This is Tekken, every female master is over 40 but young looking because of reasons.
I could be wrong, though. Guess we'll have to wait for more story details.
No doubt about it, but this is like the fourth time they've done it in 7.
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Bob and new character Master Raven announced for Tekken 7
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This is Tekken, every female master is over 40 but young looking because of reasons.
I could be wrong, though. Guess we'll have to wait for more story details.
No doubt about it, but this is like the fourth time they've done it in 7.
Ragnorok64
Member
I hope she goes the other way and they make her darker in future iterations.
Ugh I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw Bob. I barely got over the whole Lucky Chloe and Gigas debacle, but now this fucking albatross makes another appearance. Either he's gonna be a cheap asshole again that people will only use because he's a cheap asshole and not because he's an interesting character, or they will nerf his ass into the ground and he will be a waste of a character slot.
I can't fucking believe they saved this shit for EVO...
I can't fucking believe they saved this shit for EVO...
Tekken has always done it.
Jun Asuka
Baek Hwroang
Kazuya Jin
P Jack Jack ect
I think Harada is very serious about only having one character per style...althoug i think he might make an exception for Jun perhaps?
Bob was not always super fat. He actually gained all that weight just to prove that fat could add more power to strikes without slowing you down. In TTT2, there's even his original skinny self you could play as
With that theory jun might be added just cuz her movelist from tag 2 is completely different from her past self which is now basically Asuka.
At this rate, the "smaller roster" promise is about to be thrown out the window lol
Oh I know, but I feel they're overdoing it this time. It's so disappointing considering that I feel like she and Gigas could have added great new ninja and berserker movesets.
And Jack's thing is to be replaced by a newer model each game. And besides Tekken 3 his design has been rather consistent. Wish they stuck with the more mechanical Gun.
Not really.
I'm going to be mr sour puss, but I feel like the reason we don't see jun anymore because they were going to do a story thing but gave up on it completely . Like the story could play out with jun and just be fine...
Yeah, part of the reason I wasn't interested in seeing any more new characters. If they're just going to grind up an old character and pour their remains into in a new mold, I'd rather they just use the old character. Makes me feel bad for those whose favorites were repurposed into something no longer appealing to them. I like new characters, but not at the cost of oldies.
I'm making an exception for Master Raven though, as she represents some things that the game was seriously lacking in, and frankly, I kind of like her. I'll be even happier if they include Snipes Raven as well though.
I love that Slim Bob is so down on himself too. He's much more confident and at ease when he weighs a ton.
immortal-joe
Member
Game is dead to me until I see Lei.
It isn't, though. She is not particularly needed to resolve the Mishima conflict, nor are her anti-Devil abilities, especially when there's already someone who has them.
TestMonkey
Member
I'm hoping they do right by Raven and optimize his/her movelist. If those fools at Namco name a character after me they should at least have the courtesy of making him/her competitive.
SpiceMelange
Member
No clear answer besides they are aware of the demand
A friend of mine loves playing as Raven, I feel this will disappoint him.
And yeah, Slim Bob is pretty funny. Aside from his side step isn't he overall a weaker character than regular Bob?
Only that they wish to implement it. Not sure if they can convince the two parties, though.
Yeah, cause i guess he proved his own theory that he was obsessed over correct, he's much happier heh. But i think Julia may prefer Slimbob
Harada has already disproved that and has stated over and over that she is specifically MIA for a reason.
With the Mishima fight ending soon, Jun is critical to both Kazuya and Jin's character development i feel.
Asuka is irrelevant to anyone in the story though outside of her Lili rivalry. Asuka isn't going to be the one to tell Jin to stop pursuing the other members of Mishima, or the one to snap Kazuya out of his Devil obsessed evil side. I think it will be Jun in combination with Xiao to stop Jin, and Jun in combination with Kazumi to stop Kazuya. ANd maybe Kazuya Kazumi and Akuma combo to stop Heihachi
Yes. All clone characters that were added as free dlc characters in Tag 2 like Slim Bob, Miharu, P Jack, etc are weaker than their original counterparts. This was done so that Namco didn't have to worry about balancing them with the core roster.
However clone characters allowed you to basically played two characters with near identical movesets in a tag team which is easier to play than two characters with completely different moves and styles.
Texas's best tekken player is known for playing double bobs back in Tag 2
Hes also one of the reasons why the tekken community hated Bob in T6 and Tag 2. EVO 2011 Grand Finals never forget
And doesn't have straight hair.
CadetMahoney
Member
Wonder if they'll keep bob top tier like before?
How's the game balance wise this time? Last I heard it's not as broke as previous one, but nothing concrete.
How's the game balance wise this time? Last I heard it's not as broke as previous one, but nothing concrete.
Hypemaster
Member
Bob is so cool.
I feel like that's the thing you say when you know some people want the character, but you abandoned that characters arc a while ago. And you kind of don't know what to do with the character
I don't think she's needed for kazuya's or jins development. Particularly jin's considering he has Xiou Yu
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Did Christie not count?
Too early to tell, FR has not been out that long and it will probably change before console release.
At the key moment in the story, when Kazuya and Jin are lifting each other by their respective throats, she will return with the takeout that she left to get 6 years before.
I guess you could count her as black (though I only ever see her portrayed in cosplay [and the live action film] by white people), but she's not particularly dark skinned.
I feel like Japan has a tendency to avoid making women "too" dark skinned in character designs for whatever reason. Much more than men.
Please support 3D fighters. They are an endangered species. And they're so smooth.
Should have been edited to Tekken 7 to be more accurate.
I'mma blow your mind right now:
Spell Bob's name backward.
Trebor Sdrahcir. Crazy right? How something so meaningless can be so meaningless? Wow.
Kazuya is straight up an evil dude since T4, Devil or not, and he can't be saved.
he could also probably die in this game too
Also, In T6, Asuka was intentioned in confronting Jin, but because she got a joke ending (like 3/4 of the cast did) she is now irrelevant according to you :/
You are going full head canon here
Considering how this game is setting up how Kazuya fell into hatred because his mom died at Heihachi's hand in combination with just being abused by Heihachi over and over, its obviously not going to be as open and shut a case as you seem to think.
And Jin wants to get rid of the Devil gene entirely, that means killing off the rest of his family who want to, or possess it as well, that ends with killing himself, which will obviously have to be shaken out of him.
Azazel was just a detour
So you've only seen two of the new characters in Tekken 7 then? Kazumi, Claudio, Shaheen, Katarina and Lucky Chloe are all unique.
There's about 6 that are legitimately new. Katarina, Shaheen, Claudio, Lucky ...her, Kazumi and Akuma (if you count 3D Tekken Akuma as new). Gigas and Josie share a lot with Marduk and Bruce respectively. Master Raven seems straight out of cloneville + some Tekken 7 updates. Unfortunately, that's the last 3 new characters (plus Akuma) being clones or clone-lites. That's also why I'm not so interested in seeing any more "brand new" characters. They probably don't have the time or budget to invent entirely new movesets for the game at this point, and are just repurposing old characters to make the crowds excited.
Like, "Hey, I didn't like that character before, but now I can add them to my waifu collection!" while the old fans are like, "Wait, what about... oh... okay."
darkslayer101
Member
pretty much
Also she is giving me major soul caliber vibes which I'm not a fan of...
plz make og raven skin available
When did SoulCalibur become a techno future fighter?
You should have felt the Soul Calibur's vibes from Claudio's
over
Galactic Barret
Member
Bob is on some next level savage shit. I said holy shit. Multiple times. That's one bad motherfucker. Wife looking at me strange, cause I said "Oh, Bob.", like it was out of the ordinary or something.
The fact that they followed that with that weak-ass Raven reveal makes me feel bad for the new character.
The fact that they followed that with that weak-ass Raven reveal makes me feel bad for the new character.
This Tekken has more unique new characters than any other Tekken in the past decade.
papertoonz
Member
yeah some of the new outfits a are cool, Hwoarang is not one of them
like why does he have a eyepatch?
Not... really. Tekken Tag 2 holds that crown. It had the most clones and clone-lites, yeah, but it also had every other character sans Gon, totaling in the most unique characters in the series by sheer bulk. Even with the 6 genuine newcomers, Tekken 7 falls short of that title. I think Tekken 6 might stand above 7 too.
He thinks it makes him look tuff.
When you wear an eyepatch you have gone past the point of not giving a shit what people think of you
At least Juri has a reason for an eyepatch...
Seems like they are shoving eyepatches to Korean characters all of sudden