Legit, one of my favorite games ever. I'll never forget seeing it in the arcades, and then playing it on my 360. This and Soul Calibur 2 are games I'll hold dear to me forever.
Arcade games were always ahead of their console ports in every aspect and when i saw Soulcalibur i could not believe my eyes but it was there and it was beautiful.
I got this game with my Dreamcast when it came out. At the time the graphics were completely mind blowing, like HOW CAN GRAPHICS EVER GET BETTER THAN THIS?!?!??!?! Good times. Also Hwang was my favorite character I'm sad that he disappeared in later entries. :(
I started with SC2, and I just loved Assassin, so much. So when I finally played this(almost religiously with my friends), when I picked Hwang... Everything just felt right.
Graphics still better than Soul Calibur VI imo. I'm really not happy with SCVI graphics... like it's missing lighting. Seems dark and muted somehow - kinda like SC 2 in a way. And Mitsurugi's design is gawd awful. 2 was uglier, but at least he had an alternate costume. 1, 3, 4, and 5 all had decent designs for him. Yoshi looks great though. Kinda of mixed bag to me. Ralphael is wackadoodle. The stages though, ugh, and the stupid blurring effect bothers me so much.
I want to imagine that the good ending of Libra has you fight either Azwel or Inferno and Shine On will blast in the background. Just a flight of fancy, but it'd be awesome.
One of my favorite fighting games of all time. Dreamcast will always be remembered and this game especially so, for being so ahead of its time its even scary now. The series never really recovered after the highs this game took it to
I agree..its a shame that lot of people only mention SC2 fondly nowadays because of the fact that the dreamcast was not as popular as the other machines and died early(in addition to this game being out years earlier than the real 6th gen consoles) but that's also the beauty of how things turned out. SC1 was a circumstance that will never be repeated
SC2 was good but it never really improved on SC1 in anyway, the original cast still had their same movesets even(if I recall correctly). can't wait for 6 this week looks to bring the franchise back to life hopefully it does well(in terms of sales).
The XBox 360 exclusive port of SC1 is BC on Xbox One, if you have not tried SC1 and own an XBox One, go to the XBL store, buy this masterpiece and support it!
I remember grinding like a fiend to unlock everything on this, and not getting tired of it. I also remember being extremely impressed by the announcer's ACCURATE pronunciations: "Cervantes (trilled 'r', accent on 'van')!" "Mitsurugi (subtle 'n' sound before the last syllable)!"
Good lordt this game still holds up to this day 2023. The music and graphics are insane. Makes me regret selling this and my Dreamcast a few months ago to get a PS5 😭
if you play this game on Dreamcast with a VGA cable, it basically looks like an above average PS2 game with excellent art details. Very impressive considering this game out years before PS2 even launched. Its the same with Dead or Alive 2. Dreamcast gave tons of fighting games a great lease on life. The 360 port is only 4:3, but at forced widescreen via HDMI it almost looks HD quality. The assets hold up very well even today. I'd love a proper remastering effort on current gen at super high resolutions with restored modes
That's what I loved about the Dreamcast. The graphics were crisp and clear. I could never get into the PS2 graphics because things always looked muddy in comparison.
@MrInuhanyou123 VGA of course will give you higher resolution (640x480) but it actually shows how limited the Dreamcast was compared to PS2, XBOX and GameCube. The polygon count is way lower than anything on PS2 just look at Mitsurugi's arm in this video as well as character faces, and the backgrounds in general are very simplistic in terms of geometry (same for DOA2), the 2D backdrops are very low res and the lightsourcing is very basic (like most DC games) The texture compression format of the Dreamcast is also noticeably more noisy than that of the PS2 (and even the PS1) Dreamcast was great in 98 but a year after it was almost obsolete. The PowerVR 2 was very limited and still relied too much on the CPU for basic operations like transform and lighting.
This is where I got my start on the Soul series and I didn't even know of its existence until my brother brought it in one Summer evenin'. We barely had any Dreamcast games at the time and we only had rentals, so any new game was welcome to me. For me though, I was hooked ever since. The gameplay, the graphics and especially the lore. Before I even gravitated towards Nightmare and Siegfried, Kilik was my main.. And then I saw Inferno
Soul Calibur had a certain feel of epicness that the following games seemed to lack. That grandiose feeling really added to the ambiance, like a period of history steeped in greatness. SC2 has my favourite character in Raphael but SC1 always feels the better game.
Man I remember i was really young and my dad let my play soul caliber 3 against him, i always used spawn now 6 is coming out and he’s super hyped for it, super awesome time right now
Buddy if this is going to continue i suggest to use the original announcer's voice in your "welcome back to the stage of history" intro. Much better imho and i believe many fans agree.
Borrowed a bunch of Dreamcast games from an older kid in the neighborhood. I remember the smell of the cigarettes on the disc box and game manual for this game lol
SCII is definitely the best, but I can't think why exactly. I suppose it had the best graphics, gameplay, elaborate stages, modes, multiplatform ease of access, music etc before the series took a downward slope. It is as if the developers didn't know what to do with the series after they made the best sequel to the magnum opus of SC1. SC2 is The Empire Strikes back of Fighting Video Game sequels.
BrandonVoiceRequests fun fact Soul Blade was actually called Soul Edge, it’s just that Edge Games sues Namco over the use of the word Edge in the game’s name which caused it to be renamed for its console rerelease.
No words can express my love for the Soul Calibur series. Simply one of my favorite fighting game franchises of all time and the greatest fighters that have blessed our arcades.
i first played this in the arcades long ago. good times, good times. mostly played as Siegfried, sometimes as Nightmare. really enjoyed watching this vid.
Ah yes my first introduction to Soul series. Remember playing this on a arcade cabnet at the movie theater my brother use to work at. And then my brothers dream cast.
I remember this was the first soul caliber I ever played. I was a kid playing on the dreamcast and Voldo scared the shit outta me every time I had to fight him.
I mean... SC2 is really, really similar, but there's a certain magic to this game compared to the others, y'know? It's something you can't quantify until the game is in your hands.
Aww man classic. Loved this game for the Dreamcast. Really was a beautiful game for its time. Kilik was my fave on here. Soundtrack was amazing too. Think Cervantes stage and theme is one of the best.
Slow it down at 6:25 - Cervantes actually lifted his foot; that's some precise hitbox... The only downside of this game was its not-as-challenging A.I, when compared to Soul Edge or Tekken 3.
Max, was seriously wounded but the soul still burns. but real talk, i wish i played this game, this is the only console Soul Calibur game I haven't played, I played this game in arcades but I've never played the console version yet.
It's all about that Link! I didn't even play any other version! I even imported it because i couldn't wait! He was the best crossover character in this series. Hell, he still is!!
![Soulcalibur (Dreamcast / 1999) - Astaroth [Playthrough/LongPlay] (ソウルキャリバー: アスタロス)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/C5IYmycfPbA/mqdefault.jpg)
I feel like Max's channel has been building up to this legacy from day one.
Yes and I'm a bigger Soul fan for it
@@truindividual ive been a sc fan since this sc
Ever since Max's first legacy I was praying for this
@@piccoloswavecap7936 OG huh? Respect
@@piccoloswavecap7936 been a fan since SC2. Dropped off a bit but im back
A friend of mine had a custom PS2 controller with Maxi's face on it.
She called it her "Maxi Pad".
... I love this.
Such a dad joke
Soul Calibur's narrator dude is the best of any fighting game
Change my mind
Marvel vs Capcom 2 A New Age of Heroes
Darkest Dungeon
*Street Fighter Alpha 3's narrator dude is the best of any fighting game
fixed ;)
@@Keezawea nani
Tekken 3
Is it too much to ask for a _Soul_ series collection on disc?
Soul Edge
Soul Calibur
Soul Calibur 2
Soul Calibur 3
Soul Calibur 4
Soul Calibur 5
xxnike629xx even if they couldn’t do 4&5 (despite my love of those two) id still gladly take an HD collection of Soul Edge-SoulCalibur III.
As long as they include the updated arcade version of III instead of the original broken PS2 version that could be great.
xxnike629xx yes. From Namco anyway
That would definitely be amazing but not sure if 4 & 5 would be included though.
@vidk1dd96
4 and 5 could be on disc 2.
WELCOME BACK TO THE STAGE OF HISTORY
Damn nice try Jedah but u are in the wrong game
TRANSCENDING HISTORY
AND THE WORLD
A TALE OF SOULS AND SWORDS
ETERNALLY RETOLD
Legit, one of my favorite games ever. I'll never forget seeing it in the arcades, and then playing it on my 360. This and Soul Calibur 2 are games I'll hold dear to me forever.
the fact that somepeople only know this game because of the halfhearted 360 port(only 4:3, no online, modes missing ect) is sad. :/
I did eventually play the Dreamcast version when I got older and wiser. I'm just telling my history with the game :)
:) very understandable
Man me and the family still play this game. One of a small few franchises that i can get my parents to play.
Still the best launch game to a system in my opinion.
Halo's great but its aged like milk some places. This, however, is the finest of wines.
Thomas Rozhon+ Don’t forget Tekken tag tournament 1 for ps2
ENZOtaki agreed
ENZOtaki
Never had the fervor for Tekken like everyone else, so your Milage may vary I guess.
Breath Of The Wild
Thomas Rozhon I guess you don’t enjoy watching martial arts movies either
I swear to GOD the Dreamcast is the unsung hero of consoles.
In my mind, the Dreamcast port of Soul Calibur was THE definition of "arcade-perfect port".
Best part was the Dreamcast ver actually looked better than the arcade ver, it was amzing
Actually it was beyond arcade perfect, there's a Digital Foundry video on SC1 if you're interested.
Died too soon
sleazyfellow If only the Dreamcast port of VF3tb wasn't a downgraded mess ported in 6 months by Genki... At least most ports on Dreamcast were good.
Arcade games were always ahead of their console ports in every aspect and when i saw Soulcalibur i could not believe my eyes but it was there and it was beautiful.
I got this game with my Dreamcast when it came out. At the time the graphics were completely mind blowing, like HOW CAN GRAPHICS EVER GET BETTER THAN THIS?!?!??!?! Good times.
Also Hwang was my favorite character I'm sad that he disappeared in later entries. :(
I started with SC2, and I just loved Assassin, so much. So when I finally played this(almost religiously with my friends), when I picked Hwang... Everything just felt right.
Graphics still better than Soul Calibur VI imo. I'm really not happy with SCVI graphics... like it's missing lighting. Seems dark and muted somehow - kinda like SC 2 in a way. And Mitsurugi's design is gawd awful. 2 was uglier, but at least he had an alternate costume. 1, 3, 4, and 5 all had decent designs for him. Yoshi looks great though. Kinda of mixed bag to me. Ralphael is wackadoodle. The stages though, ugh, and the stupid blurring effect bothers me so much.
Seong Mina all the way, well got a bit of a soft spot for Mitsrugi as well
Soul Caliubur is the most under appreciated fighting game series.
I freakin’ love it
Well is popular enough. Not as popular as Tekken but is well known.
It’s so old but still so beautiful. Aged so well. I wish more games had an imprint like this one.
This intro is everything.
Pls use this when SC6 is out
I want to imagine that the good ending of Libra has you fight either Azwel or Inferno and Shine On will blast in the background. Just a flight of fancy, but it'd be awesome.
This should have been released on PS2 & 260 in 2000
One of my favorite fighting games of all time. Dreamcast will always be remembered and this game especially so, for being so ahead of its time its even scary now. The series never really recovered after the highs this game took it to
It got PERFECT SCORES when it was released. Legit 10/10s back when that actually meant something. There was simply no where to go but down lol
yes its in the top 10 highest rated games of all times
I agree..its a shame that lot of people only mention SC2 fondly nowadays because of the fact that the dreamcast was not as popular as the other machines and died early(in addition to this game being out years earlier than the real 6th gen consoles) but that's also the beauty of how things turned out. SC1 was a circumstance that will never be repeated
SC2 was good but it never really improved on SC1 in anyway, the original cast still had their same movesets even(if I recall correctly). can't wait for 6 this week looks to bring the franchise back to life hopefully it does well(in terms of sales).
nice post zero
It's awesome that you mention this because I'm currently getting into this series and I'm loving it!
Nothing will be able to touch the greatness of Soul Calibur on Dreamcast.
The XBox 360 exclusive port of SC1 is BC on Xbox One, if you have not tried SC1 and own an XBox One, go to the XBL store, buy this masterpiece and support it!
I remember grinding like a fiend to unlock everything on this, and not getting tired of it. I also remember being extremely impressed by the announcer's ACCURATE pronunciations: "Cervantes (trilled 'r', accent on 'van')!" "Mitsurugi (subtle 'n' sound before the last syllable)!"
Good lordt this game still holds up to this day 2023. The music and graphics are insane. Makes me regret selling this and my Dreamcast a few months ago to get a PS5 😭
15:21- Those two pirates to the right of Mitsurugi... that's Sagat and Max!
...well, Sagat if he was, like, a foot and a half shorter.
Really good and Fluid Animations on the Models.. wow and the graphics really dont look that bad either. This game aged well
Definitely a drastic improvement from its predecessor, huh?
This is what needs to be brought back in 3 Games to have the Soul Edge Design, that would be a Challenge
if you play this game on Dreamcast with a VGA cable, it basically looks like an above average PS2 game with excellent art details. Very impressive considering this game out years before PS2 even launched. Its the same with Dead or Alive 2. Dreamcast gave tons of fighting games a great lease on life. The 360 port is only 4:3, but at forced widescreen via HDMI it almost looks HD quality. The assets hold up very well even today. I'd love a proper remastering effort on current gen at super high resolutions with restored modes
That's what I loved about the Dreamcast. The graphics were crisp and clear. I could never get into the PS2 graphics because things always looked muddy in comparison.
@MrInuhanyou123 VGA of course will give you higher resolution (640x480) but it actually shows how limited the Dreamcast was compared to PS2, XBOX and GameCube. The polygon count is way lower than anything on PS2 just look at Mitsurugi's arm in this video as well as character faces, and the backgrounds in general are very simplistic in terms of geometry (same for DOA2), the 2D backdrops are very low res and the lightsourcing is very basic (like most DC games) The texture compression format of the Dreamcast is also noticeably more noisy than that of the PS2 (and even the PS1)
Dreamcast was great in 98 but a year after it was almost obsolete. The PowerVR 2 was very limited and still relied too much on the CPU for basic operations like transform and lighting.
A victory of *SUCC* 1:30
This is where I got my start on the Soul series and I didn't even know of its existence until my brother brought it in one Summer evenin'. We barely had any Dreamcast games at the time and we only had rentals, so any new game was welcome to me. For me though, I was hooked ever since. The gameplay, the graphics and especially the lore. Before I even gravitated towards Nightmare and Siegfried, Kilik was my main.. And then I saw Inferno
The Legend Will Never Die!
*Im so HYPED for your Boss Rage on Night Terror in Soul Calibur 3.*
Also I found a perfect way to beat him on Hard Mode too.*
You know that the Tales of Soul has no difficulty settings right?
@@allanthomaz2260 Soul Arena?
DracoFlame67 Does Night Terror even appear there???
Soul Arena Sherlock.
I did it with Abyss and found a exploitative weakness in him.
It's SoulCalibur without the space.
If Mitsurugi was Samurai Jack
Soul Calibur had a certain feel of epicness that the following games seemed to lack. That grandiose feeling really added to the ambiance, like a period of history steeped in greatness. SC2 has my favourite character in Raphael but SC1 always feels the better game.
Should've also played the arcade Soulcalibur, if only just to show how much of a game changer the Dreamcast port really was.
Love watching your videos Max. Someone told me that the best port of this game was on Dreamcast.
One of the first games I bought on my Dreamcast. Still have this and still play it on my Dreamcast!
This is my favourite game in the series! The memories! The game holds up very well even today
I love how the SC1 announcer pronounces things:
Cerrrrvantes
Zeigfriet
Shaun-Hwa
It’s pretty neat.
Man I remember i was really young and my dad let my play soul caliber 3 against him, i always used spawn now 6 is coming out and he’s super hyped for it, super awesome time right now
donovan doyal you mean soul calibur 2 the Xbox version since spawn was never in the 3rd game
Damn Soul Calibur still looks great all these years later.
That boi hwang was giving him that slop 😂😂😂😂1:36
1:02 - You can move the Camera in Soul Blade/Edge too during replays.
Buddy if this is going to continue i suggest to use the original announcer's voice in your "welcome back to the stage of history" intro. Much better imho and i believe many fans agree.
Assert dominance by aggressively guard-canceling.
Charackter design and not overly flashy gameplay looks so good. I would love to play an good remake with online.
The graphics and animations still look decent today. very fluid.
The grueling battle end with the victory of Mistsurugi. Oh wait wrong game.
Borrowed a bunch of Dreamcast games from an older kid in the neighborhood. I remember the smell of the cigarettes on the disc box and game manual for this game lol
I don't play figthing game but i love watching Max playing them. Keep the good work Max. 👍
Can't wait for Soul Calibur 2, best game in the series
The main reason I bought a GameCube.
LIT GOD facts
SCII is definitely the best, but I can't think why exactly.
I suppose it had the best graphics, gameplay, elaborate stages, modes, multiplatform ease of access, music etc before the series took a downward slope.
It is as if the developers didn't know what to do with the series after they made the best sequel to the magnum opus of SC1.
SC2 is The Empire Strikes back of Fighting Video Game sequels.
Nah the best in the series is 1, for me anyway. Idk why I just never really connected with 2.
@@Comkill117 that's weird. 2 is basically 1 with more characters
I was just playing this earlier today! So hyped for Soul calibur VI !
My favorite Soul Calibur ever 😊
SC1 for the win 😍😊
No.1.
Love soul caliber one of the best fighting game franchises.
Fun fact: The very first Soul Calibur was actually called Soul Blade
BrandonVoiceRequests fun fact Soul Blade was actually called Soul Edge, it’s just that Edge Games sues Namco over the use of the word Edge in the game’s name which caused it to be renamed for its console rerelease.
Hmm...Cervantes has become your nemesis...
No words can express my love for the Soul Calibur series. Simply one of my favorite fighting game franchises of all time and the greatest fighters that have blessed our arcades.
Right in the feels of my childhood :,)
i first played this in the arcades long ago.
good times, good times.
mostly played as Siegfried, sometimes as Nightmare.
really enjoyed watching this vid.
Aaaahhh the memories
Damn the graphics holds up from the dreamcast still
Sad that the official Soul Calibur app has been removed from Google Play
Cervantes's stage totally has a chocolate ocean
Miss playing soul caliber on the Dreamcast
Wouldn't mind a remake of this. Possibly with improved mechanics.
I guess we are going though the stage of history
1:32 XD
This game is still my favorite fighting game of all time.
Catman Leche same. And I didn’t play it until years later.
Wow, Maxi looks like Elvis if he was an action movie character.
Mitsurugi katana dance should be accompanied by the Chicken Dance
Ah yes my first introduction to Soul series. Remember playing this on a arcade cabnet at the movie theater my brother use to work at. And then my brothers dream cast.
Cervantes and Zasalamel styles are my favorites one... Scythes and Dual Wields are my precious love styles of weapons
I remember this was the first soul caliber I ever played. I was a kid playing on the dreamcast and Voldo scared the shit outta me every time I had to fight him.
My favourite game of all time. SC2 was also fantastic but from sc3 all was going down.
*SC4
SC3 was the last good SC game
@@EijiShinjo48 - matter of opinion I guess. For me sc2 was the last one. SC3 wasn't balanced well enough. It was the last one I compete on.
A Tale Of Souls And Swords Eternally Retold.
I played the mobile port of this game and I was obsessed ugh man I wished they could bring this game to the switch
I'm starting to believe that Cervantes is Max's historical enemy, every time he appears he causes problems for him.
That super move looks so cool! It's just too bad that it has such a wind-up that it just about never hits.
This game is still so beautiful and fun after so many years!
10:08 praise the sun
I really miss Hwang.
I sadly never played this or Soul Edge. Soul Calibur 2 was my first game in the series so I can't wait for the next video.
I mean... SC2 is really, really similar, but there's a certain magic to this game compared to the others, y'know? It's something you can't quantify until the game is in your hands.
@@AlriikRidesAgain Which is why I was sad to hear that this game was only on Dreamcast and Xbox 360.
I love SC1 more than SC2 by far, also you can play with Inferno here and in SC2 Inferno is unplayable and that is stupid, feels like a Downgrade
Mitsurugi move so much better then than he does now so much faster they nerfed his speed in SC6
I'm still amazed at how good this game looks even after 19 years
You just had to get the grab/throw move in when you knew that it would K.O. your opponent just to watch it back on replay!!!
Cervantes went from pirate to some sort of knight in armour
I love Max's theme music.
Aww man classic. Loved this game for the Dreamcast. Really was a beautiful game for its time. Kilik was my fave on here. Soundtrack was amazing too. Think Cervantes stage and theme is one of the best.
Whats one game you can't beat even if you tried
Dang, I miss playing this in the arcade. Story mode was easy as Siegfried playing cheap forward + verti, run verti.
Slow it down at 6:25 - Cervantes actually lifted his foot; that's some precise hitbox...
The only downside of this game was its not-as-challenging A.I, when compared to Soul Edge or Tekken 3.
Max, was seriously wounded but the soul still burns.
but real talk, i wish i played this game, this is the only console Soul Calibur game I haven't played, I played this game in arcades but I've never played the console version yet.
the only game in the series i didn't get to play because of dreamcast exclusivety.... played it years later and it holds up really well.
6:31 low crush?
This is up there with Super Mario 64 as one of the best launch-games ever.
Oh my god this song😆🤧🤧😢😢😢 memories
I loved guard cancelling from soul blade to soul calibur 2...You can free people up all day
The game looks amazing for it's time. I wish they put kratos in Soul Calibur 6 he was fun to play in broken destiny
Anyone remembers ARTHUR? a white version of Mitsurugi. Was that arcade only or was he on 'Cast?
Only available in the international arcade version i guess
Dood make a old skool solcalburn terny
Probably my favorite fighting game series ! SC FOREVER !
Got to play this game for the first time at an old school arcade in Madison. I spent at least 3 hours of my time there playing it.
TFW waifu Mi-Na doesn't even land Secret Treasure...
😭 Ahh I miss my Dreamcast ! We used to stay up hours playing this as pre teens!
Which version of SoulCalibur II are we going to expect Max to play?
Hd online most likely
GameCube. He played it on twitch.
@@SuperFusionAJ93 Yaaaaaay!
It's all about that Link! I didn't even play any other version! I even imported it because i couldn't wait! He was the best crossover character in this series. Hell, he still is!!
My 3 favorite fighting series