Bandai Namco hosted a huge Tekken 8 presentation at Tokyo Game Show, which basically gives us an overview of the entire game. It features gameplay footage from the story mode — which sees Jin and Kazuya duke it out over the fate of the world — full-blown matches from the latest build, and information on loads of different game modes, like the single-player Arcade Quest, Super Ghost Battle, and, of course, Tekken Ball.
The presentation also confirms a number of smaller details, particularly to do with tutorials, training mode, and replays. Without a doubt, this looks like the most welcoming gateway into Tekken yet, and one genius idea in particular is being highlighted on social media.
When you're watching your fight replays back, you can actually rewind the action and, for ten seconds, take control of your character in order to see what you could have done better, or differently. This has the potential to be a bit of a game-changer when it comes to learning Tekken at a higher level.
The aforementioned Super Ghost Battles sound crazy, too. Using an AI model that can learn patterns of play from you or anyone else, you can challenge the 'ghosts' of yourself or other players. Again, this could turn out to be an amazing way of learning specific character matchups, or the deeper game in general.
How do you think Tekken 8 is shaping up? What part of it are you most excited for? Commence your training in the comments section below.
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Lost interest after Tekken 3( yes, I own the trilogy for the PSX), tried Tekken tag tournament and 7, but they got rid of the sweet, wacky CGI animated endings and had so much DLC packs that it's borderline genius scams.
Also, bring back Gon the boxing dragon!
Wow that replay feature is really cool and smart. Really great idea there. I could see that being a huge game changer as using training mode to re-create those very specific situations is really tough to do. As much as I love fighting games I don't love using the training mode constantly to learn new ideas. I like to watch replays much more to figure out where to improve so I gotta give Tekken big kudos for this. Honestly might have sold me on the game with that feature alone.
I'm really liking a lot of the new ideas this latest batch of fighting games has come up with!
@SonOfPSXDave Tekken 3 was my last Tekken game. Playing against my brother, he'd always pick Eddy and do that annoying spinning kick which I could never counter or block unless I was true Ogre.
The tekken fight lounge with the whole childlike roblox looking avatars running around doing nonsense is just so bizarre. I'm assuming these games now are laden with microtransactions too?
I haven't played a tekken for a long time. Is this what they they have become?
The replay takeover feature is not technically a new thing but not many games are doing it - I hope it becomes a must-have feature through this (kinda like good rollback netcode became a must-have after GGST's release during the pandemic)
I too gave.up when so many of the characters started getting locked behind paywalls rather than through gameplay progression. I don't do that.
And I'm old school Tekken, going right back to owning a Japanese import CD of the original PS1 game, and winning a nationwide time challenge run by Our Price (remember them?!) for a Tekken arcade machine in 1995.
To be fair, I had the twin advantages of having played the Japanese NTSC version for almost a year before the UK release, and also because the UK game felt super slow and easy due to the PAL conversion.
Salad days!
@SonOfPSXDave Sounds like you missed out on Tekken 5, 6, and Tag Tournament 2. Those games definitely had some of the best CGI & wacky endings + were packed fully of in-game custom content. Nothing like playing Jun holding a bottle while decked as a golden angel kicking butt.
Tekken 7 however was hella stripped, I stopped playing it after getting the trophies. I think the problem was they focused too much on the story and promoting the Kazama/Mishima lineage, the other characters lost their charm and uniqueness. The fact that they're bringing back Beach Ball in Tekken 8... perhaps there's hope.
Might have to check online or the local pawnshops. Thanks for the info.
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