Can you guys weigh in on this for me?

Oh ok. That's probably too high for people to clown on him for quitting IMO, considering it puts him in the top 5-10% of players. FGs are weird though because you can be marginally better than someone but beat them 20 games straight because you're just a bit better at adapting as the game goes on.

I could get really neurodivergent about this but I'll do my best not to. The main issue with Tekken 8 is that very often you can play very aggressively and do things that leave you at a disadvantage, and then gamble on an even worse position to punish the other player for trying to capitalize on it. It's really difficult to explain how this risk/reward would normally play out in older games without writing an essay, but players can be rewarded for just throwing hail mary's nonstop. Modern games are made to be watched rather than played, and the casual viewer finds defensive play to be boring to watch.

Generally speaking if people say they don't like new FGs, I'm inclined to agree with them. DSP's arguments are complete nonsense, however. Talking about old games rewarding "natural skill" is ridiculous, but it's pretty normal for people to be unable to articulate their issues with a game. Despite what people say about him, DSP is definitely an above average FG player, the problem is that the "average" FG player can barely hold their controller.

hopefully I didn't sperg too hard.

And he's probably right, just going by distance of wiring and no servers.

No, it's because it's a CRT display lol

Arcade cabinets are not always better, the NESICA cabs (the most common in jp arcades right now which have SF5/6 and the anime games) have like 9 frames of delay at best. That's worse than input lag of a ps4 plus the netcode lag for pretty much any game.

You have a few frames of input delay for every controller/console (some slightly more than others), then with online it's another couple frames of input delay. Either way we are talking a tiny fraction of a second, you realistically would only notice if you did a direct comparison with a cabinet (which also has input delay, maybe a frame or two less). If you wanna be neurodivergent about it he's technically right, but realistically 99% of people won't notice the difference of literally like 2 more frames of input delay

Either way, pretty sure only 3rd Strike gets played on actual cabinets during tournaments, pretty much everything else is on console, and almost everyone seems to be fine with it

The main difference is also how combos are. In these modern games, you have fairly universal BnBs whereas in older games you had to learn or even make character specific ones.

ST? About the same as 3S. You have to actually hit the directional inputs, but it gives you slight leniency. In SF5 you can miss like half the inputs and still get it. Combos are more precise in ST, but also quite short.