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Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, Akuma/Gouki announced as playable character

Aokage

Pretty nice guy (apart from the blue shadows thing...)
My brain is having extreme difficulty processing the fact the Tekken and Street Fighter mythoi just got officially merged.

How... what. Wouldn't two Evil Organizarions as large as Shadaloo and the Mishima Zaibatsu have been at war? How is it that all these Most Powerful Martial Artists Who Ever Lived never met before? One group of fighters can rather commonly project ki blasts for several meters while exactly zero of Tekken's cast of 97 characters cannot? And when Fei Long does battle with one of the Laws, will the universe implode?

Gouki looks exactly the same now as he did 40-ish years ago? He's that old? Maybe he just stopped using Just For Men® Flame Red™ in SFIII with the whole greying temples thing.

I can't believe this is CANONICAL. So many questions need to be answered. I wonder if this was the original plan for TxSF...

Edit: I wonder what debt Gouki owes Kazumi and if she would give Sagat intense feelings of inferiority. Also, what a bitch. "Hey ultimate bad guy from other franchise, can you murder my husband and son? kthx bye"

Double edit: Gouki is such a badass. Remind me to address everyone as "unu" when I speak Japanese.

Triple edit: Okay, I guess Devil Gene people can project ki blasts for several meters.
 

Nachtmaer

Member
My brain is having extreme difficulty processing the fact the Tekken and Street Fighter mythoi just got officially merged.

How... what. Wouldn't two Evil Organizarions as large as Shadaloo and the Mishima Zaibatsu have been at war? How is it that all these Most Powerful Martial Artists Who Ever Lived never met before? One group of fighters can rather commonly project ki blasts for several meters while exactly zero of Tekken's cast of 97 characters cannot? And when Fei Long does battle with one of the Laws, will the universe implode?

Gouki looks exactly the same now as he did 40-ish years ago? He's that old? Maybe he just stopped using Just For Men® Flame Red™ in SFIII with the whole greying temples thing.

I can't believe this is CANONICAL. So many questions need to be answered. I wonder if this was the original plan for TxSF...

Edit: I wonder what debt Gouki owes Kazumi and if she would give Sagat intense feelings of inferiority. Also, what a bitch. "Hey ultimate bad guy from other franchise, can you murder my husband and son? kthx bye"

I don't think they're really want to tie Akuma (and possibly other guest characters) into the main canon. I see it more as them trying to add a bit of flavour which I can appreciate. As much as I like having some consistency, it's still fighting games and I don't think too much of it. How many times have characters come back for various reasons after being dead or being thrown into volcanoes or whatever? But hey, what do I know. I can see your point though.

Also, I admit I dropped in and out of this thread a bunch of times and didn't read everything because it's grown so big. Are these new costumes the new standard ones or are they extras?
 

ArtHands

Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
is this going to be just a one-off kinda of thing?

Will be great if we see a Tekken guest fighter in SF5 in return, written into the SF canon too of cause.
 

WanderingWind

Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I mean, getting too strung out over the canon of a fighting game that has a giant panda, a wooden dummy, a miniature dinosaur, a space alien and Yoda is probably just going to lead to nosebleeds.
 

sasuke_91

Member
Yea too bad about her playstyle. She is actually trash tier.

She's free online to me.


Her name should be Ling Freeyu

She's not trash tier. She has her weaknesses, but she's definitely not a "bad" character. Especially Online where it's hard to react to some of her setups in time.

She got quite a few buffs in Tekken 7 as well. Some Japanese players consider her A tier.
 
Bro, I hope you're right. I don't want to buy a new console just for one game.

That we've gone this long and haven't gotten confirmation one way or the other aside from some non-specific wording in a press release at Paris Games Week has me worried a bit.

Console version hasn't even been announced yet. Whenever we do eventually get the announcement it'll be PS4/XB1.
 

Jinfash

needs 2 extra inches
9 pages in and no one requested a thread title correction, or is the title correct? I'm confused.
 
I wasn't dissing Ling; I mained her half the time in T3. But her features were pretty rough there for a while. I hope now that they're making her 'adult' they'll beef up her moveset to be more competitive. A Tekken wedding could be cool, but would probably end up as a bride vs groom tag team match, and Nina and Anna throwing cake knives at each other.

That sounds amazing actually. It would be nice to see the full cast of characters put their rivalries aside to honor the couple for a few minutes. Then a no holds barred all out Tekken brawl.
 

Nikokuno

Member
The dark hadou is the same general idea as the devil gene. It makes perfect sense in the tekken universe.

Didn't kazuya basically sell his soul to the devil just like akuma in exchange for power?

What if akuma is kazyua's real dad and not heihachi?

Gouki never sold anything, he's using the extent of the hadou aka dark hadou, that's all.
 
Hope they'll also give him Tekken strings and not just his few SF moves.
I want all the SF chars to have vastly extended movesets in TxSF.
 
Nah, it's still happening. Think of this like how Akuma started the Marvel vs. Capcom series.
yeah, I hope so. someone on reddit posted reddit that it was cancelled, hope it's bs

Mentioned briefly on stream. Ono (producer of SF4 and 5) said TxSF got scrapped so Capcom is allowing Namco to use Street Fighter characters and re-envision them. Akuma's officially canon in Tekken and more SF characters are coming supposedly in updates
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/3whv2y/tekken_7_fated_retribution_akuma_reveal/
 

Nikokuno

Member
The last 10 second of the trailer...
Am I expecting devil Kazuya vs Oni

Believe

You mean Devil Kazuya vs Shin Gouki.
Oni is a pure SF IV 'what if Gouki who is the only one who control every shades of the Dark Hadou since is introduction, lose his mind just cause, and become a slave of it.'

Oni is ass
 
It doesn't. The trailer stated that the PS4 version will have exclusive content or something. Which means the game itself is not exclusive.
the confusing thing about that for me is, is the exclusive content VR? or is VR separate, and there will be other exclusive content for the Ps4 version?

also, i wonder why bandai namco is waiting to officially announce the xbone/other versions of the game? unless they expected people to infer it from the Ps4 announcement
 

Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
the confusing thing about that for me is, is the exclusive content VR? or is VR separate, and there will be other exclusive content for the Ps4 version?

also, i wonder why bandai namco is waiting to officially announce the xbone/other versions of the game? unless they expect to infer it from the Ps4 announcement

Well i'm assuming XB1 isn't much of a priority, even if it is released as an afterthought along with the other SKU. That seems to be the trend for Japanese devs now.

Also, VR i'm assuming is the exclusive content...since XB1 doesn't have a VR solution just yet, they can only support PSVR right now
 
Well i'm assuming XB1 isn't much of a priority, even if it is released as an afterthought along with the other SKU. That seems to be the trend for Japanese devs now.

Also, VR i'm assuming is the exclusive content...since XB1 doesn't have a VR solution just yet, they can only support PSVR right now
Ok, so the only exclusive content the Ps4 version is getting is the VR stuff.
 
Well i'm assuming XB1 isn't much of a priority, even if it is released as an afterthought along with the other SKU. That seems to be the trend for Japanese devs now.

Also, VR i'm assuming is the exclusive content...since XB1 doesn't have a VR solution just yet, they can only support PSVR right now

They could port the content to Oculus if/when there's a PC version. The press release did say "home systems" rather than "consoles" afterall...
 

LegendX48

Member
I only have one thing to say:

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Creaking

He touched the black heart of a mod
Marshall Law got his update in the vanilla version. Remember, the golden pants.

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Man, I don't consider a tiny recolor to be a proper costume update. By that metric, Hwoarang also got a costume update because they made his vest black and orange instead of brown and blue.

That's some low-level customization right there. I think these characters deserve fully new outfits as much as anyone. Law hasn't had much of a chance to wear anything but his Bruce Lee pants as his 1p throughout the entire series, with minor variations here and there. Now is the chance to stir things up.
 
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