Tekken's Fahkumram WTF?

IMO this Fahkumram character design is one of the ugliest character designs I've seen in a FG in a long time

https://tekken.fandom.com/wiki/Fahkumram/Gallery

He's 6.7ft and supposed to be from Thailand Did Bamco actually use Muay Thai mocap for this character I dunno Bruce Irvin's animations seemed more legit

It could be my VF fanboy coming out, but this Fahkumram character design looks like trash, and his animations just look suspect to me

I was given Tekken 7 as a present, so I have played it. I thought Leroy was plausible, and his Wing Chun animations are ok. But Fahkumram They took out Bruce and his Kickboxing for this dude

How I wish VF would just do both Wing Chun, and Muay Thai and show the other 3D fighters how a legit character design and animation set should look

And what about that name Fahkumram is it a common name in Thailand? It sounds like something else is trying to be said

 

Yeah, we get it already. Tekken characters and animations are trash compared to VF. What exactly are you trying to achieve with discussions like this?

It's okay, Master. I assure you that I played enough VF to train my body and soul to be ready for an upcoming toilet paper robbery.

 

@Seminasuke oh, its meant to be a real discussion. I think the character design is trash, but others may not. I truly am curious about whether I'm in a small minority that think that Fahkumram is ugly, or if most people that have seen the character design agree.

I'm also suspicious of that name Fahkumram it looks like an anagram for something else. But since it has 9 characters that would generate 9! permutations, i.e 362880 combinations of the letters in Fahkumram so I didn't try to see what else could be spelled using those letters. But it does seem like there is some levity at play here.

Fahkumram looks like a freak. His head looks like its too small for his body, I suspect there are going to be some real graphics perspective problems comparing Fahkumram's height to Kuma or Panda. Yikes

The Tekken roster is growing more bizarre. Kangeroos, Pandas, Grizzly Bears, Gigas, Sorceress, Combots, now Fahkumram WTF? Its all starting to seem a wee bit strange to me. And the designs are just moving in a very gaudy direction, Tekken's art design is becoming more garish and kitsch like with each version.

But others may feel the exact opposite. They may like the art designs and directions. I'm truly curious to see what the opinions are out there.

I thought Bruce was better. Why even introduce Fahkumram


Hence this post.

 

Think I can safely say they gave us worse than Sagat on crack.

 

Exactly

 

Honestly,the MOST of male T7 characters are anatomically disproportionate with too small head and to large shoulders and hands. This looks terrible for me, Uggly animation increases this frustration even more.

 

I agree, they should have made Fahkumram look better.

Yep.

You forgot sleepy Vampire babes.

Dude, what the heck is that thing?
It looks like it came, from one of those Toy Story movies. Lol.

 

I would like to see a line up of Fahkumram, Gigas, Kuma, Panda, Kangeroo, Marduk, and Jack all standing next to each other just so I could see what the official scale is supposed to be

The characters bodies are not only out of proportion, but I think there is a serious problem of scale in the Tekken character designs. Isn't Kuma supposed to be 9 ft tall

If Fahkumram is supposed to be 6.7ft and Kuma is supposed to be 9.2ft. and Ling Xiaoyu is supposed to 5.5ft them something is definitely wrong in the heights of the characters as presented on screen.

I guess its hard to see what the scale is between characters with everybody always frantically doing the Korean back dash

Seriously has there been a big change in the character artists for the Tekken franchise?

 

I wasn't surprised he looked as ugly as he did.

 

The puzzle is why did the Tekken developers take Bruce out and put Fahkumram in

Some Bruce players say that Fahkumram has many of Bruce's moves

Also just on simple visual inspection Bruce's elbows and knee animations look more like they might belong to the Muay Thai tradition and Fahkumram's height blurs the effect

 

My man have you ever thought about an account on someplace such as Tekken Zaibatsu where people are actually encouraged to talk about solely Tekken

 

Fans want new characters. They also want old characters. Bring the old ones back and it's 'same ole' same ole' we want new characters' if you bring in a new character, especially ones to replace an old character it's 'we want the original real deal'.

Such is life for creators in the entertainment industry...

 

One good way to put it, is that there are certain fans, who don't know what they really want. They say they want A, and when they get A, then they complain and say they want B. And when they get B, then they argue that they want A instead. Yeah I know, it's confusing.


@masterpo
Yeah, I watched this vid a few months ago. The first 7 minutes is about Leroy Smith.

From 7:40 secs, they talk about Tekken's Sagat. They did use motion capture for the big dude. And the two dudes who did motion capture for Fahkumram, are Suakim and Nadaka Yoshinari. I wouldn't be surprised, if sega uses them or one of them, or probably someone else, to do some motion capture, for Brad Burns or another muay thai kickboxer in VF6.

 

@beanboy, thanx for the post., this video answers almost all of my questions. It clarifies just about everything. The only thing left is why they took bruce out in the first place. Someone has already posted bruce vs Fahkumram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWjNpaN1kfw




From the video is looks like Namco already had a muay thai type moves for Bruce.

@Femto I dunno, for a roster as big as Tekken's I don't think the fans want new characters. And in this case it looks like they just re-worked Bruce. I think online players want better balance, better netcode, better lobbies, features that support online and vs tournaments. From a fighting style perspective Tekken 6 had most of the styles covered, so there was no real need for new characters. Improve old ones maybe. And Fahkumram being an improvement over Bruce is a hard sell (at least to me)

 

I never really liked this guy's design it's weird because he' suppose to be Thai, But he looks Hispanic to me. He reminds me of Sagat mixed with Baki muscles and reminds me of Jack Hanma. Anatomically He looks pretty awful Honestly and I would've preferred Bruce or a more Thai looking fighter like Buakaw maybe. But Tekken tends to go for the more crazy anime style characters so I guess it makes sense.

This Quote had me dying!

 

Is Bamco and the Tekken developers simply trying to appeal to multiple countries or cultures? Bruce's backstory puts him as an American who learned Muay Thai in the U.S.
And Fahkumram's backstory has him actually from Thailand.

So is Bamco trying to be more international in their roster? Since they are sponsoring world tours they might eventually try to have a character from every country they sponsor a tour in

• Fahkumram Thailand
• Miguel Spain
• Shaheen Saudia Arabia
• Claudio Italy
• Katrina Brazil
• Josie Phillipines
• etc.

So maybe retiring Bruce and creating Fahkumram is an effort for Bamco to try to be more inclusive Since Tekken is played internationally, maybe they're trying to have characters that represent as many countries as they can

I guess there's nothing wrong with that, but imo the character designs sucks. But there are some players that like the design,
so I guess to each his own

 

I grew in to liking the design. I'm not sure but from his first reveal months ago, I think they toned down his proportions a bit. He looks more like a real person compared to when his trailer was announced, his chest was waaay to wide for his body and head too small.

His theme is fuckin badass though

Fahkumram's design is merely Harada just saying "Here is Tekken 7's Sagat! Hope you enjoy!"

 

I'll have to take your word for it

 

Sagat is still number 1.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one on this forum that noticed that.