Wow, really good fan made vid

Rob, you're wonderful, but Tekken and Soul Calibur are essentially the same games. One just has weapons. Different plots, characters, etc, but the gameplay is very similar. Like, so similar I felt the need to actually come in and post about this. The short-range nature of arms and legs just makes Tekken feel like a really different game, is all.

They're very similar, and I love them both alot. Just re-think your opinion on Tekken, okay? Both are great games...although Tekken really only got good at 5.

You love SC yet hate Yoshimitsu who is one of the best people to play in the game.

Logic fail.

I actually kind of liked the dead or alive movie. Might help that it was just from netflix and I came in with as low expectations as possible. But it was a movie based on a fighting game where they actually remembered to have a tournament, fighting, etc. Got to give it credit for that.

@Victor Wow. Tekken just started getting good at 5? Took them long enough. I might have to check it out again. I remember they totally redid the fighting engine in 4, but I was already on my out of Tekken by then.

What's up with the magic wands and shit in Tekken 6 btw?

Why do I have this feling that Rob is a Killik spammer on Soul Cal? And when he gets beat online he instently marks them for something.

I can also believe that he has made a 12 year old cry, after losing as well.

Side note Soul Cal is great, but Tekkin is exactly the same thing just with out weapons or the Star Wars crutch.

I don't usually do this but: fuck you, Tekken owns.

Oh yah, that said this fan trailer looks like it would make an awesome feature length movie. I like how they even had the bobbing around.

The Tekken games suck, but the "lore" could make an interesting movie, judging by this fan flick trailer.

I just doubt it'll ever be done convincingly.

Sounds like somebody lost one too many bouts of tekken.

I'm tired of people saying Tekken and Soul Calibur play the same. They have very distinct styles, and I'm not speaking of the weapons/no weapons aspect. Tekken blows and is VASTLY unbalanced. Probably the most unbalanced fighting game I've ever played.

Oh. And isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that the Asian characters aren't Asian (Aside from the girls)?

I bet the Tekken movie would suck. They failed with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter more than once... Stiil the game is not exactly bad. The lore is the typical anime crap we've seen quite a few times, but the game mechanics are pretty good and each fighter feels unique.

Still, some things should never leave the games or the comic books, because they are just too stupid for live-action movies. Tekken is one of those things.

I'm still waiting for someone to make the ultimate fighting game... STREET KOMBAT TEKKEN! Dhalsim vs. Sub-Zero! Blanka vs. Scorpion! Zangiev vs. a bear! Eddy Gorgo vs. Kung Lao! Damn... I'm drooling.

I applaud when fans work hard to do something like this on their own time. But man, with as much work they put into the costumes of the main characters, I really wish they didn't use paintball masks for the henchmen. Whatever, the bigger crime is when larger budget movies go to the paintball masks, cough .. Blade 3...cough....

TEKKEN kicks ass. It's one of the funnest fighting games to play where you don't need to practice 6 hours a day to pull off cool moves. Kind of reminds me of Soul Calibur....
Awesome trailer!

I just love that they went all-out and gave everybody the characters appropriately ridiculous hair. "Street Fighter" would have automatically been better had Jean Claude been sporting a foot-long, fanned out flat top.

I'm actually a huge Tekken fan, so I'm a bit obligated to tell you to go fuck yourself, and that it's one of the better fighting franchises out there. To the guy that said Tekken 5 was when the series started getting good, Tekken 3 ftw. And no Nina in this trailer, which sucks :(

There's also some king of fighters official movie material on line, and I've just seen it. If I cared about KOF just a little it would have felt like shitting a whole pineapple.

Hmmm...from watching one of my best friends play Tekken for HOURS ON END, practicing move-after-move and combos for several different characters on the hardest difficulty, I call B.S. on you, sir.

"Horrible button-masher" can apply to ANY fucking fighting game if you don't, you know, try to actually play the damn thing. I'm so very certain Soul Caliber is just THAT much better, too. Like defending your dog's shit over another dog's shit: At the end of the day, they're both shit.

Unlike JimmyZappa, I actually do and say this ALL the time, but...

Yes. Fuck you. Tekken owns.

Haha, I mean come on. Seriously. Is there a person that comes here regularly who thought that I would be able to resist getting my own shot in?

You knew I would want in on this shit.

I love both the Tekken series and Soul Calibur series. Both can get ridiculous, but both are also great games. And you can button mash to success in Soul Calibur almost as much as you can in Tekken.

That said, the fan-movie looks pretty good. It probably will be much better and more faithful to the characters than the "real" Tekken movie.

Why is it than when I first heard Kazuya's voice in this, the first thing I thought was that he should play Vegeta? (If, god forbid, a second dragonball movie is made)

fan made trailer looks tops if only the industry could pull the essence of a game out like that.

Military Squads wearing Paintball masks and the Mishima Family seems more jewish than I remember. Still, fairly decent. Though it brings to the forefront an important fact: Hairstyles in Tekken are ridiculous and should never be brought to Live action.

The only good movie made from a fighting game was Mortal Kombat (the first one; the second was an abomination).

I think the fucking bear (and kangaroo) are probably some of the best things about Tekken. It generally sucks - the character design is, to put it gently, uninspired - but I'll take a rampaging panda over "generic angry red-clad white dude #438" or "generic cutesy kung-fu girl #810" any day.

If you have a small group of friends who are a fan of tekken and on low budget, and just happened to be white.
What would you do?

Work with what you have! ITS A FAN TRAILER.
They are not actors, nor are they making the REAL tekken movie. Cut some slack.

And TEKKEN is awesome....

I like Tekken way more than this sight. WAY more.

huh boy, nitpicking a fan-project? jeez you must be bored... anyways @1:15 is that sum john kerry??

The fan trailer was cool.

BTW - Anyone who thinks Soul Calibur and Tekken are the same probably isn't very good at either.

Fuck the What?? I normally respect your opinions Rob, in spite of the fact that you don't seem to want to read my e-mails but, to me, the Namco games and Dead or Alive are the 3D version of the old SNK games.

Tekken 2, 3 and 5 were tight, and trust me on this since I'm not a button masher, I use a little something called "tactics", "strategy", "timing" and "psychological warfare". You can't do that in Mortal Kombat because you inevitably stand there both holding the block button waiting for the other person to eventually juggle you until your life bar is totally depleted.

By the way Virtual Fighter has always had potential, but the time and effort it takes to learn the moves you might as well learn a real martial art.

well, Tekken is certainly a shitty game. Soul Calibur is decent for a 3D fighter.

The only acceptable fighting game for me is Guilty Gear X (or XX), though.
Well-balanced, wacky, with unique characters (I hate character redundancy, very much present in SC - if two of them are similar in gameplay/style and have pretty much identical combos is there a need for both?), "story" with side-splitting funny character interactions and featurs which are inventive and hard to master (fucking Roman Cancel)

had to barge in with a pretty much OT post, sorry

3D fighters all suck ass.

Also there are two Tekken movies that have been released. The anime which wasn't very good and an 'official' movie where Namco pulled their support late in the making of it so a few names and things were changed, but it was Tekken.

The cinematography of this fan vid was way better than I would have expected.

So many of the scenes looked just totally CG, and their panning of the cameras during the fight scenes totally captured the feel of the game. Amazing work.

I think the voiceover and music was the first thing in this trailer that immediately made me think of Tekken. Didn't realize that was such an important part of the games for nostalgia's sake.

And yes, Tekken is a button mashing game, kind of like Marvel vs Capcom 2. It's not necessarily a bad thing since someone who knows what they are doing will win all day against a guy who picks Eddie and jams forward + both kicks to no end and there's some technical stuff in there for hardcore players. But compare Tekken's button buffering system (which lets you buffer ALL KINDS OF SHIT with no consequences) with Virtua Fighter's you'd-better-nail-that-combo-precisely-as-fuck system and there's a world of difference.

I play both Tekken and Soul Calibur in tournaments and although I don't like one anymore than the other really, saying Tekken is a button mashing game is not even close to true. A button masher will mash buttons in any game.

Some games are button-mash friendly, like Tekken and Marvel vs Capcom 2. Tournament play is always going to be different than causal play. Mashing buttons will work at a causal level very well in Tekken as opposed to Virtua Fighter.

Holy SHIT, that trailer looks FUCKING AMAZING.

I wish they were going to make a full length. This is like Sandy Collora's mind-blowing World's Finest fanmade trailer - amazing concept, with no intention to actually make the film. Woe.

Aside from the very good martial artist fights, what was so great about this?

I remember reading some guy saying he "mastered" one of the characters and got beat by a button smashing Eddy and said Tekken was a broken game.

I was like "dude, maybe you just suck". I never got beat by a button smashing Eddy since I actually got good with Jin, Heihachi, and Asuka.