witchedwiz
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Dat season pass, though...
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TEKKEN 7 releases June 2nd (PC/XB1/PS4, Season Pass, Eliza, more details)
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They've offered some clarification. It's not as bad as it would seem.
Harada explains why there's paid DLC.
Sounds like if it's classic characters coming that'll be free and that's extra time dedicated to the game but with a Season Pass and paid DLC there's an extra year added to the game's cycle regardless. I heavily approve of this.
Although, if the two "not classic" characters included in the season pass are "new" the way that Josie and Master Raven are (ie, a few moves shy of classic character palette swaps), then maybe it is as bad as it would seem. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
LowParry
Member
It gives another year support for the game. People should be encouraged to do it.
Having Eliza as a preorder bonus isn't really that bad, since it's a code packed in with "Day One" editions of the game, which usually last well after launch, but if you were planning to get it on PC or digital, you'll probably have to pay for her if you don't get her along with a preorder, which blows.
joey_bone_bomb
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I forgot. (And so did Namco)
Rimon-hanit
Member
Anything new announced?
Well she WOULD BE over 40 if they hadn't decided for that "don't age for 20 years" plot in T3.
The Nina/Steve story seemed really interesting in T4. I wonder why they never continued it.
joey_bone_bomb
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Same as Ripley would be in her 80s in Aliens. Sigourney Weaver definitely didn't play a geriatric in that film, though.
Too cheap to hire a professional writer again? Maybe. Probably not. Most likely Harada got so burned by the negative reception towards TK4 he can't or won't see the superior art and story direction past the game's many failings.
Atleast we get T4 costumes for T7
Well two T4 costumes. And only on PS4.
Isn't it only Jin who is getting his hoodie from T4?
Since they promised a dozen costumes with the season pass I hope we get even more costumes from Tekken 4.
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Lee Chaolan
Member
This would be Excellent.
Oh yeah right, I thought she was getting her Tekken 3 attire.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Strange, barely remember this one. Figured her Track suit costume was far more used and iconic from T4.
Noisepurge
Member
Tekken 4 had some fun costumes for prettymuch everyone. It's a shame they reverted from that to just keeping the sameold costumes for most characters from there to eternity
Tekken 4 had some fun costumes for prettymuch everyone. It's a shame they reverted from that to just keeping the sameold costumes for most characters from there to eternity
It was the Tekken 5 costumes we got stuck with, actually. But they seem to finally have come around in Tekken 7 FR (at least for the most part; sorry Law and Jack. And King-- although it is a bad-ass cape, really just got a cape stuck onto his Tekken 5 costume). Mixed results, but we can't always be Fundoshi Heihachi.
She has a beautiful young woman face!
Especially compared to her worst incarnation ever
Sevket-Erhat
Member
I will buy the season pass to show my support
King got vindicated with that crazy NJPW outfit. That thing is the right kind of over-the-top.
True, I just hope it makes it into the home version.
That actually looks closer to a normal Chinese girl lol (minus the glassy eyes).
Does she canonically still have a crush on Jin?
She's in love with the guy by this point. They are probably gonna get married at the end of T7. Harada has been implying it for a while now actually
Well if they ever go the MK route of ageing everyone up and having their kids as playable characters, Jin and Xiaoyu's offspring will have some very interesting moves!
Sammo_1987
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I keep hoping for Kazuya's purple tux to make a comeback, but it's not to be :-( (except in Tag).
Happy that Jin's hoody is getting some love at least
Happy that Jin's hoody is getting some love at least
In a survey they did a while ago about 'the future of the tekken franchise', they polled a few different options, one of them being a timeskip with new characters and asked questions about whether the ratio of characters they should keep, whether it should be a lot of old a few new, a lot of new a few old, a split, a specific ratio ect
SUPARSTARX
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Forget the story. After Tekken 7 and whatever new expansion names they come up with post-console launch year, get working on that Tekken Tag Tournament 3 to run native 4k 60FPS on the PS4 Pro / PC.
Forget the story. After Tekken 7 and whatever new expansion names they come up with post-console launch year, get working on that Tekken Tag Tournament 3 to run native 4k 60FPS on the PS4 Pro / PC.
If we want to go by history, we've got two more mainline Tekken games after 7 before we're due for a Tag Tournament 3. (T1 T2 T3 --> Tag Tournament... T4 T5 T6 --> Tag Tournament 2... T7 --> Tag Tournament 3? ERR ERR ERR BONK BONK DOINK)
Even then, I don't think Tag 3 is going to happen the same way Tag 2 did. Between the further increased roster size and the increasing game development costs, it'll get pulled apart.
Harada explains why there's paid DLC.
Sounds like if it's classic characters coming that'll be free and that's extra time dedicated to the game but with a Season Pass and paid DLC there's an extra year added to the game's cycle regardless. I heavily approve of this.
I totally don't mind paying a season pass for extended support, it has always bothered me that Tekken releases were left as is for their whole lifespan while Street Fighter kept getting upgrades, and while SF4 model was not ideal, their SFV approach seems really well thought.
I really hope that no character is kept behind a paid wall though, I don't mind other contents being only accesible via paid dlc, but characters should be accesible for everyone, time releases and in game money purchases could be used to balance against paid dlc options.
speedwagon_
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I reckon TxSF will be before TTT3 plus we need 2 more mainline games before we get that.
I believe yes. Injustice 2 as well.
It's avoiding the missteps SFV made, so yeah. If the advertising is on point, anyway.
It does 4k very well, but do not expect frame rates higher than 60fps. It's a fighting game after all, they're designed to be locked to 60fps.
sixteen-bit
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Harada explained that the delay was to avoid a SFV-like debacle.
killatopak
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Nyutengu is that u?
irrefleumas
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Eliza seems fun. Are all the characters announced? I remember reading somewhere that Harada promised 40 characters for this game.
A lot is going to be said about Season Pass and dlcs, but you can be sure that T7 is going to be finished, polished and packed with content from the start which were the main faults of SFV.
He said 35.
Of course that was only for the base arcade version. There will be more
Not necessarily. The shit thrown at that game also came from consistent number of people that was never interested in the game in the first place.
I think T7 will do relative well (probably 2nd best selling japanese fighting game of the gen, imo) but it will barely Namco's sales expectations (not necessarily Harada's)
Onimusha78
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Hey, that's on my birthday. Games set to release on my birthday generally get delayed...
The Artisan
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perhaps I'm biased because i've always played tekken on playstation (but then again, so did everyone pre-tekken 6) but i'm looking forward to the exclusive content that's on Ps4. it's been known ever since the game was announced for Ps4 that there'd be exclusive content, we just didn't know what it'd be but it's fitting since - it's been said several times in this thread - that the vast majority of sales will be on Ps4 anyway, and the franchise itself is still very closely associated with the playstation brand
i agree with you on everything else though.