Why is the Soul Calibur IV online community so bad at the game?

[Pristine20]

Sansui said:

Pristine20 said:

ctually, I think SC is one of the easier fighters. Its the easiest one I know of. I can't think of any other fighter where you can win by just tapping square and triangle.

I actually almost got bested by a noob who was doing just that because he was way faster than me and I rarely block in SC. It was pretty hard to GI as well due to the slight lag but it seems like the easiest way to victory is full unending assault and thats my specialty. I find it hard to defend against people I haven't figured out.

 

Gee, I think I found your problem and bolded it for you.  Don't complain about a game being easy because noobs can beat you if you don't bother to use the most basic of gameplay elements like 'block'. 

Now, Soul Calibur is more accessible than a lot of games, which I think is great, but a skilled player who uses the full spectrum of abilities available to them (including block) can beat a button mashing newb any day.

 

I mastered mitsurugi's (my fav character) style through SC2. In that game, his best weapon (the damascus sword) had a side effect where you couldn't block.  While I was mastering my mitsurugi, I was using that sword due to its extremely high attack and defense. I've never recovered from that lol. I usually utilize the 8-way run to dodge attacks and I'm almost always the one doing most of the attacking anyway