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

Well she is mysterious.

Less can be more sometimes, especially when it makes people ask questions.

http://i.imgur.com/xuzx0zw.jpg

Nelson wears a wedding ring around his neck.

True true

That +

NELSON
This young boxing prodigy has lost an arm after a terrible accident, but has been able to go back quickly into the ring thanks to a prosthesis conceived based on the last advanced robotic techniques. He fights now in order to seize the crown of World Champion, while hoping every day his partner will come out from a coma.

Guess he’s married

Nelson’s backstory gets more tragic by the second :crybaby:

Wonder why the description wouldn’t just say wife or something instead of just partner. Unless…

NELSON IS MARRIED TO A GUY AND IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN KOF!!!

Lol but seriously, who knows? I mean if Mortal Kombat could have one, I wouldn’t put it past KOF to do the same.

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https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/1012662_10201360215472035_1789592169_n.jpg?oh=ebb24797cda813f36f9c4eb9b17fe9d3&oe=5796985E

Thanks bro.

It just occurred to me, but isn’t Athena’s whole gimmick is that she updates her attire in every game to keep up with current jpop trends? If that’s the case then surely the sailor outfit must seem pretty dated by now.

My fav Athena looks:

98

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/kof/images/5/58/Athena-kof98.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120526200541&path-prefix=es

99

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/egamia/images/f/fd/Athena_KOF_2002.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20061114235745

2000

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/athena/kof2000.jpg

https://scontent.ftrc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10603727_1064261650263598_7494932978704919325_n.jpg?_nc_eui=ARjFok3ZmifWbIWw8H-VZbl2xvlCDtxpHQOtzzlLIhUHthFN1mIDvBHaslYp&oh=6d0f7c2aed11597fa5d7b76702681ee5&oe=5792BFBB

Worse case scenario she ends up like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvD3CHA48pA

This backstory is way better than any of the SFV new challengers, who are basically carbon copies of previous SF characters (Necalli = Akuma; Rashid = T. Hawk; Laura = Makoto; F.A.N.G = Vega). I think we hadn’t seen guys with Nelson’s backstory anywhere before.

At the risk of derailing a kof thread into an sfv one; explain how fang is like vega and rashid, a middle eastern guy looking for his friend and keeps up with memes and trends on the internet is anything like thawk.

I’m addition, nelsons got the “injured/sick/dead important person in his life” story that has been used a million times over I media

The story is the same, a guy wants to be a Shadaloo leader. A guy looks for a woman who was kidnapped by Bison. Capcom’s so lazy with motivations.

I don’t really know how argentinians would feel about this since its population consider itself of fairer skin than other people of south america at north of Argentina. Oh, and Uruguay also has the same blue/white pattern with the same Sun of May in its flag. But I like the idea of the team united by the stage.

I don’t really care about representation but many people in Brazil thought for years that Ralf was brazilian and Clark was argentinian because of '94, SAB and mistranslation. If anything, Leona was raised somewhere in the amazonian rainforest and her nationality was never confirmed.

As for mains. Probably Athena, Kensou and Kyo while also trying Nakoruru, Yuri, King, Terry and maybe some new characters. Loved it how Elisabeth plays in XIII. Shame she got nerfed in the console release but Raiden was also heavily nerfed so everything works, I think.

And for Athena’s look,
98>97>96>2000>99>2002>94>95>2003>XIV>XI>XII>XIII>2001

Not a fan of the schoolgirl attire but at least it’s better than the previous ones (XI~XIII)

The gender of Rashid’s friend hasn’t been specified and FANG doesn’t a desire to take over Shadowloo. He wants to serve Bison to the best of his ability. A character who’s actually loyal to Bison is rather unique for the series.

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Worse case scenario she ends up like this.

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Not gonna lie, I would totally approve SNK doing that to troll with the fans.

I mean, if Athena got that song ^ as her theme, I wouldn’t even be mad

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Worse case scenario she ends up like this.

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As much as I love Sylvie, I actually would have preferred if she was inspired by Baby Metal instead of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.