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The King Of Fighters XII Official Thread

Swittcher said:
No one made any illusions that Mai is requested a lot for her gameplay.

Uhm, the main reason I love Mai is for her '98-and-earlier self. She's one of my favorite playing KOF character (probably just below Shermie).
 
Good to hear them working on the next KOF. I agree that the backgrounds are a bit "busy". Hopefully the next iteration will have much more content.
 
shidoshi said:
Uhm, the main reason I love Mai is for her '98-and-earlier self. She's one of my favorite playing KOF character (probably just below Shermie).

waat?

Mai has better and more combos, tricks, and DMs in later iterations.

The only move I missed from 98 Mai was her DP+B/D.

Swittcher said:
I just meant, the tons of requests SNK/Ignition got to put her into XII weren't from people who cared about how she played.

She has been the female face of KOF regardless of how she played.
 
shidoshi said:
Uhm, the main reason I love Mai is for her '98-and-earlier self. She's one of my favorite playing KOF character (probably just below Shermie).

I just meant, the tons of requests SNK/Ignition got to put her into XII weren't from people who cared about how she played.
 
Hopefully the improvement to XIII will be meaningful. KoF XI was the last KoF SNK game I truly enjoyed. 98UM and 02 were great, but they were just updates of already great games that I played a million times in the past. To truly impress in KoF XIII they need to add more characters, give everyone a full move list, have more than one super and bring back the cheap bosses and multiple stages.

This used to be my favorite fighting game series but Blazblue waltzed in and stole my heart.
 
where is my KOFXIII I thought it was supposed to be announced today

come on SNK all you have to do is add 10 more characters, more moves, an arcade mode with a boss and story, more stages and decent online.
 
KAL2006 said:
where is my KOFXIII I thought it was supposed to be announced today

come on SNK all you have to do is add 10 more characters, more moves, an arcade mode with a boss and story, more stages and decent online.
:lol
Ok, that was fun.

No KOFXIII info yet.

Kapwan said:
Hopefully the improvement to XIII will be meaningful. KoF XI was the last KoF SNK game I truly enjoyed. 98UM and 02 were great, but they were just updates of already great games that I played a million times in the past. To truly impress in KoF XIII they need to add more characters, give everyone a full move list, have more than one super and bring back the cheap bosses and multiple stages.

This used to be my favorite fighting game series but Blazblue waltzed in and stole my heart.
KOFXI its a damn beast. My favorite KOF ever. 'nough said >:(
KOFXI UM would be all kind of awesome.
 
Shadow780 said:
waat?

Mai has better and more combos, tricks, and DMs in later iterations.

The only move I missed from 98 Mai was her DP+B/D.

She has been the female face of KOF regardless of how she played.

My favorite versions of Mai are RBFF Mai, and 98 UM Ex Mai. And I did have a Mai that scared foreigners on GGPO. My other two parts of my team- not that scary, but my Mai was scary enough to get foreigners hating on me bigtime.

Her later versions also tend to lack defense. Her DP isn't used that much in high level play to be honest. She has better options.

My problem with KOF is that I need a quality pad to play it right, and they don't make those anymore.

As for KOFXIII, the roster I'd use.

11 teams

Terry/Andy/Joe
Ryo/Robert/Yuri
Elizabeth/King/Mai
Ralf/Clark/Leona
Kyo/Beni/Goro
Iori/Vice/Mature
Athena/Kensou/Chin
Kim/Mary/Rick
Ash/Duolon/Shen
K'/Maxima/Kula

Geese/Billy/Raiden- boss team

adding 11 chars might be too ambitious though.
 
I got in contact with one of my arcade operator friends and he said he hasn't seen SNK's booth at AOU. :lol I have no idea what's going on, but I was reading another operator's blog and he said that the details of the release will be in March now.
 
Oichi said:
I got in contact with one of my arcade operator friends and he said he hasn't seen SNK's booth at AOU. :lol I have no idea what's going on, but I was reading another operator's blog and he said that the details of the release will be in March now.
OH SNAP!

GET HYPE FOR MARCH!!!
 
Put Rick Strowd in there.

Edit: I just found out the English VA for Terry Bogard in all three FF animes, was also DJ Atomika in SSX/Burnout.

Mind blown.
 
Swittcher said:
Put Rick Strowd in there.

Edit: I just found out the English VA for Terry Bogard in all three FF animes, was also DJ Atomika in SSX/Burnout.

Mind blown.

When I think of DJ Atomika I think of the CvsSNK2 announcer.
 
Why people overlook the fact Garou was a massive flop?

A few thousand guys at a couple forums (half of which pirate their games) isn't enough of a reason to make a sequel.

Spiderjericho said:
Eight new characters, a story mode, boss, new backgrounds isn't OMG difficult to do from one year to the next.

Considering it took then 4 years to make 22 characters (if you're kind, since there's some rehashing of sprites), i doubt a game being release in April would have 8 extra characters.

Also, the last two years, SNK skipped some events and KOF XII was running on Taito's stand. This being announced out of the blue sounds fishy at best, but i felt like that should be pointed out.

Also, you guys do know the chinese version of KOF XII has a create-a-character mode, with Buster Wolf, right?

http://www.betomachado.com/?p=1133
http://www.betomachado.com/?p=1139
 
Sorry for the bump but the SFIV "beat" KOF 12 thread inspired me to get this game :lol
Was a big fan of the KOF series but was turned off due to the lack of local competition.

I was wondering if there is a definitive version to get, x360 or ps3 ?
 
both are equal as far as i know. I own PS3 because if i wanna play online i do not need to worry about being gold,also because i own the stick for ps3. Online play is okay if you play with people not living far away, i can play with spanish ok, lagfree most of the times. However the game is almost dead online now. Hopefully KOFXIII will be better executed. I like the game over SFIV, unluckily, SNK messed it with some rushed decicions.
 
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