Tekken 8 is like Dark Souls: "People who keep dying over and over are having fun with the game"

Tekken 8's director has compared the new fighting game sequel to Dark Souls. Speaking to PLAY Magazine in a new interview, Tekken series lead Katsuhiro Harada contrasted Tekken 8 with Dark Souls. Harada disputed the notion that fighting games are complex and complicated, instead saying that Tekken 8 feels like a natural evolution of the series in the way that Dark Souls players feel like they want to improve and get better.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Nice comparison 👏

[peppeaccardo]

People that are losing matches are having fun those who are winning are getting bored .... wtf is this ?

[PhillyDillyDee]

I guess that’s one way to market your game…

[HeliosHex]

Omg please stop.

[lucian229]

e_e

[BrainSyphoned]

I'm going to hope that something is lost in translation there. Unlike Dark Souls, the fighting genre rarely has fair tough boss fights.

[CrimsonWing69]

Why do people think we like Souls games because you die a lot? Dying is not the fun part of a Souls game…

[boing1]

Challenge is the fun part. It's about losing 20 matches to win 21st.

[CrimsonWing69]

Challenge is one thing, dying is not the fun part, like at all.

I don’t know a single person who has enjoyment from Dying over and over in any game.

I might be going out on a limb here, but I’m going to say nobody plays a Souls game to fail for enjoyment. It’s just what happens due to the difficulty and overcoming that is euphoric for sure, but the struggle to that point isn’t… at least that’s my experience.