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Hop kicks, wall carry, low parries, godfists… when learning to play Tekken competitively, it’s easy to get caught up in the lingo. Terms like these and others can be especially confusing for those who are used to playing traditional 2D fighters and are entering the 3D land of the iron fists for the first time.

Here to show 2D-heads that they’re not alone in their Tekken 7 journey is YouTuber raidhyn, who has created a great beginners guide filled with tips and tricks designed to help you conquer that 3rd dimension. raidhyn does a great job of trimming the fat and getting down to the nitty-gritty of what you do and don’t need to know about Tekken 7‘s core mechanics.

While we hope you can find all of the tech and strategy help you need in Tekken 7 here at SRK, this guide is a practical reference for everything those videos assume you already know as a Tekken player. Even Heihachi Mishima was a noob once, so check out the video below to begin mastering the basics.

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Does elitism prevent players from accepting new versions of their favorite games?

In this new video, Fighter 101 examines how “old school” values caused them to resent new players succeeding in new, more accessible games; specifically, how a Street Fighter V player can find success more quickly now than a Super Street Fighter II Turbo player could — based on both the design of the respective games, and the resources available to their generation. But they warn that holding on to elitism from the retro gaming experience can cloud one’s judgement of modern titles, and what they offer players and the community as a whole. There are rewards to adaptation, if you want the most out of your games.

Thanks to Trent for the tip.

Source: Fighter101

Android 18’s playable appearance in Dragon Ball FighterZ has her bring along her brother Android 17 as an assist character. For those looking for them, this means twice the number of references to the original manga and anime.

Aside from borrowing from various scenes in the original source material, Android 18 also borrows a number of references to some of her previous video game appearances. Meanwhile, some of her normals seem to be taken from moves Android 17 has done in the source material. Android 17 himself also has his own share of references as well, and also copies some moves from his sister.

Their Accel Dance super comes straight from Dragon Ball Extreme Butoden — a game developed by Arc System Works — while her Assist has Android 17 warning an opponent that they should not interfere with the fight. Not only is it an ‘anti-Assist’ Assist, but his speech is word for word identical to a speech he delivers to the Z-Warriors during Vegeta’s fight against Android 18. Talk about faithfulness to the source material.

Source: IKevinX

Out of all of the hosts of the Mishima bloodline, Jin Kazama is definitely an outlier. Though he does carry some of his family’s electrifying techniques, there is a fluidity to his style that is simply not present in that of his quarreling father and grandpa.

HurtboxTV’s latest combo breakdown illustrates the benefits of Jin’s simple-and-clean style. Though you may not be able to play as aggressively as you would with Heihachi or Kazuya, you won’t have as much to focus on execution-wise with Jin. The video also demonstrates the terrific wall carry that his strings have, which gives Jin an advantage when playing on any stage with walls.

If you admire the Mishimas for their straight-forward simplicity in battle and have yet t0 try Jin, this combo breakdown has what you need to get started. Check it out below and feel free to examine more of HurtboxTV’s  Tekken 7 combo guides.

Source: HurtboxTV

Abigail, Street Fighter V‘s most recent DLC character, has been out in the wild for a month now with a lot of character combo and setup tech on YouTube and other social media sites. However, there doesn’t seem to be many videos covering how to punish Abigail’s unsafe normals and specials with frame disadvantage on many of them ranging between high single to high double-digit numbers. There aren’t many solid Abigail players out there yet, so anyone who’s unfamiliar with the character’s unsafe moves and strings will be thrown for a loop.

Thankfully, YouTube channel ECThrowdown uploaded a video made by ListonThePrince exposing how heavily punishable Abigail’s move set is with Vega. The video shows the masked matador punishing Abigail’s regular and EX Abigail Punch, Avalanche Press, Dynamite Punch,Giant Flip, Critical Art, and his most unsafe normals. He also shows how to punish untrue strings as well as gaps in his EX Giant Flip follow-ups. If you have four minutes to spare, check it out below and gain some knowledge.

Source: ECThrowdown

In the 1990s, movie adaptations of video games were on their way becoming merely a method of milking money from unsuspecting and naive children. People remember this decade of video game movies and shudder at adaptations like Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, and the notorious Street Fighter.

However, one adaptation was released that raised the bar for later game adaptations to come — at least a little bit — and that was Mortal Kombat in 1995. While it hasn’t necessarily aged well, it was able to showcase what sticking to the source material can actually do for a successful movie.

James Rolfe — famous for his Angry Video Game Nerd series of game reviews — has now delved into the film. While he admits that the movie does not generate the hype for him that it did when he was a kid, he praised the producers for sticking to the plot of the game and portraying the characters and scenarios as faithfully as possible. He also comments how the game comes full circle: once being inspired by Enter the Dragon, it also becomes a film with a similar structure to the Bruce Lee classic.

Some NSFW language ahead.

Source: Cinemassacre