Comments on: Review: Tekken 6 is awesome, except where it isn’t

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By: Ludramán

Ludramán — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:14:57 +0000

Ah, see my qualm isn’t with the frequency of the continue screen, that’s a given; I am relatively crap at Tekken, always have been, under no illusions.

I have no intention of quitting, I just want to mash X/A/Start and get past it and carry on. It doesn’t let you, you have to watch your character scramble to their feet and wait ’til the first count of 9 for it to register your fervent determination.

Annoying.

By: Ludramán

Ludramán — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:58:50 +0000

You seem deeply affronted by Geoff’s views. Did you have a hand in making the game by any chance? Either way it is so admirable of you to jump to the defense of Tekken 6, down the author’s throat at the first utterance of bad press.

By: NotWelshMan

NotWelshMan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:58:36 +0000

As far as I can tell – and it’s difficult to work out given your disregard for the English language – you seem to think that an overly cheap boss and a crap targeting system on the Scenario Campaign constitute “design features”, not “flaws”. Bosses are not “supposed to suck”. They are meant to provide a challenge, but not at the cost of my sanity. Difficult I can handle. I draw the line at “fucking cheap”.

And, let’s be honest, Scenario Campaign is a bit rubbish. That’s not me being bad at it. I finished it. It’s an okay diversion… but it’s not what I paid for, and it’s far too long for what should be a mini-game.

I like Tekken 6. I really do. In fact, if you’d bothered to actually read the article, you’d have read the following: “Tekken 6 is a great game. Better than Tekken 5.” Idiot.

By: thejamtart

thejamtart — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:53 +0000

Translation for our other readers = “fuk off i got biskit”

By: japr

japr — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:36:05 +0000

whoever is reviewing this game is an idiot. i got tekken 6 and i love it. the scenario campaign was fun, such a shame how countless tekken players hate it. and bosses are supposed to suck. every boss that does cheap stuff to you to get you agrivated is considered a boss. it’s taking me practice to defeat azazel, even though i get angry sometimes, its not that bad. the true tekken players are the ones who are patient, willing to get practice, calm, and trying to practice the target system in the scenario campaign mode instead of giving up so easily without trying, anybody who hates this mode are hacks and twits. EVERYBODY, STOP THE NEGATIVE HATE ON TEKKEN 6! TEKKEN 6 BLOWS TEKKEN 5 RIGHT OUT OF THE WATER BY FAR!

By: NotWelshMan

NotWelshMan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:50:49 +0000

Some games are getting this right. For all their other flaws, Prince Of Persia and Fable II both got rid of continue screens completely. Fable II makes it impossible to die, and PoP just replaced it with an automatic continue that looks like you’re being ’saved’.

In truth, Tekken’s a fighting game: you need to be able to lose so that your opponent can win (and vice versa, obviously). My problem isn’t with the fact that there is a continue screen; it’s with the fact that I see it so bloody often, and that it doesn’t seem to matter how good I am at the game!

By: NotWelshMan

NotWelshMan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:46:19 +0000

I’ve never actually played a KoF game (I know, I know…). Are they any good?

The problem is that I don’t think Azazel is ‘hard’ per se. I think, as you’ve said, that he’s just cheap. Skill just goes out the window with him: it’s all about whether the AI will magically manage to ignore all your moves, and you end up just using one or two spam moves over and over. If you read an FAQ on how to beat Azazel, most of them seem to say “Select Jack-6 and do forward-kick”. Seth: select Zangief and do the spinning move. Pure boring, and definitely tactics that would work against any human player.

It means that I never want to play on the arcade mode, which is a real pity.

Thanks for commenting!

By: Bushido Brown

Bushido Brown — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:51:38 +0000

While I agree that Azazel is much too hard, you’ve forgotten one major- but lesser known- series.
The King of Fighters bosses have always been ridiculous. When I got to Jinpachi and Seth, I simply was reminded of unloading quarters to try and beat Zero or Magaki. It’s nothing new, and people often forget about KoF; but it doesn’t excuse the fact that Azazel is a cheap little prick.

By: Ludramán

Ludramán — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:08:46 +0000

Awesome, stick it to those short-sighted game publishers! There really IS NO POINT to the Continue screens!

I didn’t sit here poring over this one fight, rapidly getting RSI and/or carpal tunnel syndrome to bail out the first time it’s suggested, especially considering it will cost me nothing.