Topic: Tekken is an awesome series to play at parties (Read 6252 times)

clockworkjames · « **on:** 11 Jun 2008, 12:55 »

It was going to be eat's quote from the SFIV thread but it was too long.

"How Tekken is an awesome series to play at parties and how people who rave about the Virtua Fighter series can all go suck a dick."

Tekken is awesome to play at parties because anyone can pick it up and play and have alot of fun, it is also not hugely fast paced but normal paced so it is good to play while drunk or high.

Virtua fighter is not pick up and play, it requires you to learn not one, but over nine thousand moves per character. Learning moves is great, but when it gets that technical the game itself can just go suck a dick.

Discuss what you feel on these two games please.

0bsessions · « **Reply #1 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 12:56 »

I enjoy Eddie Gordo. He is fun to play as.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #2 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 12:58 »

Yeah man, we had a mutual agreement to let people who had not played the game before to play as Eddie or Christie to button bash away but nobody who ever played it alot before chose him, opting instead for Paul/Steve/Hworang/etc.

0bsessions · « **Reply #3 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 13:01 »

I think I liked Howarang too. I forget. I haven't played a Tekken game since Tekken Tag came out. I played a lot of the third one, though, but that was like a decade ago.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #4 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 13:09 »

I don't think I've ever played more than 20 minutes of any Tekken game in my life.

Fighting games, dude. I can't get into them at all.

Ikrik · « **Reply #5 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 13:22 »

Tekken is freaking awesome. I've tried playing King of Fighters, Streetfighter, Soul Caliber.......but I will always go back to Tekken. My friend and I would play it all the time and we became pretty damn good at it. Hwoarang used to be my favourite character but now I think Jin and Steve are way better. I don't think I've ever seen anyone play as Julia.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #6 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 15:01 »

Tekken 3 and 4 were alot of fun. they're very simple and easy to learn but still alot of fun.

also, i love all the multiple endings because some of them are serious and matter to the "plot" but many others are just absurd/funny and i love it. Tekken 3 did the absurd/funny endings espescially well.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #7 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 17:53 »

Any game where you get to play as a fighting bear/panda is okay in my book.

I also enjoy Howarang, though not having skill I usually just spammed his triple kick attack in between combos

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #8 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 19:04 »

The only "fighting game" I've ever played at length is SSB. Any other series I never had the patience for

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 12:23 »

I like Soul Calibur and wacky fighting games like Marvel Vs. Capcom, but I am not into ones like Tekken.

will: wanton sex god · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 15:03 »

Please dont take this as bragging, as it totallly isn't, but i really hate playing fighting games with my friends. There's always a huge gradient in playing skills, that even games with handicap systems cant offset. So usually a night of fighting games = a game of why is will such an asshole?

Spluff · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 15:56 »

I don't really get 'party video games'. I mean, video games are what you do at home, not at a party.

I personally haven't been to a party (well, except for a LAN Party) where we all hunkered down and played games - and I'm kind of grateful for that.

est · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 16:31 »

Ok so, it pretty much goes without saying that I love playing the Tekken series when there's a bunch of friends around. We also play the Soul * series sometimes, but Tekken seems to have a better "just pick it up and play" feel.

Will, due to my apparent skill in these kind of games I would tend to do things like instigate "Ben can only play with one hand" rounds or using one of the random characters like Temjukin or however you spell it. The former is more likely when I have been drinking and perhaps feeling a bit more dickish, but the latter makes things more fun because it adds an element of "ok, who the fuck am I playing as. What the shit? What are these moves?" and then you figure out who it is but it's say, that Vale Tudo fighter who I never play and it's like "Fucking fuuuuuuuuuuck!" (button mashing)

But yeah, we generally keep winning streaks to a 3-match run anyway to decrease the annoyance of someone getting really good at one particular character and assholing it up.

20 jazz funk greats · « **Reply #13 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 18:36 »

tekken is definitely not something i'd ever play at a party, but i do enjoy kicking my boyfriend's ass at it occasionally. and by occasionally i mean every single time we decide to play video games together.
the funny thing is, he is a self-described "hardcore" gamer, and i've never been anything other than a casual player. i'm just good at fighters.

Spluff · « **Reply #14 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 19:30 »

Quote from: Anyways on 12 Jun 2008, 15:57

Did you ever hear of this little thing called "Rock Band"?

We don't have that in Australia.

Alex C · « **Reply #15 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 22:53 »

I have a slight variant of Will's problem: Assholing things up is my first instinct. I'm a decent enough guy to realize that it sucks all the fun out of things for everyone else, but on the other hand, fighters don't hold much interest for me in the first place if I have to hold back, so I just ended up kind of giving them up. Mind you, I'm not particularly good at fighters (or at much of anything, really), but this fact only tends to make things worse for the people unfortunate enough to play me. I'm That Guy at the arcade who obviously doesn't know much about the game but will relentlessly spam sweeps/jumpkicks or whatever frustrating tactic I get my hands on until you prove you can handle it. Back in the day, I used to just try keeping people on the ground 24/7 with Nina or King and then simply turtled up and threw out a mind-numbing amount of high priority jabs if it turned out they knew enough about the game to recover and start fighting back.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #16 on:** 13 Jun 2008, 21:55 »

As for skill level it all boiled down to me and my mate conner, winrar stays on meant one of us would be on at all times so we did winner stays on max 3 matches and after every 3 set we had to finish our drink.

Rizzo · « **Reply #17 on:** 14 Jun 2008, 06:09 »

I for one am particularly excited about tekken 6. I will thrash it hard should I ever get hold of a PS3.
I actually play tekken for the story lines... scary huh?

Definitely more of a Soul Calibre kid these days though. The guy with the staff is a favourite of mine.

est · « **Reply #18 on:** 14 Jun 2008, 20:27 »

Oh man, that idea of "on a winning streak of 3 take a drink" idea is an excellent handicapping system. You might not even need to enforce a player change if you did that.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #19 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 09:46 »

At age 14-15-16 it worked well since we got drunk easier, so that extra bottle of beer made a difference.

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #20 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 14:53 »

Tekken was always an arcade game for me. I could never get full enjoyment out of it in a party setting unless that party was at an arcade.
The thing with Tekken at home for me was that you would always end up playing the guy that was so good at the damn thing he would constantly taunt you. Or, somebody would find one character with one move, and proceed to kick every person playing as every other character's ass all night. Even when you chose that same annoying character he had you beat.
I would have to say that for consoles my choice of fighter is Soul Caliber II. Not three, two. This was truly a game where the characters were quite well-balanced, and even losing was fun. Also, fighting with weapons was always more attractive a concept to me. The only martial fighter I've ever seriously enjoyed as much as Soul Caliber is Virtua Fighter. DOA had its moments, but it was too unforgiving. Tekken had too many characters, and they weren't balanced well enough. Mortal Kombat is pretty fun, but I just wasn't getting into the art style and tone of the game. I still love Sub-Zero though.
So, Soul Caliber was the right game for me. I can go into that game being able to enjoy playing every single character because their styles of fighting stand out so much easier to me since they use weapons, as opposed to fists and feet with the occasional energy blast.
I'm also a bit biased because playing as Link on the Gamecube version is just so awesome for a Zelda fan to behold.
So, anyway, Tekken, yeah. I got off on a rant there, sorry, but, Tekken is pretty fun. I enjoy it at parties, and it makes a great tournament fighter with its interesting character designs and mix of Mortal Kombat with Street Fighter style/tone.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #21 on:** 16 Jun 2008, 21:12 »

If I was havin' a party I would honestly rather play SSB.

Clobbersaurus · « **Reply #22 on:** 18 Jun 2008, 14:10 »

tekken 6 is NOT tekken. at least not the tekken i know and love.

if you want to play the best tekken in the series, look no further than TTT.

tekkenzaibatsu.com <--- this sucks these days too, but considering how many of you on this board, you'll fit right into the suckyness of it. however, if you're really interested in making tekken a whole lot more fun, visit the old forums for the old games. this is the zenith of tekken information.

*ex big tekken fan*

tekken is only a good party game if the party revolves around tekken and people who don't mash around like idiots. otherwise, if you just want to hang out and get high or whatever, Smash is what you should be playing in that case. (smash is also a game than can be enjoyed with skill, but it's a lot more flexible than tekken).

did i mention Tekken 6 is barf?

20 jazz funk greats · « **Reply #23 on:** 19 Jun 2008, 19:01 »

what's so bad about tekken 6?

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