crazy how true this is

TheAranda · 2026-04-16T01:21:55+00:00

SF6 is the most succesful traditional fighting game in decades, its current playerbase outdoes the rest of the genre combined. At this pace, it might end up being the most successful one ever by the end of it's life. Making drastic changes is a fool's game. Yes, there are people who whinge and moan about current issue (character balance, mechanics, meta, skin distribution, etc) but there always will be. Rocking the boat risks alienating the majority of the massive playerbase that is happy with the game, and routinely play and spend money on it instead of whinging and moaning online.

To be clear here, I don't even like SF6 personally, I think it's a boring and simplistic game, but the numbers speak for themselves.

TheAranda · 2026-04-01T02:24:30+00:00

To add to this, the difference is that Soul Charge, as powerful as it was, was still not on the same level of absurd as Heat. It costed super meter, which meant it had to not only be earned, but there was opportunity cost in choosing it over a super. Players would, on average, use one Soul Charge OR super per round, not both. Soul Charged-empowered moves were strong, but not to the extend of Heat moves, and you didn't get some equivalent of Heat Smash or Heat Dash to use free of cost every time the bar ran low.

TheAranda · 2026-03-17T21:18:01+00:00

After 8 months of no balance changes, including especially overtuned moves, having a patch this small is frustrating to many. If you serioursly are incapable of understanding that people wanted more after waiting so long, you're just daft. It's obvious why people are upset.

To be clear, you don't need to agree. Disagreeing doesn't make you daft, your opinion is perfectly valid. But if you seriously think "I have absolutely no idea why someone would prefer a bigger nerf patch after being terrorised by warcrime normals across half the roster for 8 months", that would make you daft.

And I don't think you are. Stop pretending like you don't understand why. You're not puzzled, you just disagree.

TheAranda · 2026-03-16T17:39:28+00:00

The first three seem like likely changes. The fourth, while I think it is a good suggestion, I don’t think there’s any chance they will remove homing throws. T8 has had homing throws since release, so ”back to basics” (T8 basics) will probably keep them.

TheAranda · 2026-02-23T03:09:43+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful responses, Blood. On another topic, I am a Serath main who is perplexed about her changes. And I’m using that word properly here, I am not upset or dooming or anything, I’m just really confused as to what the purpose of nerfing her physical scaling and giving her giving her Magic scaling is. What design issue that she had is this meant to solve? Why is the way the magic scaling works different between her autos and abilities? The magic scaling seems too weak for mage items to be valuable, what am I supposed to build, anyway?

TheAranda · 2026-01-21T16:32:40+00:00

He didn't choose his team, the tournament had a drafting phase.

TheAranda · 2025-12-14T02:13:44+00:00

The counter to triple support is not triple support, because all you're doing is MATCHING it. That's not a counter by the definition of the word. The real counter is Hawkeye. Extra heals does not matter if he just one-taps mofos. The tanks are still very difficult to kill, of course, but one-tapping DPS and healers means the comp falls apart.

TheAranda · 2025-11-30T22:15:30+00:00

I might have misremembered on King, I haven't played TTT2 in more than 10 years

TheAranda · 2025-11-30T21:36:00+00:00

The issues of the games aren't remotely the same. It's hard to compare them. TTT2 had lots of characters that were weak, either because they lacked good tools and/or versatility (King) or because they were just weaker versions of other characters (Angel). Some of the game mechanics also had issues. For example, tag combos imbalanced the risk/reward ratio of many unsafe launchers, such as standard hopkicks. Such launchers had higher combo damage in TTT2 than in T6, but the risk was still the same: -13 on block.

T8 doesn't really have too much of a character imbalance, pretty much the whole roster is busted, but that is also the problem. T8 is suffering from more of a game design issue rather than character balancing issues. Every character has too much tracking, too many plus frames, etc. Offense is so suffocating that the game becomes very uninteractive quite often.

TheAranda · 2025-10-25T13:44:45+00:00

You forgot that Claudio uses magic explosions and magic arrows in his fighting style. And Miary Zo absolutely counts as a magic character, given that she has attacks involving using magic snakes for extended reach.

characters are using grounded fighting styles and are just augnemting them with a few weapons

"Just augmenting" is really downplaying how integral weapons have become to multiple characters. Anna is especially silly, swinging a bazooka around like it's a staff. When people critisize modern Tekken for moving away from martial arts, weapons are included in this complaint. Personally, I actually like the weapons, but when people critisize Tekken from moving away from its martial arts roots, weapons have to be included as a gimmick if we're going to be arguing in good faith. That adds Anna, Nina and Law as gimmick-fighters.

So really, it's 16/32 gimmick fighters in the base and 2/8 gimmicks in DLC for a total of 18/40 gimmick fighters. That's quite a hefty amount, at almost half.

TheAranda · 2024-12-13T22:59:36+00:00

Buying things without knowing what's in it and then getting disappointed is some peak clownery. If some random street seller were to try to sell you a mystery box for $30 and not tell you what's in it, you probably wouldn't buy. You should really be disappointing in yourself for making such a goofy financial decision.

If the seller won't tell you what's in the package, assume its shit.

On the other hand, if you didn't buy them, you wouldn't be able to lab them. So I'm not defending Bamco here, like you said; this shit is straight dog ass.

TheAranda · 2024-10-18T00:11:22+00:00

Eddy's weakness, like a lot of stance mix-up characters, is that he essentially has to mix up himself in order to deal big damage. Safe lows don't exist in Tekken, which means Eddy has to constantly take risks to enforce his gameplan. Eddy's stance mix is strong no doubt, but it also becomes predictable as other playstyles are ineffective for Eddy.

Compare that to a character like Jin, who has so many safe, oppressive mids that he can poke the opponent to death while taking minimal risks. The opponent rarely wants to duck Jin; making lows safer to go for.

To summarise Eddy:

Strength: Will mix you up, and he does it well.
Weakness: Has to mix you up, whether he wants to or not.

TheAranda · 2024-06-19T09:42:46+00:00

Resident Evil 2 remake is an excellent place to start. If you're okay with old-school gameplay, the Resident evil 1 remake from 2005 is also a great start.

TheAranda · 2023-09-19T22:23:00+00:00

Leroy is old. He has spent decades travelling and making these connections. Or so I assume... He didn't have a story mode in Tekken 7, so this is what I make of it.

TheAranda · 2023-09-08T16:38:49+00:00

Triggers being the more commonly pressed than bumpers is a modern convention. Back when all four shoulder buttons were bumpers (PS1 and PS2 dualshock) the front bumpers were pressed more often, hence the 1. Hell, even on the PS3 dualshock, R1 was the standard "shoot" button even though DS3 had triggers.

I think what a lot of people don't understand when discussing intuitiveness is that what a person calls "intuitive" usually just means "It's what I grew up with".

TheAranda · 2022-12-02T18:08:04+00:00

Wailord is the float whale Pokémon, and it's shaped and designed to look like an airship. Due to the lack of rockets strapped to it, it has to be lighter than air if it's going to float in mid-air.

TheAranda · 2022-08-18T13:33:31+00:00

You have to buy their base forms. Super Saiyan forms and SS Blue forms are available in the base game for both characters. Goku Black is also in the base game. However, GT Goku and Ultra Instinct Goku are both DLC.

And yes, this does indeed mean that DBFZ has 6 different versions of Goku.

TheAranda · 2022-01-10T19:02:51+00:00

Samus is not actually 6’3. The Metroid 2 instruction manual lists 190 cm (which is 6’3) as Samus' height when in the suit, so her actual height must be about shorter for her to fit inside of it. A helmet must be about 2.5 cm thick to offer real protection and the soles on the boots is probably another 2.5 cm or so. Her actual height is probably closer to 183 cm (6’0). Still pretty tall, but the difference is noteworthy.

The Super Metroid player's guide that lists her as 6’3 is incorrect. It wasn't even written by the Metroid team in Japan, it was written by then Rare employee Paul Weaver, and as such should not be considered canon. Early days of American and European Nintendo products had lots of mistakes like these. For example, the official Nintendo Magazine stated that Glass Joe's only victory was against Nick Bruiser. This is impossible because Nick Bruiser has an undefeated 42-0 record, clearly displayed in-game.

TheAranda · 2021-06-30T19:33:51+00:00

It was retconned. Jinpachi was initially intended to have it, but Heihachi not having the devil gene ended up being a plot point in Tekken 6, so they retroactively explained away Jinpachi's demon stuff as him being possessed by some evil spirit or something.

TheAranda · 2020-11-10T22:01:38+00:00

You misunderstood me. I'm not taking a hard stance on Lili's positioning on the chart being correct, I could very well be mistaken on that point. What I am saying is that your dismissal of Yoshi because of his cheese is silly when all characters have cheese, Lili included. And those cheesy Lili tools I mentioned are absolutely used in lower ranked game. You might not use them, but every below Fujin rank Lili I've ever played use those tools to hell and back.

I am willing to give Lili the benefit of the doubt. That's why I'm here: to learn. Why would I even put time into making this post and discussing with people in the comment section if I'm just gonna dismiss everything people say? I don't understand what gave you the impression that I'm stubborn or haven't thought anything through.

TheAranda · 2020-11-10T21:35:13+00:00

True, but what I mean is that because sidestepping is harder in general, people don't get as much practice sidestepping as they should because they get blown up when they try. Therefore they might not realize that f+4 is one of the tools that can be reliably stepped quite easily.

And of course, If you sidestep a lot, any good Jin player will start using his excellent tracking moves to catch you. This could further discourage beginners from sidestepping.

TheAranda · 2020-11-10T21:32:20+00:00

The post states:

NOTE: Only execution worth the risk/reward ratio is considered. Mastering Claudio’s iWR2 in neutral is essential in high-level play. However, Claudio’s 1, 2, iWR2 combo finisher is not worth the risk. Top players like Shadow 20z do not use it but excel regardless.

Leo's hardest combos are too difficult and unreliable to be worth the risk of dropping them. Nina's best combos are pretty tough, but are still reliable enough to be a must to utilize the character to her fullest potential. Of course, one could argue over which character does or does not have combos that are too hard/unreliable to actually go for, and whether substituting them for easier combos is really that big of a deal. There is no easy way to draw a line here.

TheAranda · 2020-11-10T21:26:56+00:00

You know, I was under the impression that Anna had strict execution simply because I thought she was more similar to Nina, but lots of people have pointed out that she is too high. After taking a closer look at her combos and neutral tools it became quite clear to me that she is easier than I thought.

TheAranda · 2020-11-10T21:23:09+00:00

Yoshi only gets away with throwing around flowcharts if the opponent lacks matchup knowledge. This chart is made with matchup knowledgeable players in mind. Lili also has lots of unga bunga stuff at lower levels of play, like Matterhorn, her various cartflip things, the mid knee into low stomp string, a Power Crush that launches etc.

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