i think what niggas want is real bout 2 with the presentation of real bout special but if you force people to update real bout special to 2 and the special shit is gone forever then they’d rather it just be two separate games. but that’s not a completely accurate comparison because i can’t think of anything in the last 10 years that got a worse presentation after the update.
The reason why SNK kept pumping a kof each year was simple, to keep selling arcade machines.
Their customers werent the players, it were the arcade centers.
Their approach will always be the one that gives them more money with the less investment possible, like every company out there.
It is why they kept reussing assets and the engine, only doing the minimum possible that was enough to pass as a new game.
And yes, i say minimum, since for the time, pumping some 8 new stages was rather easy due the low res.
With the real bulk being the chars that couldnt be lifted from other SNK fgs from the time.
And Athena new sprites for each kof, lol.
The only reason why they threw all their work for KOFXII and KOFXIII is because it wasnt cost effective, something that they found out after the sales of both games, with KOFXII being thrown as a hastly work to learn the ps3 and the 360 architectures and to try to recover some of the costs since KOFXIII wasnt going to be finished yet.
And the only reason why they didnt kept updating KOFXIV was because it was not financially viable since it sold bad, and the number of players that bought the dlc were small.
With Samsho you can clearly see the route they will go.
Release a game, and release post launch dlc afterwards.
If KOFXV is at least as profitable as Samsho, they will keep updating it via season passes at least 2 years. Is a no brainer.
As for the craze, it was mostly due the availability of the neo geo systems.
It was the same for every region where kof was more popular than sf.
Due the cartdriges being cheap and easy to pirate too, kof was easy to find, not only on arcade centers but mini stores on “barrios y colonias”.
If it wasnt because of that, i dunno if KOF would have had the impact it had.
Compare that to my country where both were available in the same ratio
SF ended being more popular since it was more consistent in the eyes of the players and easier since you didnt need to learn 3 chars, with only KOF98 and KOF02 actually having dedicated scenes and the other being abandoned or ignored.
But at the end it was MVC2 the dominant one once it released back in the day, with CVS2 following it.
On the chile thing, IIRC, on Chile MK and KI are the most popular games, with tournaments still being play there for old KI and MK3.
It is why that chilean game, Omen of Sorrow has a lot of MK/KI inspierd stuff, with some 3s to spice it up.
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LMAO Hetacom I can’t believe you’re buying this Murrican nonsense LOL seriously
ohh shit i’m getting a warning now by SRk?! WTF?!
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sorry to involve you but the system made me
We chose KOF because we liked it don’t give me this shit because that’s the only thing we had fucking none sense Muriccans were lagging behind when it came to arcade games i’ve lived here for 20 years people here don’t embrace arcade culture as whole like Mexico. They’re bad with these games, they don’t understand them, they don’t like them. Don’t give me this shit mexico played SNK because it"s a poor country and they didn’t know better bullshit. I grew up in a small town in one of the most poor states of the country and guess what? we had arcades out the ass at every grocery store, at every corner, complete locals dedicated to arcades and I made friends there. shit was awesome. I played SFII and all its iterations,snk games were gaining popularity but it wasn’t until KOF hit that SF stopped to being relevant. I played all marvel games there except MvC2,alpha 1 and 2, i never saw SF3 thou but KOF satill reign supreme.
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Honestly about games getting updated?
From a Programing and Engineering prospective, if you have to send patches to all of your clients for a program you wrote, you by text book definition have fucked up.
Only reason to write a patch is that your program broke somehow and now you gotta fix it.
Video games are still computer programs, and unless you are putting out new content, Facts are you fucked up somewhere.
Nigga.
Is simple.
KOF dominated on those regions because it was easy to find
I am not saying that people played it only because of that or that they didnt liked it.
But denying that its easy to find didnt play a role is ludicrous.
When every tortilleria, pulperia, gas station has the game and you dont even need to go to an arcade center to play the game, or leave your barrio/colonia of course it will end being popular.
I gave you an example of what happened in my country where the games were as equally accessible.
The most flashy and newer game usually ended being the one dominating at the arcades.
With different games having their reing, MK, then KI, then Tekken and so on. With KOF laging as each year passed and the games looking the same for the casuals and for the competitive because they were not 98 or 02.
Like it or not, the barrier entry of learning 3 chars will always turn off many players when they can play a game where you only have to learn 1.
With the exceptions here being MVC2 and CVS2 because they ahve this wow factor of being crossovers.
And no one said anything about those places being poor, that is you.
What i said is that the cartridges were both cheap as fuck and easy to pirate.
With the neo geo you only had to buy the system once and buy the games, like a console.
With games like SF, Tekken, etc you had to buy a dedicated board, which made it more expensive for small business to get.
It is why usually those places ran arcade cabinets with SNES on them using the ports for the SNES instead of using the real arcade machine.
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It’s not a warning. It’s disclosure telling you can talk to other people in this thread. It happens every time you quote the same person 3 times. You can ignore it.
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Wrong
You can have a patch because you are adding small quality of life changes.
It is why you have different levels of software versioning.
And games work beyond that.
You dont need to fuck up to add changes, even if they are minor.
Like with balance changes for example.
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You know what I find in every Arcade in the US I ever been too
Street Fighter II (in one of it’s many variations)
A Neo Geo Machine/Game
Pac-Man and or Galaga
Fucking shiny shit has nothing to do with it
Shiny shit might be all hype for when it’s relevant but it gets forgotten as fast as it’s hype started
No, its that they fucked up somewhere, ether with a bug or something is unbalanced in game play
That a clear sign that they screwed up and should of play tested more.
Minor changes are still fuck ups
this where you’re wrong i’m not saying it was the same for you.
I wish I could link an article a read from one of Mexico’s magazines (atomix) where it says why KOF reign supreme in mexico because it all has to do with our culture.
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Nigga, i am a fucking software engineer.
I have rolled plenty of patches that were not related to bugs or that because some fuck up
This is why everyone clowns you, you keep saying stupid shit like this, lmao.
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y como se relaciona KOF a la cultura mexicana, wey?
And I am the Queen of England.
You are a fucking liar if you believe that, security holes is still a fuck up.
Look in the mirror
One thing doesnt invalidate the other my nigga.
It would have mattered shit that KOF was the more culturaly appropiate game for mexico if the game was scarcely available.
The moment that any small business outside arcade centers could have an arcade cabinet witha kof on it, that sealed its fate to become one of the most popular games over the region.
You are trying to see this on a black and white shit, when in reality multiple factors were involved.
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La gorra de trailero y el estar de wey y vago en la maquinita en vez de estar haciendo la tarea.
LMAO, i should know better than waste my time replying to your sorry ass, lol.
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Kay kiddo.
alright I don’t know WTF?! you’re saying anymore.
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If you read you will know.
I cant lay it more simplier.
actually now that i think about it heca being a software engineer makes everything make so much sense when i think about everything he’s said and did even outside this site.
de lo que me acuerdo es esto y tiene que ver con los deportes en estados unidos valoran mas la defensa y en mexico es mas la ofensiva. Los gringos les encantan los deportes que van mas ala defensiva lo que ellos estan acostumbrados. Para ellos la defensa es primero si te fijas en el soccer la defensa no va primero si no la ofensiva. puta madre mas o menos tenia l idea pero mi Pc se frizo y perdi la idea. YO vivi en mexico y jugue un chingo de juegos en las maquinas de todo tipo de juegos y diferente compañias ahora resulta que hetacom me quiere dar clases,no mames