Yeah. It was called SC3: Arcade Edition. It was played in one SBO. The glitches were ironed out. Better yet, they did the unthinkable: Hwang and Li Long as legitimate characters with movesets, not based on weapon movelist.
What Namco should do.
- Go back to Soul Calibur 1.
- Update the graphics.
- Add maybe a few of the SC2/3 characters. Not guest characters. Find a way to make them work in the SC1 engine.
- Stable netplay.
- Release on PS3/360.
Million dollar seller, and best fighting game of this generation, easy.
Agree 100%. I never played soul Calibur competetively, but 1 was my favorite and then 2. 3 was ehh and 4 I barely played.
Something I mentioned, when I was trolling on 8WayRun about 2 weeks ago was that the series really needs to start from scratch. Eliminate a lot of the new faces and really solidify the engine, then build upon that for a possible SC6. I was flamed to death for saying get rid of Nightmare and keep Siegfried.
For whatever reason, the community doesnt believe its possible to make the story center around someone else, ie: Siegfried. Its just a storyline for fucks sake, you could say the armor of Nightmare exploded or anything ridiculous.
Fact of the matter is, I much rather have the SC1 roster, minus so many duplicate faces…Night or Sieg gas to go. Asty or Rock has to go Mina or Kilik has to go…etc etc
EDIT: damn someone already said it and I didnt even notice.
I feel like characters like Talim and Sophitia have too much of a following, but arent important to the story at all.
The problem is developers are too chicken shit to remove characters because they feel like they alienate their fanbase, and then you end up with giant rosters where only 6 or 7 are even competitive any fucking ways.
I feel like I make sense but they never listen to me.
I would like to see a company take some of the ideas here seriously for once and see how it turns out. Ofcourse not everything suggested on these boards is a good idea but whatevs…
They wont tho. Thats the sad part. They will pack on more stupid characters to the SC4 roster ie: “Dampierre” or whatever his name was from the PSP version of SC4.
Joke characters dont belong in fighters like SC. Its just getting ridiculous and its degrading the whole feel of the series.
I would argue that joke character dont belong in any fighter but it seems im alone on this one sometimes.
I am definitly against cutting any characters for fighting games, there is no reason for it as long as those characters have unique move sets. The story line shouldnt be a reason since a character doesnt have to be part of the story to be available in VS mode.
The main reason why I dislike this is because usually they’ll cut a character and introduce a new face with a similar move set so whats the point. And when they dont have a new face to rep the character that was cut you lose a gameplay style and what it could’ve evolved into in future games.
Forgot to say with all of this in mind, adding a new character should be given alot of thought and made as unique as possible.
So you’re okay with this shit in Tekken and not in SC. GOOD SHIT FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS! LOL.
Anyway,
SC2 was also my first. I feel Ivy in SC2 was kinda dumb. Like she could poke you all day from across the screen and she had a fast, good range step killer that led into half life. They made her less silly in SC3. She’s more based on good spacing and using that to setup her command grabs. Playing against a good Ivy in SC3:AE is amazing.
I can’t find many vids of him but here are some of Isabella Neo. Easily the best Ivy in SC3:AE.
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And his top 8 match in SBO against the eventual winner.
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And yes. The dude actually acts kinda like this in real life. He’s awesome.
Bolded are the people who should go. 
And yes, despite the high level of ability the artist they’ve got doing SCIV’s work has…kick that fucker and his DOA bullshit out. NOW. Ice armor Sieg, Chinese assassin Kilik and Dracula cloak Raph look pimp…but the females don’t get remotely that well treated. They get “derp derp bigger bubz and less clothes = new design”, which fucking sucks. The only girl who didn’t get screwed over design-wise is Hilde.
Only Tekken at its worst is still way better than Soul Calibur. So wheres the double standard? Soul Calibur doesnt have the luxury to fit between the lines.
Theres no need to remove any characters from the series and start bare bones because Tekken 6 doesnt suck. Neither did 5, and compared to whats out there, 4 wasnt that bad either, minus Jin. SC has been on the decline since SC1.
Okay dude.
Like I said before can’t say much about SC3 since I skipped that one. But after watching those vids it seems like Ivy is still fundamentally the same.
Well apparently I cant be too wrong since Namco cared enough to take what was left on Project Soul and put them on the Tekken 7 project.
That sort of thing doesnt usually happen with a flagship title. Not to mention Almost every competitive fighting game out has had a sequel announce if not released since Soul Calibur 4. Continuim Shift, SSFIV, Virtual Fighter, MvC3.
Might I remind you people were boo-ing last year at Evo when they were playing SC4. If thats not the nail in the coffin I dont know what is.
lol. Farpenoodle, I don’t why you do it anymore. You know so much more about Soul Calibur than most people on here, but if they still talk to you like you know nothing. It’s the same few people arguing about SC1 over SCIV. FFS…
It goes like this:
- Thread made by some sincerely seeking knowledge.
- Someone attempts to answer.
- The same few tools that think they know it all come in and post.
- Someone says they like SC1/2 because the music and stages were better.
- Farpenoodle, who is a well known player comes in and drops knowledge.
- Those same tools either ignore him or dance around the points he tries to make.
- Another top player will come in to back him up.
- The other player also gets ignored.
- Blah, blah, blah about how much people hate tits.
- Everyone gets bored and leaves.
Also, newflash! The series went crazy when SC2 came out. It was always meant to be over the top. Actually SC2 was so over the top I’m pretty sure Project Soul was trying to make a kinda 3D Guilty Gear style where everyone is super idiosyncratic and different. There is not one character in SCIV that play similar to another, which is more than can be said for Tekken. Anyway, I hope they make another SC game but just refine SCIV instead of scrappig everything they have created so far. Most players disliked Guilty Gear Slash but if ASW scrapped the game afterwards we would have never had Accent Core which was amazing.
Farpenoodle, don’t waste your breath.
People often boo-ed Sagat in Vanilla SF4 too. As people boo-ed Hilde in Evo. And wow look! Not a single Hilde in top 3. THE MARK OF A TERRIBLE GAME FOR SURE.
I wouldn’t consider myself well known or a top player. Just relatively knowledgeable since I actually like to give most games a chance. I’m actually perfectly fine with most people saying they don’t like SC4. Because that’s an opinion. But as soon as people start trying to back up that opinion with misinformation I get all mad and feel an obligation to correct it. Lol.
You’re in Team Shen, right? If that’s correct then you guys are indeed pretty well known. Don’t sell yourself short.
Thanks. I didn’t think anyone outside of the SC community knew about us. Or that anyone would somehow manage to connect my SRK name to it. Lol. That said, I really am relatively average as a player in most of the games I play. Let’s put it this way. I probably haven’t had a true main game in 2 or 3 years. Lol.
Just on record, I loved the hell out of SCIV. I just mock the art style because well, parts of it deserve mockery.
You can tell yourself that people hate on the game because they know nothing about it, or that its because SRK hates everything that its related to SF but the truth is 3 and 4 are just not a good games, and the series is turning to shit with each iteration. Of course this is my opinion, but fact of the matter is there isnt even a Soul Calibur team at the moment, they are now part of Tekken’s team, and that speaks volumes.
So maybe you shouldnt waste your time, but its not because nobody on SRK “gets” Soul Calibur. Thats pretty pretentious.
The fact that the SC team is now part of Tekken’s team makes me sad, honestly. I think T6 sucks, and don’t hold much hope for 7 either.