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Originally Posted by giancarlo123x

Cant find a gif of this.

I got your back.









I would like to know the origin of the last two.

Art.

It is a crime against humanity that I can't find blazblue stage gifs. I love them.

So this is a stealth SNK appreciation thread?

Originally Posted by Winterfang

Look at the Atmosphere on this one.

I love this one. It doesn't really have much going on but like you said, the atmosphere is great.

Originally Posted by Adam Prime

So this is a stealth SNK appreciation thread?

I appreciate Blue Mary's Tits.

Pixelated Boobs for half a second NSFW

<3

LOL you ask where this is from but it says in the file :P

This thread is awesome. Half of these games I've played to death and back, but seeing these backgrounds this way makes a lot of them look brand new.

Originally Posted by Winterfang

I appreciate Blue Mary's Tits.

Pixelated Boobs for half a second NSFW

<3

WAT

Originally Posted by Winterfang

I got your back.




I would like to know the origin of the last two.

First one is from Guilty Gear XX (says so in the filename), second one I'm not sure. Filename is HNK, Hokuto no Ken(?), I don't know of any Fist of the North Star 2D fighters off of the top of my head though.

I LOVE SNK<3!

Has anybody else played M.U.G.E.N? (It's not illegal, is it?)

It was always really cool to have the best backgrounds from all these different 2D fighting games in one place. I feel like I've seen a good amount of these there. And the characters too for that matter.

Now that you mention it. Sega did publish a First of the Northstar 2D game.

Here's a couple more. I found this forum topic which is basically this one.

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showth...ounds-animated

This is what I imagine next gen 3d fighters will look like

Is it strange that I can name the origin of pretty much every single stage posted here? I was actually gonna quote all of the people that asked what certain stages were and answer them, but I see others already answered. Hah.

I sure do love me some 2D fighters. I've got tons of them. This thread really put me in the mood to play some of my SNK games. I wish they'd announce something new already, besides just having Terry and Benimaru guest star in someone else's game. Heh.

Anyway, subscribed to thread. Looking forward to going into super nostalgia mode with more stage gifs. :)

I can't wait for the Skullgirls digital art compendium. Then the floodgates shall open.

Originally Posted by Winterfang

I found this one, it's from Capcom. It's pretty long and it doesn't seemed to be animated. But it looks cool

Pretty sure it's animated, the dogs bark.

This is an odd restaurant.

1. It has apparently 2 tables, though I guess the server boy has the other tables off camera?

2. It appears to be built out of a dead dragon. Not sure a huge corpse is the most appealing for the tastebuds.

Originally Posted by Beats

I like this one from Samurai Shodown II:

classic!

Genjuros sam sho 2 background is the best!

Originally Posted by cj_iwakura

Pretty sure it's animated, the dogs bark.

It's animated in X-Men vs. Street Fighter (I'm pretty sure it was reused in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, too), but that PNG image there is sadly not animated. Heh.

Originally Posted by QisTopTier

All hail SNK backgrounds

Hear hear, with some shoutouts to some Darkstalkers and Tekken stages.

Originally Posted by deddonpachi

this one is just insane!

Couple with the Psycho Soldiers team song Psycho Sonic Trip and it's amazing.

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

Originally Posted by Tizoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFg4n_Y7hEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVuon4OLtpE

KOF99 is best KOF.

Love these kind of gifs.

I wish there some P4A ones out there

Nice thread peeps, loved the old one too. Its too bad, we dont really see an evolution of this, Skull Girls is ok and the new KOFs are pretty good too i guess.

Fucking incredible. Subscribed.

Originally Posted by not psycho

Are those from SNK vs Capcom: Chaos? I don't remember them looking that good WOW :O

I wish I could find the Backgrounds from the Original Capcom vs Snk one, there are untouchable for me.

This thread is a good reminder that great 2D art never becomes outdated.

Originally Posted by jett

KOF99 is best KOF.

In stages? Yeah. In gameplay? Not really.

All this thread's doing is making me long for a game company that does complete sprite-art-work for a fighting game again. Not Skullgirls. I'm talking pixel-y art like these stages here. Amount of work to put into it at HD resolutions would be too much but the fact these haven't aged poorly just shows the effort would be worth it. Too bad the money isn't in it. :(

Originally Posted by fates

They still are, KOF13's stages were top notch too.

Ew no!

KOF XIII stages are soulless and sterile. They cant compete with the masterpieces SNK made in the past.

Originally Posted by AllenShrz

Ew no!

KOF XIII stages are soulless and sterile. They cant compete with the masterpieces SNK made in the past.

If SNK went for Hiroaki instead of Nona, then there would be no problem at all.

Every single GIF posted in this thread so far has left me awestruck. Thread of the year.

http://i.imgur.com/bMq9APc.gif
http://i.imgur.com/emBDw7S.gif
http://i.imgur.com/Evb2Bp4.gif

So what I'm getting from the OP (other than a warm fuzzy feeling of nostalgia and longing) is that SFxT copied these backgrounds from SNK :P kidding

HOW Fetus of god was not posted yet ? =P



Also... Super Gem Fighters Mini Mix has some awesomely hilarious ones

Originally Posted by Tizoc

Yo seriously people, anyone know where to get GIFs of the Darkstalkers stages?

Pyron's stage in Darkstalkers' Revenge had some impressive animation.

EDIT:
So here's a little funny one for you

Originally Posted by giancarlo123x

Cant find a gif of this.

This thread is amazing

Originally Posted by AllenShrz

Ew no!

KOF XIII stages are soulless and sterile. They cant compete with the masterpieces SNK made in the past.

No way.

Well, 3 out of 4 are from XII and the 4th one was actually cut from XII.

I always love 2D fighter backgrounds. However they always make me annoyed at the current indie fascination with pixel art, since you rarely see anything of this caliber. It's like people forgot you need to be a good artist first, pixel artist second.

Originally Posted by SolarKnight

Well, 3 out of 4 are from XII and the 4th one was actually cut from XII.

Well that's a massive fail in my part lol. I never bought XIII so I confused them.

Here's a Capcom vs SNK one. It looks off, I'm guessing it was upscale or something.

Originally Posted by Noogy

I always love 2D fighter backgrounds. However they always make me annoyed at the current indie fascination with pixel art, since you rarely see anything of this caliber. It's like people forgot you need to be a good artist first, pixel artist second.

Yeah, there's defintely a big difference between pixel art and 'I am not an artist so I will attempt to hide that fact by doing pixel art'

Originally Posted by Ravidrath

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Purty...wait, that's not a gif!

Originally Posted by QisTopTier

Lord that's bad. Here's some sweet ones to balance it out.








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Originally Posted by Xux

It's pretty upsetting how beautiful these are and how "forgotten" and overlooked these are. It'd be neat to see a KOF XI UM or whatever that had all of the previous KOF stages (that were close enough in style, I guess).

this so much, and I'm surprised no one else is clamoring for a "XI:UM". One thing that I noticed immediately about XI was that its background art style was pretty consistent with Neo Geo era SNK's style and most if not all of the backgrounds were completely 2D. Although there was a huge contrast in bg and character sprite resolutions (didn't really bother me, in fact I leave the filters off) the overall look of the game was classic barring the cheap character portraits, lifebars, etc. which to be honest was the case with most of SNKP's stuff after a while. IMO the real shame is the absence of the classic backgrounds and artistic direction that could have gone behind XI, NGBC, SamSho Tenka, and even the KoF remakes in 94R, 98UM, and 02UM.

today they've made a bold step back to the glory days in XIII, but when it comes to backgrounds at least I hope they shift to the old style of realistic detail and atmospheric coherence going forward.

Man the other topic has a lot of great ones <3.

Originally Posted by El Sloth

Needs more Darkstalkers.

Seconded. My fave was always Felicia's stage.

I might get some flak for this, but it really annoys me that these imaginative and beautiful backgrounds and areas are relegated to something as restrictive as fighting games. I'd give my left nutter butter to see some of these beautiful environments realized in an explorable 3D realm. They are much more beautiful than most of what you see these days, just waiting to be explored.