Tekken 8 tournament at Combo Breaker 2024 was amazing!

[Immortal]

If you didn't see it yet, you should!

Day 1 pools:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2154000994?

Day 2 pools and R2:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2154913619

Day 3 Top 96/24:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2155839483

Top 8:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2156235052

Tournament was really hype with almost all characters in the game represented also there were no doubles in top 8.

[ok i pull up]

Is it just me or the production quality have dropped significantly?
Only 3 commentators?
EVO Japan felt very low production as well, compared to tekken 7 era.

[Zagryzaec]

So what chars were top 8? I don't have time to watch tight now.

[Immortal]

Shaheen
Nina
Victor
Kuma
Bryan
Reina/Eddy
Dragunov
Jack-8

Originally posted by ok i pull up:

Is it just me or the production quality have dropped significantly?
Only 3 commentators?
EVO Japan felt very low production as well, compared to tekken 7 era.

If you measure production quality by the amount of commentators, than, yes there were "only" 3 commentators, which is more than enough thou. Doesn't change the fact tournament run smothly and was really hype.

[ok i pull up]

Originally posted by Immortal:

Shaheen
Nina
Victor
Kuma
Bryan
Reina/Eddy
Dragunov
Jack-8

Originally posted by ok i pull up:

Is it just me or the production quality have dropped significantly?
Only 3 commentators?
EVO Japan felt very low production as well, compared to tekken 7 era.

If you measure production quality by the amount of commentators, than, yes there were "only" 3 commentators, which is more than enough thou. Doesn't change the fact tournament run smothly and was really hype.

Only 3 in total compared to different commentators we used to have during the pools. But not only that, i meant in general, something is off

[kiteless 凧無し]

game is homogenised

everyone can heat engage into 50/50s. When the universal gameplay mechanics are built around a casino component it doesn't really matter who you pick because you're playing the lottery regardless of your pick

every character is capable of 50%-60% damaging combos of any launcher, counter hit

Everything feels samey in this game, nothing stands out. The game is so formulaic and one dimensional

[Immortal]

Say what you will about Tekken 8 but at tournament level it was hype as hell. Combo Breaker had something like 1.6k entrants being number 1 of any fighting games if i remember correctly.

Sets were really hype, some reads players made, especially in top 8 were nothing short of amazing.

And while sure the game is homogenised and based around 50/50s it doesn't mean character picks have no meaning, coz there are always some viewed better than the others etc...

Either you like it or not, doesn't matter, the game have to sell or it will be the end of the franchise, you can't go by legacy alone, you need new players(customers), a lot of them and the only way to get them into a legacy fighting game is to make the game easier to get into it and that's exactly what they did, which was the smart move.