Harada Venting Frustration on Twitter
Aris ON Monday, June 25, 2012 at 10:50AM 
Looks like Harada is getting tired of people asking him for the same shit on Twitter. He recently tweeted this lengthy explanation as to why some fan requests are impossible. Furthermore, he confirms that there are more characters to be revealed for TTT2 console and he suggests that some may be returning favorites. Check below for the full tweet.
"I have something I want to say to the people who spam me with requests to "switch back(or Bring back) to the voice actors used previously".
I believe that, before whining and complaining about everything, you need practice at taking a step back and analyzing things objectively. And also at being an adult.
First, the voice you were listening to was 16 years ago, during the PlayStation period. The current generation of consoles are totally different in how they play back sound; both software-wise, and the internal circuitry
The playback program is different, as well as the sound effects added; reverb and 5.1 are examples of this. The comrpression rate, as well as the sound rate, is different today. Are you playing games on the same TV you used 16 years ago? What about your speakers? Headphones? They are all the same as 16 years ago? I wonder if it will sound like the same voice as 16 years ago, even with that data..
Also, you are assuming the voice actors themselves can reproduce the voice the recorded 16 years ago? Many voice actors decline work because their voice has changed since the original role, some have even retired. Sometimes they won't accept, even if we ask.
The recording studio and the equipment they use is also different. With all of this in mind, you still thing it is possible to recreate these voices?
Some might say "just pay them to reuse the voice data".
But, often the voice actors decline this, or their agency declines.
For example, Brian's laugh is the actual data from Tekken 3. As fans have requested, we've kept using the original, adapting the data recorded 16 years ago to be used on the PS2, and then PS3.
Even so, some people said it is a different voice in Tekken 6 than the original.
It can't be helped they might think that. As explained above, even though the master data is the same, all of the equipment used in adapting it has completely changed. That said, it isn't a good idea to try to reccreate the older recording environment because then the data sounds heavily compressed, with noise. More than that, it would sound out of place next to the voice data of the newer characters.
WHAT? You say some of the voices sound like they haven't changed at all?
I guess you didn't notice that the development team has re-recorded them, but made efforts for it to sound as close as possible to the original. And you probably didn't even notice.
Do you know that all of the voice work for a character is not always done by just one voice actor? Using Brian as an example, the laugh you guys love so much uses the original data from Tekken 3, but the short kiai voice uses a different voice actor, and the "come on!" voice also uses a different voice actor. A lot of other characters also use different voice actors for the spoken lines and for the shouts.
I did the voice work for Marshal and Forest for 15 years.
However, I can no longer produce that voice after Tekken 5, so we had a different voice actor for Tekken 6.
The Tekken series has continued for 17 years. The development environment, as well as the environment in which you all play games, has changed.
There are so many characters, and we can't keep using he same voice actors every time, for a variety of reasons.
I have even complied to the requests of you all spamming me to "bring back characters" from previous installments. You often say, "let's show the dev team how sincere we are by buying 2 copies if they bring back character X", but did you really go through with it? Expecting you to at least pre-order the game, I was met with more spam, after you apparently didn't notice that Jun and Michelle actually return.
I still have some characters left to be revealed that comply with some of your requests, even "bringing back" several others. Even so, none of them are paid DLC. I will continue to sincerely comply with fan requests.
However, I can't continue to engage the negative ones that, without knowing what you are talking about, or even thinking about what you are saying, blindly repeat "bring back, bring back, bring back..."
After this lengthy explanation, I will be quite surprised if there are still people who still don't get it.
Thanks for understanding or not understanding. Whatever."
Reader Comments (33)
wow complaining about bringing back the original voices, really?
i was hoping he'd answer here as well whether he's going to bring tag 2 to vita, but apparently i'm the only one who asked that (i asked only once, promise).
Harada telling the internet to STFU. I love it.
i like paul tekken 2 and 3 voice lol mohaaaaaaaa!!!! after d,df,f 2 lol that was sick and his flexibility in tekken 5 but tekken 6 and tag2 hum.....(we are not perfect) but yeah harada do your think man i will keep playing tekken until and die lol best fitghting 3d game.
I don't Twitter, is there moderation functions banning people and what not? I guess when you are the face of Namco you don't want some troll whining about Harada banned me mah!
So I guess more old characters?
Jack 2 (like Jack 6), Prototype Jack (yeah I can see it), GunJack (wouldn't make sense), Tiger (just a skin maybe),
Alex (skin), Unknown (a given), Combot (a given), Gon (possible), Dr.B (cool)
Looks like: Prototype Jack, Dr.B, Gon. Unknown, Combot?
New characters? Maybe that devil kid from the last movie? Shin? or whatever his name is.
Well thanks for understanding or not understanding. Whatever.
Wow.. just wow!! ..
Who even takes 'the internet' seriously??? I never give two shits about what people say or write..
I mean.. the voice-acting??? Really.. ..who even gives a shit??? With all the things that are important that TTT2 has, who cares about the fucking voices??? I just want a recording function in practice mode and don't care about anything else in TTT2!
Also, great.. even more fucking characters to come... more strings to memorize.. more framedata to learn, more time used in tedious work to learn if you should flashduck, or sidestep right og left and whatnot before you can start enjoying the game at even intermediate level...
What they should do is cut the fucking cast to like 35 great characters..
Maybe I should start tweeting that because Harada seems to take this shit seriously...
@DrBhup I'd rather you not attempt to contact Harada and infect his mind with your impassioned drivel. Those bulletpoints you described? Those core elements YOU 'whined' about (and have been for years)? That IS the intermediate level you claim those very integral facets of Tekken are holding players back from. I'm sorry but you can whine all you like; Harada won't water down Tekken on your behalf. Why don't you flock to SC5 or MK9 if you want to play a dumber game so badly? ...
You tell them harada lol. Yes i can understand that, I would be pisses off too if i were him. He is getting spam with questions that he already answered.
"Brian". I'm sometimes shocked how Harada is far away from his game.
Lol Hirada needs to start learning how to use the block button.
Please everyone here who reads these comments, dont take this motherfucking retard DrBhup's comment serious or just dont read them at all. DrBretard please stop commenting on anything Tekken related you dumb fucking idiot.
those idiots bitching about voice actors deserve to have their consoles confiscated and pissed on, and also be banned from purchasing any future tekken games
can't believe that even voice actors became that critical, LOL!!! poor mr. harada!!! nope, i think the trolls are more poorer than him!
Harada I love you ^___^