Tekken 5 in Japan has online ranking at arcades. The cards also allow you to make and join clans which is better than what the rest of the world has (recording win/loss ratio).

I'm sure the next installments of both series will have an online mode. I look forward to it, but I'll always prefer playing at arcades. The sense of community is always stronger if there's face-to-face interaction.


Kunimitsu in Tekken 1 was just a palette swap for Yoshimitsu. They had the exact same moves and you couldn't even tell Kunimitsu was female. It wasn't made clear until Tekken 2, when she had kunai and hooters that she was more than just a funny looking Yoshi with a different name.

She was among the many characters said to have "died" between Tekken 2 and 3 because of Ogre (Toshin). She was in Tag (a non-canonical game) and had a whole new moveset and it looked like she was starting to build up into a unique character in her own right (Lee's movelist evolved from Law's much the same way) but she was excluded from Tekken 5, the game that seemed to bring back all the supposedly "dead" characters (Baek, Bruce, Wang, Anna etc.)


I didn't really like the create-a-character option in SC3. I didn't like SC3 at all really. I play fighters to beat up people so the weak movelists of all the created characters didn't really suit me. But by then I was already disappointed enough at the game for not being available at arcades. As far as I know, SC3:Arcade isn't being released outside of Japan. Even if it was released here, the characters have probably been balanced out enough so that I can't do 3/4 life juggles with Cassandra anymore. [ 4(A), 6AAA, 3B, 3K, 236AB. breakable stun but a good noob killer. ]