Tekken Character Creation, Thoughts?

[Kai_lombax]

Tekken with character creation would be sick. SC has had it forever now, why hasn't Tekken implemented this?

Well, I think it's because Tekken's main cast of characters have always been more iconic than Soul Calibur's so the developers probably didn't think Character creation was necessary but considering Tekken 7 is going to be the game that ends the Mishima Family feud, it could mean that maybe character creation has a chance of making it in a future Tekken game. :)

 

[Nyte]

Well, I think it's because Tekken's main cast of characters have always been more iconic than Soul Calibur's so the developers probably didn't think Character creation was necessary but considering Tekken 7 is going to be the game that ends the Mishima Family feud, it could mean that maybe character creation has a chance of making it in a future Tekken game. :)

I sort of see what you mean, but characters like Nightmare, Siegfried, Mitsurugi, Taki, Sophitia and the like are hugely iconic to the series in their own right. I think it's more like they don't want to go through all the extra effort in adding it. After all, Tekken is the game that gets treated like some kind of masterpiece that doesn't need any major changes, hence why we don't have a cool feature like that. Soulcalibur has more room for that kind of stuff, because it's the game that gets less attention from Namco so they're free to do whatever. It seems that Tekken remains comparatively stagnant, but Soulcalibur can be more experimental (not always a good thing though, look what happened with SCV).

 

[Kane]

I would love to see a char creation ... especially one as awesome as soul calibur's. so much variety ... and tekken's customizations with the past couple games have been so incredibly limited ...

 

[Kai_lombax]

I sort of see what you mean, but characters like Nightmare, Siegfried, Mitsurugi, Taki, Sophitia and the like are hugely iconic to the series in their own right. I think it's more like they don't want to go through all the extra effort in adding it. After all, Tekken is the game that gets treated like some kind of masterpiece that doesn't need any major changes, hence why we don't have a cool feature like that. Soulcalibur has more room for that kind of stuff, because it's the game that gets less attention from Namco so they're free to do whatever. It seems that Tekken remains comparatively stagnant, but Soulcalibur can be more experimental (not always a good thing though, look what happened with SCV).

Well when I said Tekken was more popular and iconic than Soul Calibur, I meant with relative popularity. Like, I hear way more people talk about Tekken than I do Soul Calibur. In fact, I've only met one person offline in person who knew of Soul Calibur and he stopped after Soul Calibur 2. And lots people recognize characters like Jin, Kazuya, & Heihachi over Siegfried and Nightmare but I digress.

As neat as Tekken is, I just feel that from a plot standpoint, character creation would work in that game because it is a big fighting tournament after all. And not to mention, Namco could get more money from the potential character creation DLC items lol.

But you're right, Soul Calibur is going to need to do lots of damage control after SCV and Lost Sword's poor handling.

I would love to see a char creation ... especially one as awesome as soul calibur's. so much variety ... and tekken's customizations with the past couple games have been so incredibly limited ...

Same here, it'd be cool to see a Soul Calibur 5 style character creation system in Tekken! But you're so right, character customization has been lacking since Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and even then, some of the clothing look horrible on the characters. As "meh" as Tekken 6 was, the character customization was pretty deep for a Tekken game and you'd think they'd expand upon it in Tag 2 but nope, that didn't happen and going by Tekken 7, it seems like it's going to pretty limited as well.