Tekken creator rants about “whining and complaining” fans

Katsuhiro Harada has had it with these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane. And by “snakes”, I mean Tekken fans, and by “plane”, I mean Twitter.

The Tekken creator had a totally Hollywood gossip tabloid-worthy freakout on Twitter yesterday, after putting up with demands about the series’ voice cast for too long. The series’ voice cast is a source of controversy? Apparently Tekken fans live in a world approximately 2 x 2 x 2 metres.

“I believe that, before whining and complaining about everything, you need practice at taking a step back and analyzing things objectively. And also at being an adult,” he said, forward-forward-punching the keys on his keyboard, before launching into an explanation of why the voice cast changes over time, and how audio production for games works, and why the detractors are moany meanies.

“Do you know that all of the voice work for a character is not always done by just one voice actor? Using Brian as an example, the laugh you guys love so much uses the original data from Tekken 3, but the short kiai voice uses a different voice actor, and the ‘come on!’ voice also uses a different voice actor. A lot of other characters also use different voice actors for the spoken lines and for the shouts,” he went on.

“I have even complied to the requests of you all spamming me to ‘bring back characters’ from previous instalments. You often say, ‘Let’s show the dev team how sincere we are by buying two copies if they bring back character X’, but did you really go through with it?” Harada added, presumably in response to another constant source of aggravation.

“I will continue to sincerely comply with fan requests. However, I can’t continue to engage the negative ones that, without knowing what you are talking about, or even thinking about what you are saying, blindly repeat ‘bring back, bring back, bring back…’

“After this lengthy explanation, I will be quite surprised if there are still people who still don’t get it. Thanks for understanding or not understanding. Whatever,” he finished.

Then he went and sat on the floor in the kitchen in his fuzzy jammies, and ate chocolate ice-cream straight out of the tub while journalists scrambled to write it all up.

It’s not the first time Tekken fans have been in the news recently. Back in February, Tekken players on the Cross Assault TV show made headlines when team leader Aris Bakhtanians claimed that sexual harassment and the fighting game culture are “one and the same thing” as justification for the rather disgraceful treatment of one female contestant. What nice people.