Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada was recently asked by The Gamer about whether or not they have thought about packaging together a Tekken collection, allowing fans to play the older games on newer video game hardware. Harada responded by saying that he doesn’t really think a collection of older Tekken games is in order as customer generally prefer to play the newer 3D fighting games, unlike there 2D fighting game counterparts. Here’s his full response.
“It’s different for [2D] fighting games because 3D fighting game players tend to play the latest installment”, says Murray, translating for Harada. “Starting from early on, it was polygon character models that really pushed the edge of graphics at the time. So when you see it later on, it doesn’t look nearly as impressive as it used to.
“2D fighting games, because they were just sprite characters and stuff, they don’t seem to age graphically that much. And that’s not the main reason people played it in the first place.”
Murray gives his own response, sounding slightly more open to the idea, with some caveats. “If it’s a drastically different gameplay change, like a Tag 2 compared to 7 or 8, maybe that’s something I would probably pick up and play for a little bit. Or maybe the Tekken Force mode or Devil Within or something like that,” he says. “But I wouldn’t even see myself picking up Tekken 3 and playing against friends for an extended period of time. So yeah, there is a difference we feel between the 3D fighters and 2D fighters in that respect.”
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This is nonsense. A lot of the old Tekken games are beloved and I guarantee there is an audience for people who want to play those again on modern hardware. Yes, those games are not impressive in their graphics in the modern day, but they have their own story and unique aspects that mean people want to revisit them.
100%. I would absolutely play hours and hours of Tekken 1 or 2 just to relive that authentic 90’s Pizza Hut arcade experience (without the grease all over the controls, of course).
i wish i lived the 90’s… sounds like a fun time
I would buy a TK collection in a heartbeat.
Translation: “Can’t let Nintendo owners have nice things”.
His reasoning is dumb.