I always heard how great 2 was but how is 3 perceived in the community?
>>7241985613 was completely broken but had decent singleplayer.also the only game in the series with custom character movesets unless you count devil jin later.the gameplay had a throw cancel bug and individual balance issuesthe game itself had memory card corrupting issuesthey fucked up hard making it ps2 exclusive and not re-releasing the arcade version home was a mistakelike a fixed sc3 with even more characters would have sold
>>724198561I personally love it, even more than SC2. I enjoy playing single player a lot, and SC3 had A LOT of single player content. It's my favorite entry.It had several major problems, like a save wipe glitch tied to the Chronicles of the Sword game. I don't know the full details on that, but it sounded awful for those impacted.>>724198841>they fucked up hard making it ps2 exclusive and not re-releasing the arcade version home was a mistakelike a fixed sc3 with even more characters would have soldI would have bought it again if they released the arcade version for consoles. I only got to play the SC3 arcade once and it was pretty neat.
>>724199696>I only got to play the SC3 arcade once and it was pretty neat.sameiirc they made amy and li long main characters instead of bonuses
>>724198561It's the best one. I put like 60 hours into the single player with sophitia cause her skirt and thighs give me a chub.
>>724198561SC3 is the best BY FAR if you are not a pvp fag. The amount of single player content the game has is high and the designs of every character is way better than SC2.There's a romhack that basically bring the changes of the Arcade edition to the normal SC3 PS2 edition which fixes the bugs. So there's literally 0 reason to play SC2 if you only care for single playerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPFFEbU3ig4
>>724198561The AI was bullshit that input-read and every character returning from 2 got nerfed to varying degrees (Yoshimitsu in particular got absolutely gaped). More complex move inputs would sometimes fail to register correctly. The costume designs were all downgrades from 2. Chronicles of the Sword was a neat idea horribly executed, since the AI would selectively block nearly every move from certain fighting styles but is literally incapable of defending against the custom fighter's Greatsword A+B attack.>>724203895>there's literally 0 reason to play SC2 if you only care for single playerWeapon Master mode is better than any of SC3's single player modes.
>>724204285>The costume designs were all downgrades from 2I don't know how someone can say this with a straight face. SC2 designs look horrible and outdated compared to SC3
>>724198841>but had decent singleplayerIt literally had the best single player content in the series and fighting games in general. >>724204285The long-ass labyrinths alone make Weapon Master unbearable. It's definitely not a game mode anyone sane wants to go through especially the second time.
>>724203895>there's literally 0 reason to play SC2 if you only care for single playerlike 90% of the people who suck off SC2 as the best SC only care about it because Link is playable on the Gamecube version
>>724198561Namco fucked it over big time with that Chronicles of the Sword bug. Was before they could release patches so everyone was stuck with it. If you created a CotS save and updated any other game data on your memory card afterwards, coming back to CotS would corrupt your memory card. Ultimately a waste of development.
I remember playing this game's story mode and got 100% completely filtered by one fight in chapter 11 or something? Where you have to fight a guy in an arena over water in a central city with no way around it, so it was a mandatory fight.I haven't played a fighting game since then. The CPU was unbelievable.
>>724205560Story mode was easy as fuck and kinda shitty because it was only 1 round, so loading times were sometimes longer than the fights themselves. The arena mode was really hard tho, and really fun also
>>724198561compfags hated it, casuals loved it.
>>724206467anything fighting game fags hat is usually good. 3 just so happens to be one of my favorite games despite not giving a fuck about fighting games.
I tried it for the first time last year and that "RTS" mode was god awful, even at max speed it needs to be 5x quicker. It was really nice though having Raphael feel like the modern Raph I know, unlike playing 2 again for the first time in 20 years having half his kit feel alien.
3 was worse than 2 but looked nicer. 2 still goat
>>724198561If this re-release wants to be accurate it needs to randomly corrupt all the data on your PS5 and force you to do a factory reset.
>>724199696>like a save wipe glitch tied to the Chronicles of the Sword gameIt wasn't tied to exclusively to Chronicles. It was literally if you had an SC3 save and moved or delted other saves on the memory card, the glitch would happen. I know this because I never touched Chronicles and still had it happen after deleting some saves for rented games. You essentially had to buy a separate memory card to use solely with SC3.
>>724198561The Create A Fighter solo campaign was incredible for the time.Lancechads, ww@
>>724205298>Was before they could release patches so everyone was stuck with it.It was fixed in later Japanese versions. They were just lazy and never bothered to release a fixed version of the game outside of Japan.
>>724198561Best single player content.It's my favorite Soul Calibur.
How people here are saying Soul Calibur 2 looks better than 3? Jesus Christ did you guys forgot how horrendous Xianghua, Talim and Sophitia are in SC2?
>>7241985613 is lowkey the beginning of the decline for the series. all because they did not do a Gamecube and Xbox port.
>>724198561Shit because no Link and released on the least poweful home console at the time.
>>724212769People complaining about the looks of the females was never a thing at all until SC4.
>>724198841Fucking this. SC3 is a broken mess of a game but you got bang for your buck. Once you know how to trigger the save corruption bug it's easy to avoid especially on emulator and newer hardware (never ran into on a PS3) due to having all the free space in the world. If you disregard the balance that only matter in a competitive setting it's easily tied with 2 as the best game in the series. If you do care about balance there's a modded version of 3 that fixes that to be closer to the arcade release.>>724215526I also agree with this, I didn't know that SC3 was a thing for the longest time due to only having a Gamecube at the time.
>Buy a few used memory cards >One has SC3 data on >Custom characters are a guy named Shaun, a girl and what appears to be a one piece character and a DoA>His CoS custom unit was him, his girl but not the anime girlsI hope they made it.
