Darth Vader also on the X360 version!

[naznatips]

MontanaHatchet said:

naznatips said:

Sansui said:

naznatips said:
I'd care if the game wasn't worthless. A fighting game with no balance is trash.

 

Thanks for the worthless commentary on an awesome game :P  Yoda might be severely unbalanced, I will grant you, but I'd take Soul Calibur any day over DOA or Tekken.

I'm looking forward to Street Fighter IV, maybe that's more up your alley in terms of balance.  Soul Calibur and Soul Calibur II have provided me far more hours of entertainment with friends than almost any other game, outside of a few FPS's I play on PC.

 

I'd take the original SC over any other technical fighter made in the last decade.  SCII made the game about gimmicks, and that's all it's been since then.  A giant gimmick.  SCIV just cemented that by not only being gimmicky but picking the gimmicks over balance.

Someone needs to play some more Virtua Fighter. VF is the king of having zero gimmicks and being all about gameplay and balance. If you play Virtua Fighter 5, you'll very quickly begin to notice that it has some of the most balanced characters of any fighting game in a long time (although there are still obvious disparities).

And besides, what do gimmicks and balance matter? Super Smash Bros. has tons of gimmicks and not very much balance, but it's still very fun. Of course you could claim that it doesn't matter since the game isn't realistic in the first place, but in the end, almost no fighting games are.

 

 

Not very much balance?  What?  Someone sucks at Brawl. There are a couple characters weaker than others, but none that are way too strong.  And the entire game is Nintendo characters, so how can any Nintendo character in the game be a gimmick? 

Soul Calibur took a technical fighter and added gimmick characters to sell it, regardless of their effect on the balance of the game, or how well they fit with the game.