Can't quite find the point in SoulCaliber, though.
Fighting games generally are a strange beast. Something like Soul Calibur is a remarkably well designed game which will only really be played properly by a tiny percentage of its audience. And yet this strangely niche product can be sold to a mass market because the game's broad theme is highly appealing to plenty of people whose play never gets beyond mashing random buttons.
Or to put it another way: I doubt I'll ever be mystified by someone not liking fighting games. The mystery is why they weren't long ago replaced with something more mindless.
whose play never gets beyond mashing random buttons.
For example someone who is utterly hopeless at anything resembling a fighting game but can select Taki and press the kick button a lot :-)
Playing any of you "pros" and i'd be doomed though, it would seem to have a certain depth to it which I appreciate even if I won't ever play it like that.
I do win every so often but i'm sure you have theories as to why that happens :-)
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metame is pouring wine as I type. Fingers crossed...
Thnks in advance for comments about 360s (assuming it was for us) :-)
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Crackdown
Dead Rising
Earth Defence Force 2017
Bioshock
Call of Duty 4
Arcade-
Braid
Soul Calibur(original)
Worms
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metame has now looked at the Braid demo and it looks interesting.
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;)
Thanks for the recommendations. I just got a new X-Box as well. Can't quite find the point in SoulCaliber, though.
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Fighting games generally are a strange beast. Something like Soul Calibur is a remarkably well designed game which will only really be played properly by a tiny percentage of its audience. And yet this strangely niche product can be sold to a mass market because the game's broad theme is highly appealing to plenty of people whose play never gets beyond mashing random buttons.
Or to put it another way: I doubt I'll ever be mystified by someone not liking fighting games. The mystery is why they weren't long ago replaced with something more mindless.
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For example someone who is utterly hopeless at anything resembling a fighting game but can select Taki and press the kick button a lot :-)
Playing any of you "pros" and i'd be doomed though, it would seem to have a certain depth to it which I appreciate even if I won't ever play it like that.
I do win every so often but i'm sure you have theories as to why that happens :-)
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Something along the line of "being kicked in the head repeatedly is painful"!
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