Machiavellian said:
Tekken started with a trained Bear, a Kangoroo and a space ninja. It was not Tekken story that seperated it at the time from other 3d fighters like Virual Fighter it was juggles. At the time Tekken was the juggle master compared to Virtual Figther. I remember it was one of the main reasons why my group switch to Tekken. It was a game that was easier to get into but still had a top end to master. It was flashy and introduced grappling moves with Nina and King. No one cared about the story at the time but did like the animated endings |
Virtua Fighter started with much floatier physics than to tekken. It was only in the modern era that it became the opposite. In the west, its greater style and story attracted more begginers and thus ended up with more of a competetive scene. It was tekken that made fighting games bigger on home consoles. These things became more pronounced with each entry capping off at tekken 3. You should remember that it was a huge deal when kazuya became the villain and when he was replaced by Jin.
People shouldn't talk about characters like kuma and Roger as if they weren't serious. They were rather serious story-line wise at first. Intellegent killer animals aren't inherently silly, they are inherently unrealistic. People don't assume that planet of the apes is automatically silly. It merely handles an outlandish concept.
