#tekken 8 demo

[gabethehermit]

I finished the Tekken 8 demo and I just had to do this shit lmao

[stgroversfire]

im so excited. fuck

[seikotakai]

Gotta make some nostalgic reference to the Chicken sound effects after recovering some health in the Tekken Force mode (back in Tekken 3/Tekken 4).  Also wanted to try drawing another background, it's the Sanctum stage from Tekken 8 demo.  Look at Jin Kazama being cute enjoying some chicken, I had a blast playing as him yesterday in the Tekken 8 demo.

Jin Kazama and Tekken is owned by Bandai Namco

[beastgamerkuma]

Tekken 8 Is Beastly! Get Your First Impressions Here!

[capsulecomputers]

Tekken 8 confirms demo for PS5 at the end of the week

Bandai Namco has confirmed that the demo for Tekken 8 will launch at the end of the week exclusively on PS5. Just a week earlier than the other platforms, PC and Xbox Series S/X.

[finalcake-art]

Been playing Tekken 8, right now Reina is who I have my sights on as a main. Tried to Rikka-fy her because I love her chuu2-ness.

[niuniente]

Tekken 8 has seemingly changed its mechanism from right hand, left hand, right leg, left leg to air hit, normal hit, special hit, combo hit.

Which means I need to relearn how to play as Dragunov and Claudio.

This mechanism is definitely very user friendly for beginners and people with disabilities. I worry that it will be too easy for my taste as part of the fun in Tekken has always been mastering movements and combos for me EVEN when I play at easy mode (and knowing some characters are off limits because they're too complicated for me to use).

[aquabotart]

Tekken 8 is right around the corner! I am so excited!

Question for fellow fans here, did anyone else really like that new mode in the demo, where you go to different arcades and learn the ropes? I thought it was really cute, and the story-within-a-story was all about how there are many different ways to enjoy fighting games, which I really appreciated.

I play Tekken and other fighters primarily for the characters and story and beautiful artwork and character designs, so it was really touching for Namco to have a story which validates different people enjoying theses games for different reasons!

[sonsofks]

Prepárate para el Próximo Combate con el Explosivo Trailer de TEKKEN 8

La Batalla se Desata con Invitados de Lujo y la Emoción de los Campeones Mundiales ¡El universo de TEKKEN 8 se presenta en todo su esplendor con un avance que te dejará sin aliento! Bandai Namco Europe, en colaboración con la renombrada agencia de publicidad BETC, ha lanzado un trailer live-action titulado “Get Ready for the Next Battle”. Dirigido por Lukas TIELKE, este emocionante video reúne a…

[imperotenebre]

Tekken 8 PS5 gameplay 4K - Demo prime impressioni

Dopo aver provato la demo sono davvero in hype

[mana-sputachu]

Artshield

I was going to flop in bed and try to draw from there, but the sudden swarm of AI shit on another of my accounts fueled me with spite, so I'm writing this post NOW rather than tomorrow when I'll be more awake.

If you can't run Glaze/Nightshade because of the insane specs required for it, give a try to Artshield.

It's a web-based app that will let you load all the pics you want and protect them with a big, invisible watermark all over it. It also has a checker option to use after you've shielded your art, to be sure it worked.

Now, I'm terrible with math so I can't explain how it exactly work, but here's the explanation on their blog. If someone who's more math-savvy than me wants to add a simpler explanation to this post, please do!

While it can't poison AIs like Nightshade does, it's still a good solution if you can't run Glaze/Nightshade on your pc... like many of us, really. As I wrote on another post about Glaze, I have a pretty decent gaming pc that, while not being like high-end or anything (my GPU is a RTX 3060), suits my needs perfectly and runs all the games I'm interested in (Tekken 8's demo being the most recent thing).

Yet, in order to try Nightshade, I had to close all the apps I had running in the background, which were, in that moment, Opera and Discord. Only when I shut them down, it finally started. 10 minutes for the mid setting and the result was awful.

I tried WebGlaze (not Cara yet), and the results were also awful, given you can't control the strenght of the glazing much.

I understand it might be hard to develop this kind of technology, but I wish they would meet us halfway since the majority of people use old machines, laptops (a friend of mine tried running Glaze on hers and the fans started spinning like it was ready to fly) or even just tablets and phones, so those specs are hard to meet.

That's why I want to share Artshield, as a solution for those of you who can't run Glaze and Nightshade.

Artshield's only big limitation is that it won't work with white backgrounds, so try to add a color layer to your white background before shielding it. Same for B/W images.

Other tips I can suggest for trying to protect your works:

Post at the lowest resolution you can: I go for 72 DPI, keeping bigger sizes and high quality files only for Ko-Fi rewards and clients' files

Add a noise filter: I always do this because I like the paper-like, grainy feel it gives to my art, but I read once it might messes with AI's scrapers. While I don't know if this is still true, it's worth trying it

Don't forget a big visible watermark (aside from the Artshield one)!

Hope this will help other strugglin artists, I never see Artshield suggested around, especially in posts about Glaze and Nightshade, so I decided to write this one.

Go and shield your art!

[seikotakai]

Day 2 of Tekken 8 Demo

I just played the Tekken 8 demo again, this time mostly playing as Kazuya (as well as Jin and Nina for a bit). Kazuya has some special intros/interactions with Jun and Shaheen (Jun's determination to save Kazuya from his darkness and trauma; Shaheen wanting to avenge his friend like "you took everything from me" and kaz just looks at him like "i don't even know who tf you are"))...but why doesn't he have any special intros/outros/win poses with Nina, Asuka, Azucena, or Paul?!

>Azucena is pretty much probably his only ally (because Anna, Bruce, and Lucky Chloe are not in this game). Although Eddy Gordo was also cut from this game too, I guess Shaheen may as well be his replacement in a way (damn do e-sports players hate Eddy for losing to spam and cheese in player matches/ranked matches that much to the point where he got that joke ending in Tekken 7 and now he won't even be in Tekken 8?!).

>Paul was his OG rival back in the day before of course he keeps getting defeated by fucking Kuma (the blondie cocky extroverted rival who wants to be the best, you know like Sasuke vs Naruto or Ryu vs Ken).

>Coming to think of it, Jin Kazama also does NOT even have any special intros or win quotes with either Asuka or Nina. Like I was thinking Jin would be sad or angry about being betrayed again by someone (first Heihachi in Tekken 3, now Nina in Tekken 8...also Jin saved Nina from being brainwashed by Ogre in Tekken 3 and worked alongside him in Tekken 6, so her betrayal should sting). Also maybe Nina is perhaps actually just simply doing something similar to her role in Street Fighter X Tekken, maybe she's just secretly spying for Jin (and a special intro between her and Kaz would hint at this).

>Also once again Asuka being shafted and pushed to the side, like seriously no special intro for her with Jin or Kazuya?! It's disappointing because in her character episode with Lili, Lili mentions her being related to Jin and by extension the Mishima bloodline so she's worried that her friend (*cough* *cough* girlfriend) might get dragged into the whole Mishima conflict. So I was thinking okay surely Bandai Namco is building up to her finally being relevant in the next game right? I always had this theory in my mind that maybe perhaps why Asuka Kazama is treated like some comic relief side character ever since Tekken 6 is possibly all the backlash and hate she got from both Japanese and western Tekken fans for replacing Jun Kazama when she was introduced in Tekken 5. Same reason why Hinata Hyuga from Naruto gets so much love and favoritism from Studio Pierrot and the Naruto fandom (especially Japanese fans) over Sakura Haruno, and why Rosalina gets more attention than Daisy in the Mario Franchise lately (especially when Rosalina got into Super Smash Bros before her and Rosalina was also in Mario Strikers: Battle League at launch but not Daisy). Maybe it's because some fans strongly prefer the more feminine and introverted female characters over the confident tomboyish brash female characters. Of course these sentences are NOT meant to blame or slander Jun, Rosalina, or Hinata because I like all three of them as characters. It's just some coincidence I noticed.

>Although I do actually really like Steve's whole interaction with his mom Nina. Steve doesn't want to hurt his mom and even says that she is the last person he wants to fight, and Nina telling him to get out of here in her outro. I always thought Nina was cold to her son for similar reasons why Jin wants to live a solitary life, out of pure fear that Steve might get dragged into the either the Mishima conflict or her rivalry with Anna (ex. Anna Williams might kidnap him or something), she's just simply trying to protect her son in a way.

Anyways that's just my silly thoughts for now.

[sabrerine911]

Welp the Tekken 8 demo characters are colored

Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima, Nina WIlliams and Paul Phoenix

Noticed that my art workload is a loaded mess and I had to get these finished now if I ever wanted to get them done at all

Happy enough with how they ended up (im personally the most happy with Paul and Nina tbh XD)

I have a very small list of other favorite characters I wanted to do, but it will have to wait until next year, probably when I get Tekken 8 anyway.

Most likely Tekken thing I might do soon is a funny crossover with Nina and Vergil from the DMC series(if you know the lore of these two you will be able to guess the joke Ill go for im sure XD)

PS:An apology to the fellow Jin fans, the jacket was a pain to work on and I ended up improvising a lot on it and the gauntlets(even missed his hoodie, actually upset about that XD).

[andrevasims]

maaaan I remember in middle school, we went to a career fair, or technology fair, or something idk - but there was a booth with a desktop PC running Tomb Raider Underworld as like a tech demo

and everyone who grew up in the 2000s or earlier has something where they remember thinking "wow this literally looks like real life, graphics will never get any better than this," but seeing Tomb Raider Underworld on that PC was the only time I ever really remember thinking that

and imo that game still looks mostly decent graphics-wise; like it's not ray tracing DLSS 4K textures god rays magic whatever, but it's stylized realistic graphics, which I think always holds up way better than just trying to be as realistic as possible

not like I'm an authority on what good graphics are anyway, I played the Tekken 8 demo and I was like wtf how is it so detailed, why do I need to see every single muscle in his chest lol

[erenaeoth]

wanted to ask before tekken 8 drops, how do you feel about the recent footage and story trailer? is it anywhere near what you hoped for when we first saw the first story trailer?

Tekken 8 Demo & Kazuya

Placing this under the cut for those who don't want demo/chapter 1 spoilers.

The Chapter 1 footage I saw made me very concerned for the direction of the game. Kazuya's motivations and personality seem very different to previous games. Kazuya has always been motivated by two-fold power and revenge, and these things are deeply entwined. To get out from under Heihachi's hand, he needs strength and power, and he's devoted everything to achieving this. Last time he succeeded, he went a little off the rails, drowning in a powertrip that saw him tighten his hold on the Zaibatsu and build up its economic might with little regard for the legality of his actions.

This a world away though from the physical supremacy argument and senseless violence of his Tekken 8 motivations. Kazuya is someone shrewd and clever, he knows business, he knows power, and he knows how to maximise those. He's someone who can bide his time, plan, act from the shadows, take hits to his pride and ego if it means his long term plans come to fruition. Being 'at war with the world' is not good for business, nor does it bring him greater power - as testified to by his own line that all that matters to him is breaking apart the old world to make a new one where only those who can prove their strength deserve to live. This is a wild divurgence from Kazuya's character and M.O. thus far. This is excusable to me only if it is characteristic of Devil's corruption.

Kazuya has consistently claimed that he controls Devil and not the other way round, but we know from Jin's experiences that Devil preys on the mind, infecting thoughts and seeping into one's subconscious.

The story trailer gives me more hope in this regard. Jun, or the memory of Jun, whichever it is, tells Jin that he ought to use the power of the Kazamas to try and save Kazuya. What does Kazuya need saving from? Magic Kazama powers can't make him less of an asshole, but they could help him with Devil, a power not only making him indestructable, but also destroying the man he is. Kazuya has lines in I think Chapter 1 where he mocks Jin for losing control to Devil. He does this in Tekken 6 Scenario Campaign too. He expresses disappointment in Jin for losing his humanity to Devil. So Kazuya is convinced he's in control, but I wonder if bringing these words back in Tekken 8 indicate a focus on how actually Kazuya is also lost to Devil, and not as in control as he thinks.

I hope this is the case anyway, otherwise I'm going to be livid. Kazuya's a very lucid kind of villain. His actions have a logic to them that stems from childhood abuse and Heihachi's warped lessons. He's someone who thinks himself independent while not realising he's Heihachi's most perfect creation and legacy. What makes the Mishimas frightening isnt that they can zap into sexy devils, it's that they marry their wealth and cleverness together to seize political and economic hold of nations, and you can't even go confront them in person over it because they happen to be tough as hell martial artists. Eradicating the sense and logic of Kazuya's actions needs to be because this is Kazuya's Tekken 6. This is him losing to Devil and declaring war on the world in an echo of Jin's actions. Jin needs to see this and recognise this. I'm hoping references to Azazel in Tekken 8 come in to pattern this symmetry too.

I'm also looking forward to seeing a more full cast in Tekken 8. I hope Jin's friends in particular get a look in. I think they're very important if Tekken 8 wants to go the way of humanising him.

So at this stage, there's still a lot of potential in this story, but also a lot of ways they could really fuck it up. Very much hoping that nuance gets a place in this story. Let's wait and see.