I'm playing this on my switch 2 and it's really fun wtf

>>714257473 (OP)
Glad to hear this re-release has attracted some new players. Be sure to try out 6 when you're done with 2.

>>714257612
Is it possible that 2 has better visuals than 3?

i remember 3 looking funny when it came out.

>>714257473 (OP)
imagine being able to afford a switch 2
super embarrassing
OoOoOoHhHh I wear white shoes and a Nike skirt when I play tennis

>>714257878
It's about the same graphically. Overall quality of the game maybe isn't quite as good though. Some people say it's the best in the series, I haven't played it much but apparently there was a bad glitch that wiped memory cards.
It has a cool sonic boom effect when characters get KO'd that isn't in any other games in the series.

>>714257473 (OP)
Mains so far?

>>714258321
I have no idea what I'm doing so I picked Cassandra because she's hot and cute and doesn't have stances like taki and ivy

>>714258380
236 is a moving stance and you can spam it into itself like a Mishima wave dash.
236b is really strong, will beat most other moves and even tracks nicely to the side.

>>714258380
Cassandra has her little spins, not sure if that counts as a stance.
Link is designed for beginners but really, just try them all out, you'll be surprised by which ones you gel with.

>>714258569
>>714258507
I'm a street fighter fag so this shit not having the same universal rules is niggering me really hard
I don't even understand what the fuck I'm supposed to be doing or how to keep track of so many goddamn moves
and the fucking motions on shit like ivy make no fucking sense at all

>>714258682
lol you were in the thread last night.
Just keep practicing and do weapon master.

>>714257878
3 looks really good in native resolution, but it doesn't upscale as well as the GameCube version of 2 or even 1 that came out on Dreamcast because textures are pretty low quality. It had to do with the small amount of VRAM in PS2, even Dreamcast has twice as much and GameCube also has a lot more. Despite this, I love the look of 3. It's probably my favorite SC game. It has that signature late PS2 game look with cool reflection and lighting effects making use of its vector units. 4 is probably my least favorite when it comes to visuals because it was the 7th gen and they followed the stupid trends at the time by using shitty filters and decreasing saturation across the board.

>>714257473 (OP)
I don't actually hate Necrid if we're being honest. I wonder if Todd even remembers him, there's one tiny picture of him in his art book in the misc section.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmXVvENNAM

>>714258682
Just keep practicing fella! A lot of people fall into the trap of thinking being good at one fighting game will mean they're good at them all but a lot of them don't really have anything in common beyond being in the same broad genre.

>>714258850
IV also had some of the worst character designs in the series and everyone looks sick.

>>714258850
Sophitia's face looks a little better in 3. She looked weird in 2, especially her 3rd costume with brown hair.

>>714258682
Keep practicing

>>714258507
236B is one of her best punishes because it's i16, but it's unsafe in of itself (not that AI is very good at exploiting that on lower difficulty levels). Generally speaking, you're supposed to do 3B 236B from neutral (which comboes) rather than just throw out 236B by itself, unless you just guarded against a move that you can block punish with it.

>>714258507
>>714259159
One thing other thing to add is that you can also use 236B if you want to make a hard read on a horizontal, but she has other moves that also tech crouch and might be better for this.

>>714257473 (OP)
did they add heihachi and spawn to this version? hoping that this is the definitive edition of it

>>714259020
is necrid hated?
i remember him being mostly a mishmash of different characters and moves but I dont know, i didnt "hate" him.

>>714259307
No lol. It's literally just a ROM running inside of an emulator like you can run it on Dolphin on PC. They don't even care enough to do an actual remaster like SC2 HDO anymore (not that HDO was good, but it cost them more effort to make it I'm sure).

>>714259307
No, Link is the only one that matters.

>>714259330
He was banned from tournaments just becuase people disliked him. He's not a strong character at all.

>>714257473 (OP)
So fucking bullshit that they refuse to bring back the virtual console for this fucking retro game Netflix shit.

>>714259112
Not just a little bit. IMO SC3 has the best Sophitia while SC2 has the worst when it comes to appearance.

>>714258682
In soul calibur, you don't need to activate the moves in order. You can activate them first before attacking them. Your final input just needs to be an attack button in order to activate it.
brief example in sc6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwDnNR--FI4
scii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq2WrfoMxo0

It's not like a 2d fighter where you need to activate it in order, it is very lenient. In order to do IVY's grabs you can do a 360 circle and press a button. You can hide that input using a taunt or another move

>>714259438
but dislike what? like he's ugly or something?

>>714259523
VI is my favorite version.

>>714259614
People thought his design was out of place, yeah.

Anyone wants to play this game online on PC through Dolphin?

>>714259524
Summon suffering is the ultimate psyche out move. If you can pull it off and kick em in the balls a few times they'll start backing up as soon as the match starts. Which just puts them in range for the one that reaches across the stage.
I've had a few people online tell me I scared them with Ivy.

>>714259330
He looks stupid. His balls have pretty colors, that's about it.

>>714258850
This just looks better than SC2 desu, no matter the textures everything else looks better. I am a bit disappointed with sc2 , I always heard that it's better than sc3 but I'm just not seeing it, I'm assuming it's just nostalgia or something, the game just has way more content, the characters play better and you can even create custom characters with their own different fighting styles, the "tactical like" side game was also amazing and way cooler than the side game in sc2 imo

>>714259782
Just crouch when in her throw range lol

>>714259450
if it wasn't for the subscription service these games wouldn't be available at all
and if they were they would be insanely overpriced because for some reason Nintendo thinks everything from gamecube on should be full price forever

>>714259912
SC3 was low quality and the home version everybody got on consoles was buggy and shitty. the later fixes that were put on the arcade version never made it onto western consoles.
the people who say SC2 is better (and it is) dont care about custom faggotry and single player.

>>714257473 (OP)
>massive input lag
>im having fun
No you’re not

>>714260502
time doesn't make the games any worse nor decreases the entertainment value

>>714260569
absolute shiteater drone post jesus christ

>>714260581
just play them on an emulator if you're poor. i don't judge.

>>714260561
switch 2 has not bothered me with input lag at all

>>714259912
People say that SC2 has "better movement" because in that game it's possible to sidestep almost any move including a decent number of horizontals. It's also not necessary to choose between stepping and standing guard in SC2 because of a bug called stepguarding. Onr thing I like about it that it doesn't have counter in sidestep, only in backstep, but SC1 is even better because it doesn't have movement counters at all and is also missing SC2 bugs like stepguarding or 2G after GI. It has its own bugs, but that's a separate story. SC3 has it's own egregious bugs too.

>>714260502
That's some ridiculous cope right there.
If it's on the service, that means Nintendo believed people would be interested enough to play it. As for the price, I wouldn't mind paying more for an older game I love, if it means I actually own it.
Nintendo has no fucking excuse for this shit

>>714260665
The switch 2 has no input lag. It's the shitty GameCube emulation has input lag. Not that noticeable in sc2 but the Zelda game is just unplayable, feels awful

>>714260502
The GameCube version wasn't the only version of that game. They should just release the remastered PS2 version on PC. They should also just cut Necrid from the game if they don't want to pay McFarlane royalties, not very many people would care.

>>714259912
It's 100% nostalgia. N64 and Gamecube games are the most overrated because the handful of decent games that were on those consoles got played over and over again due to the lack of other options. This lead to severe autism amongst trendies who grew up with those consoles as evidenced by the speedrunning trannoid community.

>>714260759
the point is none of this nigger theory matters
nintendo does it because they can get away with it, just like microjew charging for online and ruining the industry forever

>>714257878
Gamecube vs PS2 exclusive. 2 is better, 3 had more stuff that dazzled but 2 is just more solid.

>>714261427
Yeah and fuck all the tendies who guzzle all this fucking diarrhea down.
At least Microsoft has reached the point where they have no one left to support them and it's causing their brand to collapse.
But tendies will zealously defend even the most rancidly wretched, anti-consumer decisions.

>>714257473 (OP)
>switch vegan unable to talk about vidya unless he also mentions the switch 2

>>714261712
look faggot I want to play gamecube games on my switch 2
I can do it on my deck but I honestly just don't want to fucking tinker with shit to make it work f zero gx was the main thing I tried to play on that and the switch 2 runs it better so lol

>>714261902
>the switch 2 runs it better so lol
Insanely dishonest shill
You're free to worship your favorite corporation but at least attempt to act subtle please.

>>714257473 (OP)
best 3d fighting game ever

>>714261128
Considering the other replies it definitely seems like a mix of autism and nostalgia. There doesn't seem to be anything special other than "I prefer this game's bugs to the ones in sc3"

>>714259912
the balance is bad and makes the multiplayer bad.


sc3 is like brawl that in many ways its the best but the core game for the competitive scene is the worst.

>>714257473 (OP)
5~10 years ago I would have gotten a Switch 2 JUST for SC2.
Now I'm like nah, I'll play it once, 30 minutes.
And I still have the PS3 version which I never play

Any good youtube tutorials on the basics? I want to play as Cassandra

>>714262014
you retarded faggot I literally spent hours MTSing into the first turn out of the tunnel on big blue over and over again while watching what the deck GPU clock speeds maxed out at so I new what to clock it at for consistent performance (it's 1200MHz btw) and I downloaded decky and figured out what disabling SMT and certain CPU cores even fucking MEANS just to try and get this game to stop dropping frames when I'm going 2000kmph sideways into a turn with 30 other cars and on the switch it just fucking goddamn works and doesn't drop a single frame and I don't have to do fucking anything but click a button to start the game and fucking play it
shut up

>>714261902
And I want to actually own games I enjoy.

>>714262121
So it's better for single player but worse for the "competitive scene" which will never exist on the switch? Meh I'll take sc3

>>714262121
I'd argue that SC3 was never really "tested" competitively simply because it was less popular than SC3 and many people even refused to try it. VC could be banned in tournaments. I watched SC3 community tourney at CEO a few weeks ago and I didn't notice anything too broken. Have you watched SC4 EVO tournies? Some matches were cancer with people spamming the same moves all over again and getting wins out of it. Hilde wasn't the only problem about that game. I'd argue that if SC4 was acceptable for the competitive community, then SC3 should be too.

>>714263690
*less popular than SC2

>>714262283
i just want to play it without gay tinkering
and the wireless gamecube controller doesn't work on PC yet

>>714263690
did they play the arcade or the ps2 version?
because the arcade version actually got patches and balance fixes later.

>>714264161
PS2 version with the Community Edition mod. That mod doesn't really change the frame data and move sets like RVT's mod, though.

>>714262218
then play with her

>>714262218
Weapon Master Mode has a tutorial that will teach you the very basics of gameplay. You can also look up the manual that came with the physical version of the game. Learn the numpad notation if you haven't already, her BnBs are 3B 236B and 66B+G 1A (not optimal but the optimal version is hard to pull off during a real match). 44[A] 3B 236B and 3AB 236 also comboes. 236B will generally combo with most launchers so throw it every time you see your opponent in the air.

What's the game breaking bug that deletes save data on sc3? I never experienced any bug like that, I had the platinum version on the PS2 (PAL) is it possible it was fixed since it was a re release?

>>714266961
I think so because I have the same version and I never experienced it either. I even tried to trigger it in purpose the way it's described to happen (moving a save with an earlier creation date than the SC3 save) and nothing happened still.

Taki is surprisingly fun. I really like how mobile she is compared to the rest of the cast. Makes dealing with characters that have a long reach less of a pain.

>>714268523
I hate how most characters have no attacks that can reach her when she does her high jump move and I have to wait for her to land to be able to do anything, but that's more of an SC6 issue.

>>714257473 (OP)
I'm still mad that Cloud wasn't in the PS2 version.

>>714259438
>He was banned from tournaments just becuase people disliked him.
That makes little sense. Was he broken or unfair?

>>714257473 (OP)
too bad sc was turned into typical brown skinned fighting game slop with learning frame data and shit

>>714269227

>>714269279
I'm white, I don't enjoy fighters past button mashing fun.

>>714258850
the gamecube didn't have more vram than the PS2, it had a megabyte less but the It-SRAM was faster than the PS2's main ram so most games just decompressed from the main ram into the vram for each frame taking advantage of the texture compression

>>714269359
>shitposter thins whites can't play anything other than button mashers

Why was it rebranded Soul Calibur rather than Soul Edge/Blade 2, anyway?

>>714269134
No. No one liked him so they decided to ban him just in case without finding out if he's broken or not.

>>714269747
That is silly shit. Sounds like something you would see in house rules.

>>714257473 (OP)
>it's really fun wtf
Why 'wtf'? Did you think all old games were crap?

>>714269457
Because Edge Games (known copyright trolls) sued Namco in the UK over the name. They lost, but Namco changed the name just in case.

>>714269457
Because they introduced Soul Calibur as the new sword the story was centered around. Fun fact: the SC5 team considered calling it 'Soul Edge 2' becasue of it being a soft reboot, but decided against it.

>>714269902
That and because Soul Calibur is the hero weapon.

>>714259912
>>714261128
it's not nostalgia

SC2 is beloved because of its core mechanics and everything else that is relevant for versus play.
yknow, the thing that a fighting game is made for.

>>714262263
Based, Deckie absolutely btfo'd

>>714262283
>He thinks he owns a digital license

>>714270894
SC1 has better core mechanics

>>714269227
>acts proud that actually learning a game is too hard for him
if browns are this much better than you, then you are a disgrace to your race.
untermensch

>>714271095
it's not about better or worse, necessarily.
also really depends how you define "better" in a versus context.

granted, I have never been really into SC beyond a surface, casual level, but I've been told why 2 is the preferred one by many a SCbro

>>714259112
A majority of the characters' faces look better in SC3. Only a few, like Kilik, look worse. Whenever I see people say that SC2 had better faces, I can only imagine that they're either speaking purely from nostalgia and have never played SC2 or SC3 in a decade, or have never played SC3 at all.

How active is SC6 now? These last couple of threads have made me want to touch the series for the first time since 4. Is it mainly alive on the PC or PS4/5?

>>714271309
So you've never played it "in a versus context" and you're just parroting other people's opinions, gotcha.

>>714271742
PC is more alive, but the game is stuck somewhere around 200 concurrent players recently. No crossplay either, obviously.

>>714257473 (OP)
screenshot looked like Link vs The Prince from Sands of Time at first

>>714271830
basically, yeah

and you're just a fag who wants to get into an argument and "win" on an anonymous online romanian blanket folding forum

just relax, everything is fine

>>714271965
Well that's a shame. I still have my copies of SC2 and 3 but live in the boonies and none of my IRL friends care about video games anyway

>>714269981
Ackshuly Soul Calibur is evil now

>>714272397
>now
Back then, it wasn't. Also, how did that happen? SC6 goof?

>>714263690
I was browsing reddit (look, I was desperate for some Soulcalibur content) and I saw many retards there defending SC4's gameplay, stating retarded shit like how SC4's slow speed made it more "thoughtful" and "strategic" and that it had the best gameplay in the entire series. For all of SC3's faults, it's still way better than SC4's gameplay. Hell, even Broken Destiny had much better gameplay than it.

>>714272397
>now
Only in SC4, SC5 and SC Legends

For me, it's Lizardman

>>714272642
Kilikfags deserve the rope. They are the only ones who enjoyed SC4.

>>714272642
>stating retarded shit like how SC4's slow speed made it more "thoughtful" and "strategic" and that it had the best gameplay in the entire series
saying shit like that is a classic cope often used by people who aren't good at games and don't understand them.

actually, I'm surprised this opinion isn't spouted here, considering how infamously awful most of /v/ is at fighting games

Give the people what they want, give us concept art Patroklos

>>714272642
>Only in SC4, SC5 and SC Legends
3 already added the thing about it being made from a purified shard of SE and needed to be stay pure or it would revert. It was the logical next step.

>>714272976
I don't want a man wearing panties and showing ass. What's next, him kneeing guys in the balls and saying 'I'm sorry'?

>>714272063
Nice armchair psychology, but I genuinely believe that SC2's gameplay is overrated compared to the games that came before and after. IMO, the main reason why SC2 gained cult status compared to SC1 and SC3 is because it was a multiplat and it sold the best. It's not less buggy than the others, it's not much better balanced compared to others (count the number of Xianghua players at the last Frosty Faustings), and it doesn't even have what I'd describe as the most free movement system in the series (again, counter on backstep). I don't have some sort of vendetta against this game. It's still SoulCalibur, it still plays well. I'm just sick of people overlooking other games in this series and acting like SC2 is the only one to play. I've played every SC game except for Legends and mobile spinoffs and I've played 1, 2 and 6 online for many hours.

>>714272903
>considering how infamously awful most of /v/ is at fighting games

I thought /v/ doesn't even play them but just pretends to because they like the music and jerk off to the female characters

>>714273597
getting a dismissive response is entirely on you by responding like an average braindead newfag in the first place.

that said i respect your stance

>>714273950
that sums it up, basically
yet many of these retards think their opinion on fighting games matter despite not even understanding how they actually work

>>714259912
2 definitely gets a nostalgia bonus from Nin toddlers (banned word lmao really telling on yourselves jannies) for Link alone. They are fucking obsessed

>>714274105
it also was the most liked and played in the competitive scene and continues to be to this day.

but yeah, sure, online culture wars give you life, good on you. lol

>>714274000
I don't think you should give dismissive responses to anyone if you have no first-hand experience with what you're talking about.

>>714274309
SC6 is definitely more popular than SC2 among the competitive players nowadays.

>>714257878
GameCube was stronger than the PS2, so yea maybe.

>>714274561
GameCube was stronger than PS2 in some aspects and weaker in others. Its storage solution was subpar in particular, SC3 would have to be severely downgraded to release on GameCube because the ISO is around 4GB and GameCube discs could only carry about 1.4GB.

>>714257473 (OP)
What's with all the pixelation and ghosting?

>>714274504
i wasn't being dismissive.
i just said SC2 is not beloved because of a surface level reason like nostalgia. it is beloved because a lot of people specifically like its system mechanics, which is true
wether the mechanics are actually the best or not is an entirely different topic

>>714274825
That's not a screenshot from NSO, it doesn't have upscaling.

>>714272976
Fun fact is that they retconned Patroklos's hair color. He was supposed be brown haired at first, you can see it in the comic that came with the manual in Japanese version of SC3 and then in the game itself in Tira's ending.

>>714273950
Yup, just post a lobby and see how many people join.

>>714277704
Neat

>>714272976
They initially wanted to give him "Medusa Shield"? Interesting, I've no idea how a mythical monster like that would have tied into his character design.

For me, its Taki.

For me, it's Cassandra.

>>714257878
3 probably would have looked better if it released on all consoles like it was originally intended to.

>>714257473 (OP)
Did you really pay a sub to this dogshit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQ-HHE503Q

>>714273209
getting spanked and raped by voldo as initation

God, I wish Yunsung was actually good in this game. Flashy kicks are fun.

>>714271095
PFFT Soul Edge has the greatest core mechanics

>>714287810
Play Hwang in SC1 instead. He's high tier in that game.

>>714272505
I think it was SC5, but SC5 was also an absolute fucking mess in how it delivered its story.

>Link secondaries
SCII on the Gamecube was a mistake.

bump

>>714289275
Soul Calibur was already evil in SC4 and said to be evil from the beginning. Algol made it from a shard of Soul Edge but failed to purify it completely.

>>714257612
I'll pick up SC6 if they port an enhanced version to Switch2.

>>714259912
SC3 neuters the move set of half the roster.

>>714295963
Enhanced in what way?

>>714296194
I main Cassandra and they made her move set stand out more from Sophitia in SC3 for the first time. They got rid of most moves that she shared with her sister and gave her stuff like a backwards launcher and crouch throws. SC3 is peak Cassandra desu.