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A pvp with a ranked system that ranges from white belt to black belt and beyond would be badass

A lot of older games in the xbox/ ps2 era had dynamic blocking. Enter the Matrix, Jet Li Rise to Honor, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dead or Alive, Shenmue......even a few ps1 games like Kensei Sacred Fist.

I've been waiting for a multi-player open world, 'Sifu or Ghost of Toshiba' style game forever. How has this not happened yet 😢

I agree with most of what you said, but you're gravely mistaken if you think this is about "legacy" at all. NO ONE ever wanted rage, rage art, rage drive, heat, chip damage and so on. For most of it's life, Tekken fans gloated about how all mechanics like these had no place in Tekken. Then the devs went in, did whatever the fuck they wanted with the franchise, people cried a little bit and then went back to being Harada's bootlickers. They don't change these things because they don't want to. And they don't want to because Tekken is a cash grab, has always been and will always be. I'm so glad I left this game behind

Kensei sacred fist did it already FIRST ps1

I agree with everything you say 100%

"tekken is a 2D game in a 3D world". Never quite thought about this take this way until you said it. While I do agree it's a little dated and a little wonky/unintuitive, i feel like if they sort out some of the wonkiness, what you have is a movement system that, while not as freeing as an 8-way run, is great at enabling skill expression and is tailor made for the "2D in 3D" thing. P.s. im open to be corrected but i see a lot of people say tekken 4 had an 8 way run which it didn't. It was the first game to introduce the side walk in place of the sidestep, and it was as intuitive as the examples you showed. I'm certain tekken 4's downfall came down to things like the stages being uneven, some characters being unrecognisable from their more known origins (Jin is a great example of this) and the fact that the game was almost too realistic for what the audience was used to (little to no juggles, silly characters and plot points to a minimum). As such, they went back to the prior formula and never looked back

TBH! Namco dropped the ball! I was expecting this fidelity from T8!!!!! When they showed Jin and that dark moody rain volcano whatever! But then we just got the same old same old when T8 released!!! Nice of Sega to kick Namco in the balls!!! BUT Namco couldve and shouldve done this! I was expecting them to do this!!! Namco are in a winning position! Now Namco will be miles behind! Will take Namco ages to leave their popular niche behind! Namco has embraced the over the top anime look! Sega now has realism ALL to itself! Namco will take ages just to redesign the characters and the systems!! I mean Namco had the right idea with T4!!!! which was muted and more realistic! This is exciting! And im not really a fan of VF! apart from 1 and 2 but Tekken took over

I've been saying that about blocking for a while. Hard agree 👍

I feel like if they did add a pvp mode, they could’ve at least had it built like the 1v1 duels in For Honor or Absolver. They could’ve went for that or at least make it like some sort of battle Royal-like mode. Either way, that’s what could’ve saved the game instead of just keeping it as a repetitive PvE. This game was beautiful in every way with gameplay, graphics, character designs, etc…but they left out so much potential.

You can see dynamic blocking in "Def Jam Fight For New York" on PS2 and PSP and on the "Garouden Breakblow" series. 💁🏻‍♀️

Big corporation saw what happened with classical fighting games, skill based gameplay scares common people and making sell low. Street fighter is now having head aches, how to not drive away fans and bring new people in. Thats why they making games easier and easier. This problem is not unique to fighting games, many shooters were ruined by same idea of attracting new casual players. Any of that didn't work out, casual player have memory of a fish, hardcore player don't have interest in simple systems.

I’ve been dreaming of this game since street fighter 2. Mortal Kombat needs dynamic blocking more than any game. Tekken as well. I’d be happy if SF6 just reverted to third strike parries.

Virtua fighter 6 has the potential to create epic evo moments with dynamic/parry mechanics

Like others already said, visual clarity is the reason. When things like crouch state, sidestepping, forward/back dashing, counters/parries exist, if you add all these animations it makes it much more confusing to analyze what your opponent is actually doing

Looks long like I'm getting vf 6

I agree I have beenakso I love Sharon vs wutang I conversed with the developer whenlive him for that authentic kung fu gameasking for this since Virtua 3

Virtua Fighter 6 will definitely release in early 2027 i think

“Heyy boy!”

Talk out your ass because you have no understanding of animation principles & design.

One of the older mk games kinda had it. Maybe it was deception. Cant remember. Dynamic blocking is sick and ive always wondered why tekken didnt have it 😂

It took so long because animation and collision detection is some of the hardest things ever! Also, traditionally VF was always the leader in anitmation. Tekken 3 brought namco back in the game. However no further improvements since vf5.

not every game needs this, SF6 doesnt need realistic defense. and in fact, having dynamic guarding could result in an issue of visual clarity of whats even going on. however in the context of Virtua Fighter its perfect. VF has always been about pushing dynamic animation, and also having more of a defensive focus. and again in contrast, Tekken being super game-y with 'broken' animations like the Korean Back Dash or stiff blocking... honestly i hope it stays that way, let Virtua Fighter be Realistic & Tekken be Arcadey. its better that games stay different rather than all become samey.

Shout out to Shaolin vs Wutang!

Wendont need outngames to be uktra realistic though.. juggles are great for match viewing especially

lol, but tekken already has a lot of different block animations, they just play when you block DIFFERENT moves, moves that hit from different directions, with different strengh

I see a lot of kensei, a game I really like by the way but lets not forget VS which I feel the same about. Also urban reign just cause I miss it and wanted to throw it out there Bamco😏

kensei sacred fist has amazing blocking animation that time... I am still waiting to this day nobody comes with this system

This feature was present in kensei. Fight game made by konami and release on ps1.

Finally!!!!!

What should have Virtua Fighter done years ago? Make a sequel to VF5?

It's good to know Virtua Fighter is back. I would like to see more of Virtua Fighter 6 such as story mode, characters, stages and more. I also want Virtua Fighter live action movie for the 30th anniversary of Virtua Fighter.

Phew! For a while I thought you observed that they had removed the block button and just made it automatic like in Tekken.

...but you know what Tekken DOES do in great detail instead? THROW BREAKS.

I'm assuming this is gonna talk about fixing those booty ass ragdoll physics

All Tekken moves have varying amount of block stun and a different animation depending on the amount of block stun height of the attack and other properties like forcing crouch or off axis facing. If you add parries, reversals and throw breaks into the system, it all looks super good and dynamic. IMHO generic block is rather bland looking despite the animation to distinguish it from parry animations which have no block stun. th-cam.com/video/EgC88qqyyZ0/w-d-xo.html

Great video. I agree, whole heartedly, with you on this.

Dont mean to be that guy, but I just slowed down the clip at the street fighter 6 section @1:03 and saw like 4 unique Ken block animations in it based on the strength of the move and where it hit. Street Fighter has technically been doing this since at least Street Fighter 3, but the animations are SUPER subtle and able to be cancelled out of SUPER fast so I dont think it gets shown. But there's unique animations for blocking and parrying highs mids and lows across the entire cast including changes in burnout and other specific scenarios, it's just... fast and subtle.

Some characters from the PS1 game Kensei Sacred Fist featured that.

I literally dont care about this but go off king!

I've seen it before in Kensei and Bloody Roar. It's a nice detail to have that looks better than a generic guard stance. Now what would be new I think would be to treat these as mini stances, so you can do special counter attacks depending on the block animation, to have it flow like a movie. But that may be too hard for the player to keep track of.

i dont really care or mind but if it works then my god they are genius lol

If you want realistic then players shouldn’t be able to throw and knock down Taka-Arashi from a heavy kick or throw. I mean El-Blaze grappling Taka and throwing him down? lol

Virtua Fighter did that dynamic blocking thing since VF4. It's in VF3 and VF3tb also.👍😃

maybe now we can go back to Tekken 4 and 5 style level design, I also like to add that Matrix in one of their games had dynamic blocking, it was pretty good, and they did it before anyone else

3d mk had this too an extent

Not enough people have a problem with it and it'll probably be a bit tedious to implement

And if you also noticed, that they haven't used hit sparks like other fighting games do in this one. They're using powder or dust like you see in Kung Fu movies.

It's funny that of all 3D fighting games Mortal Kombat Armageddon was the first and last game that had multiple block animations. And that game is almost 20 years old!

the problem here is that you seem to think that all these games don't have dynamic animations for blocking different attacks because they *can't* or because they're like too lazy to do that. The reality is that they forego those animations for the sake of visual clarity. Visual clarity is massive when it comes to the popularity of a game in the competitive scene and nowadays how healthy the competitive scene is will make or break your game The animations from that little teaster for VF6 or whatever it ends up being called are definitely cool looking but it was definitely very scrambly and scrappy. It makes the moves blend into the guard and I wouldn't be surprised if that makes it a bit unpleasant to actually play. Not saying that it will but we'll have to see