why didn't KOF succeed in the post-arcade era like street fighter or mortal kombat?
Mexicans and Chinese couldn't afford consoles I guess.
There's a reason why vidya aficionados are called "gaymers".
The KOF that launched after the success of SF4 was the worst game in the entire series. Never recovered from that
>>738106368Street Fighter was basically dead for ten years before SF4 came out. There were enough KOF games in that time, but some of them were horrible and even the better ones didn't really pull in a huge audience.
>>738106368because the minds of idiots in charge of snk never left the arcade era
>>738106650i remember SNK almost went bankrupt due to the sprites or something, what was wrong with KOF12 specifically?
>>738106368Because SNK made a living off of selling dysfunctional snake oil to arcade owners based off gaudy appearances alone and that didn't translate well to consoles.
>>738106839incomplete roster with no set teamscrap comeback mechanics that boiled down to when meter full fish for counter then spam strong punch/kickdogshit online that carried over to 13 hampering that game as well
>>738106368When street fighter and the arcades were sinking Resident evil and other capcom console games were their to keep them a float. SNK sunk with the arcades as all their games were arcade games and they seem to struggle to move away from that.
SNK died.
>>738106650There were 7 flopped and atrociously terrible KOF games between that and their last actual success, let's not try to rewrite history here.
I still find it infuriating that KOF98UM is actually a perfect game but because its not accessible through fightcade, the vanilla version is what gets tournaments.
>>738107219UM is like 20x worse than the original game. Anyone can play it, its very cheap, it has rollback, they just don't want to.
>>738107253You like fighting the same three characters...?
>>738107263Mind you, I am talking about FE. Not just UM.
>>738107263That happens in every fighting game. The important thing is that the characters that represent the meta are fun to play. And the top tiers in original 98 are very fun to play. Additionally, it adds broken mechanics/characters and even broken hitboxes. Mary is not a deeper and more interesting character to play than O. Yashiro, that's absolutely retarded. No one wants to play this shit game and I specifically remember the western snk community mashing in UM for a month when the port released demanding everyone play it before dropping it forever to chase the next fomo. What an INSANELY bad game 98UM is.
>>738106368Fighting games in general are to complex for zoomers and even majority fightanfags don't want to play good fighting game and will stick to sf6>Mortal kombatNobody play that shit, people buy mk games just to see some fatality and more on
noone has a fomo on any nu-snk release
The retards saying cotw is the saviour of fighting games and unfairly maligned by the community at large do not even play the game and are just fanboy cattle that will never even think about it again when the next snk slop releases.
Publishers for fightan are very retardedWhy not make a decent pc port with rollback, good netcode, crossplay and extra single player mode for these older titlesMost pc ports are worse than fightcade
>>738106368because it suffered from the same retarded fighting game shit that every other japanese game did
>>738107580Those people complain all day how fightan is dead yet go back to diarrhea fighter 6
>>738106368snk is brown-coded
>>738107664Why would I want to play an enshittified version of an old game? That's all snk makes. I already played the better old game. I don't want to mash in a dumbed down version of it with hard stuck bronzes that got washed out of the current popular fighters. That's what snk has been for the last 20 years.
>>738107705Brown genre tourist
>>738107737Cotw is the best modern fightan
>>738107868There is not a single reason to play cotw other than garou unless you suck too badly at fighting games to play garou. It offers not a single improvement over that game. This is a repeat issue with snk fans. If people played cotw you would no long like it because you'd actually have to learn how to play the game.
>>738107434>mashing for a month before dropping it forever to chase the next fomothis is what you did with every fighting game rambaretard
>>738107929and you got filtered by every fighting game until you fled to samsho as a cope because you were too shit to do combos keky
>>738106368I love yuri so much
It was plenty popular in places like China, Mexico. and Brazil.
>>738106368snik had nothing besides arcade games and just faded away with the mediumCapcom had a strong foothold in console games and was able to survive and then relaunch Street Fighter from a position of relative strength
>>738108259oh yeah popular where they pirate itthat sure added up in profiOH WAIT
>>738106368I wish Samsho was still alive
>>738108516It's because Neo Geo cabinets are cheap as shit OP
>>738108593yeah they must have made a fortune off selling cheap hardware and thus the software that gooh wait
>>738107929This is you btw
>>738106368mortal kombat has the gore tho, that's why we love it on arcade/sega, shame it's not faster anymore and became gore porn for degenerates like sonicfox.
>>738106368The truth is, mexicans and those other brown countries only like to play that shitty KOF 02 romhack called magic plus or something like that, they dont like KOF at all
>>738108939No it's not. Try again.
>>738108075Used goods since her debut
>>738109121They like every SNK game and their favorite KOF seems to be 98. That particular rom hack is way more popular than it deserves to be, probably because it makes changes that sound appealing but suck to actually play with.
