Bandai Namco Announces Tekken 8 DLC Character Heihachi Mishima - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 August 2024 / 3,154 Views
Bandai Namco has announced Tekken 8 DLC character Heihachi Mishima. The character will release this Fall.
The Heihachi Mishima DLC will also add a new chapter to the story mode that will expand "The Dark Awakens" storyline. This will be available as a free update.
View a trailer of the DLC below:
Tekken 8 is available for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.
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Dirty tactic from the Harada this. He can claim a lot of things ("Heihachi is dead") but the amount of mtx in T8 is weird. New characters are pay to win, why players tolerate this practice I do not know. But they will and the dedicated fan will buy them regardless.
At the same time as it was cool for them to openly lie about him being dead and make we believe it then ressurect it to get us surprised... it's also sad Heihachi, the most important character in the series is now a paid dlc purchase.
They took Eddy out to sell the dlc which was already sad and now this...
For the first time in history heihachi is dlc in the main game lol,
Never in history did that happen
And then Lidia being dlc two times in a row what a joke.
How bout make new characters instead of legacy characters being dlc lol
I really am hoping that next entry (which sadly now probably an entire generation away) will be a complete reset, same mechanics, different characters. It's the way Tekken plays that I love not the characters.
The only DLC I'd buy at this point is guest characters that truely interest me (Zell when?), if I want to play Lei and Julia I'll go back to 6, play Josie, I'll go back to 7. I'm not paying again for characters like that.
Harada could get a lot of faith back in the community if they started adding classic characters back for free and only charged for new/guest ones. they want extra income they have enough bullcrap mtx already.
Man... feel like I could moan about this for days, sorry.
Zell Dincht would be a great addition but I think everybody clamoring for Tifa lol
I know, in the end 'bewbs' win. If they did a mixed FF pack with Tifa, Zell and Sabin, I'd buy that DLC in an instant. Heihachi, Eddy, Lidia? I just shrug at that, I want them to add something cool and different, if theyr aim is to get people to buy pay to win characters that is.
EDIT: You know what, screw all that. SquEnix need to commission Tekken team to make a FF fighting game in the style of Tekken.
I don't understand why SF6 launched without Bison and Tekken 8 launched without Heihachi. These are iconic characters that should always be included not offered as DLC.
That's exactly why they launched without lol, people are still gonna buy the base game anyways, so they'll just make a lot of extra buck by putting them as dlc
You do not pay for new characters in Tekken so its not that reason. The main reason is that they had a full roster of new and old characters and decided to bring out new characters to keep interest in the game. Just like SF, each new character generate excitement and bring people who left the game back to play again or get new players.
Heihachi is the least new character you can get but they sure can milk dedicated fans willing to pay 10% of the entire game's cost just for 1 character. Dirty tactic really. Withold beloved franchise characters and just add them back for the big bucks. T8 removed Eddy for this reason and even though the lead dev said Heihachi was 'dead', here we are. Just dragging him back for the payday.
T8 is great fun but filled with mtx out the arse and it was a full priced game.
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