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Soul Calibur 2 HD

Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
edited July 2013 in General Chat
It's PS3 and XBox 360 bound.

SO much yes. Shudder to think how much time I lost to this game back in the day.

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  • ryannumber1gamerryannumber1gamer
    edited July 2013
    Meh Looks like Link won't be returning :/
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited July 2013
    I love how the Gamecube one sold the most and they just didn't give a damn
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited July 2013
    Well, there's no Wii U version, and I highly doubt Ninty would let them put Link on other consoles, so...
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited July 2013
    I'm complaining about how there's no Wii U version, despite the Wii U being more or less the same generation as the PS3 and the 360. I'm complaining that Soul Calibur never returned to a Nintendo system despite the Nintendo version selling the best the one time it was given a chance.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2013
    Yeah, I saw this piece of garbage was returning.

    I didn't think it was worth mentioning.

    Because it's shit.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited July 2013
    You shut your piehole. Soul Calibur 2 was fucking radical.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2013
    Sure if you don't know how to play fighting games.

    Like, at all.

    Like, your ability to play fighting games is largely restricted to button mashing.

    Oh look, a convoluted story mode with MASSIVE WALLS OF TEXT that you have to go through to "unlock" things that should just be available at the start, because hey, button mash monkeys need a carrot dangled in front of their faces to keep them playing.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited July 2013
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    Sure if you don't know how to play fighting games.

    Like, at all.

    Hey that's me!
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2013
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    Hey that's me!

    and me!
    Too bad I don't own a console this will come to.
  • St_EddieSt_Eddie
    edited July 2013
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    and me!

    Me too. 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Soul Calibur' are probably the closest I've ever come to actually enjoying a beat-em-up. Actually, that's not quite true, I used to love playing 'Street Fighter Alpha 2' as well because you could build up your meter and unleash hell with little to no skill (which suited me down to the ground).

    What can I say? Beat-em-ups just aren't my forte.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2013
    "Fighting Game" and "Beat Em-Up" are two different genres.

    Fighting games are one-on-one competitive games a la Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

    Beat Em-Ups are single player or co-op games focusing on crowd control and fighting off computer-controlled enemies, a la Final Fight and Streets of Rage.
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited July 2013
    ^ Dashing is right about that.

    But I still like Soul Calibur as a series. :)

    (Then again I don't really like Tekken all that much which some fighting gamers might try to kill me over! XD)
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited July 2013
    I could never get into the other games in the Soul Calibur series, but I did like Soul Calibur on Dreamcast.

    I wonder why they aren't doing an HD remake of the first Soul Calibur, or did they already and I just missed the news?

    Edit: Yeah, it's the latter. I should really learn to google before posting.:o
  • Shadowknight1Shadowknight1
    edited July 2013
    ryannumber1gamer wrote: »
    Meh Looks like Link won't be returning :/

    Yeah, it's a no-buy for me for just that reason. I hate Heihachi.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2013
    Link was bottom-tier garbage.
  • Shadowknight1Shadowknight1
    edited July 2013
    Rather Dashing wrote: »
    Link was bottom-tier garbage.

    So are you. :p
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited July 2013
    How can there be tiers in a skill-free button-mash-fest game? How do you know the tiers in a game you so clearly hate? Why would you expect anyone who likes this game and wants to play as Link to care what tier he's in, when you've identified the demographic as "people who don't know how to play fighting games"? People who don't know how to play fighting games don't care about tiers.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited July 2013
    Obviously those who do care about fighting games also care about Soul Calibur, otherwise there wouldn't have been a professional tournament scene for it.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited July 2013
    All I know is that I originally got this when I was in Uni (complete with an absolutely massive poster of Ivy that I still have because I couldn't bear to get rid of it despite it not actually fitting anywhere in my room) and despite not being a fan of fighting games I was pretty much hooked on it for about three months before finally breaking free from its grasp.

    I'm an older, wiser (*snigger*) man now, and I'm kinda hyped for this. So all y'all haters can shut your fat asses up.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited July 2013
    I still want a Wii U version though.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited July 2013
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    How can there be tiers in a skill-free button-mash-fest game?
    Tiers manifest from imbalance, which is the result of either imperfection in high-level player understanding of the mechanics and strategies for certain characters or from the game's systems not being perfectly balanced.

    If a fighting game had only one button and tapping it was the only way to win, and one character's one-button tap did more damage than others, that character would still belong to a higher "tier" for a shitty fighting system.
    How do you know the tiers in a game you so clearly hate?
    This sounds backwards to me. What business do I have hating a game if I don't understand why I think it's systematically broken? Knowing a lot about games which I hate is not uncommon for me.
    Why would you expect anyone who likes this game and wants to play as Link to care what tier he's in, when you've identified the demographic as "people who don't know how to play fighting games"? People who don't know how to play fighting games don't care about tiers.
    I guess that's true. It's just that, out of the three guest characters, Heihachi was easily the most powerful.
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited July 2013
    Heihachi was also easily the most Namco.
  • Phil_TWDPhil_TWD
    edited July 2013
    No Wii U version = No Link so.. no purchase from me.

    Link was the only reason I'd re-purchase again this game.
  • Murray the ChaoMurray the Chao
    edited July 2013
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    You shut your piehole. Soul Calibur 2 was fucking radical.

    Only on the Gamecube, where you could play as LINK.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited July 2013
    Now, I barely played Soul Calibur 2, but it probably says something about the quality of the game when one guest character not being in equals no buy.
  • Shadowknight1Shadowknight1
    edited July 2013
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Now, I barely played Soul Calibur 2, but it probably says something about the quality of the game when one guest character not being in equals no buy.

    For me, it's more the quality of the "HD". It really doesn't look all that different, which is something I hate about these PS2 HD remakes. They look the same. Funny enough, Wind Waker's HD remake actually LOOKS new, it looks different. So why can't these other companies do that?
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited July 2013
    Duh, that would require too much effort.

    It'd also cost more to fully update a game like WWHD. It's much cheaper to basically just port something than to make a proper remastering of it. At the end of the day, it's all about the greens.
  • ryannumber1gamerryannumber1gamer
    edited July 2013
    I don't really mind, As long as its a good price and they pick good games to make into collections and add trophies etc. Although it was bs when Mass Media didn't bother to fix Daxter's blocky design in J&D The Precursor Legacy HD. I wish they would have updated it and made him look like his design from Jak 2 Renegade & Jak 3.
  • Phil_TWDPhil_TWD
    edited July 2013
    Soul Calibur 2 HD with Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-jgBue4zo

    Unfortunately this is running on PC with the Dolphin emulator so no Wii U version.

    I wish Namco Bandai would've re-released Soul Calibur 2 on the Wii and then I'd just play it upscaled to 1080p. Original Wii games look pretty nice on the Wii U.

    But well, I purchased recently Tekken Tag 2 for the Wii U which has Link's costume and Smash Bros U is coming in 2014, plus a new Zelda game in 2014/15 so it's not like this matters too much.
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