Tekken 8 director's response to hilarious Waffle House request goes viral
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can we get more memeable content like your voice acting in yakuza?
If he actually puts Waffle House as a fighting stage, it'll not only make everyone happy but it'll also mean that Waffle House canon to the Tekken lore
What’s hilarious is IF this happens, even after the most catastrophic brawl, Waffle House would still stay open at Code Yellow.
Tekken 9: Paul and Law open a Waffle House in their closing story cutscene. A piece of the rock that Jin and Kazuya fought on slams into it when they close the shop and drive away.
God, I just hope Waffle House isnt afraid of their reputation becomming "the place to fight at" because of tekken
Could you imagine? You start the fight inside the restaurant and have to break out of the glass to get to the parking lot 😂
Wasn't there a story where a Waffle House stayed open even there was a Tornado emergency alert? or did I mistaken?
@@rdowg I love this
Let's just name it "Zaibatsu Waffles" or even better "Violet's Waffles" in case they don't agree
Blue's Waffles.
@@SageVallant Wait. I got the perfect one. “Bob’s Waffle Place”
bruce irvin's waffles
@@Darth_MelekChange Place to "Palace" and you've got it, better than a house.
Harada’s House of Hands
Call it " Waffle Stop" and when the players perform a floor break show the employees hosting illegal fight club underground as training🤣🤣
Hell yeah.
Lmao brilliant!
Hahahaha 😂
Affle house or AWFUL HOUSE
A ceiling bound mechanic & and a wall break through the parking lot would be crazy 😆
nobody CHOOSES to eat at a waffle house.... they simply APPEAR, late at night, the bright yellow signs a beacon drawing in the inebriated masses.
I was not aware of this place and its history but I can already see in my minds eye that when pubs close for the morning there is a horde of drunkards that is growing in size, stinking of alcohol, piss and vomit, groaning and slowly shuffling towards a warm, welcoming yellow glow. But at the bottleneck, that is the waffle house door, the horde gets more and more agitated and fights start to break out and spread.
Like some sort of SCP. XD
@@MaaZeusthat is literally what happens at a Waffle House 😂
Like moths to a light bulb....
@@MaaZeus lore
The stage should start inside the Waffle House, then if you get a wall break combo it transitions to the parking lot.
You can have the crew behind the counter not giving a shit about the fight, too.
I lowkey think it should start outside, so at the start of rounds you can get a pretty good view of the building and maybe the sign too. Then have the hard wall break into the restaurant and u can see people eating and cheering in the crowd.
@@bejammin2000And the staff just casually turn around at the end of the first round"You done yet?"
And in last round "And stay down!"
@@giodude02x46 Cuts to them eating and one of them picks up a chair and swings to start the next fight
Nah, it has to start out inside over a disagreement with a disagreement with the staff, or a disagreement with the other fighter customer, and it happens at the front desk.
Like one character approaches the counter about their order being wrong, and another comes up to stop their complaint, and that's how the fight begins. @@giodude02x46
Tekken fight inside a waffle house would make tekken God tier.
not inside. but at the parking lot of a waffle house
with that waffle house female employee as a guest character
@@gelmir7322 Waffle House Wendy
They could put a costume in for the characters to wear so they’d look like employees fighting.
Break through the glass so it becomes an outside stage. 🤣 then if you perfect the opponent both times you get to fight waffle house windy as a secret boss fight.
Waffle House doesn't ask if you can cook. They ask if you can fight.
- Shigeru Miyamoto, 2024, Nintendo Game Designer/Waffle House Historian
Waffle house cannot be included because it breaks the lore. How can heihachi or kazuya claim to be the worlds greatest fighter when dave the waffle house manager who is only one hour away from closing up exists?
Probably because Dave isn't a Mishima. _Tekken_ Lore has generally given a damn about non-Mishimas for a while, especially if they weren't interacting with the Mishimas for one reason or another.
I love that his tweets imply that the ONLY thing stopping him from adding it was proper copyright concerns. King.
You can parody this by just calling it Waful Casa
Yeah, the tweet makes it sound like he's already drafting/drafted a proposal to send to Waffle House and they just need to play ball. I doubt that's the case, though I wouldn't be shocked if this sparked discussions between the two companies. Wouldn't be the first time a decidedly non video game related company tried to leverage a game's popularity for marketing purposes.
That being said, it's a pretty normal response to any proposal you're not super keen on doing to name the biggest and most obvious hurdle to it actually happening. Think of the first thing your parents would say if you asked them to buy you a pony. Their response would probably be something along the lines of "Where would the pony live?", "Where would the food come from?", or the time tested classic "Are you going to pay for it?".
You know he's deeply amused by this whole thing. YOU KNOW HE IS!
Just make a parody,people will know it really is..
😅
Sir, this is not stupid news. This is super important. Ultimately a feel good story and very much needed nowadays.
It was a refreshing break from AAA vampires in suits ruining gaming, yeah :/
Hes dramatic
Big agree. People are so crabby today. This made me smile.
In a sense of seriousness that affect every people life? No. In a sense of a internet meme in a game where a good niche is already terminally online? This is a breaking news.
It's wholesome as hell and put a huge, stupid smile on my face.
Harada is one of those devs that lets players take a small peek behind the curtain, but only if they behave.
If official "Waffle House" company does not agree to Harada's request why not call it in game as "Waffle Hut", "Waffle Palace", or something like "Hachi's Waffles".
Uncle 'Hachi's Waffles.
Pancake Palace/Pancake Place
@@jamaalwalker4140
I'd eat at Hachi's Waffles.
Casa de Waffle
Affle house or AWFUL HOUSE
I'm 41. Down here in SC me and my friends for decades been making jokes about Waffle House being a stage in any fighting game. The fact that Harada responded somewhat seriously to this request is fucking hilarious. If this request is realized I will buy 3 more copies of T8 just cause. 😂
I live in the south and have almost my entire life. Hell, I used to work overnights in a remote position and would often go to WH to enjoy some coffee and waffles whilst working. I would buy at least two copies just for the hell of it (PS5, Steam) if they do this.
Send me a copy good sir if you would please.
Felt
I've heard that American states are divided between ones that have Waffle House and ones that have IHOP. Do people also get into fights in IHOP restaurants?
@@MarkDeSade100 Not that I've heard of. IHOPs in the states I've lived in are usually more aimed at being family restaurants. You also tend to see a lot of old people there on weekdays. They're also not open at all hours like Waffle House. Most of their locations are 6AM-12AM.
Waffle house could pull a big brain gamer move here
And mcdonald's ...and KFC....and burger King....oh wait....this isn't a good thing is it
@@blahmcblahface3965 I meeeeean, the corporate sponsorship cat has been out of the bag for a bit now. Energy drinks like Mountain Dew and Red Bull regularly sponsor e-sport events, and I'm sure there's plenty of others that I just don't feel like looking up atm.
Please dont open that can of worms 😂@@blahmcblahface3965
@blahmcblahface3965 please don't open that can of worms lol 😂
@@blahmcblahface3965No one cares about the other fast food spots. People only care about Waffle House because, well... Shit goes down in Waffle House. They're infamous for it. If it weren't for that, we wouldn't even be having the discussion we are.
I've never played a Tekken game in my life but if they add this as a stage I will buy it.
That Tekken chair parry. This made my day. 😂
the number of people telling Waffle House to "do it for the culture" in the comments was great
Randy Savage once got in a fight with a butterknife at a Waffle House.
Worthy venue for combat.
"But the cream...."😎
@@hafizmohd8224"... rises... to the top, yeah!"
Who won? Him or the butter knife?
I didn't know about that interesting
@@NeoNineOne It's the fucking Macho Man, I am pretty sure unless it was Hogan or someone like Ken Shamrock he won that fight
He took the time to ask and read the responses, that's already more than people would have legitimately hoped for lol
Can you imagine tuning into the Tekken grand finals and its hosted outside Waffle House.
That shit was so funny when i saw that on the TL i was dying haha the replies were the best part. "Waffle House is America's modern-day coliseum for open combat were all staff and patrons can participate" lmao
Tekken x Waffle House crossover promotion would be fire 🔥🔥
Spike Cohen of the Libertarian party referred to Waffle House as Southern hibachi. It could work
I fuckin love the fact that he’s really here to discuss it and I’m glad people are actually answering it with the same energy.. I would fuckin cry if they put it in the game
*Drops the 1st Tekken 8 DLC*
New Character: Ultra-instinct Shaggy
New Map: Wafflehouse
Sold!
This is an actually funny response. Just in time for April Fools Day.
Legally accepted Names -
Pancake House
Breakfast House
Waffle Home/Barn/Station/etc
you can see how easy it would be to change the name JUST enough to be legal but still get the point across.
A brick building with yellow trim is Uncopywritable... so you can have it look almost identical without issue.
Last case scenario.... Just use the brick building with Yellow trim with NO NAME visible... blur it out slightly with "Fog" or "Steam" or whatever its a background image after all.
Waffle Shack sounds like a contender.
@@christopherflores5405 ooh thats a good one!
Tekken House.
Pancake Palace
That Vegeta meme damn near had me in stitches! 😂
mans really asked for waffle house history
And he actually got it! XD
Waffle House *LORE*
The history is Waffle House was put on earth by a loving creator to make the south bearable. A place where all people are equal at 3AM after the bars close where the menu has bright colorful pictures of the 10 or so items so that words aren’t necessary.
@@paulrippcord506 and with Batman level prep to keep going even in face of disaster
@@paulrippcord506 Please dont speak on southern culture. Yall are krayzie. Bless your heart!
Waffle house would be stupid not to do it. Advertising to a huge number of people who will go and buy waffles.
Hell, even if it was a secret level that required you to pick up a chair in a level, throw it and have player 2 parry it away to unlock.
How many weebs would travel to Waffle House just to fight though?
even Worldwide expansion if possible
if Popeyes, Burger King and KFC made it to Brazil, so can Waffle. Esp for diehard Tekken fans here
Are you insane? If Waffle House did this, they’d be plagued by idiots fighting in Waffle House because “it’s just like Tekken, bro!”
Heck no!! You have all types of demographics going to the south and deep south just to go try waffles. A japanese dude in north carolina visiting waffle house?????
@@wilcee238 I really don't think weebs are the type who actively try to get in fights, for fun or any other reason.
This was a wonderful story! It informed me of the kind of news I love and we saw you smile for an entire video! Very good reporting, sir.
This is the sort of news I love to hear on occasion. A Japanese director learning about WAFFLE HOUSE is so fucking funny. (The clip of the lady grabbing the chair *without breaking eye contact* is legendary)
I am BEGGING they do it. It would be legendary for the memes alone
Honestly, I think Waffle House should allow it, spread the brand awareness. And to those who say that it'll damage their reputation lmfao no it won't, that reputation has been with them for years and people still go and eat regularly.
Aren’t people who go there secretly waiting for something to happen? That would be much better than Reality TV 😅
Imagine being worried about their reputation when people associate their establishment specifically with 2 am drunken fights, the waffle house finding a new host jokes thanks to that one woman, and disaster code style contingency plans but, as you pointed out, people still have no problems going there 🤣
@@tarwod1098exactly it’s just like NASCAR and those air shows where planes do acrobatics
Somebody out there is probably crafting up some of the most bonkers backstory and lore for Waffle House to be added in Tekken 8😭😭😭
Not a dumb story at all!! Thoroughly enjoyed it and hope you cover more silly/IMPORTANT stories like these! =D
Now this is the real news i've been looking for! good reporting YongYea! merry easters!
my reply:
The Waffle House arena will represent the modern battle arena for drunk, high, hungry americans battling it out with each other or even the staff as stage bosses.
The cooks are not to be trifled with.
When they add the stage, one of the cast COULD work there...and the other player come in here to buy, or support that person amd then the fight happens..
@@spocko2181 yeah, they have the weapons. A ladle can become a mighty weapon in the right hands.
@@TOBI.SARU. A metal spatula is basically a miniature metal baton.
@@stevewilson6723 final boss in elden ring
This is what mainstream game media should focus into. Little hilarious gaming stories here and there. Thanks for reporting this Yong!
Escapism is what gaming journalism should be.
Haha, thanks for this. Would have flown under my radar and it absolutely brightened my day. Harada's freaking great.
On the one hand, Waffle House could see this as a great advertisement opportunity. On the other hand, they may not want violence associated with their brand. Either way, it's great that Harada responded to the request like this.
A happy yong fills my heart with joy.
I remember going to a Waffle House once at 1 am. Only to see a guy get arrested. No fighting, but yeah. Anything can happen at Waffle House.
You caught the aftermath of a fight
I remember two dogs getting into a fight outside a German Sheperd and Husky were clearly disgruntled so the husky tail accidentally hit the german sheperd face all hell broke lose soon after with the sheperd nearly killing the husky sad part was that the german sheperd was almost put down.
Locals used to hang out at Waffle House after tourneys for a while
Definitely saw my fair share of under the table shit there haha
They should 100% do this. Make it a two part stage. The smallest Tekken stage there's ever been, to a medium sized stage for the second half.
Inside the Wafflehouse, your backs are practically already to the walls, and there are wallbreaks sending both parties outside to the parking lot.
The number one issue of having the Waffle House be a stage isn't the stage itself, or the ridiculousness of it, but rather what would be the theme? They always make music for stages, and Waffle House stage needs a theme, which would be the most difficult part to create.
Waffle House has, I'm not joking here, their own original music tracks and albums.
@@IgarappappaI sense a remix / cover opportunity ~
Probably southern stoner rock
waffle house has it's own licensed music, truck stop theme.
My man Woolie Vs going the most viral since the MvC3 incident.
this vid was one of your best. very fun to watch.
Harrada about to watch gigabytes of world star footage
He should a map called "Pancake Home" just to play into the meme after this.
At least make it free for everyone in a new update as an april fools gag.
Hey, Fukua from Skullgirls was made as an April Fools gag, and she's just a playable reskin of Filia, so why not have a Waffle House-like stage in Tekken 8?
@@ChaseMC215 Takes more time and resources to make
"Crepe Casa"
"Waffle Cab" or "Waffle Hub"
Great vid. The fact this guy has direct discourse with the community like that is amazing
It would be the most realistic place for a fight to break out in a fighting game to be honest.
04:05 She Daigo parried that chair… 🪑
She deserves to be a background character on the stage.
This is just absolutely hilarious, and I'm an European who had only heard of the name Waffle House, so the cultural meaning flew right by me until now. And it was still funny. 🤣
Step 1: get drunk.
Step 2: go to waffle house.
Step 3: fight!
If you ever find yourself in the American Southeast, try to find a chance to experience Waffle House. The worst that happens is you get some pretty decent breakfast food.
wow 10 minutes for 2 pictures and 3 tweets. very cool yong yea thank you
Never played these games, don't like fighting games in general, but I am so gosh darn thankful that you shared this story, you need to be allowed to be a little silly too, and sharing funny and happy news is also good!
Synonyms for Waffle: crêpe, pancake, blintz, flapjack, hotcake, crepe, griddle cake, slapjack, blin, oatcake, wheat cake, blintze
Synonyms for House: residence, abode, roof, home, dwelling, lodging, place, housing, apartment, cottage, cabin, residency, quarters, mansion, shelter, bungalow, habitation, domicile, hearth, farmhouse, fireside, villa, hearthstone, diggings, ranch, pad, castle, nest, estate, dormitory, condo, manor, accommodations, homestead, condominium, penthouse, chalet, shack, hut, palace, hacienda, duplex, dorm, hall, rectory, ranch house, barracks, flat, town house, townhome, room(s), tenement, suite, tract house, casita, saltbox, apartment house, tenement house, triplex, split level, trailer, salon, boardinghouse, château, manor house, semi, walk-up, manse, rooming house, parsonage, lodging house, flophouse, grange, lodgement, McMansion, hovel, billet, houseboat, recreational vehicle, house trailer, vicarage, RV, shanty, motor home, mobile home, hermitage, countryseat, hootch, lodgment, hutch
i'm likken slapjack flophouse
my cut is 1% of revenue generated. lol
Flapjack Residence
Hotcake hovel
Slapjack Bungalow
Crepe castle
Give me that Pancake Cottage.
Gotta love a dev team that actually engages with their player base and listens to community feedback.
remember this is the very same "Don't ask me for sheet" shirt Harada tho
@@vinn_aleixo thats also just a meme lol
Happy Easter Yong and everyone and this is such a funny news story
This is ridiculously wholesome. I don't even play fighting games, but I love it.
With how bleak the gaming industry is atm, stories like these are always so comforting to see. When Developers and and their communities interact with each other and have fun, it gives me hope for the industry
The gaming community is much much worse, when you'll see, you'll understand.
A waffle house stage would unironically fit Tekken
I love that even your outro sounded amused to hell and back 😄
CaseOH home is gonna be in game oh god man to freaking big god damn
Kazuya be eatin' waffles during his fight with Jin
That's par for the course for Harada-san. I follow him on Twitter and he seems genuinely interested in learning more about Western references, and he's pretty responsive to things like this, it's so adorable.
I fucking love this. Appreciate you for covering it.
That Jin kazama style chair parry was insane tho wtf💀💀
I mean, wafflehouse is a interesting thing. The whole thing behind that index is a funny concept that can work. If a waffle house is running during a storm carry on. Green is good. Yellow is on axualry power....take some caution. Red...... HURRY UP BOYS. PACK UP THE JUNK! LOCK DOWN THE PLACE AND RUN FOR THE HILLS
FEMA does unofficially use the index in "casual" reports to federal authorities is the FUNNIEST shit about this if you know.
i remember some comment from a few years back saying that if a waffle house is closed something has gone horribly wrong or is a moment away from a cat 10 shitstorm hitting and this is your warning because they never close
at first i thought it was an in house joke that the internet made popular because they're open all day and a fight occasionally breaks out and the internet likes to make dumb jokes popular. but then i saw a few of the vids and people talking of them being open during crap like hurricanes and the seemingly back to back 40 odd fights happening at the same time in different waffle houses. then i realized the joke is 1 to 1 with reality with most of these jokes being legitimate things that could actually happen or happened.
@@CrazyGamebino We don't close.
So only unshakable heroes can work at Waffle House, I see 😮 ( I’m European, by the way. Had no idea a place like this exists)
@mobiusone6994 Only time I heard of one closing was due to significant structural damage that made the building unsafe. Otherwise they run a modified menu with backup generators.
Waffle House needs to accept. You can't ask for better PR and advertising!
They may not like to associate their restaurant with the random brawls their known for
Ehh, Twitter Stan’s will easily turn this into waffle house employees fight a lot, fight a lot in majority black neighbourhoods, and it all descends from there.
I wish shit was so good in general that there were more of these stories, that was wholesome as hell. Loved it Yong
I once witnessed two dudes getting into a fight at Waffle House at like 3AM. One of them backed the other up against a table and started wailing on him... dude sitting at the table shouted, "DON'T BLEED ON MY MOTHERFUCKIN' HASH BROWNS."
peak Waffle House
If he does make it happen, it better be set during a hurricane type of storm. With people inside watching the fight happen in the parking lot.
Shit I remember that video of that restaurant employee catching that chair thrown at her.
Been having a rough easter and this made me feel a bit better. News like this is extremely important :)
The chair parry is legendary.
I just want to offer my sincerest sympathy for those that do not have waffle houses. The employees of waffle House are trained in the ancient art of wafu. It is a sight to behold when a. Master of wafu has to defend themselves.
Please do ***NOT*** confuse the ancient and arcane art of "wafu" with the art of Waifu .....
Pandemonium would surely ensue.
House of waffles. Use yellow letters on a black background.
This is similar to that situation where Yoko Taro asked people to send him all the 2B pictures in a zip file so he doesn't have to scour all over the internet for them
At 2:55 I immediately recognize that Waffle House, it's at Interstate 4 and the 535 a block away from the Disney World entrance! Ha!
Definitely appreciate this more upbeat/ light-hearted story. Much needed these days
this is the the influence the internet always should have
This kind of news just warms my heart XD More like this please???
I can see this meme being turned into a Smith Coffee stage, seeing as how you can see it in the background cutscenes as well as one of the one of the stages.
Lmfao "she parried it" ...forward+jab
Top tier news
It fills my heart with joy to know he even considers it.
This was hilarious. Thank you for sharing this. I got a good laugh from it, lol.
I will, dead ass, buy Tekken 8 if he actually does this.
Same
Ditto
I concur.
Fr fr no cap
Let them know
Edit: seriously, tweet them, email them
This made me smile so much. Thank you Yong :D
This made my whole month I've been laughing all day about this. Wonderful
Just call the map Pancake place, Batter House, or Fight House
That was indeed funny. And that's the best news I've ever heard!
It would be one of the biggest "for the culture" moves of all time.
Honestly we NEED more wholesome and hilarious "news" like this one to break the sadly common gloom and doom of the gaming industry nowadays.
The doom and gloom we all are seeing is the vile, egotistical asshats of the gaming community.
Harada-san is the greatest marketing mastermind in videogames. Say what you will, the man comes to play.
I just believe Harda-san understands good business...
I wish there were more news lke this one 😂.
Even if it's just a parking lot of a restaurant I would laugh a lot.
If there's a wall break in the fight, have it transition to the parking lot. It practically writes itself LOL
i hope "waffle house worker" named w/e is added as a character lmao
News stories like this are great. Would love to see more funny and positive news stories like this.
I am more surprised no one brings up the actually real, Waffle House Protocol. Unofficially by the government, there is a scale that determines how dangerous things are by the state of Waffle House. Why Waffle House SPecifically, nearly no matter the situation, how dangerous things are, including weather conditions, Waffle House never closes. If the menu is temporarily limited, it's open for some concern. If waffle house closes, it's considered A MAJOR RED FLAG and you should do everything in your power to stay safe.
I would buy tekken for this.
A good waffle is a one you have to fight for.
Fabulous video go on guys! I love this.
I have tekken 8 just haven't installed it yet.
Sweet baby inc is the most popular gaming news controversy nowadays, but you don't seem to cover that AT ALL... I just wonder why.
He's on their side
Why does everyone have to talk about the latest topic?? Do you need validation that much?
@@henrytep8884 nah so we can see his stance 7
@@henrytep8884 you can not be an honest gaming news coverage anchor/youtuber and fucking omit THE ELEPHANT in the room, it's like if 9/11 was happening, and all that news stations would be doing was covering the dropping price of ice cream while everything was on fire behind their backs. It's called "intellectual dishonesty", you clueless kid. And YongYea is dishonest because it's his OBLIGATION to cover this type of news.