Man, I completely forgot about this one too, I was lucky to play the Arcade Edition of SCIII at my local arcade (which sadly closed down a few years back) and loved it to bits.
Would love to see a HD version come out like SCII, especially as it's coming up to the 10th anniversary of this underrated entry to the series, and perhaps it could drum up interest for the rumoured 6th installment.
Yeah. If VI needs time in the oven, getting a competent dev to push out III HD would be an adequate way of filling that gap.
And some folks say that a non-buggy, rebalanced SoulCalibur III (ie, the Arcade Edition) with the vanilla game's features & modes could be the best game in the whole series.
I want to see it happen.
I think you are right that it is a combination of both games, but yeah, it never came to the west. I wasn't about to import a copy of it years later for like 70 bucks. Plus, I prefer the English dub like the heathen I am.
DW4 is my favorite, I'd take just that in HD with a remastered OST. One of my favorite OST's of all time.
You challenge me with trickery?
Nah, I like the dubs too. Did without for Orochi 3, but it didn't heighten the experience or anything. Even through language barriers, I could tell that the voice acting was Dyansty Warriors tier.
DW5 is my favorite of all time (as well as my favorite OST of the series), but DW4 isn't far behind. I just think 5 is balanced a little better. 4 has some fights that are just ridiculous. Like killing Lu Bu at Xiapi in your first run through Wei's story mode? It takes almost the whole allotted hour. I understand him being super hard at Hu Lao gate, but there he's only optional. They don't scale him down even slightly at Xiapi. It wouldn't be so bad, only he's got super armor, can musou attack with no prior warning, and your allies are useless. And you have to defeat him with chip damage. And if you wait around for too long, he'll heal, whereas you've got to run around the map and find a spare food pot.
In DW5, they still made the fight hard, but it's doable. I still do love 4 a lot though. It's probably my third favorite, after 5 and Orochi 1. It was my first Warriors game. :]