That batarang thing was from the Batman and Spawn crossover written by Frank Miller. Miller wasn't exactly the most gracious of hosts at the time and acted like, well, a modern Batman fanboy in it. He knew practically nothing about Spawn, but he sure as heck didn't hold back on his worship for Batman in their crossover, often treating Al like crap and even called him an "undisciplined fool" despite the fact that Spawn was ex-military, a highly trained and disciplined hitman who knew how to fight well, with or without weapons. Also, the maskless appearance isn't even based off of that, there are numerous times in the comics, the movie and even the cartoon where Spawn takes off his mask. He looks that way because his body was burned by the man who hired him.
@@mbrillon765 Nah, he's colored like that in some of his art. The 90s tended to use blue or purple highlights for black costumes. Still kinda do to this day
@@mbrillon765 I think it's based upon a variant of the first Spawn action figure. There were variants of it in blue instead of black, another maskless dubbed "Hamburger Head" with a shoelace stitching his face showing continuity with the Batman crossover, and a third that is both blue and maskless with no shoelace, but instead a few crawling worms dubbed either "Blue Hamburger Head" or "Worm Head".
@@mbrillon765 Actually his 2nf color is somewhat based on Medieval Spawn, a character from the comics that obviously existed in Medieval times and looked like Spawn except with a red and blue outfit and a bunch of knight armor. There was a whole legal battle between McFarland and Neil Gaiman involving Medieval Spawn and a handful of other characters.
My mom knew Todd McFarland in highschool and said he was pretty much just always drawing during class rather than studying, but I guess it makes sense that he'd go into comic books. Spawns a pretty cool character though, he's one of the few dark and brooding characters I don't actually mind due to him not being this invincible super god who never gets hurt.
I can only think of a very select handful of dark, brooding characters in fiction that are "invincible super gods". Most dark characters in my experience are pretty prone to being hurt. I mean, suffering pain is exactly what makes them dark and brooding. That's just my perspective though 👌 Also, around his highschool years, Todd was constantly making sketches to send to comic companies so he could get a job in the industry he was impassioned for. I guess he didn't believe that he'd get there through studying. He was clearly putting all his eggs in that basket, and it definitely paid off. Guy's super successful, haha.
Wouldn't it be cool if Soul Calibur did an "Everyone is here", bringing back all characters in the series history including guests. That would be pretty cool. Just think about it, Link fighting Darth Vader, that would be sweet.
The Xbox Series X, PS5, and Steam versions have everyone except for Link, while the Switch version has Link. But I guess that’s why we have character customization right?
One of my funniest memories of SoulCal II was challenging my local scene’s biggest SoulCall II fan to a $20 first to five, but the challenge was that he had to play Spawn. He easily beat me, even though I played my main!
As someone who is nearly a spawn expert I can say yes though awesome spawn seems random but that's because Todd changes his universe based on his beliefs and kinda forgets to finish storylines and kinda winds them all together while constantly dropping plot bombshells don't believe me? Well he was leading up to some big reveal about god himself and then they did other stuff then they just reincarnated god and the devil yada yada apocalypse four horsemen then granny becomes a badass heaven spawn that killed a lot of demons and spawn shows up after being killed by judas and eating the fruit of power which turned him into a god with the help of the creator of the universe which is the parent of god and the devil but was also a different character introduced much earlier and looked completely different are you getting an idea of how twisty twisty it gets? Don't get me wrong each individual puzzle piece is awesome but when you try and put it all together well umm ok spawn had a dream where all heroes and villains from marvel and Dc and even superman give spawn his powers and spawn gets the family he always wanted and it never comes up again 😮 The brass balls they hurt my face I didn't even get into the after the ending the series just kinda keeps on trucking and adding shit like I know we went through death hell and the apocalypse but spawn forgot to mention that he had a brother that's a priest and a mother who is a satanist and it only comes up for two issues 😮The brass my god my god oh my god now spawn is a vampire/hellspawn for one issue that repeats on loop I am not making any of this up and I'm not even mentioning the 2 times he met batman or the time he met savage dragon in hell
@@josephroszell it's true! As a Spawn fan myself. It's biggest weakness is how confusing and ridiculous the series has gotten to the point where its really hard to follow. Luckily, the series has gotten several reboots that sort of straightened out the whole mess. Along with the awesome, yet underrated HBO animated series.
Similar to how Todd MacFarlane created Necride for Soul Calibur 2, I wonder if he would make an original fighter for Mortal Kombat 11 since Spawn is also a guest fighter in that game. I doubt it though, but it would be awesome!
Project Soul originally wanted a Dead or Alive character, likely Kasumi, to be exclusive to the Xbox version of Soulcalibur II as the DOA series was exclusive to the brand at the time, but couldn't get the rights due to then-Team Ninja head honcho Tomonobu Itagaki's feud with Namco over the Tekken series. As a result, they got Spawn to be the Xbox guest character
Oh man, playing as Link in Soul Calibur 2 was my childhood. I remember going to my cousins house one time and he had a PS2 and Soul Calibur 2 and i was shocked when i didn't see Link in the game.
I do love Tekken, but I always felt that Soulcalibur II on PS2 got the least interesting crossover character. After learning about the whole thing with Cloud, I have a heavy sad for what could have been
@@Adeyum64 well, it didnt made sense for Heihachi to be there in the first place, so having kasuya there despite being "dead" at the time would have been ok. not to mention, they could make a past version of himself travel in time
Cloud not being put in is a terrible missed opportunity. As amazing as Heihachi is combo wise, i always felt like i had the short end of the stick on the ps2 with Link being on the cube and Spawn being on the xbox. It was cool to actually have a hand to hand fighter though. A switch port with all 3 guest characters would create the definitive version of one of the best fighting games of all time.
Project Soul originally wanted a Dead or Alive character, likely Kasumi, to be exclusive to the Xbox version of Soulcalibur II as the DOA series was exclusive to the brand at the time, but couldn't get the rights due to then-Team Ninja head honcho Tomonobu Itagaki's feud with Namco over the Tekken series. As a result, they got Spawn to be the Xbox guest character
@@otaking3582 Also putting this out there: I'd REALLY love to see a Soul Calibur Ultimate game, similar to what Nintendo did with Smash, complete with EVERY character, costume, stage, weapon, game mode and customization option with all of the gear from every game
A reference you missed. One of Spawns axes is said to have been created by a torturer called Capello. Capello was a writer for some of the Spawn storylines.
Bro when I was growing up this game the shit, my cousins in Puerto Rico were obsessed with this game and unlocking everything in Weapon Master, they had the Spawn version and I bought the ps2 Heihachi one. Great video I always wished I had the Spawn version but I never owned an Xbox 🤷🏼
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Yoshimitsu. He was originally a Tekken character and then just started showing up in Soul Calibur. Now he’s a mainstay in both games. As far as I know he’s the only fighting game character that has that status.
I was always glad that I had the Heihachi version on PS2. He didn't have the "wow" factor of Link, but he worked a lot better in-universe than the others did. Yoshimitsu's presence helped him feel at home. I always saw the PS2 version as the "canon" version.
You know, even if we never get a Soul Calibur 2 HD on Switch so we can have all three guests fighting each other, I’m at least hoping someone finds a way to mod all three characters into the same version (although I have absolutely no idea how difficult that would be)
On one point, that sounds like a cheap copy of Súper Smash Bros, like Playstation All Stars Battle Royale. And on another one, Nintendo and Sony will be quick to say no
@@Angel_alanis In reality, yes that is true. But I totally agree on that statement though! It would’ve been super dope if the guest characters from the past, current, and future fight each other
@@Stumblebee ngl chad warden has influenced my dialect around certain relatives/bestfriends for the past 12 years, and what's even better is that PS3 (and ps4) ended up being quite ballinnnn at the end of the day.
Necrid gets a bit of a minor nod in SC 6. In the timeline section it mentions a warrior from another dimension coming into conflict with Soul Edge in the ancient past and that is apparently meant to be him.
There was also talks about Dante from the Devil May Cry games being put in PS2's SCII game as an exclusive since Cloud Strife couldn't make the cut. However, that too was also cut at the last minute and eventually picked Heihachi Mishima
He's not 'the' Yoshimitsu from Tekken though, rather an ancestor. Guest characters don't tend to last more than one game (and most of the Mimic characters don't either, i.e. Charade, Olcadan)
Luis Alfonso Pinto no. The first Yoshimitsu in SC - SC4 died in between SC4 and SC5, Which is why in SC5, he is Yoshimitsu the second. Yoshimitsu is more of a title passed down then an actually name.
Even though Lars is a Mishima it doesn't eliminate a possibility of him being a direct descendant of Seigfried. They share strong similarities when it came to personality and appearance(especially possessing facial scars). It would definitely be very cool to see a possible transformation for both of them since Seigfried possesses some mysterious demonic power that is link to Inferno which can possibly be passed down to his descendents, and for Lars which Mishimas never explained their full extent of their powers can possibly be linked to some other supernatural beings or demons.
Can't wait for when he tackles Soulcalibur 4. There's a lot to be said about the guests characters there. Or at least I think so because I usually have a lot to say about it. Good times I'll never forget.
damn, imagine a soul if soul caliber 2 had Ryu Hayabusa for XBOX. It would've been more impressive to see him use his Dead or Alive moveset with his Ninja Gaiden Weapons. But I feel like Tomonobu Itagaki wouldn't approve. He hated Namco's Tekken at the time and was so competitive with that franchise.
If Soul Calibur VI gets any more guest characters then ideally I'd like to see Cloud, Alexander Anderson, Father Gascoigne, Xiaoyu, or Kratos (he hasn't appeared in a mainline Soul Calibur yet).
There is a hack of SCII's GameCube version in the works that mods the game to import Heihachi's and Spawn's movesets. At the time of writing this comment, it hasn't imported the two characters' models yet (apparently importing models is hard), so they're using Mitsurugi and Necrid's 2P costumes as bases for the imported movesets and voice lines. The mod's called SCII Plus, and it also incorporates other features like a playable Inferno.
Soul Calibur 2 is easily one of my favorite fighting games of all time. Its just such a unique fighting games in its time and the indepthness of the characters its hard not to love it. I remember sitting in front of my game cube kicking the crap out of my little brother with links broken ass bombs and arrows before we started to play smash where i do the same to him.
Heihachi might be the only weaponless guest from another fighting game but they had Devil Jin as a fighting style for custom characters in SCV and that was hilarious because back then my buddy and I didn't really know how to play SC and we were trying to do some tower mode or something but Kilik was just destroying us but since we played Tekken a bunch we were able to make it reasonably far with that fighting style 😂
5:35 - The very suggestion of Sir Daniel Fortesque being in Soulcalibur is such a delightful one that I'm disappointed it didn't happen. Forget Cloud missing his chance; why wasn't Sir Dan even considered!? Fantastic video though; it's interesting to hear of the lead up to each guest character's inclusion. It's rather surprising that Link's inclusion seemed to be the most straightforward of them all.
YO, I thought I was the only one to notice the announcer's hesitation to say the number. Edit: Ok, you even got a CHAD WARDEN reference in there. I wish I could subscribe twice.
Heihachi is still my favorite guest character. I love using his 10-Hit Combo. It’s command input is less difficult than Ivy’s crazy whip attack but it’s pretty flashy.
I was going to buy the game anyway (I had the first game on the Dreamcast) but Link’s inclusion in the GameCube version really helped it outsell even the PS2 version for a period! Apart from the awkward B + X grapple move, I thought the GameCube controller was great for it. Link was also my favourite character.
i remember as a kid playing legacy of kain on the xbox (thumbs up to anyone who remembers that series) and when my brother ran in the room telling me he read a game informer magazine saying sc2 is coming to xbox with a guest charecter with a dark past i REALLY WANTED IT TO BE KAIN (becuase i wanted ralphiel to have a true vampire nemises)but spawn was alright too :/
Necrid was an all time favorite for me I actually never realized that he was this broken until i did some research. Tis a shame he only appeared once. But still a great character in my opinion
Supposedly, Soul calibur was going to have Medieval Spawn, but due to licensing issues they resorted to use Spawn, i herd this from a mexican nintendo oficial magazine "Club Nintendo" back when the game was new, but i can't find this referenced anywhere, maybe it was just speculation.
Meanwhile far faaaar away in alternate universe, people got Cloud and Dante as guest characters instead of Spawn and Link. And alternate universe's Stumblebee is making a video about it.....
Imagine they make a definitive edition for all modern day platformers, and they kept the console exclusive characters from the original in the new version You'd get Link, Heihachi, and Spawn in the same game. Now that's an ambitious crossover
I got them all, SC on Dreamcast, SC2 on GC, SC3 on PS2, SC4 & 5 and PS3 and SC6 on my PS4 i love the series one of my fav beat-em-up games. SC3 i'd have to say is my favorite of the series, the character creation (which i love) had alot of options and there were just alot of features in general in that game, Chronicles of the Sword and the Lance fighting weapon was awesome.
Namco needs to return the favor and put a Soul Calibur character in Smash. Once they've ported SCII HD to the Switch, of course. We need a complete version of SCII! It was a fun gimmick back then, but console-exclusive guests are massive double-edged sword, if you'll pardon the pun.
@@Stumblebee I'm thinking Nightmare for iconicity and offering something a little different from the other sword users (namely, having a sword bigger than some of the cast members). Maybe they'd be able to add Siegfried as his echo if he returned after that. In terms of whose moves would translate the best to Smash I think Yoshimitsu is the best candidate to represent SC or Tekken (and maybe have costumes from both series), but since he's not the main character that would diminish his chances.
I never really was a fan of the guest choices that made it into Soulcalibur II: Spawn -> He belongs in M-rated games, not T-rated ones. Link -> Soulcalibur III (a Wii port) would be a better game for him, because players have the option to choose between the Twilight Princess costume and the Ocarina of Time costume. Heihachi-> Would be better for an arcade port of Soulcalibur II, a PlayStation 2 guest that would be more fitting is Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII.
Spawn's weapons in the game were likely left up to the developers to have creative freedom with as Todd usually requests such things when letting others handle the character. As put in a recent interview with IGN for Spawn appearing in Mortal Kombat 11 he stated something along the lines of "I want him to be an awesome character from a mortal kombat point of view, not a spawn point of view." Then further elaborated by saying "You will have done your job right if people have no idea who the character is, picks him up and says 'I don't know who this guy is, but he is my favorite!'"
I love this game. The best soul calibur, and the only game with the best 3d model of Link ever put to screen. Seriously, This Link is the best looking link in a game i have ever seen.
That batarang thing was from the Batman and Spawn crossover written by Frank Miller. Miller wasn't exactly the most gracious of hosts at the time and acted like, well, a modern Batman fanboy in it. He knew practically nothing about Spawn, but he sure as heck didn't hold back on his worship for Batman in their crossover, often treating Al like crap and even called him an "undisciplined fool" despite the fact that Spawn was ex-military, a highly trained and disciplined hitman who knew how to fight well, with or without weapons.
Also, the maskless appearance isn't even based off of that, there are numerous times in the comics, the movie and even the cartoon where Spawn takes off his mask. He looks that way because his body was burned by the man who hired him.
Pinning this. Everyone listen to this guy, he knows what he's talking about.
Is the alternate color palette also from the comics, or did they just put that in to make his second costume more unique?
@@mbrillon765 Nah, he's colored like that in some of his art. The 90s tended to use blue or purple highlights for black costumes. Still kinda do to this day
@@mbrillon765 I think it's based upon a variant of the first Spawn action figure. There were variants of it in blue instead of black, another maskless dubbed "Hamburger Head" with a shoelace stitching his face showing continuity with the Batman crossover, and a third that is both blue and maskless with no shoelace, but instead a few crawling worms dubbed either "Blue Hamburger Head" or "Worm Head".
@@mbrillon765 Actually his 2nf color is somewhat based on Medieval Spawn, a character from the comics that obviously existed in Medieval times and looked like Spawn except with a red and blue outfit and a bunch of knight armor. There was a whole legal battle between McFarland and Neil Gaiman involving Medieval Spawn and a handful of other characters.
Gotta give Heihachi credit, he's the only weaponless character in a game where you need weapons
He only needs his fists to kick ass
And he's easily the best of the three SC2 guests, and probably in the top third best characters of the game!
Wrong, in SC4 you can have Devil Jin as a character creation fighting style.
@@thosepantus479 SCV not SCIV.
His fists are his weapons. My friend always tries to argue that his gauntlets are his weapons.
@@thosepantus479 Soul Calibur IV was all Star Wars guests, Devil Jin wasn't until SCV.
My mom knew Todd McFarland in highschool and said he was pretty much just always drawing during class rather than studying, but I guess it makes sense that he'd go into comic books. Spawns a pretty cool character though, he's one of the few dark and brooding characters I don't actually mind due to him not being this invincible super god who never gets hurt.
It’s always hilarious when your parents meet famous people. Though I guess he wasn’t famous yet.
I can only think of a very select handful of dark, brooding characters in fiction that are "invincible super gods". Most dark characters in my experience are pretty prone to being hurt. I mean, suffering pain is exactly what makes them dark and brooding. That's just my perspective though 👌
Also, around his highschool years, Todd was constantly making sketches to send to comic companies so he could get a job in the industry he was impassioned for. I guess he didn't believe that he'd get there through studying. He was clearly putting all his eggs in that basket, and it definitely paid off. Guy's super successful, haha.
Todd married his high school sweetheart so she might know her too. Spawn's wife is named after her.
Wouldn't it be cool if Soul Calibur did an "Everyone is here", bringing back all characters in the series history including guests. That would be pretty cool. Just think about it, Link fighting Darth Vader, that would be sweet.
The Switch would do the that
Nintendo will never share link anymore lol
If its not a switch exclusive, don't think about it
Screw LINK, we'd get NECRO
The Xbox Series X, PS5, and Steam versions have everyone except for Link, while the Switch version has Link. But I guess that’s why we have character customization right?
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When I was like 5 I played soul calibur 2 and I always thought he said something like "sole kaliburn" (English is my second language)
OH NO HE DID NOT MAKE A JOKE ABOUT SMASH NOT BEING A FIGHTING GAME
I kid, of course. I think the whole debate is a bit childish, but smash is definitely a 'fighting game'.
@@Stumblebee of course I was joking myself
@@dvthemaster hah, figured. Can't relax around these goddamn smashers
@@Stumblebee It's true, we are a ravenous bunch
As a Smash player that hurts bro XD
Link in Soul Caliber is amazing but Spawn is so random it's great
Ryan Carless he was my main against my friends when they came to play lol
And thankfully Spawn is making his way into Mortal Kombat 11. Sadly next year?
One of my funniest memories of SoulCal II was challenging my local scene’s biggest SoulCall II fan to a $20 first to five, but the challenge was that he had to play Spawn. He easily beat me, even though I played my main!
As someone who is nearly a spawn expert I can say yes though awesome spawn seems random but that's because Todd changes his universe based on his beliefs and kinda forgets to finish storylines and kinda winds them all together while constantly dropping plot bombshells don't believe me? Well he was leading up to some big reveal about god himself and then they did other stuff then they just reincarnated god and the devil yada yada apocalypse four horsemen then granny becomes a badass heaven spawn that killed a lot of demons and spawn shows up after being killed by judas and eating the fruit of power which turned him into a god with the help of the creator of the universe which is the parent of god and the devil but was also a different character introduced much earlier and looked completely different are you getting an idea of how twisty twisty it gets? Don't get me wrong each individual puzzle piece is awesome but when you try and put it all together well umm ok spawn had a dream where all heroes and villains from marvel and Dc and even superman give spawn his powers and spawn gets the family he always wanted and it never comes up again 😮 The brass balls they hurt my face I didn't even get into the after the ending the series just kinda keeps on trucking and adding shit like I know we went through death hell and the apocalypse but spawn forgot to mention that he had a brother that's a priest and a mother who is a satanist and it only comes up for two issues 😮The brass my god my god oh my god now spawn is a vampire/hellspawn for one issue that repeats on loop I am not making any of this up and I'm not even mentioning the 2 times he met batman or the time he met savage dragon in hell
@@josephroszell it's true! As a Spawn fan myself. It's biggest weakness is how confusing and ridiculous the series has gotten to the point where its really hard to follow. Luckily, the series has gotten several reboots that sort of straightened out the whole mess. Along with the awesome, yet underrated HBO animated series.
Great job on talking about the whole history of the guests!
Similar to how Todd MacFarlane created Necride for Soul Calibur 2, I wonder if he would make an original fighter for Mortal Kombat 11 since Spawn is also a guest fighter in that game. I doubt it though, but it would be awesome!
lmfao i said 'Middle-aged school children' hahahaha
Project Soul originally wanted a Dead or Alive character, likely Kasumi, to be exclusive to the Xbox version of Soulcalibur II as the DOA series was exclusive to the brand at the time, but couldn't get the rights due to then-Team Ninja head honcho Tomonobu Itagaki's feud with Namco over the Tekken series. As a result, they got Spawn to be the Xbox guest character
What's the music on 10:00
@@Daouz1 SoulCalibur 2 character select theme
"How do you do, fellow kids?"
@leo mendoza no. They are both handled by different developers under Bandai Namco.
Oh man, playing as Link in Soul Calibur 2 was my childhood. I remember going to my cousins house one time and he had a PS2 and Soul Calibur 2 and i was shocked when i didn't see Link in the game.
I do love Tekken, but I always felt that Soulcalibur II on PS2 got the least interesting crossover character. After learning about the whole thing with Cloud, I have a heavy sad for what could have been
The least interesting character who is also the face of Tekken. I personally think they should've pick either Jin or Kazuya.
@@FizzyArtCola Yeah but Kazuya was kinda… dead at the time? And Jin was a completely fresh character back then.
@@Adeyum64 well, it didnt made sense for Heihachi to be there in the first place, so having kasuya there despite being "dead" at the time would have been ok. not to mention, they could make a past version of himself travel in time
Cloud not being put in is a terrible missed opportunity. As amazing as Heihachi is combo wise, i always felt like i had the short end of the stick on the ps2 with Link being on the cube and Spawn being on the xbox. It was cool to actually have a hand to hand fighter though.
A switch port with all 3 guest characters would create the definitive version of one of the best fighting games of all time.
Project Soul originally wanted a Dead or Alive character, likely Kasumi, to be exclusive to the Xbox version of Soulcalibur II as the DOA series was exclusive to the brand at the time, but couldn't get the rights due to then-Team Ninja head honcho Tomonobu Itagaki's feud with Namco over the Tekken series. As a result, they got Spawn to be the Xbox guest character
Yes. The PS3/360 ports are incomplete in my eyes.
I really wish SC6 had unarmed and magic fighters just for more creation variety! Also wish Lizardman was playable so I could make a dude with an axe.
@@kevgmei Same. They really should've brought back Zwei, Soul of Devil Jin, and Viola from SCV (and no, Amy doesn't count)
@@otaking3582 Also putting this out there: I'd REALLY love to see a Soul Calibur Ultimate game, similar to what Nintendo did with Smash, complete with EVERY character, costume, stage, weapon, game mode and customization option with all of the gear from every game
The detail for link was amazing the fact they refrenced so many of his games pretty much flawlessly... shows the talent of the team
A reference you missed. One of Spawns axes is said to have been created by a torturer called Capello. Capello was a writer for some of the Spawn storylines.
More accurately, Greg Capullo was the second artist on the series after McFarlane handed it over.
Bro when I was growing up this game the shit, my cousins in Puerto Rico were obsessed with this game and unlocking everything in Weapon Master, they had the Spawn version and I bought the ps2 Heihachi one. Great video I always wished I had the Spawn version but I never owned an Xbox 🤷🏼
7:47 that didn't age well since Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown will be joining Soulcalibur VI.
Also devil jin
@@jedicub3024 When he said "pseudo guest character" I could've sworn he was going to mention Devil Jin.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Yoshimitsu. He was originally a Tekken character and then just started showing up in Soul Calibur. Now he’s a mainstay in both games. As far as I know he’s the only fighting game character that has that status.
It would've been nice to have Cloud in Soul Calibur 2.
I was always glad that I had the Heihachi version on PS2. He didn't have the "wow" factor of Link, but he worked a lot better in-universe than the others did. Yoshimitsu's presence helped him feel at home. I always saw the PS2 version as the "canon" version.
Every other character says Soul Calibur 2
Link says: SAYYYAAAA!!!!
You know, even if we never get a Soul Calibur 2 HD on Switch so we can have all three guests fighting each other, I’m at least hoping someone finds a way to mod all three characters into the same version (although I have absolutely no idea how difficult that would be)
"heihachi is the only main roster character come from another franchise" Yoshimitsu would like to speak with you
Soul caliber 2 on Xbox was so badass I used to play this game nonstop
You know.
I'd love to see a remastered SC2 with all the characters
SC2 got me into the series and I love it dearly.
They should have Soul Calibur 7 with all the past guest characters and new ones
But Bandai Namco would convict both Nintendo & Sony to Borrow Link & Kratos in the same roster.
On one point, that sounds like a cheap copy of Súper Smash Bros, like Playstation All Stars Battle Royale.
And on another one, Nintendo and Sony will be quick to say no
Soul Calibur Ultimate
@@Angel_alanis In reality, yes that is true. But I totally agree on that statement though! It would’ve been super dope if the guest characters from the past, current, and future fight each other
Chad Warden....now that's a name I've not heard in a long, long time. Long time.
Dude you gotta go back and watch that video. It's even funnier now. It's seriously amazing.
@@Stumblebee ngl chad warden has influenced my dialect around certain relatives/bestfriends for the past 12 years, and what's even better is that PS3 (and ps4) ended up being quite ballinnnn at the end of the day.
Kudos to you for knowing that Soul Calibur II has widescreen support and recording the game footage that way.
The voice announcer always made shit sound extra deep Lol
Necrid gets a bit of a minor nod in SC 6. In the timeline section it mentions a warrior from another dimension coming into conflict with Soul Edge in the ancient past and that is apparently meant to be him.
Hearing heihachi being voiced by one of my favorite cartoon voice actors is just wild to me 🤣
I beat this game yesterday and FINALLY unlocked Assassin, only to learn he can only be played in Team Battle and practice mode...the *FUCK* dude. Lol
What wym he should be playable in all
Necrid and Spawn are in SC6. They are called "Azwel"
Naw man necrid is called azwel spawn is called mk11
Technically you can make necrid. Necrid belongs to the Malefic race.
Spawn is not Azwel. Spawn is Zwei from SCV.
Spawn was my main when I was kid loved playing as him.
Thanks for the Soul Calibur videos m8. Easily the best fighting game series ever.
There was also talks about Dante from the Devil May Cry games being put in PS2's SCII game as an exclusive since Cloud Strife couldn't make the cut. However, that too was also cut at the last minute and eventually picked Heihachi Mishima
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Isn't Yoshimitsu supposed to be a guest character? Even though he's on... every Soul Calibur I know.
I thought Tekken and soul calibur shared the same universe that's why
He's not 'the' Yoshimitsu from Tekken though, rather an ancestor. Guest characters don't tend to last more than one game (and most of the Mimic characters don't either, i.e. Charade, Olcadan)
Hidden Mark Ancestors.
Isnt Yoshimitsu immortal?
Luis Alfonso Pinto no. The first Yoshimitsu in SC - SC4 died in between SC4 and SC5, Which is why in SC5, he is Yoshimitsu the second. Yoshimitsu is more of a title passed down then an actually name.
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5:48 for remembering Seaman, I give you, the bless award!
Awesome video bro. Classic and informative. Never knew Todd created that BOI Necrid. Now I gotta make him on SC6. LOL. Keep up the great work
Even though Lars is a Mishima it doesn't eliminate a possibility of him being a direct descendant of Seigfried. They share strong similarities when it came to personality and appearance(especially possessing facial scars). It would definitely be very cool to see a possible transformation for both of them since Seigfried possesses some mysterious demonic power that is link to Inferno which can possibly be passed down to his descendents, and for Lars which Mishimas never explained their full extent of their powers can possibly be linked to some other supernatural beings or demons.
They are, world of soul calibur so big. If you combine tekken, you see why evil and good always fight.
We need to get soul caliber two HD on the switch so We can have everyone 0/
thi is what we need!
Can't wait for when he tackles Soulcalibur 4. There's a lot to be said about the guests characters there.
Or at least I think so because I usually have a lot to say about it.
Good times I'll never forget.
My favorite game of all time. Any videos made for it today makes me very happy!
If ninja gaiden on xbox existed at that time, ryu hayabusa could've been a great guest char
Wasn't Yoshimitsu the first guest fighting game character in Soul Calibur???
He first appeared in Tekken
Lil Jaluicy
I guess that they’re turning a blind eye to that technicality now.
It's mainly because yoshimitsu was actually established as a canon character in soul blade, being the ancestor for the Tekken yoshimitsu.
@AT Productions Yes, yes he does.
Akuma is canon in the Tekken universe, and he's still a guest character as well.
@AT Productions Yoshimitsu is considered a Legacy Character.
I would say no, because the Yoshimitsu in Soul Calibur is an ancestor of the Yoshimitsu in Tekken, not the same character.
Just discovered this channel thankyou. I own the gamecube and ps2 one I love. Both the guests!
HUGE missed opportunity to put CLOUD in Soul Calibur. Where's a time machine when you need one.
16:18 high level move by that yoshimitsu player. An enemy cannot defeat you if you defeat yourself - Some Zoo
Man what I love is that MK11 will be releasing Spawn sometime this year.
Thus, Spawn makes his Nintendo fighting game debut? Maybe?
Hopefully this year at the rate they are releasing characters.
Literally the only reason I'll buy MK11 when he gets released. ^^
@@Duisburg051 Looking at your name, you might be a fan. Enjoy him and his Fatalities!
@@caleb6755 Indeed I am. ^^
damn, imagine a soul if soul caliber 2 had Ryu Hayabusa for XBOX. It would've been more impressive to see him use his Dead or Alive moveset with his Ninja Gaiden Weapons. But I feel like Tomonobu Itagaki wouldn't approve. He hated Namco's Tekken at the time and was so competitive with that franchise.
If Soul Calibur VI gets any more guest characters then ideally I'd like to see Cloud, Alexander Anderson, Father Gascoigne, Xiaoyu, or Kratos (he hasn't appeared in a mainline Soul Calibur yet).
LINK IS MY MOST FAVORITE CHARACTER IN SOUL CALIBUR AND SUPER SMASH BROS AS WELL LOVE HIM SO MUCH
There is a hack of SCII's GameCube version in the works that mods the game to import Heihachi's and Spawn's movesets. At the time of writing this comment, it hasn't imported the two characters' models yet (apparently importing models is hard), so they're using Mitsurugi and Necrid's 2P costumes as bases for the imported movesets and voice lines. The mod's called SCII Plus, and it also incorporates other features like a playable Inferno.
I'm still bitter than Link wasn't in the HD edition of SC2.
Soul Calibur 2 is easily one of my favorite fighting games of all time. Its just such a unique fighting games in its time and the indepthness of the characters its hard not to love it. I remember sitting in front of my game cube kicking the crap out of my little brother with links broken ass bombs and arrows before we started to play smash where i do the same to him.
Heihachi might be the only weaponless guest from another fighting game but they had Devil Jin as a fighting style for custom characters in SCV and that was hilarious because back then my buddy and I didn't really know how to play SC and we were trying to do some tower mode or something but Kilik was just destroying us but since we played Tekken a bunch we were able to make it reasonably far with that fighting style 😂
I find it funny that Devil Jin's move are in SCV, but not the Character Himself.
5:35 - The very suggestion of Sir Daniel Fortesque being in Soulcalibur is such a delightful one that I'm disappointed it didn't happen. Forget Cloud missing his chance; why wasn't Sir Dan even considered!?
Fantastic video though; it's interesting to hear of the lead up to each guest character's inclusion. It's rather surprising that Link's inclusion seemed to be the most straightforward of them all.
My favorite fighting game series of all time ❤️
YO, I thought I was the only one to notice the announcer's hesitation to say the number.
Edit: Ok, you even got a CHAD WARDEN reference in there. I wish I could subscribe twice.
Soul calibur 2 was my life as a child.. ah so many memories
"put Link into his very first FIGHTING game" couldn't click the like button fast enough with that wink
Heihachi is still my favorite guest character. I love using his 10-Hit Combo. It’s command input is less difficult than Ivy’s crazy whip attack but it’s pretty flashy.
You just made a Chad Warden reference. I’m glad I subscribed.
I was going to buy the game anyway (I had the first game on the Dreamcast) but Link’s inclusion in the GameCube version really helped it outsell even the PS2 version for a period!
Apart from the awkward B + X grapple move, I thought the GameCube controller was great for it. Link was also my favourite character.
I'd totally get SC2 again on Switch just to be link in it!
They need to release this game for the switch this game is bad ass i remember playing it on the gamecube
Not sure if it was a wise move to include what happened at 2:54, but I'm glad you did.
i remember as a kid playing legacy of kain on the xbox (thumbs up to anyone who remembers that series) and when my brother ran in the room telling me he read a game informer magazine saying sc2 is coming to xbox with a guest charecter with a dark past i REALLY WANTED IT TO BE KAIN (becuase i wanted ralphiel to have a true vampire nemises)but spawn was alright too :/
Watching this backstory on Todd makes Spawn's appearance in MK11 much funnier
Soulcalibur II was the Tekken 7 of it's time.
We want a Soul Calibur Tag where Everybody including the Guests are All Playable.
Necrid was an all time favorite for me I actually never realized that he was this broken until i did some research. Tis a shame he only appeared once. But still a great character in my opinion
Oh man the SNES Spawn game brings back memories! I remember as a kid I always had a hard time on The Redeemers level.
Supposedly, Soul calibur was going to have Medieval Spawn, but due to licensing issues they resorted to use Spawn, i herd this from a mexican nintendo oficial magazine "Club Nintendo" back when the game was new, but i can't find this referenced anywhere, maybe it was just speculation.
Meanwhile far faaaar away in alternate universe, people got Cloud and Dante as guest characters instead of Spawn and Link. And alternate universe's Stumblebee is making a video about it.....
A rare W for Nintendo GameCube owners 😌
5:22, the feels :"(
I do hope the other parts come out, I am very curious about the other guest characters in the other games, mostly 4...
Imagine they make a definitive edition for all modern day platformers, and they kept the console exclusive characters from the original in the new version
You'd get Link, Heihachi, and Spawn in the same game. Now that's an ambitious crossover
Heihachi had a mid electric??
Damn
It's absolutely nuts. I think it's one of like three games that had a true mid EWGF.
Holy shit! Cloud was suppose to be the PS2 guest originally instead of Hehaichi? That would have been so sick.
Love soul calibur 3 the most.
Soul calibur 2 is great way to learn crossover character.
They really wanted Dante
Yeah! Soul Calibur 3 is the best!!
Spawn actually got a double entry in the series...he is currently in Soul Calibur VI.
Nice entertaining vid. Keep up the good work!
I got them all, SC on Dreamcast, SC2 on GC, SC3 on PS2, SC4 & 5 and PS3 and SC6 on my PS4 i love the series one of my fav beat-em-up games. SC3 i'd have to say is my favorite of the series, the character creation (which i love) had alot of options and there were just alot of features in general in that game, Chronicles of the Sword and the Lance fighting weapon was awesome.
Namco needs to return the favor and put a Soul Calibur character in Smash. Once they've ported SCII HD to the Switch, of course. We need a complete version of SCII! It was a fun gimmick back then, but console-exclusive guests are massive double-edged sword, if you'll pardon the pun.
Who should they use tho? Mitsurugi?
@@Stumblebee I'm thinking Nightmare for iconicity and offering something a little different from the other sword users (namely, having a sword bigger than some of the cast members). Maybe they'd be able to add Siegfried as his echo if he returned after that. In terms of whose moves would translate the best to Smash I think Yoshimitsu is the best candidate to represent SC or Tekken (and maybe have costumes from both series), but since he's not the main character that would diminish his chances.
@@GreenChillZone I'm thinking nightmare or yoshimitsu
@AT Productions I would prefer Zasalamel, and he would be even unique in smash, but I know it is pretty unlikely.
I don’t think Smash needs a Soulcalibur Character.
I never really was a fan of the guest choices that made it into Soulcalibur II:
Spawn -> He belongs in M-rated games, not T-rated ones.
Link -> Soulcalibur III (a Wii port) would be a better game for him, because players have the option to choose between the Twilight Princess costume and the Ocarina of Time costume.
Heihachi-> Would be better for an arcade port of Soulcalibur II, a PlayStation 2 guest that would be more fitting is Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII.
I feel proud to have grown up with GC SCII. Link > all the other guests.
If only Cloud made it in tho...
I have link to thank for introducing for me to this series...great series especially when high or intoxicated
Spawn's weapons in the game were likely left up to the developers to have creative freedom with as Todd usually requests such things when letting others handle the character. As put in a recent interview with IGN for Spawn appearing in Mortal Kombat 11 he stated something along the lines of "I want him to be an awesome character from a mortal kombat point of view, not a spawn point of view." Then further elaborated by saying "You will have done your job right if people have no idea who the character is, picks him up and says 'I don't know who this guy is, but he is my favorite!'"
HE MUST WIN
HE MUST WIN
I love this game. The best soul calibur, and the only game with the best 3d model of Link ever put to screen. Seriously, This Link is the best looking link in a game i have ever seen.
Love these vids brother
Voldo is if Vega took drugs
You got me with the Chadwardenn reference. I think I'll be sticking around, after all ✌🏽
This was a great vid.!! Keep it up!
Namco and image comics should colab on a soulcalibur comic
"... Where Spawn gets bataranged in the face , which is a *deep cut* ..."
You crafty son of a gun.