I'm Playing Soul Calibur IV and I Don't Know Why

I've never been that into fighting games. I have a hard time getting past the fact that

1. basically, you're fighting in a 2D world -- forward, back, up, down -- which I mean, come on, I have actually played Doom, so it doesn't exactly feel state of the art

2. real mastery seems to involve memorizing a hell of a lot of special move combos, which I am just too lazy/stupid to actually do

Nevertheless I've been playing a lot of Soul Calibur IV for some reason.

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