Im not attacking Harada or dev team as people, they are hard workers who I respect but what I have issue with is their decisions that makes wonderful game fall apart and frustrating.
I borrowed my fiends PS4 that had Tekken 7, I play quite a lot of Tekken 6 offline and causally online so bad netcode did not bother me much cuz I was just killing time and had little perspective.
Tekken 7 has amazing gameplay that create a dance between 2 people which I love. Before playing I always liked watching the professional level matches.
I put pretty good chunk of hours into Tekken 7, got to Seriyu rank with Dragunov and Mighty ruler with Anna. I still like the game and from to time get pretty good fighters who even after beating me to a pulp send GGs message. The cast of characters is pretty big and we have some really interesting guest fighters.
But ... its amazing how a lot of things around gamepaly makes Tekken 7 really an impressive frustrating experience.
Game has HORRIBLE loading times
I know that Console and PC versions are port of Arcades, its a thing Namco was doing for a while but everybody was telling them with T6 and TT2 already. How much its annoying to wait legit 2 to 4 minutes on loading screen after both players agreed for a rematch. I legit have enough time to go toilet, do my business, wash hands, come back without hurry and still return before character into starts. At first I thought that I just need to have laptop on for something to check while match loads but the more I did it the less I cared for the fight itself.
SFV and some others have similar issue but Tekken 7 being a 3rd game in the series with exact problem makes it THE worse in my opinion, all features that should help me to be better player like punishment training and replay coaching became huge waste of time. Its because downright exhausting especially since how much game is unstable.
The netcode of the game is not great, everybody knows that. Delay is somewhat bearable to me. However the biggest issues are how many times game is either crashing or losses connection. Like out of all games my friend has on PS4 Tekken 7 makes the most amount error messages and freezzes that I ever encountered on his console. Im not gonna lie I do feel like Im exaggerating but when a fighting game ... a game where only thing a person or 2 people can legit play is in the match, has nothing in between and gets error that prevents or abort the only gameplay that game offers, its close to level of bugs from Bethesda and Cyberpunk in my mind. I cant enjoy the game without these error popipng up at least once for 2-3 sessions.
Later I learned that PS4 is the worst version of the game, the stability and online is more on PC but it has a huge number of cheaters and bots fighters
What bugles my mind is how famous those cheaters are, a lot of players know them by username. Pro players have their name recorded to proof and viewed by thousands yet Namco doesnt do any protection or even ban then.
There is an excuse running around that Fighting games have low budget therefore Tekken Devs cant put enough resources on maintenance and new characters at the same time. The game sold 6 millions and played by thousands, whatever their budget was initially it sure must have been enough to cover fix of crucial systems. Game was successful enough for Namco to make Harada responsible for company's most expensive project yet. Such numbers means there is a responsibility.
Now Im not a dev so all this issues might be to late to solve because of how Tekken 7 was built initially, maybe devs cant do it with patches etc (EXCEPT hackers issue that can and should be taken care) I understand. I
So why do I say Harada makes me hate Tekken 7? Well because of this -
He can put Kiryu, Majima and Goku for all I care but it wont change the fact that decisions of keep selling an unstable arcade port, doing very little actions or nothing against chaters and especially avoiding to discuss real issues about netcode (Im talking his whole "its WIFI players" and "Tekken 7 is 3d that cant work with Rollback" shtick) makes his quirky persona ... makes Tekken 7 fell like a slap to the face and hard to keep enjoying. He doesnt do all decisions but he sure should have done better job at convincing people to do better decisions.
Im not gonna send him threats or harass on twitter just disappointed at what he sold, I still will play Tekken 7 just WAY less then I want.
Sorry for the rant.
EDIT : Sajam says it in short (Timestamped. 10:07)
Thanks to Rhaknar
EDIT 2 : Another thing I do not want to dwell to much is how most DLC characters are just BS and annoying to fight against. They have long move list with trcky mix ups but I cant practice against them till I pay.
Also BS Hitbox
I borrowed my fiends PS4 that had Tekken 7, I play quite a lot of Tekken 6 offline and causally online so bad netcode did not bother me much cuz I was just killing time and had little perspective.
Tekken 7 has amazing gameplay that create a dance between 2 people which I love. Before playing I always liked watching the professional level matches.
I put pretty good chunk of hours into Tekken 7, got to Seriyu rank with Dragunov and Mighty ruler with Anna. I still like the game and from to time get pretty good fighters who even after beating me to a pulp send GGs message. The cast of characters is pretty big and we have some really interesting guest fighters.
But ... its amazing how a lot of things around gamepaly makes Tekken 7 really an impressive frustrating experience.
Game has HORRIBLE loading times
I know that Console and PC versions are port of Arcades, its a thing Namco was doing for a while but everybody was telling them with T6 and TT2 already. How much its annoying to wait legit 2 to 4 minutes on loading screen after both players agreed for a rematch. I legit have enough time to go toilet, do my business, wash hands, come back without hurry and still return before character into starts. At first I thought that I just need to have laptop on for something to check while match loads but the more I did it the less I cared for the fight itself.
SFV and some others have similar issue but Tekken 7 being a 3rd game in the series with exact problem makes it THE worse in my opinion, all features that should help me to be better player like punishment training and replay coaching became huge waste of time. Its because downright exhausting especially since how much game is unstable.
The netcode of the game is not great, everybody knows that. Delay is somewhat bearable to me. However the biggest issues are how many times game is either crashing or losses connection. Like out of all games my friend has on PS4 Tekken 7 makes the most amount error messages and freezzes that I ever encountered on his console. Im not gonna lie I do feel like Im exaggerating but when a fighting game ... a game where only thing a person or 2 people can legit play is in the match, has nothing in between and gets error that prevents or abort the only gameplay that game offers, its close to level of bugs from Bethesda and Cyberpunk in my mind. I cant enjoy the game without these error popipng up at least once for 2-3 sessions.
Later I learned that PS4 is the worst version of the game, the stability and online is more on PC but it has a huge number of cheaters and bots fighters
What bugles my mind is how famous those cheaters are, a lot of players know them by username. Pro players have their name recorded to proof and viewed by thousands yet Namco doesnt do any protection or even ban then.
There is an excuse running around that Fighting games have low budget therefore Tekken Devs cant put enough resources on maintenance and new characters at the same time. The game sold 6 millions and played by thousands, whatever their budget was initially it sure must have been enough to cover fix of crucial systems. Game was successful enough for Namco to make Harada responsible for company's most expensive project yet. Such numbers means there is a responsibility.
Now Im not a dev so all this issues might be to late to solve because of how Tekken 7 was built initially, maybe devs cant do it with patches etc (EXCEPT hackers issue that can and should be taken care) I understand. I
So why do I say Harada makes me hate Tekken 7? Well because of this -
He can put Kiryu, Majima and Goku for all I care but it wont change the fact that decisions of keep selling an unstable arcade port, doing very little actions or nothing against chaters and especially avoiding to discuss real issues about netcode (Im talking his whole "its WIFI players" and "Tekken 7 is 3d that cant work with Rollback" shtick) makes his quirky persona ... makes Tekken 7 fell like a slap to the face and hard to keep enjoying. He doesnt do all decisions but he sure should have done better job at convincing people to do better decisions.
Im not gonna send him threats or harass on twitter just disappointed at what he sold, I still will play Tekken 7 just WAY less then I want.
Sorry for the rant.
EDIT : Sajam says it in short (Timestamped. 10:07)
Thanks to Rhaknar
EDIT 2 : Another thing I do not want to dwell to much is how most DLC characters are just BS and annoying to fight against. They have long move list with trcky mix ups but I cant practice against them till I pay.
Also BS Hitbox
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