Namco has decided to introduce a new character, and they're asking fans to choose which one. To be clear, I mean a character new to the series, not just this particular game. They have a list of 10 concepts, you can vote on your favorite over here, and they'll pick the final one from the top 3 results at their comic con panel. Some of the options include a salmon, an insect person, an old man who has no fighting ability whatsoever, Paul magically transformed into a girl, and a sexy tekken force member who is sexy (that's pretty much the only character trait they list for her.) It's interesting to get a look at a lot of these discarded character concepts. So how do you feel about this idea? Which of the characters is your favorite?

LOL! the female Paul sounds like something from a bizarre anime..

I want the salmon so badly. It's the greatest idea they have ever had.

Too bad one of the skimpy female characters are going to win, it's not like Tekken already has enough of those...

The salmon sounds great.

Thinking about it.

They should just throw all these characters in revolution to make it stand out more.

Can we write in Ryan as a contender?

I think either Salmon, the praying mantis or female Paul should be put it in, because Tekken Tag 2 was a great reminder to me that this series used to be able over the top silly characters with light heated comedic endings. Tekken 6 was way too embroiled in a dark and nonsenical story.

A lot of the other ideas seem like more female fighters in suggestive costumes, which we have plenty of already or again linked to the overarching story of the last few games which were pretty poor.

Speaking of which, I know he was a licensed character, but I'd really like to see Gon again.

I voted for zombie bride. I really like the idea of playing as Miguel's undead sister :P

I would so play tekken if I could play as a Salmon.

The best part of these is they are all... "yeah we had this idea but then we scrapped it in 5 seconds"

Was the giant praying mantis conceived after they saw Buffy or what

Zombie Bride, cuz Represent Esé!

This is really neat though I don't want to accumulate 50 bajillion gift points to unlock this mysterious new character in 5 months or what have you.

When will companies understand that not everyone wants to use Facebook?
Uggghhhhhh

@demoskinos said:

"Which of these ten ideas we all thought were terrible do you like the most?"

Video can be found on youtube

@leych: Yeah, I use Facebook but whenever a company tries to get me to 'like' them in order to get some reward, I turn the other way immediately.

Ah man a Salmon x Magikarp fighter would be great! All its moves just contains splash.

All of those sound pretty poor.

The results are in and our dreams of salmon, old men, and insects have been dashed my friends. Female Vampire won, with Sexy Female Tekken Force Sexy Lady coming in second, and that lame dude from that bad cg movie coming in 3rd. The vampire wouldn't have been my first choice, but she was far from my least favorite on the list, and certainly the best of those 3.

It's amazing how bland and boring the choice is.