Interview With Ono By Play
Aris ON Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 12:41PM 
"Is it harder to choose Tekken characters given none of them have projectiles?
Interestingly enough, the projectile thing seems on the surface like it might be a big issue but it really isn’t that big an issue. If you really look at the Street Fighter line-up, probably less than half of them have projectiles to begin with and many of them are used primarily for zoning and don’t do a whole lot of damage anyway. The bulk of most people’s fights will boil down to close in combat. It won’t be that strange to have Tekken characters fight against these guys.
The basis, the things we use to decide which Tekken characters to put in there are the characters that are the least Street Fighter-y. Characters that would never show up in a Street Fighter game otherwise unless we pulled them from that universe. So we make a concerted effort to find the Tekken characters that would be least at home in this game and try to make it work and feel really compelling and fun as a result."
Reader Comments (6)
with the new trailers out. i am starting to see the increase of the : "tekken is riding on the coat tails of street fighter"
and "tekken is not doing good that is why they need sf to promote them"
"sf is the king of fighters" lol kof.
well whatever its youtube comments
i am just excited to have the duck/marduk in the game.
I was never concerned with how the Tekken characters would deal against projectiles in SFxT. What I want to know is how Namco is going to handle things in TxSF because I feel like they have the bigger challenge ahead of them in making a great crossover game.
ono got this shit on lock hell yea
sorry fellas, even as a tekken player, SF is the granddaddy of fg games so I actually dont mind if tekken is seen as a tag-along, but seems like ono really tried to balance both sides and even made kaz whup ken and ryu's asses in the trailer
yes, harada's got a lot of work ahead of him but i only see bright things to come
First of all, loved Ono's answer on the projectile issue.
Secondly, he says
Is he referring to Angel? Or Unknown? (Do either of them count as Mishima?)@TheSuna
He's dissing Jin, calling him a pussy.
That figures why he kept Kazuya as the poster child for Tekken. Personally, I'm glad he did ;)
Kazuya should never have stopped being Tekken's frontman. Him and Heihachi are fucking tekken. and Jin is just a lame ghey rip off.
Kazuya is the original King of Iron Fist Tournament.