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[Sumasshu]

Originally posted by MAZYORA:
hahahhah! Are you joking? VF4 Arcade topples Tekken 5 in every aspect. No contest! VF4 came out in 2001 too. VF5 will be light years ahead of anything namco could ever dream of. And i'm sure tecmo and namco will rip off every good aspect of vf5 just like they did with vf4

Some advice: Whenever you are about to post something, leave it for 24 hours, then come back and ask yourself, "is this really worth posting?"

Those of you bringing VF gameplay into this thread, what are you trying to accomplish? Once a Tekken fan, always a Tekken fan. No amount of Tekken bashing or Virtua Fighter praise will change that. Obviously Tekken does things differently that VF, and obviously there are a lot of people who like the differences, otherwise the Tekken series would have died off years ago.

My two cents on Tekken 5 graphics: Without a doubt the best looking Tekken game to date. Some levels, such as that field of flowers under the blue moon, are easily comparable to the best looking fighting games. No, it doesn't blow any game out of the water, but it still looks extremely good. Those of you saying it doesn't even compare are only kidding yourselves.

 

[jarrod]

Team Tekken > Team Soul Calibur

You've got that backwards. Team Tekken made BreakDown.

 

[Guns N' Poops]

Team TekkenTeam=Soul Calibur = suck donkey balls

Fixed. Namco doesn't have any decent beat 'em up franchise.

 

[Miburou]

You've got that backwards. Team Tekken made BreakDown.

You're not helping your case there. Breakdown was an ambitious, if flawed, game.

 

[Crankenstein]

Fixed. Namco doesn't have any decent beat 'em up franchise.

true, Nintendo has the best beat 'em up by far in SSB:M.

The best fighting games are Soul Calibur with VF right there. Depends on whether you want fists or weapons.

 

[Miburou]

Fixed.

How ironic.

 

[jarrod]

You're not helping your case there. Breakdown was an ambitious, if flawed, game.

And ultimately, a bad game regardless of intention. Let's not forget to mention Death by Degrees too, the Tekken team's been pretty horrible this gen.

 

[Miburou]

And ultimately, a bad game regardless of intention. Let's not forget to mention Death by Degrees too, the Tekken team's been pretty horrible this gen.

Have YOU played it? I have, and I found it to be an overall good experience. It also got a 9/10 from XBN (not that it really matters). Haven't played DbD yet.

 

[SolidSnakex]

And ultimately, a bad game regardless of intention. Let's not forget to mention Death by Degrees too, the Tekken team's been pretty horrible this gen.

From what i've read DbD wasn't actually by the Tekken team. It was done by another division that used Nina because she's a well known character.

 

[jarrod]

Have YOU played it? I have, and I found it to be an overall good experience. It also got a 9/10 from XBN (not that it really matters). Haven't played DbD yet.

Nope, I just going by the general consensus. Tekken 4, Death by Degrees and Breakdown are all considered to be generally dissapointing, while Tekken 2-3 were considered top of the line. Looks like a rather dramatic decline imo, though thankfully Tekken 5 seems to have reversed the trend.


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From what i've read DbD wasn't actually by the Tekken team. It was done by another division that used Nina because she's a well known character.

Makes sense, that's a lot of games to crank out for one team. Any idea what the team did before?

 

[VNZ]

This shot contains far too many silly elements to be considered "good looking", but at least it sports some very nice geometry and material work:

 

[Baron Aloha]

Does Tekken 5 raise the visuals bar on the PS2?

The arcade version runs on slightly superior hardware. Many people questioned whether or not the PS2 could handle the conversion. Many people assummed the conversion would be somewhere around Tekken 3 quality. In the end the PS2 version turned out looking near-identical to the arcade version. I'd say the fact that T5 makes the PS2 do stuff that many people thought it would not be able to do is reason enough to conclude that the general consensus is that T5 raises the visual bar on the PS2 (in some areas at the very least).

And as far as gameplay goes... T5 is the best playing game in the series. I tried going back to tag the other night and I just couldn't. The characters are just so much more fleshed out in T5 that playing TTT feels like a huge step backwards. The tagging in TTT is still fun though.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Makes sense, that's a lot of games to crank out for one team. Any idea what the team did before?

The previous games the producer and director have worked on are Ridge Racer, Moto GP1 and 2, and Angler King.