Interview Time! Episode 6: 8WayRunners

[Inori DWF]

1. How did you start your SC journey?
I began playing the series with Soul Edge for PSX. I was very young at the time and just mashed buttons with Li Long to beat the story mode XD.

2. When and why did you join 8WayRun.com?
I joined January 2009. I joined because when I had beaten someone in SCIV online I was called a lag tactition with Yoshimitsu. Puzzled by the term, I looked it up on Google and I found 8wayrun. Ever since then I joined because I saw valuable info in the SAs.

3. Are you following the competitive community, or maybe you prefer being a casual player?
I have been a competitor ever since the half-way point in SCIV's lifespan. During that time until now, I have learned so much about this game. Even now I am still learning, and I enjoy teaching people what I have learned as well.

4. Do you watch SC tournament streams?
If the event is important enough I will.

5. Is SC the only fighting game you are interested in?
I actually began studying VF5 before the release of SCIV. I cannot wait for the release of VF5:FS!

6. What controller do you mind yourself more comfortable with?
The Dualshock PS3 controller is still my favorite. The D-Pad is well designed for precise movement/execution.

7. Are you satisfied with SCV?
It still maintains my interests for now, but there are some little things about the game that kind of push me away from it.

8. Are you looking forward more to another installment or maybe an enhanced version of SCV?
I'm starting to get sick of having to revamp the way I play the game after every major patch. I just want the bugs such as random whiffing to be removed. Another installment of the SC series this early on would just make me laugh...

9. Who would you like to see interviewed in the upcoming episoded of the Interview Time! ?
I'll just go ahead and say me! Just kidding... I'm indifferent to who is interviewed. As long as they know how to answer questions properly.

 

[Wid0maker]

1. How did you start your SC journey?
Waaaaayyy back when it was called Soul Blade (Soul Edge in arcades)...Cervantes was the last character before fighting Soul Edge and I remember that he ALWAYS fell for Taki's 1A <---I'm pretty sure that's what the input was back then. lol

2. When and why did you join 8WayRun.com?
After SCIV came out. I loved the SC series and up until that time, I was a pretty casual player and decided that I wanted to get more into the competitive scene.

3. Are you following the competitive community, or maybe you prefer being a casual player?
I wouldn't call myself a total competitive player. I still like to mess around here and there and unwind from a long day with a couple casual matches.

4. Do you watch SC tournament streams?
Yes, love watching the streams.

5. Is SC the only fighting game you are interested in?
In playing at a competitive level, yes. Tekken has failed to hold my attention for very long and I'm not really into 2D fighters. Though, I DO like to watch SF4, SFxT UMvC3 matches from time to time, and sometimes get in some casual matches Dead or Alive 5 looks like it might be interesting though. I'll probably have to check it out.

6. What controller do you mind yourself more comfortable with?
I prefer the PS3 dualshock controller. It's funny that SC is the only fighting game that I play on pad. Every other fighter, I use an arcade stick.

7. Are you satisfied with SCV?
I am. As much as I love the SC series, I was hoping that SCV wouldn't be more of the same. I'm glad that Project Soul put in Brave Edges, Critical Edges and Just Guards among other things.

8. Are you looking forward more to another installment or maybe an enhanced version of SCV?
I don't know about an enhanced version of SCV, but I wouldn't mind seeing SCVI somewhere down the road.

9. Who would you like to see interviewed in the upcoming episoded of the Interview Time! ?
A lot of good players out there to choose from. It's hard to pick one. Maybe Keev or Omega DR

 

[AsDeEspadas]

1. How did you start your SC journey?

It all started with a badly timed bald joke,.... not really.

With a pirate copy of Soul Edge, japanese or english was the same to me 'coz I didn't know both languages anyway, in the 90's I couldn't afford an original one, also South América was full of pirates everywhere so was easy to get the japanese version, now that I work I bought the collector's edition and I'll spend my money in the next SC games because I'm a fan, I would buy the PS4,5,6,7,8 etc.. just for SC.

2. When and why did you join 8WayRun.com?

I joined one year ago, I wanna know more about my favorite game, I mean, I knew who is Daigo in SF but I didn't know who is representative in SC.

3. Are you following the competitive community, or maybe you prefer being a casual player?

With 75% of online victories I would say...hmm... I prefer being a casual player, sometimes I think I don't have enough time to play competitive, that makes me feel old, lol.

4. Do you watch SC tournament streams?

Yes, yes, YES!!, I enjoy watching tournaments streams!!!, I'd hack a website to saw a match, give me more streams!!!

5. Is SC the only fighting game you are interested in?

I like Street Fighter because is fun to watch but I only play Soulcalibur.

6. What controller do you mind yourself more comfortable with?

I didn't try a stick one at all, PS3 sixaxis pad is fine to me.

7. Are you satisfied with SCV?

I miss Mina and I can't believe Talim isn't in the game and there are no reason to exclude her of the game, that disappointed me.

However, the gameplay is enjoyable enough to love SCV.

8. Are you looking forward more to another installment or maybe an enhanced version of SCV?

I'm waiting for Mina, period.

9. Who would you like to see interviewed in the upcoming episoded of the Interview Time! ?

Kayane, she deserve it, She travel a lot to play this game and I feel like she is a kind of connection between SC fans and Namco, I enjoyed when she get the Leixia picture from Daishi I was happy for her.

Also she's beautiful, I read complains in streams how they don't have female players like her in their countries or in his games, we're lucky people.

 

[Heaton]

1. How did you start your SC journey?

When I was 7, my parents would always take me to Blockbuster to rent a video game every other week or so. I remember picking out something called "Soul Blade" on one particular trip, and from there, I was sucked into a tale of soul and swords, eternally retold

2. When and why did you join 8WayRun.com?

My profile says I joined in January of 2009, so I'll believe it. I had heard someone plug the website while playing SC4 on XBL, saying that it was a good place for combos and strategies and whatnot.

3. Are you following the competitive community, or maybe you prefer being a casual player?

At this point, I'm a competitive player for life. There are times when I miss the easy-going nature of a casual player, and I always feel the burden of wanting to be the best player there is, but looking back, the competitive scene is too much to ever leave.

4. Do you watch SC tournament streams?

Depends on where the event is located, what time, who's playing, etc; if it's a big major full of lots of big names, or a smaller tournament that my friends are going to be in, I'll definitely tune in.

5. Is SC the only fighting game you are interested in?

I just had the pleasure of seeing high level UMVC3 play for the first time at NWM, and thought it looked like a lot of fun, so I'll be trying to get into that. I've also played Tekken since I was very little, and I'm going to try to get into that competitively when TTT2 is released. VF5:FS looks great, and I'll be trying that out, too. Finally, I'll be giving DOA5 a try just so I can say I gave the series a fair shake.

6. What controller do you mind yourself more comfortable with?

I've played on pad all my life, and am partial to Playstation style controllers. For SCV, I prefer the Dualshock 3 because of the triggers, and because I enjoy rumble when I play fighting games. I recently just bought a Hitbox, and will be making the switch to that as soon as it gets here - I'm very eager and excited to learn how to Hitbox.

7. Are you satisfied with SCV?

From a casual perspective, I'd like more costumes. And of course, it'd be nice to see some old faces return in the form of some character DLC. However, from a gameplay perspective, I'm completely satisfied with SCV.

8. Are you looking forward more to another installment or maybe an enhanced version of SCV?

I'd like to see a sequel 4 or 5 years from now, after we've truly played this game into the ground and know all there is to know about it. An updated version a la SSF4 or Arcade Edition is a bit different. As I see it, there are two different scenarios:

A) If it brought a balance patch, new characters, new stages, new costumes, and included some or most of the current DLC, I would buy that on release and hype it up to everyone I knew who even knows what a fighting game is.

B) If it was just a patch on a disc, I would buy it, but only out of necessity to stay competitive.

Essentially, I want them to really push the envelope on the game if they're gonna give us an updated version of it.

9. Who would you like to see interviewed in the upcoming episoded of the Interview Time! ?

William Fresh.

 

[Flynn]

1. I discovered Soul Calibur II after I saw the trailer for it on TV one day. I started playing fighting games with Tekken 3 at the arcade, so when I saw Heihachi from Tekken was a bonus character in the PS2 version, I was instantly interested. I also though fighting with different weapons was so cool. Soul Calibur II was the only game I played for a long time. Matter of fact, even with all of its problems, it still manages to be my favorite one so far.

2. I joined here very recently. I've been really wanting to better my game and hopefully be a part of the community.

3. I'm not 100% following the competitive community, I can name some top players and have watched a lot of tournament footage, but that's about it. I haven't been to any tournaments as I haven't found any local community where I live, although I'd like to.

4. No, but if I'm lucky enough to catch one I will. Usually I am working or something when one is showing live.

5. As of right now, yes. I hated III, and since there wasn't really any SC players where I lived it sort of made me give up on the series. When I played IV about a month or so before V came out, SC caught my attention again. When I play games, especially more competitive ones like fighting games, I like to focus on just one for a while.

6. When I played Tekken 3 that was an arcade version so I was comfortable using a stick. But it's been years since then, that was when Tekken 3 first came out. Now I prefer using a controller.

7. At the moment I'm satisfied. I pretty much agreed with the last patch that Namco put out. It seems like Namco wants to be more involved with this game. You can definitely tell it's meant to be competitive, but it appeals a lot to casual players, too. However, I still believe the game has its problems that need to be addressed. I just hope Namco is paying attention and willing to fix the problems. The community is here to help give important feedback.

8. I'd really love for there to be more Soul Calibur games. And although I'm satisfied with V, I think Namco kinda alienated long time fans, too, like taking out certain characters and really half-assing the story. Although I enjoy the fast-paced fighting system in this game, I still find it more intriguing to watch old SC IV footage, even though the game wasn't exactly balanced. I'd like to see a return to the old system of combat, like putting back in guard impacts, the old characters that we've come to love, etc. It just seems like a lot of the magic of Soul Calibur was lost with this one.

9. I don't really know enough of the people in the community, so I think I'll leave that to y'all.