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Soul Calibur 3 hasnt done well. People hate best of breed games now?
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Widfara said:
Well it flopped badly in the UK. It didnt even chart in the Full price top 40 let alone all top 40. :lol
Which means no one brought the game. No hype, nothing for this game. I was thinking sony might promote exclusives for christmas since MS are launching but guess not. The delays of games to 2006 might be smart.
CO_Andy said:
I disagree. Maybe i should post the thread title in my post too?
MaestroRyan said:
Really cool game but not PS2 GOTY.
MightyHedgehog
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Namco fucked up and made it for just one system after making the series multiplatform with the second one. At least, that's my opinion. The game itself is pretty good, though.
Red Scarlet
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CO_Andy said:
:lol
AndoCalrissian
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Maybe it should have been released for all 3 consoles, so those who enjoyed SCII on Xbox and GCN can enjoy it on those consoles.
I dunno. I just think as a franchise it isnt in the same position as DOA or Tekken. SC still needs establishing since its sold well on DC, Xbox and Gc all of which are not so active right now. PS2 gamers know about Tekken but few know about SC still. GC owners know about Smash Bros. and Xbox owners DOA. Maybe thats the case? Shame its not doing well i dont want to see this franchise disappear.
I'm into multiplayer games mostly. Thats why i like BF2 so much.
But SC3 has furshading.
Error2k4 said:
I'm into multiplayer games mostly. Thats why i like BF2 so much.
MaestroRyan said:
But SC3 has furshading.
Soul Calibur was amazing for its time, totally blew me away. And I hate 3D fighters, so it took something special to catch my eye.
Soul Calibur II was more of the same, I played it a bit and never got into it.
I didn't even know Soul Calibur III came out until my friend bought it. The best part is watching the male dancer fight. I thought it was pretty bland.
Soul Calibur II was more of the same, I played it a bit and never got into it.
I didn't even know Soul Calibur III came out until my friend bought it. The best part is watching the male dancer fight. I thought it was pretty bland.
Legal Step
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That game should be 30.00...
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In a series a games sales are largely due to the games that preceded them. For example.
MGS2 - Highly anticipated, sold very well, got a bad overall rep
MGS3 - Amazing game, much better than MGS2, sold only about 1/2 the amount
Soul Calibur 2 - Highly anticipated, sold very well, some were disapointed, said it felt like SC1 , not improved enough graphics, no noteworthy additional modes
Soul Calibur 3 - Sells more poorly after SC2 didnt deliver as many hoped
Halo - Amazing game, nuff said
Halo 2 - Sold assloads. Many people love it. It's a great game. But some feel it wasnt enough of an improvement on Halo 1. Interesting to see if it's popularity increases or not with Halo 3.
There are plenty more examples I'm sure you can think of. Basically if people werent completely satisfied with a previous game it can make people shy away from further sequels, even though the preceding game was a smashing sales success and the new game is generally regarded to be superb. Though everyone doesnt seem to view SC3 as superb. Never played it personally.
MGS2 - Highly anticipated, sold very well, got a bad overall rep
MGS3 - Amazing game, much better than MGS2, sold only about 1/2 the amount
Soul Calibur 2 - Highly anticipated, sold very well, some were disapointed, said it felt like SC1 , not improved enough graphics, no noteworthy additional modes
Soul Calibur 3 - Sells more poorly after SC2 didnt deliver as many hoped
Halo - Amazing game, nuff said
Halo 2 - Sold assloads. Many people love it. It's a great game. But some feel it wasnt enough of an improvement on Halo 1. Interesting to see if it's popularity increases or not with Halo 3.
There are plenty more examples I'm sure you can think of. Basically if people werent completely satisfied with a previous game it can make people shy away from further sequels, even though the preceding game was a smashing sales success and the new game is generally regarded to be superb. Though everyone doesnt seem to view SC3 as superb. Never played it personally.
Kiriku said:
What you are saying is silly as you could say that about every PS2 game now. This is the sweet spot period where you get a ton of great games before we start moving to next gen. Game quality suffers the start of each gen. Namco take turns between Tekken and SC. Each gen is roughly 5 years. SC had its turn now its Tekken turn to debut on next gen first.Y ou will get your next gen SC anyway after Tekken 6.
They did improve things in SC3. Gameplay and content wise this is a bigger jump in most ways than SC1 to SC2. Technical graphics its not but the art is much stronger and the impact is stronger as a result. The design of the stages for example. You do have afew cool reflection and fur shading effects in the game too. The backgrounds are very expansive and dynamic now. You get eagles and birds flying about etc.
haunts said:
No other fighting game is like Sc. Its deep and accesible.
The Take Out Bandit
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Soul Calibur will never be the same to most morons again since it's not on Sega's next destined to fail console.
Which isn't right in the first place because in the hierarchy of fighting games Sega > Namco; especially when it's on a Sega platform. Always. Always. F*cking - always. Anyone that claims otherwise while still waving a Sega fan banner needs to be burned at the stake. >:|
And I got some matches. . .
Which isn't right in the first place because in the hierarchy of fighting games Sega > Namco; especially when it's on a Sega platform. Always. Always. F*cking - always. Anyone that claims otherwise while still waving a Sega fan banner needs to be burned at the stake. >:|
And I got some matches. . .
Graphically the game is one of PS2's best. You need to see it in motion to fully appreciate the details they put in the scenery. The only weakness i can say is the textures but Namco tried to put in everything. 
Shame i cant find good shots of the stages. All the stages here have stuff going on in the background. Some are stylistic like animated water reflections to flying eagles and flocks of birds. Others have a war going on with catapults, arrows being used etc.
The fire and smoke is unreal in the above pic. Best ever in any game. The smoke is so realistic, it doesnt go through the ceiling but follows it.
The above looks like it almost has bump mapping when you play it. This is also a moving stage a crane carries the floor around .
Shame i cant find good shots of the stages. All the stages here have stuff going on in the background. Some are stylistic like animated water reflections to flying eagles and flocks of birds. Others have a war going on with catapults, arrows being used etc.
The fire and smoke is unreal in the above pic. Best ever in any game. The smoke is so realistic, it doesnt go through the ceiling but follows it.
The above looks like it almost has bump mapping when you play it. This is also a moving stage a crane carries the floor around
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Demigod Mac
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Namco's mistake was releasing it directly to a console without going through multiple arcade revisions to fix bugs and balance issues that likely did not manifest themselves during standard playtesting.
siamesedreamer
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No Live = no buy
Mr. Rellik
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Gameplay >>>> Graphics. This game needed at the very least an arcade release. As it is it has game breaking bugs. It's also just more of the same.
No sale.
P.S.
Sega,
please hurry the hell up with VF5
No sale.
P.S.
Sega,
please hurry the hell up with VF5
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Timing - SCII came out just last year IIRC
Gameplay/movelist changes didn't sit well with me and many others
Seems rushed and ill-suited for current-gen hardware...as pretty as the game manages to be
Gameplay/movelist changes didn't sit well with me and many others
Seems rushed and ill-suited for current-gen hardware...as pretty as the game manages to be
Having never played the full version, I can make a few comments.
1) The commercial says "Customize your fighter." or whatever, when the custom characters are ridiculously limited when compared to the create a character options of most games.
2) The commercial says "3 new fighters". What the heck?
Anyway, this is the party to which Gamecube and Xbox owners weren't invited, and it will be remembered as the odd game out for that.
1) The commercial says "Customize your fighter." or whatever, when the custom characters are ridiculously limited when compared to the create a character options of most games.
2) The commercial says "3 new fighters". What the heck?
Anyway, this is the party to which Gamecube and Xbox owners weren't invited, and it will be remembered as the odd game out for that.
The majority of changes from SC2 and SC3 are mainly fighting system related. Changes to characters and behaviors that I doubt any casual fighting game fans are going to care about. Nothing visually exciting, no new characters for casual fighting fans to get excited about (like say Link in SC2 gamecube), and no significant changes to the fighting system or characters that are clearly for the better.
Plus it's insanely hard for the casual gamer on default settings. The new single player modes are bullshit for the most part. And there is a bug that may just corrupt your save and waste hours worth of time unlocking the zillion unlockables in this game. Cuz of this, I actually hope it doesn't sell too well. Should have waited a year to release this.
Plus it's insanely hard for the casual gamer on default settings. The new single player modes are bullshit for the most part. And there is a bug that may just corrupt your save and waste hours worth of time unlocking the zillion unlockables in this game. Cuz of this, I actually hope it doesn't sell too well. Should have waited a year to release this.
DaCocoBrova said:
Soul Calibur II first hit arcades in 2002, and was released for home consoles in 2003. Enough time has passed for a sequel to have been released.
Speevy said:
To be fair, you can unlock a large number of various items and new fight styles to customize your characters with, but yeah, it is pretty limited. SC3 is also the only fighting game that allows you to create your own characters for battle. You can't do this in Tekken, VF, DOA, etc. The game's edit options for the existing characters, however, are pathetically weak. Changing a few colors isn't enough; they should have allowed for more edit options along the lines of Tekken 5 at the least.
Uh...yup. There ARE three new fighters in the game. Four if you want to count the Edge Master-like Owl guy. And that's not taking into account the various unlockable NPCs you can get.
I think it was more of an odd thing seeing a Namco fighting game go crossplatform than it is to see it back on one system. Soul Edge was on the Playstation and based on the System 11 board. Soul Calibur was based on the system 12 board, and the move to the Dreamcast instead of a PSX port like Tekken 3 had was a welcome surprise. I definitely would have preferred a multiplatform release, and I would have loved to have seen online play.
Perhaps the game didn't do as well simply because of the flood of other games that have been released during this season. All of the casual gaming attention is on the Xbox 360 now, too, not the "last-gen" PS2.
I think it just has to do with the lack of Link, hype and so many other things coming out. I think it'll do ok in the long run like the Tekken games do.
i just wish there was an arcade release. I'd play it a lot more if there was. As it is now I still play 2 more.
and Soulcalibur(the game title, not the sword) is one word. Soulcalibur must be the series most often misspelled. It's like Xbox being called "X-Box".
i just wish there was an arcade release. I'd play it a lot more if there was. As it is now I still play 2 more.
and Soulcalibur(the game title, not the sword) is one word. Soulcalibur must be the series most often misspelled. It's like Xbox being called "X-Box".
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