not played soulcalibur V but, soulcalibur 3 had a blasting music. at least for me, man! what a good soundtrack.
of topic here but, @assault_freak, do you plan on doing an audio demo once tekken 7 is released?. i wasn't much into tekken, but tekken 7 looks very interesting.

I think the audio panning is broken for some reason. Because sometimes it's excellent, but other times the voice just won't move and I'll have to jump to the other side, attack the opponent, then switch to the other side for it to actually fix itself.

Well, you've got to remember, the game hasn't been out even 2 weeks yet. Maybe MKX was like this in the beginning. And I did just get a small update a few days ago that fixed one thing kind of, but maybe they're still fixing things. Because part of Darkseid's super move isn't playing any noise, same for Green Lantern's. It's only in the start up in both occasions, and I've seen it in streams too so I know it's no singular situation. But it kinda half got fixed in this last update, so maybe they're still working out the sound kinks.

Also, does anyone know how to go into tournament mode when playing online?

@335

Yeah, agreed. Even though it is pretty crummy, I would rather not complain and just be happy that the game is still playable.

Fair enough... though personally, because it's a fighting game, which are always playable... I can focus on smaller details. And with the gear system the way it is, I still say we're missing out on a huge part of the game.. so playable yes, but to the full extent of other fighters where we can enjoy about 90% of the game? Not with this game unfortunately, though I'm liking it. Gameplay is priority for me, but sound design is a close second... and this one has missed a lot of marks in that department, imo.

Mono or stereo doesn't bother me... if a game is going to pan though, it should do it properly. I grew up in the 90s when there was no such thing as stereo audio in home console games. Like I said, sound is a second to gameplay... and even though Tekken has everything in mono, I've loved the sound design of almost all the games.

@341
I'd replace the word "playable" with the phrase "easily enjoyed".

Tekken's gameplay has and will be in mono for this installment, though I was also given to believe that it would work better with a surround system, which is very unlikely if at all true.

I really do believe that Tekken is hard to get into precisely because it's in mono and you can't fight properly against an AI or opponents that can see your moves and where you are in the arena etc.

@343 I hope the post's updated properly with an edit I made.  Wasn't the original text, but hope it still works.

I mentally track my character movements, throws, and anything else that would change which side you're on regardless of whether the game pans or not. My stance is clear on this so I won't argue the point to antagonize anyone... just expressing my thoughts. I played games growing up with mono audio, and beat all of them. From Tekken 3 to 6, all the early sf games on snes, Dragon Ball Z games also on snes, etc. None of which had stereo panning... and I played them through tvs, no less. If you can keep track of your character position mentally, panning is just a nice way to be sure of that... but you should be aware of what every movement your character makes will result in.

Tekken 7 won't work better with a surround system... at least, I doubt it. We'll see in a few days, though. Again, not trying to antagonize... if panning determines your enjoyment of a fighting game, then that's fine. I'm willing to explain how I do it, for those people who are open to the idea... by that logic one would miss out on half the fighting games on the market.

If you can, rent it first to try it. I definitely prefer this ove rthe first injustice, but I would agree that "okay" is probably the word I would use to describe it. Definitely not bad, but nothing I would write home about.

Hey everyone.

Tyler Lansdown made on a post on the injustice subreddit on Reddit asking for questions they will answer for the watchtower stream tomorrow. I figured you guys may want to throw in a question about adding TTS into the Xbox version. Who knows, maybe enough of us will get their attention.

https://www.reddit.com/r/INJUSTICE/comm … atchtower/