TxSF nooooo :( Oh well, a new Tekken on new hardware is super exciting either way! Tag 2 still looks rather gorgeous considering what it's running on and the framerate and post processing etc.
If they do make it easier for newcomers, I'll be interested to see how. Tekken is kind of bizarre, because from the standpoint of somebody completely uninitiated, it's probably one of the easier games to just jump into. You can just mash out some strings and do combos without having to worry about links or unfamiliar directional inputs and you don't have worry about meter etc. But then high level Tekken is maybe the most complicated fighting game out there. Every character has moves numbering in the hundreds, all the stages are different shapes and sizes and you need that situational awareness to recognise distance and angle to walls and adapt combos to factor in that or things like balcony, floor and wall breaks etc, you have so many wake up options, yadda yadda yadda, and on it goes. I think that gulf between beginner and high level play might be bigger than any other fighting game.
So I guess I wonder if a) that actually needs to change and b) how do you do it without diverging too hard from what Tekken actually is.
But the real question we're all obviously asking ourselves is if JayCee is here to stay or does OG Julia come back. Obviously.
I'd also just like to point out that between Itazan, Hungbee and Koji, I believe T Hawk was equal with Fei (and maybe Rufus? I'm not sure if Haitani used him in top 32) for most appearances in Top 32 of Ultra. Who'd have ever thought we'd see that day? KONDORU SUPAIYAA!! T Hawk is like a fine wine, getting better as the game ages. ST is the ultimate proof of that.
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