Tekken 7 Character Excluded From U.S. Release After Negative Feedback

[Josh123914]

Honestly? If anyone is this offended by this one character, you're options are either to not play as her, or not buy Tekken 7.

It's really that simple.
I don't burst in and demand Sex and the City is changed because the sight of Sarah Jessica Parker offends me.

Given the context of what Tekken is, I honestly don't see what's wrong with Lucky Chloe.
She's pretty, yeah. But anyone that isn't pretty in these games is somehow usually a villain, so that can't be it.
She dresses inappropriately. Okay, she's wearing lingerie, but it's clear that the dominant feature here is her cat cosplaying, which tells me that this she's there more for satire than for actual objectification.

I feel bad for people that looked forward to playing as her in the US, but part of me thinks this wouldn't have gotten so much attention if it was a guy wearing this stuff.

 

[Tanis]

I REALLY hope that's a joke.
Because 'deleting' a character, due to some anons bitching on a forum...
All that shows is the developers being an idiot with NO spine.

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Chill.
Removing a character become some anons, you and me are included in this, managed to be loud on a forum isn't right.

It's not about 'listening to the consumer', it's about listening to a bunch of anons (many who may just be trolls and/or socks) to make a major decision regarding your product.

There's a reason why companies are suppose to listen to anons on the next.
There are FAR too many variables and fakes.

That's why the marketing department holds meetings with REAL, in person, humans to decide things like this.

Bowing to the rants of anons does nothing but make you a target for any group that now knows your spine is lacking.

 

[Flutterguy]

It's a lazy and boring design... like 90% of Tekken's cast.

Character design was never their strong point.

 

[lionsprey]

i remember the good old days in tekken when i could play a simple pink haired robot girl that would remove her head and give it to a boxing kangaroo only to watch it explode in his hands. and then they fuck it up by adding a woman dressed as a cat SHAME ON THEM

 

[EMWISE94]

Really? I mean I don't like her character design either, I feel like its trying too hard to look cutesy, but I'm not about to declare she be removed from the game. Hell, I dislike most of the character designs in KoF XIII but that doesn't stop me from liking the game. I mean shit, did Ninja Theory stop making DmC after majority of the internet lost their collective shit over Dante's redesign (myself included but after playing the game he wasn't that bad, then again I came off of DMC4 and I despised what Dante became in DMC4... which to me was a crazy middle aged dude who seemed like he was trying too hard to be hip and cool), did Capcom start SFIV's artistic look from scratch after a lot of people shat on the 3D look? No. they didn't.

I honestly feel like Harada's just being silly, if people don't like you're design, so be it, they're just a vocal minority, I mean shit this is NeoGAF and the FGC (mostly the american FGC) we're talking about, they actively shit on everything that's new and not Mahvel or SFIV. I remember them shitting on KI when it came out claiming Double Helix couldn't make it good (they're currently claiming Iron Galaxy are wrecking it). So yeah, he needs some thicker skin I guess, I mean as an artist myself yeah it'd hurt if people thought a design I made was sucky, but I'd just tune them out, if I like it, thats all that matters.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

i remember the good old days in tekken when i could play a simple pink haired robot girl that would remove her head and give it to a boxing kangaroo only to watch it explode in his hands. and then they fuck it up by adding a woman dressed as a cat SHAME ON THEM

The Kangaroo is actually female since she has a pouch. (yes I know she's named Rodger)



Also, she's apparently a monkey and her fighting style is monkey style kung fu. She's not a catgirl.

 

[Godhead]

Spoiler

Ah, much better.

Good lord, what's wrong with her arms?

OT: Silly response from NeoGaf, and a silly twitter response by Harada.

Edited for beauty reasons.

 

[rokkolpo]

Hahahahaha, that's quite amazing.
Oh you don't want my character? Welp, I guess it's extra content for everyone else but you now!

 

[Dr. Crawver]

While I personally think the character is a kawaii abomination that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot barge pole, his reaction is pretty pathetic. I personally enjoyed how he seemed to either think that there was only one forum for the entirety of America, or was joking about the opposite, in which case why did he take that as the only opinion and say he'd remove her? I don't really get that.

But yeah, removing content just because some people said it looked like shit is just childish, and a dam awful PR move.

 

[EternallyBored]

Can we please talk about how ridiculous outrage culture has become? Whatever happened to, "If I don't like something, I won't play it." Why does a minority of people who are perpetually offended by everything get to dictate what is and is not sold?

has become? It's always been this way, people have bitched about and tried to eliminate things they don't like for centuries. The internet just makes it more visible because it gives every person on the planet at least some form of public platform that anyone on the planet with a computer can see. It's really not that different today than the way its always been, just more people with more public platforms.

Before this, it was people bitching about things like Sonic's eyes being the wrong color, or bitching about not liking CoD and how it should be destroyed and go away. Before that it was people bitching about consoles and sending death threats to Sony and Nintendo over changes to the N64 and PSone, whilst mainstream culture in North America was concerned about banning violent video games. Before that, it was banning D&D and comic books because they offended middle America. Before that, it was people being offended about rock & roll music whilst using control and government pressure to manage media during the red scare. Before that it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle receiving threats against his life for offending people by killing off Sherlock Holmes.

And so on and so forth in that fashion, there is no "outrage culture", Western culture has always been outraged at something and sought to destroy it or change it to make it less offensive. If anything we've gotten better about managing our outrage, since we used to just go straight to the government to ban things that outraged us. And before that, anything that outraged a group of people tended to get you run out of town, or literally tarred and feathered. And before that, if you outraged a group of people they tended to just burn your stuff and kill you.

I'll take the current impotent internet outrage and lazy Twitter hashtag "outrage" over the kind of stuff we used to do to things that offended us any day of the week. At least we don't challenge people that offend us to duels to the death anymore, although American politicians dueling with pistols over attack ads like the Hamilton-Burr duel in the 1800's might be entertaining to watch.

 

[Piorn]

Ha!
-Americans getting flustered about having to much choice and variety in characters.
-Character removed because it offended the beliefs of people!
-Fans "improve" game by removing optional things!
-People uncomfortable with a fighting girl, replaced by burly black man to calm the crowd

The comedy writes itself!

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I'm just going to say it because I don't know how else to say it;

I hate that character design.

I have seen it in plenty of Asian based MMOs and games, I have seen a lot of people run around in them. I don't think there is a reason as to why I hate it. Somethings I hate on site, this is one of them.

 

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