Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Hits Consoles This September, Includes Additional Characters and Gameplay Modes

Agreed! Now, time to put money down on what the next fighting style will be.

Krav Maga hasn’t been introduced yet – unless you consider it a variation of Dragunov’s Command Sambo. Loads of simplistic nut-punching and arm dislocations.

Come to think of it though, the additions to Tag 2 Unlimited have mostly been repackages of existing characters – Jun, Ogre, Jinpachi, Jaycee. on the topic of Jaycee.. a reworked Michelle?

 I knew I wasn’t the only one who noticed that :U

That is seriously my only problem with MK. The games are so damn stiff. It feels like all the characters do exactly the same for normals, even though they don’t. The unfluidness of animation actually affects my gameplay because it’s hard to know what flows together. In Tekken, you can pretty much tell what you can combo into and from because they do moves so fluidly it’s easier to tell what flows together. I feel like that’s a bad explanation lol. There’s a better way to explain this.

I’d agree with you 100% if we were talking about SFxT.. But, I am curious as to why you think all those things you mentioned are dated. Did those things ever stop you from playing any of the previous Tekkens?

Also, don’t some of the Tekken games have an option to turn the particle effect off, or is that just in training mode?

Stages? Tekken 6 had breakable floors and walls. Have you seen Fallen Colony? Urban War Zone, Electric Fountain, Anger of the Earth. Stages are dynamic, beautiful, with bombshells and crashing helicopters and nuclear explosions (Gargoyle Perch) as you fight. Signs break when you’re bashed onto them. Rooftop Storm and Tropical Forest have crazy bloom effects (Leo’s 1st player costume is best to exemplify this)

Sound Design? Do high-impact launchers on counter hit. Listen to the additional voice effects (to help with the new moves). Certain moves have a crisp *smack* to them – especially Bruce’s d+4, and wd+3. Listen to the background music of Electric Fountain, Anger of the Earth, Fallen Colony. Listen to the sound a character makes on bound. Even the traditional sounds of attacks being blocked have a more meaty bass attached to them.

Particle Effects? Once again, try to look at moves on counter hit. Note how the red marks bloom out – and actually vary depending on the intensity of the strike, or whether it was counter hit or not. As you bash people to the ground – check out how the dust flings out of the ground. This is even better in Tag 2 – dust and muck cling to your characters as they get slammed to the ground or walls, and slowly fall off the longer you stay off the ground. They aren’t static stains on your character, either – there’s real physics at work depending on whether you hit the ground on your front or back. 

Of course Ismael may have different criterion for why he plays games. But don’t let that be an admission that the Tekken series looks or sounds outdated at all.

she was more different than some, for sure, some who made it quite a ways (Looking at you Tekken 2 Anna).  Seriously half the characters were model swaps with slightly mixed move sets and 1-2 original moves (some having more than others of course), they weren’t really differentiated until TTT.

The knife unblockables made her play in an interestingly different way.

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Anecdotally, she seems to get masses of requests, maybe because she’s the only Tekken 2 char that hasn’t been brought back at all.

she was more different than some, for sure, some who made it quite a ways (Looking at you Tekken 2 Anna).  Seriously half the characters were model swaps with slightly mixed move sets and 1-2 original moves (some having more than others of course), they weren’t really differentiated until TTT.

The knife unblockables made her play in an interestingly different way.

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Anecdotally, she seems to get masses of requests, maybe because she’s the only Tekken 2 char that hasn’t been brought back at all.

 Ryu and Ken?

 Lee was a palette swap for law with the exact same moves. Wang was a palette swap for michelle. Kuma was a palette swap for jack with the g clef cannon that both wang and michelle had. Kuni had many moves from Yoshi but when tag 1 came out they made her very unique, infact raven and yoshi have both canibalized her moves in her absence. Christie and Eddy are basically the large and medium versions of the same character. Armor king was basically king with  a mishima uppercut. His status was the same as Kunis, being a bit more unique. The only second rate characters in tekken that were unique were ganny and Bruce in tekken 2. Angel, devil, and kazuya weren’t that off each other either. Prototype Jack and Jack were basically the same. You need to learn your tekken history bro. Take an online class.