I'm getting the impression that you:
I still think you don't get my point. The cutscenes are just a fancy way of introducing the enemies, they don't really contribute the the plot. The underlying story is still conveyed entirely through text, so your argument of "people are too lazy to even read it, so they don't get it" doesn't hold much water.
I just personally thought it was a good read. Not very many writings that are in 2nd person point of perspective. The writing was well done as well. But like I said. This is personal preference. I found reading sc2's story much more interesting than sc3's. Sc3 to me didn't seem to have as much effort. I don't have any details because I haven't played the game in a while but I remember thinking this at the time though. Yeah it was interesting because it was your own character and it introduced other CAS characters as well but the writing lacked depth to me. Speaking of; does SC have any novels or novellas?
Soul calibur's story for me started to fall apart when the atmosphere stopped feeling like a serious yet dark themed fictional history documentry and turned into a long unfunny cliche-ridden Naruto/Inuyasha-Filler if you know what I mean. I wish they would write more stories like Pyrha's.. so dark and sad like Vincent Vangogh. (within a similar feel). SC could easily have the best story telling of any fighting game if it was delivered in a much more accessable way with more direct engagement with plot movement and held your hand a bit more to help people follow along like Winnie-the-pooh's narration.
lol. that sounds like bloody roar logic. 236x2 or 214x2 for different supers. except with bloody roar animations weren't instant. you had to be a sneaky bugger to get that stuff off.
OMG Nagi the Spurious made Bloody Roar 4 look like Mortal Kombat!
No, they're addressing specifically the area where SC5 got the most hatred, like it or not most people centred their outcry more toward the lack of a competent single player presentation than anything else... Even the serious reviews trashed the game on how choppy the story was and how poorly written the character personalities were (Patroklos/Pyrra/Natsu/Xiba)... so what are they doing here? Giving those people their single player mode. For the other people who dont care, they have SC5 as is. Its a weird move though but I appreciate the fact they addressed it at all. You guys are acting as if this overwrites SC6. For what we should be hoping for is that this clears up the debate on what happened to the peviously missing characters. (Though sometimes I'm afraid to know seeing what they did to cervantes....) I just hope the writing isnt as god-awful in this version.
This is why I say they need to have an audio narration and illustrated screencaps like Tekken does so that we arent forced to memorize walls of silent text. TBH most people don't really see how detailed and deep the SC story really is because of this fact AND none of the endings are ever canon outside the favoured ones PS chooses. I didnt like SC5's format though even with the cinematics because of the favouritism. It gave certain more characters screen time than others who needed it and flipped back and forth between them which broke up the flow and made character development skip over itself just to keep up with the leading character... MK's style doesnt work for SC because SC isnt a story about one person, everyone's story happens independantly at the same time until they come together. SCV's style just mushed everything together rushing the pacing.
I do agree somewhat with you and think that if PS pushes too much of this type of marketing but aren't using the idea for the right areas. As it is now they might be negatively conditioning the newer fans to only enjoy this series centred around dressing-up and flashy gimmicks not even related to the premise of the game.
My solution to this audience division problem is a logical compramise.
"Story Mode" and "Story" can be two completely different things....
