OFFICIAL: Street Fighter x Tekken thread

[purbeast0]

i remember growing up as a kid loving both series (as well as mortal kombat and killer instinct) and always hoped one day that there would be a game that i coud play both series' characters.

well the time is almost here! next month we will be able to do that!

is anyone else interested in this game on here? i know we have some fighter fans. i'm definitely picking it up day 1. i'm still not sure how it will play out thogh, the gameplay definitely looks kind of odd and different, that is for sure. and the whole gem system is kind of odd too.

but i am not dismissing anything until i get my hands on it.

 

[JackBurton]

I'm interested in it mainly because it has a team/tag system, however a 2D game vs a 3D game, played out in a 2D world seems rather strange. I would think true Tekken players would have a real disadvantage with this game. Taking the 3D out of Tekken, would be like playing 3D Street Fighter. It's just weird. .

 

[purbeast0]

I'm interested in it mainly because it has a team/tag system, however a 2D game vs a 3D game, played out in a 2D world seems rather strange. I would think true Tekken players would have a real disadvantage with this game. Taking the 3D out of Tekken, would be like playing 3D Street Fighter. It's just weird. .

well namco is going to be doing that with Tekken x Street Fighter. they have been very secretetive about development so far though. but it looks like they've done some good homeage w/translating the tekken guys to the sf world. and the tag system is very similar to tekken tag.

 

[JackBurton]

I would just love some "X-Men vs Street Fighter" or "Capcom vs SNK 2" type team fighting. If I can't have that though, I guess I'll take Street Fighter x Tekken. We'll see. Hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.

 

[purbeast0]

i kind of lost interest in fighters when CVS2 was the popular fighter so I never really experienced it, but people love that game in general. i did enjoy xmen vs sf back in the day, and actually bought a used japanese copy for sega saturn from babbages back in the day. came w/that ram cart. was like $70 USED for both heh.

but mvc3 is the cloests to a new game to that you will get to. i never realized how broken xmen vs sf was till a year or so ago. i enjoy watching umvc3 but not playing it. im too old and slow for that game. and my main comp is online, and mvc3 online was BBAADD.

 

[JackBurton]

i kind of lost interest in fighters when CVS2 was the popular fighter so I never really experienced it, but people love that game in general. i did enjoy xmen vs sf back in the day, and actually bought a used japanese copy for sega saturn from babbages back in the day. came w/that ram cart. was like $70 USED for both heh.

but mvc3 is the cloests to a new game to that you will get to. i never realized how broken xmen vs sf was till a year or so ago. i enjoy watching umvc3 but not playing it. im too old and slow for that game. and my main comp is online, and mvc3 online was BBAADD.

MvC3 was weird to me. It didn't have that traditional 6 button fighting style and it really threw me off, so I really never got into it. And I even own the game.

 

[purbeast0]

been showing a lot of footage of it here all day...

http://crossassault.ign.com/

mini-tourney starts at 5pm PST in 15 mins if anyone cares heh.

 

[zerocool84]

I loved Tekken so much. I'll definitely wait on reviews for this one though. I might wait until Namco releases their version to buy another fighter.

 

[purbeast0]

I loved Tekken so much. I'll definitely wait on reviews for this one though. I might wait until Namco releases their version to buy another fighter.

yea i think that is coming EARLIEST 2013. they haven't really released any information on that game at all.

 

[zerocool84]

yea i think that is coming EARLIEST 2013. they haven't really released any information on that game at all.

Damn I figured 6 months. Guess I might look at picking this up then if the reviews are good.

 

[purbeast0]

you'd be better off reading fighting game forums for their opinions than actual reviews. those guys hardly know what a good fighting game is.

hell, mortal kombat won fighting game of the year by the guys who review games. game was far from the best fighter out last year.

 

[mcmilljb]

Best Buy is going to have 50% trade in bonus this week on preorders of Street Fighter X Tekken. I definitely might preorder it to get that bonus.

 

[TecHNooB]

still playin mahvel. foot foot dive!!!

 

[JackBurton]

Has anyone looked into the "gem system" this game is incorporating? It seems to me that it throws the balance of the game off, and encourages paying for an advantage (pay for more gems).

 

[Aikouka]

I don't see Lee Chaolan listed on the Wikipedia page for the game... how disappointing.

 

[purbeast0]

Has anyone looked into the "gem system" this game is incorporating? It seems to me that it throws the balance of the game off, and encourages paying for an advantage (pay for more gems).

from what i've seen it really doesn't have much impact on the game. this is just from watching cross assault a little bit. but we really won't know until we use it. personally i am not a big fan of the actual look of the gems being activated, i find the glowing to be distracting.

there may be a chance I get the game today, but not 100% on that yet.

 

[JackBurton]

from what i've seen it really doesn't have much impact on the game. this is just from watching cross assault a little bit. but we really won't know until we use it. personally i am not a big fan of the actual look of the gems being activated, i find the glowing to be distracting.

there may be a chance I get the game today, but not 100% on that yet.

Ok, well if you do get it, please provide some insight to the gem system. Because to me, it doesn't look to be an even playing field. Do players with more/different gems (as in the special edition) have more of an advantage to others that just purchased the standard edition which didn't come with as many gems?

 

[purbeast0]

Ok, well if you do get it, please provide some insight to the gem system. Because to me, it doesn't look to be an even playing field. Do players with more/different gems (as in the special edition) have more of an advantage to others that just purchased the standard edition which didn't come with as many gems?

there are different gems with different preorders i believe. i'm actually not 100% sure how they are activated and stuff, and I know there are some that are like 'auto blocking' for a few seconds and what not, and some give more power for few seconds, etc. but it is a way to "customize" your fighter to your stengths/weaknesses.

from what i've seen though, i definitely don't see it having much effect on play with people who know what they are doing.

 

[purbeast0]

no dice for me tonight, the 2 places getting it locally wont have it till tomorrow around noon. i will probably snag it tomorrow though, although i know one of the places is charging $10 extra for the early one. but its about 30 mins closer than the other one so i will probably get it there if i do.

 

[purbeast0]

ok so I got it today at 11:30am and pretty much been playing it all day since, other than eating lunch w/my wife...

this game is SSSSOOOOO different than sf4. i don't even know where to begin. other than the graphics, it is really NOTHING like it. and that is my problem right now, because i keep trying to do balrogs combos from sf4 lol. and they work, but the timing is different, and there are better combos to use too.

ive only checked out a handful of tekken characters so far - law, paul, and king. i was goign to try and run king but i dont think i am going to. i just have never been very good as a grappler in the sf world, and his moves are kind of funky. most tekken characters are goign to take some getting used to, if the 3 guys i've used so far are an example. they seem to have a lot more moves like unique attacks, and specials that link into other specials. they also have a lot of 'target combos' which are the dial-a-combos yo uare used to from tekken in general.

i went online and online is a mess. there HAS to be a day 1 patch. there is a huge sound glitch where sound effects like cut out mid match. it's really annoying. the netcode is pretty bad so far too. sf4 is better online so far compared to this. like i can do some combos everytime in training, but get online, and w/the frame drops and stuff, it's nearly impossible to do the same combos.

i just hate the noob feeling that i have in this game. the online matches i played, if people watched them, it is like wtf is going on. there is so much to learn in this game since it's all totally new to me.

well if anyone has any questions just ask. i havent done much w/the gem stuff yet either. i don't even know how to activate some of them either, cause it doesn't have the conditions met. alot of them are like 'block 4 attacks to activate' and stuff like that. but some of em don't tell you how to activate them.

 

[purbeast0]

ok so i've played a shitload more online tonight, and the online is MUCH better than it was earlier, connection wise. the sound bug is still there, but damn, the actual netcode seems to have gotten much better. and now i'm getting the hang of it as far as timing and how to play this game. hardest thing for me is trying to NOT play sf4 lol. i gotta stop doing sf4 strats in here, cause it's so different.

well here are my day 1 stats. put 12 hours into it today hah, wife probably hates me!

http://i.imgur.com/hSWg1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DrsOe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gpMn6.jpg

12 hours day 1 lol. that is how i roll!

 

[purbeast0]

is anyone else playing this?

i honestly cannot believe that they actually shipped this game with the sound bug that happens online. like the sound effects are literally not there for 90% of the match. ridiculous.

and on top of that, it was exposed already that all 12 DLC characters are already completed and on the disc. so capcom can have time to do DLC prior to the game even releasing, but they can't fix a fucking issue with the sound that is a MAJOR glitch in the online mode?

 

[TecHNooB]

Capcom giving up on UMVC3 was the last straw

 

[purbeast0]

Capcom giving up on UMVC3 was the last straw

what you mean?

 

[Chacotako]

I'm debating about picking this up. Are you still using rog? Balrog/Steve sounds like it could be fun