Originally posted by: vr6
michelle is gone. nina kicks ass.
and Tekken5 > Soul Caliber
I'm starting to get into it again. I was just playing it last night at the arcade, Ganryu is time-released. He's probably my altogether favorite Tekken character, and what got me into Tekken in the first place. (With Tekken 2 - in the days of Tekken 1, I was more of a VF player.) I was disappointed that both Ganryu and Jack were missing from Tekken 4. They really juiced Ganryu up in 5 though, they took his Tag version, and added more stuff, more linkers, a new stun-hit/grab/air-toss thing, and a bunch of others. I started destroying my friends with him last night, and I haven't barely even really gotten into Tekken 5 much yet at all. But the Ganryu magic is the same as it always was.
I dunno why, I guess I just find that the fat sumo characters are the easiest to play for me. I play a lot of E. Honda in Street Fighter, along with Zangief too. E. Honda rules in Snk vs. Capcom 2 as well, he has crazy lockdown stuff. The coolest part is, he's quicker than he looks, and has a nifty punch-parry thing. I also figured out how to beat the computer in VF3 easily using the Sumo guy. "Fat" rules over "fancy", at least in my book.
Oh, and supposedly, Heihachi
isn't exactly dead. It seems that Namco may have pulled a bit of a sneaky plot-twist on us. The arcade's FMV intro seems to show that Heihachi is dead, but the home version's intro supposedly shows more, and he
isn't dead after all... and he's supposed to be time-released at the arcades, after the release-date of the home version. (Pretty clever marketing too - player buys home version of popular arcade game, finds out new twist to story line, finds out new character is unlocked at arcades based on that story line twist, and goes back to the arcade to play. Normally, once the home version comes out, the arcade version starts to get a bit deserted at times.) Me, I'm kind of hardcore, I'll always find an arcade with some fighting games in it, although they seem to be disappearing these days. Even in a metro area when I have easily eight arcades within a half-hour radius of me, they still don't seem to draw nearly as large a crowd as they used to.