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I mean, they kinda did with Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate's Duel mode, granted it was unbalanced as hell and the net code was trash lol.

Isn't that the one where you can take like 3 cards with yourself to battle? Think I've played it once offline and it was ok but I know how crazy that mode is. That probably wouldn't be the right formula for a good fighting game but I guess that that is the closest we'll get to a SC-esque 3D fighting game for the time being.

Dynasty Warriors 1 looks like a bootleg attempt to confuse kids' parents about buying them Soul Calibur.

"Hey, son, I got you that new weapon fighting game you wanted!" "Aaah, rats, this ain't Soul Calibur.""Well, you better like it! I ain't going back to return it." "You know what? It ain't so bad. I'm actually kinda interested in the 2nd game if it comes out." That one kid, now man that actually wishes there to be another DW FG

Ahem, you mean Soul Edge/Blade. To be honest, none of the "3D" fighting games were really hot gameplay-wise back in the day until Tekken 3 dropped. Just saying that there could be a decent opportunity for KT to create a fighting game similar to SC either using the DW/SW cast or original characters, of course, the execution of it would need to be on point for it to hopefully gain any interest but still