KoF? Storyline? Does not compute.
I think 20 is fine. What is kinda crazy though is that SF IV may have more chars than KoF XII.
True, but to be fair, those other stories were back when no one knew anything at all about this game. It’s not like other “trusted” video game sources have never reported inaccuracies for pre-pre-pre-beta games. Happens all the time.
Plus, it’s pretty easy to see how the details of this story could have been confused and reported as “2.5D” or “cell-shaded” graphics back when KOFXII was a mystery. 3D models were involved in SOME form, and that’s the underlying truth that was trying to be communicated…though misguided at first.
In the end, Kotaku’s most detailed story that did indeed cite a source (SNK) was correct, before anyone else.
Not saying they’re the best site ever…just giving a LITTLE credit where its due…
Hmm, still no super bar… Will there be some kind of a new system, did I missed something? 
What’s your guess for the teams?
Here’s mine:
Team Kyo: Kyo, Benimaru, Goro
Team Fatal Fury: Terry, Kim, Raiden
Team AOF: Robert, Ryo, Yuri or King
Team Ikari: Ralf, Leona, Clark
Team Boobz: Athena, Elisabeth, Mai
Team Ash: Ash, Shen Woo, Oswald
Single entries: Iori, K’
- 1 or 2 boss characters.
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Prove it.
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Tell me how KoF will be any different. Unless you’re going to claim that there will be zero recycling of frames in KoFXII, in which case you’re already wrong (e.g. Ash’s flash kick super).
That would be my guess too.
I don’t know why folks are complaining about roster size-- getting all of that animation in there is not an over night process.
I have to see Iori.
yea id much rather have 20 characters and only use 5
number of characters doesnt have shit to do with how many are playable at a high level. even if you base it on some baseless average, its just percentages.
yea that kinda pissed me off too lol
well if they have less characters, like 20-30 range, then it becomes easier to make everyone count. sure, you’ll have the best characters and etc etc. but that doesn’t mean you can’t show something impressive with someone else. i don’t believe in like total balance, but having the tiers compressed to where everyone can at least game a little bit is the best situation, and going with less characters means there is a better chance of that happening imo
I wonder if there will be any new characters in this game? I have always liked SNK’s character designs.
Probably the bosses. But other than that, there are some nice redesigns, plus Raiden is new to KOF, so I’m happy right now. :wgrin:
I wanna see how they redesign Iori. Seeing him differently after more then 10 years will be a bit strange…
- there is no need to prove it is you already played the game :looney:
- i never said that kof its different, of course they will reuse some animations, but at least its not in the excesive way that capcom usually do, making clone chars, or making the supers a merely variant of a special
yeah, after ten years of the same iori desing, a change its great, for what i see in the poster it seems that it would be more normal (a red shirt, a black normal sized vest and white pants)
Disagree. SNK does that too. But it’s not like, it’s a so terrible thing, fighting games were always like that. Namco does that too. Sammy does that too. Midway does that too. blah.
i hope kula and king will be in this game
Is it just me or does Kim animate just that much smoother than the rest of the cast?
I was kinda hoping that Ralf would go back to his pre-99 design. The Ikari Warriors were a lot cooler when they were elite mercenaries that, for some reason, looked like a pair of truckers.
Not really happy with how he looks :shake:
Speaking of that, do you get this feeling that Clark won’t be in this game? They might go with Whip or Heidern instead.
I guess it will be Clark.
Didn’t Ash take his powers and put him in a coma?
at first i was super wtf with most of the redesigns, but i’m actually quite pleased; they’re tweaking older characters and for that i have a kind of respect
ralf looks like a monster, but somehow that makes sense haha
i only don’t like the fact that Robert is old clothes (without his badass stoic stance in 2003, nor his highly moving one in NGBC) and has things like his uppercut (hopefully not in place of more of his kick moves).
A depowered, playable Iori? I won’t lie: my interest is piqued.
However, if Terry’s in his pizza boy getup, this is probably a dream match.