21st April 2007, 1:43 PM
Soul Calibur II is a good game, but 2d fighting games are better. They're more technical and require more actual skill to play... in Soul Calibur (or most 3d fighting games) it just doesn't feel like as much skill is actually required. So yes... despite the fact that Soul Calibur II is a good game, it most definitely did not get me to give up on traditional 2d fighting games. Actually, I'd say that it's likely that Capcom vs SNK 2 is one of my most-played GC games over the years... I've certainly played it a lot more than Soul Calibur 2 or SSBM. (I have played a good bit of SSMB multiplayer, but I haven't really bothered with the singleplayer game at all (it's not very good), while I kept playing CvS2 for a long time, up to and including this year... and as for Soul Calibur 2, I played it until I unlocked everything (which didn't take long, sadly; I had fun while it lasted), but after that mostly stopped. Once in a while I'll put it in in single player mode, but not that often.