Hero of Legend
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The President of TPC said the "first to arcades" line. Even acknowledging that he said "first".
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Pokken Tournament co-developed with Harada and Namco Bandai Announced for arcades
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The President of TPC said the "first to arcades" line. Even acknowledging that he said "first".
Ah, I missed that. Thanks.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I forsee a 2017 release for this honestly.
That would be a pretty long wait, considering we've known about it for a while now.
tiggerkiddo
Member
After having dealt with Namco for quite a while, this kind of thing is expected.
Literally set every song in TTT2 to Knocc em Down. After egging from my friends, it just became every Menu theme and the theme to the Snoop stage... Which was the only one I ever picked.
Damn, I want that song in Pokken.
Except this is the Tekken and Soul Calibur team dealing with it. Harada's the guy who has treated the FGC with mad respect and has arcade ported every game except T6 to console in a year or less (T6 being a weird case). So it's not really to be expected.
OricWindstar
Member
Is there going to be a official Pokken Tournament thread? I'm sure someone's doing that, but if not, I'd love to get some graphics made and make one.
Water is the most common type in the game by far. The current count is at 124 Water type Pokemon, with Normal in second at 97.
fredrancour
Member
News threads happen as info comes out. The official thread happens some number of weeks before release as per some rule enforced by mods, not really sure how calling dibs on making one works.
Smash gets away with constant official threads because they publish new promotional screenshots online 5 days a week, so it can bill itself as a news thread.
OricWindstar
Member
Ah, I see. Haha, I guess I'm just used to posting in the Smash thread. Thanks!
I wonder if Pokken Threads are going to be as never-ending as Smash's, now that I think about it; it's a long wait, and we won't have daily updates pushing things forward, but I can see Pokken gathering hype, especially if the Arcade Release is early 2015 in Japan.
PaperFlame
Member
I wonder how they're going to pick the pokemons to play in the game.
http://pokemonkorea.co.kr/?inc=news-news_view&IDX=10264
I don't know why they posted this, even if they stated this as japan locate news.
That's interesting.
I don't know why they posted this, even if they stated this as japan locate news.
That's interesting.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
2016. By 2017 they should have released their next console. Pokken can join SMT x FE and hopefully a handful of other titles for Wii U's 2016.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Oh Pokemon Korea, you so fun.
SparksterMeta0
Member
But how about... wait for it...
TEKKEN COSTUMES?!
Heh? Heh??
Anyway, I hope they decide to eventually bring the arcade stateside before porting to Wii U, which is a challenging problem since arcades are a dying/dead breed for a long time here (Dave & Busters is one of the few arcades that still exist and still running, as far as I remember, but I don't think they have any fighters).
fredrancour
Member
You're welcome. Hopefully we wind up getting such a generous stream of info on pokken sometime soon...
PreyingShark
Member
...Okay, I sincerely have no idea where the second song comes from. I will confess to changing the Snoop Dogg stage's music ASAP, though.
TTT2 is where its from
Sephiroth_GR_
Member
Pokemon+Tekken=Pokken
Because Harada is in charge and he makes 3D fighters.
Ken = fist
Sephiroth_GR_
Member
Yeah i think Tekken literally means "iron fist". That's why when you beat the game with a character you're entitled as "King of Iron Fist Tournament"
Lol, just thought of Pokken doing the same thing. "King of Pocket Fist Tournament".
That deadly pocket fist.
PreyingShark
Member
No, I meant where in TTT2. After all, it does make it obvious that it's TTT2 music in the video.
Did manage to find out that it was on a version of the game I did not have, though.It's actually
Pokemon + Tekken = Pokken, since Pokken is a romanization of ポッ拳. Or, to put it visually：
ポケモン＋テッケン＝ポッケン
Though I suppose you can't really say it's as simple as the "Te" swapping to a "Po". But eh, whatever.
That sounds boring.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Huh, makes me wonder if only mons available are those who could mega
Riposte
Member
Pocket Fist?
Rimon-hanit
Member
will try anything by harada and i'm super addicted to pokemon at the moment so great news.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Isn't that how you suckerpunch someone? You hide your fist in your pocket?
SomedayTheFire
Member
Those graphics are shocking and the gameplay looks choppy. Hopefully they improve it by release.
next gen only most certainly (ps4, x1, PC)
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
On a related note I wonder how many people just now realized how fighting games are "published".
I wonder if a hypothetical Wii U version would/ could support Bana Passport. Actually, the built-in NFC support would make the platform pretty much ideal for arcade ports as I believe most arcade platforms these days use NFC ID cards for storing profiles, settings and unlocks (NBGI's Bana Passport, Taito's NESYS, Sega's Aime and Konami's e-Amusement). And even most current arcade games don't seem to require all that powerful hardware to begin with.
and OUYA
Ever image searched "Pokken" on Google? Pokémon Tournament sounds boring, but "Pokken" is likely the worst possible name you could give it in the west from a marketing point of view.
Yeah, but if you search "Pokken Tournament" you don't get any of that. And the more promotional material that comes out, the more it'll push those other images out.
AGGGGHHHHHH