Tekken 4 hits L.A.

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>It is at my arcade. YEAH BABY BABY!!!!!!

Impressions:

1. It's beautiful.
2. It's hard as hell.
3. I blow at it.

Using Christie Monteiro (similar to Eddy), I was not able to win ONE
ROUND against the computer last night (though if you think you're better than I am, check the difficulty setting on your arcade's version of it). But now that I'm back in L.A. from Stanford for a month, tonight is gonna be the King of Iron Fist tournnament when all my Tekken skillz are put to the test as the local crew converges at Sherman Oaks Castle Park. CAPOEIRA!!!!!

A few more serious observations: It seems a much slower game than Tekken 3, in both speed and strategy. Your favorite moves from Tekken 3 will work - but not without some practice. Combos seem diminished, but this is probably just due to the game being so new.

Counters are very, very important now, as well as dodges. Your favorite power moves, like Kazuya's quadruple-spinning dragon uppercut, now look so slow that WE could punch Kaz in the kidney while he sets it up...again, there ma be ways of effective use that differ from T3. Paul seems to be almost more of a finesse character now, with graceful punches and counters.

I'm heading back to play today. But I'm waiting for all of you to play and give impressions. HWOOOOOOOAAAAAAARAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!</div>

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Is Bryan Fury or anyone similar in the game?</div>

[Darx_II]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm glad they changed it alot. Especially since they've been running Tekken 3's engine for a LONG time, with 3 and TTT.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Bah...we played with Alex Vail over at the Chicago tourney, and he OWNED you in TTT! Shit, you couldn't hit left jab without being punished for it!</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>From the Tekken boards, not everyone is happy with the gameplay.</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Nope, at least not that anyone knows. The time-release characters will show up over the next several months, though I doubt Bryan would make the list. There's a new character named Steve who has a lot of similar fast punches, but more of them and no kicks and less combos.</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Never had that problem meself...</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>So? I'm not paying any attention to them. :)</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Okay. It seems that I don't, indeed, blow at Tekken 4 after all (the machine was set to Ultra Stupid Hard that day) and with it reset I beat the machine on two plays. So that is happy.

Paul is definitely not a finesse player. He's the same beatstick we all know well, once you get used to the more glacial pace and precise timing required for moves. Matter of fact, it's disturbingly similar to T3, with the important exceptions of speed, easier dodges, and wall combos. Combos are as important as ever...</div>

[Derithian/India]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: left; '>Is eddy stil in it, because I hate eddie and if they made a character like him I hate that guy too. Because eddie was a cheap fucker. All that matters is if they kept hworang. If they still have him the game rules.</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>You capoeira hating fucknut. =) The game will persist in spite of your prejudices (and yes, there is a capoeirista and that is who I play)</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>By the way, Hworarang is still around. Go Christie Montiero!</div>

[Derithian/India]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: left; '>Why. eddie was soooo cheap. I'll kick your ass with hworang or baek anyday...is baek there tooo. that was my team in ttt. I can kill anyone with those 2</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Current Characters: Law (Marshall). Paul, Kazuya, Hwoarang, Steve (new - boxer), Marduk (new - big ugly gutter-fighter), Christie (like Eddy), Yoshi, Xiaoyu, and King. Jin, the first time-delay character, is playable ONLY by a lucky random select (1 of 11). Heihachi is the boss, but not playable.</div>

[Darx_II]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Interesting that they chose Marshall over Forest.</div>

[Crono]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I've played it a little bit, but not enough to give many impressions yet. Very cool either way (although, of course, not a huge step ahead in graphics or completely new gameplay options).</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>The new characters are awesome! Goldberg!</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Try Steve Fox.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>And Law has a goatee!</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Bah...you can get past button mashers pretty easily in this game.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Besides, I remember playing Tekken 3 and calling everything cheap, but after experimenting with the cheap moves a little bit, we realized that it wasn't that cheap. Moves in this game are no different. King has a punch-punch-throw combo that looks really cheap, but isn't that bad. Steve has a low move that LOOKS mid, which is pretty damn good, but not exactly unbalanced. (It's funny because my friend will now announce "Going loooow!" about a half-second before doing the move, and you still fuck up and don't block it.)</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Have you ever played AGAINST Baek? I just can't help but feel cheated every time I get beat by a Baek player.</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>...so you have to break them with something like straight 3 or 4 which just goes back to facing each other. Also, if you play someone good, her combos are incredibly blockable, and as far as I've played she's TERRIBLE when backed up to the wall. Her strongest feature is her unpredictability, but she's best used against newer players, at least that I've seen.</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Law is Marshall Law, who is Law from T1 and T2, instead of Forrest Law from T3. Heihachi was the boss in T1 and T2.</div>

[Darx_II]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I coulda sworn Kazuya/Devil was the boss of T2, but it's been so long since I played it.</div>

[Darx]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Never got to play anyone that high up. I have played the guy who placed 12th in a national tourney a couple years back. He totally kicked my ass. But he inspired me to play Xiao Yu.</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Hm, you're right.</div>

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Suppose I will. Hopefully there will be some T4 machines around when I get back to Fairbanks.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>A friend of mine played Justin Wong (US MvC2 champ who's 15) and got his ass kicked badly in about 50 games.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>You forget that the Tekken 3 champion was an Eddy player. (I don't remember the TTT champ...)</div>

[Drew S.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No, not really. Eddy is really strong in Tekken 3. He isn't as strong in TT, but Christie is much weaker than either due the way location and movement work in T4.</div>