10 Video Game Exclusives You NEVER Got Over Not Playing
7. Soulcalibur 2's Link Exclusive - GameCube
The fighting genre is adored for many reasons, not the least of which is the potential for virtually any popular pop culture figure to show up as a guest character.
Of course, they can be from other video game properties (such as Solid Snake in the Super Smash Bros. series) or derive from other entertainment mediums (such as DC’s Peacemaker in Mortal Kombat 1). Either way, they can make gamers incredibly jealous if they’re not featured in every version of the title.
No situation demonstrates that better than when the GameCube version of Soulcalibur II included Link from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (whereas the PS2 version included Tekken’s Heihachi Mishima and the Xbox iteration included comic book antihero Spawn).
It’s not even that Link's costumes or moves were the greatest of the three (some people would say that they’re the worst). Rather, it’s the pure wish fulfillment of playing as perhaps the best version of arguably the second-biggest Nintendo character ever (whereas Heihachi had his own franchise and Spawn simply wasn’t as beloved and special).
Link helped the GameCube version outsell the other two, and those fortunate enough to have it were envied by those who didn’t.