Video Game General 6.5: Now with more surprise mechanics

I cannot imagine a timeline where NeverYouMind is not on ignore. That guy was genetically engineered in the womb to say some of the most asinine and reductive bullshit about video games ever fucking uttered.

That being said, Leroy and Fahkumram look fucking sick. :weary:

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A. Except there is an invulnerable state during wake up that does not allow characters to control their opponent while the opponent is recovering unlike in past installments. One of the few unique gameplay elements that differentiates Tekken from other 3D fighters.

B. Except that start up is negligible and mixing it up with slower moves is fucked.

C. If throws are easily broken their use is a waste of frame advantage.

D. You just confirmed braindead super implementation.

E. The AI in the arcade version of Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 6 are only outdone by Virtua Fighter 4+.

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G. Virtua Fighter 4 (Arcade)/5, Soul Calibur II/III/IV, DoA 3/2 Ultimate/4/5/6 and Tekken 4/5/6/Tag 2 look miles better aesthetically.

H. Namco have been making major league fuck ups since Tekken 5 with the addition of weak ass weeb garbage and the transformation of fighters into jokes. The console edition of Tekken 3 made similar mistakes with the needless and dumb inclusion of Dr. Bosconovitch, Disco Tiger, and Gon.

Kuma originates from a Japanese myth about a karateka who took out a bear and it was adapted into a film starring Sonny Chiba. There are kangaroo fights against people held in Thailand. The dinosaur is a skin for the easily impressed and Jr. garbage is a fuck up on their end. Even Mokujin is based on a martial arts film with mysticism called Shaolin Wooden Men (also featured Pai Mei) that stars Jackie Chan. The original Jack was based on the Terminator portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. In Tekken 1 Yoshimitsu is a secretive ninja clan leader who uses a samurai sword based on Hattori Hanzo. In 2 he was given cybernetic prosthetics and afterward he was butchered to hell with random sci-fi elements. The Devil is a powerful being surrounded by mythos in almost every major culture. He was present in Tekken 1 as a skin for Kazuya. In Tekken 2 he was needlessly given laser beams at the whim of the designers. Even King is based on a Mexican wrestler by the name of Fray Tormenta and a Japanese wrestler named Satoru Sayama.

Feminine garbage like ballerinas, fembots, and idols would be beaten to a pulp in the preliminaries or receive no invitation to a tournament of martial artists. Tekken could use some updating in the juggle and bounce department, but it would be possible to make an argument that a lower gravity environment would make some of it possible.

I. Every fighter this gen did not have the developers hinting at announcements at every major tournament only to reveal jack shit.

J. Slow motion would not be an issue if the game was properly tested and objects were not constantly phasing through one another.

K. Back in the day fighters were graphical show cases. Most of the fighters released nowadays would look bad in comparison to well made indie open world games.

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M. Japanese artificial female fetish toy should have been melted in a foundry. Does not make an obnoxious furry idol any less intolerable.

N. Older games sold on their own merits.

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P. If Tekken 8 pulls the same garbage as Tekken 7 it will never be great! Given Tekken 7’s relative success that seems to be where Tekken is inevitably heading.

I think his parents were Chernobyled at the point of conception.

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I think you need to learn your geography.

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NWM is like the only person I’ve seen who’s played older Tekkens that doesn’t like the newest one.

Dudes like Aris and TheMainManSwe, both dudes who have been playing Tekken forever love T7 and think it’s the best in the franchise and A LOT of other people feel this way too. All of my friends who liked older Tekken games like T7 too.

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Do it man. It’s super rewarding to learn, when you decimate people and have them ragequit in PLAYER MATCH or dip out after 1 match you know you’re levelling up. That and, ducking in the middle of strings and punish their highs with launchers feels good everytime.

Spacing and whiff punishing in this game is big. You can literally win matches letting people hang themselves.

If you do get back into it, we can run some sets once my new PC is up and running like we did back in early SFV days. :+1:

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There are others that do not let the hype train do their thinking for them and you should not use people who make a living from being involved with an intellectual property (i.e. get paid) to represent how well a new installment is received.

Yeah, that’s why I mentioned my friends loving the game as well. Who, just like me, have played all of the older Tekken games.

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Imagine wasting time and effort posting shit that no one would read.

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Just like everyone who has ever posted on the internet.

It’s a wasted conversation with a dude whose complaints bout the game include bad AI, story modes bs cause no tournament and combos in relation to real world physics.

Pop idol and robot go too far, but tries to explain how random animals and Devil shooting lasers makes sense. Dudes get thrown off cliffs and into volcanoes, guess that nonsense is a okay. :joy:

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Seriously. Even if I try to imagine that Google is really up to something else with Stadia, using it for some experiment, this makes no sense. Even if you’re on top of the world as a company, how could you think this is a good idea?

Found some dude selling a Maximum Force arcade cabinet locally for $320. It’s the larger one too where it’s not a “normal” cabinet that is all one piece but it’s the kind where it’s split into 3 parts like this one:

I am really debating snagging that from him.

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That is the equivalent of saying references to history and mythology are stupid (like Zeus tossing Hephaestus off Mount Olympus) but Japanese fetishes and their anime trends are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

In what way does making these elements worse with time make the end product any better? You are celebrating a race to the bottom you idiot.

The point being the game isn’t fucking grounded in realism. Cyborgs, robots, animals and apparently the devil gene fight regular ass humans. Series has always had goofy and wacky shit. It’s not bad because you say it is.

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You are celebrating a race to the bottom you Justin Beaver looking IDIOT. :angry: :angry: :angry:

It does not have to be realistic to show some class and pride in its craft.

P.S. I am not Canadian.

Fucking realism in vidya gaymz,

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How are any of those elements not class? Harada and anyone from the Tekken team haven’t shunned any character they created for the series so they got to be proud of them. It’s not like the Mortal Kombat team who show disdain for most of the 3D era characters.

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And seeing what they did to Sindel story wise, (plus all the lore inconsistencies across all nrs game) i would say that they dont respect the 2d era chars either.

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Honestly the only thing that I dislike from T7 is the whole “frame data as DLC”. That is pretty much WTF territory

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