KOF XIV General Discussion - King of Fighters XIV Arcade Ver. Burn 2 Fight cabinets from Taito!

looks like a mobile game

Kyo is not even recognisable as Kyo manā€¦ And Iori only by virtue of his hair.

They should never do close ups of the models ever again. Seeing the trailer in 60 fps makes the gameplay and hitstop look a lot better, and the animations a lot worse. Still kinda worried about how the game will turn out, need to see what match footage looks like.

N64 game with the ram expansion cart.

So anybody wants to defend this piece of shit still?

I stand by my original statement that the graphics donā€™t really matter as long as the gameplay is good. Thing is with Mr. Street Fighter behind it, I donā€™t know how far I can trust the gameplay.

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But seriously I thought Iā€™d just kinda slap this together real quick to get a comparison.

I would have timed it to the dunk, but it would have been impossible to time exactly the same as in the video so I just timed it at the first frame of cr.C hitting. It looks like rekka is slower but the rekka cancels are much faster. That kinda seems to be a trend in general for the game. Normals look about the same speed startup, special cancels are really fast, everything else is kinda slow like command normal chains. Hopefully the jumps arenā€™t too slow. The only jump we really get to see is the Iori getting anti aired by Chang jump and itā€™s not the full jump so itā€™s hard to tell.

Holy shit the animation makes SFIVā€™s character animations look good LOL.

JohnGrimm dun did good.

Yeah, this is basically a non-rotoscoped version of KoF XIII.

Not really, everything is still very different, but the speed is somewhat comparable.

Chang actually looks decent. Having said thatā€¦ just HOW did they manage to get the game looking so awful? Rising Thunder looks about 10x better.

I think they need to start showing some real extended gameplay soon. If you have anything to redeem yourselves with the gameplay, you need to show it off. If not, then no amount of stalling (unless you want to stall for 3 years and develop another game entirely from scratch) is going to change the fact that youā€™ve got a turd on your hands.

loving the look of kyo and iori here, at last they look like real j-pop obsessed teenagers.

I wonder if Nona is somewhat involved in this project he was the director of animation on kof XIII if iā€™m not mistaken

Game still looks like shit. Oh well, it might play good. Cant they use some sort of shaders or something to make the game look better? I know its the be all and end of a fighting game, but sometime it CAN make a difference to the experience especially if its particularly jarring.

I was hoping SNK would hold out on the last bastion of 2D sprite fighting games. I guess GGxrd is all I have left. :frowning:

Xrd isnā€™t sprites though.

I donā€™t get all this last 2D bastion gloom and doom. Does French Bread not exist to you people?

I donā€™t even understand why itā€™s a big deal. I donā€™t mind 3D models, and sprites were literally bankrupting the company. I donā€™t know if people value sprites over the company itself or what.

I donā€™t mind the lack of 2D but in this gen the 3D shouldnā€™t be so amateurish. The models suck, the lighting suck but most importantly god damn the animations are terrible. And bad animations can be a serious problem even in reference to gameplay.

Iā€™d feel better if the game was coming out in 2017. Not in 2016.

I made my peace with 2D sprites back in the PS2 era when it was in a massive decline. I began to care more about 2D gameplay over the sprites. Yea, SNKP shouldnā€™t stick with a style that will easily bankrupt them if thatā€™s the case.

Thereā€™s always the chance of a delay, but sure thatā€™s all fair. Maybe when the first non teaser trailer comes out it will be a bit more polished in the lighting and post processing area. Who knows, the game is still a long ways away.

regarding the speed of the game.

the entire 2Ā° trailer is sped up.
I donā€™t know the reason (probably to fit the 30 seconds video)

listen the voices (tone higher than normal, except the last scream by kyo), and look at the animations
the video is about 5% faster

I did a check with the first trailer

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cX4a1eQTw4g

this il the 2Ā° trailer with the right speed
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oqv7MOLim5c

does not change much, but the overall effect is better, especially the animations