5t4r W0rz!" categories. It's a fighting game. Let's talk balance. Let's talk about set pieces, variety, gimmicks, characters, etc. The new Soul Gauge gets a mention. But that's it. That's okay, though. I stopped coming to FS for game reviews a long time ago. Stick to hardware and First Person Shooters, guys. It's what you're best at. » Login to reply to this

shl0791 (547)   Aug 26, 2008 - 08:09 pm

+1 but then again, This is HIS review. So his comments are just as valid. Not everyone kicks ass at beating the snot out of other people like you and I (I guess). » Login to reply to this

» Note: You need to be logged in to write a comment!