Soul Calibur/Soul Series

Yun was one of my favorites in SC 4 actually, guess those benchpresses helped out lol. But in SC 2? OMG he was terrible :[

I really don't SCIV at all so there isn't anything about that game besides Cassandra that I like.

I shouldn't have played SCII again...just ruined SCIV and SCV for me.

I wish I could find SCIIIAE.

Lol its like the only fighting game besides Tekken you'll see at old ass arcades.

I had an arcade near me, but they didn't have it.

There are still Arcades?

I see some at the movie theatre I frequent, but I was under the impression they were more or less dead.

I was at a hotel in Orlando earlier this year that had arcade games by the lobby. That count? :/ Yeah, they're not exactly extinct. Also, Disney has a huge-ass one, but I forget what it's called. All the games you can eat; and some overpriced food, too. Actually saw SCIIIAE there, now I think of it. Played a helluva lot like IV, I thought.

Hotels are one of the few places(other than Malls) that still have some Arcades in some areas in the US. They're pretty rare in general, though. You can still find them at some Restaurants too.

Finding fighting games in Arcades is another story. I rarely see more than things like Gauntlet or racing games period now. Maybe really old Arcade games(usually Namco classics, heh).

I used to live near Galloping Ghost Arcade, but unfortunately their Soul Calibur collection machine was down.

If anyone's planning to buy New Legends of Project Soul, here's a sneak peek:

It only figures: she went into the war too eager and not knowing what she was doing, and she left it just the same.

:'(

@ Otherarrow

Can I send a PM to you?

I don't see how that is relevant to Talim and Lizardman.

(Go for it?)

Sorry about the quotebox, I figured that, if I just did @ Otherarrow, you wouldn't reply.

Thanks, though before I send the PM, I got a question: Can you give one's email address in P Ms?

edited 4th Jun '14 10:25:36 PM by HallowHawk

I guess it's POSSIBLE but I wouldn't recommend it.

Also, stop derailing the thread. Anyway, Soul Calibur.

Yeah, about the sword itself. I'm still conflicted as to whether or not it was a good move for Soul Calibur to shift from a good force (though this is questionable in hindsight) to a lawful evil Knight Templar.

edited 5th Jun '14 5:52:11 PM by RavenKingSage

While I agree with some of the others here that there's already been foreshadowing of this happening in the previous games (Soul Calibur being part of a trio of artifacts - where the other two's explicit purposes are to absorb (Kali-Yuga) and purify (Dvapara-Yuga) evil energy, how long it's been kept apart from said two artifacts, its origin as a fragment of Soul Edge, and its growing templar tendencies in Cassandra's 4 ending), I have to say that I don't like it. 'Force of good turning out to be just as bad as the force of evil - with humans stuck in the middle fighting both' is becoming a very retreaded - and rather depressing - plot point these days, I think.

Nobody wants the good guys to win anymore.

Seriously.

Okay on SC 5's CAS, tell me I'm not the only one who likes to put hips to 20 when making a female CAS? Well except on little girls cause that's weird.

My problem with it was how it was handled. After Soul Calibur (well, OK, SCII if you squint and read the weapon bios), the whole it being a set with the Kali-Yuga and the mirror-whose-name-escapes-me-Yuga isn't really mentioned, so it turning evil due to being separated from them is something that seems like an explanation in retrospect. In SCIV itself, it's treated as basically as it was in SCIII and II, until you get to Siegfried's ending (where, admittingly, it's ambigious if the world freezing was the sword's doing or Siegfried's doing. Well, it was for me), Taki's ending, and probably most damningly, Cassandra's ending where she just declares it evil, blames it for what happened to Sophitia, and shatters it for no real reason.

It's way too sudden and feels more like a cheap swerve.

At least in V, it being evil is actually a legit plot twist (even if a cliche one and one that could have been doing better, but this is V's story we are talking here. ALOT could have been done better),

I think it works alright. As Soul Edge's (sub?)equal and opposite, didn't Talim also neutralize it in her endings before IV?

Nope! Her ending in II and III is more or less the same in terms of stuff done, and she only neutralizes Soul Edge.

I distinctly remember, as III has her dissolving Soul Edge in a spirit tornado.

Not to mention that in II (and III to a lesser extent), only those with Incorruptible Pure Pureness could wield Soul Calibur. Which is part of why it felt kinda cheap to suddenly make the sword into a Knight Templar. On one hand, the hints are there in hindsight. On the other, almost everyone only caught in in hindsight since so many people missed it before IV.

@ Otherarrow

It's Dvapara-Yuga. Again, can we talk about private stuff in P Ms, like email addresses, phone numbers, etc.?

Yes, you can. But only if the other person wants to, and Otherarrow has expressed his disinterest already.