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About Steve, voice aside, I actually do like his interaction with King when he says "That wall of muscle's got me hot and bothered!" And then they Wrestle, 10/10.
I wish King and Steve had rival costumes for each other. King would look sick as fuck in that hoodie and Steve would look sick as fuck in King's Tekken 8 default.
@@cinnabonbons brit here, yes he does, we have myriad accents here and his fits; it's a voice cadence we hear from time to time on things like those ads on tv where they're usually advertising something pointless the kitchen gun skit is a good demonstration of this, too
There is no "British" sound really. Britain is made up of 4 countries which all have completely different accents. Steve is supposed to sound English, more specifically working class Londoner. But yes it's awful. It's like a terrible impersonation of Phil Collins
I wouldn't be so quick to blame the Steve's VA considering the narrator in Tekken 7. Its very possible he was doing exactly what was requested of him by direction.
Yes they thought Steve isn't the poor dude they experimented with and he wants revenge, he is laws and Paul's friend, so make him goofy like them... He doesn't even have a real interaction with Nina aside from those few voice lines
@@maurice9493I think Leos voice is ok, but then again I have been listening to ??? audio cassettes for over thirty years. Steves voice is god aweful though.
@@Beforezzz it’ll be his T7 version first. If you see most of the outfits that are coming to the shop next, they are in T7. They’re trying to get the easy money first before actually making stuff we haven’t seen in a while
Tekken 7's popularity was a true phenomenon and was somewhat of a plateau for now. I think alot of people who hadn't touched the series in a while got their fix with that game, while many new fans hoped on through the rise of the esports scene, streamers, and guest characters. TK8 will probably keep a steady playerbase, but I can see it dwindling down after a while if they don't update it frequently.
@@BeforezzzUhhh what? That game died fast as hell lmfao. It's outrageous what people say these days. Tekken 8 in the first 2 weeks blew out Tekken 7 sales for its first couple of months. It hit like 4million sales already. Over a span of 7 years, Tekken 7 hit 10mil. It's first year was around 1mil. Are you kidding me?
@@Shibu_PL Oh no, the playerbase is dropping, on its least played platform, like how it always happens with fighting games in the first few months before it stabilizes, what will we do now? Right now, Tekken 8 still has the biggest by a large margin, and even the drop off was smaller than SF6’s, and obviously MK1’s because that game is just garbage from top to bottom. It is what it is. Fighting games are a niche genre, its a miracle that so many people were interested in trying out SF and Tekken in the first place. It will still have a healthy playerbase until the next game releases. It’s not a bad game even with its flaws, and there is just no other options for people if they want a proper 3d fighting game.
Good on his chat for calling him out when he dismissed any of the criticisms to customizations. He didn’t react to the chat but at least there not blind fans
yea about the VA of steve as you pointed out hes actually very good for example in final fantasy 12 he voiced who many considered to be the best character of the game Balthier partially BECAUSE of the smug voice because it fits the character so well. unfortunately the voice performance in tekken 8 does not fit at all but as you pointed out that mightve been because he was instructed to sound a certain way
@@DBTHEPLUGno one has ever been banned for using mods in tekken, hell no one is being banned for using a dlc unlocker. They didn't even have anticheat, look at how many cheaters there are.
@@DBTHEPLUGmods are client based for tekken,can't be detected.And they are mostly cosmetics or voice only on your own pc so it's not really that bad to get banned for it
@@DBTHEPLUGDidnt you watch the video? they dont care! they dont ban cheaters who also stream how they cheat! They dont ban pluggers! Pay attention dude lol
People don't realize that Steve's VA is the exact same since Tekken 6. The only thing that was changed was the voice direction he was given. So yes, the Tekken 7 narrator comparison is valid.
I wish people wouldnt defend customization. It's underwhelming in every way. If this was an indie game then i would be ok but not a game like this. And the fight money is usless no matter whi you are. Tekken needs way better unlockable in general
I highly disagree with Mainman on customization, it's laughably bad and easily the worst in the series. They limited custom presets for each character from 8 to 4. Upper clothes is just 3 same shirts, 4 same jackets, 3 same shitty suits and 3 same sweatshirts. It's like i'm not customizing a fighting character, but walked into cheap ZARA store in the mall. As a Kazuya main i wonder how he doesn't feel disrespected that the additional full body preset for Kazuya, that you unlock in a Super Ghost Battle is just shitty grey pants.
ye honestly i tryed to make raven look cool but the only cool stuff that fits him are his full body costumes or the scorpion cosplay from mortal kombat, i tryed to turn him into bryan fury (marvel) and came out pretty well but other than this...there's nothing that looks ninja-like, only some shirts and jackets
@@Senumunu ye that one thing i don't even know WHY is a thing. i mean who the F wanna put Lars's hairs on kazuya or (in my case) Raven. i mean...atleast put some random generated hairstyles..
Yeah, the customization is far from what I was hoping it'd be. Some people are content with the "drippy" fashion designer clothes that everyone shares but I was expecting more innovation, and they managed to remove certain things that barely kept TK7 on its feet.
See, I don't believe they can't do it. imo they want the money from cheaters asks pluggers while the game is hot and don't want to scare those people away. "we can't" is pr bs
16:20 I am that weekend warrior that only plays about 6 hours total all weekend, some people would consider me a casual. I have everything bought for the 3 characters i enjoy and I still have about 75 mill fight money im not using. You earn more fight money than you think and there really isnt much to do with it at a point.
See they need to bring back infinite rematches because I could see this being a good way to learn matchups. Nobody is gaining much or losing much. Less chance of plugging, no rematch ect.
I don't see anything wrong with Steve's voice, _considering his background and his past,_ I'd say his voice makes him even better. Since he was a lab experiment that didn't receive any human affection beyond Emma Kliesen, the only person who treated him with care, like an actual human being. The fact that he grew up and STILL was able to retain a boyish innocence and an enthusiastic gung ho personality is *all the more reason to like him as he is.* He could have been empty inside. He could have been malicious. He could have been vindictive. Instead, he is a *legit good guy who appreciates the life he has been given* _despite the purpose he was created for_ and the opportunity to carve his own path. "These are the fists of a champion!" ✊🏻 PS: "FANG!" on Sonic Fang is pure badassery.
With Steve i get the feeling that his voice is once again an issue with voice directing. Same thing happened with the announcer who was told to sound boring in Tekken 7 story mode. That's what happened when a japanese team tries to direct voice acting of other languages. Shaheen also sound very weird.
People always forget that tekken 6 didn't even have a color wheel. I'd still say that tekken 6 has the best customization overall but it wasn't perfect. Customization seems to always take as many steps backwards as it takes forward with each new game.
It's a wild guess but I will say this: If they won't give us free wins vs pluggers, 50% if not more players will drop this game and never comeback. The higher u climb the ranks the more pluggers u meet. Like, I think I dont want to rank up anymore and I'm just Mighty Ruler
I'm waiting till season 2 to get the game. Hopefully they fix this stuff by then. Someone on reddit told me the disconnect percentage is bugged and even tho they plug all the time it will still show them at 0%
Also don't forget laggy players which are fairly common. Most people have their PC indicator turning red. Other stuff being alt players, smurfs,lag switchers etc. Plugging is rare where I play though usually it is just their game crashing.
16:20 Straight facts. My casual friend barely has enough for three shirts right now, whereas I have well over 100 mil 😂 Also it's a shame Paul's new hair actually looks way, *way* better in the panel art than it does in-game and his render. Lastly, Jukebox is missing some amazing tracks from Story Mode and Arcade Quest. Jin's remixed theme, Jun's remixed music, the Chapter 1 bgm, none of that is selectable. They'll probably sell what's absent later in the shop like squares.
Steve's VA has done a LOT of work. Right off the top of my head, I recognize him as Balthier from FF12, Lor'themar Theron from Warcraft, and most recently Biggs from FF7 Remake and Rebirth.
What's wrong with that video? It's pretty accurate. Not sure why it only has 10% likes. Maybe those cheaters exposed or how to fight scrubs in ranked (not that it's a problem in the grand scheme of things) because if you take this seriously, maybe you're part of the problem. It's a video-game. Ranked or casual online is broken af. You fight people that clearly aren't your level all day when they don't pull the plug on you if you're the one giving the punishment. Then you have terrible lag for no reason all of a sudden on top of broken characters that do stupid shit that works because of the lag...
They should do something similar to MWZ like how if you get disconnected from a zombies match, you lose the choice to use 2 weapon slots-one for an hour and one for 120 mins. In this case, they should lock the character you plugged with for a couple hours or something.
The only problem with the no limit on rank restrictions you probably gain like 50-100 points towards lower ranks compared to higher ranks close to 200-500
Using kazuya, every round is always blocking, without moving, to finally launch and make a combo that is never guaranteed cause he has no reach, looks like fighting against windmills
I mean Gideon Emery is a good voice actor, its just that voice direction he got was bad. Its similar how the VA for the journalist got in Tekken 7 "As I looked into his eye..."
I picked up Steve in T8 and play with no volume so im chilling lol. Also the VA voiced poseidon in GOW3 and Bruz in shadow of war as well as Steve in SFxTekken so it's unliklely it's his fault considering he's kind of an all star video game VA.
@@patrickhanlon2325 he's got a massive game filmography. He voices plenty of other characters including like 17 characters in skyrim I just thought those were two notably really good VA performances. I wasn't trying to list his biggest roles. Really in a lot of ways voicing a massively popular character can be a bad thing because then people just associate you with that character and you get type cast.
@zato-1766 That's fine, but if you're gonna claim someone is an all-star VA, it's a tough sell if you give a minor role and a pretty good side character
Another probpem with customization is when you want to put an accessory on your character's face/head and you have to go into hair/face to be able tp zoom in and see if its good...
I think part of it is that he doesn’t remember. He knows that he was experimented, but he doesn’t have an emotional connection to that experience. His trauma comes from the fact that his mom is a cold bitch that doesn’t care about anyone
Heavyweight Steve should be a DLC character, that or the mysterious heavyweight he’s going to fight at the end of his story. The middleweight, lighting quick and tricky style is dope, but I always thought having a slower and more hard hitting boxer would be cool. Could be good at positioning his opponent around the arena with a command grab akin to King’s chokeslam, except as a clinch.
@JaeOfDorey He's more MMA than traditional boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if he was what Steve goes up against in the heavyweight tournament, though.
@@jatinmarcob2128 I believe it was Tk5 where Marduk interrupted that boxing match and Steve looked like he was about to go git sum. The developers never did anything with that, unfortunately.
Before watching here are my problems with the game as a casual player with 300 ranked matches. 1. The single biggest problem is that the game was made around being aggressive. This is cringe and resulted in spammy, mashy, toxic, annoying characters/playstyles😢 2. Amored moves are stupid and are stupid in almost every fighting game ever. Not that they are op, its just annoying and braindead. Especially for rage arts. 3. Rage arts are too long and shouldnt have armor. They should be cool combo ender attacks that are completely unviable in neutral 4. Too easy to S+ stats, I have S+ on stats that I actually suck at. 5. First to 2, it rewards gimmicky and obnoxious gameplay. 6. Pluggers, this much is obvious 7. Too easy to rank up, especially using mashing characters. Tekken God flow chart users shouldnt exist. 8. Wish story/arcade gave more attention to the other characters
Since Tekken 7 I dont understand the armor bullshit. No matter if its on Rage Arts, Crush Arts or now Heat Engagers. Its just utter garbage and makes the game worse.. It should be gone completely. But its not gonna happen. Its there for the casuals to attract a "wider spectrum of players". And those are also those who annoy every serious player with spammy bullshit and plugging. I always said its dangerous to make a game like Tekken too beginner friendly and gatekeping is actually important to keep the quality high
I agree with some points you made, like how some characters don’t have any story relevance, ft2, pluggers and S+ stats, but I disagree about Rage Arts. If they were more punishable and did less damage I would be happy
@@bitterthenu7278 I think they should have limited armor, like the drive impact in SF. 2 or 3 jabs and the Rage Art can’t be activated again. Rage would still available, though
I'm annoyed with customization because I can't change colors of certain items. Its like they forgot. Also having to manually press to preview is archaic and annoying.
I just bought the game and it sucks to see all of the shit wrong with it. I hope things get fixed eventually, the game was fucking expensive because of my dogshit currency conversion and I'm already over the refund play time cap 😭
The fight currency is useless after the first 2-3 hours...that's sad, they might as well have just made everything unlockable by playing a mode. It's a poor excuse and the reason isn't because they give you too much, it's because you get literally no customization options. You can't use T8's customization as an excuse when you compare it to other fighting games when the devs have proven they have the ability and resources to create TTT2 and T6. Again, no excuses.
The damn rank selection parameters don’t even work even when you set it to within 2. Was playing last night with that setting and matched up with a Fujin Dragunov in back to back matches. I’m a Ganryu lmao
Nope they don’t seem to work especially in non busy times like weekdays during work hours, i’ve had mine set within 2 and vsed people 4,5 even 6 ranks higher, I’m in Oceania a lot smaller popularity though, i noticed i still lost a considerable amount of points too, that i was super confused about
16:37 my guy.. there is literally nothing you can spend the story money ALONE on. Im very confused how you're missing this and the customization problems..
Her ff2 is mid once in her stance senpai it’s either eat a mid, duck the kick as it’s high or interrupt whatever she does after the ff2 assuming it’s not her armoured move. Sidestep also works usually Mishima characters are weak to their left hope that helps a bit
@@KarlKognition I didnt say he didnt sound like a brit but he sounds like a bad caricature of a brit. I can promise you outside of a bad wedding DJ nobody talks like that here lol
@@bilbo_gamez6195 I know how Brits normally sound too. I'm a half Brit Aussie. I was more responding to your first statement. The voice actor is indeed British. He really shouldn't have exaggerated it so much.
@@Zelldic27 yh that was crazy to me until I tracked him down and realised he's Downton Abbey English not Eastenders English. Basically cultural appropriation at this point 😂 (I did reply before with a link but for some reason it was deleted...)
I saw a tweet that said “input the player’s ghost when they plug” and that made me so sad bc such a missed opportunity that I would’ve literally waited for upon release
As a steve main since Tekken 4, he became my character right from his introduction. I loved learning every new stance tech that was introduced for him in every game to maximize his combo damage. At this point he is the only character with whom I can intuitively play the game without thinking about what move to use in which situation, what are the buttons I have to press. Everything just comes naturally. That being said, his new voice has singlehandedly made me drop him.
What makes me mad is that all they'd need to do to stop plugging is make it so that when some one plugs or quits, the one the disconnects gets a loss and the pther gets a win. So that would remove every incentive to plugging, couse you cant save yourself from that L you're ablut to take, and you cant punish an opponent you dont like by denying their win, at the same time, people who have an unstable connection aren't overly punished and can decide to log off before getting too many free losses. Also they could periodically reset ranks of people who are reported to be notorius pluggers on video or have multiple reports in game, coff coff ltg.
That cheater for 7 years is a gray hat that insults harada is not doing something about that for 7 years. If he can get away from that then the problem is not the cheater but the developer instead
steve’s voice actor was directed poorly. he is also balthier in final fantasy 12 and to this day balthier is one of the best acted characters ever. plus he’s steve in tag 2 as well
I’ve had people disconnect on me before and i was pissed. But yesterday my game crashed 3 times, while playing ranked! So now I’m genuinely confused if they actually plugged or the game crashed.
