# Tekken 7 - The only game i ever continued playing online

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 11, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tekken-7-the-only-game-i-ever-continued-playing-online/798583 "2017-10-11T17:52:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimeTraveller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@TimeTraveller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeTraveller)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tekken-7-the-only-game-i-ever-continued-playing-online/798583/1 "2017-10-11T17:52:57Z")

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hey everyone, this will be my first thread on this forums. Good to be here.

so yea, i was saying that i am not really into online gaming, i mostly play games for stories and modding and keep them offline. But tekken 7 is the only game i find worth playing online, i feel like tekken is a game that is based on actual concepts of fighting. Getting better with reflexes, watching out opponent’s moves, predicting movements, changing stance and a lot more stuff of this game gets me excited and makes me feel like a need to get better at it.

Does anyone else play tekken here?

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**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tekken-7-the-only-game-i-ever-continued-playing-online/798583/2 "2017-10-31T05:08:05Z")

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Started with Tekken 3. Never all that great at fighting games, but I was at least able to learn enough effective moves to get all the endings without a Gameshark. Later, I’m playing Tekken 6 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and I’m absolutely _meat_. Completely thrashed up and down. That pretty much killed any interest I had in the franchise (and there wasn’t a whole lot to begin with).

And no, it’s not just that it was “hard” or that I “lost a lot”. Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2 (to keep it Namco :)) had some _insanely_ difficult levels, and I lost all. The. Time. Don’t even get me started on 10 Opponent Outrun…the Devil Z was flat out _untouchable_. But I spent more money on that than possibly any other arcade game ever, and I enjoyed nearly every minute of it. Because it rewarded effort, because it encouraged me to find new ways to win, and…most importantly…because I knew that if I kept at it, eventually I’d break through. Tekken isn’t like that. The amount of knowledge and practice you need to put in to become **mediocre** is astounding, and you have to keep your skills sharp or get left behind.

I’ll admit that it’s an absolutely beautiful game, though.