It eventually became a good competitive game but that took years. Tekken 8 looks like Tekken 7.5 to be completely honest and doesn't have that much hype in the fgc right now but Tekken 7 was heralded as pretty good at launch.īut yea like I said your SF points are pretty spot on, SF5 was a complete trash game for casuals at launch and that never changed.

Your points about SF5/6 seem to be spot on but the Tekken ones seem iffy. It wasn't that bad by time it launched on console/PC and certainly had way more content than SF5 did at launch. Unless we're talking the early arcade versions of Tekken 7 then yea that was barebones. I was a Tekken fanatic back in the day.SF5 launched bare bones as fuck, Tekken 7 launch was a pretty standard Tekken game. It felt like buying DOA dlc trying to buy it, lol. Tekken charging huge premium for all the dlc characters, having to wait on a sale, but by then game just feels so unpopular in the gaming conversation, I never bought it. Both games just look so unappealing in reviews, graphics, and for tekken story and alternate modes. IIRC, they both launched originally pretty bare bones correct?

Thinking back, I assume there is some reasons for my impression. That's better than SF5 though which was dog shit for casuals and still took years to reach the competitive heights of later SF4 versions.I'm shocked they sold that well.

SF6 looks great for casuals but will take years to reach the competitive heights of SF5. Competitive depth wise it will probably be behind SF5 for awhile, just like SF5 was behind USF4 for awhile in that regard. SF6 is admittedly a huge jump but that's pretty much just all RE engine and having a legitimate single player mode. Considering Tekken 7 and Street Fighter 5 are both well over 5 million copies sold I don't think either has a need for money and tbh Tekken 8 looks more like a stagnation than anything.

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