Why Soul Calibur 4 is Unnecessary....

[TheEdge]

I guess you'd have to ask Tekken, Dragon Warrior, Madden, Dead or Alive, etc. to find out. Games are as bad as Hollywood when it comes to sequels.

I concur completely with every fiber of my being!

SC3 was far and away the worst of the series, with SC4 ahead by a significant margin and SC and SC2 at the top of the list. SC4 fixed a lot of what was wrong with SC3, and looks gorgeous, but the fact that online and offline play are so fundamentally different is what kills it for me.

What was so bad about SCIII? There are no examples here. Throw me a bone tell me what you think was bad about it. I thought it was the most fluid but they did screw up Raphaels character.

[Dartagnan1083]

I'll be picking up Soul Cal 4 when the retail price hits $30 (or perhaps less).
I like the series, and appriciate the online play.

Soul Cal 1 was great, but when sequels are released, I tend to get used to the extra moves and polish that they ad.
To me, it's about as awkward as trying to do Smash Bros: Brawl crap in the original N64 game.

[TheEdge]

I'll be picking up Soul Cal 4 when the retail price hits $30 (or perhaps less).
I like the series, and appriciate the online play.

Don't do it! You will be disappointed.

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I have to correct myself though on my last few posts.

I just played SC2 and SCIII after making my last comment and I have to say that SC2 is much more fluid than SCIII but I have stick to my guns here and say that I would rather have SCIII than SC2 just because of the upgrades in the Characters, Graphics, and some fighting engine tweaking.

[Timstuff]

What was so bad about SCIII? There are no examples here. Throw me a bone tell me what you think was bad about it. I thought it was the most fluid but they did screw up Raphaels character.

The game balance was completely broken. They wanted to make the game more "fun," and they decided to accomplish this by making certain characters more powerful even though they already had other advantages, like Xianghua. In the hands of even an intermediate player, Xuanghua could be ridiculously overpowered. And then there's the Create-A-Character feature which also had some very questionable balance with its exclusive fighting styles.

SC4 has vastly improved balance, very pretty graphics, and a decent online mode (as long as you're not playing against Kilik, Astaroth, or Cervantes). There are still many balance problems, sure, but at least now they have a game that's updatable and revisions can be issued in the future.