Videogame hot takes

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I have a couple but my first and biggest is that Tekken 3 is the most important 3D fighting game of all time, and 2nd most important fighting game after SF2: Turbo.

1 and 2 were outstanding, great games...it was a Virtua Fighter Rival and tekken 2 was insanely popular. Tekken 1 sold consoles.

Tekken 3 though...I'd say you had to be there but if you were there, it definitely hit different. The difference in fighting styles was more dramatic than any other game ever. Street fighter had different styles, as did Art of Fighting and VF, but not like this. The new crop of fighters, namely:

Lei was like nothing I'd ever seen...the fluidity, and the real fighting styles and stances you could switch between

Capoiera, well captured in 3D? wtf...Eddy fukkin rules and I still think Tekken 3 Eddy might be the most entertaining character to ever play as.

[yes i know Hwoarang was Baek derivative but he was more advanced and generally...better]

and how King was advanced compared to 2...dude legit felt like a WRESTLER in a MARTIAL ARTS tournament for the first time...

was just amazingly revolutionary. This game was one of the hottest arcade games since MK2...it felt like a TRUE SUCCESSOR to the SF throne which they honestly surrendered at this point with SF3 kind of floundering, and VF3's learning curve. I think 3D fighting does not progress into the mainstream boom without this, and was accessible for casuals and hard cores alike. You could not walk past an arcade machine of this game and see Eddy Gordo and NOT want to play. Sold a million copies in japan in a DAY.

I think without Tekken 3...Virtua Fighter continues to go more and more specialized, and less risks are taken by developers.

The only comparable are SF4, and Virtua Fighter 2...i welcome a conversation about this.

I have one about the impact of 90s gaming on music but that's next.

What are your hot takes?

 

[Jaguar93]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/unpopular-video-game-opinions-vol-3000.606762/

 

[Days of Future Piff]

Capoiera, well captured in 3D? wtf...Eddy ______ rules and I still think Tekken 3 Eddy might be the most entertaining character to ever play as.

You might be onto something with this point… I remember my friends and I just spamming buttons as Eddy and having a blast pulling all his crazy moves. Shout out to Law and his backflip kick though

Someone should make a thread on the most entertaining characters to play as in any game. Melee Captain Falcon was another one of the first characters I thought of

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

You might be onto something with this point… I remember my friends and I just spamming buttons as Eddy and having a blast pulling all his crazy moves. Shout out to Law and his backflip kick though

Someone should make a thread on the most entertaining characters to play as in any game. Melee Captain Falcon was another one of the first characters I thought of

IDK but Law got way more fun to play as in Tekken 3. Good call

 

[gurf]

I remember tekken 3 being one of the first fighting games that had guest characters (gon).

Might have also been one of the first to have dope mini games as well (tekken ball)

Might be wrong on both, as I didn’t do any research. Going off of memory

 

[Redwood]

Speaking of Tekken, I felt that the story has been taking a nosedive after the 4th one, but I'm pretty sure that this is agreed upon,

 

[Zero]

Kingdom Hearts is incoherent trash

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Speaking of Tekken, I felt that the story has been taking a nosedive after the 4th one, but I'm pretty sure that this is agreed upon,

what, you didn't buy into Jin Kazama taking over the world and starting WW3 but getting his redemption because his dad is a bad man lmfao

 

[Redwood]

what, you didn't buy into Jin Kazama taking over the world and starting WW3 but getting his redemption because his dad is a bad man lmfao

Yeah it was poorly done, And Miguel didn't get his lick back

 

[Phantum]

Tekken 3 was great. Hit the arcade scene just before it died. These bar arcades that pop up now never have the good shyt.

 

[Diunx]

MMOs are trash.

 

[Return of the Jedi]

Kingdom Hearts is incoherent trash

Nah this is a common take.

Some of mine:

I think the Horizon Zero Dawn games were incredibly boring. They couldn't nab my attention at all.

I find playing a game on a desktop in a computer chair to be a vastly inferior experience to playing on a big screen while sitting on a couch.

The classic SNES and Genesis games have aged like wine, and that's because that's the generation where 2D games were perfected. On the another hand, I think the majority of classics from the N64 and PS1 have aged terribly. That generation was not where 3D gaming was perfected..so there's naturally a lot of junk that makes those games very tough to get through at times today.

 

[The Guru]

I remember tekken 3 being one of the first fighting games that had guest characters (gon).

Might have also been one of the first to have dope mini games as well (tekken ball)

Might be wrong on both, as I didn’t do any research. Going off of memory

If i'm not getting my timeline wrong Fatal Fury Special in 1993 had the first real guest character. Though it was a character from another franchise made by the same company. Art of fighting and Street Fighter 2 had mini games as well in the early 90's but a lot more simple than tekken ball.

 

[Easy-E]

This seems to be more about games, than the business.

Fortnite is at worst the 9th greatest video games of all-time when you take into account all the things games get judged by on the GOAT scale.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Kingdom Hearts is incoherent trash