Street Fighter x Tekken is one of favorite fighting games. Yeah, it has a lot of faults, but the way combos work in that game is really fun. Kazuya/Heihachi are so damn good that it makes me sad that I'll never get to play them in another game again
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So it seems Street Fighter x Tekken has been forgotten
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The final version isn't bad, but the game was long dead to me by then.
Its a fun Vita game though, of the best fighters on that system. I think I either got it free or for just a few bucks.
Its a fun Vita game though, of the best fighters on that system. I think I either got it free or for just a few bucks.
I enjoyed my time with it. I wasn't familiar with Tekken so that many new characters was a big selling point.
Those launch version timeouts were rough
Those launch version timeouts were rough
To this day, I cannot believe how anyone approved that awful gem system. Game was more fun than any recent SF(after it was updated), which is a shame how it got ruined by that one thing
Super fun game but with some really fatal flaws. I love how they translated the Tekken characters into 2D/SF versions and those costumes were sick. Secretly wishing/waiting for a remastermake (ideally with changes in gameplay and a little graphics overhaul).
I liked it too.
The game got bashed by the fgc, undeservingly in my opinion.
Loving the SfxT appreciation in this thread, I'll echo others and say it's easily one my favorite fighting games ever and I really wish Capcom stuck the landing with this game, as I don't see it ever having a future.
Id go as far to say I actually really enjoyed the idea of the gem system and some of the ways it was implemented, but the ways it came up short were far too unbalanced and that killed it before it had a chance. I also enjoyed it a lot more than SF4 which I played a lot at the time as well.
Saw you've gotten replies to this already and wanted to add mine: can't speak for anyone else but this never happened once the entire time I played the game ranked online.
Now, stacking attack gems for ridiculous damage? I remember that being a thing. Hugo was straight up scary if grapplers are a weak point like myself and Rolento's pokes hurt a lot more than they should have, but overall you stopped seeing auto block gems and auto combo gems pretty much completely after like C+ in ranked if I'm remembering correctly, maybe even lower. I would think it would be because even with this being possible it wasn't worth taking off some of the other gems.
How could I forget this? That's still amazing.
Id go as far to say I actually really enjoyed the idea of the gem system and some of the ways it was implemented, but the ways it came up short were far too unbalanced and that killed it before it had a chance. I also enjoyed it a lot more than SF4 which I played a lot at the time as well.
Saw you've gotten replies to this already and wanted to add mine: can't speak for anyone else but this never happened once the entire time I played the game ranked online.
Now, stacking attack gems for ridiculous damage? I remember that being a thing. Hugo was straight up scary if grapplers are a weak point like myself and Rolento's pokes hurt a lot more than they should have, but overall you stopped seeing auto block gems and auto combo gems pretty much completely after like C+ in ranked if I'm remembering correctly, maybe even lower. I would think it would be because even with this being possible it wasn't worth taking off some of the other gems.
you forgot the best one
How could I forget this? That's still amazing.
Still hoping that we can see Namco's take on the collab, some day. Especially after Akuma and the other "2D" style character in T7, it just always seemed like were "prepping" their scene for when they'll be fighting against that kind of thing all the time in an actual crossover title.
Can people stop saying this. Some of the best things in life were created without people having asked for it.
If people only made things that someone asked for, we would have a few genuinely good things and a whole lot of shit, especially when it comes to "Gamers" and video games.
This game didn't just deserve to die after what they tried to pull with the gems. It needed to.
Capcom might have over-corrected for the "jab X time-out" complaints when they made crush counters in SF5 though.
Capcom might have over-corrected for the "jab X time-out" complaints when they made crush counters in SF5 though.
Take the already ugly aesthetic of SFIV and crank the saturation up to 11. Bleh.
The game was ugly, the gems were dumb, the DLC drama was inexcusable.
SF vs MK is the crossover we need.
SF vs MK is the crossover we need.
The game had its chance and it still has some fans that continue to play it, like a lot of other niche fighting games.
In my local community we gave it a good push and it was our main game for the launch period. During events it was a pretty regular thing to see people in the back having fun playing SF4 whilst the SFxT bracket was being run, and eventually SF4 took over again as SFxT just didn't generate the same level of enthusiasm or engagement.
As someone who spent a lot of time playing SF4, SFxT, SFV, Tag 2 and Tekken 7 I know which games out of that list that I'd still go back to for a decent set with friends and which of those I would only really go back to out of a sense of morbid curiosity.
I think Capcom clearly took one big lesson from SFxT and that was to try and stick to only one big fighting game in the SF model at any one time. Running two in the modern era of fighting games was a mistake.
In my local community we gave it a good push and it was our main game for the launch period. During events it was a pretty regular thing to see people in the back having fun playing SF4 whilst the SFxT bracket was being run, and eventually SF4 took over again as SFxT just didn't generate the same level of enthusiasm or engagement.
As someone who spent a lot of time playing SF4, SFxT, SFV, Tag 2 and Tekken 7 I know which games out of that list that I'd still go back to for a decent set with friends and which of those I would only really go back to out of a sense of morbid curiosity.
I think Capcom clearly took one big lesson from SFxT and that was to try and stick to only one big fighting game in the SF model at any one time. Running two in the modern era of fighting games was a mistake.
By the time the patched version came out with the rest of the DLC, nobody cared anymore. The initial version turned off so many people that they just weren't willing to give the game a chance once it actually got really good.
Oh well. Won't be the first, or last time that happens to a fighting game.
Oh well. Won't be the first, or last time that happens to a fighting game.
It's a shame discord wasn't around and kicking back then
No one wanted a crossover between the two biggest fighting game franchises (that aren't Smash. MK just had the reboot but wasn't at the level it's at now)?
Riiiiight...
One thing Street Fighter x Tekken did that I wish other games would try too was the customization of colors for your character. Of course, the game being SFxT, Capcom had to make some stupid decision about it and only had like two rows of colors at launch and they unlocked the rest over time, like a new row every 2 weeks or every month. It was incredibly dumb.
Oh yeah, you could blind your opponent with those neon colors.
As everything else in that game, the idea had potential but Capcom had to go out of their way to ruin it in the most spectacular fashion, so they'll probably won't try that again :/
SFxT after the 2013? update was easily the best FG last gen. Such a fun game, and they managed to bring the Tekken characters over so damn well.
SFxT without the gems would've been one of the best games in the genre. Capcom should be commended for translating the Tekken characters so well to 2D.
I'm still waiting for them to copy and paste Steve Fox's moveset to a Street Fighter 5 (or 6 now I guess) character. I was hoping they were going to give Ed some of his moves, but alas...
I'm still waiting for them to copy and paste Steve Fox's moveset to a Street Fighter 5 (or 6 now I guess) character. I was hoping they were going to give Ed some of his moves, but alas...
This game was so hilariously anti-consumer lmao
One of the biggest examples is how they totally fucked over anyone who only owned an Xbox 360. The PS3/Vita version has five whole fucking console exclusive characters.
Cole
Toro
Kuro
Mega Man
Pac-Man
Like the first three are first party Sony characters so them being exclusive makes sense, but why the fuck were 360 users barred off from Mega Man and Pac-Man? At this point, Capcom was literally just sucking Sony off hard. To top it off, there's also the whole ordeal with the 12 DLC (aka Disk-Locked Content) characters that you could get for free...by getting the Vita version and using the accompanying download code for PS3. Jesus christ.
One of the biggest examples is how they totally fucked over anyone who only owned an Xbox 360. The PS3/Vita version has five whole fucking console exclusive characters.
Cole
Toro
Kuro
Mega Man
Pac-Man
Like the first three are first party Sony characters so them being exclusive makes sense, but why the fuck were 360 users barred off from Mega Man and Pac-Man? At this point, Capcom was literally just sucking Sony off hard. To top it off, there's also the whole ordeal with the 12 DLC (aka Disk-Locked Content) characters that you could get for free...by getting the Vita version and using the accompanying download code for PS3. Jesus christ.
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Nah I like it a lot ! The gem system is a non issue for me, I play offline. I still play it from time to time, the roster is great.
Well, the game flopped both competitively and sales-wise for Capcom, so i guess i'm right :). Feel free to prove me wrong with some datas.
(To be fair, i mostly have an issue with the whole "Tekken and SF players always wanted to know which player is the best" marketing plot they tried to sell the game on. It wasn't real at all lol)
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To this day, SFxT has the best intro of all the Capcom fgs since the 360/PS3 days. I can only see the UMVC3 one going toe to toe with that one.
and then they did infinity Gems in MvC Infinite. which is also best forgotten
You probably mean :
Mmh i don't know... some shots are really amazing in the UMVC3 one... especially the last one with Magneto vs Galactus
The Marvel 3 Marketing was amazing tho'
Haha oh man I remember watching that or listening about it on Team Spookys channel back in the day. What an interesting time the FGC was back then!
I'm one of the weirdos that prefers the Ultimate All Stars version.
It's all good ! TvC was great, i kinda miss it. I'd love a Switch rerelease
They did a great job with the Tekken characters design wise and gameplay making some of them actually likeable.
The game rules. They nailed making the game a mix of both respective series by adding the Street Fighter footies with the Tekken juggles. Making it a 2v2 was a solid choice too. The gem stuff was kinda wack at first but they managed to figure it out. Making the game 2v2 competitively in the beginning didn't help either. Not to mention the DLC controversy. Looking at the game with all that behind us I can safely say that the game is great. I hope this isn't the last time both companies come together to make a fighting game.
