There were other things I wanted to get in there, but I didn't want it to be too long, ya know? It's a fun-sized candy bar, like you get for halloween.

Want every strategy of Street Fighter 2? Here you go.
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Once you learn these easy steps, you to can fight like this:
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Oh, fighting games. What's not to love? Except for the lack of research by Midway when making Mortal Kombat. Even the most imaginative nerd would say no to Kung Fu if the midway version of Hung Gar actually existed.

I think martial arts video games hit their peak way earlier. Karate Champ is the JUMP OFF!!!

(full point)

Dude, if you think Eddie and Hwoarang are the best Tekken characters, then you suck.

Dude, if you think Eddie and Hwoarang are the best Tekken characters, then you suck.
No, sir, I must insist that it is, indeed, you who sucks. Good day, sir.

You guys are stoopid. Everyone knows that Lee Chaolan is the best Tekken character. Machine Gun Kicks!

No, sir, I must insist that it is, indeed, you who sucks. Good day, sir.

Hrmph.

I think martial arts video games hit their peak way earlier. Karate Champ is the JUMP OFF!!!

(full point)
Karate Champ is an old favorite of mine and, particularly when contrasted with modern games, it stands out as one of the most realistic fighting games ever made (with one of the most intuitive control schemes ever implemented).

Okay, so the game is pretty much point fighting...I like to think of it as the empty hand version of Great Swordsman (http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=detail&id=1012).

Eddie and Hwoarang (and possibly Lee Chaolan -with a modified Marshall Law move set-) are the cheapest characters ever to grace tekken.


i have admiration for anyone who plays as King/Armor King.

oh and hey, nobody mentioned Bushido Blade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido_Blade_%28video_game%29) or its sequel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido_Blade_2)? possibly the best swordfighting games ever. one-slash kill and all that.

Newest characters in Tekken 6:

Leo - Hakkyoku-Ken
Zafina - Ancient assassin. If it were Kung Fu, it would be called Spider Kung Fu.
Miguel Rojo - Self taught brawling str33t f1ght3r
Bob - Free style karate who happens to be a fat guy.

I **** you not. It looks like Namco's running out of styles.

i have admiration for anyone who plays as King/Armor King.I hate it when people play as King... in my opinion, King is the cheapest character EVARZ. Once he gets a hold of you and does that seemingly endless succession of rasslin' throws, there's no way you can get out of it. Everyone that I've played against who uses king always uses that cheap-ass throw combo, it's the ONLY thing they do.

I hate it when people play as King... in my opinion, King is the cheapest character EVARZ. Once he gets a hold of you and does that seemingly endless succession of rasslin' throws, there's no way you can get out of it. Everyone that I've played against who uses king always uses that cheap-ass throw combo, it's the ONLY thing they do.
At least that throw combo is hard at **** to do...or it was in Tekken 3 (the last game in the series I played).

Newest characters in Tekken 6:

Leo - Hakkyoku-Ken
Zafina - Ancient assassin. If it were Kung Fu, it would be called Spider Kung Fu.
Miguel Rojo - Self taught brawling str33t f1ght3r
Bob - Free style karate who happens to be a fat guy.

I **** you not. It looks like Namco's running out of styles.

so when are they going to include Systema? :icon_rabb

seriously though: they need another ground-fighting character (they already have the russian Sambo character, why not add BJJ? Judo?)



I hate it when people play as King... in my opinion, King is the cheapest character EVARZ. Once he gets a hold of you and does that seemingly endless succession of rasslin' throws, there's no way you can get out of it. Everyone that I've played against who uses king always uses that cheap-ass throw combo, it's the ONLY thing they do.

well, it IS hard to do.. maybe its just me. i like to stick with the "new" jin kazama and bruce irving.

still, most of my losses usually come from forest/marshal law, and hwoarang.. damn fast kicking.

King's chain throws aren't a big deal since there are escapes.

Tekken has always had a unique ground fighter in Marduk. Better yet, he has a DLT that can only be escaped and not reversed. At a certain distance, the throw itself is inescapable. He even has throws that ends up with him on mount.

Between Marduk, Dragunov, and to an extent, King, you can't get much more of a ground game in Tekken.

Newest characters in Tekken 6:

Leo - Hakkyoku-Ken
Zafina - Ancient assassin. If it were Kung Fu, it would be called Spider Kung Fu.
Miguel Rojo - Self taught brawling str33t f1ght3r
Bob - Free style karate who happens to be a fat guy.

I **** you not. It looks like Namco's running out of styles.

I always thought Zafina was reminiscent of the Indian style of MA Kalarippayattu

, that some say pre-dates Kung Fu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sh7x3-VXh0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B09zqMiA4k

This art seems to have 2 different versions floating around. When I had originally seen the art on Fit TV's "Deadly Arts," it was described as a healing art and used to keep the foundations of Indias traditional medicine and culture. The forms were also slow and seemed a bit more extravagant when it came to stretches and stances. The forms viewed on the youtube links, as stated by the host of "Mind, Body, and Kick Ass moves," seems like it's derived from forms of Kung Fu.

I don't think we're going old skool enough...

Karateka was by FAR the most influential martial arts game.

Lessons it taught us:

Martial arts consist of only three kinds of punches and kicks, Low Medium and High
You have to climb up a huge mountain to do battle with many other krotty-ka's (which you could fall off of immediately and die if you're like me)
Getting touched while running is teh deadly
Getting touched while standing is teh deadly
The only way to move while fighting is to sit in a low horse stance and cross one foot in front of the other or behind the other
Repeatedly kicking someone in the crotch as they move towards you is a great strategy
Progressively harder opponents will have progressively more bizarre head gear
Hawks are f'ing annoying (and teh deadly)
Gates have motion sensors and will slam shut on you faster than a catholic nun's thighs
Women don't like you running at them