No, I am still pissed about soul caliber 3. I played sc2 for probabaly more hours than any other game in my life.
I'll buy sc4 if they fix the damage they did the my favorite sc2 characters when they made sc3.
I never played 3, but the general belief is that this is definitly an improvement. As much as I love it, I kinda wonder if while 3 had messed up a lot of its modes, 4 just ommitted them entirely. What I mean is that if you don't play online there's just not much to do besides Create-a-Character. Story Mode is an incredibly short 5 matches with only two difficulty options, Arcade Mode puts you against the same characters 3 out of 8 battles each time, and has NO difficulty options. And then there's Tower Mode, which is fullfilling and has tag team, but will only be fun for so long. Vs. Mode is just that, Vs. Mode. There's no Tag Vs., Comp vs. Comp, Character Model Viewer, Sound Test, and no difficulty settings (which blows my mind). I SUSPECT that those features are purposefully missing, requiring you to buy downloadable content to play them later on. One day after release and there's already a $1.50 downloadable costume pack
BUT, what the game does do it does amazingly well. The gameplay for me has never been more balanced, and seems a bit easier to learn for some reason. The characters look AMAZING. And the Create-a-Character feature lets you make characters that often look more awesome than the originals (I made the spitting image of Crono from Chrono Trigger!!!). You can even redress the original characters.
I personally am not a huge fan of online console games, I prefer to play the comp because of the usual online mentality that "only winning is fun and I have to pick the same top tier character as everyone else." But once I got to playing online it's lots of fun, and the games are seperated for Ranked or Non-Ranked play so I can avoid the hardcore gamers by playing Non-Ranked. I've already met some cool people who chat and joke around while playing so it's lots of fun.
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