What makes Tekken so APPEALING?

What are your reasons for playing Tekken? Please tell us here in the comments!

#1 thing for me and my enjoyment of Tekken is the intuitiveness like was mentioned. Basic buttons of left/right punch/kick, add directions to get permutations, press in sequences to get strings, and order strings for combos. It just makes sense and allows a player to pick any character then through experimentation build a basic skillset with no prior knowledge.

As a vet from T1: Tekken's appeal is simply in the characters and gameplay. The games are actually SUPER EASY to pick up, but super hard to master if you want to go competitive. From the old days, you could always just pick up a character that looked neat to you and have fun with them on a casual level super easily. I remember having matches with random people, even complete newcomers in Tekken 3 days when I had two games behind me, and they were able to still have fun with me in a casual environment. It's so good at that draw. The music of course adds a lot too. It's just a great triple combo if you ask me. The music, the characters, and the fun gameplay. It just works, and I love it to this day.

The limb based combat gameplay and Tekken 4's story are the main reasons I play Tekken. It took until Tekken 8 to finally match 4's story, and thankfully the gameplay in 8 is better than 4, finally proving you dont need one or the other- you can have both good gameplay and story

My first tekken was tekken 5 , psp version. My main was Bruce Irvin , because of his “brutal “ pink trunks. My favorite arena was orbital station.

I've been playing since 3. First game my parents let me choose as a kid. Jaguar man all the way. Also, Jin theme is absolute gas.

For me, it's the representation of martial arts, and the weight and intensity of each hit. If everyone fought like they don't know martial arts and they hit like Virtua Fighter characters, I probably wouldn't like it.

1:09 my favorite character: Jim.

When I was a kid my first Tekken game was T3 and the gameplay and character designs are what drew me in. Everyone looked so cool especially Jin.

THANK YOU FOR GIVING JUNGLE OUTPOST ITS LOVE!!!!!!!

so, according to my friends who are all really new to fighting games/casuals "Tekken feels like real fighting, because it doesn't have all that fireball nonsense that other games have"

About time a video like this was made. Tekken is simply a gorgeous game with creative colorful characters, music, design, playstyle, graphics, and the deep level it takes to reach high skill ability.

I literally got into Tekken because of Tekken 8’s soundtrack. A few months back I would listen to music from Tekken games like Sparking, My Last Stand, Kitsch, Karma (Electric Fountain) and so much more. To me, Tekken looked a lot more easier than any other 2D fighter I’ve ever played (Injustice and Mortal Kombat) because you can escape some combos by sidestepping whereas in 2D fighters you can only block and parry.

What makes Tekken the best 3D fighting game? Hard to say but the soundtracks is one, the aesthetics, character designs, lore, world building, gameplay to name a few. I've been investing in Tekken since Tekken 3(which is my first Tekken game to play) and I never looked back. Don't get me wrong I've played KOF, DOA, Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, Injustice and Mortal Kombat and I've enjoyed them but Tekken hits different and Tekken is and will always be the fighting game I'll enjoy the most.

I played because it feels like your are playing martial artists with some unreal flair that is still hand to hand combat

To me it's the animation. Tekken has the best animation in all of fighting games with only Shaolin vs Wutang 2 coming in close second

I love Tekken far more than Mortal Kombat cuz I don’t have to deal with zoners just spamming projectiles & seeing the same combo by every single player every time. Tekken feels better. Players good & bad doing their own thing. It still has its spammers but everyone feels more unique when fighting against.

It’s the chess of fighting games.

I love tekken after going from someone who just gamed for fun to competing. I ended up going to my first ceo tournament and I did better in tekken then I did in sf at the time which I thought was gonna be my main series. After that tournament I went home and studied I learned about tekken everything from lore to characters to moves to music. Everything. I then become know as the tekken guy for my job and more bc I worked in a game room and students and more would come in thinking they were the best at tekken. I got so good at the game I always had my arcade stick that was custom and built around tekken. Knee lever and all. I ran the tekken seen not only building it up the more people came by but even becoming our local tekken champ for the college when we heald locals. I even stream it on twitch and still compete even now. It's hands down my favorite series and game ever at this point. It's saved my life, honestly. I will always love tekken.

Because we play what we love and people just enjoy it ❤