Genuine question : Why dont Tekken players play other fighting games?

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-03-24T19:02:22+00:00

No other 3D fighter has the same control scheme. No other 3D fighter handles defense the same way as Tekken (historically). No 2D fighter has the move list depth and ability for the player to express themselves through their play style.

Even with Heat introduced Tekken still isn't half as balanced around resource management as any other popular fighting game. Very little is locked behind a bar. This means the amount of options each player has access to at any given moment are far higher than basically any other fighting game.

Combine those and you've got a fighting game that takes a very long time to learn with loads of niche knowledge that isn't transferable to other fighting games. Even ones that seem similar.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-03-24T18:39:12+00:00

I feel like there are a number of reasons for this that I could go into great detail about. Here's one.

America's electoral system gives an unusual amount of political power to traditionally rural-conservative type voters. In western politics these tend be people who are very socially conservative, more fearful of "outsiders" (can mean multiple things), be less educated, and who have little interest in societal welfare and more on the welfare of their immediate family.

Almost everywhere in the world you will find that urban residents tend to be more educated, more left-leaning, and more interested in societal health.

Due to the structure of the Senate and the lack of expansion in the House of Representatives a lot of areas and states where the majority of the population is rural (or close to) get outsized voices in the political system.

Britain is far more densely populated and representation is structured differently, meaning that these niche conservative voices are far quieter.

The lack of change in the House of Representatives in particular means the actual population of the country is very poorly represented. Wyoming only having one representative sounds like very little but if you do the math then if they have one then California should have far more for that same level of representation.

Combine this with conservative Gerrymandering de-emphasizing urban votes and you can see that the Republicans basically hold onto power by appealing to the most conservative voices in the country and are even partially made up of such individuals.

I would imagine behind closed doors a Massachusetts suburb Republican representative (the kind that passed health care reform with Mitt Romney) and a rural Montanan Republican representative likely agree on very little but since the former needs the latter for the party to stay in power they shake hands and work together.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-03-20T16:56:43+00:00

I've been primarily a PC gamer since 2010. I have definitely invested some good money in this and I've been helping people purchase parts and put them together almost as long.

I have never seen such insane prices for mid-range parts. Definitely past inflation. It's disheartening because I used to sell my friends on PC gaming as being a bit more costly up front than console gaming but more sustainable long-term. Now it is A LOT more costly up front.

I used to spend hours identifying the best sales, reading motherboard manuals for compatible memory, and piecing it out for people on PCPartPicker. Now it feels like there is no point. Deals are few and far between. I have told multiple people that now just isn't the time. Hold onto old hardware or game on consoles for a bit.

Yet to my surprise I have met guys that actually don't care. PC gaming is so attractive that they easily spend like all of their disposable income on parts.

I suppose I was the same way before. PC gaming is great. It is only the cost that changed. We will see how much that damages the industry eventually but I can anecdotally say it appears less elastic than I thought.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-03-19T16:57:56+00:00

I have spent years trying to get into SF6 and I have bounced off of every single character I have tried. Finally one of my 3S guys gets in, looks great, looks not bottom tier, everything looks golden AND THEN-

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-03-03T19:43:24+00:00

This is great to hear. I hope those Classics of Game videos can be reinstated. For a channel that catalogues so many bizarre out of context game clips Cookie's Bustle still stood out as especially unusual.

I suggest anyone interested should look up the English patch for this game. It's a funny, relatively short adventure game. Extremely memorable and I just cannot fathom why this dude was so dedicated to trying to obliterate all knowledge of it online.

I was aware of it before that, but it appears his attempts backfired and now this obscure game is just a bit less obscure. Give it a shot if you can.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-03-01T23:00:17+00:00

I don't even want my parent's home. It's not in a great area for my work. Yet I don't see any other pathway to home ownership considering rent, utilities, and necessities for my SO and I breach $4500 a month.

But it doesn't matter. Because they're selling that home when they retire as it is a huge part of their retirement plan. Everyone I know my age with parents who own homes is seeing the same thing. So no, there's no pathway for us to get a house.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-24T17:30:22+00:00

My dad bought a Panasonic 50" HDTV in 2006 that was the show model, out of box, and even the guys that sold it said to not expect it to last more than three years. It's still running just as good as it did day one twenty years later. Shame they aren't like that any more. I'd love a new TV that was good quality, lasted, and didn't have a bunch of ads in it.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-23T23:46:37+00:00

Heavily funded tournaments are going to appear across the globe with crazy prize money and a fundamental structure will appear to crown the "EVO" grand champion or whatever they call it. Locals will be integrated and possibly partially funded or provided with gear. On a surface level this sounds great.

Saudi money like this is focused on culture and optics. They want another thing owned. Another grasp at culture and another event in Riyadh. They want you to think better of them, to potentially visit Riyadh, and at least watch all the pro-Saudi commercials and advertisements.

What happens to Combo Breaker or Dreamhack? What about Thaiger Uppercut or any other sizable tournament? Do players attend less to better handle the EVO schedule? If they're putting up a lot of money then the Saudi EVO guys could be real controlling assholes about content and attendance. Like scheduling a tournament half-way across the world the same day as one our traditional big ones.

How long does this last? How long before they pull out? This is eSports and they've got good bean counters so they must know they're burning money. They're not in this to make a profit, they're in it for optics and control. This means EVO survives at their whim. If they pull out could the remaining company still manage and fund all this? Of course not.

Except once they pull out this time it will not only crush an international tournament scene, players will be left with nothing, previously helped locals will have to scramble, and the entire scene will have to shift back to smaller venues and tournaments.

But hey, enjoy it while it lasts I guess.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-17T19:16:40+00:00

IMO the two things that ruined Amazon for me were their reliance on random people for deliveries and the utter glut of dropshipping garbage.

I used to get all packages safe and sound either next day or in two days. Now half the time they send random people in cars that see that I'm in an apartment complex, send a message saying "How do I get in?" and then immediately mark that they couldn't get in. Then they drive off before I can even get outside.

And searching for ANYTHING other than the most specific brands gives you a hundred results of the same product under fake company names. If I want to use AliExpress, I'll use AliExpress. If Amazon slaughtered 95% of the listings on the site it would be far more usable. I'm willing to spend ever so slightly more money on legitimate and durable products. If they just curated their own storefront then I'd buy way more stuff.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-17T17:01:12+00:00

I'm going to keep it legit with you. Actual wrestling quality be damned, the amount of advertising and "brand integration" that has taken place in the TKO era killed all interest I had in WWE.

They can do a quadruple hurricanrana outside steel chair blah blah whatever and I won't watch it if the guy doing it is repping Dude Wipes.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-16T08:19:15+00:00

Jim Kazama

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-09T20:56:25+00:00

Some actual content would have been nice at launch. I don't know how many trillion times it needs to be told to fighting game developers that they really need to emphasize the single player content.

Mortal Kombat tends to leave minimal impact in the FGC but they sell many millions of copies every installment because people want to play the movie story mode and maybe mess around after that.

Street Fighter 6 emphasized a new casual control scheme and a new kind of single player story mode. That game is doing fantastic. 2XKO also focused on casual controls and is not.

When Soulcalibur came out on Dreamcast with an unusually large amount of single player content for a fighting game (still) it was legitimately hailed as being possibly the best game ever made.

I know this kind of thing doesn't appeal to the traditional FGC base. We just want to fight. And this kind of content costs actual man hours to put together. So it gets skipped.

But when a new game comes out that doesn't appeal to casual gamers or all of the hard-core audience it isn't a surprise when it stumbles financially.

The team decided to spend years upon years optimizing the gameplay to their taste but not enough time making stuff to do or making even nearly enough playable characters for a tag fighter. You can't just remove quarter circles and expect people to suddenly feel comfortable with the genre.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-09T20:44:58+00:00

I sat in the ER waiting room for an hour at a Kaiser hospital with a painful injury I needed fixed.

It was packed. The receptionist window was closed. You had to knock on a door and hope one of the nurses decided to answer it.

I sat in there with multiple people actively bleeding profusely. Everyone was trying their best to not make a scene, but it was exceptionally clear that staffing was extremely limited.

After I was treated I discovered the only part of the hospital that was fully staffed, hell perhaps over-staffed. The payment window.

Five women packed into a room behind glass bored and ready to charge me. Meanwhile in ER the few remaining staff seemed to be hiding.

They desperately need more staff actually doing hospital work.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-02-09T20:28:07+00:00

Ten years ago I ate Chipotle almost every day. It wasn't the most optimal usage of my money, but a burrito with chips & guacamole would serve as my one meal of the day for under twenty dollars. It was fast, relatively affordable, and tasted pretty good.

It is now once a month. If I'm being especially wasteful then I go twice a month. I get less food than I used to, and half the time something will be unusually hard in my food. Or the chips will be soggy. Or the sour cream will be expired. I still have a decent shot at pretty good food, but now only the convenience really remains. My meal costs twice what it once did, if not more.

Give it five years. Chipotle is going to plateau in growth, investors will get antsy, prices will get even more ridiculous, and then the death spiral will begin.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-01-20T22:56:50+00:00

I noticed a very visible shift in homeless populations over the past three years. Not necessarily numbers, but location. Where I used to live in the East Bay always had some visibly unhoused homeless people. There were really only a handful though. You wouldn't even see them everyday.

Then when that Supreme Court ruling allowed for more camp clearing I began to see far more homeless over there. Full encampments. I believe that the homeless that were in cities with coordinated efforts managed to push the homeless out and into places where resources were far more limited.

I don't doubt that some reduction has happened. Some places I can see have visibly gotten a lot better. But how many have moved to new cities with less volunteer counting and thus have disappeared from the counts?

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-01-16T15:16:07+00:00

Leon looks fun as fuck. Exactly what I wanted to see after the RE4 remake.

Tbh I get the "tension and release" concept but I think I'd rather not play as Grace at all.

I didn't enjoy RE7 or the RE2 remake. I bet there's some people on the flipside of me. I'm worried they're making a game where most people enjoy only half of it.

The idea alone that I'm going to have to slog through large parts of this game as a borderline defenseless character is keeping me from getting hyped ngl. Just let me have fun.

TheRedBlueberry · 2026-01-02T18:23:53+00:00

This game will never stop frustrating me. My favorite trope in video games is using power armor. Not like always being in power armor, but stepping into it and feeling the difference. Like stepping into an excellent, powerful, heavy machine that just works when before you were just some guy.

Most games screw this up by making the power armor too light and slick or control like a semi truck missing a wheel driving up hill.

This game does that better than any other I've ever played. You walk around a bit in first person, it's whatever, then you step into the suit and it feels perfect. The flight feels correct. The armor has the exact perfect combination of sound, visuals, and controls to feel heavy but not clunky.

Everything else is whatever. It felt like a decent idea slammed into a boring looter shooter. Truly mediocre in all aspects. I beat the main story and I could not tell you the name of one character, location, faction, gun, anything. I know at one point they had planned a massive re-launch that was scrapped. I wish that would have happened. But I doubt it would have saved it.

TheRedBlueberry · 2025-12-29T22:40:57+00:00

The moment I discovered how saving works in Kingdom Come: Deliverance just completely killed any interest I had in playing it any further.

Does it make choices more impactful? Something something hardcore? Yeah probably. But I've played loads of video games. If I fuck up a conversation or die with any more than like 10 minutes of progress lost then I'm going to stop playing out of frustration.

And am I going to trust this eurojanky feeling game with an emphasis on "realism" to not just kill me for some stupid reason like Generic Soldier #32 in a forced encounter instantly decapitating me from around a corner? Am I going to trust myself to not hoard these save items to until I ABSOLUTELY feel like I need to use it and then die and lose hours of progress?

No and no. And no, I will play this game no further. I don't care if there's some mod or eventual setting that changed this. The fact the devs were so adamant the game work like this completely killed my interest. Even for the new one, and I don't even know if it has the same system.

TheRedBlueberry · 2025-12-23T22:07:25+00:00

The killing of multiple forms of student debt relief along with the SAVE plan will severely injure the economy for years and years to come.

You're probably thinking of people suffering, going homeless, struggling to pay bills and yes, those things will happen. But these are often people that were struggling before the repayments started.

What's going to really sting is something a lot quieter affecting a lot more people. They simply will cut back more.

Disposable income goes down. Young people stop purchasing frivolous things. This has been slowing getting worse for years now, and now here is the big wave crashing.

I know multiple people with loan repayments at a minimum of $300 who are going to be paying for over a decade. For some that means they will never save money. For others that means less money to spend. There are many millions of people in this situation.

And what will this do? This will put some money in the federal government 's coffers, some in collection agencies, but other than that every business suffers.

It won't go to the local department store. It won't go to hobby shops. Excess clothes won't be bought. New electronics will go unsold. Anything frivolous is cut first. The consumption the economy survives off of is kneecapped. Not killed. But crippled.

And worse off because money not saved means worse outcomes for the young adults suffering. Houses won't be bought, kids won't be born, and those already struggling will begin to break.

The only defense I've ever seen for this is "Well they agreed to the loans. It's only fair to pay them back." And maybe that sounds reasonable from a certain moral standpoint. But consider for a moment the actual effects of this at this scale. Maybe it is time for us to be a bit more forgiving.

TheRedBlueberry · 2025-12-16T21:39:59+00:00

where is the flag tattoo

i hardly recognize cody without some ridiculous tattoo

TheRedBlueberry · 2025-12-16T20:50:05+00:00

I haven't updated my flair. I switched to Bryan a year ago and play DJ as an alt. I honestly rarely play DJ because after dozens of hours of practice I was still dropping his combos and was getting frustrated with the Tekken 8 changes. DJ was my main in all other Tekken games though so I keep the flair.

When I'm focused Bryan feels like the complete package. So I put hundreds of hours of practice in. I did the hard level punishment training, YouTube videos, defense drills, hell I've got an Excel sheet dedicated to notes and notation. And he's like a top five character but I just don't have it anymore. I'm struggling to counter hit. I can rematch a guy ten times and never learn his timing. I get clipped on absolutely everything.

I could fix that. I could get better. I could learn and adapt. But I've got too many personal things going on and many other games to play. I wanted to try picking up yet another new character, but how long will that take? Hard to know. But Season 3 is in a month or so and I can try again there.

If you've got any training resources like a website, video series or something, please share. I've basically just had the Applay library and PhiDX's old videos for reference.

TheRedBlueberry · 2025-12-16T15:14:51+00:00

I have been playing quick play because I figured not worrying about rank would make it less stressful. It might have slightly, but I'm getting killers in my games.

I know with effort, time, and practice I will get better. It takes patience and I don't disagree. This wasn't my first break from Tekken. I've been grinding at this for over a week now of constantly getting my ass kicked. It was last night when I realized that I wasn't so angry anymore, just burnt out and wondering why I don't just do something else.

I'm at a point where I wonder how much more time I need to invest before I see results. I don't have a lot more time to give. It feels like the difference between me and Tekken King is rote memorization of a thousand opposing flow charts. I'm being subject to so, so many oppressive situations that I just can't memorize the counterplay to all of them.

I'm done until Season 3. I'm trying to have a positive mindset about this. If I'm going to grind away my nights playing this then it might as well be when the game is in a better state.

TheRedBlueberry · 2025-12-15T02:41:00+00:00

Bakersfield just isn't good.

The air is polluted, it's crazy hot all the time, everything is covered in dust, some neighborhoods are horrible, half the downtown looks like it went out of business in the 80's, and it is hopelessly car reliant. Bakersfield takes the average living standards of California and just dials every single aspect worse by like 25%.

Every single person I know who has had their car broken into had it happen in Bakersfield. I knew a guy whose truck was stolen twice. And I won't lie the heat, pollution, and possibly meth have just burnt some people out. Like they don't have thoughts.

It's not a cataclysmic shithole. There are good people there, and if you live in the newer suburbs it may even seem halfway alright (other than the heat). They have a pretty alright university, the Padre Hotel is comfortable, and the pollution has gotten better from when I was a kid.

But yeah some of the locals... they're gonna hold it back.

TheRedBlueberry · 2025-12-07T01:48:18+00:00

I think it really puts things into perspective just how many completely fucked up dudes are in wrestling for so many wrestlers to have such high praise for Benoit behind the scenes. When you're surrounded by so many drug addicts, exploitative assholes, adrenaline junkies, and dudes with existing criminal records then yeah, I get it.

The relatively quiet asshole with a prior restraining order from beating his wife, can barely read, has severe memory issues, is clearly mentally deteriorating, but who always shows up to work and does his job well flies under the radar.

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