Endless Paradigm

So I sit here right now at my friends house as he invited me for a sleep-over but as he had a hard day at work, he's already sleeping

I decided to play Tekken 6 a bit without sound on his PS3 as I got it today for cheap 20€ at GameStop. To be honest, fighters are not my games and I only bought it for some multiplayer fun with people from EP but honestly I think about returning it.

First of all I don't want to insult one of the greatest fighting series but I really can't get into it, I suspect it's not the games fault but mine, really....

The only fighting games I really enjoyed so far:

Tekken 3
DoA 2 and 4
Soul Blade (Soul Calibur felt too slow compared to Soul Blade for me.)
SF 2 Turbo and  SF 4
BlazBlue Calamity Trigger
Dragonball Z Ultimate Battle 22

Now, it's been ages (literally) since I last played a Tekken game but in my two hours now playing Tekken 6, I seriously asked myself, was Tekken always so slowish? oO

I know Tekken is all about combos and such, but it feels just slow to me.....

Though maybe I'm just a bit spoiled from the insane battle speeds of DoA4....^^'

In any case, I never try to button mash if I play fighters (I had the entire DoA 2 moveset of Ayane and Kazumi memorised 5 years ago) but no matter what I tried I couldn't pull anything worthwhile off in Tekken 6.

Plus what's with the Arena Mode? That Azazel whatever thing is insanity for newcomers...

Really I don't want to blame the game it's more likely me, but sorry to all EP members who looked forward to play with me, I'm most likely going to return it, unless a multiplayer session tomorrow with my friend changes my mind....

Tekken 3 felt the fastest to me, Tekken 4 was the slowest of all - easily the worst Tekken game - Tekken 5 improved upon that and Tekken 6 is a pretty good addition to the family but I didn't like it's "story" mode at all.. didn't feel very Tekken-y. Wee do want Tekken Tag Tournament 2 though... that would be sweet.

Azazel isn't a problem if you lower difficulty, give yourself a chance to get used to the combat system - or even just return it and practice with Tekken on PSP because it's a pretty good version.

I've played all the Tekken games so I can't say much about the learning curve other than I should be better than I am haha.

tekken 3 was my spoon!

i played that game religiously when it came out.

I had all the characters and both of their videos.

Unlocking the videos is what made me play it soo much.
When this game came out it at the time had the greatest ending videos to a game yet!
just behind Twisted Metal, not sure which one, but one had dope donkey videos.

sorry ends rant.

Sky, your taste in fighting games is nothing to be ashamed of. It is excellent taste, and you're well justified.