One of the funniest things in this game is unlocking the option to change the intro sequence, and then replacing every single character with Lizardman.

I remember thinking these were the most mind blowing graphics I had ever seen. "It looks exactly like real life! This is it, we hit the peak!"

"A man without Soul Calibur is like a man without balls." -Sun Tzu; _On The Dreamcast Owners_

Damn SC1 holds up surprisingly well visually

I waited in a line at the mall to buy this on 9/9/99. Good times. 🔥

Souledge/blade walked so the *whole rest of this series* could run.

I didn't play the 1st one but I always remember getting Soul Calibur II as a kid because of Link, was the bet fighting game ever I still play the HD version sometimes too, loved that weird dungeon mode

I'd love to be able to play soul calibur 3 again!! There was a weird RPG tabletop campaign that was honestly a blast as a kid. Making custom heros, unlocking all the different weapons and outfit options. Man that was a good time. The only fighting game I'd ever been good at or liked playing.

6:03 does Astaroth have fucking jiggle physics?? yeah, maybe this is one of the greatest games ever made lmao

I'm pretty sure Kilik's win quote "This rod will be your doom" is from a hentai.

“Lizard man gets people where they need to go” killed me it was so hilarious and amazing

Q: "The Greatest Launch Game Ever?" A: HELL YES!

Having gotten it launch day for the Sega Dreamcast on September 9th, 1999, all I can say is... Yes. Yes, it was indeed the greatest launch title of any console. So many features, modes, and unlockables gave you so much bang for your buck. And it played AWESOME!!!

2:32 As someone who literally grew up with with Soul Calibur, I am offended.

i was working at Mad Catz when this game game out and all office work stopped for daily tournaments. This was normal for testers and tech support like me but we were seeing VPs, marketing people, accountants come in and play this game, it not only looked amazing but played the same also.

The thing that blew my mind when I was a kid was that you could actually see the characters FINGERS. I thought graphics had finally peaked.

I remember Inferno because as a kid in SC2, he scared the shit out of me but I loved him at the same time

This game holds up exceptionally well. Its really mindblowing to see. I absolutely adore the first three games. Soul Calibur 2 will always be my favourite.

I'd low key publicly have explicit physical relations with Lizardman

Damn, I missed the days where you can unlock characters in fighting games just by playing the game. It always made me feel like I earned them and that I can get more characters the more I played.

My brother and I bought Soul Calibur II on the Gamecube as our first hardcore foray into fighting games. We like to have worn that disk OUT. He mained Raphael and Kilik while I rolled Nightmare and Yoshimitsu-though we both had a pocket Link, of course. Man. That was good times. I'd buy the living daylights out of a Soul collection!

I know this game from front to end. I still miss Mitsurugi's back y move. My favorite whiff punish tool ever.

Cervantes always has been my pirate boi. Alive and dead.

The intro of the game kind of reminds of super smash bros on n64

Oh man, I used to go to Arcade shops regularly to play SC1 with my brother to play with the people in the area. _Good times._

That's a lie. I remember Inferno because there was only one flame ball repeatedly kicking my ass in a fighting game.

I have the most fond memories growing up with Soulcalibur 3, then being able to play Soulcalbur 4 for the first time, and realizing that the series didn't die after that F2P nonsense on the PS3 with Soulcalibur 6 being a damn solid entry. Here's to hoping that legend will never die.

This was the game that got me *into* fighting games, glad to see you playing it.

This game made Virtua Fighter 3TB look like a reject game. In all fairness even Sega pretend that 3TB doesn't exist

I think the Prologue section is really the story of Soulblade. I played a lot of that game but I don't remember well the story but the music was awesome. Bravely Folk Song should be the official anthem of Spain.

My PS2 died before I could finish Chronicles of the Sword in SCIII and I'll never get over that. I found it to be a really fun blend of genres and where the create-a-fighter features really shone.

I remember the day Soul Calibur II came out and it killed my Gamecube the first time I played it. Hope you play that one next, easily the best game in the series.

"Please powerbomb me, Asto Daddy....." Well I know what I'm asking for next time. 👀

Talk about a time capsule. Watching the intro and hearing the theme is still getting me pumped 23 years later... 😁 So many hours spent on that game, marveling at the graphics and tiny details. And the soundtrack cranking the epicness to 11 was something else. It was the game everybody wanted to play when having people over. Now I want to hook up my good old Dreamcast again! BTW, yes, there's a lot of lore and you can unlock additional costumes. I believe Siegfried is a separate character from Nightmare even though they're mostly the same.

Man I love that you brought up Silver, I was just trying to explain it to a friend of mine the other day. Good stuff imo, I remember playing it a ton when I was a kid. My dreamcast was like gold to me

I still own my Dreamcast. I also have the games you mentioned of “Soul Calibur” and “Sword of The Berserk: Guts Rage”. I remember Inferno because he was in Soul Calibur 1 and 2.

Yup, Siegfried is an unlockable character on this one.

Picked up the gamecube version of 2 during lockdown and had a lot of fun sinking time into that

A trip down memory lane for me... Thank you for the let's play Matt. My family made Soul Calibur 1 apart of family game nights.

Soul Calibur 1 on dreamcast is definitely the best in the entire series. Not only was the game more advanced than Soul Calibur 2, but SoulCalibur 1 on the dreamcast, is also the only Soul Calibur game, to get a perfect score, even in Japan. Yeah, unlocking characters in the arcade version, was exciting. Next day when you come to the arcade, you see Yoshimitsu in the roster, or an old master named Edgemaster. 13:48 Yeah, very true. VF is very popular in Japan, and was always more popular than Tekken. VF is also categorised, as the pinnacle and the standard, of high level competitive fighting games. Nice vid.👍

I replayed this recently and I still didn’t remember Inferno.

dammit; now I gotta go boot up SC6 again.

It's very telling where Namco's focus is with the series. Having played Soul Blade when it was still called Soul Edge then playing Soul Calibur, part of me was expecting either more weapons named Soul, but more of me was expecting the focus to return to the Soul Edge proper and Siegfried's story rather than the Soul Calibur that was supposed to vanquish it and Ivy's and Kilik's stories. Ultimately, the latter was probably the better call.

I'd be pretty excited to watch more mission battle from ya Matt. it's plenty of fun!

I REMEMBER INFERNO!! But Soul Calibur is the only game I’m good at so that’s not saying much

Soul Edge/Soul Blade/Soul Calibur is my childhood

Dreamcast games always astound me with how well they aged graphically. I can't suggest a singular Soul Calibur to play because I have genuine affection for all of them, but playing through the create-a-character story mode in VI with a time-displaced Stone Cold Steve Austin would make for some kind of series.

goddamn. what a game. Digging out my Dreamcast tomorrow.

Man this game was so epic when it first came out to the arcade and consoles Good video, thanks for making them

I love Soul Calibur. You deserve all the likes for this

I imported a Dreamcast from Japan back in the day and got this game at the same time - spent SO long playing it. Brings back memories :D

I started on Soul Edge, and oddly, the only time I played the first Soul Calibur was the arcade version since they had a cabinet at my local cinema. Fun times. As for other Soul Calibur games to play, you gotta get some of that strategy/fighting game hybride mode in SC3 a whirl!

Not sure if you noticed, but after you beat the game with one character, you unlocked Hwang. So yeah, you do unlock characters in this game. Unlockables include Siegfried, Rock, Lizardman, Seong Mina, etc.

The way Kilik handles that bo? Oh myyy

@13:13 If I remember correctly I think more characters unlock the more you play. I can't remember if it was based off the number of hours, or the number of bouts you play. I also seem to remember that you can unlock certain characters by beating the arcade mode without a single loss, but I could be wrong about that.

I remember Inferno. Mostly because I'm only so so at fighting games and he's one of the bosses I could actually beat.

Mario 64 exists

SC series has he greatest videogame announcer of all time

The amount of bisexual lust in the beginning of this video and the comments is amazing

If only Capcom treated Darkstalkers like how Namco treat Soul Calibur and don't make Tekken their only fighting game.

Oh, the memories. NM was my first main, then I moved to Taki.

I actually do remember Inferno. Mostly because it's been a long time since I've played a Soul Calibur game. Also, Inferno didn't drop completely off the map. He became Nightmare in Soul Calibur 3 after Siegfried became human again.

The first SC I played was 2. In a GameStop demo kiosk with my brother. I always picked Spawn.

Dude soul calibur just still plays so good

Daaaaaamn Matt im pretty sure my first cognitive mature weab collector purchase was the Nightmare from that same line. Not the Todd McFarlane but the EPOCH figures

if you don't replace all the characters in the intro with Lizardman then you ain't playing Soul Calibur

The fact that they haven’t ported this to Switch, PS4/PS5, and XBONE/Series X/Series S[unless I was living under a rock and that XBLA version got ported] feels like a crime. This is why I champion for this series to get a Switch port. Sadly I didn’t have a Dreamcast and this goodness. But I did start with 2 which is still great despite Necrid. Taki is my favorite, and probably my favorite ninja character ever. She’s best ninja waifu.

The character list is crazy I forgot how small it was now it’s massive

Hell yeah, the first fighting game I ever liked

Hey I remember inferno. I remember thinking "Why did they rename soul edge?" Because like. you're fighting the weapon itself.

I remember buying that game with the dreamcast on 9.9.99

Mad respect for Taki. but also for Seong Mi-na

I'm remember Inferno...

"This rod will be your doom."

Transcending history and the WORLD a tale of SOULS AND SWORDS ETERNALLY RETOLD

Probably my number 1 all time favorite fighting game along side Mortal Kombat 9 and Marvel VS Capcom 2.

Went and copped Soul Blade after this omg

You can arrange your on intro in this game it's awesome

This game was absolutely amazing. It blew my mind on 9-9-99.

Definitely my favorite game of all time! I've been playing Team Battles on Ultra Hard difficulty for 20 years & haven't lost a full match since 2000. If that statement sounds like bullshit to you I have a channel to prove it. Over 4000 mins worth of fights this year so far. If it were only online though, I'd really have some fun!

I really want to get a Dreamcast to play all the old games including Soulcalibur and Virtua Fighter 3tb.

graphics still look amazing!

I bought this game 3 Times and there was something different about how each one didn’t work before I got one that worked, Love this game.

Probably my favorite fighting game of all time

"Soul Calibur is the greatest launch game ever" Halo CE: "WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY?!"

When my husband and I were first married, we bought an old Dreamcast and this and a few other games. We spent many a night kicking each other’s digital butts! I still love this series.

To do the "ball busting" move it's diagonal down a i think two buttons. Two versions, front and behind

i dont know if it was kilik but one of the characters i played at gamestop it was called something else then i forget like electronic games they had soul calibur on a kiosk right next to the new final fantasy at the time and i saw the gunsword so i thought you could eventually evolve your weapon into a gunsword sadly i was wrong

Who would've thought what Kilik will become.

I remember using my game shark to play as inferno lol

Would love to see some SC3 story mode. Its like a RTS.

I honestly just played Soul Calibur 2 for the first time this year and I'm surprised on just how much I neglected the series in the past it's actually not that bad of a game so much so I ended up getting the newer one on a PlayStation 4

I remember inferno from soul caliber 2 on the ps2

The adventure mode in Soul Calibur II is incredible and wasted so many hours playing it. Who remembers the weird Chronicles of the Sword mode in SC3? Edit: okay, just thought Goro Majima in the next game as a guest. His weapon could be the signature knife or baseball bat from 0.

Back in the day the intro was like watch an unreal 5 demo, some says that it was better that the cgi of that era

Blonde Maxi, AKA Charlie Nash

My friends and I played this for months before we realized Mitsurugi wasn't Mitsubishi. Then he just stayed Mitsubishi forever.

@Matt McMuscles you had the game right it was "Silver" by Spiral house and infogrames entertainment (Atari). I used to get some of my games from a family friend who apparently burned this game and sent it to me along with gundam side story. I ended up only booting silver up once before moving to the cooler choice.

Played the shite out of this one with my buddy Chris. Loved the Playstation Souledge/blade and this was one that we burned DAYS on. Got to the point where we didnt do versus anymore. We just burned our way through Survival, trying to beat the others high score.

Would you ever consider doing a what happun video on the Atari jaguar?