Brehs What Was It Like When Tekken 3 Dropped?

[Red Shield]

Yep
dudes is forgetting MVC2 and Third Strike....they were holding it down for a long time.


don't know anyone outside of one breh of mine who played CVS though

 

[JuvenileHell]

Tekken didn't kill 2d games..Marvel/Sf3 3rd Strike/Capcom vs SNK was holding it down. To a lesser extent King Of Fighters and Samurai Shodown were played a lot as well (But I live in the Caribbean where both those games are absurdly popular)

Also, Street Fighter/King Of Fighters/Samurai Shodown/Mortal Kombat all tried to go the 3d route around that time and they all flopped and everyone stuck with the 2d versions of those games. Those franchises didn't really see any success in 3d until about 2008 starting with Sf4

 

[hex]

Even during the PS1~360 era I felt it was still big. I used to play fighters way more back then, especially during PS2 and 360 era. SF IV, Tekken and Soul Calibur. Friends I knew played them and it felt like it was still popular. Nowadays it seems like if you aren't following the FGC, fighting games appear to be niche.

I'm not saying it happened over night. But the impetus to make fighting games (at least back then) was arcades.

Once home consoles were able to replicate the experience....even poorly, because the PS1 had a gang of fighting game ports missing mad frames of animation....it was a wrap. Because now, instead of making a fighting game for arcades, that will generate money for the foreseeable future....you're making a one time game for $60.

Eventually that trickled down to fans. Less fighting games = less interest over time.

There was other, tangential elements too. JRPGs blowing up in the U.S. after "FF7", for example. Survival horror, etc. Whole new genres of games were taking up peoples free time.

Fred.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I preferred and still prefer SF games to MK games but my friends all wanted to play MK. However, when Tekken 3 came out. That's all we played. Everything else got bushed.

 

[JuvenileHell]

I'm not saying it happened over night. But the impetus to make fighting games (at least back then) was arcades.

Once home consoles were able to replicate the experience....even poorly, because the PS1 had a gang of fighting game ports missing mad frames of animation....it was a wrap. Because now, instead of making a fighting game for arcades, that will generate money for the foreseeable future....you're making a one time game for $60.

Eventually that trickled down to fans. Less fighting games = less interest over time.

There was other, tangential elements too. JRPGs blowing up in the U.S. after "FF7", for example. Survival horror, etc. Whole new genres of games were taking up peoples free time.

Fred.

You're spot on...I remember that period of time in the early 2000s when the fighting game genre was in the dark ages Mortal Kombat in 3d was a joke, Street Fighter EX was flop (even though I really enjoyed the game), Tekken was still a Korean niche game. The FGC had to play 10 and 20 year old games because the newer fighting games sucked. Then Street Fighter 4 happened.

 

[Breh the HitMang]

it wasnt Tekken 3, it was Eddy Gordo 3

 

[Illuminatos]

it wasnt Tekken 3, it was Eddy Gordo 3

 

[Majestyx]

it was 2 fightin game based movies in the 90's

 

[Phantum]

Arcades were lit

 

[The axe murderer]

it wasnt Tekken 3, it was Eddy Gordo 3

Truth. With this and movies like only the strong the capoeira craze was in around my area

 

[Phantum]

Printing out a big ass detailed movelist for every character from GameFAQs

No Wang Jinrey after I mastered all his 100% combos


Where were you when you seen someone get hit with the Rolling Death Cradle?


Eddy Gordo button smashers getting rocked by Paul Phoenix players with the same move over and over

 

[Animal House]

Cali nikka here and those doughnut shops, laundry mats, 7-11 all had SF 2


Those late nights after coming back from Mexico drunk around 2-3 in the morning ordering burritos and smashing nikkas in Tekken 3 then Tekken Tag

 

[JarrodG]

Thread brought up a good point: what the hell happened to fighting games?

I think they lost their way trying to dumb themselves down for casual audiences and the nail in the coffin for them was DLC.

Fighting games online sucks and take time to be decent

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

I had it as a demo on my PlayStation my third console

The demo was too much for me

I had to buy the full game... a few years later when it became Platinum I couldn’t go to the arcade just to play with new characters

GOATSoundtrack

So many more characters

Animal and weird characters like Mokujin

Meme characters like Gon

Special game modes like tekken ball and Tekken Force mode

The CGI cut scenes theatre mode and story

Spend months on the command list




Unlockables before there was trash called DLC


The GOAT fighting game

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Man this shyt was one of the last few arcade heavy hittas

The graphics
The music
The characters


There was really nothing like it at the time

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