Soul Calibur 3

Originally Posted by S?ecter

IRT SC hater
Well I guess you're entitled to your opinion...

No, Megalith's right here. The original is still the best title.

Even in 2006, the graphics of a game made in 1999 can compete with what's currently on the market. It's aged well. Soul Calibur II was so horribly broken which had characters with absolutely no range being paired against people with insane range. Everybody in Soul Calibur II just used nightmare anyway, which was absolutely no fun.

I even did a review on Soul Calibur II. It was that bad.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by unknown_user

Elixir who said that sc2 was broke, your way wrong on that one, that game was one of the most balanced fighting games out there. Almost anyone in that game had a fighting chance, with the exception of Yunsung and Raphael. Nightmare is a pretty solid character, but you definetly got to work for it against good ppl. NM's 3B is what made him good though. The top 2 ppl in sc2 were Mick and RTD Mick used Cass and X, while RTD used X mostly.

Who the fuck here is going to take a fighting game so seriously that they'd actually enter tournaments here, dude. SooMighty won a MvC2 tournament with a Dreamcast controller, so skill isn't everything. Half of it is pot luck.

Pitting characters with NO RANGE (and require more skill) against characters with HUEG RANGE (and require no skill) doesn't make for a balanced game, no matter how experienced the players are.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by unknown_user

Well obviously you guys dont know enough about the community, so some of the statements you guys are making are just wrong.

You know, I would probably post at shoryuken if the people weren't such scrubs. They all use shorthand for moves and rubbish just to look impressive, and when you go to ask a simple question you get a complicated one: "ok, qcf+p cancel xx hyperdrive, xx change pp qcf qcf psythrust" and I'm like what.

Can we stop this now? If we think the game is broken, we don't need to enter tournaments and/or be good at the game to get an opinion out of it.

"This game appears broken. Some of the characters are ranged and others aren't, which differs the skill required for each individual character."
"Yeah, I agree."
"No guys, this game isn't broken because PEOPLE WHO CONSTANTLY PLAY IT are good at it!"
"Uh?"
"Uh?"
"Look, I know John, Paul, and Mike. They're all top tourney SC2 players. If this game is in a tournament, it can't be broken!"
"But who said anything about entering a tournament here?"
"OBVIOUSLY YOU KNOW NOTHING, TOURNAMENTS MAKE THIS GAME BALANCED."

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by electric_eye

I was just wondering though, what would be examples of a balanced fighting game. Surely there might not even really exist one. It's just a case of whether the differences between any two characters are extreme, I mean, any advantages over another character are surely exploited by those who know.

Capcom vs. SNK 2, 3rd Strike, GGXX #Reload.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Depends on what you call a tier, I 'spose.

The last vs. human match I had, they just constantly used Urien. Which was, well, fucking lame and retarded. Because he knew how to use him. It's sorta sad when people don't mix up their gameplay with various characters, and only stick to one. However, I'm pretty sure Akuma is banned from tournaments and so is Gill, so it isn't all that bad.

The only really "overpowered advantage" I'd give to characters would be namly Urien, Ken and Chun-Li. Ryu is pretty average, and sort of difficult to use. If Ibuki didn't do so little damage I'd probably use her all the time. But in comparison to, say, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, I'd definitely consider 3rd Strike balanced.

I was speaking idiomatically.