Doesn't have to. Xrd strived to emulate anime two-tone shading, but it'd be just as possible to emulate KoF13's style instead.
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New King of Fighters Confirmed in Development
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LeMaximilian
Alligator F*ck House
Praying for 3d models with 2d gameplay.
I'd give these guys 10 bucks for this game on Steam. But the comment about he poor animation couldn't be truer. Damn.
Well, if that be the case, the only way I could see that working is if EVERYBODY got aged up at least somewhat. I mean, after so many years of having Ryo and Terry be the same ages in the KOF-continuity, it'd be a bit weird to finally have the AOF crew age, but nobody else did. Especially if Rock was right there, hahaha.
But again, I guess the main thing is seeing if SNKP really will take up the opportunity to change some things in order to make for the best roster possible. Rugal vs. Adelheid still needs to happen, at least in a Dream Match.
Let Terry age to, keep him in his superior Garou look!
FF and AoF are the ancient veterans, might as well have both look the part.
I was strictly talking about the animation, not art style(CG vs hand drawn) just the way they animate. Still, on a second look, you're right about the way they did the animation. Though it was so badly done that at first I thought they were using CG base art turned into sprites and then animating it mostly through tweening Vanillaware style.
Hours Left
Member
*starts making lists*
The following characters must be present:
- Smart Chang
- Karman
- Rody
- Laurence Blood
- Max Eagle
- King Lion
- Duke Edwards
- Reiji
- Souji
- Brian Battler
- Yashiro
- Original Zero
- Tizoc
- Gai
- Clark
- Takuma
- Heidern
- Shen Woo
- Maxima
- Kula
- Foxy
- Mature
- Hinako
- Shermie
- Hotaru
- Candy
This. Btw Vanillaware animations are pretty good, it's their own way, they like to make it feel like this, Vanillaware is love.
Talking about 'Next KOF' I happy like I was for XIII but the netcode was bad really bad, and don't like the metagame 2 bars/HD mode, feel weirdly heavy combo-ish...
I prefer a 'Garou' cause the MOTW cast was awesome, gameplay was simple but deep enough, and Rock is just the K' of the cast so simply badass.
I hope this 3D KOF will erase my deception with what Capcom do with the chara design of SFIV ... Never ever ...
But would they dare age Mai up to somewhere in her *GASP* mid-30s?
Seriously, I'd be all for it. I mean, we at least have an older Mary design from "Memories of Stray Wolves", as it is. But I'd be surprised if it ever appeared in a game. Most fighting game devs seem to still have a phobia when it comes to "mature" ladies. And SNKP can't even keep poor Vanessa on the roster...
*starts making lists*
The following characters must be present:
This is non-negotiable. Make it work.
- Smart Chang
- Karman
- Rody
- Laurence Blood
- Max Eagle
- King Lion
- Duke Edwards
- Reiji
- Souji
- Brian Battler
- Yashiro
- Original Zero
- Tizoc
- Gai
- Clark
- Takuma
- Heidern
- Shen Woo
- Maxima
- Kula
- Foxy
- Mature
- Hinako
- Shermie
- Hotaru
- Candy
Whip never gets any love.
Smooth Operator
Member
*starts making lists*
The following characters must be present:
This is non-negotiable. Make it work.
- Smart Chang
- Karman
- Rody
- Laurence Blood
- Max Eagle
- King Lion
- Duke Edwards
- Reiji
- Souji
- Brian Battler
- Yashiro
- Original Zero
- Tizoc
- Gai
- Clark
- Takuma
- Heidern
- Shen Woo
- Maxima
- Kula
- Foxy
- Mature
- Hinako
- Shermie
- Hotaru
- Candy
No Whip ? No Vanessa ? No Blue Mary ? Yamazaki ??? I guess you forgot some names
Stranger In The Alps
Member
This news could not have come at a better time. I loved KOF XIII, and I've been revisiting old SNK games recently. I am officially hyped.
Hours Left
Member
Eh, besides Whip, the rest of those characters get more than enough love.
I don't need to advocate for them. (Plus, I don't particularly care for them either, especially Blue Mary.)
shaowebb
Member
*starts making lists*
The following characters must be present:
This is non-negotiable. Make it work.
- Smart Chang
- Karman
- Rody
- Laurence Blood
- Max Eagle
- King Lion
- Duke Edwards
- Reiji
- Souji
- Brian Battler
- Yashiro
- Original Zero
- Tizoc
- Gai
- Clark
- Takuma
- Heidern
- Shen Woo
- Maxima
- Kula
- Foxy
- Mature
- Hinako
- Shermie
- Hotaru
- Candy
Needs Whip, Blue Mary, Lee Pai Long, Chris ( shermie and Yashiro but no Chris!?), Oswald, and a lot more...
...thats what I love about SNK though. You could make a list with over 70 characters and STILL have a ton of greats waiting in the wings. <3
Here's hoping the SNK longtime internal favorite finally makes it in. They've had a massive amount of love in their studio for the Staff using Tae Kwon Do fighter Kim Sue ILfor a LOOOOONG time now according to reports dating back all the way to before the DS era. Be cool to see him finally make the cut as he's spent over a decade losing to other cast in KoF roster finalizations.
Hours Left
Member
Chris was definitely omitted on purpose. Not a fan. Whip and Oswald are alright. I was never a fan of Blue Mary, and I don't have much experience with Lee Pai Long.
But your comment about lists is true. KoF probably has the largest amount of eligible characters of any fighting game, so the possibilities are endless.
shaowebb
Member
He brought the Biebage before that pop dude stole his gimmick
Seriously though Chris had the dopest looking standing animation and Orochi Chris or regular either one had some amazing combo potential.
Peep the technique and stand in awe at his amazing theme song MAD FANTASY!
*starts making lists*
The following characters must be present:
This is non-negotiable. Make it work.
What about Yuki and Miss X?
You need the whole crew just for their intros alone. "Sherrrrmieee!" "Hi~"
I'm dying to see this now.
shaowebb
Member
Hours Left
Member
I'd be down with Yuki being in. But I'd also like to see Kisarah too. Battle of the school bags?
Miss X would be a funny alt, but I've just started warming up to regular Iori again. I was not a fan of him during my first experiences with the series, but ever since his KOF XII/XIII redesign, I've been diggin' him a bit. I also love Mature sooooooooooo much, so it would be funny to see how she reacts to Iori in drag.
zero shift
Banned
Hmm, I prefer sprites but that's just me.
Yep. It has little to do with cellshading and more to do with their techniques. Arc is on record saying that doing Xrd 3D isn't really that much easier than doing sprite based 2D.
Askherserenity
Member
Pretty excited for this.
Kinda off-topic but does anyone know how Arc Systems is able to make their games play incredible online? I remember playing BlazeBlue online when it first launched it was pretty much perfect.
Kinda off-topic but does anyone know how Arc Systems is able to make their games play incredible online? I remember playing BlazeBlue online when it first launched it was pretty much perfect.
Green Biker Dude
Banned
please remove: kula, k, billy kane, mr karate, shen woo, duolon
better not remove for bullshit story reasons: ash fucking crimson
bring back malin too
better not remove for bullshit story reasons: ash fucking crimson
bring back malin too
Leafhopper
Banned
Dat homemade netcode son.
I'm pretty sure that has something to do with input time buffering. But I could be wrong.
thesolidshark
Member
Great news! Looking forward to news of it and the new SamSho.
I just hope it doesn't completely devolve into "no ________, no buy" in terms of sales. Too many good characters in the series and SNK universe to set aside one game for just one character.
Definitely with you on not making the game too easy for those that don't want to put anytime into learning it. One of the circulating rumors is that they'd go back to a '98 style; if that's not easy enough for some people, at least up to an intermediate playing level, all they could do is make an EO mode.
I don't mind the system being changed up too often; as probably a predecessor to '03-XIII, I imagine they'll try to get the tag system back in, but I mainly want as balanced a game as possible with 50 characters included. Just let arcade users beta test like they did with XIII, and give us good balanced game for consoles and PC.
I was half expecting the new KOF to look exactly like XDZW, but honesty while clean, the style seems rather simplistic to me; just 98 translated into 2.5D modeling. Hopefully SNKP can afford something more unique and/or dynamic to make it stand out and apart.
I just hope it doesn't completely devolve into "no ________, no buy" in terms of sales. Too many good characters in the series and SNK universe to set aside one game for just one character.
Definitely with you on not making the game too easy for those that don't want to put anytime into learning it. One of the circulating rumors is that they'd go back to a '98 style; if that's not easy enough for some people, at least up to an intermediate playing level, all they could do is make an EO mode.
I don't mind the system being changed up too often; as probably a predecessor to '03-XIII, I imagine they'll try to get the tag system back in, but I mainly want as balanced a game as possible with 50 characters included. Just let arcade users beta test like they did with XIII, and give us good balanced game for consoles and PC.
I was half expecting the new KOF to look exactly like XDZW, but honesty while clean, the style seems rather simplistic to me; just 98 translated into 2.5D modeling. Hopefully SNKP can afford something more unique and/or dynamic to make it stand out and apart.
Holy Order Sol
Member
Yeah, best way to avoid fucking it up would be going for that. I don't want some weird-ass unproven system.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
I kinda hope they'll use the same technique with KoF XIV that ArcSys used with GG Xrd. It would probably cut development time in half while still looking awesome.
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Great news. I'll take Maximum Impact 3 or a 2D or 2.5D KOF14 game. Just give it to me. I want some next generation fighters.
Maximum Impact was actually a good game, but it just had some jankiness and needed more polish. I still loved all of them though.
Maximum Impact was actually a good game, but it just had some jankiness and needed more polish. I still loved all of them though.
Garou and Last Blade will be very hard since those games weren't hits, I had heard people saying that even those bombed. I think that SNK needs to had a better position in the market in order to use older franchises, XIII was a big step to achieve that, if XIV does well, they will recover their old reputation imo
KingJ2002
Member
Great news... looking forward to the transition.
Hopefully... like previously said... they look to 3D cel shaded models on a 2D plane to stay true to the series. SNKP trying to do HD2D sprites at 1080p is not needed and i hope they realize that as well.
I need for SNKP to release the following this gen:
- New KOF
- New Metal Slug
- New Samurai Showdown
- Ikari Warriors
- Psycho Soldier
- Fatal Fury
- New FUCKING FRANCHISES
i mean... 20 years and all they did was regurgitate KOF & MS games.... it's time for something new that doesn't involve KOF in the title.
Hopefully... like previously said... they look to 3D cel shaded models on a 2D plane to stay true to the series. SNKP trying to do HD2D sprites at 1080p is not needed and i hope they realize that as well.
I need for SNKP to release the following this gen:
- New KOF
- New Metal Slug
- New Samurai Showdown
- Ikari Warriors
- Psycho Soldier
- Fatal Fury
- New FUCKING FRANCHISES
i mean... 20 years and all they did was regurgitate KOF & MS games.... it's time for something new that doesn't involve KOF in the title.
Samsho and Last Blade Characters shouldn't appear on a main entry of kof. For that crossover I want NGBC
MezzoForte
Member
I hope they ease up on the background caricature a little bit lol.
ALL I WANT ARE MY FUCKING OUTLAWS!
ALL I WANT ARE MY FUCKING OUTLAWS!
DiscoShark
Banned
Need to see glorious SNK stage design on PS4/Xbone
