Why Do Many Pro's Prefer T5:DR Over TEKKEN 7? 

T5DR has the strongest bots on ghost battle I swear. They actually make you sweat when playing them. I couldn’t get past fujin rank for the longest time 😂

Tekken 5 dr is good because you actually have to learn how to play the game. Neutral in that game was incredible and precise. The movement was silky smooth and allowed more options in combat. The roster was pretty solid with most of the cast had something unique about each of them. Had a lot of content to go through as well. The combos were balanced in a way that you had to maximize the juggle damage. The get system while punishing, was extremely nuanced and fair for the most part. It was an tightly designed game and I wish they would go back to. Also that music was the jam as well that actually pumped you up to fight. Great game.

Tekken 5 DR is king. The stages, customizations, music, it was the high point in my eyes.

combine tekken 4's writing, stage design, music, and atmosphere with DR's gameplay and you have a perfect tekken game

IMO it's easy to understand why people would prefer TK5 DR over TK7. It's less flashy visually speaking. But you could see how superior a player was through their movement and defence. That was the real Tekken.

I missed having no rage arts.

DR with the PSP version's content, remastered graphics, and modern online would be a fighting game dream come true.

I aint pro but T5 dr just feels better because of the movement. You feel so freeeee. T7 feels like you are moving on mud

I just clocked....their usernames say BIGDADDYJENDE? LOOOL

Better stages Perfect soundtrack Offline content So basically the perfect Tekken would be a mix between 3 and 5, with the costumization of 6

Tekken 5,in both its iterations, is still my favorite tekken game and one of my top 3 favorite fighting games of all time. It was solid in almost every aspect and i adored it from both the competitive aspect and the casual aspect of it When i discovered that the original version had the arcade releases of 1,2 and 3 packed with it my mind was blown

Having played since T2... I agree. Only in T5 did I feel like things were literally perfect - the more experience and more you wanted to get "into" the game, the better it was. Combos were short and not overly damaging unless it was a monster launch (I'm thinking Marduk's db1+2), and even then if you got hit by those you knew you'd made a mistake. BUT YOU WOULDN'T DIE FOR MAKING IT ONCE. You'd get another chance to manoeuvre and come back. Walls became more of a pressure tool than a "get the dude to the wall so I can do 90% damage combo". If you had good movement, you could always make a comeback. It was even the same in offline vs bots... once you got to the red ranks (the final ones before Tekken God), they played like GOOD humans... good movement, good blocking and optimal punishment and combos. You HAD to be good at the game to get past them without resetting.

Tekken 5 DR is the pinnacle of Tekken. Knee even says it too

I went from DR on PSP to 7 on PC and noticed immediately how much slower things were. It was as if the characters had more weight to them, its hard to describe. As much as I like 7, I think I enjoyed DR the most. I got to Deity rank with Lei. That may not be much to most folks, but I really felt like I worked for that rank and was proud that I managed it. The AI really did push me to my limits as a player.

As a casual tekken player 5 feels better to play than 7, characters feel more responive in 5.

Tekken 5's game intro and song is beautiful. Don't know why we stopped getting cinematic intros with nice songs at the game load of fighting games😢

Tekken 5 along with Dark Resurrection the best Tekken game I ever played. Need skill to master it unless you use Steve Fox. Movement is arguably the best in Tekken. No rage means if you getting rekt, you lose unless you completely master the game.

If they reduced how long and how far combos carry you. It would fix most of Tekken 7 issues imo.

T5:DR on the psp is what really got me into tekken, I still remember getting my psp, randomly buying tekken with not much knowledge of the game and instantly falling in love

I still forget rage arts exist. Just played a few rank matches and lost quite a few of them to panic rage arts. I miss old Tekken when people don't have braindead panic moves and have to rely on crushing or whiff punishing. Frickin Tekken Revolution was their prototype for Tekken 7.

This is literally a copy paste of the melee vs sm4sh/ultimate debate lmao

Besides T5 vanilla's terrible balancing issues... I still prefer it tbh. Although it's just because I don't really like the redesigns as much in DR. ^^

Tekken 3 and Tekken 5 DR are the best fighting games of all time atleast for me.

No hopkicks, that go through mids and crush everything. and then you cant even punish it when you do happen to block coz the online is so shit.

Back when DLC didn't break the game oh the memories. MOONLIT WILDERNESS!!

Dark Resurrection best Resurrection.

tekken is wayyy to combo centric these days, i also hate the comback mechanic introduced

T5 DR was my very first Tekken game 13 years ago and I'm so grateful to have experienced this godly game. Sadly, most of the people I know rarely plays it due to how "complicated" it is compared to what T7 had done. Tekken has changed a lot and I'm just happy to be in this community for 13 years now ✊🙏🏻

Btw In this this game Anna is one of the characters that have a wall combo. (df1, 2,4)

2:05 that guy in the chat, are you high?

IF Tekken 5 DR REMASTERED happens i will be so happy men😊

There's definitely a missed opportunity to make new versions of older Tekken games a la Ultra Street Fighter II. Would be great to see a port with balance and QOL improvements.

"You don't get rewarded for losing 80% of your health" FINALLY, someone said it

To me it’s as simple as this, up to DR, all the games were more grounded & more Defensive. Once T6 introduced the combo extension ground juggles & all that shit, things went to another level lol. Doesn’t make T6 and its successors less good, but it clearly divides the 2 types of tekken gameplay from T2-T5DR & T6-T7. Which will also divide the players in terms of, “what style do I prefer?” The older games or the newer ones. That being said, I do hope T8 becomes a more grounded game. Death combos are too common now. It takes away from the “chess” aspect of the game, IMO.

Coming back here now Tekken 8 is released. Talking about over the top moves.

Everything you said is so true i had no idea, i was thinking i was better back on DR i didnt know why besides just me being older not playing for awhile an different move sets? I cant play dragunov kazuya steve lars bob lili leo as good anymore and others tbh

I still have this game on my ps3 for some reason. A friend gave it to me a long time ago and it was forgotten until i found this channel.

Tekken 5 + 5dr had more content then t7

This was super interesting, thanks!

6:58 this is what i miss the most in Tekken

Half the people in the comments section talking about movement can’t even backdash or sidestep properly in the first place

I remember someone mentioning the comeback mechanic in virtua fighter was movement because you could ring out people which took skill but gave you an option to come back from nothing

Having recently gotten back into tekken, rage arts can be a fairly annoying instant-delete-1/3-health button if you don't play it extremely carefully. I think a good fix is making it only usable once in an entire match, that way if a person wastes their chance using the move, it won't be a constant threat that potentially slows the pace of the rest of the match

Yea I like fighting games that focus more on positioning than combos.

Best online Tekken but, I love Tekken 6 the most.

I still remember here as Paul I need to jab my way through for an air combo. The best here for him is that his b,d+2 is a stun hit ready for a demo man always. But for me the most balanced Tekken in air juggling is Tekken 3 and pretty much still my favorite Tekken till this day.

I like juggling combos better than chain and screw combos.

What about T5DR vs. TTT1?

As much as I love Tekken 5 , I still prefer Tekken 3 as my all time favourite.

I use to play DR on my psp when I went to college during my commute. Good times.

watching this after the T8 teaser. I really hope that T8 is gonna be a more skillbased game like T5. T7 is great and I really love it, but there´s so much stuff (since T6) that I personally dislike a lot. - weird new characters, weird movement, pay2win (sort of), bad story, no team battle and so on. IMO a more realistic design (like T3/T4) would be the way to go. more based on the fundamentals of tekken and not on gimmick attacks...

the one I like the most is tekken 5 but the long combos of tekken 7 make it a more surprising game for viewers to watch

Jesus i love ur content TMM.. im watching u for 3 years right now

I have this on psp the day i learn juggle combos a big respect to T5 DR

6:27 ...the bunga isnt really there.. as ganryu high crushes and launches steve :) love it xD

i mean one thing is for sure, as a casual player like myself i had the most fun with tekken 5DR i even like the graphics as well, very unique. and the mode where you could increase your rank to tekken lord or whatever it was called there was very fun as well, i had so much fun with this game xD

It's funny, because even though I played tekken since I was like 5, I really got into tekken in 2018 with 7, and I was like "this is the best shit ever". Then, I got nostalgic and played tekken 5 again since it was one of my favourite games of the ps2 era, that's when I realized "This is the best tekken ever holy shit". And even though I like vanilla tekken 5 more than dr, I have to admit that dr is probably my second favourite tekken game next to vanilla 5 while also being objectively the best tekken game

Damn Yoshimitsu in T5 had oni thrust. I miss that move.

I miss the old days when Tekken had no rage and better side stepping.

Getting juggled is what I hate the most. I haven't been fond of it since T6 and I really wish they would change that. I guess visually it's more appealing at least? T7 has to be the most visually engaging Tekken as a spectator, but I really miss the movement of T5.

im still playing tekken 5 on my ps2- its still wholesome.

You absolutely nailed it. T7 has you LAUNCHED from wall to wall after ONE MISTAKE. Once you are in the air, you might as well put the controller down and wait for the round to end!

Tekken 5 just feels right. The button registry feels more responsive. My favorite because of this. Also the best levels. Airport in T4 has the best music though.

Regarding speed, don't forget the universal input lag they kept adding from T6 onwards (even for offline games). This was to bring the offline and online experiences closer together.. In older Tekkens you can see high level players reacting to faster moves because of this.

yeah. after tekken 5 DR i quit coz i saw 6 has that bound.. then Tag has it too.. i didnt come back.. Then 7 it's still there. i thought i will never go away so no choice i still want to play. came back season 4 T7.

The whole mishimas in the game even Jinpachi and it's the best Heihachi and Kazuya RIP Daisuke Gori

When he said "Bunga crushing" for the first time, I was expecting something related to Paul 😂

I think Tekken 5dr should have a Grassroots fighting game scene just like Super Smash Bros melee I think the game is good enough to Warrant that

I really wanna play dr now, don't own a ps3 tho :(

Tekken 5 DR was the one I played the most out of all the Tekkens

Wasn't Rage and rage arts put into the game because people complained how hard it was to comeback?. I think in 8 if they ever make it , they just need to buff movement and mabye keep the combo system but lower the damage because it be too much sometimes.

T5 DR = THE GOAT TEKKEN GAME

it should be about movement and spacing

I think t5dr is a good practice ground for new players to be good in the neutral game. But honestly i like the old system and new equally because its not all that bad that rage is a thing right?

T5:dr is my 1st tekken game (I also have a 200 plus combo dmg with asuka in this game)

My heart is still stuck with t3, tag1 and t4 ❤️❤️

Seems to be a horrible new trend with fighters these days dumbing and slowing them down. Mortal Kombat 11 suffered the same fate when compared to its predecessor. It's still a decent game, but the slower pacing just makes it less satisfying both to play and spectate.

I wish they rereleased this on a modern plarform.

The thing about Tekken 5 DR for me is if you have good movement you can probably play low tier characters and do well

I'm probably at the beginner level of Tekken, but I have played it a lot in my childhood and youth. Specifically Tekken 3 and then Tekken 5. I missed out on Tekken 4, and I couldn't afford new consoles, so until Tekken 7 made its way to PCs, I simply stopped playing new titles of the series. When I heard about Tekken 7 being a Microsoft Windows game I was really happy, but when I played it, it was tremendously different from what I've known. The game seemed a bit slow and somewhat clunky. Now, with this video, I start to better understand what seemed so off for me in Tekken 7. I would be really interested in the analysis of the whole series title by title, what were the characteristics of each game and how they changed from one to another. Great video though, thank you.

I'm not a fan of how much space the characters take up on screen from Tekken 6 to 7 DR had it perfect.

Shorter Combos = Faster pacing.

Funny how this aged as 8 has once again limited every defensive option from 7 now.

I'd like a version of tekken with a bit less juggle damage and no rage mechanic. That only would bring current game to the 5DR level. I like my combos and wall combos, and these could stay becuase lanuchers are unsafe and you are taking risks for opportunity of doing damage, or with juggles you are being rewarded for good movement.

It's sad that Tekken becomes slower and slower each iteration

The speed thats what i miss in TK5 TK7 is a bit slow. The RA, RD, Bounce, and they made more grab stuff thats why TK5 is better. But i miss the fast pace game.

As a former weekly ranked nr 1 spot on Tekken 5 DR Online i agree with this video

Tekken Tag Tournament 1 & 2 Tekken 7 hands down!

Any idea where we can play this game today?

Well I do, but it has nothing to do with balancing, Tekken 5 and Dark Resurrection have way worse balancing issues than season 3 of Tekken 7, but 20 less characters, a MUCH better presentation, a better handling of story mode, a FAR superior soundtrack and a lack of comeback mechanics to me is what makes the experience of Tekken 5/DR so much better than Tekken 7 personally.

Please do some commentary on @Q2NE ft5 Arslan(Kazumi) vs Usman Baloch(Paul) where Usman Baloch did well against Arslan. And I think Paul is a good character against Arslan.

i LOVED DR when i was a kid man, i was about 9 or 10 and i only used Jack-5 and played offline, i used to spam his rocket arm thing i remember i had like 10000 matches played with jack 5 alone idk why i played it everyday for years in 2009 at high school everyone would bring their psp and we'd have battles in the computer room at lunchtime

Mainman vs crow 👀

I loved Tekken 4,5 and Tag 2

It's been soooo fucking long since I've played T5:DR that I'm so used to T6, TTT2, T7 system of excessive offensive using combo that I get my fucking ass beat trying to rush down opponents in DR. It's actually a breath of fresh air although it looks like I'm going to have to start from scratch, lol.

T5DR was the Tekken I play the most... Recall playing T5 on PS2 then t5DR on PS3. And back then there were no Air combo, everything was about side stepping and counter. Then T6 came out everything change.... Now I kinda prefer the old T5 style.

This video sums over everything that's right about Tekken before Tekken 7

One word....Nostalgia

That's what we players missing in tekken 7 🥺 why we players can't get what we really wants 💔

Tekken 7 sold 6 million copies back then huh? Great to think back that it's over 10 million now. Really excited to see T8's numbers