/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9187349]

Choose your character

[Anonymous No.9187358]

I don't like any soul calibur pre-soul calibur 4, the animation was weird and the characters were too samey

[Anonymous No.9187369]

>>9187358
>The characters were too samey
????????????????? What the fuck game are you talking about, it sure as shit ain’t this one

>>9187349
I pick Xianghua, little black dress outfit

[Anonymous No.9187371]

i got this game for my birthday.
i played the shit out of this game with siblings and friends. when ever i wanted to play my brother i'd ask "do you want to offer your soul?". i never considered myself good at this game, but i could stomp everyone i knew.
i have no idea what happened to my copy. i miss it terribly.
the only bad characters are necrid, yoshimitsu, and like 2 of the generic fucks at the bottom

[Anonymous No.9187373]

>>9187371
lizardman rules fuck you

[Anonymous No.9187375]

>>9187369
Less movement and defense options, and you had a lot of useless moves in these games, so you were doing the same thing no matter the character, tekken also had this problem.

[Anonymous No.9187378]

>>9187373
naw, lizardman chill. it's knock off yun sung and discount astraroth that i was underwhelmed with
i often played charade to mix things up but always hated the way he looked
heihachi was best extra

[Anonymous No.9187381]

>>9187349
mother brain on the middle left

[Anonymous No.9187382]

>>9187375
Tekken does have this problem but Soul 2 doesn’t, the characters play vastly different from each other and have noticeable strengths and weaknesses.

Many moves don’t get used, that’s correct, but that’s because the movelists are huge compared to 2D games. You going to tell me that Ivy, X, Asta and Maxi play anything like each other? Come on now. This isn’t even a favorite SC of mine but you’re way off base here.

[Anonymous No.9187384]

>>9187378
>knock off yun sung and discount astraroth
They’re Hwang and Rock expys

[Anonymous No.9187408]

>>9187349
>Cassandra
>link
>assassin

Those were my jam.

[Anonymous No.9187417]

>>9187349
Nightmare is unironically my best character. I'm not that great at the game but he's the only person I got results with in SC2 when I played with bros, so he's the only one I got gud with.

[Anonymous No.9187426]

Talim was my favorite but I always chose Charade because I had this hypothesis that being stuck with having to play with the movesets of all the characters at random would make me a better player.

[Anonymous No.9187438]

>>9187349
I choose SoFEETia

[Anonymous No.9187485]

>>9187349
ayoo where spawn @ homie

[Anonymous No.9187498]

>>9187417
You don't need skill when you've a giant fuckoff sword.

[Anonymous No.9187515]

>>9187349
Kilik, because dunking on nerds with a big fuckoff stick from halfway across the arena is totally my jam.

In fact, I'll even go so far as to say any game without Kilik using a big fuckoff stick (and ONLY a big fuckoff stick, fuck outta here with that weapon master shit) is a terrible SoulCal and should never be played by anyone with any sense of good taste.

[Anonymous No.9187525]

>>9187349
Can I choose a better game instead?

[Anonymous No.9187527]

>>9187349
Heihachi is the only choice

[Anonymous No.9187571]

>>9187349
Soul Calbur II needed about four more characters. The roster feels small when playing casuals with friends. Also Necrid should not have been in the game at all and Inferno should have been turned into something more interesting than just a random character + some unblockables.

Maybe someone can hack Heihachi and Spawn into the gamecube version (afaik the one that is easiest and best choice for emulation).

[Anonymous No.9187618]

Yoshimitsu

After I learned how to do his launcher punch into spinning backfists that was all I ever wanted to do.

[Anonymous No.9187740]

>no Raphael bros in thread
Disappoint

[Anonymous No.9187741]

>>9187349
i pick zangief

[Anonymous No.9187751]

I always picked Necrid, with his orange design and the metal mask he looked way cooler than the regular Necrid. I loved the weird soul orb weapon thing he had.

[Anonymous No.9187753]

>>9187349
Either Taki or Xianghua. Taki has great defense via dodging attacks, good combo strings, a good toolset for pretty much any situation and also nice titties. Xianghua isn't as good as dodging but has most of Taki's other advantages, longer reach and firm bobbies as well.

[Anonymous No.9187759]

>>9187349
Always

[Anonymous No.9187784]

>>9187349
Imagine if we got Cloud in the PS2 version instead of Heihachi, like was originally planned.

[Anonymous No.9187798]

>>9187571
The HD port on 360 that's still playable on Series X does include both Heihachi and Spawn at least. No Link though, for obvious reasons. If they ever released an HD port for Switch it'd probably be the definitive version just for having all three guest fighters.

[Anonymous No.9187803]

>>9187349
Of course i'm picking my nigga voldo. Any game after SC2 i'm picking yoshi for the air seppuku.

[Anonymous No.9187942]

>>9187349
THIS IS IT

[Anonymous No.9187959]

Ivy, always

[Anonymous No.9187974]

>>9187349
talim used to be my waifu
now i prefer sophitia due to her being a legacy character from soul edge

i could kill most of you scrubs here with any character though & i have the arcade pcb

[Anonymous No.9187984]

>>9187349
Talim has the best looking combos.

[Anonymous No.9188000]

Cassandras hot panty legs

[Anonymous No.9188051]

>>9187417
>>9187942

[Anonymous No.9188065]

I usually used either Nightmare or Ivy. I never was very good, though.

[Anonymous No.9188069]

>>9187349
I still need to play this game. I got the demo for the sequel on GameCube but never played the original. Once I get into Dreamcast games it's on my list

[Anonymous No.9188075]

The original is still my favorite, best music and sound effects, best movement, best roster. 2 was good, but 3 got way too stupid and over the top with character designs and special effects.

I think guest characters and create-a-character were the worst things to ever happen to the series, especially fucking Link.

[Anonymous No.9188076]

>>9188051
>>9187942
>>9187417
swooord... Give me STRENGHTS

[Anonymous No.9188085]

>>9188076

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>>9187417
>>9187498
i always felt raph was easier to cheese with because of how spammable his Y attack is.

>>9187358
SC4 is okay and is much better than the "function vs function" fest that is SC5, a game so bad that they had to make SC6 a reboot.

[Anonymous No.9188686]

>>9187349
Yoshimitsu. I also like to play as Nightmare, Kilik, Mitsurugi, Raphael and Voldo.
>>9187375
I liked Soul Calibur 4 too but damn, I don't feel this way about 2 at all. It plays like a dream and most of the characters feel very unique. I also love Tekken though, so having lots of suboptimal or extremely situational moves is just a bonus to me. Those moves are for psychological damage.

[Anonymous No.9189183]

>>9187349
For my dick, it's Cassandra's pantyhose.

[Anonymous No.9189225]

>just kidding!

[Anonymous No.9189576]

>>9187349
Zoning characters are the best. They ruined her in later games.

[Anonymous No.9189584]

>>9187358
Zoom zoom zoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BdBdavwKa0

[Anonymous No.9189725]

>>9187349
Raphael

[Anonymous No.9189749]

>>9187349
Even though I play mostly female characters in fighting games I ended up latching onto Raphael. His fighting style really clicked with me.
When I heard in the later games he turns evil I was upset. Then, when I actually got my hands on them, I discovered Amy and figured out who she was and I was over the moon. It really felt like Namco had made a character just for me.

[Anonymous No.9189778]

>>9187371
>the only bad characters are [...] yoshimitsu
Hang yourself as soon as possible.

[Anonymous No.9189794]

Yoshimitau, Voldo, and Cervantes please.

[Anonymous No.9189830]

>>9189749
>>9189725
Man I don't like what they did to Raphael after 2. At first he seemed like a pretty cool tough duelist, but he turned more foppish and gay with every game. Now in 6 they even gave him some stupid "all according to keikaku" glasses and turned him into a generic anime trope

[Anonymous No.9189850]

Were fighting games better when they had smaller rosters /vr/?

[Anonymous No.9189954]

>>9187803
Fucking Fugazi. Holy shit they are awesome.

[Anonymous No.9189969]

>>9189830
I want to say he is quite literally gay in 6 and has voice lines specific to male opponents' armor breaking, but I might have those details wrong.

[Anonymous No.9190014]

>>9187373
Lizardman is great but the one in 2 isn't Aeon Calcos, it's just some dude.

[Anonymous No.9190028]

>>9187759
This concept art was my sexual awakening as a child. I would play Soul Calibur 2 for hours with a raging hard on.

[Anonymous No.9190710]

I'm starting a new weapon quest mode, which girl should I play as

[Anonymous No.9190718]

>>9190710
Yourself, you dickless indecisive

[Anonymous No.9190721]

>>9190718
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.9190730]

>>9190721
You still waiting for someone to tell your pussy ass what to do?

[Anonymous No.9191303]

>>9188075
I grew up with 2 but I find 1 more enjoyable for some reason.

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>>9187349
after 2 raph has always been my guy until 4. then it was just my created character with raph's moveset.

>>9189749
>When I heard in the later games he turns evil I was upset
he doesn't really become evil in the later games (except for maybe 5 but the story is so vague on anything not related to sir dipshit sisterfucker it's hard to confirm). him & amy just turn into vampires from the soul edge's corruption via the wounds he got from nightmare. alot of his goals in the series is basically boiled down to "keep amy safe & happy"

don't know how he is in 6 beyond that it might of soft confirmed that he was nightmare in 5 even though they're separate characters on the roster. either way 5 sucks regardless.

>>9189969
i'm willing to believe that he's bi (cause vampires). dude gave himself a maid harem in 4.

[Anonymous No.9191413]

nightmare is my favorite but big props to voldo and yoshimitsu players, the swag and mind games are huge for those characters. facing different direction n shit. always loved that yoshi healed himself by jacking off his sword while sitting

[Anonymous No.9191423]

Berserker da best

[Anonymous No.9191428]

>>9187358
>I don't like any soul calibur pre-soul calibur 4, the animation was weird
>>9187375
>Less movement
I'm sorry the game's speed filtered you anon. I guess Slow Calibur 4 is more your speed.

[Anonymous No.9191440]

Astaroth in this game was so fucking fun, my friend and I still play this every few months. That fucking back throw he has where he just throws your bitch ass in the air and then you clip them on the way for huge damage was so sweet.

[Anonymous No.9191558]

I miss the fast paced gameplay older fighting games had.

[Anonymous No.9191567]

>>9191440
DON'T SCREAM, WORMS

[Anonymous No.9191568]

>>9191354
Raphael becomes Nightmare in 5, safe to say he turned evil

[Anonymous No.9191587]

>>9191413
Yoshimitsu is so much fun to play in practically every fighting game he appears in. I do it for the swag. I would get my friends so fucking angry with my Yoshimitsu antics when I was younger.

[Anonymous No.9191601]

>>9187349
Spawn

[Anonymous No.9191602]

>>9190710
Player 2 Taki of course

[Anonymous No.9193129]

>>9191568
yeah and viola is clearly amy. as i said almost everything about 5 sucks.

>try to do a "new generation of fighters" like SF & MK did.
>spend the entire game focusing on the two worst characters on the roster (sophita's kids).
>give ZERO context on everyone else.
>3 FUCKING MIMIC CHARACTERS!
>most of newcomers are basically inferior clones (taki, kilik & xianghua are replaced by shitty shonen protags while sophitia's shit kids replace sophita, cassandra & setsuka).

[Anonymous No.9193313]

>>9187349
Link, Yoshimitsu and the Samurai guy were my faves.

[Anonymous No.9193330]

I used to be such a Triple Botta in Tempo shitter my friends banned from playing Raphael

[Anonymous No.9193471]

PC fan port with Link, Heihachi, and Spawn all in it when?

[Anonymous No.9193658]

>>9187942
lol I always remember his fighting dialogue for some reason and I don't really remember the rest. Doesn't he also go RAH RAH RAH RAH or whatever?

[Anonymous No.9193806]

>>9193658
Most of the time
YOU CONCEITED WRETCHED HUMAN

[Anonymous No.9193810]

>>9187784
Would have been sick. Would actually be tough to pick between the GameCube and PS2 versions then.

[Anonymous No.9193815]

>>9193471
Never, fuck Link and fuck Nintentoddlers

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>>9193815
You shouldnt fuck toddlers bro. That shit is wrong.

[Anonymous No.9194945]

>>9187349
Raphael all day

[Anonymous No.9195050]

>>9193815
>liking spawn or heihachi
heihachi was at least relatively unique to soul calibur due to him being unarmed but spawn was such a crap choice for a guest character that was only outdone in crappiness by the star wars characters in 4.

[Anonymous No.9195063]

>>9195050
Guest characters are cancer, get that secondary shit out of here

[Anonymous No.9195096]

>>9187349
Soul Calibur 1 had more sovl.

[Anonymous No.9195105]

>>9195063
>I LIKE TO PLAY SERIOUS VIDEO GAMES FOR SERIOUS GAMERS LIKE ME!
i don't mind guest characters as long as they fit with the tone/theme or make sense.

link, kratos, ezio, geralt in soul calibur? sure. they're all fantasy characters and SC is a relatively fantasy setting.

tekken characters make sense in that they're both made by namco and having an unarmed fighter in a weapon based fighting game is actually interesting.

2B & star wars characters don't really fit due to them all being sci-fi characters in a fantasy setting.

[Anonymous No.9195324]

>>9187759
I legit fapped to this art a few times as a teenager.

[Anonymous No.9195329]

>>9188075
I specifically agree with you on the character creation thing. The guest character thing is gay as fuck, but CAW absolutely destroyed these games.

[Anonymous No.9195339]

>>9195329
>but CAW absolutely destroyed these games.
how so?

[Anonymous No.9195342]

>>9191602
thanks anon. you mean costume 2 right? not just blue taki?

[Anonymous No.9195350]

>>9193867
>Ass physics

Why was this not a thing? Was it too demanding?

[Anonymous No.9195470]

>>9195105
Who else would be in it that would be over-hated?
Dante? Wolverine? Prince of Persia? Blade? fucking Skellitor?

[Anonymous No.9195515]

>>9195470
The series need a shota trap character so probably brigetastolfo. Don't >> at me.

[Anonymous No.9195654]

Ivy second costume for that sweet gold sword

[Anonymous No.9195720]

>>9195470
fun fact: dante was going to be in 3.

[Anonymous No.9195741]

>>9195350
It was definitely a thing later on. I distinctly remember it on Ivy and Shure in IV.

[Anonymous No.9195742]

>>9195720
Aw, man... that would have been so sick

[Anonymous No.9195787]

>>9195470
Nobody would hate on Skeletor.

[Anonymous No.9196020]

>>9187798
>The HD port on 360 that's still playable on Series X
Is it? I can't find it on the store. Which region?

[Anonymous No.9196379]

>YOU AGAIN? I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU
>HAVEN'T YOU HAD ENOUGH?

[Anonymous No.9196493]

>>9187349
I choose Hwang with the Phantom sword.

[Anonymous No.9196714]

>>9196379
DON'T
CRY

[Anonymous No.9196721]

>>9193815
Calm down, fag.

[Anonymous No.9197290]

>>9188076
ken yo... SAGARE WARE NI

[Anonymous No.9197453]

Cassandra was the hottest character and I'm tired of people pretending she's not.

[Anonymous No.9197458]

>>9197453
It's a shame so many designs from 1 & 2 only got worse from 3 on (baring Ivy anyway)

[Anonymous No.9198068]

>>9187349
Ryu or Ken

[Anonymous No.9198101]

>>9190721
Oohhhhh maaad sooo maaaadd haha.
>>9190718
You're a master troll dude omfg

[Anonymous No.9198108]

I thought Nightmare was voiced by Brian Drummond but seems to somebody else

[Anonymous No.9198316]

>>9187349
Maxi or Kilik, because swords are boring.

[Anonymous No.9198349]

>>9187759
I wanna have sex

[Anonymous No.9198454]

>>9193471
There is a dicsord of people who mod the game. They have gotten to where they can import the movesets and voice sfx for the other games guest characters all into 1 version with extra slots for them and everything. But they still only can use the models of other characters in that game version so for example Heihachi uses Misurugi's model on Gamecube/Xbox

[Anonymous No.9198846]

>>9187349
I play Ivy and Astaroth. I hope Namco ports it to the PS4, so I can wreck casuals online. I was surprised they removed the HD port from XBLA recently.

[Anonymous No.9198857]

>>9196020
Namco quietly removed it like two months ago. Nobody knows why.

[Anonymous No.9199079]

>>9198857
Shit, lame. I could but a cd key off GAME but it's fairly expensive. Oh well, it might get listed again soon.

[Anonymous No.9199089]

>>9188075
>The original

The sheer disrespect! The legend will never die!

[Anonymous No.9199096]

>>9187349
who wins?

[Anonymous No.9199097]

>>9199096
The viewing audience

[Anonymous No.9200225]

>>9195324
i still fap to it

[Anonymous No.9200316]

>>9199089
soulblade was perfect

[Anonymous No.9200402]

>>9199089
Tbf to him, Soul Blade might as well be it's own game.

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>>9199089
Original Soulcalibur. Soul Blade / Soul Edge is not the same series.

[Anonymous No.9200474]

>>9187759
This is kinda hilarious, probably the only reason the game sold in the US.

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[Anonymous No.9200497]

>>9187371
kek Yoshi is one of the best characters, man. You're a SC fan though, so I'm not going to call you a dumb nigger for your incorrect opinion.
Also Seong Mina was pretty dope.

My personal favorite was always Voldo, though.
>>9187803
fucking based, my two faves as well.
It was fun to occasionally cheese as Cervantes and teleport-dunk on plebs though

[Anonymous No.9200525]

Sancho finally given positional freedom. Ten Hag understands him and will unlock him

[Anonymous No.9200527]

>>9200525
fucking hell, kek, wrong thread

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>>9187349
AFTER A LONG AND ARDUOUS BATTLE... ANON IS VICTORIOUS

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thank god for xbone's screencapture

[Anonymous No.9200839]

>>9195050
What they should've done with Spawn is have Todd McFarlane design a period appropriate version. You could keep Keith David but have it be a new Spawn

[Anonymous No.9200862]

>>9200839
Already had one, in a DC game no less.

[Anonymous No.9201349]

>>9200796
Awesome...too bad you can't hide that window like you can in Soulcalibur :(

[Anonymous No.9201365]

Nightmare/Siegfried or Assassin/Hwang.

[Anonymous No.9201392]

>>9187349
no

[Anonymous No.9202034]

>>9200839
while a version of him that's period/setting appropriate would've been okay i feel spawn works as a guest character in a game where you don't have to tone him down.

he works as a guest character in MK11 because of the ultra violence and edgy/mature tone of mortal kombat but he would've absolutely sucked as a guest in injustice 2 because DC would've gone for a more PG-13 take (i.e. like what we saw in MKvDC).

he only really "makes sense" in soul calibur because todd mcfarlane did some the art for SC2 and designed nercrid

[Anonymous No.9202236]

>>9199089
Rance?

[Anonymous No.9204469]

SHATTER, SCATTER!

[Anonymous No.9204582]

>>9187349
Mitsurugi dur

[Anonymous No.9204807]

>>9204469
HUUUUURAWWGGH
WORMS!

[Anonymous No.9205149]

>>9187358
I don’t like any soul caliber after 4. Ironically the series lost it’s SOUL.

[Anonymous No.9206148]

I always have a fond spot for this game because I bought it when it first came out and barely played it because I had no one to pay it with, and then like 5 or 6 years later I was in university and brought my gamecube and for like a year it was THE game people would sit around and play.

[Anonymous No.9206179]

>>9187349
I always split my time between Astaroth and Mitsurugi
2>1=4>3=6>5

[Anonymous No.9206189]

>>9206148
I feel you, I was the same with SC2. My high school friends were really into it, we had a lot of late nights duking it out and I wonder if it's not the game but the circumstances around it that make me think it's the best in the series.

[Anonymous No.9206197]

>>9206189
I never really had fun with it or appreciated it until I could play it against actual people.

[Anonymous No.9206207]

>>9206197
I picked up SC6 and quickly realized that. I have yet to play with a friend, just a few randos on the internet once and decided that was sad and unfun. Like sex, it's a multiplayer activity. Fightan' is a social genre that belongs in arcades and living rooms with friends. Playing alone or online against nameless players is desolate.

[Anonymous No.9206593]

>>9202034
>he only really "makes sense" in soul calibur because todd mcfarlane did some the art for SC2 and designed nercrid
And McFarlane toys did the SC2 line.

[Anonymous No.9206735]

Cassandra in this game might be the reason I have a fetish for pantyhose now. In fact I'm certain my exposure to her as a teen is the cause of that.

[Anonymous No.9206906]

I will pogo your ass, flip your ass and shank you or kill you by killing myself

[Anonymous No.9206924]

In no particular order:
Cassandra 2P (BEST), 1P
Sophitia 1P, 3P > 2P but all three are good
Taki 2P > 1P but I like both
Talim 1P
Ivy 1P, 3P
Xianghua 3P
Seung Mina 1P

[Anonymous No.9207075]

>>9206735
No man needs a reason to like pantyhose on a nice pair of legs.
Pantyhose isn't a fetish, it's eudaimonia.

[Anonymous No.9207306]

>>9206207
me and my buddy used to play that a lot its great fun with a friend we would just make custom characters and battle them he would always make guys with butts for a face or freaks and i would make total coomer bait characters. i hope you find a fren to play it with someday cause it truly is the best way to enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.9207357]

>>9206924
imo
Cassandra 1P
Taki 1P
Xianghua 2P 3P

And Navy Ivy is underrated

[Anonymous No.9207582]

>>9195324
>>9200225
Based
Same here
Theater mode is great

[Anonymous No.9207586]

The chick with her tits I'm those air tight tit socks and exposed pokey nipples. Always.

[Anonymous No.9207610]

you will now remember the sophitia, cassandra and raphael threesome hellabunna manga

[Anonymous No.9207750]

>>9207357
I think I'd like it more if not for the hairstyle change.

[Anonymous No.9207967]

>>9200225
I still to this day can't believe that they got this art through with a T rating. DOA never would have gotten away with nipples that prominent.

[Anonymous No.9208001]

>>9207357
Reverse Trap Ivy is the best

[Anonymous No.9208313]

>>9208001
>trap
it's just crossdressing more or less

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>>9187974
Why would you want the arcade pcb? The Dreamcast version of SC1 is a lot better.

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[Anonymous No.9208429]

>>9187349
TRANSCENDING THE ARCHIVE AND THE BOARD, A THREAD OF SWORDS AND SOUL, ETERNALLY REPOSTED.
>>9187759
>>9190028
>>9195324
>>9200225
FATE COOMSPIRED TO ARRANGE THEIR BATTLE

[Anonymous No.9208743]

>>9187349
For me it was:
Nightmare - only flaw is that he's a manlet
Mitsurugi - just do a massive shitton of damage by spamming Y or thrusts
Link - shit-tier character, but a fucking Nintendo crossover in the year 2002

[Anonymous No.9209176]

>>9208429

no other announcer is this hype.
taki and ivy btfo all the other waifus

[Anonymous No.9209330]

>>9208325
I don't remember Taki's eyes looking that Asian in SC2. Looks better, though.

[Anonymous No.9209341]

>>9206906
Soul Calibur Yoshimitsu always kinda felt like he lacked an identity. The Tekken Yoshimitsu has so many iconic and cool looking outfits. Like how most people's go-tos are his Tekken 3 and 4 outfits. But SC Yoshi's outfits are all on the weak side.
I did really like the concept art for his first appearance. Too bad they didn't actually make him look that badass in game. pic related

[Anonymous No.9209346]

>>9209341
Shit, tiny image.

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>>9209176
A poster needs a soul, and a soul needs a sword