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This Is the Run

This Is the Run: Soulcalibur - Part 09

The tables are turned as a fight stick enters the match and finally puts an end to these shenanigans.

Gaming's greatest challenges, met head-on by gaming's greatest game players.

Apr. 26 2017

Cast: Vinny, Dan

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Soulcalibur

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Someone should probably tell Vinny that SC has air control. If you hold backwards when you've been launched, you'll go flying a million miles across the stage. He's knocked himself out more than a few times this way.

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I like how into this Vinny is getting.

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Also, there should be frame data available if you really want to go nuts on analyzing Soul Calibur (Vinny mentioned he doesnt understand what causes certain moves to come out first, so reading up on this could help him with this...)

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Getting a fight stick involved? That might complicate some things.

as long as they're ...scientific ...about it.

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Vinny playing Taki is really fun to watch.

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I feel like Vinny had a better chance early on. Now they they are regularly doing this, Dan's muscle memory of 16 or so years is kicking in and he is becoming harder to beat.

Great series, GBEast been on fire.

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This is the first Run I've watched of Soulcalibur and man, what is up with Dan doing after hits when the round is over? That shit is some straight up 9-year-old kid stuff, infuriated me every time he did it.

I don't know if this is Dan playing into his 'heel' character or has been established in prior episodes but damn, have some respect. Vinny is a patient man, I would've put Dan through a wall with that stuff by now.

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I liked this series more when it was a coop game.

This is just boring.

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I liked this series more when it was a coop game.

This is just boring.

I like both.

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This is the first Run I've watched of Soulcalibur and man, what is up with Dan doing after hits when the round is over? That shit is some straight up 9-year-old kid stuff, infuriated me every time he did it.

I don't know if this is Dan playing into his 'heel' character or has been established in prior episodes but damn, have some respect. Vinny is a patient man, I would've put Dan through a wall with that stuff by now.

Says way more about you if you get that 'infuriated' about such a minor thing. How does that even matter if someone does that after rounds, geez...

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I get so tense watching this omgosh. Like watching a high intensity sport. An electronic sport.

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This Soul Calibur looks better than my Soul Calibur 2 on Wii/Gamecube. I've been doing the Team battles with my daughter because of this series and was surprised by how bad it looks.

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@kurrelgyre: I see Vinny on xbox one playing it through BC often, so I'd imagine the ease of use with that setup is what they're using.

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@tekzero: pick up soulcalibur 2 hd on ps3 or 360. looks a ton better :) i dont think its that much money either plus it has the weapon master mode for singleplayer

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Edited By 7X_

@zaldar said:

she we be concerned none of them noticed the panty shots going on while they were talking about fight sticks? One thing that always amazed about soul caliber is that no one ever seems to notice the "service" level of the game. I mean it isn't nearly as bad as some, but it is certainly there.

No thong swimsuits? Not fanservice.
No thong swimsuits? Not fanservice.

I mean...She's wearing granny panties dude. I think people have expressed the most "outrage" over Ivy which is dumb, just because a fake character in a fictional videogame is sexualized doesn't put down an entire gender, and that people get mad about it in SC is even more infuriating considering the bare-chested loincloth wearing fantasy males in this game that accompany the women. (For the record, Ivy has become less sexualized as the series has continued, I outlined this in another video with comparison pictures)

But...I mean, she has a skirt on. A long, flowy, Valkyrian skirt. The camera doesn't exactly fly under her skirt to catch angles, it just captures her doing moves. I'm not trying to put you down man but being someone who has thoroughly experienced fan service, this is incredibly tame.

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After this, they should do Nuclear Throne Co-op for the next This Is The Run!

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@tekzero: pick up soulcalibur 2 hd on ps3 or 360. looks a ton better :) i dont think its that much money either plus it has the weapon master mode for singleplayer

This is my original launch release with 100% completion and a ton of logged hours. There's no way I'm doing that grind again.

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I was so close to skipping this one, but I would've missed that handshake goof at the beginning and that would've been a tragedy.

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Vinny might be training himself on some bad habits fighting against the CPU. I play Smash competitively, don't know much about Soulcalibur, but training against real people is key.

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Fight Stick is required!

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I thought snapchat was just a way for instagram "models" to get paid for naked selfies of their ass.