They're spirits that still roam the mortal realm. I think Goenitz is going through the same thing in the Maximum Impact storyline.
I've never been the biggest fan of KoF and I much prefer 1v1 fights over team fights. Whether my all-time favourite fighting games character is in the game or not is basically my main reason to buy KoFXIV. It's certainly not the graphics. Yamazaki hasn't been in a main KoF game since goddamn KoF 2003 either.Agreed. I can understand the disappointment with the lack of Vanessa or Shingo, or Yamazaki (it's been said before there are so many awesome SNK characters there's ALWAYS going to be that "Why is *character* not in?". What gets me is the whole "Welp, my ONE favorite character is not in, gotta pass up the whole game" attitude. I'm super stoked by who's there and even really eager to try out the newcomers, I'm practically salivating!
That's the case for me as well. A game could have the best mechanics known to man but if it doesn't have any characters I like I'm not going to play it. I play fighting games for the characters above all else.I understand it. This is a game where you have to learn three characters. There might be tons of characters I like using, but without characters that I LOVE, it's difficult to motivate myself to put that much work into playing the game.
3 v 3 takes a lot of dedication, and it helps when "that" character is in, whoever it might be, for whoever is saying it.
For me, those characters are Angel, May Lee, Geese, and Eiji. As much as I loved the gameplay of KoF13, I felt like I was playing it just because I knew it was good over playing it because I enjoyed playing it. Eventually I did stop playing because even though the gameplay is solid, I didn't care about any of the characters, so it wasn't as fun for me as I knew it could be.
Who knows if this game will even get DLC.DLC character...
I get what you're saying, because I play 2002 more than 98 because of Whip and Vanessa, despite 98 feeling like a much more pure game. But you gotta give new characters a shot. With 50 characters, if there's nobody for you then you're too picky.
Interesting, I hope it is good!!
Well, I'll not even start talking about the south America team because this thread will become a battlefield.
"Villains"? After years of Kim trying to educate them, Chang and Choi are now villains again?
In the first stage of the development, we wanted to add another criminal character to Chang and Chois team, which would have been the Prisoner Team. But due to various circumstances, we added Kim instead and made it the Korean team.
This was also criticized at first, with people saying, hey, isnt it weird for Kim to be on a team with these two criminals? So we came up with the idea that Kim is trying to rehabilitate them.
I wouldn't be upset to see Heavy D! or Lucky Glauber (that last name) come back, dammit.
Sports team pls
I've been saying this for months now
#FREETEAMUSA
Ok, where is Robert?
Did he just grow moustaches?
Not to mention that Yamazaki has some really interesting story implications.
Aren't Vice and Mature still dead? And they are just ghosts or figments of Iori's imagination or something? Been a while since I've seen the KOFXIII ending...
They're spirits that still roam the mortal realm. I think Goenitz is going through the same thing in the Maximum Impact storyline.
Is that a dinosaur??
Here is a mix of the 2 leaks
China Team: 恶魇青年 (?), 糖葫芦 (Tung Fu Rue), 枕头少年 (?)
Japan Team: 草蕹京 (Kyo Kusanagi), 二阶堂红丸 (Benimaru Nikaido), 大门五郎 (Goro Daimon)
Fatal Fury Team: Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, 东丈 (Joe Higashi)
Art of Fighting Team: 坂崎良 (Ryo Sakazaki), Robert Garcia, 坂崎百合 (Yuri Sakazaki)
K Team: K, Maxima, Kula Diamond
Kim Team: 金家藩 (Kim Kaphwan), 他师父 (Kims Master), 他师母 (Kims Wife)
Criminal Team: 犯人陈 (Prisoner Chang Koehan), 犯人蔡 (Prisoner Choi Bounge), 新人囚犯 (Newcomer Prisoner)
Women Fighters Team: 不知火舞 (Mai Shiranui), King, Alice
Ikari Team: Ralf Jones, Clark Still, Leona Heidern
Psycho Soldier Team: Athena Asamiya, 椎拳崇 (Sie Kensou), 摸元斋 (Chin Gentsai)
Yagami Team: 八神庵 (Iori Yagami), Mature, Vice
Mexico Team: Ramon, Angel, Tizoc
Palace Wan Team: 脸谱女 (Acting Mask Girl), 电属性少女歌手 (Teenage Girl Singer with Electric Element), 神秘兜帽男 (Mysterious Hooded Man)
South Town Team: Geese Howard, Billy Kane, 营家新人 (?)
South America Team: 巴西忍者 (Brazilian Ninja), 残障拳击手 (Handicap Boxer), 拉丁美女 (Pretty Latin Girl)
Alternate World Team: 娜可露露 (Nakoruru), Love Heart, 龙娘 (Mui Mui)
Mid-boss: 俄罗斯富豪 (Russian Billionaire)
Final Boss: 人形态非人类物种 (Non-Human Species)
Interesting how for the incredible most part even the order fits this pic
Devil Teenager
Pillow Boy
Kim's Master's Wife
some sort of newcomer
I've never played KOF before, and I have the slightest idea what are these.
We'll see if that's permanent.
The main thing about the new boss is that his powers are apparently able to screw with the fabric of reality, which is the main reason why the likes of Nakoruru are here in the first place.
There's already loose talk about bringing back the New Face Team (Chris, Yashiro, Shermie) through DLC and use this backdrop as a means to loop them back into the mix. I wouldn't be surprised if Ash can utilize a similar means to come back. Not to mention that "Dragon Power" storyline (Kensou, etc.) is slated to get underway, which would mean Ron and the Flying Brigands will likely start appearing more. Which means Duo Lon likely won't be far behind...
Those are just the generic description of the newcomers (red border) by someone who saw the game
Whatever the reason was for introducing that aspect. It worked perfectly. It worked with the snake motif and helped make Yamazaki all the more awesome and interesting.His Orochi connections were basically made up when he was voted into 97 with Billy and Mary, so before that he was basically a hired thug. The Orochi story hasn't been an issue in a while, and Vice & Mature only returned in XIII since the antagonists for the latest arc were basically trying to prey on Orochi, but Yamazaki never cared about that part of his lineage, so even if V&M have a reason to be back he won't necessarily share that.
I could imagine him being on the list of contacts of characters like Geese and the new Russian boss, so maybe he can be on a story scene or hinted for XV...
Interesting, "Kim's wife" aka Myeng Swuk. It's been a while but has she ever been shown in-game, like in an ending for Kim?
It's mistranslation. Should be Kim's master's wife.Interesting, "Kim's wife" aka Myeng Swuk. It's been a while but has she ever been shown in-game, like in an ending for Kim?
OK, it's just as a Chinese, I find the name of the characters too funny.
I'm glad that they are back to being prisoners/villains, that angle has more substance than just being Kim's punching bags.
This has also put Kim into a fresh new set up as well. We are used to seeing him as the master but now his master+wife change things up nicely and he is in a more student-like position.
Aren't Vice and Mature still dead? And they are just ghosts or figments of Iori's imagination or something? Been a while since I've seen the KOFXIII ending...
Interesting, "Kim's wife" aka Myeng Swuk. It's been a while but has she ever been shown in-game, like in an ending for Kim?
Back when there were stories written up for KoF XII and XIII, there was mention of our Orochi ladies appearing like ghost from the night, before Iori... I think most took the idea that this was just exaggeration, and that they were obviously honestly alive. The Eyepatch was proof that Iori *nearly* killed them in the past, but that's all it was suppose to have been.
Note the fact they actually have color Palettes in XIII that make them slightly transparent. I think the idea they're actual ghost is just a bit of fun on the devs part, but not officially observed in the story.
Whatever the reason was for introducing that aspect. It worked perfectly. It worked with the snake motif and helped make Yamazaki all the more awesome and interesting.
I don't think SNK particularly cares about who has died and who hasn't either.
Actually, Kim's wife and 2 sons can be seen all the way back in FF2!
This new character is said not to be Kim's wife, however, but the Wife of his Master.
You gotta be a real dirtbag to beat a man in front of his wife and kids.
You gotta be a real dirtbag to beat a man in front of his wife and kids.
I've really been out of the loop on the plot leaks, thanks. So the new boss can pretty much bring back whoever, no doubt they'll use that to their advantage in the future in terms of bringing back characters but I wonder what will be his reason for doing so, probably just to see the world burn haha. If he's affiliated with Orochi then I could see the New Face Team fitting in there. It'd also be very good to see them address some loose ends plot wise from the older KOFs so long as it neatly ties in to the new saga. Don't know who they could partner with Ron but they obviously got a lot of choices in terms of a Flying Brigands team.
Hey, it's Kim's fault if he insisted on making them watch. The opponent would be doing Kim and his fam a disservice by not taking Kim seriously!qcf x2 said:You gotta be a real dirtbag to beat a man in front of his wife and kids.
Didn't 98 Ultimate and 2002 Unlimited Match have both Geese and the dead "nightmare Geese" variation of the character?They care enough to have made dream match games a thing
Didn't 98 Ultimate and 2002 Unlimited Match have both Geese and the dead "nightmare Geese" variation of the character?
Hell, thinking about this stuff just makes me want CvS3 instead. Capcom has done the best Geese AND Rugal by far anyway.
I wonder if this game can outsell SFV? I know KOF is not as popular, but with SKNP now being owned by a chinese company and console ban being lifted in China, I guess it's possible right? Not to mention KOF is quite popular in China.
I wonder if this game can outsell SFV? I know KOF is not as popular, but with SKNP now being owned by a chinese company and console ban being lifted in China, I guess it's possible right? Not to mention KOF is quite popular in China.
I wonder if this game can outsell SFV? I know KOF is not as popular, but with SKNP now being owned by a chinese company and console ban being lifted in China, I guess it's possible right? Not to mention KOF is quite popular in China.
Didn't 98 Ultimate and 2002 Unlimited Match have both Geese and the dead "nightmare Geese" variation of the character?
Hell, thinking about this stuff just makes me want CvS3 instead. Capcom has done the best Geese AND Rugal by far anyway.
Sid Haig?
Geese's butler? what happened to Ripper & Hopper?
Didn't 98 Ultimate and 2002 Unlimited Match have both Geese and the dead "nightmare Geese" variation of the character?
Hell, thinking about this stuff just makes me want CvS3 instead. Capcom has done the best Geese AND Rugal by far anyway.
No Yamazaki (AGAIN!), no buy.
Good to see Geese though.
Supposedly it's more properly translated as Kim's Master's wife. We've also seen Myeng before, and she doesn't look anything like that leaked pic.
EDIT: She & their boys were in Kim's FF2/S background.
It's mistranslation. Should be Kim's master's wife.
Actually, Kim's wife and 2 sons can be seen all the way back in FF2!
This new character is said not to be Kim's wife, however, but the Wife of his Master.
Rugal I could maybe, but I've seen better versions of Geese.Didn't 98 Ultimate and 2002 Unlimited Match have both Geese and the dead "nightmare Geese" variation of the character?
Hell, thinking about this stuff just makes me want CvS3 instead. Capcom has done the best Geese AND Rugal by far anyway.
Hey, it's Kim's fault if he insisted on making them watch. The opponent would be doing Kim and his fam a disservice by not taking Kim seriously!
Just missing Datta.
"D..Daddy lost to....the pizza man?"
Its been years since Ive seen that Dhalsim stage from Alpha 2. I forgot about it completely.
This is pure curiosity on my part, and a little OT, but as an SNK fan who likes Yamazaki but is confused at why he's so clamored for, what's the draw to Yamazaki for you? The design, the gameplay?
Their invitation was probably stolen again for the millionth timeWhat happened to the sports themed guys
they were so cool
Because Geese isnt dead in the KOF timeline.Hype for Geese, but how come he can survive when Rugal can't? Weak.
Because Geese isnt dead in the KOF timeline.