So, I've unlocked all of the Ancients in SC3, and I think it was more work than it was worth. The Ancients as a group of weapons of similar colour and design features all wielded by Olcadan, is a cool idea. The Ancients as a set of similar looking weapons without any special abilities use by each of the other SC3 characters seems a bit boring. But, it's done. They're unlocked, and I've got almost everything unlocked in the game, but I still have to finish buying out Valeria's store, and I still have two hard challenges to get gold on.

Blah, blah, blah.

The SC3 forum on GameSpot does a lot of comparing between SC2 and SC3 versions of characters. From the sounds of it, all the SC3 characters have been changed for the worse. They're been weakened, or given cheap moves... Is this really the case? I don't know.

But I find comparison between versions of games fascinating. Especially fighting games. Because, once you've got something good going, you want to keep it going through future versions of the game. Yet, at the same time, you don't want games to become stagnant. You still want room for innovation and creativity.

SC2 was the first SC series game I owned, and I was a bit upset at first by the significant changes in character moves in SC3, particularly Kilik, my favourite SC2 character (in SC3, I am currently without a favourite character, although I lean to Xianghua and Astaroth the most, but for the wrong reason: strong anti-AI moves). Over time, I've grudgingly come to accept the changes to the characters, but only just. Sometimes I wish they were much more SC2.

There are several things I preferred about SC2 over SC3. SC2 just seemed more polished. There were fewer instances of parts of characters going through other parts of characters (e.g. armor poking through capes, limbs cutting through shields, etc.). I preferred the VS. screen in SC2 better, where you would have a bust of each character, facing one another, instead of the full-body shots in SC3. The voices in SC2 were less irritating than in SC3. I've taken to changing the language in SC3 to Japanese so that I can't understand the inane non-sequiturs the characters are spouting. Although I find some of the new costumes to be quite neat ideas, I find they have really changed the flavour of some characters for the worse. I really dislike Nightmare's costumes in SC3. Cervantes's and Ivy's 2nd costumes I don't like. Raphael looks silly. Etc. Again, SC2 came across as smoother, more polished, more unified.

But I do commend SC3 for its innovations. I'm also glad that Necrid and Charade were removed. I didn't like either of those two characters. I like SC3's full roster, and I really like Olcadan and the other newcomers.

Of all the Weapons Masters, which has been the best so far?: Inferno, Edge Master, Charade, Olcadan. Have there been any others?

Want to write more, but have stuff to do. Until next time.