Tekken 6
 

Finally got to play this after my traumatic rrod. Really digging it so far.

Won't be getting this til next tuesday. Definitely want it tho.

Me and Khuntri rocking it now.

Decided tp rent this.

Should get it through gamefly shortly, and will buy it from them on the cheap. It should be great. I still play the shit out of Tekken 5: DR.

Zafina is the new eddie gordo. fucking cunt.

I really hate the boss in this.

Yeah he's a dick. Also, wtf at the size of him and that nancy thing. Ridiculous.

Also, such garbage that you have to play through that crap scenario mode to get character endings. Can't just do it through arcade. Nonsense.

As in the wacky fighting style, or as in another character you can just pound buttons with and win?

Both, tbh.

She's mad fun to use tho, I'll say that.

Fuck, is it just me, or is it tougher this time?

Also, pretty unimpressed with the visuals.

The game looks awesome. And Zafina/Eddy are not button mash characters. Sorry for your frustration.

Eddy definitely is. If you don't think Eddy is a button masher, you're bloody crazy.

That's not to say that Eddy can't be used extremely effectively and NOT as a button masher.

By that logic anybody can be a button masher. I use Christie very well, and a button masher player her/Eddy will not get far with me.

Button mashers can't beat skilled players in any fighting game. But for beginners, facing them can be tough when it comes to characters like eddie and zafina.

None of this applies to people like you, who are zen fucking masters of videogames.

Button mashers have no defense, just keep hitting them.

I don't have a problem with them.

You try to make an interesting character...

Yes and no. There's a shit ton of characters in Tekken who a button masher can't get anywhere with. Button mashers have a tendency to do well in Tekken with Eddy. Yeah, a person COULD mash buttons with Kazuya, but he'll be more likely to win button mashing with Eddy.

Obviously this applies to button mashers playing other people who don't know how to play, but still. A

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Fucking hate this scenario mode bullshit.

I wonder if the team that made this said: "You know, Jinpachi just wasn't cheap ENOUGH. We need someone who can stun block. We also need 80% of his offense to hit on the ground, as well. Oh, and a good projectile attack that comes from literally nowhere. And maybe make him hit for ridiculous damage and have that one attack from flat on his ass like Ogre had."

I think Namco just said "Let's rape these people in the ass."

My first attempt at being the boss was with... wait for it... Kuma.

Damn was THAT a mistake.

Second attempt was with Armor King, at least the boss seemed mortal against AK.

The 360 controller pad is NOT Tekken friendly. While I can do moves, my thumb gets sore pressing extra hard to register 1/3/7/9 directions and double taps.

- Christie/Eddy (I play with Christie) has some badass toe-to-toe strings now. Very happy. I haven't messed with Eddy in a while. Is he still a skin or does he have moves of his own? I need to check.
- Lei Wu Long is FUCKING AWESOME now. His kung-fu stances are easier to access and his drunkin boxing stance kicks so much ass now!
- Devil Jin will piss people off once I get used to his new inputs. :)
- That fatass, Bob, is hilariously nimble.
- Yeah, scenario is kinda meh, but it coughs up money and items.

LOVE THE GAME. Can't wait to get used to the moves.

Was supposed to be out same as US, but Canada gets it Thursday. Fuck.

Fignuts, I thought Christy was the new Eddie Gordo?
I got this game last night, but didn't get to play it. Looking forward to laying waste with Roger or Alex. And if they aren't in the game, then Ling Xiayou gets the nod.

Roger Jr's in. Eddy and Christie are in as two separate characters. Don't know why yet.

Move sets are different for the two. Obviously still a very similar play style but they are different this year.

Fucking awesome, gotta see his set.

Honestly; I actually prefer her set this year. Also Lily or whatever is fucking nasty. May have to main her.

Any strategies for beating azazel? I can't do it.

Any time you even get a head start on him, he mounts an unstoppable comeback.

I haven't fought the boss yet but if past Tekken bosses are any indication, spam the shit out of a rushing attack like Devil Jin's 66RP or Paul's 236RP. Something that smashes them back and forces the comp into a wake up game that humans should always be able to trump. Comp always excel in toe-to-toe fights so spamming and taking advantage of their limited imagination is ideal.

I beat Seth in SF4 by punishing his gay-ass machine-gun roundhouse with a sweep.

After the Heihachi part of the Scenario Mode, I must say: it's gonna take more than a 9mm glock to stop the patriarch of the Mishima household.

(He caught a bullet in his teeth)

This is the same Heihachi who was in Soul Calibur II unarmed against everyone else who had weapons so a simple bullet wouldn't be enough to stop him.

Not to mention he survived a dogpile of JACK-5s exploding on him.

This suprises you why? It's Tekken. If there wasn't a gayass last boss, then it wouldn't be Tekken. I just keep blocking when he rools and charges with the claw attack from underground and when he flies up just run past where he will land and hit him from behind. Sadly he'll still get you, but if you wanna be cheap, just keep spamming the up and b button.

Fucking fuck, cheap ass boss. Best bet for taking him is with infinite combos. It's easy to juggle him because he's so fucking massive too.

Fucking campaign mode. What the hell? It's halfway between Tekken Force mode (awesome, but clunky) and Devil Jin mode (just all around fail). And since it's not sidescrolling, lining up with enemies is a bitch. :n:

Also, WTF Lars is so gay.

You can use other characters once you beat them in the campaign mode. I can't beat Ganryu, because he's a cheap fat fuck and has sumo wrestlers constantly spawning and they do insane amounts of damage.

Wait until you get to the Millenium Tower Funky. Talk about cheap AI. Douches with stun batons that hit you even if you block and they spam the same attack over and over, assholes with machine guns that shoot non-stop, and dudes with flame attacks when they punch. Not to mention that Alisa is worthless in this level and I still have no idea how to get stat boosting stuff.

How good do you guys find this game, I was thinking about getting it along with Dragon Ball Raging Blast?

It's a good game, minus all the button mashers online and the overly stupid AI in campaign mode for certain levels. It's worth a purchase though.

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but turning off the motion blur makes the graphics improve dramatically.

Yea, but it's still hard as hell to read the text. :/

What I did was I carried that steel pipe weapon throughout the level. I would drop it when enemies came, then pick it up when I moved on. When I got to ganryu, I kept the weapon for the fight, and easily beat him and his fat shit gaurds.

Good to know, since the graphics seemed pretty piss poor to me. I mean it's not darkest of days territory, mind you, but I expected more from a next gen game of a major franchise.

:roll:FFS Darkest of Days was a piece of shit and a half. Thanks for the tip on beating E. Honda errrr Ganryu.

Apparently with motion blur on, the game is closer to standard definition at 570p, where without it's 720p. While I'm not an expert on that, all I know is that it looks a hell of a lot like more Tekken 5:DR when I take motion blur off, and that game looks a hell of a lot better to me than Tekken 6 does with the blur on.

Interesting about the blur stuff. I'll let Khuntri know.

You're GAY

WTF? you guys play tekken only for arcade and scenario modes. What is all this fucking bitching? Man the fuck up gentlemen. bunch of fucking scrubs....

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Wang's endings for the last 2 Tekkens have been sad.

Tekken 5, you almost forgave Jinpachi for being a cheap bastard in Wang's ending.

Tekken 6, he kills Azazel and then dies.

Yeah, I honestly thought wang's ending should have been the canon one last time, because it was easily the best.

I hate the fact that they more or less downgraded Asuka. She seemed to be able to tone down the Devil Gene, among other things. People were too freaked out about the whole same last name thing, though. And Lili could be better used.

Also, why no connection between Yoshi and Alissa? Steve being completely demoted to comedy is fucked up, as well.

They could do more with Miguel, and I think he's more interesting than Lars. Problem is, he doesn't have the Mishima Bloodline, and you just CAN'T have a main character that doesn't have the Mishima Bloodline.

Also, Leo seriously looks like a Drag Queen.

And the idea of Armor King being the original's Tag Team Partner is cool. A Sergei "Don't Call me Marilyn Manson" Dragonuv/Raven feud seems interesting. Zafina could well be a one and done character, based on her ending.

Who was freaked out? She's Jin's cousin. And toned down how? Style wise?

She wasn't revealed as Jin's cousin until the intro to 6. They just happened to have the same last name, didn't necessarily MEAN they were related. And she did have that kind of disturbing... anime ending in 5. Made even moreso if you factor in the revelations from 6.

Toned down I guess was the wrong word. I should have went with demoted. She SHOULD be a major player in this storyline, considering they more or less did THE EXACT SAME THING to Ling Xiaou (sp?) in Tekken 5 with the introduction of Asuka.

Asuka being Jin's cousin was well known since her inception in T5. Maybe you missed it or something, but I damn sure didn't guess they were cousins. It was revealed long ago. And she didn't have an anime ending in T5, I think that was Ling. Asuka's ending was when she cured Jin of the Devil in him. Ling was when she went back in time to save Chibi Kazuya from getting tossed over a cliff by his own father.

...

Anyway, I also believe Asuka should have a bigger role - being a Kazama and all. She's one of my stable characters and I like her design. Oddly enough I never like Jun Kazama. Go figure.

When I said "Anime" I meant in the more traditional anime cliche of "incest is funny." She cured the Devil and Jin, stumbles headlong into her cleavage for a rather awkward amount of time. I may have missed it, but she DIDN'T recognize Jin as her cousin in her ending. It wasn't mentioned in her Prologue, either.

Oh, I see what you mean with the anime thing now.

But yeah, they were revealed as cousins in other material/developer reveal. I can see now how you missed that.

And by the way, "incest is funny" is not an anime cliche.

I've only beaten the game with kazuya, but this game seems to have the worst and laziest story yet.

Jin is a bad guy now all of a sudden? lol what?

I've been in the toilet as far as typing what I meant to say goes.

There HAS been more than one anime series that has had incestuous undertones in it.

Then again, there's also Rocky Horror, Troma Movies, and what the Americans did to Sailor Moon. :nono:

And, Scenario Mode actually clears up alot of the story and Jin's motivations.

Ok, Developer reveal. Yeah, I didn't see that shit.

There's been more than one American film that dealt with the subject as well, that doesn't make it a cliche.

I'd go as far as to say more American media dealt with the subject either seriously or in jest than anime or Japanese media in general.

I'll give that you, and I did above. As it stands...

Anime is all spiky haired guys, tentacle porn, nosebleeds for orgasms, <s>and incest humor</s>

Anime is fucking awesome. I'm sorry all you see are those (dated) generalizations and stereotypes. I'd recommend you some decent anime but it seems like you concluded well before the study.

Dude, Vastardikai, watch Gantz and then re-evaluate that statement.

As if people really do the research to honestly evaluate and know what they're talking about. Although I have a feeling Vas is joking, his post does speak of a certain mindset people have on things they don't like. In that their reasons are pretty weaksauce and unverified.

He is right about spikey haired guys and nosebleed orgasms to be fair.

It's a harmless visual mainstay.

Which implies I know that there's more to Anime than Dragonball Z and Pokemon.

I didn't put the shifty in because I figured striking through incest jokes would get the point across.

Even Rurouni Kensin, one Anime I do in fact like, has Sanosuke (sp? the guy with the Kanji for Evil on his back and through a bitch of a punch), a character with Spiked Hair. Trigun is good and need I mention the Humanoid Typhoon's locks? Cowboy Bebop was one of the my favorite series on the early days of Adult Swim, and again.

I also think that I said one of the things I liked about the Teen Titans animated series on Cartoon Network was the anime style it was done in. It made for a good twist.

beyond that, what Kalyx said about the visual mainstays. I wasn't saying it to be mean. I realized I was wrong on the incest thing, so I went and threw in some more lighthearted stereotypes.

And now back to Tekken

Cheap boss = lame. If I'm going to be beaten, it should be because the opponent is more skilled not a giant, mutant, bat-shitting laser canon with auto counters. Also, traditional arcade endings not being available in arcade mode is just ass backwards. I mean they were nice enough to put the colosseum in early into campaign mode, but it's still retarded.

And I play tekken versus, thank you very much. I'm sure we all do. Elitist crumbum...

He's not elistist, he just wants more action. Me too. You guys don't seem to crave competition as we do.

Face us!!

All right I get you, yeah He's cheap but he isn't unbeatable just spam his ass. There's always some pattern or weakness you can exploit, and Azazel's no exception . Its kinda funny that you mentioned being beaten by an opponent who's skilled, well that's whats versus mode is for. And no I'm not an elitist. I very much despise them mainly because they were the main reason that the fighting game genre declined years earlier. I very much welcome newcomers into the genre with open arms. The more the merrier I believe.

Yeah, bosses have a right to be cheap in some way. They represent the meta-game where fighting games scale back to a more traditional 'beat the CPU' trend. It's pretty common.

Azazel, as my brother discovered, is actually easier on medium than on easy. Because he uses more auto counters and waits for you to whiff attacks, he's actually predictable whereas on easy he just endlessly spams attacks.

Also, will get to playing you guys soon, but I'm horribly out of practice and I also need to study the new guys/new moves.

Lars' moves are action packed.

Can't get past the hair and armor... he's too ridiculous to be as pivotal to the story as he is.

But... you can change both.

And believe me I will.

I'm kinda annoyed with the clothing system tho. They should have 3 costumes that can't be changed (except for the colour pallette) and like 5 costume slots for the custom looks. I'd really like this because to put together good attributes in campaign mode, you totally end up looking like you dressed in the dark.

Soulcalibur 4 also had you looking like a dork for the sake of stats. Annoying.

I couldn't agree more. While trying to unlock all the endings for every character, I had to play as Anna Williams, a character I never use and her combos were just insane. I didn't get hit once by Azazel and I was just dumbfounded by how simple she made it seem. Ditto for Bruce Irvin.

I only used Lars for the first level. :lol: Once I unlocked Hworang, that's the only person I used.

One of the many reasons I no longer play SC4. That and the enormous number of Kilik spammers on XBL.

I want to play funky. Prolly at his skill level.

Who do you play as Fignuts?

Everyone.

Good man. The truely skilled players find strengths in every character in a fighting game. As opposed to being a spamfag who using one character every battle. Cough Eddy Gordo cough.:shifty:

There's nothing wrong with playing with a stable of characters. While I do acknowledge skill in someone who uses everybody, I wouldn't call someone who uses one character a "spamfag". And lol how does Eddy Gordo come to mind? Eddy/Christie's legit.

My Stable:

Devil Jin
Christie (Main)
Asuka
Nina
Lei (Might be main soon)
Law

Flirting with Lili and Zafina but I never had a chance to practice often yet.

I'm mainly talking about people who get you in a corner and use the same move nonstop. That's my definition of a spamfag Kalyx. As for Eddy, he and Christie are just the easiest characters to use. >.<

I see. Still, Tekken's a very hard game to spam one move. A certain string or juggle maybe, but not one move. Way too many defensive options on wake-up for someone to lock you down in a corner with one move.

Ladies and gentle who keep claiming Eddy/Christie are just user friendly, prove it. Use them online to great success. Just mash buttons away. Then come back with your stories of streaking the competition. :)

I prefer Hworang and Xiaoyu myself, but what can you do? That's why I always hit random online. Makes the game more fun.

You what? lol

We are of two very different varieties. It's interesting how our definition of fun in a fighting game differ, though. Perhaps something I'll mention when I do my play to win article (which I'm still doing, BTW).

Yea. When I play online, I always select random. This way it helps me better myself with every character.

As opposed to... Practice Mode? I understand training through competition, but I'm surprised you're frustrated with that kind of process.

I agree with ermax. I like playing on random.

I don't think that's a good way to learn the game, TBH.

I don't care asa much about mastering characters as I do about having fun with the variety of characters.

Fun doing what, exactly? Honest question.

I mean, fighting games just aren't built with that in mind engine and presentation wise. These characters are really deep and require some form of intimate practice. It's hardly Mortal Kombat.