The Tekken neighborhood has seemingly discovered a go-to technique for expressing itself when it’s upset about one thing, as Tekken 8 has been assessment bombed after the launch of the preventing recreation’s third season, and this isn’t the primary time the sport has been the goal of such a tactic.
As TheGamer lays out, Tekken 8 has obtained hundreds of negative reviews on Steam following the season three launch final week. Gamers who’ve racked up lots of of hours of playtime are lashing out at Bandai Namco over steadiness points, saying that Tekken 8 has develop into so offense-focused that the sport solely rewards these with aggressive playstyles.
“Tekken 8 basic rule of thumb: You could defend from your whole opponent’s bullshit so you may take their 50-50 mixups after,” writes one participant.
“Delusional devs,” one other participant writes. “Every patch buffs offense and provides new strikes, as a substitute of buffing [defense]. In all different Tekken video games, [including] T8 season one, I had enjoyable even when dropping as a result of I knew what I used to be doing unsuitable and will study from these conditions, however now it’s [a] matter [of] who performs extra aggressive[…]The preventing isn’t enjoyable anymore.”
“When you don’t wish to be in an abusive relationship, then use your cash to get a greater loving associate that treats you higher than Tekken 8 does to it’s personal followers,” one other assessment reads. “Severely y’all deserve higher than the gaslighting, cash hungry, cheapskate, and tone deaf crap we’re getting right here dude.”
One of many much less colourful critiques merely reads “Simply play Tekken 7.”
The season three patch was touted as a “back to basics” replace that will begin to nudge the sport right into a extra streamlined state, however Bandai Namco stated this could be a gradual course of, quite than a full-blown reboot of the sport’s programs. Now that the replace is out, followers aren’t thrilled with the course the sport goes and are making that identified in each Steam critiques and locations just like the subreddit.
This isn’t the primary time Tekken 8 followers have used this tactic to specific some dissatisfaction with the sport’s steadiness state. When you have a look at the Steam person assessment timeline, you’ll additionally discover that hundreds of unfavorable critiques got here in when Bandai Namco put out the season two replace in April of final 12 months. Issues balanced out within the months that adopted with the sport getting a extra even cut up of constructive and unfavorable critiques, however total, Tekken 8 remains to be sitting at a “blended” ranking on Steam. The console scores are a lot kinder, with each PlayStation and Xbox sitting at round 4 out of 5 stars, however maybe that simply speaks to the place of us make their complaints identified, as Steam’s person critiques are rather more seen than these within the consoles’ equal programs.
