Unlocking stuff is one of my favorite elements in games! I hope this trend doesn't catch on.

So he admits what I've been saying all along: unlockables are nothing more than a gimmick to artifically inflate a game's playtime. Good to see that this scourge is going away, at least in one franchise; hopefully it will catch on in the rest of the industry.

Outdated like rumble was.

Jill Valentine is so sad right now. She was the master of unlocking. I'm sorta bummed too. 40+ characters is overwhelming. If they gave me a smaller number in the beginning, I could learn and master a few of them. Then, as I unlocked them, I could play and learn the newer ones. Now, it's like being tossed into the ocean and being told to learn to swim. My last Tekken was Tekken 4. I'm going to be soooooo lost!

I read your post, too late!  I would've laughed.  Now, I feel like a douche for using your exact same joke!

If there's no incentive to complete a game other than obsessive completionism or childish domination, then something is very wrong with either the game or the gamer. Good games are fun to play, and that's all the incentive that's necessary.

If you played tekken 2 and 3 you should be able to manage.. even though tekken 4 only had 18 chars which is like.. below half of tekken 6, a lot of the other chars in tekken 5 are people coming back from tekken 2 and tekken 3..-. (those from tekken 2 being a looooot older.. like 20 years. )

Still yeah.. It'll be a bit overwhelming..

And ruin some of the experience... :(