If we talking about outfits some characters have had little changes or no changes at all since 1994 like mail,yuri and daimon for example and for good reason in the case of mai I can’t think of another dress that cloud reveal more skin, daimon has changed pants but what else you want for a judo fighter to look like he fights with no shirt or vest that’s his cool.Yuri is a hard one I think they cloud give her new sports clothes but if they remove the karate gi she won’t look like yuri anymore.
but not drastic remakes of those fighters. None of them received, FROM SCRATCH, MOTW Terry levels of redesign differences in a KOF, or KOFXIII Yuri differences (well okay she still has the traditional outfit, but her physical redesign is so appalling that you could mistake her for someone else if it weren’t for the AOF2 uniform). KOFXIII Joe looks like a prisoner of war, with shorts. KOFXIII King looks like a zombie. KOFXIII Mature looks leagues below her KOF97 standards. but some do look like themselves like KOFXIII Kyo, Terry, Maxima, even Athena (who gained weight, but she does actually look better if it wasn’t for the moeblob face). then again KOFXIII was KOF at its most bizarre and cartooniest with its sprites. it has the most inconsistent art in the series, improving some and ruining others.
Look at the reactions towards KOFXIV designs, even some fans don’t want drastic differences with KOF favorites. some even want the return of the Shinkiro style, at least KOFXIV art direction is pursuing more sharper and mature designs. yes it has some hiccups in its quality consistency and overall designs and questional reinventions (Robert is ruined, Kula is improved).
but overall, I say KOFXIV is looking to preserve the KOF character integrity better than all the KOFs that came after KOF98 (I did hate Athena’s redesign from KOF99 onward, until KOF2002 set things right for the most part).
Mature wasn’t in KOF97.
MotW Terry is not a dramatic redesign. He ditched the hat, ponytail and trade the vest for a jacket. That’s it. Yuri lost her braided ponytail and looks more moe. Not major in the slightest.
robert 98,99,2000,2001,2003 complete different character in each of those games
kof 2002 is a complete different character to kim before 2k2
kinda overstating the kof13 yuri thing a bit, kinda overstating the fact that robert having a tash has ruined the character
Kinda overlooking the fact that where you might see something as keeping a characters integrity other people might see that as boring and stale, or just like the fact that sometimes change is welcome to keep things feeling new and avoids the staleness other series have suffered from due to there lack of risk taking aka streetfighter
You should really start some sort of E petition to save robert from being completely ruin because of his tash, i mean a tash shit’s like giving a pirate a wooden leg, fucking outrageous
yea it’s fucking outrageous they would mess with a previously handsome KOF fighter’s face standards. You put a tash on Kyo, Terry, Ryo, Benimaru, Iori, etc, and their charisma would drop like a boulder. and Robert is not a pirate. he was a smooth and classy clean rich guy type of fighter.
even DBZ Vegeta fans went on a rampage when GT gave him a tash, it’s terrible on characters like that.
moustaches and beards are for guys that don’t mind being ugly (or uglier)
whoops sorry. KOF96. yeah, Mature and Vice were killed by Iori after the tournament. darn it, and KOF96 was one of my favorites.
Actually i’d love to see more characters gain or lose facial hair, i’ve always said it, hot ryu should have been done in sf3 in fact me and friends often used to joke about it back when sf3 first came out, in fact i think most people used to say the same thing
Ryu is the perfect example what happens when you are afraid to make changes, for me ryu is dead there’s nothing capcom can do to ever get me back to him, 3rd strike almost got me back to him because he was mad fun to use, but along came sf4 and what? the exact same thing, so i lost my (excuse my pun) affinity with him, there’s nothing capcom can do to make me ever feel like ryu the way i used to, i’ve done it i’ve seen it, i feel his way about a lot of characters in sf.
For the first time in almost 25 years i wont be buying or playing a sf game, if snk keep doing what they’ve done with kof since 94 i could play kof for the next 25 years (if my hands can take it) because every game feels new start characters who i might not have liked i might like, characters i liked i could hate.
As long as the changes are within the realms of with the characters personality, so no shin cyber daimons or choi decides to go kyokugenryu, i’m open to anything, and just remember it can always be changed the next game it’s not the end of the world
Say yes to bearded shermie!
You guys are talking to Affinity. You’d get better conversation from a wall.
you’re right, i should know better
anybody seen any links outside of leonas down lk down hp, does iori have standing lk into standing hp, or kyo have down lk into standing hp?
That’s good. But anyway, I just need to depart from 2d games. 3d models with 2d gamplay is just a plague by Capcom’s SF4. They started this foolishness. Every 2d game company needs to go back to sprites in my opinion, but that’s not going to happen. 2d gaming isn’t valid anymore without it. It’s part of what defined the genre in design. Without it, it’s just nothing.
I think it’s pointless to talk about companies going back to 2D when we know it isn’t going to happen. It sucks but 2D.5 is here to stay.
Anyways when do guys suppose SNK will show a true full demo of the game. I gotta be honest my excitement over the game is diminishing. It’s going to be hard to maintain any level of interest over the crumbs of info we’re getting. We’re probably gonna see the same PSX build being played at multiple shows it feels like, say to ruin the hype SNK.
Get out now. Seriously, I’m done with you and so are most people in here.
Get out.
We have nothing, like literally nothing at all to talk about. We don’t even know the mechanics of the game or the movesets of the characters like fuck this information flow is like a 90’s game magazine or something. Is it too much to ask for SNK to do a hour long stream of their latest build with full on demos of the characters and their moves. This isn’t the 90’s anymore SNK get with the program.
Edit: Double post my bad.
If you double post you can just delete the post by erasing everything and replace it with the slash out code. Also,
What is your problem, SNK hasn’t been bad at promoting their game in the slightest.
hey man give people all the money they need to make sprites and im sure they’ll do it
he obviously has autisim and needs something shiny and new every day to keep him interested
You guys can insult me all you want but it won’t change the facts of the situation. Do you know the game’s plot, the character movesets, the game mechanics, the game features, the release date, anything about the graphical improvements.
I guess I’m a asshole for wanting to know more about a game that I’m interested in and for wanting SNK to succeed.
No, you’re just a moron who’s far out of his depth and too stupid to realize he needs to sit down, shut up and learn first before mouthing his ass off.
The mustache and goatee is the best thing to ever happen to Robert’s design. Now he looks even more like a suave Italian dude.
Now if he can just actually be good again… that’s really all I want. XIII Robert felt way too underwhelming to me. I’d like to have the fwd+A Overhead back at least.