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NEWS: Tekken 8 Game Adds Final Fantasy XVI's Clive Rosfield on December 16

This definitely seems like something that was agreed between Bandai Namco & Square-Enix well before Final Fantasy XVI actually came out, and promptly became one of the less liked FF games, for a variety of reasons.

I would have to imagine Harada is probably thinking "I'm never letting my bosses decide a DLC guest character for Tekken well in advance of the other game's release ever again", because this doesn't feel like a character that Harada himself would have wanted.

This definitely seems like something that was agreed between Bandai Namco & Square-Enix well before Final Fantasy XVI actually came out, and promptly became one of the less liked FF games, for a variety of reasons.

I would have to imagine Harada is probably thinking "I'm never letting my bosses decide a DLC guest character for Tekken well in advance of the other game's release ever again", because this doesn't feel like a character that Harada himself would have wanted.

^ Negan makes so much more sense for Mortal Kombat; I'm still mystified be his inclusion in Tekken.

And now we've got Clive, which... I'm sure SOMEONE wanted in Tekken, surely. I mean, Tifa is RIGHT THERE... but sure. Clive. Makes sense. Good ole Clive

and promptly became one of the less liked FF games, for a variety of reasons.

Harada wanted Negan in 7, I don't think he's allowed to cast any judgement on off-the-mark DLC picks.

Clive looks far less out of place than pre timeskip Noctis in Tekken 7.

YackDe wrote:

Harada wanted Negan in 7, I don't think he's allowed to cast any judgement on off-the-mark DLC picks.

At least The Walking Dead was still somewhat popular when Negan was added to Tekken 7

At least Final Fantasy XV was somewhat popular & successful at the time, so Noctis still made more sense.

Clive's inclusion was obviously Square-Enix expecting FFXVI to be, at the very least, as popular as XV was so they made the Tekken 8 deal before XVI actually came out.

This is completely false, the Walking Dead had long since plummeted in popularity and had more or less completely excited the cultural zeitgeist by the time Negan was added

They kind of SHOULD have just given people Tifa in Tekken; she is far more iconic than Clive, and THE martial artist fighter of the Final Fantasy series.

And it wouldn't be the first time he's done something like this before either. For example there was that one time when a Dragon Ball fan asked him if he could convince Sakurai to add Goku into Super Smash Bros Ultimate. But instead of doing what the fan asked him to do Harada decided to convince Sakurai to add Kazuya into the game instead. And he did all that just to spite that one Dragon Ball fan.

JonDoe wrote:

And it wouldn't be the first time he's done something like this before either. For example there was that one time when a Dragon Ball fan asked him if he could convince Sakurai to add Goku into Super Smash Bros Ultimate. But instead of doing what the fan asked him to do Harada decided to convince Sakurai to add Kazuya into the game instead. And he did all that just to spite that one Dragon Ball fan.

In the interest of fairness Kazuya makes far more sense than Goku. Not to mention why is Harada asking Sakurai to put a non video game character he didn’t create from a franchise he’s never been involved in?

Likely less out of spite (occasional trolling notwithstanding) and more out of practicality. Same as when he had to shut down the suggestion of including a Waffle House stage (after initially not being aware of what a Waffle House was).