What fighters do you hope SNK will make next? I’d like them to make a SamSho 7, NGBC 2, and a spiritual successor to MOTW that would essentially being its own series, all games having the 2d engine that KOF XII/XIII has.
samsho 7, but it would be smart for them to make garou 2 and focus on console/western release if they wanna make money
At the rate SNK’s going, we’ll be lucky to see them LIVE to make another fighter.
Patch the damn freeze bugs out of the console version of XIII and then I’ll start thinking sunshine and rainbows. Until then, I don’t hold out much hope.
And if it were up to me, I’d vote for SvC: Chaos 2: Hey, This Time Charging Downback Actually Works.
Sam Sho 7 would be a wise choice. But I wouldn’t like it with the engine they used in KOF XII because it looks very 2D and colorful. Sam Sho is really a dark themed game.
Maybe they should give one of the old Sam Shos a UM treatment, it will be a low cost project and hopefully a good player base comes out of it (as kof2002um is more popular than xiii).
It doesn’t matter because no one will play them anyway.
Assuming XIII makes enough money for them to make a new 2D fighter…
They need to make something with similar sprites to KOFXII/XIII, so they can re-use them in a crossover (NGBC2, etc) and/or KOF XIV. Making a new game with a new sprite style would be a total waste of resources, as KOF has been their only profitable fighting series in 11 years.
How would it be smart to make a sequel for one of their biggest flops?
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Personally I would like to see a New Fatal Fury (Garou 2), Art of Fighting 4 or SamSho 7. No Wii exclusive games and something that at least acknowledges the North American audience.
A new Garou would definitly be nice, but I don’t see them making a new Art of Fighting. A new SvC game definitly sounds interesting, and could make up for the first one, especially during the release of CvS3.
Yes, SNKP need to make a UM treatment for SamShoVSp. They can’t keep it Neo Geo only forever. It would only be a matter of time…
I’d hope that they would team up with Capcom again for a crossover so they could reassert their (little) presence in the game industry and get enough money to maybe be stable.
motw is still 1 of the greatest snk fighters ever!!! you burn in fuckin hell
MOTW was a flop. It’s a damn fine game and I like it a lot, but it did nothing good for SNK at the time. Didn’t sell well, wasn’t as popular as it should have been (didn’t boost the SNK brand).
They need to jump on the portable stuff and original live arcade platforms fast with IPs like metal slug and such, to gain marginal profit, and more importantly make their brand relevant to the mainstream, and fund games like KOFXIII, which are quality games but unknown to the masses (and even in it’s own fanbase) because nobody really knows or respect the brand. I say 3DS and such because it’s pretty obvious that they don’t have the manpower to release a full blown retail game (samurai shodown sen should be an good example, even though it was outsourced, they probably had very limited ressources)
KOF alone can’t do it alone. They have great assets with KOFXIII, great sprites etc. but it’s mostly unknown material to the masses.
Fatal Fury (Garou 2) or a new Last Blade would be neat.
I’m not too sure how a new Intellectual Property would be received by fans, since the new SNK is being carried right now by the nostalgia of the old SNK. It seems they’re too weak right now to take that gamble and are only capable of making new puzzle/dating games for mobile devices.
I’m hoping (wait… why?) that King of Fighters XIII will be a great success.
If so?
Capcom vs SNK 3 baby!!!
it’s sad to see kof flopping because is not popular in the states, here’s the main market for video games after all and if snk don’t take that extra effort to make the game right(ggpo like netcode, a good publisher, marketing, fix bugs, etc) game will not sell that many copies.
the next game we’re going to see from snk it’s going to be metal slug with re-drawn sprites, mark my words
Oh god yes! I’m still in shock we are getting SFXT/TXSF plus MVC3 and not Capcom vs SNK 3 or SNK vs Capcom 3. Granted, SF and Tekken are the most successful fighting game series, so I guess it makes sense.
After that though, Capcom and SNK need to get back together and make another kick ass fighting game crossover.
I would hope for another King of Fighters maximum impact, because I just prefer 3D versions of their fighting games. To me, it doesn’t have to be for present generation consoles, but at least for Playstation portable, since the title still seems to be on TBA, from gamefaqs.
Ugh! I HATE 3D fighting games!
Especially whenever the 3D fighters were born 2D fighters.
Bugs won’t affect sales. 95% of the buying population will be oblivious so such things. The mvc2 re-release would’ve been unaffected in sales if it still had the gambit and ruby heart bugs. That said, they have a high chance of being patched. They patched kof12 after all, which wasn’t even worth patching for them, money wise.
The same reason Capcom put characters from one of its biggest flops into ssf4. I know you’re trying to sound smart but Garou is SNK’s most popular fighting game in the West.