Soul Calibur V announced

There's lack of combos due to air control, but I find that to be great because VF isn't very combo heavy either imo.

In my opinion, SC5 is all about okizeme and trying to capitalize once you get that knockdown.

 

Tons of Japanese VF players are jumping on SC5 right now. Seems that every single VF player that I follow has bought the game on one of the platforms, including guys like Kamaage and Itazan

 

Flavor of the week imo. When Tekken 6 came out, Koedo, fuudo and itazan were playing that too for a little while.

 

As a VF player, I can attest that this game feels like I could continue playing it for real. Its still a namco game, but theres a lot less bullshit in it than in tekken 6.

While the new critical edges and brave edges look like they are simply ripped off capcoms gamebook, they fit the game well imo. Guard impact costing meter means theres lot less rampant GI:ing so you can concentrate on the strategic aspects of the game better, etc. I dont know if jsut guard will turn into new GI, but so far in online people dont really try to use it. Or at least arent succesful.

 

It's nice to step away from VF every once in a while to play another game. It makes it fresh when you come back. Personally that really is why I really enjoy SC, though somehow it ended up pushing me back in playing VF more again. I'll be bouncing back and forth between the two games. At least until Mass Effect 3 drops, then I'll be putting way too much time into that.

SC doesn't really have a high execution need for most of the combos. I find some of Natsu's Just Frames kinda hard to do consistently, along with Siggys 3B, 66K,BE , just frame agA. I just can't do the agA fast enough to get the combo to hit ever.

Outside of things like that, the combos are fairly easy. I agree with glory, that most of this game is about oki control and keeping the offense. Once you find that you're having to block mixups, it's a bad situation to be in.

 

Question: How good is this game, i have enjoyed the previous installments, and am wondering if i should buy this for $40 off of amazon.com or go with another game.

 

It's a fun game and has the best netcode I've seen in a while. With that said, is it a good competitive game? I don't know if it is. It's worth the purchase, but with SF x T coming out this Tuesday, you should expect a lot of people to stop playing SC5 for the meantime.

 

okay thank u, i'll wait till it goes down in price further.

 

PS.com blog share Vita version of SC5 idea.
Please VOTE UP!

 

now that you post this.....
Does anyone know approximately how many Tekken, SF, and SC players are online at any one time. An average maybe? Or does
anyon know what peak online traffic is for those games? Or is
that information confidential?

I know there is overlap between the games, so when SF x T comes out there will certainly be a drop in the #ppl playin SC5,
but I wonder how many ppl on average are online now?

 

Well, no one play T6 online if that's what you're asking. SF still has a massive online population. SCV is rather moderate. I hope more people actually play the game because it's a really good game even if some of the new things are counter intuitive.

 

SC5s grand colosseo-mode is pretty nice for creating a large chatroom (up to 100 people) where you can directly see how many people are online at a given time, and have player matches at the same time. This is pretty nice compared to being completely blind about it like in VF5. (note: SC5s ranked online still hides who is out there)

That said: I like the fight request thing that SSF4 has. I hope they put that in FS.

 

Well , two days ago, I jumped on Tekken 6 ranked matches, I'm just a 2nd Dan in Tekken 6, I figured I would try to up my rank for a change. I did run into a 8ky, a 4th dan, a 3rd dan, and a Savior online, and then it went silent, no matches found. And for all I know, I was playing against AI. I didn't recognize any of those cats, and no one had head phones. I beat the 4th dan, and everybody else including the 8kyu kicked my ass.

But traffic was virtually nothing in ranked, there were a few player rooms (but they were for the most part private).

 

Yea, once you figure out wats going on with colosseo its nice,

But I'm really curious if you take all of the fighting games together, SSF4, Tekken,VF,SC etc. How many ppl on average are
online at any given time. Are we talking hundreds of thousands, thousands, hundreds, or dozens?

 

Did anyone watch the SCV World Tournament? It happened 2 days ago in Las Vegas. Namco brought 8 players from around the world who won qualifiers within the region. I haven't watched much SCV matches much but there was some great matches here.

It starts here at the 47 minute mark. -> Soul Calibur 5 World Tournament pt1

Here is the rest of the tournament. -> Soul Calibur 5 World Tournament pt2