General Tekken Thread

"Oh don't be such a baby! [Eyes] grow back!"

In that entire trailer he threw 6 punches/upper body attacks.

Juri got her eye back too, strangely enough. Is this something all Taekwondoka in fighting games can do? Maybe Sagat and Kano should switch to Taekwondo.

Next alpha at combo breaker.

Other than Bryan, what other american are we missing?

Edited by fasoman1996 on May 13th 2023 at 8:09:25 AM

Anna, Bob, Julia, Michelle(?), Bruce

And Negan, lest we forget.

And Geese.

The talk about possible guest characters is gonna be crazy, isn't it?

Can we really get any more out of left field than Negan and Noctis?

Hololive guest characters?

You wanna tell Geese he's not actually Japanese?

That would be the most left field thing ever and absolutely hilarious if it actually happens. The sheer confusion from the non-fans would be glorious.

Seriously speaking, though, hololive would be more suited for something like Blaz Blue or something.

A Hololive guest character would probably cause a repeat of the Lucky Chloe discourse and I will enjoy laughing at it.

Well Fahkhumram's proportions are already like a Baki character so they might as well finally bring in Baki Hanma

Or Kenshiro.

Reminder: Colonel Sanders was actually close to getting into TK 7. Harada really wanted him for some reason.

It makes Negan relative normal by comparison.

Reminder: Colonel Sanders canonically wants to eat Sonic and the Twitter bird.

Out of all the FF choices they could've done, someone like Tifa would've been a good choice. Practical design, grounded combat style, iconic status.

Majima vs Tohru. Let's go!

So wait, Hwoarang just has his eye back now? Is it a graft? Glass eye? Got his old eye back? Was he just wearing the eyepatch in Tekken 7 for A E S T H E T I C?

Edited by MightyKombat on May 14th 2023 at 11:51:15 AM

His T7 ending where he lost his eye contradicted the main story, so it's probably not canon.

I didn't know this character existed.

So can someone with Tekken expertise tell me what they got out of seeing this trailer.

• He's supposedly really freaking tall, but gameplay starts and he's shorter than Marduk.
• He tanks Marduk's hits, but Tekken doesn't do super armor like that because it'd be unfair competitively.
• He's a silent, lumbering giant... we already had JACK-6 who wasn't completely silent but still. We have Feng Wei, Bryan Fury, Dragunov, and Kazuya as angry, stoic, muscular sociopaths.
• He fights Marduk and Xiaoyu... does he have any connection to them?
• Muay Thai is finally represented I guess...? I feel like after Lucky Chloe/Negan/Noctis/Claudio/Elise its irrelevant for Tekken to try "accurately representing martial arts." Its certainly not distinguished by exclusively being a martial arts simulator these days. On top of that, Dead or Alive and Street Fighter have had Muay Thai characters for a while now.

The only thing I was able to get out of this is that he looks like a Baki character. He looks like a really over the top template for a Baki antagonist. And his name is freaking sick.

Edited by FOFD on May 14th 2023 at 7:52:48 AM

Bruce says hi.

Edited by kkhohoho on May 14th 2023 at 8:27:08 AM

The two main takeaways everyone got from his reveal were:

1. Thai people were happy Tekken finally got a Muai Thai character that's actually Thai.
2. Disappointment that he immediately shrunk down for gameplay.

Well I don't know what it means for Taiwanese people to be represented by a hulking mass od muscle who looks like he eats bricks and craps tigers, but I'll admit that name is badass-sounding. I hope he gets a role in the plot.

...you know Muay Thai comes from Thailand right?

Edited by kkhohoho on May 14th 2023 at 9:46:10 AM