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Tekken 8 reveals Paul Phoenix and his hair is already causing havoc

Classic Tekken fighter Paul Phoenix is back for Tekken 8 but not without some controversy, as the biker flaunts his blonde locks in a new Tekken 8 trailer.

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Knushwood Butt431d ago

It's big hair. He's a biker that looks like he spends a lot of time in the hair salon. Nothing wrong with that but I suspect he's going against the grain of biker culture.

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LoveSpuds431d ago (Edited 431d ago )

Hahaha, I hadn't seen in that way Rynxie, but it is totally a Karen haircut, oh boy!

ApocalypseShadow431d ago

As a long time Tekken fan, he looks like a trashy version of Terry Bogard from Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Just unappealing art in my opinion. It's not the hair.

Besides the fact, in the preview video, backgrounds are detailed but empty. No life. No people. No birds, no crowd. Just blah. No life. Same 2D plain. With DOA and Mortal Kombat extra areas that was done years ago.

I don't know. Maybe I've grown out of seeing the same fighting games again and again. With the only difference is all the flashy effects with attacks. But not a real progression on advancing the fight engine. Please don't add VR. It's not going to help.

MWH431d ago

I think that time has its toll on me, on how i view and feel toward games today compared to when i was much younger. However, this also means we are much more refined and selective, and we can immediately spot to goods and bads in games because afterall, we've seen it all. I liked to share this piece of mind for what it's worth.

So back to the topic, i agree with you, i too feel that Tekken-8 took only couple steps forward instead of making a leap. I didn't expect a major jump in gameplay, but i hoped for a significant visual update which i don't see.

Anyway, it is what it is.

ANIALATOR136431d ago

What have they done to him. All they needed to do was copy his look from Tekken 3

bunt-custardly431d ago

Paul, much like Guile has always had stupid looking hair from day one. This current hairstyle is no different.

Snookies12431d ago (Edited 431d ago )

Lol, at least Guile's hair was based off a Jojo's manga/anime character Rudol von Stroheim. So, he has an excuse...

Vanfernal431d ago

Paul's hair is based on Polnareff...

Snookies12429d ago (Edited 429d ago )

@Vanfernal - I didn't realize Paul was a similar situation. I was never heavily into Tekken, to be fair. Tekken 8's Paul doesn't look anything like it though. If that is the case.

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Terry_B431d ago

Harada mentioned that his usual hair can be added via customization.

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Furesis25d ago

This "issue" has been blown way out of proportions. I have never seen someone rage quit on anyone that i've watched and i personally have maybe close to 200h in myself and this has never happened to me. Sure if they can make it like MK great but this is such a none issue imho.

slayereddy23d ago (Edited 23d ago )

Your experience is nothing compared to the information they will have on disconnects, so if they say it is an issue you will accept that it is an issue that needs to be dealt with.

ReBurn25d ago

I'm ok with banning serial pluggers in ranked matches. But what I would like to see happen instead is to put people with higher than acceptable disconnect percentages into matches with other pluggers until they stop disconnecting. Let the pluggers play together in separate lobbies until they learn to lose gracefully.

slayereddy23d ago

As well as the measures they have implemented why can't they just seamlessly change the inputs from player to AI player so the player can continue the match and still recieve the match points.