The GOTY of '99 - SOUL CALIBUR: The Fighting Games that MADE ME
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the game was originally going to be titled Lizardman featuring Soul Calibur but Namco ultimately decided to just go with Soul Calibur instead, quite the tragic tale
Soulcalibur was the first fighting game i ever played i mean EVER, My mother was the one that got me into it really heavy, and it made me try out other fighting games as well. So thank you soulcalibur and thank you mom and dad.
Wtf my mom was super into it too; definitely got me on board as well. I deadass saw her get hyped when she saw it on an arcade cabinet.
My first fighting game was sf alpha 3, but my first soul calibur was 2 featuring link.
Aren’t Moms the best?
My first fighting game was that karate one on NES, but my first real fighting game was the original SF2.
My first was 3 and I love it
That Lizard Man bit fucking killed me. I was being a genuine disturbance to my community
This game was a revelation that better than arcade perfect was now a reality for home console ports of fighting games.
I think this and Tekken Tag 1 is one of the few times a fighting game from that era was better on consoles than in the arcade
As much as people say the Dreamcast was a dud that killed Sega as a console company, it still generated significant buzz and impact in being the first console to REALLY make 3D look good, and Soul Calibur played a big role in that.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Before the PS2 dropped, EVERYONE wanted a Dreamcast.
I haven't laughed this hard in a hell-a-While!! .... LIZARDMAN!!! Thanks Dude!
That Lizardman part has the legendary "You guessed it, it goes in the square hole" meme energy 🤣🤣🤣
Hell-a while? Lmfao.
Like Max said, Nobuyuki Hiyama (the voice of Siegfried) was absolutely all over the place in iconic video games during this time, though he never voiced Rock Howard (that was Eiji Takemoto in Garou & CvS2). Sadly, Hiyama stopped voicing Link after Smash Bros. Melee & Joe Higashi after KOF XIII, though he at least did continue to voice Siegfried for all of the SoulCalibur games, including VI. Hiyama even got to voice Ken Masters once, via the home console version of Street Fighter The Movie!
Two years late, but Nobuyuki Hiyama would return to Smash Bros in Ultimate as the voice for the Erdrick form of the Dragon Quest Hero DLC.
I remember seeing this game on arcade in Saint Petersburg, Russia. I was blown away by the swordplay and animation. So back home, I found out that new console, Dreamcast, has this game, so Soul Calibur sold me entire system. Later, Dead or Alive also blew me away, and then CvS 1 and 2, MvC 1 and 2 ( yes, I had 1st MvC on Dreamcast), and then 2discs with SF3, then lightgun games - house of the dead . Console was great
7:40 Yup, 檜山修之 *Mr. Nobuyuki Hiyama,* the voice actor of Siegfried in _SoulCalibur I, II, and VI,_ is one of super iconic voices that are immediately recognizable. In addition to other popular characters like Link, Joe Higashi, Batsu Ichimonji, BlackWarGreymon _(Digimon Adventure 02),_ and Gai Shishioh _(GaoGaiGar the King of Braves),_ he was also Demitri Maximoff and the game announcer in _SVC CHAOS: SNK vs. Capcom!_
The Lizardman intro was HILARIOUS !!!
Just play soulcalibur 3, and try to find the fight with 20 lizardmen
“The Lizard Will Never Die!” -ending screen
"I want to save you..."
"There is... no turning back..."
And to this day I still ship them
Soulcalibur on the Dreamcast, oh the memories! I forgot you could mess with the opening like that, crazy! This has all ways been my favorite fighting series, when I first went to the arcade and found the original Soul Edge and went "What is this?!" I knew even then it was my destiny.
Soul edge was my first video game period it put me not only on tekken but it put me on fighting games period. I still rather play soul edge than caliber. I do think sc 2 is goat tho I played all of them but 6.
@@gregorygraham3145 Awesome!
This was the game we bought with the Dreamcast, and as I was like.. 6, I remember being disappointed we didn't get Sonic Adventure, but the second I saw this game running I suddenly didn't care anymore lol. Definitely one of the best fighting games of all time.
Got Sonic Adventure after that though and man I had fun. The Dreamcast was such a great system.
The Dreamcast I played the original soul calibur on didn’t have a save card. Every time I booted the game up, I’d start from ground zero. And every time I played, I unlocked the cool samurai guy with the skull mask. Years later, I’m still a Yoshimitsu main.
You had a Dreamcast?
I played this at an OMSI exhibit.
Lizard Calibur featuring Lizard Man from the Lizard Calibur series
I love Soulcalibur so much, as a series I mean, it's always been more appealing to me than all the other fighting games, simply for the fact that it has wild visuals, and crazy gameplay.
I had a fierce rivalry over SCII with my sister when I was little, out of all the video games I played, it was the only one she would play together with me, I remember we took shifts trying to clear weapon master mode and unlock everybody, She was never really a gamer but some of my fondest childhood memories were because of Soulcalibur.
I had a similar memorie. My sister also liked Soul Calibur, I remember when we get Soul Calibur II for the Gamecube we used to play sometimes. She was a Sophitia main!! Good memories!
Soul caliber has amazing design great game
That's really sweet
If you weren't around at the time it's hard to articulate how absolutely mind blowing this game looked when it came out. It was unbelievable, like "this is it, we've peaked! Graphics can't possibly get better than this!"
Yepp the leap from PS1 to Dreamcast, PS2 and even Camecube was mind blowing people drone on and on today about SSR or L whatever... Frame rate and lighting effects but as far as I'm concerned games havent leaped that much in the past decade not like they did from the late mid 90's to 2000's
From Soul Blade/Edge and the chunky 3d to this it was incredible leap in visuals. One of most legendary fighting games. 2 still my favorite tbo
One of the greatest games ever made. It is exceptional on all fronts, an absolute work of art. Gameplay, graphics, content - it had it all.
SC was the first game I owned on DC and I fell in love immediately. Was the first game I entered a tournament for (and placed 1st!) And easily became my favorite fighting franchise. Glad to see your love for this classic
The moment I inserted a quarter to play this game and went to the character select screen I immediately saw and picked Nightmare. Dude just oozes soul and edge I had to pick him first. His design was so cool when this came out that he still is one of the most iconic characters in a fighting game I've ever known.
I get it
Same
Same, nightmare's design looked so cool to me.
I really liked SC3 because it was my first, plus the custom characters and the sheer amount of fighting styles, because Custom characters had unique fighting styles, there was effectively something like 30-40 characters or something crazy
Saving up for a Dreamcast and Soul Calibur was no joke how I learned to be smart with money as a kid.
When this was streamed live Max pulled up a Tweet I sent his direction showing off what this game looked like in the arcade vs the Dreamcast, which he talks about earlier in this video (Not the tweet but the game running on PS1 hardware with more RAM). I gotta agree with him, this was the game that made me realize that arcades were doomed when I could get the home version for $50 USD (And it was that price, my copy still has the sticker on it) and it LOOKED better than the arcade, same went for when Marvel vs Capcom came out and Street Fighter III: Double Impact. The 90's was a crazy decade were we went from the NES and ended with Dreamcast.
Soul Calibur 3 was my 1st fighting game. And I have really fond memories of playing it on my PS2. All the custom characters and stuff too.
I wanted to play this game SO BAD when I was younger. My first one was, of course, SC2. I was in love with that game, and once I saw this one, I wanted it sooooo bad, just to see how it compares to 2. I will find it, one day….. the journey will end.
EDIT: the journey has indeed ended. I have found myself a Dreamcast and the game! I am indeed pleased!
This series had a legendary start and really struggled as it went on, it makes me sad that its future is in limbo
Wishing SoulCalibur would make a grand comeback. My soul still burns!!!
It transcends history, and the world. The tale of swords and souls, eternally retold...
They dropped soul caliber 6 recently but it think it’s the last one for awhile
@@pleaseshutup7053 yea I got that day one! And played for a while.. unfortunately I didn't have much of a local community where I lived and the online was hit or miss :(. Also the reversal edge system was annoying (especially online). Still...I would be first in line for a SoulCalibur 7! As long as Xianghua is in it ;).
@@pleaseshutup7053 Um... SC6 was 4 years ago...
14:26 - Alas, Li Long isn't in this game - he got his ass slaughtered by Cervantes in the previous game. As mentioned he does eventually reappear in SC3, where it appears he's settled down with his love interest Chie, who I think was one of the leaders of Taki's clan at that point?
I adore Soul Calibur, it's a shame that it's so often overshadowed by other fighting game series. Hot take, Soul Calibur 4 might still be my favorite. The tower mode and character creator had me playing that game for hundreds upon hundreds of hours.
I love the character creation on SC4 everything about it felt organic vs the newer games. I definitely spent a a lot of hours just there, and the freaking tower was amazing, my favorite SC game mode across all games
Soul caliber 4 was really good as long as you don’t say 5 you are good with the community
I like the character creator more than the game itself.
For my first job I saved every single paycheck entirely for a Dreamcast and Soul Calibur on launch day. And it was the best choice I ever made.
I also remember Soul Calibur being the last true arcade experience before they kind of died. It took me a lot of searching to find a SC2 machine at all just to play it. I ended up importing the console release just because I couldn't freaking wait anymore.
I remember being really young and going to a local restaurant in my city and them having the arcade version of Soul Calibur. I would play it with my dad all the time and it’s the first fighting game that I played and passed. I enjoyed Mitsurugi and Siegfried.
Always dear to my heart, Soul Edge and Soul Calibur. They were indeed revolutionary.
Soul Edge still has the best intro ever.
A blast from the past. Reminds me of Chronicles of the Sword. The weapon roster was amazing in it. Great series.
I remember I was babysitting a group of kids for this one family but husband had a dream cast in which he allowed me to play and I played soul calibur it was amazing that's how I got into this series.
This is the game I have the most fond memories. I played the arcade version and it made me go daily, been after high school, after homework or both! And there was a day when we were like 8 dudes playing this beauty, everyone had a different main and, as I have done since, I always main Siegfried too! :D
Brings back memories!!! They should do a remake!!!
Dude I remember all the nights hanging with friends playing SoulCalizard! Lizardman was my main.
Nice choice! I preferred to go with Lizardman as my main though, he had some of that oomph that Lizardman didn't have otherwise would have gone with him
Soul Calibur is my favorite fighting game series and Really happy to see you play Soul Calibur 1 that entry is still my favorite I feel most characters design wise looked incredible the mission mode the team battle even the art gallery was so awesome,
And the one thing I thought you did not bring up was the amazing soundtrack.
Truly a masterpiece!!
Your "garage lord" story made me think of my hometown. Me and my best friend were the best fighting game players in our town, and we were stationed in his family's donut shop. We would spread rumors in nearby towns in the arcades to drop by the Barstow Donut Shop to fight the best FGers. We had a lot of visitors travelling to and from Las Vegas, which was awesome. While we did whoop a lot of ass, we did get a lot of worthy opponents which was fun as hell. Man I miss that donut shop. Nothing was like playing complete strangers coming to us. To them they felt like they were approaching bosses, and to us we felt like people were challenging our dojo. Good times.
I can confirm on the arcade port being oddly pixely. My college campus had a cabinet that almost no one played and yeah it was surreal looking at how less pretty it was compared to my DC copy
The arcade board SC runs on is the Namco System 12, which is basically a more powerful PlayStation. Both Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag ran on the same board. The Dreamcast is a large step up from those specs, so the home port of SC was rebuilt from the ground up to show off how much better that new hardware was.
Dreamcast really was fighting game heaven. Soul Calibur, Power Stone 1&2, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Project Justice, Garou, all three iterations of Street Fighter 3...you couldn't ask for more
The SNK ports had timing issues compared to the original Neo Geo versions.
But you also invoked Project Justice, the true hidden gem of that system.
I am not a pro in fighting games, never been able to break through the learning barrier of terminologies, but Soul Calibur will always have a special place in my heart. Especially 3, it was the first one I owned, and I spent endless hours playing the various challenges, single player modes and challenges. The one I played against other players was 4, with countless hours of fights with friends, until I became the basement king of the group. I picked 6 up last year, I've played a bit, but my friends have moved on from the series, and online just isn't as fun, since I can only find ranked matches in a reasonable time, which can be too stressful and sweaty.
1:11 When I was like 3 or 4 years old when I played Soul Calibur I did the same thing with the opening but with Nightmare because he was my favourite and I loved him so much he had to be the only character I pick for everything in the game. 😆
Remember playing this at this place call Fun Zone about 1 hour from where I stay on this huge Arcade Cabinet. I remember the places had many great arcade games, a mini golf course and go kart but I just remember everyone was around this arcade cabinet because how beautiful and fun at the time the game was. 98-99 was great years
I remember seeing this game after coming from last generation consoles and it gave me see-sickness. It had a graphics level that I was not used to taking in yet.
I grew up on Soul Calibur 3. Chronicles of the Sword is still one of my favorite game modes of all time. (really wish another game would make something like it)
That intro, goodness, that’s amazing stuff right there.
My first fighting game I ever played was Street fighter, Marvel vs Capcom, Mortal Kombat, and SoulCalibur but my most favourite 3 fighting game was Marvel vs Capcom, Mortal Kombat and SoulCalibur.
Dr. Connors: Damn! I never knew that I was that famous, time to infect the whole World with Lizardmen😂
Soulcalibur improved on just about everything from the original Soul Edge/Blade. But it didn't manage to get a better intro. Then again, no other game has managed that either. The original Soul Edge/Blade intro was just legendary.
Also, that thumbnail art is awesome.
The last time maxi had a 3rd costume, really wish that outfit would've came back. The game it self however is top5 favorite game of all time and is the highest scored fighter of all time
There is just something special about Dreamcast games... A feeling, that is just so different from other consoles. And I love it.
I wish Soul Calibur had an anime, where it shows Siegfried traveling the world for a sword that can grant him the power to avenge his father....of course, then at the end it will reveal the twist that He actually killed his father, and held Soul Edge (Giving his body to Nightmare) to somehow Bring him back from the dead. Since the other characters would need to be there too, It might not be completely lore accurate. but I think it could make a good series.
who knows? maybe if the Tekken anime succeds more anime studios (streamings and so) go after fighting game brands to make an anime from.
That’s cool and all but there’s a suspicious lack of lizard man in here!
@Italian Spiderman - Yes! And also missing in SC6! UNACCEPTABLE!!!
@@italianspiderman5012 Well...Y-Yeah, I'm sure they'll fit in....somehow
Jeez, thanks for spoiling the ending. Now I won't watch it if it comes out.
Watching this brings back many happy memories of 1999 - what a year!!
I would really be interested to see how many of the animations used in this game were exactly reused in 6. They all look really good here and look super similar to my eye. That's some solid payout for your investment on the part ofNamco.
@@_Jay_Maker_ SC6 tries to deviate the timeline so we don’t get SC5 again.
Soul calibur 1 and dead or alive 2, both on Dreamcast, were just insane visually. Those two fighting games showed how good graphics could really get without any typical blocky pixelated legacy of previous generations. If you scale them up to high resolutions today they still look amazing even more than 20 years later which is ridiculous
I started playing as a Kilik player when SC1 dropped then became a Cervantes player then realized the true power of Astaroth in this series and never looked back
I can play every character in SC1 to a semi-competent degree, while Kilik, Taki, Maxi, Hwang and Mitsurugi became my dedicated pocket subs…because I, too, learned the utility of fear, and embraced Astaroth. He’s been my main in SC games ever since.
It was the best looking game EVER at the time, a quantum leap ahead of everything else for character model detail. It still looks amazing, though in HD the 2D parts of the background look blurry.
To me, this is still the most graphically impressive jump from one console generation to the next in terms of 3D games.
That intro has just the perfect amount of other characters to make each lizardman a surprise.
_"Transcending history and the world… a tale of Souls and Swords eternally retold!"_
This was my first video game ever, the nostalgia hits omega hard with this lol.
We used to play winner stays on tournaments of this for hours at an after school club I went to as a kid. The youth worker who owned the console instigated a ‘no blocking’ rule. My introduction to actually trying to get good at a fighting game, lifelong Soul Calibur fan ever since
Transcending history and the world, a tale of souls and swords eternally retold.
Playing this on a launch Dreamcast age 8 was mind blowing. Watching this is giving me so much nostalgia from every tiny detail
For me it was Soul Calibur 2. That was the first fighting game that I was absolutely in love with. Recently I played the first one on my buddy's Dreamcast, and it's cool too.
It’s crazy how satisfying the hits are in this game too. Just the sound it makes with certain weapons and the color brightness of the hit impacts are. Also the smoothness and there’s a certain color tone to this game that is in no other soul calibur game has. Screams arcade
Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos 🎈
The fighting game that made me was Soul Calibur 2. We got a Wii for Christmas and we were having fun playing brawl with my older cousin on new years and he mentioned the older games of smash and we thought brawl was the only. So he said "ill be right back im about to change your life" and came back with a stack of gamecube games. He was right lol and one of them was soul Calibur 2, so many late night tournaments trying to see if we can double perfect inferno and getting mad when we'd ring each other out. So many memories.
My Dreamcast experience consisted of just Sonic Adventure, Soulcalibur, Shemmue and a small bit of Crazy Taxi because shortly after I beat Shenmue our DC stopped reading discs. I think my brother was messing with burned games or something.
Not that it mattered much because my DC experience continued on Gamecube thanks to SA2B, Skies of Arcadia Legends and the PS2 version of CVS2.
I love Soul Calibur 1, 2 and 3. Especially the Arenas, they feel like you're fighting in a place part of the scenery or part of the world. In the later games, the Arenas is just...well, Arenas.
Ohh, Hell Fraking Yeah!!! Some classic Soul Calibur 1 goodness right here!!!
Takes me back when I played this in the Arcades, those were Abso-fraking-lute Good times there
Siegfried, along with Nightmare and Ivy, are my Most Abso-fraking-lute favorites in the Soul Calibur series!!!!!
i remember those glorious days from 1998 - 99 on arcades, the 1st time i saw a new weapon-based 3D fighting game showing a girl in a TORERO outfit carrying a kind of sword-whip and screaming all around "WHOOH" with a strong ecco-soundeffect. That machine just blew my mind and hit me so hard that i couldn't erase it from my mind! it was so gorgeous and ahead of his time, that i just couldn't belive such level of perfection(coming from souledge you could see the huge step of evolution this game gave, it was insane). Since then i played soulcalibur several times on arcades and i was 99% sure the game will be released on PS1(because the graphics) then Dreamcast came out promoting Soulcalibur(i did everything i could to to convince my parents to buy me the dreamcast) when i put the disc on the system for 1st time, DAMN!! this graphics are even better than arcades but BIG TIME! also Cervantes came back and lots of precious content!! what a great surprise for me! you could see my smile and shining eyes of happiness from a mile away.
i spent over 1000 hours on this Game at his time and even today i'm playing it online with people arround the world via fightcade with rollback netcode.
i think never will stop to play soulcalibur1, my soul will be burning forever with this game
Dreamcast will forever be my favorite console. So many memories.
Soulcalibur is a series that has given so much to so many including myself.
Makes it that much more frustrating that it doesn’t get supported by namco now.
But it’s a testament to project soul that they accomplish so much with the small budgets they’re given. 🙌🏾💜
I used to play lizard man and I made that exact opening!
Dreamcast is one of the greatest consoles of all time. Soul calibur 1 is one of the greatest fighting games ever. Match made in heaven. And they both still hold up spectacularly
Iirc in the character profile of Nightmare in Soul Calibur II it says that Siegfried descent into darkness again and the memories of the Soul Edge posses him in the night untill he became Nightmare again. It is actually a really tragic history. Soul Calibur lore is fantastic and one of the things that captivated me when I was a child and get into my hands Soul Calibur II for the Gamecube.
I couldn't believe I had this game in my house back in the day. Those graphics were amazing on the dreamcast. Its true, the hype train started with this game.
Soul Calibur was one of the reasons I wanted a Dreamcast.
And the voice actor for Siegfried from Soul Edge and Soul Calibur and Link from Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, N64 Super Smash Bros. and Melee is named "Nobuyuki Hayami".
I'm still clamoring for a Soul Calibur Collection. Just like these 3D Fighters; Tekken, Dead Or Alive and Virtua Fighter.
*is having flashbacks of my family playing this game when I was a kid*
Also funny thing my brother William did the same thing like you did Max, changing the intro of having lots of Lizardman and only putting Cervantes and Nightmare in that custom intro
It was Max!Till this day no other game maked such a true visual impact diference betwen graphs as Soul Calibur did back then.Truly was mindblowin!!
Such times ..
This game blew my mind. I played this so much along with Sonic Adventure and Shenmue. Dreamcast is my favorite!
My mom used to take me to this farmers market back when i was a kid and we'd usually get my hair cut and pick up groceries but there was this "vintage" candy store in the market there that had 3 arcade games. Pac-man, Tetris and whoa what the hell is this game? Soul Calibur? I played that arcade machine religiously every time i went to that farmers market to the point college kids would constantly comment over my shoulder that I was great at it for being a 6/7 year old kid. One of my first video games ever and certainly the one that gave me the most retroactive dignity lmao. The Legend will never die!
I have played every main game in the franchise, including SoulEdge, except for SoulCalibur 1, I never got a Dreamcast, it looks like a really good game, overall the SoulCalibur franchise is really good IMO.
SoulCalibur 3 being my favorite one in the franchise, my favorite game in PS2, and overall one of my most favorite games ever.
Missed out. Soul calibur 1 is by far the greatest of them and started the series proper. Even though I love soul blade as a kid, soul calibur on Dreamcast was just an upgrade times 100
Soul Calibur and Dead or Alive 2 on Dreamcast where the 1-2 punch that made me think the arcades were done for.
Nightmare still one of the coolest fighting game antags to ever exist 👏
Yes, for me, it was seeing Tekken TAG Tournament on PS2 when I realized the Arcade’s days were numbered. I couldn’t believe that a home console could look better than an arcade cabinet!
I miss this game wish I never got rid of my Dreamcast 😢
One of my favorite fighting games. This evolved Soul Blade (Soul Edge): The game modes, the extras, the unlockables, are a treat. The game is the full package. So much content. After so many years, I still regret to this day selling my dreamcast with the game as a kid. :(
Ooo the music still excites my heart
I played Soul Calibur A LOT in the arcade, so when I found out it was launching with the Dreamcast I knew I had to have it. I traded in a ton of my stuff to get it. When I popped Soul Calibur in and fired it up, my eyes almost came out of their sockets, seeing how much better the graphics were than the arcade and pretty much everything else at the time. The Dreamcast version is still by far the best version that exists to this day. SC1 is still my favorite in the series also.
I want you people to, in your minds, visualize the dream roster for this game:
Nintendo vs SoulCalibur
I've always thought about how interesting a Fire Emblem x Soul Calibur game would be.
I always thought a Soul Calibur vs Legend of Zelda would be hype, have the LoZ cast use lost styles
Link would have his Sword and shield
Zelda could have a ZWEI like style sc5
Impa could rock the Sword and Chakram sc3
And Sheik could pull of the Bomb and Dagger sc3 and so on
How about Soulcalibur and Mortal Kombat? Soul Kombat would be the crossover name.
You forgot that the 360 version was missing the intro, intro direction, and the quest modes
The Dream Cast version of Soul Calibur is one of the greatest fighting games in history. Gotta love Lizardman and his gratuitous cameos! Lol! 🤣
Sc3 made me. While I played sc 1 and 2, sc3 is the game that made me fall in love with fighters all over again
Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure 1 on the Dreamcast were the first video games I ever played and I still go back and play them to this day.
It can't be overstated how mind-blowing the visuals for SC1 were at the time, even after the PS2 came out this title still looked beautiful. Then SC2 came out and became one of my top 10 fav games ever. Simply an incredible pair of entries in a fighting series.
Tip: Listen to the soundtracks for both games on YT, separate from all the grunting and screaming. Quite underrated game music.
Walking into a game store in the late 90's, seeing this game's demo was mind blowing.
The episode I was waiting on
You can see the Guts inspiration for Siegfried, but damn, his ending is just him adventuring with the Band of the Hawk.
My favourite Soul Calibur. (Great memories)