Kotaku
He's fat and he fights! Japan's Arcadia Magazine has revealed "Bob," a new Tekken 6 character. He's a martial arts genius who engineered his body to become HUGE when he was unable beat opponents bigger than him. After going underground to alter his appearance, a beefy Bob resurfaced. Other fighters didn't take him seriously, so Bob entered The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 to test his new powers. Hope eating's involved! He'd so kick ass.
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Bob is New [SDTEKKEN, Thanks Mark1]
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namco is making fun of we americans with this fat guy!!!! Seriously though, tekken 6 is looking a little weak in my opinion... how bout we get soul calibur first? Please?
Haha...cant wait to see how he fights. any date on tekken 6?
still waiting on DR to go online, im practicing Steve these days....anyway, outside of SF, Tekken's about the only fighter series im still into, Smash Bros notwithstanding.
Has to be said.
"This is Bob, Bob had bitch tits."
couch potato gaijin ftw!
Ahaha, I love his Mario outfit...
Are you sure this was just announced? Because I'm pretty sure I've seen quite a few people cosplaying this before...
Generic naming 101.
Man, does he remind me of a lumberjack man or something. Sometimes Tekken's character roster freaks me out. I mean... seriously, who thinks of these things? Panda bears? Kangaroos? Robots named Jack (there's the bland naming again)? Big wooden mannequins that take on random characters?
Someone in the creativity department needs a head check.
Not to mess with the game or anything--I actually like Tekken and various other fighters, haha.
@IchimaruGin: If they're making fun of Americans.. well they failed. Minorities as a whole out number whites. A mixed Asian, Hispanic, Black guy/girl that is fat would truly be making fun of America.
He'll sure be easy to cosplay.
Wow I bet you anything his "alternate costume" is a skinny version of himself.
He's the new Jack Turner!
@Huginn: As does "His name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson."
... :3
@Black-Dog-Howls: No, because even though minorities outnumber whites, whites are still the "face" of America. When people think "American" they usually think "white person", so having a fatass white person actually could be a good slam on Americans.
@mphz: Beat me to it.
Dear god! It's like they took a picture of me and gave the figure super martial arts ability. Where the fuck are my royalties!?!
he's not fat...he's just really beefed...
Living here in Jersey, fighting villains from afar... you gotta find first gear, in your giant robot car...
Actually, you know what I just find hilarious? This character gets so pissed off that he can't win that he just eats and eats and eats... It's pretty funny, stress eating...
Especially considering the fact that he probably moves slow and just sucks...
On a more serious note, though, how outlandish can Tekken get? When you actually stomach the fighting pandas and dinosaurs, they throw in a fat guy for the sake of a fat guy...
It's starting to get scary (though I kind of liked the "Nazi looking guy")...
Holy crap... This very well maybe a character that finally replaces Kazuya as my main fighter.
-Niric
he is so gonna be top tier
Must be a tribute to a dutch fallen icon.
Theo van Gogh ftw.
They're getting politically correct:
Fat People fight too.
I'd also love to see how he would fight and his accessability to the players that are already used to tekken
i lol'd almost
I figured Tekken's characters were all beaten with an ugly stick, but this guy got clubbed by a redwood.
@mphz: @Huginn: You guys beat me to it, but I wouldn't be surprised f his level was in fact super reminiscent of Fight Club, or if his alternate outfit was Project Mayhem garb.
It's Coop!
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@WreckTheLaw: I can only say that if one or more legit references (or blatant homages) to Fight Club actually appeared in Tekken 6, that would propel the franchise to new levels of awesomeness.
@Black-Dog-Howls:
Hate to be "that guy", but if you check your facts, whites are not outnumbered by minorities. [factfinder.census.gov]
Whites make up 74.7% of the population as of 2005 (75% in 2000, on a side note), and even if you assume that EVERY hispanic or latino (14.5% of Americans) declared themselves white, you'd still have 60.2% of Americans as white, non Latino/Hispanic. That is a majority of the total population, not just more than any one other race.
@mphz: One of the levels in Tekken 4 really had a fight club vibe... lemme see if I can find a pic....
@Huginn:
Just don't talk about you know what.
He looks more like a fat Ken from Street Fighter than a Meatloaf with a blonde wig. Ready for your hug? ^^
[www.gamespot.com] You can see a few here.
The ultimate dissing of America. Well done, Namco. Now the turn is ours.
"Bob" ... puh-lease. Nothing against all the Bobs out there but... oh man, terrible character name.
@BLACK-DOG-HOWLS: Oh, and the people who claim to be soley white on the last census DO outnumber the rest of the claimed races. Out of an (estimated) 288,378,137 people 215,333,394 people claimed to be "white alone". I've heard this floating around a lot lately that if you combined all the races who aren't white they'd out number the whites. Well, not according to what people claim on their census sheets.
(2005 Census)
It's interesting though, if you check this page you'll see all the races and their numbers laid out but then, for some reason, below that you'll see "Hispanic or Latino (of any race)" with a population of 41,870,703... so it makes me wonder where they fit in in all this. Guess they just are interspersed through out all the other races? Odd...
@WreckTheLaw: hah hah. yeah. i'm not the only one who checked the census.
@LunchViking: Heh, it took me a second to figure that out too, but then I remembered that being of "latino" descent can mean a lot of different things, and that it isn't a race of it's own in the census. As such you can be Black Hispanic, White Hispanic, etc.
this is off topic, eh? Hm... how about that... Tekken? Did anyone get 5 on PS3 download? How was it?
A hero among geeks.
God, you people act like you've never seen a fat guy in a fighting game before. Fatal Fury had that fat guy with the suspenders and Samurai Shodown had Earthquake.
maybe our country needs a little dissing. I'm more comfortable with America being portrayed as a fat blonde guy than the evil conglomerate we usually get..
That said, this looks like a possible ripoff of Bass from DOA. Then again, the 3D fighters have been ripping off each other for some time now, which is fine in the name of gameplay.
Ultimately, however, I say it sucks.
@Mongoosekun: The first rule is... Well i can't tell you that... and the second rule, well, I can't tell you that either.
@Behonkiss: And yes, it looks like an adult Coop. With the red jacket, facial hair and the weight.
@WreckTheLaw: As long as it isn't akin to the fight..err.. that game where it is from. We're good. :)
whoa, Chris Farley is in Tekken?
@Faradin: i just noticed that...if he gets a hat, its over.
@virgilsoames: He doesn't look like Chris Farley to me. I'm trying to think of who he reminds me of, and all I can think of is "Kubiak" from "Parker Lewis Can't Lose."
Oh God, I'm the oldest person here, right?
Two questions:
What am I doing in this game?
When do I get my royalties?
Black-Dog-Howls: "A mixed Asian, Hispanic, Black guy/girl that is fat would truly be making fun of America."
AGREED! This game needs more Creole hermaphrodites!
@SXP151:
"Eat now?"
I like him, but I want to see how he moves. Hell, back in the day, I used to be slighty terrifying with E. Honda. (Despite what you may have heard, the E stood for Elvis....at least in my mind. :P )
Now if only Namco would add a photo-game face option, I could fully realize my dream of being in a video game.
Capcom has Dan
Namco now has Bob
ANOTHER piece of news about Gabe Newell???
Apparently this guy is gonna move like Sammo Hung... not!!!
If you play through as Bob you unlock a new playable character, Gabe Newell. Their fighting style and eating habits are identical.
@thinred: Beat me to the punch!
They're making Tekken 6 a farce (yes, I realize previous instalments featured fighting pandas and dinosaurs sporting boxing gloves). First they introduced these new Mortal Kombat 'Friendship' moves (Anna Williams throws her stiletto, Bruce Irvin send a string of baby chickens to attack his opponent and Baraka gives you a rainbow as a present) and now you get to fight Jin Kazama as Gabe Newell. Sucky.
Yeah represent!
@rich8606: That would be righteous. Project A is one of my favourite movies of all time. Jackie Chan+Sammo Hung+Yuen Baio=Martial Arts (and comedy) gold.
@TheIrishNinja: Float like a butterfly, Shting like a Shteve!
Also, I will laugh my ass of if this guy turns out to be really, REALLY fast, like a fat male Xiaoyu