Soul Caliber: XXX

Smirking at the title, you decide to play the latest Soul Caliber game. As the system boots, you take a moment to wonder at how drawn out this series has become. 30 games without a reboot! Your grandparents played the original when they were younger than you! Of course, the basic premise never really deviated much. Beat the crap out of a friend and gloat afterwards.

But you'd heard these last few were really making use of current tech, acting more like simulations than simple fighting games. You and a good portion of the community thought that was a little excessive, unnecessarily overcomplicating things. Until you found the modding community.

Sim games these days always had a massive mod community, there was just so much you could do by playing with a few values and letting the game dynamically react to them. You were particularly interested in the "Adult mods" and discreetly downloaded some of the most popular, along with the recommended "true-AI" patches. Syncing yourself up to the console, you gleefully enter the game...