General Tekken Thread

I expect Eddie's ending is getting revenge on Jin.

@AFan

That's how I feel too about Kazuya's theme in Tekken 2. It's a fitting theme for a guy who should have been a good guy but is now a bad guy about to get beaten up by another bad guy (Heihachi).

Edited by HallowHawk on Apr 2nd 2024 at 1:17:49 AM

I feel a lot of Arcade classic Tekken tracks are better. Well I mean I say *I* feel that way but when it comes to most Tekken 3 tracks I bet a lot of people prefer the arcade versions of Jin and Hwoarang's themes.

I like both versions for different reasons.

Arcade because or the forebonding tone and how sinister it sounds.

Console focuses on the tragedy of Kazuya's fall. "Be in the Mirror" sounds so goddamn sad especially

Special dialogue with Eddy is now out:

Eddy is no longer seeking vengeance on Kazuya and not only has he forgiven Jin for failing to help his master, he's willing to help Jin (not sure if this dialogue takes place during or after the story mode). In addition, Eddy discusses kicks with Hwoarang, which may indicate the two met and fought in the Third King of Iron Fist Tournament.

Edited by HallowHawk on Apr 8th 2024 at 9:32:18 AM

Also no character episodes for dlc characters but we are getting free story dlc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAITAD8Gpds&t=11s

I can't believe this, they pulled a Crash Team Racing Remastered on us! Shouldn't adding microtransactions in a game via update even though it wasn't mentioned that the game would have them be illegal?

Oh people are pissed; aside from the lame costumes being sold, they literally added what amounts to the Blender sphere as a cosmetic item. The game's cratered down to Mixed from a very powerful headstart in Steam as a result. And then there's the fact that Harada and Co. absolutely refuse to do anything about cheaters and pluggers. I myself cancel any ranked matches with other PC players as a result. Hell, I might switch over to PS 5 entirely.

From what I saw in the last Tekken Talk they were working on it, but it is difficult to tell the difference between someone who does it purposefully and someone with just poor connections. The next wave should be a bit harder hitting to once they refine their system.

As for the tekken pass, we already talked about the why, T8 cost a fuckton to make, but it seems people are underwhelmed by the pass items themselves.

Edited by CountofBleck on Apr 8th 2024 at 12:25:07 PM

The game costing a fuckton is no excuse for the devs to insult the playerbase and release a piss-poor battlepass that has literal Blender placeholder assets as "rewards." Neither is breaking the game in a way that completely gimps other characters just to nerf one character (they nerfed Devil Jin's Heaven's Gate by globally removing hazard interactions for downed enemies, completely nerfing characters like Feng, Leo, and Leroy, who's already underpowered as hell), or turning a slightly off-axis Tornado wallsplat into an RNGfest that even top players like Superakouma can't account for.

I will not be mad over an orb. A huge shakeup to the meta 3 weeks before Evo Japan however is indeed call for concern. Fortunately Harada and crew do listen to feedback, and hopefully something can be done to help course correct.

The game wouldn't cost so damn much if they didn't go overboard on a cheesy story. Harada says the game costs so much that they need to keep their workers paid, but dude, don't make the players suffer just because you guys decided to manage your budget poorly. Payments for server costs are understandable, but they could've been transparent about their intentions from the start, instead of getting one over on the reviewers after launch.

No, seriously gang, I think I called this.

• Soul Calibur had a new release but a month later everybody started making Youtube clickbait about how it was dying and other franchises would steam past it.
• Dead or Alive 6 came out and now there's "DOA is dead" videos.
• Mortal Kombat 1 came out and looked cool and then when its DLC content was lacking everybody decided it was dead.
• Tekken 8 looked better than all of those to me, had a story mode, had dripfests and music and pizzaz... and then people got disappointed with post-release content and decided its either dead or infuriating.

It's like fighting games depend on post-release content promises more than the actual game itself. If you aren't pushing new content every half a year somebody makes a video saying you're dead two months later. Halfhearted post release content is almost worse than not doing any at all.

Were people like this during the wait between Mortal Kombat 3 and MK Trilogy? Or Tekken 5 and Tekken Dark Revolution? Or Street Fighter 2 and its various updates? Or Dead and Alive 5 and Dead or Alive 5 Last Round?

Edited by FOFD on Apr 8th 2024 at 7:02:11 AM

Dosen't help that someone on bamco is attacking tekkenmods.

Like their only saving grace is free story dlc

When do you think that we will get information on the second DLC Fighter? I am thinking May/June

Probably

Nothing much to say but I find it adorable how Jin and Xiaoyu had matching panda outfits in T5

Looks adorable. Love the outfits.

Also, sorry for being late but what are your guys’ honest thoughts on Eddy’s new look since people complain about his hairstyle because he and other video game black characters have the same Killmonger hairstyle?

Edited by Bubblepig on Apr 13th 2024 at 10:55:01 AM

Meh, its used a lot because it looks cool, and I think certain reactionaries are drumming up false outrage over it being a race issue rather than a debatable trend. I'm going to need more than a few examples of recent characters having a hairstyle before I condemn its usage. Like if we have 5 more black characters in video games in the next year or more than 2 in the same game with the same haircut, yeah, I'll concede my point. I don't think that's happened.

although I did a quick google search and there was a reddit thread claiming "everybody hates Eddy Gordo's new hair" so...

Its fine to personally dislike it or find it generic, but speaking for myself I hadn't noticed it on anyone other than Eddy, Killmonger, and Miles Morales in the newest Spider Man video game. Some brief research it's been on a Valorant character, the main character in the new Prince of Persia, and some dude from Project L - never heard of that one.

That's not a lot.

If I agree with the logic of "creators are using the same haircut on more than 5 black characters, maybe stop that" then I'd personally rather see afros taken away as well. That's a pretty generic black hairstyle you find in a lot of video games and its overused to present characters as comic relief/strongly urban more often than not.

Nothing official that I can find yet, but I'm seeing chatter that the devs updated Matchmaking to go off Tekken Prowess rather than rank.

This seems to be causing issues with wait times, due to the smaller pool of high prowess players, and also for how it's based on rank across all characters, so players that have multiple characters ranked up to low or mid ranks are facing players who hit the same point specializing with a main or two.

Making Prowess universal among all characters is the dumbest decision ever, even more so if they're basing matchmaking off of that. At the very least, there needs to be a ceiling as to how much your Prowess with your main, e.g.: my Feng, affects your Prowess with another whom you've never touched, e.g.: me with Law.

Is it just me or do Tekken 8 and Street Fighter V have similar storylines

• An Arc Villain with purple/black energy (Kazuya and Bison) comes back into the spotlight and does a big world-affecting plot that draws in the entire cast
• A wealthy socialite (Karin and Lili) rallies the good guys together with at least 1 Token Evil Teammate (Juri and Reina) and 1 law enforcement or military veteran, and 1 ninja involved (Guile and Chevalier, Ibuki and Raven)
• They fight a bunch of mooks in a Let's Get Dangerous! Everyone Is Here plot where even the goofy fighters get in on the action (Rainbow Mika, Panda)
• A character who was Put on a Bus back in the series second entry returns to the roster and canonical timeline (Nash and Jun)

Edited by FOFD on Apr 28th 2024 at 10:34:26 AM

Lidia is the next DLC character.

Edited by comicwriter on Apr 28th 2024 at 11:34:57 AM

Yep and also story dlc is confirmed and st6 has a new big bad like jp and the ending of said games tekken 8 and street fighter 6 sets up a new villain.