Ah. Brian fury you complete bad ass! This looking good.

I usually don't mond chromatic aberration but its a bit OTT, especially in some of those characters stills.

Making Gouki (akuma my ass) canon in the Tekken universe is super weird though. Like, wtf? Also i think he has some serious tumour growth going on on his arm there. What muscle is that goddamn lump supposed to be? :D

That aside, get on with the goddamn release already. I'm so sick of TTT2 :P

This looks poor to me visually. Fighting games look more visually unimpressive each generation relative to what the hardware can do. WAY back in the day fighting games used to be absolutely the best looking games for good reasons. No open worlds, not many AI's to process, limited characters on screen, etc.. They always focused all the resources left on amazing visuals. Not now, and not for the past 10 years or so. Why? Because there hasn't been any real competition for over a decade. There are so few fighting games out there that developers don't have to worry about not getting sales. We now just take what we can get, and what we have are the same damned OLD fighters (Tekken, DOA, and.. and..) that bring the same thing to the table every iteration, except they lose visual appeal each time because the devs have no reason to try harder. They know this is all we get so we'll grab them up even if they look like something from 5 years ago (or more).

Why can't we have something new? Something that really breaks the mold, that really old, moldy mold. What ever happened to the Euphoria Engine and what it was supposed to do for games like this? It would have been amazing and supposedly last generation had the processing power for at least low level Euphoria AI physics. This generation should surely be able to do a fighting game based on a similar engine. I get frustrated seeing 10th iterations of these tired and played out fighting games and they are all 'John Maddens'.

The only original Xbox disc I still own is Tao Feng because I always hoped someday there would be some kind of backwards compatibility so I could play something DIFFERENT again. It's been sitting in a box for 10 years or so. I suppose I could find an emulator.

The reason why we don't get wierdo experimental fighters is because most likely that would be complete SHIT to play and all but impossible to balance properly. But i don't expect a player who doesn't get the competetive aspect to understand that.

They are only tired and played out if you don't understand what drives fighters and the fighting game community. If you are just looking for something fun and stupid to mash out with your friends, i kinda understand that fighters are not in a great place atm. For those of us that actually like the genre for more than the spectacle thoguh? I think we have some pretty solid offerings with Tekken 7, SFV, Guilty Gear and who knows, maybe the new 3D KoF will be cool as well. Who knows.

But yeah, you go back and enjoy that Tao Feng. Let me know when the next tournament is :P

Also because apparently the Euphoria engine is a complete nightmare to work with, and it creates like a bazillion bugs.

Tekken: Post Processing Madhouse

I'm totally OK with the visual style - as long as it's moving. Japanese devs are going to get comfy with the Unreal engine, then slowly the CryEngine and finally let the current hardware out. If only Virtua Fighter had gotten to this stage.

I think the chrome is a cool style choice

looks messy on the majority of pictures. the ling xiaoyu pictures are the only good looking ones of the bunch.

Looks great. Hope they dont fuck it up with micro-transaction messiness

Some pics look great and some complete shit. Not sure. I will have to see more of this. And I'm a big fan of Tekken series, but I expect MUCH more with two characters on screen and PS4 hardware. Lili character looks really great, so as I said...I will wait for some better screens.

I was thinking about the graphics thing though. Back in the day i kinda understand that a fighter benefited greatly from being just 2 dudes and a simple stage. But thats because polycount and texture res were so restricted and really the big thing that determined how good a game looks, right? But now, we use so much trickery that at middle distance ots hard to tell actual detail from normal maps and such.not to mention textures. With the jump up in ram i imagine the difference is t THAT noticeable. Just seems like tech has caught up to fighters to the point where art direction is the real factor for what looks good, not tech.

You are certainly right, but I still can't miss the lack of grass for example....even Oblivion had more dense grass that this. It would be so great to see their feet "burried" in dense grass, reacting to their movements. Also I don't think the textures are somehow fantastic here.

Well, let's be honest here. Since the PS2 went out of style the Tekken team has made graphically sub-par games all over. Tekken 5 looked amazing for a PS2 title, 6 looked like shit, Tag2 looks mediocre at best and this isn't amazingly impressive either. Then again, i know for a fact that it looks better in motion as well. Just look at the Gouki reveal trailer.

Anyway, i'm not that bothered by the graphics. At this point i'm more concerned about the gameplay, as i didn't like TTT2 much. The new characters scare me, the rage arts also has me a little worried even though i'm happy that rage is gone. At least it's a trimmed down roster and only one character at a time.

As for the grass thing...well, i think it's also a gameplay consideration. You need to be able to clearly read moves. Too much shit will make that harder.Then again i suppose we have moonlit wilderness in T5 :P

Yeah...that's true. But for me...this is not type of games, where I see that jump in consoles generation.

Where is Nina? She is one of my BEAST fighters! Also Lei! I use to 100% KO folks with those two in arcades!

Yeah, i mean obviously fighters have other challenges. My main point is that the whole "only 2 characters and a stage! No AI!" maybe isn't as valid an argument today as it was 10 years ago. Also, i'm not really complaining about the graphics of fighters, i'm too busy whining about the balancing ;)

Also, we finally a hint of what tekken V street fighter would have been like by the looks of it

Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how Gouki works with the rest of the Tekken cast. From the video it looks like they are trying to keep as much as possible of the SF mechanics in there.

I'm sure they will make Gouki work, it just looks wierd to see SF-style combos and cancels in Tekken.

As for Tekken x SF, i think they still claim to be working on it, but who knows? Smells like vaporware to me.

I don't personally. But if this and SF5 sell well, and gamers like Gouki in this, then it makes more sense to finally release it and capitalise on those sells during this gen. They obviously still have a good relationship with Capcom...and it feels like they're teasing it a bit. We shall see.

It's not odd, he's just been reworked to be a SC character in SC. The reason why the Devil Jin style was so weird in SC was because it wasn't really balanced and changed to work well within the system.

The grain is hurting the eyes like sand, but why are there shots with and without the filter ? Seems as if you could turn it off...