Tekken 8 (PC/PS5/XSX)

[Krandor]

Generally positive, but the heat mechanic is still a questionable choice. But skipping neutral and forcing more 50/50s is the name of the game these days for fighters so what can ya do.

Not demo relevant, but the online will still be using delay based netcode so that's gonna be not great

[Xno Kappa]

Don’t think I’ve been in a Tekken training mode since Tekken 5. Might just pick this up for the French Noctis dude.

[Krandor]

I got a good amount of practice in with the cracked demo and the 18 characters available that way, but I'm definitely jonesing to give Reina a spin

[Krandor]

Launched the game and my computer has an instant BSOD.

Same shit happened with Lords of the Fallen, fun times with UE5

Edit : sweet Jesus just saw my laptop CPU hit 158 watts during a loading screen, god I hate UE5

Reina is fucking dope tho, like a hybrid of Heihachi and Lidia

[Krandor]

phew, Paul's normal haircut is available as a customization from the start, can ditch the Karen look

[Obsidian]

Steve feels pretty nice with the new mechanics, I'm happy. Hoping to see him get a little more tournament play this year.

[Krandor]

Game is very crash happy, apparently even on consoles and especially while playing online. Devs got a lot of work to do.

At least offline seems stable aside from it BSODing me on first launch (which literally every UE5 game does to me)

[Odesseiron]

Amazon dropped the ball and didn't ship mine, so I cancelled it and am just going to order online and pick up at Best Buy

[Krandor]

Supposedly they fixed the majority of the online crashes server side.

Netcode is kinda ass tho unfortunately, which granted we already knew from the betas

[Krandor]

The smurfing already happening online is hilarious.

Perfect wave dashing Kazuyas getting mixed in with the wifi Yoshis using auto combos at the same rank is fun stuff

[AoE]

Watched the campaign mode on Sp00kys stream. Story goofy as hell but it was still entertaining.

[Krandor]

Been playing around getting it running smoothly on the ROG Ally and it's amusing to me that the most graphical demanding part of the game is the win screens. Perfectly smooth 60 fps during fights and then drops to like 45 once the match is over.

Still waffling around on characters, enjoying Reina but just can't quit on Asuka and Paul. But also want to play Azucena solely for her alt 3 costume and ridiculous trolling possible with her auto parry stance.

[Melena]

How does Hwoang look?

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[Krandor]

It's way too early to know how the characters stack up.

Unless you're talking looks, then ya know, he's Hwoarang.

The only truly whack character design is Paul with the Karen cut

[Melena]

I just saw that Paul haircut for the first time and I wanted to die a little bit

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[Krandor]

Actually there is another thing, JACK-8 has nipples

[Obsidian]

Lars's design is also a little weird... which I guess is par for the course for Lars.

[Krandor]

Including basically every single song from the entire series is a very nice touch. Can just set every stage to Yodeling in Meadow Hill

[Odesseiron]

I have no idea what I'm doing since I haven't played a Tekken game since TTT OG on PS2. I watched a lore video and it's simultaneously charming and stupid lol.

I'm glad the series knows what it is and doesn't attempt to take itself too seriously.

No clue which characters tier where (even with the other games). I have to say out of all the characters I've tried, Azucena is a ton of fun. But I'm just going to continue trying them all out. There's quite a bit of content to go through and glad to see a whole lot of characters instead of the recent trend standard of 16 or fewer. Tekken 7 did remarkably well with sales and season passes and I'm only speculating here, but Harada wanted to show thanks. I'm sure there will be a whole bunch of characters with season passes since Tekken 7 had what? 5 seasons? idk. But I am glad I supported it.

I don't sub to PS+ so I've only been doing offline stuff and the character vignettes which are fun.

[Krandor]

Way to early to figure out tier lists, but the Mishimas (Kazuya/Jin/Reina) are definitely strong as hell, and Paul is a beast as always with his 50/50s and having probably the best heat mode in the game.

This youtube channel has been uploading quick character guides - https://www.youtube.com/@TheMainManSWE/videos

Compared to the astoundingly barebones Tekken 7 they did a remarkable job with the single player content, Arcade Quest is kinda like the single player mode from VF4 Evo, which was the absolute king of single player fighting game content.