I give up trying to enjoy this game.

[Forgot7en]

I really do. I really tried.

Quick history lesson: I've played every game in the series since the first Soul Calibur. Well, the numbered ones, at least. My main character was Nightmare/Siegfried, until they changed Nightmare so much in 3 that I stopped playing him altogether and stuck to Siegfried. I really love the stances and I hate that they removed them completely from Nightmare. It's the most fun ♥♥♥♥ to do in SC2 and it sucked they gimped the two characters so much compared to the previous game's iteration.

SC2 > 1 > 3 as far as the pre-meter games go. Naturally, I mained Nightmare in SC2, but I also played a handful of other characters, namely Cervantes, Taki, Ivy, Cassandra. Cervantes was a close second main.

Since 4, the games changed to be sorta like Street Fighter. I always hated that change. I also felt like every single character played like absolute ♥♥♥♥ in 4, especially Ivy, who had a ridiculous amount of stances and was pretty much the worst character I ever attempted playing in a fighting game. She was so good in 2 and so horrible in 4. Anyway.

I feel like 5 did the meter-based combo system ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ perfectly, in a way that still felt like SC, was simple enough to get used to without being broken. I hated 5's single player modes, but I absolutely loved the way the meter and its related mechanics were redesigned, so I played a lot online and with a friend. I didn't like that Guard Impact was changed to a single button input and basically gave you an advantage and parried everything instantly, but hey, everything else in the game was great. All characters played extremely well, everyone had their pros and cons. Omega Patroklos was the only completely broken character (who for no reason at all basically used Setsuka's fighting style and that still baffles me).

Now 6 has been out for a while and... it reminds me of a time when I would frequently hear people calling Soulcalibur games button mashers. There is, in fact, a worrying number of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ scrubs out there who mash all the buttons the ENTIRE MATCH (you can't deny it, I can open the replay and turn on your inputs to prove it), but now they have a button that parries everything, a button that allows a super to come out instantly (except for Siegfried, of course, the only character whose super has a startup time slow enough to get me ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ interrupted by every single other character), and if those changes were cancerous enough, everyone gets a "power up!" boost mechanic that makes the previous game's meter game look like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ masterpiece.

What the ♥♥♥♥ happened to this series so hard between the last game and this one? I really wish they'd preserved the mechanics from 5 rather than this trash we got.

Also, I'm ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ salty as ♥♥♥♥ considering the only character I play as is without a doubt the worst one. All of his fast attacks are outclassed by any other character's, and I cannot ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ believe the sheer luck when my attacks end up whiffing the opponent while they're attacking me.

It's a very impressive and humbling moment when your opponent shows off their skill with a long combo and beats you in just a few moves. In most fighting games, this is the very reason to get good at it.

But now, every single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ character has infinite combos that are stupidly easy to perform, there's basically zero skill difference between a good player and a pro one, this game is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ casualized that you don't even have to be good a fighting games to win a match, especially if you pick ANY character that isn't Siegfried. Every character has instantaneous supers, everyone can parry everything with 234908209384 counter moves, which makes this game perfect for complete scrubs. Finding an actual decent player has been such a rare occasion. I'm done with this ♥♥♥♥. It's so bad that the actual good players I found that I had fun with, the ones who, like me, didn't even bother using the new trash mechanics, didn't even respond to my messages or friend invites, which makes me believe even this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ community sucks.

I don't think I need to talk about how shameful the DLC practices in this game are, but I will, though, because ♥♥♥♥ this game. SC5's costume packs were half the price of this ♥♥♥♥ and I loved playing that game so much that I bought all of them at the time without zero remorse. Now I feel like I got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ripped off buying the base game at launch, it's completely worthless, it has even LESS content than the previous game, the DLC is twice the cost, and of course, paywalling characters, and the single player modes are just as ♥♥♥♥ as... well, as they've always been since 3.

♥♥♥♥ this game to ♥♥♥♥, I'm uninstalling it and never play it ever again.

[Habaduba]

Im sorry man but you are just salty, not trying to piss you out or anything, you just need to get over it.
RE is not such a nuisance and lets face it, SC5 was the worst SC up to date and everyone will tell you that.
Sorry but preety much everything you said is nonsence, there is not one insta supper, infact the fastest i can recall is i12... that is slower then a ton of SC5 CE's...
Also there isn't a single infinite combo... there never was since the launch.
Siegfried is actually really strong and genuently gets rewarded for loosing... Really friendly for new players who make a lot of mistakes
I just skimmed over this so I won't respond to everything but you should give it a try man. I know everyone gets salty but really SC6 gets bad reputation becouse of that while manny invested players agree its the best running FG atm and my personall favourite tho i guess that doesn't play a role.
I know things seem better when you are looking back... but they really weren't, and if you stay composed and learn from your mistakes Im sure you will start to appriciate the game.

[John Thicc 3 - Parabelly]

This reeks of mad because you don't know how to deal with this game. Many of the things you say aren't really true, but demonstrate a lack of knowledge about the differences in this game. V was also the worst game in the series and nearly killed SC altogether. I certainly don't want to see GIs costing meter ever again.

[Yu Ryujin]

changing Nightmare was an absolute need in 3, I was a main Siegfried too. if you followed the story you would know that the nightmare isnt siegried like in the previous one. Its soul edge trying to copy him.

Soul calibur 4 and 5 killed the series, because they changed the artstyle, story, and even combat of the game into weird lazy ♥♥♥♥, 2 and 3 was really Top quality, above all 2, 3 gave a lot of content. You can even feel in the music, the ♥♥♥♥ isnt the same and the compositions are bad compared to the old ones from the previous entries.

[Dracula_Vladimir]

I agree with what you said.
1. RE is absolute trash. there are certain characters' shining spot is to put opponents into a stressful situation and the opponents have to know what they are dealing with in order to come out of the stressful situation. NOW, RE the ♥♥♥♥ out of it. you have a 50% chance of getting out of it. how many times in an even match can you put your opponents into a stressful situation, not that much and that is your winning point. now , it is washed into toilet.
2. the Super is absolute insane. it comes out from no where. it save the opponents from a stressful situation as well.
3. soul charge and attack, same, save you from being stressed and for some characters, they can just spam the soul charge attack without any consequences. absolutely no fear spamming party.
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with all above being implemented in SV6, all your afford of putting pressure on your opponents means nothing. they can easily do any of the above and get out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and punish you buy spamming their meter skills. besides the super, all the other 3 will turn the table easily and make a advanced player lose the game in the blink of eyes.

[MGB | Screaming Internally]

I mean, I agree that RE and soul charge are really dumb mechanics, but... Did you just say that Siegfried is bad?

Allow me to just laugh, cry and puke at the same time.

[௵Yannick Nadi ✔]

none care

[Weaselly]

You clearly haven't played enough if you think Siegfried is bad.

[NuGuy]

I would pay full price for a pc version of SC2.

[ShadowSplit]

Hey, at least SC has its share of drama. At least on Twitter. That sh!t is hilarious.

[Kaze No Arioch]

you already posted a bad review of the game 1 year ago, pls go away. By the way, sieg CE is on of the best in the game (btw he's my main)

[DLOZanma]

A Siegfried main complaining about mashing? That's new.

[Nina - Lord of The Backrooms]

Fanboys! The lot of ya! Most of these guys were probably crap at SC5, or they never even played it because someone said it was bad. 5 was really only lacking because it was never finished, but it was still the most mechanically sound game in the series.

SC6, on the other hand, is fundamentally flawed. The game auto-blocks some strings if you let go of guard, often doesn't unblock when you are trying to sidestep (causing you to jump or crouch), and has normal(easily executed) attacks that are so fast that the only way you could block them is to panic mash reversal edge or get even luckier by normal blocking it on accident.

Unfortunately, the community is kinda bad wherever you go. If they're not snobs who think beating you once means that you're trash or that you have to be a certain rank to be good, they're spineless know-it-alls who run away the second it seems like you may not be as easy to beat as they thought and they'll never fight you again. They'll tell you that you're spamming or that you're bad at the game and run away or kick you if they're the host.. and actually player match aka casual match is pretty dead on pc.

If you're not completely fed up with SC6 and you want more matches, i'd suggest playing on console of you have the means.

[NairBoT]

I own this game and all the DLC but I spend way more time emulating SC3 with PCSX2 and widescreen patch.

I still play SC2 HD on XBOX ONE X backwards compatibility.

In addition, SC1 emulates really well with ReDream and widescreen hack. Proper(not stretched) FOV +HD + ReShade = way better than it originally played on Dreamcast.

Lastly, you can use ReShade to apply 3D and 2D shaders while using any of these emulators. 2D scaler shader works really well to clean up and smooth the 2D HUD when upscaling.

I agree that SC1,2,3 were the best but for me it goes SC3 > 1 > 2.

Of the newer games, SCV was the best by far and it had a lot of stages too. Over 25 stages I believe. Even if they get SCVI up to 15 stages, its still 10 stages behind.

[Habaduba]

Originally posted by paxton666:

I own this game and all the DLC but I spend way more time emulating SC3 with PCSX2 and widescreen patch.

I still play SC2 HD on XBOX ONE X backwards compatibility.

In addition, SC1 emulates really well with ReDream and widescreen hack. Proper(not stretched) FOV +HD + ReShade = way better than it originally played on Dreamcast.

Lastly, you can use ReShade to apply 3D and 2D shaders while using any of these emulators. 2D scaler shader works really well to clean up and smooth the 2D HUD when upscaling.

I agree that SC1,2,3 were the best but for me it goes SC3 > 1 > 2.

Of the newer games, SCV was the best by far and it had a lot of stages too. Over 25 stages I believe. Even if they get SCVI up to 15 stages, its still 10 stages behind.

1,2,3 were certainly great, 3 got bad popularity coz it was really buggy but post patch i heard it was great.
I am a bit concearned about SCV tho. Finding anyone thinking SCV wasn't absolutelly horrible is hard, why do you think that mess was even acceptable,let alone better then SC4 and 6 ?

[NairBoT]

Originally posted by Habaduba:

Originally posted by paxton666:

I own this game and all the DLC but I spend way more time emulating SC3 with PCSX2 and widescreen patch.

I still play SC2 HD on XBOX ONE X backwards compatibility.

In addition, SC1 emulates really well with ReDream and widescreen hack. Proper(not stretched) FOV +HD + ReShade = way better than it originally played on Dreamcast.

Lastly, you can use ReShade to apply 3D and 2D shaders while using any of these emulators. 2D scaler shader works really well to clean up and smooth the 2D HUD when upscaling.

I agree that SC1,2,3 were the best but for me it goes SC3 > 1 > 2.

Of the newer games, SCV was the best by far and it had a lot of stages too. Over 25 stages I believe. Even if they get SCVI up to 15 stages, its still 10 stages behind.

1,2,3 were certainly great, 3 got bad popularity coz it was really buggy but post patch i heard it was great.
I am a bit concearned about SCV tho. Finding anyone thinking SCV wasn't absolutelly horrible is hard, why do you think that mess was even acceptable,let alone better then SC4 and 6 ?

For SCV, I wasn't a fan of the single player because it had practically none. Like most people, the newer characters didn't do anything for me either. However, for VS battles it was great. Fun fighting and graphics. The stages were greatly varied and plentiful. It was fun to set "cpu vs cpu" in VS and random both characters and stages.

I didn't like SC4 because there was no way to do "cpu vs cpu" setting like SCV and SCVI. However, single player was fun in SC4. I remember grinding all the way through it.

I would be way happier with SCVI if it had more(25+) stages and didn't leave out certain types of stages that were fun in previous entries. For example, the floating raft/platform stage, some rivers were water and others lava. In addition, the pirate ship stage in SCV was crazy impressive too. It was multi-tier so you could fall through the floor and keep fighting inside the ship. It was canon fire from another pirate ship that knocks you to the next tier.

Lastly, I really liked the battle and exhibition theater modes in SC1,2,3. It would be great if they brought those features to SCVI.

...and bringing back the "Rock" character would be cool too.