Okay, sit down. In response to the world’s most well-known Tekken developer, Vin Diesel almost bought to play Tekken 6 forward of the remainder of us, however sadly, he was by no means in a position to due to a few elements associated to the stage of improvement the sport was at.
Sure, the mumbly man from these movies about vehicles driving round and doing skids (I really like them, far more than I most likely ought to, in case you’re questioning) was in with an opportunity of beating somebody up in a online game earlier than you had the possibility to. Sadly, circumstances didn’t permit Dom Toretto to slap some people round on a display.
That is in line with sequence stalwart developer Katsuhiro Harada, who determined to take a break from giving barely tongue-in-cheek solutions as to why the likes of Final Fantasy‘s Tifa Lockhart and Clive Rosfield aren’t unlockable characters in Tekken 8 to reminisce about another person some followers had advised as a possible addition – Vin Diesel.
“It was fairly a very long time in the past…whereas we had been creating TEKKEN 6, his supervisor contacted NAMCO,” the developer recalled concerning the actor. “He was simply visiting Japan and wished to play the newest TEKKEN. Nevertheless, on the time, it was nonetheless solely operating on an extremely large improvement machine, so we could not carry it to the lodge the place he was, and there was an excessive amount of confidential data.”
Fortunately, Harada says massive Vin wasn’t too upset about this: “I informed his supervisor about it and he gave up with a response thanking me for contemplating it.” Hopefully Diesel managed to entertain himself another way as soon as this fell via, most likely by drag racing somebody down an expressway or alongside a mountain highway.
In all seriousness, on condition that Tekken 6 got here out in 2007, it appears like there’s an opportunity this alternate may’ve occurred when Diesel visited Japan (assuming he did and it wasn’t filmed elsewhere, that is Hollywood in spite of everything) to movie his transient cameo in The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift. Vin was asked to do that cameo in 2006, so the dates may line up, however we’ll most likely by no means know for certain.
Harada doesn’t appear to have given the explanation for Diesel’s go to an excessive amount of although although, ending his tweet: “As standard, we labored all evening within the improvement room, chatting with director Yonemori, who was our subordinate on the time, about how fascinating such a cellphone name may be when you’ve gotten been creating video games for a few years like we had.”
For extra on TEKKEN, be certain to take a look at our recent interview with Harada and fellow developer Michael Murray exploring how TEKKEN 8 still honours arcade culture, and our character tier list for it.