SoulCalibur V to shut down

Hey, Bandai Namco WARNED US this time, but only gave us a week. In contrast, this is how much time they gave to an even worse received and worse selling game.

I know, in the end it's a licensing issue and it's eleven years old at this point, but given even SC1 isn't on the MS store anymore, it feels like Bandai Namco's investors don't care about SoulCalibur and it's fans, while they rake in more profit from anime licensed titles (especially if they involve Goku, Naruto and/or Luffy).

Glad I have the old 360 disc with IV...

That is a bummer. Despite it's lack of content, I enjoyed V a lot. Wish the games sold enough for Namco to take this franchise more seriously.

Whatever happens next, Judaspete's soul will always burn.

Soul Cal has no reason to exist when tekken, SF and MK are as big as they are.

That might be the PS3 title I put the most hours in. Sorry to see it close..

what a bizarre take.

there's room in the genre and gaming industry in general for games with their own flavor and style. Soul Calibur was and remains *the* premiere fighter with weapons at its design core.

It's like saying Battlefield shouldn't exist because Call of Duty and Counterstrike are big.

SC has been stuck in place forever. Devs in charge has ran out of ideas, and should stop all SC development.

@hardwenzen: Smash Bros is bigger than all those games put together.

Is it? The lag in that game are worse than fighting titles from the 90's. Its an unplayable mess created for the system with the worst online infrastructure ever seen in the gaming industry. Unless you're doing local tournies that Nintendo doesn't even allow (ROFL), Smash is an unplayable POS of a video game.🤷‍♂️It is what it is.

I already have the game myself so I’m good. Really enjoy the franchise.

It's very sad.

When they fought the woman's clothes would tear off.

@hardwenzen: It’s just bigger than all put together. That’s how Nintendo rolls.

Now imagine if this was the case, and they don't allow tournies AND have the shittiest online infrastructure for the fans of the game. They're literally trolling y'all😂

oh is SC netcode that bad?

I feel like Japan has been pulled kicking and screaming into proper rollback netcode / GGPO tech.

@hardwenzen: That’s how sad these fighting games are. Nintendos fighting game is bigger than all put together and they don’t even try.

I forgot Soul Calibur was still a thing ...

Playing earlier SC games, I really wanted to turn off that corny music and just have sound fx and atmosphere sounds on. Really hate that music. Sometimes it’s the reason I haven’t played some of the older ones.

I remember Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast, man everyone was buzzing at that game back in the day. Never played 2 onwards, so never cared for the series, just the first game.

@hardwenzen: I disagree, Soul Calibur is very different from the other games you mention. Soul Calibur has cool weapons that most other fighting games lack.

The first two were amazing. Everything that came later on is average or garbage.

@hardwenzen: Never picked you as someone who played fighting games.

Its a genre that i only enjoyed back in the school/high school days. Couldn't care less about fighting games nowadays. I did play a ton of Soul Cal 2, Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag back then.

@hardwenzen: So you played baby fighting games then.

Tekken 3 was big. Soul Cal 2 was massive. Nobody like Tag, which i only learned like 10 years after having played it, so i don't know about the baby mode you're talking about.

@hardwenzen: In terms of fighting games they were baby ones, easy to play/master, try something like Virtua Fighter if you want to learn about fighters.

PS...baby fighters, just like your baby trolling on the main page, how desperate can you get 🤣