tekken 5 frustration!!!

[disorderlyvision]

i have always been a tekken fan. my brother-in-law got me started on it when i lived with them several years ago (tekken 2 time frame). we would get a case of beer and go to team battle mode and have a 8 on 8 tournament for hours on end. good times! i have previously owned tekken 2,3,4 and tag tournament. well i picked up tekken 5 from a pawn shop a few weeks back, and decided to put it in last night. my aim was to run through the game on easy to unlock all the characters so that, i could have some more of those 8 on 8 team battles. well my plans were quickly thwarted by a fucking fireball. apparently a new character is realted to hiachi mishima, i dont recall his name, jinpo mishima or something. anyway that bastard hits me with two fireballs everytime. game over. i cant block the fireballs. he shoots them frequently. i have never ran into some shit like this on tekken. i know in the older ones their were a couple of people that had projectiles ( devil, i think, its been awhile since i played those.) anyway this is frustratiing the hell out of me. it is on easy for christs sakes. half the time i cant even get close enough to hit the s.o.b. before he sends a flaming ball up my ass and kills me. needless to say i dont have any of the characters unlocked and tekken 5 is back on the shelf. tekken is like my partry game. when people come over we'll through in tekken, drink some beer or smoke, and talk mass amounts of shit to each other. good times! well tekken 5 is not bringing the good times. it is bringing a high level of pissivity, and a disdain for flaming projectiles.

[Kevman]

i have always been a tekken fan. my brother-in-law got me started on it when i lived with them several years ago (tekken 2 time frame). we would get a case of beer and go to team battle mode and have a 8 on 8 tournament for hours on end. good times! i have previously owned tekken 2,3,4 and tag tournament. well i picked up tekken 5 from a pawn shop a few weeks back, and decided to put it in last night. my aim was to run through the game on easy to unlock all the characters so that, i could have some more of those 8 on 8 team battles. well my plans were quickly thwarted by a fucking fireball. apparently a new character is realted to hiachi mishima, i dont recall his name, jinpo mishima or something. anyway that bastard hits me with two fireballs everytime. game over. i cant block the fireballs. he shoots them frequently. i have never ran into some shit like this on tekken. i know in the older ones their were a couple of people that had projectiles ( devil, i think, its been awhile since i played those.) anyway this is frustratiing the hell out of me. it is on easy for christs sakes. half the time i cant even get close enough to hit the s.o.b. before he sends a flaming ball up my ass and kills me. needless to say i dont have any of the characters unlocked and tekken 5 is back on the shelf. tekken is like my partry game. when people come over we'll through in tekken, drink some beer or smoke, and talk mass amounts of shit to each other. good times! well tekken 5 is not bringing the good times. it is bringing a high level of pissivity, and a disdain for flaming projectiles.

Exactly my point about projectiles.

[Mozgus]

Yes it's cheap. Just try dodging into the foreground/background, or use a "laydown" move if your character has one. Somehow I was able to unlock all the characters in a rush and I'm a total noob to the series really. I've always hated tekken and was terrible at it, but I'm competent with 5 for some reason.

[indecks]

His name is Jinpachi and he's a cheap piece of shit, just like Ogre and just like Unknown. It's not that it is a projectile, its just that in the Tekken fighting system, there's no place for projectiles. Projectiles are good for distraction and confusion in other games that are 2D, but not Tekken.

Also, sidestep and you can beat him.

[turbolegs]

Nobody likes Jinpachi.

Forward forward circle is your friend in this siuation. You should just charge and smack him straight down to the floor. From then use low moves to keep him down.

Roll on Tekken 6!

[disorderlyvision]

thanks for the advice guys, i enjoyed the other tekkens, so i'll probably give it another shot. i was getting so pissed yetserday it was ridiculous. that f'n fireball takes over half your life. it's awful! i'm glad i am not the only one who hates that bastard:)

[latenitevacancy]

yeah i've gotten to the point where either i'll get raped by him over and over and over again no matter who i use, or sometimes i'll randomly beat him on the first try. it all depends on how much he spams the fireball thing