"Why are you playing SCV?" I ask myself. "Neither of your mains (Kilik and Amy) are truly in. You should go play Soulcalibur IV! What a splendid idea, old chum! I shall do just that!"
My. Fucking. God. Soulcalibur IV is ABYSMAL, and I'd forgotten just how much (I can't believe my younger self played it so much, or that I even thought SCIV was better than SCV). The sluggish gameplay would be enough but the lack of an 'Easy' option in Arcade... FFS I struggled on the 3rd fight, and then Kilik comes in as opponent #4 and almost annihilates me like a try-harding little bitch. And don't get me started on the ring-out spamming Astaroth and Hilde were doing. Hilde legit slide tackled me three times straight to knock me out (when she didn't have her thumb superglued to the Guard button that is...) It's so fucking cheap and hard, way worse than I remembered even with my rustiness taken into account. I was dreading the Apprentice because he almost caused more broken controllers and ripped-up magazines than I care to count, and despite living up to my memories, I somehow beat him on my first attempt (lost round 2 though) which is pretty much unheard of 'cause he usually trashes me 3 sets in a row before I even have a shot. Then Algol was just being an irritating twat and I thought "you know what, this isn't even fun, fuck this game" and I rage quit after like 10 minutes. I understand part of the reasoning is there IS no difficulty option, so they had to make it challenging for the more advanced players but fuck me... SCVI BETTER have difficulty settings in Arcade like SCV did or I will not be happy. I've changed my mind on SCIV being better than SCV that's for fucking sure. At least SCV is actually fun to PLAY and in in order for SCV to piss me off, I actually had to CHOOSE the higher difficulty, or play Legendary Souls WILLINGLY (or just play Story Mode and get forced to use the two hardest to play styles in the game against the two hardest bosses.....). Not that Nightmare on Easy doesn't make me rage like fuck when he flips his 'fuck the difficulty setting, u ded' switch randomly at the start of a round... But at least it doesn't make me rage quit.
Sorry for the massive noobish rant but I needed to get that out 'cause I was heading for self-destruct territory.
But now I REALLY need Amy in SCVI because I'm never touching SCIV again and I don't want to lose her forever. Just fucking glad Kilik isn't in Nirvana or whatever he was in V and is his old style again (and looking fun as hell from what little I played of him in the beta).
UGH, I feel like I'm going stir-crazy or something. I wouldn't have even touched that shit if SCVI was out already. I'm dying over here, send help.
Anyone else doing crazy shit from withdrawel? Just me 'cause I'm a nutcase? Ok... GG.
*Breathes*