Things missing from Tekken 7

Bandai Namco recently released a trailer for Tekken 7 showing the included game modes. With that in mind I thought it would be worth mentioning some good things that earlier games have done, but that don't seem to be making it into T7.

Region Lobbies

Games like Persona and Blazblue have regional lobbies, where up to 32 people can enter a room and walk around with their avatar and chat, or line up for one of the battle stations and play other people.

It's a lovely mode that gathers up people from a region, making it convenient and quick to find decent matches even if there aren't many people online at a given time. It's a feature that has been around for years, and Bandai Namco themselves even had a (clunky and inconvenient and thus underused) version of it in Tekken Tag 2 (World Arena) and Soul Calibur 5 (Global Colosseo). But a mode like this seems to be absent from T7.

A dedicated Tutorial Mode

Don't think I need to explain this much, most modern fighting games have finally realized a nice tutorial is integral to easing new players into the game. Games like Skullgirls, Killer Instinct or Guilty Gear have great tutorials, and Blazblue CF even includes a glossary of fighting game terms. Tekken is often considered quite difficult to get into, so where is T7's tutorial? Some bits are probably integrated into the story mode, but is that really enough?

Combo challenges/Mission mode

Many people love these things, and they can give beginners a place to start learning combos and/or give experts (or trophy hunters) an interesting challenge.  Most modern games include these in some form, but T7 doesn't seem to have them.

An RPG-like mode

For making time fly by, nothing beats a mode with stats and skills and grinding and all kinds of weird restrictions and modifiers on fights. Persona has Golden Arena, Blazblue has Abyss mode, Soul Calibur has Weapon Master. I love modes like these and spend an inordinate amount of time on them, especially if there are interesting toolsets to discover and play around with like Boss mode/Unlimited characters. T7 doesn't seem to have anything like this, though Treasure Battle might offer some of the same features and fun.

Another thing we haven't seen anything of is match replays. Now I presume T7 will have some way to make replays, if not through the game itself then through things like the PS4 share button. But ideally it ought to have some detailed features included for replays.

All this may sound like I'm griping, but I'm actually really hyped for T7. It seems to have quite a lot of content, so that's good. But some of the above features will be dearly missed if they're not included, and that would be disappointing for a game we've had to wait so long for.