Where Is Tekken X Street Fighter?

Posted on Friday, January 27 @ 16:58:43 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

Doko ni imasu ka? Earlier this week, Capcom's Yoshinoro Ono in an interview with GR's Josh Laddin light-heartedly joked that Namco was far behind with Tekken X Street Fighter:

[T]he Tekken team and Harada-san over there haven’t even put together one page of design documents regarding their game yet! They’re so slow… I want to put in all sorts of whatever nods or easter eggs that I can, but just two weeks ago Harada-san called me and said, “Hey… can I have a list of the Street Fighter characters?” And I was like, “What? You’re so slow!” It’ll probably take them six years to come out with their game!

So will Tekken X Street Fighter even exist? Maybe Namco and Capcom are playing friendly and just decided not to have competing games release during the same time, but Namco is in an incredibly tight spot. Not only are they going second after what looks to be an action-packed title in Street Fighter X Tekken, but they clearly have the more difficult design challenge.

Just thinking about how to transform Street Fighter characters into Tekken characters makes me want to get clotheslined by King and Marduk instead. Where Capcom can easily reduce the moveset of a Tekken character into a Street Fighter character, Namco needs to formulate more than fifty strikes and grabs for each Street Fighter character. That's so much work, in animations alone, that I'll be surprised if the final roster will have a more than ten representatives from Street Fighter.

And then comes to the question of how to translate Street Fighter characters appropriately into the Tekken engine. Namco can't have Ryu spam fireballs and shoryukens, and then expect gameplay to be balanced and anywhere close to Tekken. Then again, if they eliminate fireballs and other moves like Blanka's electricity and E. Honda's hundred-hand slap, then the SF characters might feel too neutered. The only compromise I can think of is perhaps making the fireball a slowly charged projectile that can easily blocked or sidestepped.

Luckily, Namco isn't totally in the weeds, since many characters from Super Street Fighter IV have their counterparts in the Tekken universe. Ryu and Ken can have their movesets based off Jin's Karate form and Paul's ; Guile's brawling style can take some notes from Bryan Fury's mercenary style; Zangief and Abel have King and Marduk to take from; Sagat and Adon's muay thai has a close resemblance to Bruce Irving's; Fei Long has Law; Juri has Hwoarang; E. Honda has Ganryu; Balrog has Steve Fox; and Crimson Viper has Nina. See, Namco? It ain't so bad.

Of course, we don't want Namco to cut and paste movesets from one character to another. That would be disappointing and lazy. In fact, I would rather see Namco get rid of about half of the shotokan characters from Street Fighter to ensure that variety is well-spread. That, or at least give Sakura, Dan, and Akuma distinctive movesets.

That said, Namco needs to get off its butt and start working on Tekken X Street Fighter, beyond the teaser pic from Gamescom 2010 at the top of this article. It's been almost a year and a half since the game's announcement at 2010 San Diego Comic-Con, and there's not even "one page of design documents"?! At least create a cover page. Put the name of the game in the center. I mean, you don't want to forget what you're making, right?

Related Games: Street Fighter X Tekken

Tags: Capcom, Namco, Tekken, Street Fighter

Comments

Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: Jan 27th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Considering Namco has been making SCV, Tekken Tag 2, and probably another distinct fighters, it's more understandable. Really, the differences between Capcom fighting games are on a minute technical level, so it's no wonder they can keep cranking them out.

Plus, it is Bamco. They suck.

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nine_ball
Joined: Nov 2011

Posted: Jan 27th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Ibuki and Raven are similar enough to work out I think.

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OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: Jan 27th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Dan... distinctive move sets? His origin denies such blasphemy. Dan is like a brand new vacuum cleaner. When hes working at 100% hes meant to suck, and hard.

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Nick_Tan
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Jan 30th, 2012 at 4:52 am
Sucking can be a distinctive moveset.

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TheJx4
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jan 27th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
I like Tekken's gameplay style way more than Cartoon Fighter.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Jan 27th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
I don't think Does and Is are the same verb

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OniAkuma2126
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jan 28th, 2012 at 8:30 am
If you look at the first Street Fighter EX you will get a basic idea of how a character from that universe will work in an 8way run battlefield ( although the game did not offer 8 way run ). Projectiles would have to travel much faster or even with a different flight path.Moves like a Tetsamuki Senpukyaku would start on the ground with each kick propel the fighter further towards the target or it would be included as part of the 10 hit combo. Keep a close eye on Soul Calibur V...i really feel that alot of the new mechanics in that game will mix over to Tekken X Street Fighter once they begin production.

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Tboyswag
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Feb 11th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
If this game had guest Characters, I feel these characters would definantly attract fans.

Talim(soul caliber) vs Lilith or Q-bee (darkstalkers)
And/or
Clair(resident evil code:veronica) vs Miru(pac&pal)

I actually think they would be perfect for this title. Anybody else think so?:)

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SStallworth1234
Joined: Jun 2012

Posted: Jun 6th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I'm diggin the character list, but remember one thing... It's not Capcom vs Namco... It's Streetfighter X Tekken

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Tboyswag
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Feb 11th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
If this game had guest Characters, I feel these characters would definantly attract fans.

Talim(soul caliber) vs Lilith or Q-bee (darkstalkers)
And/or
Clair(resident evil code:veronica) vs Miru(pac&pal)

I actually think they would be perfect for this title. Anybody else think so?:)

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Tboyswag
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Feb 11th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
You guys can't tell me the following females I named wouldn't be cool for this game :)

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Tboyswag
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Feb 15th, 2012 at 6:37 am
Kazuya vs ryu. ! Marduk vs zangief
Chun- li vs jun ! King vs el fruete
Ken vs paul. ! Kunimitsu vs ibuki
Lei wulong vs gen ! Nina vs Blair
Lili vs Karin. ! Nanase vs asuka
Jaycee vs R.mika. ! Bruce vs adon
Alisa vs area. ! Steve vs Dhalism
Zafina vs pullum. ! Panda vs blanka
Anna vs Sharon ! baek doo san vs Hokuto

Dragonov vs rolento. ! Eddie vs Sean
Christie vs Elena. ! Hworang vs dee jay
Fei wulong vs law. ! Raven vs Juri
Bob vs e.honda. ! (boss rivalry: angel vs gill)
Akuma vs heichi. ! Evil ryu vs devil Jin
Lee vs c.viper. ! Yoshmitsu vs d.dark
Leo vs Q. ! Maki vs Julia
P. Jack vs Blade. ! Xiaoyu vs sakura
Feng Wei vs Allen. ! Tiger Jackson vs Poison
Mokujin vs cycloid.

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Tboyswag
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Feb 15th, 2012 at 6:39 am
Jack vs Garuda
Miguel vs Sawada ! Miharu Hirano vs Kei Chitose
Lars vs guy ! Forest vs hayate.
Bryan fury vs Hakan. ! Michelle vs T.hawk

Guest charecters:
Talim(soul caliber) vs Q-bee(dark stalkers)
And/or
Clair(resident evil code: Veronica) vs Miru(pac & pal)
This is the final roster(for every console especially Xbox 360!)

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SStallworth1234
Joined: Jun 2012

Posted: Jun 6th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
I agree on certain parts...... But I think they should take there time and get it right... Think about it Boondocks takes about a couple of years for Aaron M. to even announce another season, but its hella worth it when they come out... Diablo 3 over 10 years myself and others have been waiting for that game... Not only was the storyboard amazing, but gameplay is phenominal... Let them take there time to get it right, because if they rush it... We'll hate them for it

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