Tekken 8

Games like Virtua Fighter 5, Dead or Alive 4 and Tekken 6 felt like statements that fighting games weren’t dead, and Street Fighter IV in particular blew up HUGE. That one in particular revived the fighting game scene. Then you had things like Blazblue and Mortal Kombat 9 also having big moments.

Last gen felt like a slump period because games like Street Fighter V and Killer Instinct experimented with the Games as a Service model, and truthfully, if SF doesn’t hit, the whole genre suffers.

Some cool returning characters, I was hoping they would reveal more new characters by now honestly, but perhaps that's something still being worked on for closer to release. 32 at launch is pretty decent. I don't know what to make of the metaverse style avatars for the new mode though. It's an ugly design to me. But I do hope the mode has a little more to it than just a pampered treasure battle mode. I loved Quest Mode in VF4 Evo where you're going arcade to arcade battling AI for customisation items. Arcade Quest sounds similar with some kind of storyline about the player making it to the top of tournaments. It's not dissimilar to what I had thought VF6 should have given there's no story mode there to talk about. I had imagined that with RGG studio involved, you could have the environments from the Yakuza games in there and build out an RPG lite mode wondering around building your rep competing in local arcades and tournaments to make it to win the grand tournament.

What is going on in Japan? Is there some weird fad where they think white guys have started having middle-aged womens 'speak to the manager' haircuts?

I play Paul and.... yeah.. what the fuck?

Fantastic replay feature here that allows you to take control at any point and play to see what you could do differently at a given moment.



Whole bunch of news out now actually. Out in Jan for one.

Looks like I can get a beta key for Xbox, PS5 or steam from 02/Virgin media if anyone is interested I can try and get you a code?

Here’s a YouTube link:




I think he looks cool - very good design. I think we get another reveal on the 24th right?

Yeah even down to the celebrity voice over! Very Kojima-esque.

Looks like they wanted to keep Noctis in the game but didnt have the rights so they moved him to a new character. Which is fine! Hope the last one is a new character too.

She kinda looks like Zafina and Kazuya had a daughter. The fighting style kinda matches too. Though I haven't played the last game so my knowledge of the story isn't the best.

Meh, whatever her origins she seems kinda boring

"Have a taste of capitulation" is a weird line.

I misread that as “capitalism” at first and wondered if she was some kind of successful business person.

Every time I read ‘Virtua Fighter’ I get a a rush of excitement quickly followed by a period of great disappointment. 😢

I'm upset there's no new VF and always will be. I've all these thoughts in my head of what a new VF would look like too. Naturally the series doesn't have a lot of the visual flair like Tekken does so it's harder to get a big mass appeal, but I think if they took the approach of really becoming a 3D fighter with the best netcode around, it could gain a following. Sega wont do it tho.

I've read a couple of interviews with Harada where he's basically been coaching Seiji Aoki of AM2 on getting himself out there at tournaments and stuff to help grow VF5ES. I think he wants to see a new VF as much as anyone, really.