Tekken is fucking done for

I don't play the game but my guess is catering tourneyfag

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have an extremely solid foundation for what could be a great fighting game for the next 5-7 years

literally ALL that needed to be done was tune just a slight universal change to heat mechanics (burst scooping giving a free combo extension even if they're basically grounded, reduce chip damage) and nerf a few characters down

go 180 and flood the game with ridiculously plus on block 50/50 stances

tourneyfags didn't want this either

Come home Tekken bros. I'll be your new poppa.

What happened now

they fucked up

shortest way to put it is that they obliterated the game's identity completely in favor of appealing to casuals who just want to mash without thinking

capcvck cope
they're all shit
and sf6 is the most DEIslopped of them all

have an extremely solid foundation for what could be a great fighting game for the next 5-7 years

Tekken 8

Fuck off

it's for the people that don't even play fighting games

I thought you fags were exaggerating like how you do when you diss my beloved Tekken 4 because of le stages or le broken devil jin, but 8 is really, REALLY bad.
Goddamn what went through Harada's head when he decided to make Tekken even MORE 2D (cmon it never had true 8wayrun), have chip damage, have more powercrushes, moves locked behind heat a la v-trigger, chip damage on THROW BREAK, lots of tracking and whatnot?

Ya know what?
Fuck you. Tech a throw shouldn't be FREE, you should PAY something to get out of it. It's your "i fucked up by getting thrown, but WOAH NOW I'M FREE" option, but now, you lose 1% hp. Can't KILL YOU, but you lose 1%.

Why would they let it kill you? That'd be a terrible feature. Just add a flag that checks to see if it would kill you, then if no, take damage.

I'm tired as FUCK of ppl getting free shit
YOU TECH, YOU PAY THE PRICE FOR GETTING THROWN IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!

So Tekken?

Street fighter 6 is also in hot water because apparently, they're starting off the competitive season before season 3/ Elena launches.

Extremely vague.
Can anyone explain

what's with every modern fighting game in existence fucking up in some way or the other lately

It's just a cursed genre at this point, it can't die because people will never stop playing them but it's cursed to always do things the wrongest.

Yes. Again, all they needed to do was to slightly tune down a few mechanics and nerf a few characters and it would have been great.

No. Shareholders hate Soul Calibur, because they can't comprehend the fact that two 3D fighters by the same company can co-exist.

Player base is sub 80iq and brown. They're impossible to please.

They haven't tried to adapt to modern gaming trends until very very recently and so they're all incredibly awful at it. It took the big games over a decade to make the online play actually good.

always do things the wrongest.

something might have happened somewhere along the way because it was never this bad, say what you want about SF3 NG, Tekken 4, KOF 2003, but the "bad" games of the previous generations never did reach these levels of shit we're seeing now

also these past recent games had me review my opinion of Soul Calibur 5
that game is good, actually

No
SoulCalibur is good and fun
We can't have good things

Roster is garbage

Takes a year to drop 4 (four) dlc characters

Takes 2 (two) years to drop skins

Meta of the game was solved at the beta and hasn’t evolved since

SF6 is horse shit like the rest. There’s not a single good current gen fighting game out right now, a new Smash Bros is the only hope.

Strive's only fault was being named GG, it's a perfectly good and fun game

Street Fighter is still riding the cultural momentum of SF2
Street Fighter is literally the Star Wars of fighting games: The new ones suck, BUT IT'S STREET FIGHTER

they don't hate it because they can't comprehend the idea that people could like two games by the same dev team, it's that they think soulcalibur games are subpar.

Characters are usually set up as

strength

strength

weakness

The recent patch removed nearly everyone's weakness which erodes character identity. Some of the ways this has been implemented is

adding a lot of tracking to characters with little tracking (Kazuya)

adding plus on block stance mixups to characters who didn't have it (Bryan)

adding great lows to characters that didn't have it (Reina)

adding 90+ damage combos to every single character (King now has a wall combo)

They also changed legacy inputs, Lee's blazing kick (D*DB4 to QCB 4) and King's chain grabs (CD1+4 is now CD1+3) in particular are driving people bonkers.
There is no justification to this other than people speculating it's because it's hard for pad players (especially CD2+3 for King) but nobody was asking for it to be simplified.

did steve get anything good? I hate how bad he felt to play in t8 so I dropped the game

i said it even before the game was releasead:
it was not made for players, but for viewers

Fuck no, there's plenty of horrible design ideas that make it worse than others. Heat in general is unfitting of Tekken. Reworking characters specifically to give them installs and resources to manage is gay as fuck with how Tekken plays. Movement is even fucking worse than Tekken 7 overall, side steps being marginally doesn't account for how bad the backdashes are in this entry and there are even more homing or tracking things anyways.
I actually like the recoverable health aspect of 8 though, that one could be great with proper tweaks like you said.

this era of making games for people who hate the genre is killing us.

Do you understand how retarded you are?

Steve is now exclusively lionheart cheese.

Absurdly long combos with the exact same 50/50's that start from 1 or 2 buttons per character do not make good viewership, there's a reason Blazblue died.

What caused this?

Strive is an amazing game stop listening to tourist trannies

damn, truly the worst timeline

Tekken 8 is only bad right now

Tekken 8 was bad as early as Tekken 7 Season 2

T. HC player

Heat and anime moves + long combos actually DO make good viewership for normalfags.
thats why they removed any defensive options and made the game super aggressive.

Just stick with indie fighting games

Takes too long to get into a match, which is to say matches are way too short for how much time is spent outside of them, youll spend more time skipping character intros than playing the fucking game

I fucking hate HC too but to be fair, you can't make anime fighters without atrocious gimmick characters that are designed to make people hate them and their players. It's the law, probably written somewhere.

Strive has the least controversy outside of the lobby system but that's getting replace with ranked mode( finally).

If VF6 isn’t good it’s unironically over for fighting games

Was hoping the 2xko devs were going to listen to feedback

They show nothing about fixing issues but tell us they'll only fucking have 10 characters on release

Damn

They all want the e-sports crowd but have no idea how to appeal to them, so they just piss off the existing fanbase instead.

Hop on Es Laf bro

They think their players are all monkeys (they're correct)

If we're being real most fighting games now are completely stagnant and there was a brief period of time they were getting positive coverage until everyone realized that the people making all these new fighting games have no fucking clue or desire to make a decent game in a timely fashion where they don't go completely silent for months at a time without addressing anything or completely ignoring the desires of the player base

Why are fighting games so awful now? Is it because the vast majority of fighting game IPs have died and innovation has stagnated?

Just like every game IP that got fucked up, catering to casuals and normalfags.

Reina

what did the patch do?
why does 8 suck last game I played was 7?

I'm disappointed that there's not a lot of porn with her. At least Emilie gets some nice stuff. Reina doesn't get jack shit.