STREET FIGHTER6 or TEKKEN8?

[emptyshell]

hey everyone! im new at fightings and wanna know wich game better?
i dont want to buy both

[Grampire]

If you want to actually learn how to play fighters IMO SF.

If you want to pick up a character that can take you into low-mid ranks without too much learning, Tekken.

Tekken is extremely deep but has some really situational tech that is very demanding to learn. Some of the basic strings are also really powerful and easy execution-wise. These two things can be exploited early on but will be a brick wall once you get to a certain point.

Street Fighter has more demanding execution but rewards fundamentals more, which can take you much further.

Both take a good amount of work and practice to be competent.

SF6 has better SP IMO.

[Ultra Lord]

See the roster of characters and the one you like and mean what you take

[Ultra Lord]

Originally posted by Grampire:

If you want to actually learn how to play fighters IMO SF.

If you want to pick up a character that can take you into low-mid ranks without too much learning, Tekken.

Tekken is extremely deep but has some really situational tech that is very demanding to learn. This can be exploited early on but will be a brick wall once you get to a certain point.

Street Fighter has more demanding execution but rewards fundamentals more, which can take you much further.

Both take a good amount of work and practice to be competent.

SF6 has better SP IMO.

Strange when playing in the demo of these games
tekken seemed much more complicated
can try tekken and get to the middle level to take a break sometimes from the sf

[⛧True Survivor⛧]

They're very different games gameplaywise and skills you develope in one won't carry over to the other. The key question is do you prefer 2D or 3D fighters.

[Shifue]

Honestly they are both fighters yes but different styles and both also have their "exciting mechanic" that basically no one likes drive gauge here and heat gauge in tekken 8. Each game has their gimmick of how they like to run combos this one is finding links and using the drive gauge. Tekken is launchers and air juggles mainly but both games do this just again these are the main styles.

Another comparison would be this as well do you prefer combat based more on some what realistic or more power driven? Tekken leans more toward hand to hand while SF almost every other person has a fireball or some kind of ranged attack or hyper power. Both are easy to get into with having characters with low skill floors and some with even lower skill ceilings and but have a "easy" mode to play on where the game basically plays it's self for you(don't have to learn motions and some combos etc.) SF is modern controls and Tekken is special controls.

Last thing i would consider is how much patience you have both can be challenging to learn depending on who and how you want to play. Keeping in mind both of these games award aggressive playing more then slower pace. You will as well see things that should not work and does when you watch pro players play trust me in most cases no one you face will play like that as most are hyper aggressive. I feel damage is more balanced in SF as opposed to tekken since many of the characters in tekken have touch of death combos which is a term that if they start your whole life bar is gone.

[Riley]

It's always been explained to me that Tekken has a lower skill floor for newer players compared to Street fighter so it's easier to get into, but also has a higher skill ceiling so there's a lot more to learn and understand at higher levels of play.

Personally I prefer Street fighter, I don't like the whole side stepping mechanic Tekken has in general. Tekken is also one of those fighters where sometimes you just get forced into one long ass combo string you can't get out of so you're forced to watch yourself get pounded into the dirt like "When is it my turn to play the game?" moments. Street fighter on the other hand makes me feel like I can come back from a bad round if I play well and theres more room for recovery.

But I'm not an expert at either game and pretty awful at fighters in general so take from that what you will.

[Shifue]

Originally posted by Riley:

It's always been explained to me that Tekken has a lower skill floor for newer players compared to Street fighter so it's easier to get into, but also has a higher skill ceiling so there's a lot more to learn and understand at higher levels of play.

Personally I prefer Street fighter, I don't like the whole side stepping mechanic Tekken has in general. Tekken is also one of those fighters where sometimes you just get forced into one long ass combo string you can't get out of so you're forced to watch yourself get pounded into the dirt like "When is it my turn to play the game?" moments. Street fighter on the other hand makes me feel like I can come back from a bad round if I play well and theres more room for recovery.

But I'm not an expert at either game and pretty awful at fighters in general so take from that what you will.

Honestly it depends on who you talk to about the games. I am old and been playing them both since their existence lol(to be fair i wasn't old enough to play street fighter 1 i played 2). Both honestly have as low of a skill floor as you want it to be. Then add which character. Just being fair you can make any character functional by just learning 2-4 moves(which may even include a small combo. Now the long term honestly i would say hands down tekken is a lot deeper due to most characters having different stances that do their own moves and most characters having 100+ moves to use. Then again just like here people will use a handful of the moves and nothing else.

So it's a pick your own skill adventure. I mean hell i have seen a few honda players make it into master rank only using headbutt and buttslam. In tekken i have seen players make it to top tier as well with one or two launcher combos.

[Rhomak]

tekken

[XGear]

No doubt, TEKKEN 8,

Street Fighter 6 launched very "raw".
Characters that became famous such as Sagat, Bison, Vega, Balrog, Fei Long, T.Hawk, Cody, Guy, Sakura, Karin, etc. did not even appear in the game.
We have a weak cast, with uninteresting new characters like Kymberli, Manon, etc.
The game is selling characters that should already exist in the base game as a "Battle Pass" which costs practically the price of the base game, and worst of all, there are only 4 characters, which means you will have to pay again same price of a base game if they released 4 more characters in the future.
I believe that to complete this game, you will have to pay about 6 base games, as they bring passes from 4 to 4 characters.
Better wait for them to release the "Super SF6" version, which will be more complete and you will pay for everything at once.
Tekken is already complete, with a vast cast of characters and customizations in addition to "WOke free" in the game's content. Tekken is certainly far superior to this Street Fighter today.

[KillScreen]

Both have demos. Its better if you try out for yourself before that commitment.

[OyajiBR☕]

Tekken 8 has a bigger base roster. But it also depends mainly on whether the player prefers 2D or 3D fighting.

[DANIEL RAIN]

Neither, both are awful in multiple aspects, expecially this one

[MicroStutterEngine]

Originally posted by DANIEL RAIN:

Neither, both are awful in multiple aspects, expecially this one :lunar2019laughingpig:

Says this while playing the second worst DOA in the series, alright.

[DANIEL RAIN]

Originally posted by MicroStutterEngine:

Originally posted by DANIEL RAIN:

Neither, both are awful in multiple aspects, expecially this one

Says this while playing the second worst DOA in the series, alright.

Worst in your dreams tho.

[ronnie pickering]

Very difficult to choose actually.

For a beginner, SF6 is the easier game. T8 is my first Tekken and the movelist, learning all the characters movesets, how to deal with the different grabs requires a lot of knowledge checks which I personally do not enjoy.

That being said I've always been a Street Fighter player and have been playing since 4.
If you like flashier moves and a more technical game go for Tekken, if you prefer 'cleaner' gameplay go with Sf, but they are both very good games.