Tekken 8

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To elaborate a little, the patch was another toning down of heat. Actually hit Lidia's heat which was nice, as far as I can tell universally removed heat regen (minus Lee's taunt just frame, which should be left alone because its funny). Pretty universally good, but still a ways to go.

As for Kuni, she seems good, not OP as far as I can tell but who knows.
  • Her full crouch low is very good. You can pretty easily do it from standing, just do down -> down forward.
  • She has two amazing punish tools: ff4,2 that's i11 (I think) and CD2 which is a 14f launch from both crouch and standing. They do require execution and both are launch on block (-17f)
  • Her kunai is great in ranked since its a fullscreen projectile. Always punishable though since she always teleports forward.
  • She has a plus on block stance mixup. F4,F gives heat engage on CH, but her only low option is -18f. Her mid is safe and both the mid and low are CH launches so don't press.
  • Her single backdash is great, but her backdash cancel is a bit more middling. Shows how they are making the KBD useless.
  • Heat gives her a couple extra moves, mostly to get more plus frames as far as I can tell.
  • Heard her described as Miary Zo with better mix but worse pokes.
 
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After 20 years, Kohei Ikeda (also known as Nakatsu) has left Bandai Namco.
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>fuck up T8
>fuck off from Bamco instead of fixing the game
Now this fat faggot has the reins. And some jap we have no idea about.
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Fellow Kekkeniggers, it's fucking joever. gg no re
 
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Bamco probably not so subtly warned them that they're under expectations and Tekken was going on the 10 year cooldown period they apply to IPs that don't meet objectives. Harada said he had one game left in him, he probably couldn't have made it if he had to wait ten years after Tekken 8 sunsets. So he's just making it for SNK now. Most likely a good choice.

This makes me think Yujiro is a promotional tie-in from an unannounced upcoming Baki game and little else. Eh well. Tekken had a good run.

Virtua Fighter revealed some stuff today. 2027 release date. No hit sparks, somewhat grounded designs, Cielo looks a little faggoty and has a lot of reverence for the existing fighters, so it's basically SF6's World Tour but for grownups and it doesn't seem to be an RPG, but a Beat 'Em Up. So Virtua Fighter Crossroads is more of a Yakuza game that also has online 1 v 1 PvP, presumably. If they, for whatever reason, decide to also include co-op and/or PvP Beat 'Em Up stuff, this can become the 3D fighting game gold standard, and I don't say that lightly. They seem passionate about what they're making. More than "Gotta meet our quarterlies!" Tekken 8. Though it is not a high bar to clear.

Shit, if they have good, evasive movement on top of their typical fuzzy guard and lazy throw breaks, and they have rollback and crossplay, Virtua Fighter Crossroads can easily poach what's left of the dejected Tekken boomers. Everyone wins, really. Tekken will cater to the younger crowd and VF can be the game for grownups. But still, THAT is how you do mass appeal. Not with anime transformations, you just have basically Yakuza gameplay on the side with your 3D fighter.

Finally, some competition. It won't even matter if it's niche: Virtua Fighter Crossroads just walked into the room, made a statement, and let everyone stare in awe. The animations look sick. The visual design is clean and easy to read. The fact that it comes with a whole fucking Beat 'Em Up story mode hasn't been done since Tekken 6, and that was bootleg as hell with no dedicated controls. They clearly have a lot of confidence in their product, while Tekken just comes across as trying to pander to anime kids. Which, nothing wrong with that, but the Tekken playerbase is aging at this point. Even the "Newcomers" have been around for 20 god damn years.

Even if a guy started playing Tekken on Tekken 7, he's been around for TEN YEARS.

Oh and Tifa for SF6 was real. I understand Capcom is basically balling right now, but they cucked Bandai Namco so inconcievably hard. SF6 showed stuff from all newcomers but Tifa, and not just strictly Jpegs or panels from a comic either.
Maybe there will be something for people who don't like Tekken 8 to move on to after all, and that is pretty good news. Crossroads nails that martial arts movie vibe and look, and the fights seem to be a lot more grounded than Tekken's particle hell and cutscenes galore new look. I'm just happy proper fighting games haven't completely gone extint. I'm pretty sure VFC will still feature scrub equalizers and crazy comeback mechanics, but hopefully they'll be milder than what we've seen in the other mainstream FGs. Matter of fact that one "Keep attacking the same area" thing seems to be a snowball mechanic, if anything.
 
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