Huh?
Maxima, K', Kula, Takuma?
Billy's neutral stance is kind of static but he is very well animated otherwise.
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Huh?
Maxima, K', Kula, Takuma?
Billy's neutral stance is kind of static but he is very well animated otherwise.
Stone Ocean
Member
I mean new as in newcomers to the series. I'm still extremely salty none of the remaining Those From The Past ended up playable, specially Botan.
That's not surprising considering XIII was the end of that story and they wouldn't be able to reuse those sprites outside of a dream match.
Arent Shermie and Vanessa the pretty girls?
They're the 2 characters i want the most to return to KOF, the third is Rick Strowd who would make his KOF debut.
Arent Shermie and Vanessa the pretty girls?
They're the 2 characters i want the most to return to KOF, the third is Rick Strowd who would make his KOF debut.
Momoko would be cool too, she was such a fun character and personality in XI. Good design, great fighting style and animation, loved big boobs etc.
Man if you think about it XI had some very impressively well animated new sprites like Oswald, Momoko and Shion.
Yeah, it really seems like they wanted to go back to "MVS-era" efficiency as much as possible, so they can go back to having large rosters and games that can be made with a shorter turnaround time.
Japan's KOF scene predominantly plays 02UM over XIII, so I can imagine that had a factor in why they went in this direction. Along with 97, 98 and vanilla 02 still being played in plenty of places all over...
Stone Ocean
Member
Oswald needs to be DLC or something, that character was fucking cool
Good point, the old rumor did state that they were going back to classic/shorter style of combos with no HD etc.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Metal Slug should join the KoF universe. We already have the Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldier after all.
Arent Shermie and Vanessa the pretty girls?
They're the 2 characters i want the most to return to KOF, the third is Rick Strowd who would make his KOF debut.
Indeed they are.
Also Hinako made me care about sumo for once.
Sure, why not? Both Marco and Fio showed up in Fighting Games, so they wouldn't be new to the genre.
I'd rather have a team with some obscure characters from i dunno, 3 Count Bout or something like that though to be honest.
There's too many great characters. TOO MANY.
SolarKnight
Member
What's funny is how the opposite already happened. First it was the Ikari Warriors which actually fit in, but now with Metal Slug Defense every KoF character is joining Metal Slug. Even the USA Sports team lol
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Wait, so Heavy D! and pals actually have a job now? lol
NeoGeo Battle Coliseum 2 pls.
And those sprites are actually super well animated in the Metal Slug style, people should definitely check them out on youtube.
Fio was one of the extra strikers in KoF 2000, so there is that.
But yeah, it would be cool to have Marco, Tarma, Eri or Fio be in the ikari warriors team as a cameo fighter one day.
Seven4sses
Member
Aw, Hell yeah! Now I want to see more of this game. Hopefully a trailer with Mai for confirmation.
Without Ai please.
crimzonflame
Member
I always liked SNK characters more than Capcom's. Since the release of SF3 I think I only liked about 4 of the new characters that Capcom has introduced since then.
And if that "going back to '98" thing ended up being true, that would make me very happy.
In the end, I didn't really care for XIII, as much as I wanted to like it. It just was not what I wanted from a KOF game.
She was such an oddball hehe.
That's good.
XIII is probably my fave fighter ever but I dig the classic style too so I'm cool either way.
Whompa02
Member
How can you say this when people actually watched KOF13 on streams all the time when it was out? Nobody cared about KOF for years until 13 came out. It actually trended relatively well for itself. I agree it was a time sink to actually make the sprites, but they had a great foundation that they could have built on for years...
SolarKnight
Member
https://youtu.be/DlWWM6FovTk
https://youtu.be/ZqI3bWRlFIs
https://youtu.be/TBTDY5uej1w
I think Brian is my favorite of the three here lol
https://youtu.be/ZqI3bWRlFIs
https://youtu.be/TBTDY5uej1w
I think Brian is my favorite of the three here lol
With KOF14 being 3D, there should be a chance that it has alt. costumes right? Would be a cool way to get stuff like Garou Terry (if they're going with classic Terry that is) /Iori without red coat and some other cool designs in there. Mai had a cool costume in some KOF loading screen iirc.
As long as it's Hyakutaro - I'd love to see how the king of MS hostages would get by in a fighting tournament.
This - I loved seeing Red Dragon mentioned in the Kensou/Raiden intro in XIII, and it would be pretty neat to see how he'd fare in KoF. The poison spit move might help differentiate him from a light mobile wrestler like Ramon, in the very least.
This is where the MS cast would fit best, and the concept is too great not to use again hen SNKP gets more comfortable with new tech.
I'm not all that fond of Ai's design, but I liked how Yuki leaned more toward the NeoGeo and Ai helped to represent the NGPC - it would be nice to see them introduce a 3rd character to help represent the Hyper NeoGeo 64 - maybe a character with more power than technique to make the best use of it, it would be pretty fitting.
Maximum Impact did this very well, and I welcome another shot at SNK alternate skins.
As for Mai, there are lots of outfits she could use, including something a lot more ninja-like than what she's known for.
One of the most underated fighting games ever made.
It is praticaly unknown to most people and it is awesome and deserve a sequel improving it
This would be the stuff I'd honestly count on, at this point. It's one of the things that MI2/Reg A did very well with almost ten years ago, and they'd be silly not to do something like that again in their new mainstream game.
The main question would be how much SNKP would include in-game and/or charge for as DLC. (I'd also wonder how Kyo's classic schoolboy outfit would even look like on this new version of him, but that's another thing altogether.)
Too true, still hoping for a Steam port -_-
Great article, lol at one of the pics:
InfiniteCombo
Banned
Excellent first post.
The Griffon not being the leader of the Mexico team though... That shit is questionable. Sometimes Ramon annoys the hell out of me.
EDIT: it's come a long way since KoF 94, where "Team Mexico" was 3 Japanese karate guys.
Tizoc the Griffon, much like Daimon, probably realizes that he can get along just fine being the "awesome big guy" of the team. And like Daimon, he can probably sit back while his two teammates are the ones that provide all the laughs because of their antics.
Stone Ocean
Member
90's fashion hurts my eyes
Great article, lol at one of the pics:
The Mai's design with smaller bust size is like twice the bust size on this drawing =P
Not uncommon. I have a jacket that does this and it's extremely annoying.
Not the jacket I have but here's a sample of one that does this:
It's not stupid or annoying at all, it's extremely useful with long jackets, it lets you sit comfortably even without opening completely the zip, just open the zip from the bottom as much as you need, have you ever felt uncomfortable driving with a long jacket? That's the solution.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
mmm classic Shinkiro art
all dem clooneys
all dem clooneys
Sapiens
Member
At this point, just be thankful they're not trolling IRC channels of second life models.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Did they manage to get Barbie artist to draw some pictures for KOF?
The Lone Dragon
Member
I don't think KOF13's temporary success had anything to do with the needlessly expensive, time consuming sprite creation process.
I'd say it had much more to do with a solid, fun game combined with a hype community that regularly participated in the tourney scene during those 2 years.
A 2D game can still look very nice and smooth without having to do what they did for 13.
Mr. Pointy
Member
Boxing Team:
Heavy D!
Vanessa
Franco Bash Shen Woo or Rob Python from Buriki One
Just give me this as DLC, SNK. Rick Strowd's moveset was completely co-opted by Vanessa, so there's no point in him appearing in KOF when we already have a much better version. And who the fuck cares about Mickey from AoF.
Heavy D!
Vanessa
Just give me this as DLC, SNK. Rick Strowd's moveset was completely co-opted by Vanessa, so there's no point in him appearing in KOF when we already have a much better version. And who the fuck cares about Mickey from AoF.
Tizoc
Member
Mr. Pointy
Member
Oh that's right. I completely forgot because I haven't played Real Bout FF in forever.
Griffonmask isn't a leader though, and shows very little leaderlike qualities. He just loves putting on a show.
Storywise, I think Ramon is the leader of this group with Angel being the dysfunctional wild card seeing as she was previously a NESTS Spy before NESTS went under. There's also some dialogue in the KOF side-stories that imply Angel has a huge sense of admiration for Griffon.
Ramon is actually incredibly capable as an Agents member despite being a real goofball.
dacuk
Member
I would be surprised if those characters speak proper Spanish, though.
The only character I remember doing it is Pepe, from Rage of the Dragons (from Evoga)
Stone Ocean
Member
Tizoc
Member
Let's say SNK opt for Spanish voice actors for the Mexico team; who would you have voice the cast :3
Then the accents would be wrong, and it's not like this sort of concern has applied frequently to characters who're supposed to speak English in their games.
Finally! They brought Angel back!
This was a surprise for me too. She's the last character I EVER EXPECTED to see in a new KOF.
LOL Stap.