Small correction; it does appear as though SNK is releasing Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Vol. 1 in the U.S on the PS2. It hasn’t been “officially” announced, but it is one of the listed titles under development on their U.S. website. Combined with the eminent AoF Collection PS2 release, I’m led to believe that SNK has plans to release most (if not all) of their fighting compilations in the States.
I find it difficult to believe that SNK would release AoF and FF comps in America and simply stop there, not when series such as Samurai Shodown and The King of Fighters have been bigger money makers on our side of the ocean. And since they’re all compilations, there’s apparently no SCEA hurdle to clear.
DC had better ports of MvC2 and actually HAD ports of SF3 SI and NG. KoF 2k2 was the only KoF, IMO worth shit on that console. I can’t vouch for the rest of the SNK games, because I’m not big into SNK games.
Other than that, it fails to deliver.
PS2 had a weaker port of MvC2, and a good port of everything else. A better port of 3S, KoF XI is my favorite KoF game, SNK games like Last Blade suck, but seriously… Perfect Vampire Savior, Alpha games, Super Turbo, and 3S?
Because Sony is now getting destroyed in the marketplace, where as before they were kind of running the show. They’ve probably decided that, “Hey, maybe our current marketing scheme isn’t working, how about we start releasing GOOD games that people want to play”. Maybe they’re thinking that, I hope, but probably not. They could afford to be picky screw ups before, now they have to take what they can get, so if they can pick up a few thousand sales from collections of old SNK games, they’ll do it, where 3 years ago, unless it was a Metal Gear or Final Fantasy, they didn’t want it. Japanese PS2 is the way to go, I don’t need no stinkin English for fighting games, dragon punch combos are the same in every language. I have two PS2’s one US and one Jap, with them both running component into a Samsung 32 inch widescreen LCD, with two HRAP 2’s and couldn’t be happier.
PS- News is that the US is going to be getting a Fatal Fury collection for PS2, so hold on to your butts.
Ahh, Nice. I couldv’e sworn that AOF collection was already a few years old. Maybe they will bring all this stuff out. Better late than never. Any word on next gen stuff outta SNK?
No word on KOFXII, or Sam Sho Slash, Max Impact Reg A should be out shortly…I invite those that want to talk in particular about SNK stuff exclusively to join my At the Eye of the Ragin Storm thread…
Damn, I need conformation for that Fatal Fury collection. I know that later this month the Art of Fighting is coming out. On topic I agree that the PS2 is the Capcom FG console. But for the KOF series I dont know. I got both KOF 00/01 and KOF02/03 and what’s the word on 00/01? 02/03 suck the controls are shitty.
I need I DC for Marvel:sad: