It’s very unfortunate for the true legacy players. Understandable the thoughts the industry has for modern fighting games, but it’s going to be divisive for your long time dedicated fans. Especially if you are someone to do this for a living. Maybe Tekken 8 will over time become more balanced as Tekken 8 did go straight to consoles and not arcade. But this aggressive heavy stuff may bring more eyes and money, however is that worth of losing the integrity of fighting games? For the community to decide.

I thought it was just me. From tekken 7 to tekken 8 it feels totally different, the heat adds on top of it. Power crush heat engages ,and then some characters have high power crushes that aren’t punishable , it just becomes a guessing game past what is tekken. Now it’s like if you don’t play aggressive youre more than likely to lose Having a hard time in making it past high blues rn using kazuya

It's 100% a business decision by the new iterations of fighting games. They have made them more mash friendly to appeal to the casual crowd to stay relevant. Mk1,Sf6, and Tekken 8 have become mainly offensive games. Not to mention so many mechanics to bypass fundamentals. I dont even know why we act shocked, this is what fighting games had to do to stay relevant;make the game immediately rewarding.

Love that Tekken 4 airport song

the background music is way louder than the commentary

If nothing else, they gotta kill or nerf chip damage. It's insane that in a Tekken game you get penalized for blocking. It's wild, but this is what Harada wanted. He didn't like Arslan & Knee's defensive play styles wanted a more exciting game style for casuals to watch/ play & here we are smh

The last Tekken I played was Tekken3 , but I DID play a ton of Soul Calibur 1and 3, and I can DEFINITELY feel a little bit of Soul Calibur in T8's DNA. I'm REALLY enjoying Tekken 8.

I wanted to learn kazua but he’s to honest for me not fast enough so I went back to Reina because she’s more fast and much more aggressive, fits the game style more and do much better with her but I don’t like it but I have to “adapt” right lol pretty dumb but it’s just keep the aggression and try to not let my opponent breath. With kazua it was defend look for an openings then punish but that’s hard to do when I can’t seem to breath because of the high aggression so renia it is

My only complaint about this game is the tracking some attacks have. Everything else is great

The left side of the controller has always been more important than the right side in all tekken games until t8

Ya know, ive heard one complaint. And it was a friend of mine. He was never a big fan of Tekken and his biggest peeve about it was that the characters are not farther from each other at the round start and its not a "true neutral" start. Thoughts?

I mean legacy players are always gonna have that edge, that’s why Tekken is what it is. Movement has been nerfed somewhat, but still the skill gap exists. New player isn’t just gonna beat a god of destruction or not be hard-stuck in like blue or purple ranks. Like the gameplay is good and a very nice change of pace from 7. I do believe the heat smash and rage art are a little bit too much and should definitely be toned down since they’re both essentially comeback mechanics, but after they do that I feel like the game is gonna be significantly in a better spot

Can’t stand Nina, Jin, King, Drag, Azucena. They have way too much. Oh and Feng too

Being brand new to Tekken I COMPLETELY LOVE THE GAME and haven't touched SF6 or MK1 since the launch. I have a different outlook being brand new and coming from 2d fighters. There is a lot to learn and its been fun no doubt. I can't speak on previous Tekken games but in this one I do feel a lot more comfortable with combos and offensive pressure. I truly thought this how the game has always been. I am seeing the VETS complaining about the current game and mechanics and respectfully I can't disagree with their opinions. However, this for me is the best fighting game I have ever played but that doesn't say much because I felt MK11 was the best MK game ever LOL and most people say it was the worst until MK1 LOL. For the pro players and such that are complaining I ask why not just adjust to the game??? If it's very offensive/ aggression based then just become that then right ? Now granted I do get juggled damn near an entire round and that does kinda suck but I mean If I had the skill set to do that I would do it as well LOL. . Doesn't make the game a disaster tho. Getting opened up and whiffing are crucial no doubt and you have to think differently. Now with the older tekken games the user base was probably far less because of the gameplay and how complicated it was to pick up. That was a huge factor and now mistake on my part for not learning the game because I would much rather have spent time learning Tekken than both SF and MK honestly. I regret not playing the game for this entire time and now play EVERDAY.... In saying that, if they do make adjustments to the game guess what ? I will adapt and continue you playing !!!

iv been playing tekken for a long time now and iv been waiting for tekken to get more aggressive and iv been an aggressive player finally the game can keep up with me for once but im am getting sick of these players that plug lag switch and combo mash

Kill Chip damage, make Heat burst/smash easy to avoid with movement. And I think it’s perfect.

Can't hear you over the music

Imo, heres what needs to happen. Heat dash should be reduced to +15 on block as opposed to the current +17(guarantees certain tech if buffered during dash). Armored, safe, mid/high heat engagers shouldnt exist. If they do, it should be off a duckable string. Reduce the current ones to -13 or -12(12 if they dont want kazuya to launch certain ones that leave him crouching). Heat smashes should be more dynamic. The more rewarding ones should be -7 while the less rewarding ones retain better properties. Rage arts should be -18 on block not 15. My character can launch -15 but not all characters can. Outside of those, just nerf the top 10 and buff the bottom 5 in healthy ways and i think tekken 8 will be in a much better place. Not gonna get into specific nerfs and why because thatll just be a long ass post. Feel free to bring up specific characters though and ill talk about em. I do love tekken 8 but definitely feels like it lacks counterplay.

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Me and my friends are blue rank. First time tekken players, we love it lol funnest we’ve had, not too many complaints but can see the complaints from legacy players.

I love how everybody was bitching about Tekken 7 being Tekken 5.3 and when they finally do something new people are complaining about it not being "true Tekken".

I like playing Tekken 8

Music's too loud and it's tough to follow you man. I mean i can but i really have to concentrate. Not pleasant to listen to. I did watch the video for the oppinion though. Was curious about the game's state. So this is just a small advice from the viewer's perspective.

In short people are upset because they don’t like change. Yeah that checks out….

There should be no such thing as an S tier character, outside of some wonky tracking the A to B characters are fine.

I think heat engagers are the most "balanced" part of the heat system. since its attached to a move that the character has to hit you with in neutral, instead of a knockdown or a launch (which many of these moves used to do) you get a free mixup as the reward. theres also no launching 50/50 mix (mid vs. low) outside of some specific situations with stages. some of the heat engagers are on overpowered moves, but the mechanic makes sense. the messed up stuff for me is the heat dashes and the heat smashes. heat dashes can turn launch punishable moves into armored plus on block launchers (especially nasty when they cause massive plus frames at the wall). the heat smash attacks are so dummy proof that if you have the hardest read on someone about to use it, you still have to block and guess. being able to sit on an unavoidable attack stifles the neutral too much since the defender has no option but to block and guess (even if they have gotten the read). some people suggest that heat smashes cannot continue past the first hit on whiff, and reduce the coverage (tracking/range). If I have a read on a heat smash as the defender I should have a reliable counter to use (even if its risky to go for).

I want to complain about the complaining too 😂

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"Tekken 8 "gonna be Dead game Very soon,bamco dont give a fck about cheats and pluggers 😂😂 no way they fix their fcn game about balance and new dog shit system and cheap dmg... As old Tekken player from tk2 i have to say this shit is not tekken.. rip