Tekken 8 Official Thread

Raven and an original T8 character Azucena trailers dropped during EVO. Not a Raven fan and he's way too MK now and Azucena obviously had to have a dumb personality mixed with lots of annoying stance evasion but I dig the stages, way more fun and creative than 7. Since the entire (probably) base roster got leaked, Azucena seems like a Josie and LC rolled into one as they're not coming back. Thank good the two remaining newcomers seem to be a bit more grounded
Victor, a French UN agent using CQC and Reina, Heihachi's illegitimate daughter(lul)


 
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So there you have it: 32 char base roster, some story footage and chibi avatar nonsense mode:P
Both the roster leak and the release date leak turned out to be true, I think people might be disappointed with the base roster and there are 4 DLC chars planned already.

 
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Yeah, it was a weird way to go about stuff but their marketing has always sucked.

They didn't show many of the characters, the base roster doesn't even have Eddy (lul) and the game was in alpha a month ago but now we learn it releases late January 2024:P

Characters like Shaheen and Leo made it over more iconic chars as well, some very weird choices here.

Not sure I like where this is going now, even though I played the game for like 20h already and it does feel good to play (except that it was really unbalanced and aggressive to the limit) and looks great overall.
 
TNA said:
If it is £35 on cdkeys I will have it from day one. Much more than that and it will have to wait.
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I doubt you'll be disappointed with the core gameplay as a casual player, it's fast, flashy and visually impressive. Although I'm not a big fan of some of the mechanics, it's hard to go back to 7 after playing 8.

Not sure about the content though, the arcade quest mode seems tacked on and we still haven't seen anything significant from the story mode.

The starting roster is big enough but some of the choices are weird and the milking is already in effect with the first season pass. Also, separate slots for bears again and no one even plays them.

35 quid seems reasonable, I'm not preordering for now because there's no incentive to do so but I doubt I won't get it day one no matter what, it's my main FG after all, with some SF6 on the side:P
 
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Feng Wei landed, what a glow up even though I hate fighting against that mofo:P And he actually speaks Chinese!


Next closed beta announced as well and registration ends October 11, hearing I'm automatically granted entry because I took part in the last one:D
 
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Tekken Ball is back:D Arcade ghost mode is also in and there's some footage of custom outfits in-game along with the new Arcade Quest mode. For those who care, the SP content is looking pretty solid so far.
 
So the closed beta is over, took a few characters through Ranked again and it was quite a blast overall. Azucena was more fun than I had expected.
There have been a few significant gameplay changes so they're listening to the feedback, my biggest gripe still lies with the somewhat wonky netcode (had most lag problems with PC players via crossplay) and too much focus on aggression/canned 50/50s via heat.

Just a reminder of where we are now with T8, with classic costumes and intros:D

 
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New trailer showing the entire roster is up (bar two characters but we already know it's Victor and Reina):

YT quality is pretty bad but I've seen two hi-res screenshots of Zafina and Alisa in-game and the character models are consistently impressive and incredibly detailed.




And... Victor's trailer from today:


I think Tekken team is slowly losing the plot... Yeah, we definitely need another teleporting, gun and laser katana-wielding cringefest like there weren't enough of them already. When I heard we were getting a CQC-oriented UN agent, Noctis 2.0 is not exactly what I visualised in my head.
At least the stage and music are great.
 
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bakes0310 said:
Looks like it's changed a lot since my last Tekken game on ps one which was Tekken 2. Is this worth ago now since it's been a while for myself?
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TBH, if you want to play competitively you'll most likely get frustrated with it since many players have a lot of legacy experience at this point but I imagine it'll attract a lot of newcomers with its flashiness so maybe it won't be so bad online. Lots of changes to Ranked as well.

I took part in the closed network tests and had a chance to play it three times, I'd say there's quite a lot to ease necomers into it but also quite a lot that'll deter them as the new mechanics are somewhat overpowered in the right hands and easy to do on top of that.

However, there's a lot of SP content apparently, story mode, Arcade Quest, minigames etc.

There's even an AI that learns your playstyle and evolves so you can effectively practice against yourself (you can even play ghosts of your friends or the best players in the world if you so wish) and the replay system teaches you proper punishes/tactics and lets you seamlessly jump into gameplay to try the situation yourself, then jumps back into the replay. Genius stuff.
 
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Smeghead said:
God, his voice is cringe-inducing. Seeing a lot of unease about his face modelling too.
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Yeah, they did him dirty in 8 and it makes me sad as he's one of my subs. The face looks off only from certain angles but the voice... :p

The animations are awesome, though.

EDIT: Also, why tf does he wear a choker, maybe it's too tight and those aren't botox cheeks:p

Would explain the voice as well:D
 
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Final previews are pouring out on YT, all characters, stages, costumes, gameplay of chars whose trailers haven't yet been shown etc.
Won't even bother to post it as there's ****load of it:P

Demo coming out on Thursday exclusively on PS5 and on December 21 for other platforms.
 
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Previews looking very positive in general but the DAMN JUKEBOX! Max recorded some footage of the reveal stage with Electric Fountain from T6 playing, not only does this work as intended now but it's also not a PS-exclusive feature anymore. Starts at 17:12:D

 
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Not long now. Looking forward to my pre order unlocking.

Did you preorder?
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Weirdly enough, I haven't yet:P I mean, I rarely preorder anything but this time it's more because I'm still unsure whether I want to play it on PS5 first, sell it and move to Steam later or just get it on Steam, well see:P
 
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