Nioh had outdated graphics, but the game was an absolute banger. This game looks like a PS4 game, but will play better than most games released today.

Could not agree more with the first paragraph. Even when you are working on a perfect against someone, the fact that they can just armor-move-70% your bar is ridiculous. That WITH heat? If they have heat, it's sweat beads. Player with a full heat bar and rage is basically able to kill you for one mistake. I know they will never do this because the big cutscene moves attract casual players and spectators, but I really think they should have just implemented the heat system and gotten rid of rage altogether. I would also get rid of chip damage but I can live with it.

I also agree about heat as well. It heavily rewards well placed heat engagers, dashes and all-around creativity which makes up for it's drawbacks like the raw activation with armor often used as a panic button.

Also lol that Yoshi scenario is too common. I'm happy for Yoshi players in this game regarding heat and just the general system of this game - he's strong! Don't forget to keep them honest with rainbow drop! - but yeah the frame traps with heat are not only an issue with him too. It's goofy how Xiaoyu all of a sudden has the strongest 50/50 in hypnotist stance as well as extra plus frames on block for her already strong mids. Did you know that she doesn't need to walk for the hypnotist 3 to be a full launch in heat? It's a -12 snake edge

But yeah in general I think you're on the mark with your descriptions of this game, and I agree it's well designed. The new framebuffer system allowing you to do f, f moves a frame early is cool. It's also interesting how they made moves have different recovery frames when they whiff. Overall a fresh game.

So now that they see the crazy demand, they will work extra hard to fix their servers. Right?

Well deserved! I hope they keep this one fresh and balanced with the addition of new (legacy) characters. Also no more guest characters, please - especially the 2D fighting game characters like Akuma who broke Tekken 7.

I think this is the best modern Tekken, but let's not be ridiculous here by saying it is the best ever. Tekken 5 DR will probably never be surpassed in terms of rewarding the better player for their execution, creativity, and decision making. There were no situations that rewarded one player for getting punched in the face, or any situations that granted them free mixups that the other had to respect even when they were being outplayed. It's a shame that T5DR didn't have all of the same training mode perks that 7/8 do. It would have served well to have punishment training and movement guides in the game.

Rather than the best ever, it would be more fair to call this game the best modern Tekken game, as in from the Tag 2 - Tekken 8 era. It is definitely a breath of fresh air from Tekken 7, where the game was almost 2d when you were up close due to the nerfed sidesteps. They nerfed movement overall in Tekken 8 again with the back dash being slower and covering less distance, but you can actually side step people constantly trying strings and jab checks which is nice. Super moves like Claudio b+1 still exist, but the range has been nerfed so that they have to be placed perfectly. It is a great step up I think.

If this is real, hopefully they can fix the issues with scaling and introduce a real alignment system unlike the horrible tacked on version they used for SMTV. The ending allowing you to simply choose what alignment you want from a menu felt like a big insult. It's barely an SMT game in that regard.

I would also be excited to play this on something that won't struggle to run it consistently. Hoping for re-releases of SMT IV and IV Final as well as those are my favorite SMT games.

Considering you can get the Game of the Year 2023, which trashes this game completely, for the same price as this horse in a heavily monetized game, I'm a bit shocked to see people going in justifying this.

A damn shame. Some people would rather defend their favorite megacorp than play a fun game. I would rather buy another copy of Baldur's Gate 3.

PSP and Vita showed that consumers DO care - PSP is one of the greatest handhelds ever made and the Vita could have easily expanded on that had Sony actually supported their device (and allowed 3rd party storage like the PS3-5). Sony fumbled the Vita incredibly hard and now they get to see devices like the Switch and Steam Deck enjoy success.

MS and Sony no doubt can see the success of the Steam Deck and they are looking forward to what the next generation Steam Deck will be like. They see that the Deck and similar handhelds are poised to take off now that handhelds are decently powerful, and they want to get in on it before Valve dominates.

People play on consoles because they are more affordable and offer a decent way to play the latest games. Even if every Playstation and Xbox game were to be released multiplatform, people would still buy the consoles due to their accessibility

How fast you go from me being gullible to it only being "one rumor" lol spare me the fanboy vitriol. Save it for yourself

One rumor, and then another one regarding another game, and... oh wait.

Yeah, Some of these game journalists are pretty much on their payroll and likely have internal sources. They can write articles and pawn them off as speculation to get way more clicks.