Umm all the sprites are done by Nona IIRC. One thing I like about the new sprites is that everyone has a different body build.
Oh and I don’t care what SNK say, Ryo= Tiger Robert= Dragon
It looks just as good if not better then sthd damn.
QFT.
Ryo = orange like a tiger, roars like a tiger, has tiger-named attacks…but he’s the dragon?
Right, SNK. Right.
They need to bring back his AOF3 tiger mullet in glorious high res, and call it a dragon mullet.
It wouldn’t make it in either way. Unless the new graphics will be enough to get a KOF in EVO.
Of course. Robert has several moves named after a dragon: Ryu Zanshou, Ryu Geki ken, Hien Ryujin Kyaku, etc, while Ryo is the one using “kou” (tiger) in his attacks, and one of his titles/nicknames is “The Raging/Boisterous Tiger*”.
*I think SNK is correcting their mistake with this moniker.
Robert practices the Ryugeki principle of Kyokugenryu Karate. When he was young, he practiced the Kou-Ou principle. In order to make him push past his limits and complete the way of the Kyokugenryu practitioner, Takuma forced him to practice the Ryugeki principle. Contrary to popular belief Robert was never called the Invincible Dragon. Original 1992 Art of Fighting arcade flyers in English, Japanese, and German all show Ryo as the Dragon and Robert as the Tiger.[2] Despite this, most of Robert’s moves have the word ryu, for dragon, in them (e.g. hien ryu-jin kyaku, or dragon air-blade kick) just as most of Ryo’s moves have the word “kou” in them, which means “tiger”.
So you don’t know, because that never happened. There was never any beta that didn’t have Ken and Ryu in it. This is a total myth. As I said, the idea of not including RyuKen never made it past the early design stage. Even the earliest betas had RyuKen in them.
re: trailer
Sweet. OG look aside, I think Robert looks the best so far.
Also, OG Ryo stance > “I LOVE YOU THIS MUCH” stance
Damn , when did this thread get so full of fanboys huh ?
neo-geo.com/cyberfanatix >>>>>>>>>>>>> that way.
KOF should have gotten in a long time ago, I see no reason why this woudln’t be included.
The hell you know
I don’t fucking care if he’s supposed to weight 200 fucking Kilos, I like skinny ralf because I use him, he and clark, they are one of my mains. I’ve never been a fan of huge, fat characters. If they have become too slow because of fucking Nona then I’ll stop using them. Besides Clark is supposed to be a fast grappler, with a weight like that, he’s going to move like fucking raiden.
We haven’t seen Clark yet…don’t sweat that shit right now…
You have your aesthetic preferences, thats fine. I’m just sayin’ that when there’s different creative teams involved in a franchises timeline, you’re gonna get different takes on established characters…thats just the way it is (and the best example of this is shown in American Mainstream comics…like stuff from Marvel and DC). Practically everyone in KoF was skinny-ish, and thats not really an honest way to look at a diverse cast, I think. I don’t see the problem with these artists wanting to Ralf to be bigger in this one…the dude is a powerhouse, and I think they want to magnify that. I don’t know this for sure, but thats my interpretation of things…I mean look at Ash now…he’s so nonchalant in his fighting style, which I think is truer to his intended character than his 2003 and XI iterations were. Thats just where I see this art style going…everyones personality is going to be magnified visually…which is cool.
…for the record, I always HATED Athena Asamiya…always…hate heaing her, hate fighting her, hate her pop star ass…and the way she is drawn now…definitely a “butter-face”…holy shit.
clark is almost in the same weight as ralf, I expect he’ll look the same.
I’m OK with everyone but not ralf, if he still plays the same then I won’t care.
Personally I don’t like the new ralf either, the XI ending portraits of the ikari team was pretty good, but now its just ridiculous
Heres hoping they don’t make Clark the size of a battleship
clark’s not gonna be in
:tup:
even daimon’s a waste of a spot
I asked wiz why kof has never been at evo and he said it’s too unbalanced or something like that but he also said kof12 has a shot at being in evo if it comes out in time.
That’s sad. So KOF’98 is too unbalanced (compared to what? lol) but KOF12, which will probably be terrible gameplay wise has a shot because it looks pretty. :shake:
For all the ppl who say Ralf is too buff:
Ralf has/had a special that took off 75% of your life with 1 hit.
Ralf can kill any character with 1 hit on COUNTER!, and it’s not a game bug.
Yea…
Ralf is supposed to be ripped and huge.
Honestly, I like how Ralf looks now, I’m only worried about his playstyle, I hope he will be more closer to his original self in the final version then he is now.
Right now I’m only dissapointed about Ryo/Robert. Ryo has blond hair since AOF2, so why the hell they reverted him back to orange, non spikey hair? Hopefully an alternate color will solve this problem. About Robert, why did they gave him back the more generic old design, and the less unique old fighting moves? I think both of thoose things are degression in character personality, comparing it to what he was like in the latest snk games.
I’m still looking forward XII as hell, so don’t get me wrong, but there are a couple of thinks here, I’m not okay with.
…maybe they’re have EX characters? EX Robert and Ryo, hello? :wonder:
…and it better come out in time for a console release!!! it’s EVO-bound!
that’s what made him a great character with that so much power, fast and not looking like a tank. sigh!! I’ll miss you ralf