Soul Blade/Calibur VS Tekken

[Mut]

Originally posted by: complich8
I prefer soul calibur controls to tekken controls, for two reasons:

(1) They make sense. They're not excessively technical, so you can be decent without attaining perfection. (Lower learning curve).

I guess each button being assigned to each limb (left and right arms and legs) is too hard for comp [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

(2) King. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Round 2. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. You lose.

Any game that a character get an infinite unbreakable chain of throws as long as they press the right buttons is just simply broken. I mean, like DOA wave-dash broken.

Except, 90% of the linking throws can be escaped by pressing a one or two buttons, and that's just not for King, it's anyone who has chain throws.

YES GO BIAS OPINIONS WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECT!

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[stos289]

You guys forgot about Virtua Fighter! Even though the story (if there is one) kind of sucks, the fighting system is one of the best out there. Try button mashing with Akira and you'll be either standing helpless or just get a worthless kick. I believe that Virtua Fighter would be a more worthy opponent to Soul Caiber than Tekken because of its awesome gameplay and amazing graphics (Virtua Fighter 4). Out of the categories Terra displayed, Story is the only one where Virtua Fighter lacks.

In relation to the actual topic of the thread, Soul Caliber would have to beat Tekken. Although I'll always be a fan of "Iron Fist Tournament," Soul Caliber 2 really was a fun game to play becase of its variety of characters and interest of "weapon-based" fighting rather than standard "fist fighting."

[basey44]

you know wat i was dissapointed with in SC2? the endings. only like 1 of them had the character turing evil because of the sword at the end, and that was like cervantis i think. i mean come on, in SC1 half of the characters turned evil because of the sword and went on killing sprees, or tried to conquor the world and stuff, instead of this good guy stuff. REALLY dissapointed with nightmares end, instead of him finally getting all the power hes dreamed of and slaughtering everyone, he realises the error of his way through some fragment of wats left of his soul, and he throws the sword down a crevass


edit to below: pfft raphael, everyone knows kilik is the best

[Nai]

Soul Calibur without a doubt.

Why? Well, Soul Calibur II had Raphael, which is without a doubt my favorite character in any fighting game. Yes, I do have an unhealthy rapier fetish. The music, is without a doubt gorgeous. The characters also are a lot deeper in Soul Calibur than in Tekken and I wastly prefer Soul Calibur's story mode.

But the biggest deciding factor? Soul Calibur III will have completely customizabile characters. Yes, you will be able to design your very own fighter from scratch. Now, how utterly badass isn't that? I really can't wait for this game.

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
It doesn't take more skill to PLAY Soul Calibur.
It takes more skill to MASTER it.

Indeed. Mastering a character in Soul Calibur is quite an experience. Personally I have mastered Raphael after years of playing exclusively with him in Soul Calibur II, and boy does it feel good to utterly decimate my friends with his graceful movements.

[Mut]

Originally posted by: Nai
But the biggest deciding factor? Soul Calibur III will have completely customizabile characters. Yes, you will be able to design your very own fighter from scratch. Now, how utterly badass isn't that? I really can't wait for this game.

Tekken 5 has customizable characters too. However, I don't know if it's as in depth as SC3. Then again, I don't even know what SC3 let's you do.

[Nai]

Watch the "Character Creation" video here to get a good idea of just how much stuff you can do.

This is really the one aspect which has me most excited about SCIII.

[complich8]

Originally posted by: Mut@chi
Except, 90% of the linking throws can be escaped by pressing a one or two buttons, and that's just not for King, it's anyone who has chain throws.

YES GO BIAS OPINIONS WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECT!

90%? What about the other 10%?

And the arms/legs thing is just a strange paradigm.

Sure, my opinion is biased. Because I didn't enjoy the couple hours I spent trying to learn tekken, and I enjoyed soul calibur and sc2 from the instant I picked up the controller, through to a fairly deep game.

I'm not going to torture myself playing a game I don't like for hours on end because some jerkass on the internet thinks it's better than the things I DO enjoy. Hence, SC2 is better. Maybe not for you, but for me, for sure.

[Mut]

Originally posted by: complich8

Originally posted by: Mut@chi
Except, 90% of the linking throws can be escaped by pressing a one or two buttons, and that's just not for King, it's anyone who has chain throws.

YES GO BIAS OPINIONS WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECT!

90%? What about the other 10%?

What about it? Is it wrong to have throws that are inescapable? most of the inescaple throws are links in the chain throws anyway, you have plenty of other opportunities to escape from.