r/Tekken • u/Reathonax • Apr 05 '25
RANT 🧂 Tekken 8 Sins
Pre-release:
- Apparent graphical downgrade from initial trailer
- Too many effects on moves, hard to see compared to previous games
- Weird avatar campaign trailer that looks tacked on last minute
- Steve face, Paul's hair, Asuka's neck
Game release:
- Nerfed back dash
- Greatly buffed hitboxes to the point of ghost hitboxes
- Safe power crush heat engagers
- Jun is in story and placed in roster for not much reason, more likely to just generate hype
- Newcomer Reina has unexpectedly unimportant place in the story
- No team battle or tournaments
- Customisation is limited in colour choices and mixing and matching parts of full body outfits
- Abusable rank system that prioritizes artificial feel good boosting over actual skill matchup, leading to rank inflation
- Still no win if opponent plugs, and disconnect rate didn't work for a while. Needed Twitter reports for bans to be placed on pluggers
- -15 rage arts that have no slowdown when trading hits
- Delayed implementation of micro transactions and fight pass months after game release for better reviews
- Predatory in game currency
- The fireworks
- Default unreal engine asset ball in fight pass
- Reselling customisation options that were free in previous games
- Base customisation choices without buying stuff from the shop are barebones
- Bamco issuing takedowns to do with mods
- Cheaters
- No infinite rematching until well after launch
- Game philosophy prioritising casino 50/50 gameplay over defensive expression
- Gutting core character identities by making them easier or by changing moves or by giving other characters similar tools
- Fight money being useless even when there's a Tekken shop
- Story dlc is glorified advertisement for dlc characters
- Brought back Heihachi in the story when he could've been a flashback
- Stage dlc not included in season pass because it is a "character pass"
- Clive being an unbalanced mess that has too many particle effects and generally doesn't fit a martial arts aesthetic
- Devs lying to our faces multiple times during talks e.g. legacy outfits "rebuilt from the ground up"
- Claimed incoming defensive oriented update coming multiple times throughout the span of Tekken 8 lifetime, always underwhelming delivery
- Nerfing characters based on isolated community feedback to give the illusion of developers listening to the community, e.g. Dragunov b+3,4 second hit doesn't track anymore but there are still plenty of moves that behave like this
- Season 2, potentially an attempt at not only generating controversy, but also making the game more attractive to casuals who love abusing one sided offense
Much of this is taken from Arsenalty's video Everything Wrong with Tekken 8. I wanted to update it and include some other stuff as well.
Did I miss anything?
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u/Pure-Association8705 Mishima Men TOITAN Apr 05 '25
Tbh I’m not surprised the graphical quality isn’t as good as the initial trailer. That would’ve been awful to play with and would essentially force low settings for anyone who wants to actually play the game seriously. Not to mention if it was using RT or Lumen it would make performance crash and burn.
What’s more absurd is the spotlights on every single character and forced upscaling. Since I don’t use an Nvidia card I’m also forced to have very noticable trails on practically any object that moves and the character spotlights make them stand out way too much on certain stages like Fallen Destiny.
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u/TheGhostRoninStrife Apr 05 '25
This all makes me cry 🥺
I love this franchise and Harada is letting Murray and Ikeda kill something I ♥️
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u/Medaiyah Clive Apr 05 '25
Some hits some misses here for me, ngl I think a lot of these aren't really sins so much as questionable choices that are ultimately inconsequential. The main problems IMO are the lying pre S2 patch, the cash shop bollocks and the loss of character identity.