Soul Blade/Calibur VS Tekken

[Terracosmo]

So which one of Namco's bestselling fighting game series do you prefer?
I figure since these games seem to have quite a following everywhere (here too), why not make up a poll for it?
My views:

Story: Soul Calibur
- Tekken has some interesting characters that keep the story rolling, but the whole "let's make another tournament" gig gets old. SC feels like it progresses, characters evolve and find out truths about the cursed blade and so on.

Characters: Soul Calibur
- Tekken has a lot of good characters. Soul Calibur however has less, but in turn the characters in those games feel a lot more deep (both gameplay & storywise). You can't go wrong with Siegfried. Too bad though, Tekken has many intriguating characters but Namco doesn't seem to bother using that to it's full potential (Jin & Asuka are supposed to be cousins, yet they don't talk to each other in the whole game! except when Jin drives his head down her cleavage of course).

Unlockables: Tekken
- Sure, SC has all those weapons and other neat stuff. But still, Tekken feels more rewarding, since the movies are so awesome. SC doesn't have movies, which feels very cheap - just a few uncolored pages as endings.

Music: Soul Calibur
- Tekken's soundtrack blows goat. Fucking wannabe monotony techno. I almost went insane in Devil Within because of the annoying music. Give me SC's operatic pieces any day. They are great.

The Lasting Factor: Soul Calibur
- SC games generally take more time to unlock everything in, and in addition (as I said before), each character is deeper than those in Tekken. To me this makes it so SC lasts longer, since I really like mastering the characters that I enjoy using.

So yeah, SC wins by far for me. I just hope SC3 can keep up the awesomeness.
By the way, I love Tekken lots too - but SC just beats it to the ground.

[hopeknight]

Soul Calibur all the way. I never really got into Tekken, but I'be been following the Soul Calibur series since Soul Blade and love it to pieces.

[mage]

Soul Calibur is by far the best fighting game ever made. It takes 1000x more skill than any Tekken game.

[Mut]

Tekken. Any other answer is incorrect.

[basey44]

mut how could u be so wrong, soul calibur for sure

[Dezalanel]

Tekken. And anyone who says it takes more skill to play Soul Calibur is a complete idiot.

[Terracosmo]

It doesn't take more skill to PLAY Soul Calibur.
It takes more skill to MASTER it.

Anyone who says otherwise is wrong, or if you prefer, an idiot.

[complich8]

I prefer soul calibur controls to tekken controls, for two reasons:

(1) They make sense. They're not excessively technical, so you can be decent without attaining perfection. (Lower learning curve).
(2) King. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Round 2. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. You lose.

Any game that a character get an infinite unbreakable chain of throws as long as they press the right buttons is just simply broken. I mean, like DOA wave-dash broken.

[darkshadow]

story: soul calibur

characters: soul calibur

unlockables: soul calibur
with this i mean soul calibur 1 ofcourse, which had the most awesome picture gallery!!!

music: soul calibur

overall: soul calibur [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Mut]

Originally posted by: complich8
I prefer soul calibur controls to tekken controls, for two reasons:

(1) They make sense. They're not excessively technical, so you can be decent without attaining perfection. (Lower learning curve).

I guess each button being assigned to each limb (left and right arms and legs) is too hard for comp [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

(2) King. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Round 2. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. Throw. You lose.

Any game that a character get an infinite unbreakable chain of throws as long as they press the right buttons is just simply broken. I mean, like DOA wave-dash broken.

Except, 90% of the linking throws can be escaped by pressing a one or two buttons, and that's just not for King, it's anyone who has chain throws.

YES GO BIAS OPINIONS WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECT!

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[stos289]

You guys forgot about Virtua Fighter! Even though the story (if there is one) kind of sucks, the fighting system is one of the best out there. Try button mashing with Akira and you'll be either standing helpless or just get a worthless kick. I believe that Virtua Fighter would be a more worthy opponent to Soul Caiber than Tekken because of its awesome gameplay and amazing graphics (Virtua Fighter 4). Out of the categories Terra displayed, Story is the only one where Virtua Fighter lacks.

In relation to the actual topic of the thread, Soul Caliber would have to beat Tekken. Although I'll always be a fan of "Iron Fist Tournament," Soul Caliber 2 really was a fun game to play becase of its variety of characters and interest of "weapon-based" fighting rather than standard "fist fighting."

[Mut]

Only real men enjoy fist fighting.

[basey44]

you know wat i was dissapointed with in SC2? the endings. only like 1 of them had the character turing evil because of the sword at the end, and that was like cervantis i think. i mean come on, in SC1 half of the characters turned evil because of the sword and went on killing sprees, or tried to conquor the world and stuff, instead of this good guy stuff. REALLY dissapointed with nightmares end, instead of him finally getting all the power hes dreamed of and slaughtering everyone, he realises the error of his way through some fragment of wats left of his soul, and he throws the sword down a crevass


edit to below: pfft raphael, everyone knows kilik is the best

[Nai]

Soul Calibur without a doubt.

Why? Well, Soul Calibur II had Raphael, which is without a doubt my favorite character in any fighting game. Yes, I do have an unhealthy rapier fetish. The music, is without a doubt gorgeous. The characters also are a lot deeper in Soul Calibur than in Tekken and I wastly prefer Soul Calibur's story mode.

But the biggest deciding factor? Soul Calibur III will have completely customizabile characters. Yes, you will be able to design your very own fighter from scratch. Now, how utterly badass isn't that? I really can't wait for this game.

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
It doesn't take more skill to PLAY Soul Calibur.
It takes more skill to MASTER it.

Indeed. Mastering a character in Soul Calibur is quite an experience. Personally I have mastered Raphael after years of playing exclusively with him in Soul Calibur II, and boy does it feel good to utterly decimate my friends with his graceful movements.

[Mut]

Originally posted by: Nai
But the biggest deciding factor? Soul Calibur III will have completely customizabile characters. Yes, you will be able to design your very own fighter from scratch. Now, how utterly badass isn't that? I really can't wait for this game.

Tekken 5 has customizable characters too. However, I don't know if it's as in depth as SC3. Then again, I don't even know what SC3 let's you do.

[Nai]

Watch the "Character Creation" video here to get a good idea of just how much stuff you can do.

This is really the one aspect which has me most excited about SCIII.

[masamuneehs]

Soul Caliber is near and dear to me as I love weapons. I have spent a shit load of dollars at the arcade playing it before I bought it for PS2. My favorite is Nightmare/Siegried, which is not surprising since he is just so damn badass its freaky. Next I like Yoshimitsu and Berserker (aka Rock from SoulCaliber 1) because nobody plays them and Yoshi messes with peoples minds.

But Tekken gets my vote because I always felt that the wider variety of characters makes the game a lot deeper than SC. I was hopelessly addicted to Tag when it came out on PS2 debut and have bought all the others since. My favorite character is Yoshimitsu, because he has a sword and that is both cheap (if you use the sword attacks as much as I do) and kickass.

[complich8]

Originally posted by: Mut@chi
Except, 90% of the linking throws can be escaped by pressing a one or two buttons, and that's just not for King, it's anyone who has chain throws.

YES GO BIAS OPINIONS WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECT!

90%? What about the other 10%?

And the arms/legs thing is just a strange paradigm.

Sure, my opinion is biased. Because I didn't enjoy the couple hours I spent trying to learn tekken, and I enjoyed soul calibur and sc2 from the instant I picked up the controller, through to a fairly deep game.

I'm not going to torture myself playing a game I don't like for hours on end because some jerkass on the internet thinks it's better than the things I DO enjoy. Hence, SC2 is better. Maybe not for you, but for me, for sure.

[Mut]

Originally posted by: complich8

Originally posted by: Mut@chi
Except, 90% of the linking throws can be escaped by pressing a one or two buttons, and that's just not for King, it's anyone who has chain throws.

YES GO BIAS OPINIONS WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUBJECT!

90%? What about the other 10%?

What about it? Is it wrong to have throws that are inescapable? most of the inescaple throws are links in the chain throws anyway, you have plenty of other opportunities to escape from.

[Terracosmo]

I didn't know you could customize characters in SC3, there's another reason to look forward to it. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
Also it seems that Siegfried is finally back to normal! Glory to all!

I wouldn't say I've actually mastered him, but he's the guy I know how to use the best anyhow.
I'm more of a 2D fighter kind of guy.

And I'll have to agree with you Nai that Raphael is pretty cool (and according to canon, he's the next Soul Blade wielder right?)