What Makes James Hate Street Fighter X Tekken So Much? 

I came here thinking, "what kind of foolish take is James going to have? " Then you said, "they threw everything at the wall just to see what sticks." And you're completely correct. The game would have been better without half of the mechanics.

I agree with the fact that gems and dlc gems sucked and the time outs... but in general I liked the gameplay of SFxT

I just liked how unique the tekken characters felt

SFxT was one of my favorite fighting games of all time but I hated the gems just like in fighting ex layer

One of the biggest flexes I have as a TO for this game is when Capcom put a whole bunch of money down for VSav at ECT 2022 and SFxT side tournament still blew it out of the water when it came to VOD numbers here on RU-vid. 😅

The one lifebar KO always bothered me here and in tekken tag. I want to KO all lifebars on a team

Its crazy cause I really liked SFXT, as well as SF2Remix, but to be fair, I've never had competitive friends and family to play with. Only by myself, cause no one wanted to play against me 😢, even when I was only 10 years old playing SF2 on SNES, so I've never had competitive engagement most of my life. Hell, I'm old now and am still alone playing by myself, but get super hyped when someone shows interest in fighting games. 😢

This game was fun. The gems 💎 was a bit to much but it was fun 🤩.

Got this game, went online, first opponent had infinite super meter, never opened the game again

say what you want about SFxT but I actually enjoyed doing combos in that game

SFxT was terrible and unplayable at launch. It became a good game, but it doesn't matter because it became a good game too late.

This game was alright to play.... But man was it completely awful to watch high level play of this game.

Just to give people who never got to know X Tekken some context... To this day, X Tekken remains to be the ONLY major fighting game from capcom that has made me question if they even tested ANYTHING. Sure maybe the direction that SF5 or even SF6 took may not be your cup of tea, but those games at least have a vision and went out to fulfill their goals. X Tekken on the other hand made you question if the game WAS DESIGNED TO BE PLAYED IN THE FIRST PLACE, and I'm of course refering to the biggest criminal in the game, the one thing that will forever bury that game into oblivion more so than the supid gems, the stupid pandora, the stupid chain mechanic that has literally no reason for existing, and even the stupid walk-up jabs plaguing the game on release. I'm talking about time-outs. When the game came out, everyone who was trying to enjoy their new game quickly found out that the rounds would always seem to end in a time out. This was mainly due to the fact that each player had two separate health bars, one for each of your characters, and the round ended obviously when one of your health bars dropped to zero, but since characters had individual health bars, you could potentially just tag out for the first time in the round and suddenly your health is back to 100 again. And btw did I mention that characters had gray health that was healing in the background too? It was like nobody thought anything through, and the thing that baffles me to this day is that developers did not seem to account these factors on the timer for each round, so people would simply never die. This was such a fucked up problem deep within the game's core design, cause honestly how the hell do you even fix this????? This is problematic down to the FREAKING CONCEPT dude. Well they did release a major patch but did they fix it? Eeeehhh, sort of. They made it better, but not nearly enough imo. I'm not gonna go through the whole list of changes, but go watch some games and you tell me how many rounds come suuuuper close to time even today. Also, the patch came a year later. The damage was already done, and even if you didn't think this core error in design was enough to curse this game, then one of the other 100 things did it for sure.

Does anyone remember the really early videos of the game when it was announced which showed it was more over the top with combos

7:35 it wouldnt be james chen if he wasnt complaining about cammy

as a spectator, the game that makes me feel how james is feeling with sfxt is mvci haha

Is there a video where you discuss your issues with HDR? If not then I’d like to hear it, never played it.

Im really curious whatvthe other game is.

Killing one character to win the match always bothered me. Beat up both characters to win makes more sense

Whose remix is the Makoto theme from the beggining of the video?

Whats the song at the beginning?

Remember before launch they had that reality TV show, Big Brother style series where fighting game players were living in the same house and trying to eliminate eachother? And it got really weird and had harassment claims? Just another example of throwing all the shit at the wall. What a disaster

I'd like to hear more of James' thoughts on Darkstalkers' mood & story.

What I hate about the game is that it is not available to be legally bought and buying physical copies is pointless because I don’t have previous gen consoles and my pc does not run discs

I remember everyone sounding randomly angry or cranky in that game. The best thing about the whole experience was the Vita shorts. Seeing all these characters interact with each other was cool. Otherwise, you could say that for better or worse, the game was the fighting game equivalent of amateur fanfiction: cool concept, horrible execution.

I framing LOVE Yoshi's Island and it blows my mind that no official successor or spiritual successor has managed to nail the same vibe. (I like Yoshi's Story and Crafted World too, but they are not the same flavor. )

As of the last patch this game was amazing and Justin wong agrees with me. It's actually really underrated, Capcom just fucked up royally with the dlc debacle. (Which became commonplace.) And the stupid gems system. Pandora and the timeouts where just a bit wack and thier first attenpt at rollback netcode a complete failure, as for the other game my guess is its either a mortal kombat, killer instinct or tekken game

They should take MvCI's engine and mechanics as a base for SFxT

Although it was pretty much sf4 with a new coat of paint and tekken characters, you could tell the devs had a blast making it. The music, character interactions, and some visual designs were really cool! If theres only one thing i can say sfxt did right that no one else did, it was making an awesome training stage haha! 😅

Gems and Pandora system get axed immediately. Adjust the timer so every game doesn't end in a time out.

Gems are confusing, DLC was shady. If they fixed this on an eventual sequel, it would be a great franchise.

10:20 - GOING BACK I expected SFxT to just have Tekken characters play like they were from Street Fighter. I expect(ed) TxSF to just have Street Fighter characters play like they're in Tekken. Tekken 7 came and *almost* foreclosed this in all kinds of directions, except that Akuma and Geese were nearly impossible to balance in that game, and it would really be a different beast without those two in it. The Heat System and Drive System aren't an accident, they're a deliberate attempt to meet somewhere in the middle - and I honestly expect a 3-way Capcom/SNK/Tekken crossover game where you can play with Heat Mode, Drive Mode, and Max Mode.

What game is HDR?

What is HDR?

By the way the second game is SF 3 Third Strike... he said that the game is overrated and its true.

With pandora, I think they wanted to create hype moments for epic comebacks and it's really there to push out the social marketability of the game "look at this crazy comeback" or if you're watching a tournament live it's a moment. And it's not there because it's good, it's because they wanted to push the eSports hype moment to moment. Same with gems, what's going to happen!? Moment to moment, just have something happen that could be exciting. But I think the Tekken cast had some really interesting movesets and I'd like them to return in some form in the future.

personal sfXt now in days is one my favorite fighting games of allll time

I know mechanically it's not the best game. But I have so much nostalgia for, was still in highschool at the time and remember gamestop advertising the counter to this Tekken x Street fighter before that became vaporware. I still hope we get that one day

My experience with SFxT: "Aaaa Lili looks so cool and Kuma is so cute I want to hug hi-" *KUMA FART SUPER* "Nevernind, I hate this, I never want to see this again. Ruined."

I can respect your reasons for hating it having heard them, even if I still like the game. I agree St X Tk was a hodgepodge in alot of ways. I would live to see them take another stab at it, as I love to see a sequel to iron alot of the shortcomings and lean into the parts that definitely did work.

I get it. I tried to like SfXT, but I just couldn't get into it. Everything felt sluggish and slow paced to where timeouts were way too common. It was a night and day difference compared to Tekken Tag 2 at the time. I flat out ignored the Gem and Pandora system. If I could say one thing that was a hit, it's the trailers for SfXT. I didn't bother looking at gameplay, the story set up from the trailers were all I was interested in. But the story and atmosphere ended up being nothing like the trailers suggested. Even then, SFxT isn't something I'd go out my way to trash talk every chance. That would go to BBCTag. From the dumbed down mechanics and characters, reused assets as DLC and the practices. I'd never pass up a opportunity to trash talk that game.

The game you won’t mention is T7 right? Right?!

SFxT was my favorite fighting game. I think the theme was to have a smorgasbord of features, hence gems and other random stuff. The weird 2v2 thing they had was hilarious online.

Love your content, James. Though I tried not to, I am compelled to address some of these topics. 😝 09:16 You’re telling me Rival School fans wouldn’t care if the next Rival Schools played like Smash or Power Stone? 🤨 09:45 Not worrying about the details and putting the majority of thought into the artistic vision is how you’ll create something like 12:09. Again, love your stuff. Hope this didn’t sound combative. 😅

I was looking forward to SFxT, had all these fantasy plans of putting my 2 SF4 mains in a team, Dhalsim & Balrog........then I played it for an hour. Both characters basically had the same model, but frame data etc felt jank etc. Went back to SF4.

The only thing I liked about SFXT was Kings long mane costume.

Xbox version was also garbage because no couch co op online despite stating it had it. Tekken Tag 2 was so much fun since me and my mate had our mains.

O no, how did this game ever come out the way it did, I wonder.

I don't hear much about this game this is interesting 3D to 2D is hard I feel like no matter what you do unless you turn it 3D than something will be missing but they definitely could have made the buttons closer to it even though that would take a lot more work

I loved SFxT. And, I thought it was really well balanced. Of course I’m speaking from a non-pro level.

Nah sfxt was so hype to watch, and i like the vision of it, it was not perfect but not bad at the same time, it's a versus game it's okay to be tag with chaos mechanics, best versus game til this day

The only game that Gems should exist is Puzzle Fighter and Puzzle Fighter.

Hey alteast we have SF6, with it's zero neutral, AD friendly aggressive gameplay!

SfxT was perhaps not ideal for tournament. But in terms of gameplay and accessibility, it was a good product. Good, not great. Is the game fun? That's the only question that matters. To me, it is. And a lot of that has to do with its accessibility. Chains are easy and intuitive for about 70% of the cast, as is the partner switch mechanic. VS style super inputs are very much appreciated. I actually consider this one the more dpad friendly fighting games out there. Super easy input gem makes the game playable in the laggy online environment. The cast in games like TvC are MvC protoypes and you have no incentive to pick the actual Tatsunoko franchise over Capcom, or Vice verse. But in SfxT, I could not just pick up someone like Kazuya and play him like Ryu. Or even chain characters like Guy. If you never played Tekken like me, you actually have to learn some mechanics that's unique to their franchise. That kinda does give the game an identity that I don't find in most Capcom fighting games. The boost gems are essentially TOP meter from Garou or N groove from CvS2. It's nowhere near as broken as X factor in UMvC3, which is genuinely a bad, BAD, broken game. Some assist gems do provide an edge, but they often come with a penalty. Tournies will ban them anyways. I think everyone should just play the game for themselves before being influenced by the crowd. To me, all the Evo hype can't mask the fact that MvC3 was trash. This game was universally hated, but I personally find it enjoyable.

My problem wad time outs!

love the game and even more the SOUNDTRACK 😎

The Gems turned me away from the game personally. I kinda liked Street Fighter X Tekken a bit as a kid (minus the fake Mega Man and Pac-Man) but the gems were way too complicated and annoying to have to memorize.

What game James hates that he doesn't want to talk about, is it Tekken 7 ?

I hope Psychoblue won’t see this vid lol

Loving the defense for SXT in the comments, i thought it was one of the highest potentials to be awsome. But between rhe dumb Jab combos and gems capcom dropped the ball. I hope after Cvs3 and Marvel 4 we look at this crossover again. Also i think the way they translated tekken characters into 2d was genius. They arent playing like street fighter characters because they aren't lol

Wth is HDR?

You didn't even mention the ugly orange filter they slapped on the game, making it look worse than SF4. Or the stage where Ono and Haradas faces are plastered on a bollboard(?) in the background

SFxT sucking is all Yoshinori Ono's fault. He wasn't trying to make a fighting game, he was trying to make a cash grab. People tried to warn him but he was hell bent on doing it his way. Also, the writer was... bad, I which is why the Tekken characters are goofy caricatures of themselves.

If we're never gonna get it, my guess is it's Marvel 3 and I hope I'm wrong lol

new dragon age cause use your insights.

Game James secretly shit on? Let me guess....Soul calibur 5?

Imagine if SFxT, SF5, and MvCI weren't dog shit releases

"This is where I'm most scared of of new Darkstalkers games" You don't have to be scared of anything. Capcom's not making a new Darkstalkers.

SFxT Mega Man was awesome lmao.

Why do i feel like you're hating sf6

1. You put things in a different light. I knew these things but this painted the entire picture. I hate the art style and the gimmicks. I still enjoy watching the game and want to get into in the future but these things are awful. 2. A directionless creation, reminds me of Kimberly in SF6 😢

Gems Chen

Loved that game

Personally, I enjoy SFxT more than that pile of doo doo, MvCI, just want to share that.

Sfxt was awful and made me lose faith officially in capcom.

Definitely couldn’t and still can’t stand SFxT. Even stuff like the character select screen was contrasting. You have this dark black background character select with orange haze around the character and then you are fighting in front of a bunch of dubstep glow stick dinosaurs lmao

Gems Chen Kappa

Nothing to do with this episode. I think there should be a limit to the amount of casual matches. You play without playing ranked. Not sure what the number should be, but I feel like the people who grind casual just feel good beating up on people lesser than them are unspoken villain of the fgc. I feel like something along the lines of every hundred matches you playing casual. You have to play 10 matches in ranked. Because nothing is worse than trying to learn a new character and casual, and fighting someone who has hundreds of hours and casual, but never played ranked. This is going to be my diatribe, I'm going to spam this on every video FCC wise I can. If you believe my plate is true. Reiterate this point, I don't want thumbs up, I don't want replies.

Still better than sf 6.

I think the game james secretly trashes is sf6.

Is it CVS2 that you don't like James? Cause I can't stand that game. I cannot STAND how that game is ALWAYS stanned for by people who have never TOUCHED the awful high level play of that game. I also agree that SFxT was bad.

I always found that sf4 to be very "uncohesive" as well. The focus system is a complete mess if you try to actually explain the rules. They just gradually improved the game over time.

No you terrible

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My moneys on sf6 that he doesn’t like

James either hates MVC2 or UMVC3.

Being cohesive is exactly the reason why SF6 is a bad game also, almost all the elements in the game contradict each other. They made World Tour as an MK Deception Konquest bootleg so it can be used as a tutorial for casuals but then not only you don't actually train with the masters but also the CPU just spams moves over and over. And then it got also a legit tutorial mode in Fighting Ground to help casuals even more to get good, but then they add the placement qualifying matches for Ranked which really ruined the skill gap, and when they tried to fix it with the MR system, all they did was to make all the ranks other than Master and Legend to be meaningless because it's the MR that gives you a more accurate skill level of the player and it only starts at Master rank. There are actually even more contradictory problems in SF6 but that should be enough to showcase this overall problem, SF6 is just one huge contradiction case.