414: Tekken 4 PS2 \\ 8-on-8 Team Battle! (and LOUDER volume!)

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Published on March 13, 2021 4:07:34 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1fQYdRjnKs

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Tekken 4 (2001)

Duration: 1:36:10

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(This video is 9 decibels louder than my previous videos, and should be more in line with average YouTube video volume--ie recorded at or near max volume :p--rather than the traditional broadcast audio engineering peak of -10 dB or so. Let me know how the new volume level works on your speakers! : )

Playing 8-on-8 Team Battle mode in Tekken 4 on PS2, Medium difficulty, with random teams (press Start at character select)! Kuma, Heihachi, and Combot were left locked so we don't have to see them. : P

0:00 - start
1:10 - Team Battle 1
12:59 - Team Battle 2
23:59 - Team Battle 3
38:20 - Team Battle 4
54:00 - Team Battle 5
1:07:37 - Team Battle 6
1:19:17 - Team Battle 7
1:33:04 - wrap-up & what's next!

Notes:

10'52 - Hwoarang looks so good in 4--better than in 5/6, I think!
1'31"27 - hey, it's "Lee," not his disguise, "Violet"! Gosh, Team Battle randomizes that, pretty cool actually.

I'd spent a bunch of time trying to set up Tekken 5 for playing random 8-on-8 Team Battles, then when the time finally came to run them, I found them more of a pain than fun--I was really struggling switching characters after each lost round. So I started worrying I'd find that to be the case in Tekken 4, and maybe Team Battle just wasn't for me--in which case I wasn't sure how I'd play Tekken 4; Tekken 5 has Ghost Battle to fall back on, which ain't bad at all--but fortunately, I found Tekken 4's Team Battle mode more addictive than ever! It really does have that "just one more battle" quality about it for me; somehow I didn't have the struggle going from character to character like I did in 5.

Did 5's battle system differentiate the characters just that tiny bit more that made it frustrating rather than fun to switch off constantly? I don't remember feeling that way about the mode in 6, but I guess I haven't played a ton of TB yet in 6; and also, 6 smoothes off most of the numerous rough edges in 5's fighting moves. Anyway, even if I'm still much less effective with some characters (Bryan and Xiaoyu for instance, apparently) than others, Team Battle rocks in 4!

(At one point in comparing them in this video, I talk about being confused by the round win markers in 5, and suggesting they were backwards from what they are in 4, where I wasn't having trouble reading them--but no, they aren't. :P Maybe it's just they're kind of smaller and duller in 5, not big glowy rectangles like they are here in 4. Anyway here I have no trouble reading them in 4, or the very clear fight timeline at the end of the battle--top data visualization award goes to 4!)

Spent way too much time blithering away about decibels in this one; hopefully I've got the volume level more or less squared away now and will never have to adjust it on you--or talk about it :o--again. ; )

3/12/21

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