Airport is probably the chillest, sweetest Tekken tune ever. Top tier material, man.

Oh pls DR soundtrack was not really that great. It only had few great ost but it's nowhere near the level of tekken 4. Tekken 5 can compete with tekken 4, but it's soundtrack is nowhere near as atmospheric.

@@Leadblast I like your enthusiasm. I respectfully disagree but it's all good nonetheless. To each his own 💯👍

@@Leadblast T5 and DR had great tracks but if feels animeish compared to Tekken 4's mood based music.

And Hon-Maru's theme was also a masterpiece.

Even Tekken 7 doesn't handle these features as well.

@@JunKazamaFan yeah it's a shame how lazy they got with tekken 7

@@JunKazamaFan did u watch rumble 2021?

It's one reason I hated Tekken 5. It felt so lifeless.

@@JohnnyBurnes how? tekken 5 also had killer phisics. The phisics in tekken 5 are light years above tekken 7

Yup It was the beginning of a new era in Tekken after the previous one ended with TTT1 Although T5 is the one that streamlined this era for the forseeable future

@@megabuster3940 Nah, Tekken 4 was the start of the third Tekken era. 1) Tekken-Tekken 2 2) Tekken 3-Tekken Tag Tournament

@@megabuster3940 T5 was “we’re sorry for trying to innovate, here’s more Tekken 3!”

@@Jetanium Tekken 3 was very innovative though?

Yeah started to get serious....until T5 just turned everyone except Mishima's into a bunch of clowns

I believe the writer for T4 moved on to be a legit film writer, although someone can correct me on that.

@@abdoabdalla1745 I don’t know. But he needs to come back and save the story.

Somebody gets it

Yes, this games art direction outclasses everything else, especially T7. There was also a more central focus on martial arts and designs that reflected that and not cutesy anime matrix flips and cartwheels. There was still a grittyness to T4 that it took further from T3. I wish we could go back to that tone.

Yes! Dude thank you, I thought I was the only one who enjoyed the look and feel this game had

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA. A CITY CROWDED WITH BUILDINGS, NEW AND OLD i could recite it from memory, so good

Dude, everyone's intro was epic. It felt like everyone had an important role.

"Thank my mother. Kazama jun!"

So much this. The cast overall had the most depth in T4. It's sad that T5 dialed back on that immensely, possibly due to the backlash. "Steve avoiding the mafia joins the tournament to find out awnsers about his scar, who is then pursued by Nina who was hired by said Mafia, who is chased by Lei after he botched an operation and wants to redeem himself" Nina suddenly has absolutely no feelings regarding Steve, despite her showing emotions in the last game. I mean, given her... dysfunctional relationship with Anna, this isn't far fetched. But don't just go back on what you yourself set up! "King pursues Marduk who killed his mentor in a bar brawl" Marduk shows no remorse nor reflects on his actions. Instead, he doubles by disrespecting the man he murdered and challenges King again. It would have been MUCH more understandable if they simply made it so Marduk's pride as a champion couldn't take a loss, so he challenges King again, loses, and sees his worth. They do try it in T5, but one line saying "I changed my ways. I'll beat you fair and square" doesn't cut it considering everything. "Xiaoyu and Christie are in search of Jin and Eddy respectively (and that's really all they do the next games. Meh)" Xiaoyu's infatuation with Jin becomes her defining characteristic to comical levels. A stark contrast from when PANDA had to urge her to be honest with her self and search for Jin who disappeared after Heihachi's betrayal. "Law after his restaurant goes bankrupt and becomes an alcoholic joins the tournament to start over again while Paul seeks to restore his glory after leaving the prior tournament before beating true ogre" "Ain't my style" Paul is best Paul, FIGHT ME! While the games did poke fun at him by stating his rivalry with Kazuya (after they tied once in the past) is one sided and having him flop backflips, he was still a globally renowned martial artist capable of taking down a well trained bear in canon. Later games dropped the competent part and exaggerated the "haha funny" part. Smh. "Hwoarang rivals Jin in the worse dub of the century" Pffft. Man, that was so bad it looped around to being good. "Zere's... no rezon ta figh", followed by "You ain't got one?.... I do!" with a funny close up. Amusingly, they brought a different actor for Hwoarang JUST for his English lines in the ending. That's why he doesn't speak awkward English like Jin.

@@redblack8766 The Nina one pisses me off so much because she was my favorite character up to about Tekken 5 before she went all monotone robot on us. I loved her ending in Tekken 4, we get to see that beneath her icy heart, she actually can have emotion and mercy and then 5 comes out and we get no continuation until Tekken 7 of how she feels about Steve and even then, it feels off. Also, King and Marduk's new friendship. Maybe it's because I just think Marduk was portrayed as such an unlikable asshole (and possible rapist after seeing what he did with Anna in his Tekken 5 interlude with her, totally disturbing), I just could not picture King ever being friends with someone like Marduk who's an unlikable douchebag who murdered his best friend and mentor. I think what you came up with with how they could've handled it would've been a lot better, I could've accept their truce if they went with what you suggested but nope, we just get a complete 180 turn and it's just not satisfying at all. And don't get me started on Paul, what happened to him post Tekken 4 is beyond depressing lol. I will say though that for Jin's awkard English, I actually thought it worked for Jin lol. I mean the way I always thought about it even back when I first played Tekken 4 as a wee 11 year old was that maybe Jin just didn't speak very good English because Japanese is his primary language and that he may have still been learning to speak English. I dunno, that's how I head cannon that haha.

@@decadentgamer3108 "Also, King and Marduk's new friendship. Maybe it's because I just think Marduk was portrayed as such an unlikable asshole" Exactly. It feels like they did intend to have Marduk show growth, but at the same time they didn't know how to justify him clashing again with King without him (Marduk) being scummy. The two presentations clash within the same game! "And don't get me started on Paul, what happened to him post Tekken 4 is beyond depressing lol." To be fair, the thing about being the "toughest in the universe" was an offhand line in his character profile (T1 or T2, not sure) . And his own ending does show him being competent by winning the tournament while giving a message of "Wow. It's silly to challenge aliens. But this guy IS serious business". But that's all I'm giving them on the matter. T6's portrayal was disgraceful. Paul, the guy we were told is an honest martial artist who believes he'll find his worth in heated battles, cheats at a tournament because he's in desperate need of money. Smh. And don't get me started on the atrocity that is T7's "character episode". "I will say though that for Jin's awkard English, I actually thought it worked for Jin lol." Yeah, that IS the thing. English and Japanese differ greatly, so the majority of Japanese people have trouble with English pronunciations. It actually makes sense for a Japanese and a Korean to use the widespread language that is English to communicate since neither of their languages is that common in the other's country. Though, this CAN be very limiting in story telling, which is why so many works has characters from different countries (or worlds, even) speaking one language. We can either run with it as artistic license, or assume they change language when necessary and that it's all translated for our convenience. When I say it's "so bad it's good", I mean Jin's pronunciation and the (probably unintentionally) funny close up of Hwoarang. I'm not throwing shade at Isshin Chiba (Jin's voice) having trouble with a foreign language. That's just natural. But it's still amusing.

@@redblack8766 Right. Marduk just had way too many things counting against him and King just doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would befriend someone like Marduk without some serious character development on Marduk's end, especially when King spared him. It's just tough though because story is not the main focus of a fighting game and corners have to be cut I suppose. I just hate that the corner was so deep that the story is an absolute shitshow now.. And I don't necessarily think Paul ;is terrible for wanting to be the strongest fighter in the universe (even if it sounds ridiculous), my issue more so lies with how he's been portrayed. They over exaggerated his ditziness and removed whatever serious personality he had. He was always a bit on the goofy side, a character who could be serious but had a lighthearted side to him and I liked that dynamic. But the way he was portrayed post Tekken 4 was just so painful to watch. Tekken 7's was especially agonizing because his newer design in that game looked awesome but to see what his character episode was was horrid. And I understand. It was an awkwardly humorous scene between Jin and Hwoarang. It's just a shame that we didn't get to hear them canonically speak english again. And personally I prefer when characters speak one or two languages (In Tekken's case, Japanese and English). At first I thought it was cool to have Eddy and Christie speaking Portuguese, Lili speaking French, and so on but when you really think about it, the characters wouldn't be able to communicate with each other and it kinda breaks the immersion a bit lol

@Tcb bct again Did you actually read what we wrote? Cause it literally explains everything you discuss.

Tekken 7 is very successful. They usually try to be innovative after a successful title. We'll see

Yeah i like this Tekken. It was very dark and serious and more grounded

@Tcb bct again systematic combos and rage.

Blame the ReAL FAn ( cough whinner cough ) for that

@@DerHalbeEuro I'd even say tekken 4's story was depressingly dark, I almost cried for Paul.

That's really interesting to hear because Julia's wiki states that she was praised by many top players but then again a lot of other sources say that she was trash in this game. I would really like to know more about this...

Julia was really top, in T4. But on therms of gameplay, after the years, good players realized, some characters ware better, then use to thought a lot of players majority. Jin was not only ss tier. But he was extremely easy to master. That's why ppl used him a lot in tournaments. But with some other characters, not only you need to learn how to play. You need to also posses a game knowledge and get some experience. More o less ;) Ps. Hayshida, wasn't 1rst with his "hayshida" I started using sway cancel in T3 times, also you can do it in very various ways. Becouse in T3 and Tekken tag, you can do it in both ways. Not like in classic"hayshida" from left side screen - you can literally cancel, just in your left. On the right you can do I just to your right.

@@pawepioro2998 He didn't say it was first done by Hayashida; just that it was named after that player

@@galaxybounce1002 Well correct, but in that times, everyone looks after Japan and Korea, and that was reality. Obviously I'm not criticizing, I'm huge fan of them, and that's a part of my teenage life in the past :3

@Tcb bct again I don't want to provoke in any way. But let's check facts tho. His "jf" laser scraper - wasn't true just frame. Was really easy to do it, just after few moments of practice. 2,1 2,1 2,4 Wasn't that really hard to press, but in the same moment, was hard to deal with... Trust me. ;) His wavu, wavu game, wasn't that crucial in Tekken 4... So that argument doesn't work. And it's not that hard, like ppl use to say. Anyways. His juggle potential looks pretty much like this - louncher: 2 , 1,2,3, d+4... no execution, high dmg like for T4 standards, and that's it!!! Easy. Literally was really strong, and at the same moment, easy to do, with greeeaat consistency!! Not like other characters, struggling with options to do in juggle, with some exeptions like Jin, Lee, Hwo, Nina and Law. Conclusion is Jin was really high OP lvl. And really easy to play.. I know, I know it's unbelievable. But that's, how he "works" in T4. (Jin T4) is probably one of the easiest and best character in series history. Ofc story it's different in next parts.. Ps. I forgot to mention, Jin's "skillfull" parry... In T4 times technically you could parry even lows XD I'm thinking about Bryan combo 3,2,1,4... I think was possible... But I can be wrong xD Jin's parry was godlike, really enormously easy! with great and godly potential!

AND unrealistic

tekken 2 and 3 were pretty cartoony aswell tho its not just the newer games

@@eldenlean5221 Not really. Easter eggs such as Gon and Roger/Alex are what they are: easter eggs.

@@suiken3149 gon and alex are not the only cartoony things in tekken 1 and 2 lol. *Cough cough* tekken 2 ending *cough cough*

I still love this game. It's the greatest of the franchise along with 3 imo. It's so grounded but built and played beautifully. I don't see how anyone has a problem with the gameplay with the exception of a few glipses here or there

Tekken 4 came out 2001. 20 years have passed since then he's been around for quite a while. Twenty years is a lot even by most gaming nostalgia standard.

@@MaxxSeemov • It’s crazy to think that the Tekken series is coming close to being 30 years old.

I feel you. I can't imagine a Tekken game without him now.

@@Leadblast I have too, hence why I said the word "now"

Yeah cause you're new and suck at the game.

Cool avatar pic where did you got it?

Explain why

hoboken

And that’s what happened to Ken in 6.

Worth it if Tekken 4 has tekken force.

Nope tekken 3 was better

If they bring back all the innovative, atmospheric, and creative elements from this game with 7s overall gameplay and 5s fast movement and bring all these powerful elements that they’ve learned from each game over the decades together in Tekken 8; Tekken 8 could be the greatest Tekken yet! It’s okay to dream sometimes.

I said that when it came out and no game since has changed my mind.

@@GodsBelovedson777 Innovation, atmosphere and creativity are what's sorely missing in T7. So while T7 is technically great and it is fun to play, it's lacking in the artistic department. Also, add T5-6's map design philosophy in T8. T7's maps are just kinda... meh?

You could also add Tekken 6's customizations, was able to make Marduk look like Goldberg and Vader. Not to mention I went crazy in King. But yeah T4 is my fave cause of atmosphere and just the vibe of it being grounded but still out there lol

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Explain why...

@@Leadblast Michelle isn't a clone julia is

@Tcb bct again Exactly, idk what they are talking about. Also devil isn't even a clone but angel is. All the jacks are different in each game. Anna is not a clone either but she was almost in Tekken 1 with a few different moves. Who wasn't in Tekken 1 since it's there first game. Forgot to mention that since I was to focused on the Michelle part. That part really got me

@@Leadblast am not talking about clones or the roster as a whole, am talking about how they added many unique things to each character in terms of moves and shit, ling's taunt or yoshi's soul stealer for an example, it's something unique only to t4, there are alot more than what i mentioned but those came in the top of my head. T4 chose characterisation and making every charter standout in completely unique ways, even in intro and win poses, over balance which was very risky and bold move that's why it will remain the best non balanced tekken game imo.

@@Leadblast bruh wtf

@@Leadblast Even though I like Michelle (I could accept she retired and let Julia carry the torch), Anna and Kuni, I agree with you. Tekken 4's cast did stand out more when you removed the characters who fought close enough to others.

4 properties is an understatement when each move has different properties on: Normal hit, from left side, right side, behind, whiff, counterhit, block, clean hit, non clean hit, trade, on crouching oppenent, on downed opponent, on standing opponent, airborne opponent, on breakable floors, on breakable walls, etc

@@Leadblast it was a great game to play casually in my opinion, got nothing but good memories with that game lol

@@Leadblast seems like a personal problem man. Like I said, I have great memories of playing this game with my family hence the word casual. Just cause you take things too seriously doesn’t mean everyone else has to

TEKKEN 4 is bad ass

@@Leadblast bro you need to chill lmao

@@Leadblast I think they are talking about tekken 5

@@Leadblast All I'm saying is that they are saying that tekken 5 is the golden child of the franchise in there opinion. A lot of people will say tekken 3 or 5 is the best tekken and his opinion is 5 while yours is 3.

@@Leadblast basically T3 with some extra things... Oh, you mean a sequel that worked off of a working formula? Wow, man...

@@Leadblast Tekken 3 is overrated. TK 5 is a way better TK 3 with the classic roster and a few new mechanics like the crush system, and wall splat. The only thing TK 3 does better is the soundtrack, and having Tekken Ball, and Force. But in terms of gameplay and roster TK 5 is way better.

@@Leadblast Not exactly my point as I'm not talking about sales when it comes to TK3. When it comes to me saying that TK3 is overrated is the same as other games that get constant praise, not saying TK3 is a bad game, but people claiming that its the best PS1 fighting game or even the best of all time is very debatable when there are so many other games that I feel are way better than TK3 like TK4, and TK5. TK3 is a great game, but it seems to get blind praise by a lot of people, who treat it like no other game can compete it.

The roster is a little lacking in my opinion, but I agree.

roster is a bit sparse but everything else is big facts

In OP’s defense, the game’s roster was quality over quantity.

Still missing baek tho

What? The roster is one the worst actually.

Might be a King Of Fighters 14 situation where the niche group wouldn't be too please of the direction they took

Again, I’ll ask this question, what’s a Mario fan doing in a Tekken video?

I always called it Tekken 3.5

@@Leadblast graphics aside, what was the main differences?

@@Leadblast oh wow. You should join the discord and let blasted Salami know, this would make for a great video

@@perfectlap9379 jin's omen stonehead and his special 1+3 throws were unbreakable in the arcade version

@@Leadblast ah yeah, I'm from LDN. I can tell you now, Dino is an encyclopedia for that stuff.

Being a Kaz main back then must have been pain I would say on paper he sounds way worse than T6 BR Kaz

@@megabuster3940 Hard to choose, but I believe BR was worse overall. The T4 cast was overall weaker in spite of Jin, Nina and Steve, and his d/b+4 was still +7 on hit and -9 on block, which is incredibly good even by old Tekken's standards. The aforementioned f+4 was also very strong, and stun links from Demon Fist were absurd. Kazuya had no such impressive qualities in BR, despite stronger movement, punishment and 50/50, things that many characters excelled at.

The best Tekken KZfaqr hands down.

If Bandai Namco/Harada ever wants to make a legitimately serious Tekken game again and have another go with giving the side characters actual importance to the Mishima storyline, T4 would be the best inspiration.

DMC2 isn't really a good example, as the DMC3 team only showed at the end of 2's troubled production to clean things up. They never got to make the game they wanted until 3.

@@aidanklobuchar1798 I know but they used the mistakes of that unknown developer to know what to avoid, also there was some ideas for some moves like firework and Quicksilver that came up in DMC 2.

Except DMC2 was a piece of shit. A piece of shit that brought it some series staples, like Bloody Palace. But a piece of shit none the less.

Explain why Ash Ketchum?

Going to a more grounded direction for a flamboyant and wacky series such as Tekken usually is a hit or miss, and thankfully this game did not miss.

They seem to be competitive history videos

Much appreciated!

ROFL! Truth. Besides, the new characters you’ve listed aren’t even liked by the fandom all that much. Tekken 4 looked like the series was going a good direction with the tone and with even joke characters having emotional weight to the story, but because of fandom backlash at the time, Harada and Bamco decided to the crap the bed with later installments.

You forgot to mention that later Tekken games did my boi Paul Pheonix dirty to bad.

Happy Birthday!

Hey, the characters actually have some emotional weight this time in Tekken 4 but fns at the time hated that for some reason.

Its not good or bad design, its just different. Combos have a lot of flare for spectators and can create really tense situations where a super hard or situational combo wins someone a round. Honestly in Tekken 7 the only issue I have with combos is how long they are in terms of distance, not length. Sure being juggled for 5-6 seconds can be annoying, but thanks to things like corkscrew and bound, combos wall carry across stages constantly, no matter the character. In previous games, having longer combos, damaging combos or combos with good wall carry potential were more character exclusive, which made them more interesting and helped characters feel more unique. Tekken 7 just has everyone being able to do everything. Tekken 7's biggest issue in terms of gameplay is that a whole lot was done to how characters play and how system mechanics work to homogenize the cast. Characters have far less uniqueness than previous games, its a damn shame. But now I'm getting off topic haha

i'm with you. i feel like T4 is where they're trying to make it more like VF's more grounded gameplay.

@@Rupix15 And look where that got VF Combos are fun to learn, execute and watch. Without them, fighting games wouldn't be as hype.

@@megabuster3940 Dude even VF got out of hand with its combos, and damage as well. Combos in VF are just more difficult to pull off compared to Tekken. The only 3D fighting game that has little to no juggling is the first Tobal but aside from that Juggling is pretty standard.

Juggling is based on rewarding the player with their practice in punishing mistakes. It’s only cheap if every single move can stun you for 2 seconds. Launchers are also punishable which creates a risk and reward factor to using them.

Same situation, lived in The Netherlands in that time and we had the PAL version which offered 50Hz at maximum. Not bad, but never experienced it's maximum potential.

And never to speak it again.

@9192631770 H You don't have one? WELL I DO!!!

I also miss Lei's Engrish voice. Much more fitting to his character than his perfect American voice right now. Same with Law, I loved his Asian American old man voice in Tekken 4 lol

@@superbabybao oh yeah the Lei's voice actor in Tekken 4 was pure gold..... FREIIIZE!

You think the gameplay sucks because you’re not juggling your opponent non-stop? LOL!

@@philithegamer8265 I never said that, and on the contrary to your statement, this game had way more potential to actually juggle your opponent infinitely lmao

That would be tekken 3

@@madil2259 For me it would be Tekken 4. Sure Tekken 3 is more rich in terms of gameplay but Tekken 4 had better content overall. But that's just my opinion