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

The little Chinese girl from that one pachinko game. Am I spelling her name wrong?

The roster is looking fantastic and super interesting.

ā€œAnother Worldā€ I guess they’re alternate versions of the characters of other non-KOF compatible games, and how they would look in the KOF universe.

By the way, it just has strucked me, could it be that Leyou earned the rights over the SNK characters but not the ones from SNK PLAYMORE (2003-XIII)??

Could that be the reason why there are no characters of the Ash Saga…? o___O

Discrepancies!!! Why is Tung wearing the wrong costume(colors are wrong) and why is it that everyone’s portraits appear to be drawn except Alice’s, which looks like a 3d render. This is looking kinda fishy. I am officially suspicious of this ā€œleakā€

How would you guys suggest someone fairly new to the series try to pick this game up? what is the stategy for guys who are veterans to the series wen they go about picking their team?

Of course not.

The roster was clearly decided long before the acquisition occurred.

It’s been officially confirmed, but right now some of the characters have unfinished art.

Plus it matches the original character list leak more or less perfectly. We’ve got a sleepy Chinese team kid, the new protagonist character Demon Boy who looks like he came out of that Chinese ripoff KOF game, some sort of boxer (handicapped or otherwise) on the south American team, GEESU, a woman who’s almost certainly Kim’s Master’s Wife, etc. I’d say it’s 99% likely this is legit.

Officially confirmed by who?
I’m not saying outright I don’t believe, I’m just saying if I was to see a reveal trailer and someone’s design was to differ from the ā€œleakā€, I wouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen my fair share of false leaks and I’ve become a cynic.

I actually like what I see in matters of roster, my only nitpicks with this are:

1.- Lack of Ash Saga characters. They could have added some of Those from the Past, or the newly presented Ron Team, for example… why to introduce too many completely new characters and discard these ones?
2.- Those weird ā€œanother worldā€ characters. As well as the chibi anime girl from Official invitation. They don’t seem to fit in the game.
3.- King of Dinosaurs. They said Tizoc was going to be in and as I saw they turned him into a fucking dinosaur I was salty AF. However, if it’s a heel thing like Big Bear/Raiden and Tizoc may return to his old persona sometimes, I’d be OK with this.
****4.- K’ fighting with his sunglasses on. ****I HATED that on KOF XIII, I didn’t want that to be back ¬¬
5.- The new character designs/outfits. Benimaru, Iori, Ralf and Clark, Robert… They mostly look bad in my opinion.
6.- Some Stone Age characters. I don’t like Mature and Vice, Chin, Chang, Choi, Leona, for example, they’ve become boring and repetitive. I wish they were not in the game. Characters like Silber, Gai, more ā€œforgottenā€ guys from Garou and Fatal Fury, among others, I would prefer to see.

At least the new characters are looking cool, hope to see their fighting style soon.

Colors are wrong? I just see exactly the same colors he wears in his revealing trailer. White shirt, gold/green details.
I could be wrong but i think that this is not only legit but we are in front of art director’s character concepts. It’s a pitty we can’t see full body.

I’m really excited for this KOF. While graphics are not the best they could be, everything looks new and exciting but familiar at same time. I do like new designs. Even King that hasn’t change too much looks better than ever. Maybe the only ones that don’t convince me are Kyo and Iori. Oh well, no drama. I don’t care at all about them xDD
But is cool this mix they did with all classic characters that can’t miss any KOF, some long absent ones and many new faces.
I can’t wait to see next revealing trailer.

I would:

[list][] Exchange Alice for Blue Mary.
[
] Put the true Griffon Mask Tizoc instead of King of Dinosaurs.
[] Remove Another World team.
[
] Combine Official invitation team with China team, they’re too many new characters.
[] Add Elizabeth Team (Shen, Liz and Duolon).
[
] Drop Chang, Choi, Chin and Tung AT LEAST…
[] Remove Vice and Mature. Iori with Eiji and Billy Kane would be better.
[
] Geese team would be Yamazaki, Oswald and Geese.
[] Create a better Kim team with him and two other FF guys, for example Hon Fu and Franco Bash.
[
] The newcomers of Kim team look cool but I’d add Gai Tendo to them, and make it a Buriki One/Gai team.
[] Add Vanessa somewhere. Maybe along with Seth.
[
] Add one or two more teams composed of surviving members of Those from the Past and/or Ron’s Hizoku squad. Shion would have been terrific, to begin with.
[/list]

Those from the Past and the Hizoku are characters whose fighting style I’ve wanted to see for ages:

damn, still goin boring ass classic Ryo. I was hoping they’d do NGBC/Buriki One Mr. Karate Ryo. alternate costume?

He’s wearing blue in the trailer

Japan Team: Kyo - Benimaru - Goro

Fatal Fury Team: Terry - Andy - Joe

Art of Fighting Team: Ryo - Robert - Yuri

K’ Team: K’ - Maxima - Kula

Kim Team: Kim - Hon-Fu - Franco Bash

**Gai **Team: **Gai Tendo **- Kim’s Master - Kim’s Wife

Blanctorche Team: Elizabeth - Shen Woo - Duolon

Women Fighters Team: Mai - King - Blue Mary

Ikari Team: Ralf - Clark - Leona

Psycho Soldier Team: Athena Asamiya - Kensou - Anyone but Chin

Yagami Team: Iori - Vanessa - Eiji

China Team: Headphones Boy - Acting Mask Girl - Mysterious Hooded Man

Mexico Team: Ramon - Angel - Griffon Mask Tizoc

Outlaw Team: Yamazaki - Billy - Newcomer Bandit

South America Team: Brazilian Ninja - Handicap Boxer - Pretty Latin Girl

Hizoku/Those from the Past Team: ANY - ANY - ANY

That would be my roster.

Kudos to SNKP for not being afraid to introduce a bunch of new characters, they look interesting. I don’t see how anyone could have a problem finding their main team with a roster of 50 characters.

I would say white

The new characters are mostly to pander different audiences in the world… now we have 3 China teams, 2 Korea teams and 2 Latin America teams, for example…

And they are keeping Stone Age characters like Chin, Choi, Chang, Tung, Vice, Mature, Leona, etcetera, that no one likes, instead of the coolest characters from the Ash Saga (which includes the ones from Garou), as well as characters from pachinko spinoffs and games that have nothing to do (like Samurai Shodown), when’s this nonsense gonna stop?

I think roster is fine. I think It should stay as is and other characters should reappear as dlc or in future installments. I’d love to see teams like:
Orochi team- Chris, Shermie, and Yashiro
Sports team- Heavy D, Lucky, and Brian Battler
Women fighters team 2- Blue Mary, Venessa, and Chizuru
Elizabeth team- Elizabeth, Duo Lon and Shen Woo
Jin team- Chon Rei, Chon Su, and Yamazaki
Crime boss team- Mr.Big, Karman Cole, insert shady/blue collar criminal character

But for now, I’m happy with what we have

Augus is dat you?

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You know what? Comparing his shirt to King’s, it is closer to white. You are totally right. Suspicion withdrawn… For now