>Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves launches April 24, 2025https://youtu.be/lHjjlpCoBOQhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2492040/FATAL_FURY_City_of_the_Wolves/>FF:CotW - Kim Dong Hwanhttps://youtu.be/egbN3KCJfq8https://youtu.be/Zyh-qBOhy2Y>Metal Slug Tactics releasedhttps://youtu.be/JZlvf_m8Zc0https://store.steampowered.com/app/1590760/Metal_Slug_Tactics/>SVC Chaos: SNK vs Capcom rereleasedhttps://youtu.be/JqjMpn6JrYQhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2442380/SNK_VS_CAPCOM_SVC_CHAOS/>KOFXV - Mature & Vicehttps://youtu.be/N6aExKgRs9c>Terry in Street Fighter 6https://youtu.be/qQnF07Owwd8https://youtu.be/PDPhkX2oMmQ>Recent event footage:https://youtu.be/HwnV9HpFJfo>DandyJ's beginner guide to KOFhttps://youtu.be/Ye3KVgI1LvU>Community resourceshttp://dreamcancel.com/how-to-play/>KOFXV beginner guideshttps://youtu.be/t-mYZnOFxlghttps://youtu.be/cqTpKMethDo>/neog/ Discordhttps://discord.gg/HYAQYFh>Official SNK Discordhttps://discord.gg/SNK>SNK Media Galleryhttps://pastebin.com/R7uX3B5J>Assorted Translationshttps://kof.eu5.org/>NEO-GEO FREAK Magazine Archivehttps://archive.org/details/@japanesemagazinesscans?sort=titleSorter&&and[]=subject%3A%22neo_geo_freak%22>RedGGPO and romsethttps://redggpo.com/https://archive.org/details/2020_01_06_fbn>KOF Official Site backuphttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1n98CoBR6GPywr3kzyydNCT5UHTwMNW51/viewPrevious Thread: >>502052038
ded general
post release support hoyp!! miracle that kofxv exists
>>502613159Did the bugeishas really?
Let's talk about Metal Slug tactics.I fucking hate the miner quest.What where they thinking?
SNK should fire their marketing department, the hype for COTW is practically dead.
>>502626305the marketing is not solely at fault here when the product is not really anything more than "hey new game in x series" and that's really the biggest exciting thing about itnot "hey we got a new game in series and here is some cool new shit and cool/sexy/cnf characters that will catch your attention in an eyecatching style that DOESN'T look pawned off from mvc3"just having newgameinxseries alone doesn't mean anything unless it's an already hyped up series to begin with and in that case it must be something like smash bros
>>502641472I like the art style. It reminds me of old school shoujo manga.
>>502642227Pretty sure that's the point.
>>502626305They need to stop making fighting games already, CotW better be the last one they do for a while because a budget genre like fighting games doesn't get any respect. Even most of the big boys like SF6, T8 and especially MK1 are pretty fucking dead outside of their niche circlejerks now. The only one flourishing is Strive and that's not with gamers>>502629535This isn't even criticism it's barely functional as a statement. Most franchises literally only get attention due to frequent marketing anymore because everyone is at odds with each other and we're in a media overdose landscape where everyone is tired of old shit going bad or new shit being bad. All the dev teams can do is make what they want and have suits attempt to sell it. If there's no biters then there's no appeal and at that point what does it even matter?Last trailer we got was Dong Hwan and we might get something equally mediocre like Jae Hoon this month. I don't think we'll be seeing any real interest in the game until closer to launch because all news is the bare minimum
>>502650728>Most franchises literally only get attention due to frequent marketing anymoreyou completely missed my point in saying thisyou can shine the light on cotw all you wantunless it has anything that would interest the casual viewer, the only people you're gonna get the attention of are the people already interested in it because of the nature and content of the product itselfand they'll talk about it for a few seconds and go about their way only waiting for the next bit of news, but increasing the frequency of said news is going to do nothing but sate only the hunger of those who were already engaged in seeing cotw news, lather rinse repeatand then you run out of news and the game comes outand it's just fleeting because outside the fact that it's a new game in the ff franchise, there's nothing remarkably interesting about it
>>502613109>put male character in op>thread dies
Had they released gameplay trailer for Mature and Vice, joint power of their titties would have kept the thread alive.
>>502663573Many such cases.
>>502626305Hype for COTW was firing on all cyclinders too, but then it just diminished. Mai Shiranui was clearly the peak because she's a character people actually give a fuck about. Billy Kane has a shit redesign, no one near Terry's or Mai's level. No one cares about Kevin Rian or Dong Hwan. Revealing Kevin Rian at Evo instead of Mai is fucking insane. Dong Hwan especially should have been retired, sorry but no one cares about Kim's sons. Vox Reaper looks cool in motion but design wise very weak compared to Grant. I don't think he has any immediate aesthetic appeal. Still no Freeman reveal for another villain/bad guy. Still no Gato. Revealing the Ken & Chun-Li crossover in a shitty round table with no trailer and not even having official renders ready was the deathknell, holy shit how retarded. Actual leaks would have been far better than that. With all of that out of the way, COTW is looking good.
>>502674830Dong Hwan has his fanbase, they are just not as loud, since he is neither someone with million appearances to make him a legacy character or a sexy waifu. But if the game just had characters that inspire biggest hype, then the selection would be really small. And new characters are a gamble, Preecha got complaints for her design, and you said yourself Vox's design is weak. Any other new characters would hardly be that much different.
>>502674830>>502675815No one likes new characters at first sight.The exceptions were Juri and Reina.
>>502680094plenty of gachaslop introduce new characters that get instant appeal right off the bat
>>502681446Different mindset I guess.
>>502681446And get thrown away for a new waifu of the week in a heartbeat.
>>502665542>joint power of their titties would have kept the thread alive.Not this time, they covered them up.
>>502680094Azucena was a success, until everyone got tired of her screeching about coffee all the time. And nerfing her best move certainly didn't help.Victor gained interest as silver fox, but everyone agrees the sword is a surplus, both in visual design and his gameplay.So the problem might not be so much that they are new, but that they have something that fucks it up.
We really are dead, huh
>>502699114I've run out of things to talk about, and I guess people playing new Metal slug are busy playing. December is soon, when fresh stuff should come trickling in.
>>502668046This stance is tits, I hope they use it in KOFXV.
>>502699114We could talk about Metal Slug Tactics, like I already tried in this thread.
>>502704660I'm sorry, looks like there is barely anyone still here, and while I played Metal Slug, Tactics isn't my cup of tea.
Did anyone read the Nakoruru visual novel? How is it?
>>502699114Probably due to that verification bullshit that most people don't bother with.
>>502728316Pretty mediocre overall
>>502723328Taimanin for next SamSho?
>>502728685>Lack of news on CotW until a week where they'll reveal some shit like Jae Hoon>KOFXV intentionally killed to focus on CotW despite not having any news for a month>4chan intentionally stifling its posters with post limits that take 15 minutes to do anythingWe're better off just letting the threads fall off and wait for release and if the threads aren't much more lively after CotW and the 9k schizo kills himself from boredom then the threads should just remain dead because clearly it's not going to get any better going forward
One Puta and one Tranny
Yuri & Friends
>>502690338lol well first off furina is still pretty likedsecond, even fotm still gets plenty more attention than the nothingburger dimeless ones that aren't even at acquired taste level
>>502731326>and the 9k schizo kills himself from boredom>implying i won't just continue kicking someone while they're down in other fg threads
>>502732512Gameplay trailer when?
>>502734692I can't wait for the future Alice mods.
>>502728316It's dog shit like everything she stars in. I don't understand the Japanese obsession with a character as vanilla like her.
>>502728316>Did anyone read the Nakoruru visual novel?
>>502734692Where did you get the version with the extra face plate?
>>502762427I got it on Nin-Nin games
>>502760085Yamato Nadeshiko is a pretty popular archetype in Japan.
Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?
>>502776248She's literally Ainu. Fails at being Yamato.
I've been trying to tie hakkeshu with forces of nature, and so far this is what I got:Goenitz - wind - tornadoChris - fireShermie - electricity - thunderstormsYashiro - earth - earthquakes/eruptionsMature/Vice - predators/beastsIt would actually fit Gaidel to be water, since then he can have floods as the ultimate disaster, and also he is a character with both destroying (hakkeshu) and calming (Leona's father) side.Yamazaki is the one I can't fit, he seems to be a beast like Mature and Vice. But if 3 of 4 earthly kings are beasts, then the 4th one should be as well, yet 4 characters with same theme of violence is kind of dull.
Wow, someone remembered her.https://x.com/junkie3g/status/1857396126061920425
>>502788680Never underestimate the wonderful mind of an autistic coomer.
Would Adel enjoy having Rock as a rival?
>>502809607No
>>502821046Is Rimururu in hiding or what?
>>502618804I want to like the game, but every time I get to the Shieet boss I die. I hate it. I beat him one time but died later on and I was so powerful.’Then it makes you start all the way to the beginning. Yawn.
>>502836391Kchan
>>502674830Practically everything SNK does is bewildering and unorthodox. No other modern FG company behaves like them. It's like they operate in a different reality. From like you said about them revealing Kevin out of all characters at EVO to just reveal Billy at China a week after, to them revealing the final KOF 15 DLC to be Vice and Mature but just their character sketches, not even a render that we somehow haven't gotten months later at TGS, and still haven't gotten as we're approaching their release month. Stuff like them having KOF 13 rollback on PS4 and the fucking Switch, but not PC for some inconceivable reason. I can list a ton of other stuff, but you get the point. It's like these negros are purposely making the most baffling decisions they can. Either that or SNK is just ran by psychopaths.
$224 for Goenitz with a stroke
>>502831139If you don't want to take risks, focus on the mobs an occasionally attack the boss, when you feel safe.He is indeed the most obnoxious boss, but everything is beatable.
>>502784903https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaguaGaidel is sky like Zeorymer.
>>502858783Those are some big toned thighs.
>>502845172Tim Curry vibes.
love bimmy combos simple as
>>502870367let's FREAKIN go notrockhoward
>>502884407cool chicken scratches
>>502884407Why does Athena have a Rumiko Takahashi face?
>>502889243is that really a rumiko takahashi face
>>502891303The face reminds me of Lum.
>>502900492kind of what i was trying for when i drew over that pic
>>502859576How does that apply to a KOF fight? Zeorymer is a mecha, and my quick read shows it has special speed, destructive shockwaves, and can tank a lot of damage. That's pretty standard for KOF characters, while to say someone has elemental power it needs to be actually seen.
>>502908976Zeorymer is the Hakkeshu that turned against Tekkoryu.
>>502911743Okay, but that still doesn't explain how an earthly king can have heavenly powers of the sky, or how would they even be presented. Mature, Vice, and Yamazaki also turned against Goenitz, so the situation is not that strictly comparable.
>Days of vacuous postingWhy do you keep this general alive when you've clearly driven everyone away with your faggotry? Your insufferable behavior over the years results in this place being dead. It's clear everyone else has fucked off to other social media sites because they can't stand you anymore.
How did Fatal Fury Special capture the japanese players this way?It is basically SFII tier.
>>502923254
>>502923254nta, but this place has been just as dead before KOFXV and 9k schizo, SNK games just don't inspire posting for longer periods of time, and the lazy 30th anniversary certainly doesn't help either.
>>502940386stop killing the narrative, he needs to be able to attribute just one more thing to me so i can add it to my big belt full of notches
>>502932363It was good.
>>50284818690s SNK localisation was a hoot
>>502848186why IS maxima foretelling that k IS going to be toast, rather than speaking with past tense probabilitiesdid maxima plan a heel turn on k
I'm new to KOF, how do you beat rolls? Can you grab opponents during their rolls?
>>502965326yes, that is one of the ways you actually beat themand the other is to catch them on the tail end of one with a normal and a lot of people like to do things like crouching normal -> blowback when timed
>>502965510thank you!
>>502965571npyou can figure out some tricks like some spaced safejump/hop setups and frametraps and safe meaties or whatever you wanna call them to check wakeups like if they roll on wakeup
>>502965241Might be a translation thing. Like I think in the Japanese version when Whip tells Krizalid about him being a clone she wasn't as hostile towards him as she was in the English one.
>>502965326>I'm new to KOFCheck out these videos (and channels)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Der3Otd8X0ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcMpCpee1TAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInSUKcrsdAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFw0GjBWAAIFor referencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8qGnTHfnk
>"dead general">page 4So which ones are more inactive?
>>502967957yeah you tend to go through page 4 on your way back to page 10 after the desperate rescuing bump kek
>>502965241Maxima is probably talking about how K''s glove is relatively unstable and that if his glove breaks, K' will lose control of the flame and be consumed.
>>502971557i'm mocking the way he's phrasing it
>>502972652Then yeah, that's just kooky SNK '90s localization.
What was Nakoruru caught doing?
>>502972795would think even back then 90s localizers would know about the difference between expressing something that is sure to happen and something that could have happened but just luckily didn't
>>502974906???
>>502784903>Yamazaki is the one I can't fit,Yamazaki is mountain, it's literally in his name.
What the fuck
>>502734692Made for hotglueing
>>502980941They need to make a shirt of this.
>>502980941wtf are they even saying to each other
>>502940386In part you are right, however the 30th anniversary posts wouldn't have saved shit even if they were people's various definitions of interesting. This is just cope by KoFags that can't stand not being catered to 24/7. Even when games have been fresh, including KoF games, the threads were near death a couple weeks after. I'll admit I sort of dipped shortly before XV released because the shitposting and schizos became annoying, but even since XIV released threads were molasses slow.Even when they blitzed information like with weekly trailers people bitched and moaned as to what the point was. People here would rather bitch and moan than have any sort of discussion.I even made some of the threads a few years back, but then ultimately though if it goes on it goes on if they fall off page 10 it's whatever.
>>502981915Athena is inquiring as to why a specific person hasn't shown up and Kyo, being a nice chap for a change, is posting that their fellow acquaintance possibly could not attend their dance function.
>>502982207>Even when they blitzed information like with weekly trailers people bitched and moaned as to what the point was.>peopleclearly it was all just one great anon doing all of that
>>502982752No, but your postings have become more erratic over the years. This is just conjecture, but points I even noticed that for the sake of shitposting you've been on the same side as the retard who ducked your challenge and who would come back and try to shit things up when the threads were still young.
>>502983583*but at points
>>502981502Yes the type where it's just a cheap shirt where the design is just an ironed on square version of the picture that gets hot as fuck when any amount of sunlight hits it.
>adjective: sanguine>1.optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.ok?????
>>502983583>but your postings have become more erratic over the yearsoh cool i leveled up a lotit be all that jrpg grindin
>>502985670They probably tried to say bloody battle.
>>502996298Tam Tam is so dreamy...
>>503001307Why did he let her turn out like this? Why didn't he correct her when he had the chance?
>>502966391Krizacuck, the simp?
>>503009927is she saying puke as an expression of disgust or calling him a pukelike turning puke into a noun like that is very strange
>>503014274A puke (noun, referring to a person) is a contemptible or worthless person. So yes, '90s localized Whip is using that word correctly.
>>503015219and how often have you heard it used in a noun form in that manner irl, without the word "little" preceding it
Nakobutt with the next picture by the artist being some prpr-able precure coinslot.https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/123714573
Seems like we're only going to get new shit at the Game Awards. And it likely should be a character trailer and Beta announcement. If there isn't a beta announcement, the game is going to be delayed.
>>502979583Mountain is not elemental power, it's a buildup of earth and rock, and falls under Yashiro's power.At most, Yamazaki shows immovability of mountain when it comes to his life goals vs serving Orochi in modern times. But again, that's not a power, that's just one hell of a stubbornness. He'll probably never even fit, since he wasn't even created as hakkeshu, it was tacked on in KOF.
>>503047043The bagua (hakke in Japanese) elements are Heaven (sky), Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain and Earth.
>>503047672Do you have autism? I know the bagua elements, you've repeated them many times, I'm trying to talk about elemental powers in a fighting game, ie. those shiny effects that show up on screen to indicate this fighter is not like the other fighter. Stuff like heaven, mountain and lake can't translate into that, since they are really just different form of other elements - lake is made of water; mountain is made of earth and possibly fire (volcanoes); heaven is made of wind, thunder and water.
>>503048668You're inventing your own elements like "beasts".
>>503050034I would have loved to give Mature and Vice some actual elements, but they don't really have anything besides scratching with sharp nails, and clawed predators are part of nature. Which is really what I wanted initially, to tie protectors of nature with dangers coming from nature.
>>503051015
>>503060924Cute
>>503103512Should've been in the Samurai team instead of Darli.
Iori's cocksocks news tomorrow.STAY TUNE!!
https://www.cospa.com/cospa/detail/id/00000125766Official Terry hat for just $30 plus shipping
kek
>>503128756Terry is gay.
So Terry is after B. but then they gave him a new gf in Garou?....???????
r8 my snk-related artwork
>>503154171It's shit
>>503157547huh wat u mean
>>503158090Your """art""" is shit, this doesn't even look like Jenet, this is just a poor attempt of shitposting, fuck off.
>>503158573it is jenet from ctow
>>503158857No it's not faggot schizo, you just did this shitty draw based on a retarded take of yours about a screencap of the game that has nothing wrong about it.Go fuck yourself
>>503159630so angry over a fanart i did of bjenet from cowtno wonder they didn't let you in
>>503160218>no wonder they didn't let you inLike I care, you draw like shit faggot schizo.
>>503160636that's mean to both me and bjenet from tcow
>>503169817Dead franchise.
>>503128756What the hell, Terry
>>503113540Finally
>>503114419Finally a decent version of Terry's hatI also noticed the Fatal Fury shirt. I remember there being a similar one for sale a few years back, but it was at some Japanese physical stores only.I also kinda want the Fatal Fury sweater Oda has been known to wear from time to time.
>>503148447Imagine all the places shota pp can go.
>>503187509Cut pic, but YJK
>>502613109Are they gonna add all the Garou characters to CotW? I like how Freeman looks a lot but he seems kinda shit here
>>503199903>Are they gonna add all the Garou characters to CotW?Grant is already out of the race.But yes, if not in the first roster all the characters will be there in DLC. Even jae hoon.
Edgekino to the rescue
>>503148447New gf?
Say something nice to Shun's girlfriend
>>503266058Happy Birthday!
>>502923254As someone that used to post here daily even when there was nothing to talk about, that's pretty much it. I just talk about SNK stuff elsewhere now.
>>502923254Honestly this is not very different to the time post Najd release when there was nothing much to talk about, the difference is that back then we had high hopes for XV actually delivering on all the promises laid out by XIV. But then XV released with the bare minimum effort put on it and squandering everything that laid out 14 and the little it introduced, add the absolute schizo way they've been handling their PR since and is hard to have high hopes for the future
>>503287667>XV flopped
>>503287667The schizo only ruins this general because it makes conversation impossible without people having to hear the exact same complaints ad nauseam with no real anticipation for anything new because one fighting game (lol) wasn't GOAT. SNK is shitting their pants trying to get anything done and yet right now it's still a better time for them than 10 years ago where they weren't even putting out anything. Aiming to be a AAA studio probably won't work for them unless they branch out and stop pandering exclusively to the only fanbase they cultivated during their dark ages so that people can actually get invested in their stuff instead of the same handful of people who stick around for every game. KOFXV got new people invested in SNK, I'm one of them, but I'm genuinely under the belief KOF, especially in its current state, isn't what SNK needs to get money or attention anymore. Too many plot threads, too many dropped arcs, too many unnecessary characters and too many pro players making newcomers feel uneasy and hesitant in trying to become the new age of pro players>>503289335Maybe it flopped because standards were too high coming off of XIV and SamSho like they expected this one to change everything. However it's really starting to feel more like the dev team were just really getting all of the KOF out of their system into a bare minimum package so that they wouldn't have to work on the games anymore. The "New Age Saga Finale" marketing feels less like this was the ultimate cultivating climax and more a safe stone to sit on so they can finally fuck off and do other shit
>>503289794I wouldn't call KOFXV a flop. By AA standards, it did pretty well for itself, and SNK is clearly happy with it.
>>503290274It wasn't a rousing success but it wasn't a flop which due to the forced higher standards of our AAA overlords and their do it for free shilling shitposters, is why we're even having this discussion. If Bomb Rush Cyberpunk can sell millions of copies and become a cult hit immediately and still have the studio shut down because it wasn't enough of a success, then that's why people here are even humoring the idea of KOFXV being a "flop" when these games barely even see high numbers like 100k sales to begin with. It took SF6 over a year to hit 4 million sales and it's still a slow ass burn for more. Ranking fighting games by sales numbers seem pointless because despite all of them desperately needing players in order to survive most barely scrape 1k players at maximum. Some like SF or Tekken are lucky enough to get 10k players. Still minuscule
>>503289335yesjust like the project called aew
VOTEhttps://poal.me/w6d2xg
What's the next game event SNK will be featured on this year?
>>503305295The Game Awards is the last event of the year.
Manifesting SamSho RPG news at TGA.
>>503312896
>>503266058nice armpits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0t0cS81dtk
What different phrases would a talking Mai Shiranui plush doll say when squeezed?
>>503327152She confides in you about feeling worthless after having all of her advances rejected by Andy.
>>503327152>nine k ichi!
>>503287667I think most people left this thread because talking about things you enjoy with people that hate it and/or are here just to shitpost the same shit all the time isn't fun. It's like trying to talk about popular new games on /v/. It isn't worth it and there are better places to do it.XV itself is a good game and launched in a way better state than XIV, but that's it, and once again they fucked up with the online and took too long to fix it>>503290274It did alright but it took so much time for them to fix the matchmaking that it bleed too many people, so the second season suffered from it and because of this we didn't get a third one. I'm still surprised they are releasing more characters
>>503327152Andy!
>>503327152*snigger*
Orochi asses.
>>503312896Her reaction is cute.
>>503333081>It's like trying to talk about popular new games on /v/except they lather rinse repeat and people keep coming back for more
>>503365041Why is BIRB cosplaying as Rimururu?
It's snowing!
One day, SNK will remember Savage Reign.
>>503394104The last time they remembered was KoF XI two decades ago.It's over.
>>503383365What's up with the mini Nako
>>503399986She died in SS2.Supposedly, she can appear in full size, like she did in SS64 games and Sen, but in SSWR she was funsize, probably cosplaying korpokkur.
>>503375126The ass looks too small to be birb.
post merkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqU3V9dNmNE
>>503327912>>503332964>>503346092>>503350002And how would you get the Mai doll to speak?
>>503405962Squeeze the hag's exposed tummy.
>>503401435Only in the original canon, in the new one she can do it at will as part of the power that Kamui give it to her.
>>503408528That doesn't change much.
>>503409723Except it changes it because unlike the original canon she's not dead.
>>503409938There isn't a big difference between being a literal ghost and becoming a nature spirit it's retiring and becoming a nature spirit while being alive.It doesn't change much. The whole retcon was basically about her being able to appear as a fighter more.That is, if that was a retcon in the first place and not a mistranslation or a misunderstanding of some sort. Like sleeping and "sleeping" thing.
0hrm
>>503423136Sauce?
>>503394247Are the Savage Reign characters in XI canon?
>>503423136Don't lewd Leona...
>>503433653They were in the arcade version, so probably. It'd be debatable if they only showed up in the PS2 port, but since they're not I fail to see why they wouldn't be.
>>503433653Pretty sure they are supposed to be non-canon additions.
>>503423136https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/124562709https://files.catbox.moe/mvp5cp.jpg
>>502613109what is this face trying to convey?
>>503480046Comfy
>>503405962She has soft silicone tits that you have to squeeze
>>503480046Defenseless
>>503322370What happened to Ryo, is he dehydrated?
>>503436967That's impossible
>>503394104Who?
hi i got pointed to here from another general what kof is good and how do i play it
>>5035212302k2UM and XV.Watch some sets on YouTube to figure out which one you think looks coolest, then play it on Steam.
>>503521615cheers
Shizumaru my dear sweet shota...
>>503524387Really hope we get another game. Samurai Shodown 2019 died too fast.
>>503527814We're supposed to be getting an action RPG which I'm looking forward to. Just hope they don't do what they did with 2019 again and dump it on Stadia then EGS instead of giving us a proper PC port.
>>503528319I'm not super excited for it to be honest but I guess it means the series is also not dead.
>>503529453Bare minimum it means we're not in the Last Blade box. Nobody wants to go in there.
>>503521230which general did you come from?
>>503534226/ggg/, i got told to play a real fighting game
>>503521230XI/98um/2002UM2000 for the best strikers experience
>>503534352They did you a service since playing Strive would actively make you worse at other fighting games if you started with it first.
>>503534565i played skullgirls and sf4 before strivei don't really get why everyone hates strive specifically
>>503534429XI is fantastic but no modern port is kind of a killer. Fightcade exists yes but it's shit for retaining interest. Shame it's in Legal Jargon jail.
>>503534650Strive is trying to be this half-assed street fighter game while trying to pass off as an anime fighter, many characters also had their movesets completely blown up. From a KOF perspective it's the equivalent of going from KOF02UM to KOFXIII but arguably worse than KOF's painful moveset cuts.The most recent patch ended up leaning even further onto Strives high damage/random gameplay and the stream reviews reflect peoples discontent. Plus hating strive tends to come from if you have experience with the past Guilty Gears, of which the biggest detractors tend to.>>503534993An XI UM with the PS2-exclusive characters and balance changes is desperately needed, but does SNK still have the will to even revisit the neogeo sprites for the last time again?
>>503535262so if i liked strive should i play a different kof than the ones recommended to me above?
>>503535262Massively agree. The PS2-exclusives were why I picked up the game a few years back, and they gave us the best looking Robert.All they'd really have to do is do what they did again and port some more NGBC fags (Yuki, perchance) and they'd have the best UM ever.Unfortunately, it's modern SNK, and unless the Saudi prince wants to bankroll something that niche, it's probably not happening.>>503535402NTA, but no. Pick up 2k2UM, it's the best "classic" KoF.
>>503535402No far from that actually. Most of the KOFs are straight up garbage or are strictly inferior to their successors, the ones that are mentioned regularly which are 98/98umfe/XI/02um/XIII (This one is really polarizing and not viable online)/XV are the actual viable ones to play.
>>503535262>An XI UM with the PS2-exclusive characters and balance changes is desperately neededI don't need that game, and KOF XI doesn't deserve a UM remake to represent the Ash saga in anyway.
>>503538159You prefer XIII to be the game that represents Ash's games instead? That's the game that actually damaged the series with its sprites, cut movesets, and HD Mode.
>>503538805>That's the game that actually damaged the series with its sprites, cut movesets, and HD ModeWrong, KOF XII is the game who actually did that because of the rushed development and the reason why KOF XIII was released that way and the other games as well (gameplay wise mainly).On the other hand, it's the one who really needs a remake, it could easilly have all the Ash saga gameplay mechanics merged into 2 different gauges like KOF 98 UM with all the characters and even have it's own story that was discarded back then due to time constraints.
>>503539968You're so retarded it hurts.
>>503538805Can you expand on how each of those things damaged the series?
>>503540745>You're so retarded it hurts.Spare me from your projecting, faggot.
>>503541141At least I'm not the drooling mongoloid trying to argue the KoF Strive should represent the Ash saga.
>>503540895>SpritesMassive time/moneysink, and people called it a dated SNES game with its sprites especially since SFIV comparisons were high. Not to mention Ralf and Clark had the same fucking body sprites to save on costs.>Cut movesetsThe rotoscoped sprites meant corners had to be cut and this led to so many characters losing moves. The most infamous one was Terry losing power dunk until XV.>Hyperdrive ModeThe most horribly overpowered version of max mode to date, it made everything a fucking juggle fest, and it was very similar to street fighter alpha 2/3s custom combos where the most damaging combos were just command normals/specials you looped over and over again. KOFXIV, and XV's max mode implementations have mostly been damage control over HD Mode's insane power potential.All this? And the game sold like fucking shit, its no wonder why SNK won't ever go back to making HD sprites.
>>503541361Yet you're asking for a UM remake from a game that it's not even the final entry in the Ash saga or even a dream match ignoring blatantly the point of the UM series. Just like the last time you posted about this giving a superficial and retarded reason.
>>503542323Alright, then we'll call it a Re-Bout like they did for '94 if your only real point is "ermm that's the wrong name so clearly im right about my dogshit game"
>>503544137> if your only real point is-Nope, you're still wrong about it.
>>503544784>erm im not gonna listen or make any actual points because i already decided that my mediocre hd slop is the game that deserves a remakeMust feel good being this stupid.
>>503545765>Must feel good being this stupid.You tell me, after all you are the only idiot who asks for a XI UM remake just like the last time you did (for superficial reasons btw), ignoring the whole point about the UM series and even proyecting yourself.
I just want fucking XI because it's the only game they don't port or have accessible on modern store fronts I don't even need a goddamn remake
>>503550738Unironically just this. A UM would be nice, but it's not necessary compared to "XI is playable again"
>>503550738Sorry dude, SNK has not any interest on the game and his PS2 version is screwed legally by Sony.>>503551479This, the only reason why that faggot only asked for a XI UM remake some time ago it was for some roster bullshit that has no relation with the Ash saga.
>>503551872Even if the PS2 version is cucked it's not as if the new characters are any real worthwhile. I'd only really want the game itself with unlockable viewable cutscenes. Just give the arcade version a polish up like SvC Chaos and that's all I could ask for
>>503542278>and people called it a dated SNES game with its sprites especially since SFIV comparisons were highThis is so funny to look back on in retrospect where sf4 looks like disgusting dogshit and kof13 is praised for looking amazing (besides UI)
Hag Yuri
>>503578105Art of Fury had Mrs. Karate but she was still just young Yuri in different clothes (and with different moves).
>>503577347when i played kofxiii at a computer lab when it was still fresh with some friends, some of the other students in there were like "hey i remember this on super nintendo" lolmy playing partner just wanted to play kof2k2 vanilla instead so we switched to that
>>503577347>>503578564And now we have retards constantly asking why KOF isn't going back to XIII style sprites.
BECAUSE... MATURE LOST A CRAP SPECIAL MOVE SHE NEVER USED
>>503578105A little (a lot) less toned and it would be great-
>>503574704Sexy
>>503581328???
>>503581328Just comparing from XI,>Kyo lost his rekkas until Team 15 Dollars came out>Terry lost Power Dunk>Ryo lost half his movelist>Clark lost Frankensteiner, Running Three and Mount TackleThose are just the ones I personally remember from playing those characters. If you think those are "crap special moves" and not character-defining specials, you're genuinely having your brain fried by LE PRITTY GRAFIX.
Might sound cringe but KOFXIII was such a good introduction to KOF for me since the story mode/arcade modes had every character had dialogue.For a casual like me who knew zilch that showed the appeal of the cast to me real quick and sparked intrigue (despite the usual SNK localization)
>>503611928>Kyo lost his rekkas until Team 15 Dollars came outYou mean Kyo just had his 94-95/EX 97-98 moveset? Crazy.Might as well complain that Iori lost his flame based attacks.Like, I'm absolutely shitting on KoF XII-XIII for similar reasons myself, but pick better examples than Kyo and Terry, man. Ralf got a deal at least as bad as Clark and unlike him also plays like shit still in XV.
>>503618103His 94-95/EX 97-98 moveset is, unfortunately, still really boring. At least Iori had a lore reason, if one I still don't fully buy even as an Ash apologist, for losing his flames.Fair point about the examples given though. Maxima also losing half of his moves, Ralf losing dropkick until XIV and the re-cucking of Kensou are much better.
>>503619917Kyo had a meta reason for that, as KoF XII is technically the 15th anniversary KoF game.And while I'm not big on that version of Kyo myself (outside of occasional Kyo-1), it led to creation of Kusanagi, which IS a fun character in my opinion and I wouldn't mind seeing again.Either way, complaining about it is fine, I just wouldn't group it with movelist cuts for the sake of a healthier argument, especially since you don't need to scrape the barrel for it.
>>503621972I keep forgetting they blew the 15th anniversary on XII.Kusanagi is absolutely fun though, albeit by way of not just being a straight port of 94-95. Seeing him back would be nice.
>>503633190Hello, ladies ;)
>>503634510
>>503581328Mature should lose the moves she stole from Eiji.
Making OC versions of kof girls I can legally make brutal rape doujins with not kensou, so SNK can't sue me.lmao.
>>503646284You won't get sued but you will disappear and the satrap of the sands will make sure no one finds you either.
>>503556737It looks like she’s bent over doggy style from the thumbnail
>>503611928>Terry lost Power Dunk>Ryo lost half his movelistat most, they lost tools they didn't need. terry doesn't need power dunk, and ryo doesn't need rainbow chop nor bottle breaker, but they did retain the essentials they need to function. whoever's thrilled about the spritework, snk took the challenge on, and it forced them to consider what's worth keeping and what isn't. the old games are filled with bloat and unnecessary special moves. an obvious example is how '98 benimaru's hcb+K had zero practical utility outside of combos, which was still something, but then there were moves like whip's teleport which were useless and added nothing to the character. it's fine if you think those moves look cool, as the developers certainly did at the time, but they don't add any depth.>Clark lost Frankensteiner, Running Three and Mount Tacklerunning three isn't necessary, and they swapped out frankensteiner for armored super argentine, which was much more efficient. obv in xv clark has both delayed argentine and frankensteiner, which both have their nuance, but he was already well off with just one of these.mount tackle was probably the biggest loss, but when it came back in xv, it's pretty much only used for the ex anywhere juggle, which was utility it never had, and makes him dominate neutral in ways a grappler frankly shouldn't. clark did suffer in xii where he didn't have gatling attack nor mount tackle, but he was fine with just the former for the next two games. by xv, normal mount tackle is useless for this purpose. snk did a pretty good job with consolidating the tools he had.>>503618103someone slept through vanilla xv
>>503581328mature should lose her clothesand become an enf
>>503662113You know what also isn't needed?>Characters standing in the background cheering on and interferring with the fight under extremely rare conditions.>Kim's pants being as animated as they were.>Dialogues before fights (everyone skips them anyway).>Animations before and after fights.>Making stages, besides the training one.>Destiny battle music, and music in general (it can mute sound cues).And a lot of other things in the same vein.You might say that if I like presentation that much I must like the new sprites and how well animated they are, but frankly, I can't stand XII and XIII designs to care as much about animations.
>>503662113>thing you like is bad because it's unnecessary>thing i like is good because it reduced bloat (in the most bloated 2d kof game)If you were any more of a retard you'd be kept in a lab and studied.
>>503664137presentation is needed for very different reasons a move is needed. all the character interactions, stages, details et al are there to immerse you in the game's world, while a move is needed for your character to win. sure, character designs and expressions of moves are always intertwined with their gameplans, but it should go without saying a move which doesn't help them win is inimical to their expression. there is nothing worse than when a move looks really cool, but it has no practical application so you can never use it. this is really a question of quality vs quantity.>>503664598tell me more why '98 leona needs i-slasher
>>503667337How is I-Slasher relevant to this argument when it was removed in '99? This is like trying to argue that Ryu didn't need Donkey Kick in 3S, so it's also totally justified for them to remove ground Tatsu because he doesn't really need it.
>>503668738it was removed because she didn't need it. mainly because it sucked. most of the moves removed in xii also weren't necessary, and whatever utility they had could be made up for by retooling existing moves with similar enough properties already. most characters stayed faithful to their gameplans in spite of the moveset cuts.
>tfw never will be a pop up store in your country:(
Manifesting a new SamSho game soon...
>>503684306patience, for they are poor povert indie company and can work on only one game at a time
I will BTFO SNK.
>>503689491Not that hard to accomplish nowadays.
>>503691954was just gonna say "low hurdle"
>>503689491MUGEN authors BTFO modern SNK so you've got a pretty good shot.
>Here is a rough design of Ash. I think that if we don't remove his hair and image color, we can play around with his outfit a lot. The person who first planned Ash, who is now working for another company, told me once more than 10 years ago about how he wanted to make a “tame” character as the main character.
>>503707223https://x.com/snk_oda/status/1860925963670057190Ok, but why do three of these concepts have him as the flamiest faggot ever put on KOF?
>>503707370
>>503707529
>>503707370They thought about maintaining the status quo of Ash being the faggiest person in the tournament, but backpedaled when they realized that'd take the spotlight off of Shun'ei.
>>503707370Japanese idea of flamboyant often includes outfits as far removed from concept of masculinity as possible, and from Shun's example we see modern SNK designers sometimes can't stop themselves. That Ash is french and thus connected to the idea that they are more fashionable probably doesn't help either.
>>503715768Heavy Metal artstyle isfucking dead and this is sad.
>>503700070Thicc Athena
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo5CBykSEoM>We will never get againg a golden era of mexican combo union with cyberfanatix music combo videos.
>>503707370The bastard was a femboy from the fucking start.
>>503611928Not excusing them but SNK is notorious for fucking changing a moveset in the drop of a hat. "You like this move?! Well, fuck you, you're not seeing it again until a dream match re-release!!"
For the sake's of that.Imagine Terry without his Rising Tackle.
>>503752906Doesn't he not have it in some games like MOTW where Rock has it instead?
>>503753913Yeah, he has Power Dunk as his anti-air instead
what are the odds of CoTW not dying in 2 months
>>503757590Well, it's already on steam, so no danger of them shoving it somewhere with no players until a year after release. People might also be more interested, since they can't really complaint now about 3 characters being too many to learn. SNK is also putting more effort into advertising, so unless they really fuck up gameplay, it should do fine. For first few months at least.
>>503757590It will die within a year like all SNK fighting games. It will be 6 months if the netcode is shit.
Who is that pokemon?
>>503767328He's gay
>>503714187>and from Shun's example we see modern SNK designers sometimes can't stop themselves.Isn't Shun based on current asian teenager street fashion?
>>503616751If there's something XIII did great it was the way the unlimited amount of dialogue for everyone. then they proceeded to be lazy on forward
>>503281767>As someone that used to post here daily even when there was nothing to talk about, that's pretty much it. I just talk about SNK stuff elsewhere now.I know I get a better experience. I used to come and post here daily, leave a tab open so I could get the latest post, but when all you get is the exact same shit like a spambot it's better to just pop in once a week as there is at least one post that isn't a waste of time reading.
>>503770264where's his single rolled up pant legand loose tieattention to detailand the fact that teenagers would willingly go out like that is lolat least in america people be ghetto urban
I have surpassed SNK.
>>503792460what a tall face she has
>>503792460Wow, you almost got to the Virtua Fighter 2 level!
>>503792460A day closer to your dream game!
>>503786580Great tits
>>503752906Fatal Fury 3?
>>503770264So THAT's why Shun looks ugly...
>>503770264That guy (?) at least has a well balanced color scheme, one of Shun's most glaring problems is that he has various colors thrown together. Red/orange/yellow details on his white/black outfit were already fashionable statement, purple tie/details and green hair just looked like they had extra color they didn't want to go to waste.Shun has also lived isolated in the mountains with an old grandpa, where would he even see street fashion? It would be nice if they could think about the character when designing them.
>>503821607What a slut
>>503854943rude
>>503837194Galford's skin is so red.
Realistically, how do we revive the hype?
>>503846010>one of Shun's most glaring problems is that he has various colors thrown togetherThats the most glaring problem with all their designs
>>503869940all their NEW designs is what I meant
>>503869762which begs the questioncan youdo you even WANT tobecause i've heard you guys want NO hype
>>503869940Not really. For someone silly like Sylvie it works, because it's part of her character to just go overboard and crazy with clothing. I don't recall anyone else being too colorful, except Isla, where again it just works with her rebellious, spray-painting street rat character.Meanwhile, the problem people had with Hein was that he looked too bland in his butler suit.I recall Nelson was also said to be overdesigned, but it was matter of too many little details, his color scheme is actually fairly simple combo that works together.
https://x.com/snk_oda/status/1861607375897272645Chizuru costume concepts
>>503869762We'll see a few minor spikes once Gato and Kain are revealed but otherwise probably not until the game drops because there's nobody really that's going to spark much enthusiasm. Jae Hoon and a redesigned Hokutomaru are also high possibilities now but aren't really what the game needs for hype. So just reveal whatever the Ronaldo thing is going to be and let the game release because constant attempt at "hype" obviously isn't an option for a company that barely has the money to handle making two games at onceBank on the story because that's Fatal Fury's most important attribute so people will have reason to care about these characters. No half-assed shit like KOF (always half-assed)
>>503872130
>>503872348Definitely being bold with this one
>>503872591Looks like they were trying to experiment before just going with a variation of the original design.
>>503873179>>503872591>>503872130>Kagura Chizuru. Since the motif is a shrine maiden, I came up with various ideas, but after 100 weeks I settled on something close to the original design.Lame
>>503872294People shit on XIII for many reasons but the best thing it did was actually provide you with content IN THE GAME that actually make you care about the characters. People excused the older games because they were in arcades mainly but there's no excuse for them when they reverted back to the same problem with XIV again
>>503873698To an extent. The interactions are on paper nice but the issue is KOF still half-asses half its roster and in the case of XIII the entire roster is irrelevant to the story it was telling and since it was the end of the story, they had to tie up loose threads for characters who weren't even playable in the game which is a massive fumble for any story where it's THAT separate from the game you were letting people play. Which already was a fault of the Ash Saga staking too much on Ash to begin with but by the end all of the characters had a lot of character development reverted or were completely and utterly derailed going forward. Having it in-game is a boon but it has to be good too
>>503872591That looks like something Shermie would wear, or Miss X in Heroines 2.
>>503874138>and in the case of XIII the entire roster is irrelevant to the story it was tellingexcept ash, but it's a fallacy to believe that the rest of them SHOULD be relevant to any overarching story just because they're in the vicinity of it and this is a discussion about awareness, prior knowledge, interest, and stakes per character
>>503875813I'm just saying people aren't going to really get invested in a story mode if all of the characters are just chatting it up and don't really have any agency in the overarching narrative and it makes for a completely uninteresting and limp finale when nothing changes for everybody else at the end. It's one of the main criticisms of XIV and XV too but that more so stems from the devs wanting KOF to have roster freedom as opposed to XIII which was just them giving up game dev and making a pretty bare essentials gameWhat CotW has set up differently is to actually follow through on a lot of the cliffhangers set up by MotW, and for characters like Billy and Mai, seemingly reinvent them in ways you normally wouldn't see them in due to their stories having been completely suspended by the 90s. Personally I never really saw KOF as a place for the crossover characters to flourish despite their attempts at doing so with the Ikari and Psycho Soldier teams since SNK seemed adamant and held restraint that Fatal Fury would eventually come back. Now they finally have the opportunity to flesh out those characters again and I think KOF OCs should also start branching out of KOF so that they may get the focus they need instead of needing to share it with whatever arbitrary Hero they make next. Since it's looking like the roster will either freeze in terms of team comp or be completely different (doubt) in XVI
>>503869762Funnily enough, I recently came across a video about that from a random with 2k subs and his ideas amounted to>KOF has lost all novelty and needs to take a long break Not a bad idea but there was a gap of six years between 14 and 15 and previous to that six years between 13 and 14>Go back to the tag team system of 03 and 11 to refresh the gameplay (?)>the usual fellating of 13 graphics to end saying SNK should copy Arcsys artsyleMeh
ANB manga had a great finale with all characters fighting revived shadows, which I know would be lot of work to animate in the game (not necessarily all at once, more like a unique enemy for every 2-3 teams), but it's a good example of what would be hype.I was also kind of happy to see K' and Maxima get more invested in the plot with their investigation in XIV, only for everything to be dropped. It wouldn't really be such a complicated thing to write them infiltrate something and reveal info, but then again we never even got to find out who Anastasia is, when it was supposedly saga finale, so I guess I hoped for too much.
>>503878853>SNK should copy Arcsys artsylecopying doesn't help anythingthey should at least learn the technology that arcsys employs, it doesn't mean they need to do it in that exact stylerather that, it should be that they use such technology and tweak it to tailor it to their own style and visualsbut they won't do that until 10 years from now when it's too late and everyone already beat them to the punch, even indie games
>>503879181This is what bothered me the most about 15, the series used to brag about its story mode and for all its flaws, 13 delivered in that front. 14 was weak but I was willing to give it a pass because it was the introduction of a new saga and I expected to have a big payoff in 15 and 16.And then 16 happens, drops all the interesting plotlines, fucking over the newcomers involved, fails to do anything interesting with the returns they hyped so much, comes with a retarded multiverse plot that is half baked and rushes to the end.
>>503880603>And then 16 happensholy shit he's from the future
>>503880834My bad, I'm retarded. I meant 15
They should copy Melty Blood's sprites, they're cheap to make (unlike Arcsys) and not bad to look at.
>>503877596Like making a new Ikari Warriors with Leona, Whip, and Heidern as characters?
>>503880603They really fumbled those aliens from another dimension, I'm still not sure what was their mission.I'd do it so that Anastasia is an aging businesswoman trying to use anchors (Shun and Isla) to open dimensions, cause she wrongly believes secret to immortality waits beyond, but it's really just a false god of ancient times. And rival team is trying to stop her, while also trying to warn hero team about it, with not much luck cause Isla is bad at communicating. Both Shun and Isla would grow as characters through interacting with other teams, Shun would learn to trust his powers, Isla would learn to trust adults.It's a pretty standard plot, but makes more sense than Dolores and co. just twiddling their thumbs until focused energy of fighters opens doors.
the question is, why would shunei even be remotely interested in being fashionable, he's an isolated dork with no real awareness for the outside world and his only friends are a sleep ass punk and a creepy old man
wha do you mean kof XV is not on sale I'm about to off myself....
>>503884981I just checked, and it's really just the old stuff barely anyone cares about that is on sale. Not like they would get much attention on KOF and Samsho with the way they handled things, but a random buy from someone looking to clean up their wallet is better than nothing.
>>503884981It most likely will be for the Winter sale, so just wait a little bit more for Dec 19.
The mascot of KOF
Super Sonic?
The true hero of KOF is the unnamed delivery service working on getting every single invitation letter to their recipient, no matter how high up the mountain they train.
>>503888261That picture's so pixelated.
SNK will apologize when they see my fan game about a kof private tournament where only SF and KOF girls are invited and kensou enters illegally and his dick is possesed by the combined forces of Chris and Bao and become Kensou Orochi, so the only way to defeat him is to take out his bad male energy by all the female fighters using their mouths and wombs and female boypussies.It will be made using HD 2D sprites made with blender and post processing that looks like blue the omen art.
>>503893559
>>503869762Mary, Andy or Joe trailer would bring some hype. Nobody cares about the original MoTW characters, Rock and B. Jenet are the only exception
>>503899017Kain would be some hype, cause he might have potential hints for plot. And if they do his model good, would be the sexy bad boy of the game, those tend to catch more attention.
>>503899017>>503899425All the actually interesting characters will likely be the last 3 reveals depending on Freeman's inclusion in the game since it's very likely we'll be getting Jae Hoon next. If not him this month or for the Game Awards we'll likely finally get to see older Hokutomaru, Blind Gato or Kain now which definitely feels like we've saved the best reveals for last. I think the worst of it though was Kevin since discussion of the game was basically fucking dead until they suddenly dropped Billy out of nowhere
The idle gacha that is replacing KOFAS is on early access for Canada and Thailand, so we have the initial roster
>>503882469That's exactly what they should do, French Bread games are dirt cheap to make, but the spritework is solid.
>>503900627>Freeman>interestingChoose one
>>503903957If you actually read what I said, I was basically discarding Freeman's relevance to the conversation to focus on the 3 character with potential for significant redesign and character progression
>>503900913At leas they're including some of the characters who existed in the last game's data but were never added.
>>503900913That's a lot of deep cuts.
>>503884981I don't know what is happening with the companies, but these sales are fucking SHIT.The games I want or they aren't on sale or the discount is pure mockery.
WaitGODs win again.
>>503767328Wyler!
>>503910267It’s complete nonsense, but it’s kind of obvious they're waiting for December. Steam is so lame. The last Steam sale was in July, and after this one ends on the 4th, the next one starts on the 19th. So, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place, we just have to wait -_-. A friend and I were looking forward to buying KOF XV and grinding all December, but I guess SNKringe didn’t want us to.
CoTW almost feels like it has less hype than KOFXV
>>503918935Since the retardposter isn't here I'm here to do his job and call you: a retard.
The weeklies kept the discussion. Don't worry, the game is still like 5 months ahead.
>>503882469Yeah because FrenchBread's games get so much attention and praise
>>503925671NTA, but I wish they did. Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax was pretty fun.
>>503872348>>503872591>>503873179I think Jun's Tekken 8 outfit would have looked amazing on Chizuru.
>>503918935because the only hype about it is that it's a new game in the series
>>503940997This. Plus there are a lot of KOF onlys who despise the game because they think SNK abandoned KOF XV for CoTW not to mention that the recent meme of Kyo being replaced by Terry has only made KOF fans hate CoTW more.
Ninja Cat Studio is releasing their own 3rd party Mai that honestly, looks better and is cheaper, $186https://www.orzgk.com/product/ninja-cat-studio-king-of-fighters-female-fighter-shiranui-mai-n001/
>>503900913The filler
>>503955581kitten looking familiar
https://x.com/snk_oda/status/1862012901986570584?t=z-ytO5IWq6G_qOxCHAH3fQ&s=19Rare Tonko pic
>>503957924well, i mean there are tons of videos of her drawing on youtube lol. and also tons of pics of her at conventions selling art.
>>503956810Pretty sure some of these other guys were also bosses in All-Star.
>>503957924Logitech F310 confirmed as the official controller of City of the Wolves.
>>503900913>Three Kyo clones and Shingo but no Kyo Kusanagi>Andy, Billy, Joe, and Mr. Big but no Geese or Terry>Maxima but no K', Kula, Whip, or hell, even Krizalid>All of the agents EXCEPT Vanessa>Literal America Sports Team>Takuma lower rarity than Yuri, Ryo, and RobertWho came up with this starting roster, the retards behind Marvel vs Capcom 3's?
2025 already looking like a better year for fighting games
>>503967381Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves 2XKOVirtua Fighter 5 rehashedAnd?
>>503973693nen impact
>>503973693>Fatal Fury: City of the WolvesESG slimefest>2XKOFOTM that was stale months ago>Virtua Fighter 5 rehashedAnother one? Sega really is scared to show what a slimefest 6 is, aren't they?
>>503925671...My point is they'd be cheap to make and probably wouldn't make them sell any less than they do now
>>503983849get it through your retarded head, they do not want to use sprites. not because they are incapable of doing so. my god, you fucking imbecile. give it a rest already. let the devs make the game they want to. and considering the massive hiring spree, and all the projects they have in development SNK is just doing just fine.
>>503983849Casuals do not give a single fuck about sprites which the audience SNK is chasing right now.
>>503986630Don't have a meltdown you fucking retard, imagine having such a lack of life that something as trivial as this causes you to sperg out.
I'm convinced that 90%+ of the posts in this thread are made by one singular loser.
this thread is entirely all me
>>503989372No shit
>>503989583inorite other me
>>503900913Come on, if they wanted a gacha with potential to be well known, successful, profitable in the long term and different from chinky mihoyo clones, SNK doing the same old failed formula with a company with a proven record of failures is just plain wrong. I want them to succeed, but that game and those rates are a step in the wrong direction.
>>503989763Have fun posting crappy pics/retarded opinions and arguing with yourself about them
>>503990038i already am, thanks for the support, me
>>503990091I'm part of the other 10%, I'll let you get back to your retardation
>>503990368that's nonsensethere is no other 10%this thread is 100% entirely me, so i'm just replying to myself, me
Can someone explain the KOFXI Judgment system to me? It seems so ambiguous and that japanese account that covers the game can barely even type out comprehensible english.
>>503993403>and that japanese account that covers the game can barely even type out comprehensible english.they must have been the localizers for snk games back in the 90s
>>503959768Maybe the game gives you Kyo at the start. That's what some of the other KOF mobile games did. I remember All-Star let you choose between Kyo, Iori, and Chizuru as your first character.
>>503999691Weirdly, Kyo is not in the game at allPic unrelated
>>503959768>>503999942Most likely they're saving Terry, Kyo, K', Ash, etc. for special events.
>>504003337Gacha games really are something else, man. They just don't give a fuck. Imagine if an actual mainline KOF tried to get away with making Kyo, Terry, and K' paid DLC while you have absolute shitters like Kensou, Lin, and Hwa on the roster.
>>504007558Well, since KOF 99's initial plan of killing off Kyo didn't sit well with fans, you can bet on Kyo being in KOF forever. K' being second to Mai in KOF XII also ensures he won't go anytime soon even if he hates KOF. And Terry is Terry. I guess the closest we've gotten to this statement is XV cutting a mainstay like Kim and selling him as DLC.>absolute shitters like KensouOuch.
>>504007558Kensou isn't a shitter, there is definitely potential there, but his problem is that he is forever tied to Athena, and Athena herself can't get anything important to her name in KOF, so her satellite can only ever be a comedy relief that gets less funny with time.
So how sure are we that the announcement at The Game Awards will be a beta test? I'm at least 95% sure. It'll be a new character reveal plus a beta trailer.
>>504003268Why is her hip swollen like that?
>>5040176030%Sure would be cool if it happens, but it's most likely just something an anon pulled out of their ass. Wouldn't be the first time someone pulls something out of their ass and says SNK Will do something, with zero indication from SNK, then then throwing a tantrum when it doesn't happen.
>>504017603i mean it's possible. game is still a ways out, though. most likely they will announce character(s) trailer. now, that is much more likely and almost guaranteed.
For what is worth, they did reveal Mclovin at the Game Awards so maybe they will reveal something hype like Andy or Kain and not Jae Hoon or Freeman
>>504024971>something hype>AndyPfft
>>504024971Expecting Gato>>504026010KOF really did irreparable damage to Andy
>>504026010>>504026418Andy or Joe would be hype simply because they weren't Garou and are more well-known than most of the Garou originals aside Gato, Rock, Jenet and Tizoc. That said, I fully expect Gato to be saved for a chink event
When will those two broads be released? Anyway, here's her shitty render from XIV.
>>504026418More like KOF really did irreparable damage to itself and most franchises in it.
>>504031241retard.
>>504031485No.
Currently, FF, AoF, and Samsho games are in development at SNK. While KOFXV continues to be updated.These facts will infuriate some.
>>504034484And there's a Metal Slug in there somewhere.
>>504035576It isn't. They're up to a bunch of stuff since they've stated as much, but those niggers backpedalled on metal slug. It's good to see them expand, and it's understandable that there are things that will not pan out along the way, but maybe how about just say that and not continue to say that they're still in the planning stages and working on it (repeating what was initially said) for a couple years only to later say that they're not not working it yet and that maybe they'll do it down the line.
>>504030806>Andy or Joe would be hypeyeah to the small nerd fanbase
>>504031181hopefully never
>>504031181Winter is coming.
if only we could speed this up so we can do through all the snkope cycles real quickly>"[character name] will surely revive the feel and hoyp!!">character barely gets attention except from the small amount of people already caring and some guys going "WOOHOO THATS MY BOY/WAIFU">arcsys and/or capcom have a character trailer that gets more attention>"How do we save SNK" "It's not dead doomposter schizo" "all me btw">go back to start
>>504038867Do FFfags only care about Terry, Mai, and Geese?
>>504041803can go through*>>504042054surely true ff fags would be interested in other characters that we haven't even seen in decades like franco and chengbut that wasn't the pointthe point of it was that only such a small fanbase would care that andy or joe were revealed and everyone else would be generally apathetic because no matter how you repackage either of them, movesets or looks or different game mechanics, they're still andy and joe, and it's still in an snk game, and it's not like we haven't seen them in a long long time as they're fresh off the heels of kofxvit's not hype to anyone else outside the nerds that are like "UHHH THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN IN GAROU [MOTW] SO THIS R SPEKAL"
>>504042054FFfags don't exist because there hasn't been a fucking game in 20+ years. Secondary KOFfags care about Terry, Mai and Geese because they're the only characters SNK shills. We won't be seeing people give a shit about the characters until the game comes out because they need to be in a good game with a good story and them as the focus FOR people to give a shitThis is what happened to Strive. It basically had to build new appeal for GG by sacrificing its identity so all you can hope is if the game does better than KOFXV you'll get a fraction of the success ArcSys has seen now that BB is fully dead after it did its job being a distraction for them to bring back GG (shit that happened almost a decade ago)
>>504042574secondaries have smash and sf6even if mai turns out ugly, why bother with cotw just to find a prettier mai, they can download porn for that and that looks better and has tits and vagina and her being dicked and raped or lesbianized or tentacled or eaten up by mature and vice or turned into a were diaper at the sight of a full moonsf6 has brand strength that got reestablished with sf4, snk doesn't, so it needs to do more to get someotherwise you're just appealing to the nerd fanbase much like aew is appealing to the "sickos" and they can't even keep those lmao 600k average
>>504043624>sf6 has brand strength that got reestablished with sf4*That got reestablished with launch 6. That brand could've been fucking dead if SFV didn't eventually rebuild its reputation and SF6 didn't launch good. SF went from top dog with IV to second fiddle for Tekken 7 which proceeded to shoot its own foot, which is EXACTLY happening again right now because Bamco are incompetent fucksAll they can do is actually put effort into advertising because waiting a whole fucking month for ONE character trailer doesn't cut it in the real AAA world. KOFXV had quantity to milk the time but CotW needs more ads and details out in the open. Like cool we have EoST as single player content but what else can you do in it? Is there anything other than characters in the game to look forward to?This is the fighting game dilemma. SF6 and Strive had "story modes" that were dogshit but existed and gave the player distractions outside of online as incentive to pay for a full price game. It's good CotW is selling its S1 alongside base game, but there needs to be more to garner interest at all. I've been off this general for a while because there's fucking nothing to talk about right now and it shows
>>504019335Why wouldn't it be when it's been on all of Geoff's other shows?
>>504044243>Tekken 7 which proceeded to shoot its own foot, which is EXACTLY happening again right now because Bamco are incompetent fucksAll the more reason to say that now is the perfect time for Virtua Fighter to come back.>Soulcalibur and Dead or Alive are on the outs>Tekken 8 is shitting the bed>Virtua Fighter just announced a VF5 remaster for PC and teased VF62025 is the year of Fatal Fury and Virtua Fighter.
>>504044243>SF6 and Strive had "story modes" that were dogshit but existed and gave the player distractions outside of online as incentive to pay for a full price gameIt was only a bait for "journalists".The World Tour is fucking ass and no one cares as the extremely low % of people who completed shows in steam.Tekken has a better story mode: battles and like 3 hours of movie.
>>504044745Sega at least are doing the safe, smart option. Something they SHOULD have done years ago but better late than never. I'm sure even they realize this won't be that massive of a big upheaval in interest in Virtua Fighter since they're the type to insert their older games as "minigames" in Yakuza more proof the fighting genre genuinely lacks general public interest but preserving VF5 this way even if it'll likely come with Denuvo shit is a step in the right direction and will get players like Central FictionCotW just needs to stick the landing. It doesn't need to be an explosive success to be considered one, but lots of newer fighting games that are suddenly popular now just launched good and that's how they flourished. The last handful of fighters currently shitting the bed still had pretty good launches, KOFXV was really the exception
>>504044243>KOFXV had quantity to milk the timefor extremely diminishing returnsmore ads does not equal more hypethe content of what you're promoting doesif you have a turd, throwing more advertisements of a turd does not make the turd look tastier with each added ad spottekken 7 was 500 entrants against sfv's 5000 in 2016, i wouldn't say that's second fiddle at allsure, sfv had a rocky start, but that's moreso against itself than anybody elsecotw might be one of the best ff games you could ever play gameplay wise, funnest, even, but it lacks that hook that grabs real attention, and that's beyond the need for packing it with content to make it worth full price which i've been an ardent advocate for or BR's lack of regional-based price
>>504045220>It was only a bait for "journalists".That's why they need to team up with Type Moon or the writing team behind the Yakuzaverse or FFXIV to make things happen. Leaving things inhouse is not going to cut it if they want the story to grab attention. They already have the material to make things happen with Yuma Uchida and Manaka Iwami already on board.
>>504045292Dude those numbers dropped fucking fast>2017>Street Fighter 5 - 2,622>Tekken 7 - 1,278>2018>Dragon Ball FighterZ - 2,530>Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition - 1,929>Tekken 7 - 1,885>2019>Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition - 1,929>Tekken 7 - 1,885>Samurai Shodown - 1,719If T7 had actually good online it would've easily overtaken SFV but because Bamco has no foresight they always end up losing out over time. Same shit happening right now with T8, they outsold SF6 initially but its updates and post-launch practices have hurt it tremendously. SF isn't invincible, just nobody really seems to have the foresight to make a fighting game that generally appeals to the masses. And the "good product" argument falls rather flat when dogshit practices like the season pass system outright cutting base game content for later just works because of apparently "buy it anyway" clause except when it hurts T8 because they're doing even stupider shit than CapcomEverything being argued about right now is all contradictory shit to me, I just think this genre is just bad and people just settle for shit because they're used to it
>>504046448sfv was still up there and tekken just capped, regardless>I just think this genre is just bad and people just settle for shit because they're used to itwell duh people settle for shit, a trip through memory lane with this general and the interactions here over kofxv demonstrate that, and it's not like *i'm* here to campaign for settling for shit, that's also another duhlike look at the 39 character thing, my response to that was "just 39 characters after we started with 50 in kofxiv?" while others were like "WELL UH THAT IS STILL MORE THAN SFV, DOOMPOSTER SILVYE (sic) SCHIZO, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY LOOK RECYCLED, THEY *HAD* TO MAKE NEW MODELS FOR KOFXV BECAUSE IT'S A NEW ENGINE, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND GAME DEVELOPMENT"
>>504047152Because they actively went through with what SFV did and chopped out almost a quarter of their roster for S1 DLC. Arguing about the number was always irrelevant because when playing that game SNK still always wins even when they're deliberately being scummy. And it doesn't help them because their real issue still stems from a lack of advertising. KOFXV basically disappeared after year 1 and it was obvious why: Oda wanted to make CotWAnd I know this for a fact because S1 of KOFXV is 52 characters, more than KOFXIV. Their ambition was literally chopped up and sold to KOF fans to fund CotW. And you just know they did it because they not only don't care about KOF anymore, because CotW is selling its first season with the base game. The reason people called you a schizo was because you believed ANY of this mattered when the actual biggest detriment to XV's success was the online not working
>>504047627>Because they actively went through with what SFV didsfv actually redid animations and modelsand it showedwas it the best approach? probably not, looking at pic related, they probably would have been better off saving time by just reusing what they had, but the fact that they wasted time coming around their ass to get to their elbows like that reduces the argument that they were lazylook at cotw, it's still LAUNCHING with a roster that's barely any higher than sfv's starting point, so you cannot come and tell me that snk is "just faster" at churning out characters by using kofxv as an example, because kofxv cheated to get there, by using a game that started with even more (50) so yeah, i'll keep having a problem with that kthxwas it the ultimate deal breaker for the casual fan? most likely not, the deal breaker was that the game still looked visually poor and had nothing else remotely of interest to them in it except for maybe shermie, but she's just one character and that can only last so long when the rest of the trailers were a yawnfest to anyone who wasn't nerding out over kofxv>Oda wanted to make CotWdid i not theorize that he was possibly compromising efforts/work on kofxv, maybe even cannibalizing staff, because he wanted to work on his ff dream project? i believe i said this a thousand times throughout this generali mean i even said a couple times that kofxv looked like it looked more like a game that took only a year and a half to work on by like 20 people, not counting VAs>And I know this for a fact because S1 of KOFXV is 52 characters, more than KOFXIVonly 3 were freshly baked, 7 flipped from two previous games and three were modified versions of characters that were already in there, that's not special>The reason people called you a schizoi couldn't give a shit why or if they still do, and if they still hate me or whatever because i missed the part where that's my problem
>>504049228>that kofxv looked like it looked more like a gamewhoops, w/eand furthermorehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1498570/THE_KING_OF_FIGHTERS_XV/why is the game still 60 dollars for the base?yethttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1384160/GUILTY_GEAR_STRIVE/40 dollars (discounted to 20 right now of course)how do these motherfuckers think that a game like kofxv still deserves 60 dollars? bring that shit down and stop thinking you're nintendonintendo at least has a successful theme park attraction
Also Garou for 1.5$
Kek
was surprised a KoFXIII trial incorporated a run mid-combo but I did that bitch
>>504077761i mean yeah it's in a couple of kensou's right before he does hk rdp xx air qcb.p
>>504078347don't show me that
>>504072882What did he mean by this?
>>504078347>>504078485but anyway the combo in question was one of base Iori's, simple but somewhat finnicky loop between qcb-B and the first hit of qcb-A into not-wild throw, then rf heavy DP that juggles into ranbu. The next one is another off command grab, but this one requires an air pop-in mid-hyper hop and a loop between light DP and qcb-D. The first part's not that bad, but you have to do light DP very quick, which adds some difficulty from having to incorporate a delay after a rep or two because they can fall out.
>>504080653Exactly what do you think
Riveting conversation happening here
It's almost like real discussion for SNK titles happen elsewhere and not this schizo gather place.
Another episode of "What Could Have Been", this time... Doloreshttps://x.com/snk_oda/status/1862493283135758783
>>504113390
>>504113542This one was from brief time when Xanadu was going to be more than just a random weirdo.
>>504113785
>>504113785>Xanadu almost provided inspiration for both Isla and DoloresDodged a bullet there.
>>504119434More like they all three would be coming from same source, and Dolores still has the braids and gems that were seen in Xanadu's beard first.As wacky and unpopular Xanadu was, I kind of miss the potential of there being something more in the plot than what we got.
>>504113390>>504113542>>504113785>>504113935Why did they have to go with the design with the retarded haircut? Any of these would've been better.
yay?
>>504124892New merch is new merch.>Every KOF logo along the sleeves>Big poster image on the backSomeone will absolutely wear this to a tournament.
>>504124892I'm going to be honest, that's a pretty terrible design. It's the same lazy image from 30th anniversary website, I can't imagine ever giving money for a jacket with it in full display. The ink art they got from Okazu (pic related) would have been miles better. It would certainly look more classy and less like a child's jacket.
>>504124892>subtle vidya clothing thread
>>504125949Shame about the bigass logo in the middle though.Pic unrelated
>>504151061
>>504151673>>504151061THICC
>>504151673New Jenet is about to E・X・P・L・O・D・E
>>504112806
>>504151673I didn't know they had a B. Jenet balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
>>504088963POV: Shota inside her submarine
>>504151673What kind of shota is she trying to attract this time?
>>504183413A chubby chaser?
When do you think the update/dlc will drop I put my nickel on the 19th!
>>504190091i bet it'll happen on the 9k _
>>504201046Rare Mary with ass
>>504201203Of what month?
>>504201359september, duh
>>504215025SFV really looks like shit huh...
>>504215025Nice bulge, what's she hiding down there?
>>504224649where do you think she stores spare fans?
>>504201757
>>504228251Ralf, no!
Imagine CotW makes us think Rock's mom is alive, only to be revealed Rock's "mom" is actually Kain in dress, taking inspiration from Norman Bates.
>>504107186Chizuru is a cougar!
>>504245492They'll take it the Tekken 7 route and reveal that Rock's mom was actually a massive bitch all along.
>>504251651>Chizuru, 22>Shingo, 17That cradle robber!
>>504252425Kazuya's mom had a whole clan and vision of the world in chaos pushing her to her decision, Kain and Marie were orphans living on the street, so the only way she would have been a massive bitch is if she were really concerned only of herself, but in that case she would have never let Geese kick her out of the house. Her fate also mimics the fate of Maria, Geese's mother.
>>504258105I thought she was like 30.
>>504262254I can see how her outfit and serious personality can throw you off, but all three sacred treasure users are same generation, with Kyo and Iori both being just 2 years younger than Chizuru.
>>504251651hag*
>>504228134Between her breasts?
>>504264082>We have Heihachi at home>Actually nevermind let's just get Heihachi tooRarely seen a character be rendered obsolete so quickly
>>504294452Wasn't Cassandra originally meant to be a permanent replacement for Sophitia in SC2 only for the console version to bring her back anyway?
kof but war gameswho are the teams 5v5 men and 5v5 women
>>504296163Difference is people actually ended up liking Cassandra more anyway.
C'mon guys, buy Garou, it is basically free.
>>504308521No.1. It's free on Fightcade.2. I don't like it.
>>504308521That's too much money.
Cassandra but better
>>504314693delicious autist's tits
>tfw the biggest SNK announcement and the most attention they'll receive in a while will be another character of theirs being in another company's game(again) and not news about their own game/sWill be especially over if she actually looks good(model/design wise).
>>504324215>Mai looking good in SF6>After how Terry looksCry about it
>>504324554Well yeah that's why I said "if she actually looks good".
>>504328263Imagine seething over a very unlikely hypothetical. Even if Chun-Li looks good the fact that they haven't really made good-looking DLC really goes to show SF6 is just the replacement gooner game since DOA is dead
>>504328610whether chunli looks ugly as all sin or notthe bottom line is cap's side will get a lot more of the attentionyou'll just be here whining about schizos and letting us know that you still have friends and family to play with
>>503222294SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG!?!?
>>504314524With Kula? Don't mind if I do. In fact it won't just be one time.
>>504294452"Reina is Heihachi replacement" was obviously fans thinking too deep with what little info they had. Her fighting style isn't even proper Mishima karate, but mix of it with taido, much like how Jin/Devil Jin mixes it with Kazama style, yet Jin is obviously not Heihachi replacement. And to get Heihachi in middle of season 1 (with story mode), means his development had to start before game was even out. If anything, she might be replacement for Kazuya in the future, as the devil-powered antagonist. The character is in fact still very much popular.
>>504349053Reina is the new Devil, obviously. The big thing to come out of the final fight in the main story mode is that Jin and Kazuya are both purged of the Devil Gene. The new hook is the mystery around Reina. How did Heihachi find a new vector for the Devil Gene, after long since confirming that he himself doesn't have it? Where does Reina factor into Heihachi's "plans"?
>>504349315Story expansion mentions Heihachi killed the Hachijo clan, but spared one baby girl. Only it's too vague to tell if the baby is Reina or Reina's mother. So there is how, what is missing is just why.
terry looks hideous in sf6, capcom should be ashamed. i really do fear for mai.
>>504350761the baby girl would be way too old to be reina.
>>504361858That depends on when Heihachi killed the clan, but the mother theory is definitely more likely due to the fact Reina has electrics, which is passed through Mishima genes (as evidenced by Lars, who is a danger to epileptics).
>>504361858Garou COTW is gonna be great.I can feel it.
cotw to sell 6 million copies by 2022
Mature and Vice any day now...
ss7 and kofxv are damn good fighting games. glad both games are at the snk world championships.
>>504380882Nips got really assblasted about AI, huh
>>504382445they get assblasted by anything that violates their honoru codeutheir premise for net security is "pls dont hack us it is rude" and when they get hacked it's like "UH HOW DID THIS HAPPEN WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE SO RUDE"
>>504384663hideous. sf6 is built on a horror engine.
>>504385238>is built on a horror engine.Why the fuck people continue use this as an excuse for shit visuals? You'd have a point talking about shit lightning and shaders, but engine has barely anything to do with shit models and textures.You probably can make the case that models could've been downgraded for optimization and textures could be processed better, but I doubt that either had been the case here.Just blame art director for the style chosen.
>>504385238SNK horror game when?
>>504394050NEVER EVER FAGET
>>504394050There was some gacha where Kyo would beat up zombies, but otherwise the greatest horror is watching SNK squander potential of their games.
>>504394050athena: awakening from ordinary life>>504394768retarded secondary, fuck off.
>>504394768>but otherwise the greatest horror is watching SNK squander potential of their gameskek it really do be like that
>>504394050Beast Busters needs a third game (and a re-release of the second one).Mobage shit doesn't count.
Delicious Choco Puta
>>504394050Unless it's an orirginal IP, it's going to be a new Beast Busters.
>>504349053Jin was the replacement for Kazuya before they brought him back proper in 4.
>>504431563That's because Tekken 3 was a "next generation" title, with a timeskip and everything to introduce a new young generation of characters. At least there, Jin has an excuse.
>>504434897>Tekken and Fatal Fury do timeskips sequels and it works>Street Fighter and Soul Calibur do it, there's backlash.What's the secret? Or just some dumb luck?
>>504435756In the case of SF3, they junked most of the established roster for new characters who had nothing to do with nothing, to the point that it wasn't even going to be a SF title until Ryu and Ken were added at the last minute.In Soulcalibur V's case, a number of fan favorite characters missed the game, replaced by broadly inferior replicas, for pretty poor reasons. "No, I don't want to play Natsu the gyaru ninja," they said. "I want my big tiddy ninja mommy Taki, and you took her from me. Fuck you."
>>504435756the execution. tekken 3 is monumental, while garou is... liked. terry has a jacket and says the funny buster wolf, the epic saigado skank is blonde with big boobs, and the game has just defends which are like parries, the best mechanic evarin scv's case, patroklos as a flawed protagonist with an arc doesn't work in a genre where characters are meant to appeal to you from the jump. then like >>504436165 said, all the other stand-ins are uninspired at best. street fighter 6 is the wokeness your father warned you about, but people put up with all the ugliness because they hate their dads
>>504435756Tekken 1+2 suck ass and nobody cares about Fatal Fury.
>>504440134Without Tekken 3, Tekken would've absolutely been lost in the shuffle of Virtua Fighter wannabes.
>>504436165To be fair, the new SF3 characters did become popular, didn't they? At least the ones that aren't Remy.
>>504436708What about the MK kids? I think at the very least people liked Cassie and Takeda. The latter even came back for MK1.
>>504436165I haven't played SCV, but I did play Project X Zone 2 and I liked Natsu in that game. I liked how she was so different from the other ninjas personality wise. Don't know if she was like this in SCV. I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQr-oPubcnIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXg_ZdFWNYk
>>504441151Eventually, but they were an acquired taste at the time.>>504441740The Kombat Kids were probably more accepted because they were the children/relatives of already established characters, and they still existed alongside their parents (and Scorpion and Sub-Zero). Introducing Cassie/Jacqui/Takeda/Kung Jin didn't mean Johnny and Sonya/Jax/Kenshi/Kung Lao were getting benched.
>>504442384Natsu likely wouldn't have been as repugnant if she didn't outright replace Taki on the roster. Taki is unironically a pillar of the franchise, so there will inevitably be pushback from fans if that pillar is suddenly removed.
>>504435756Character designs were well done in Tekken 3 and Garou. Which is why the characters from that garou were popular enough to make it into KOFMI and mainline KOF series.
>>504436708Just defends are not like parries
>>504435756Most Tekken 1&2 characters weren't that iconic to their series yet, and the ones that were still made it into 3, early into the franchise. Soul Calibur, meanwhile, waited until the 5th fucking entry before deciding to suddenly replace most of their popular mainstays with zoomer versions with absolutely no personality or charm.
>>504462014>Soul Calibur, meanwhile, waited until the 5th fucking entry before deciding to suddenly replace most of their popular mainstays with zoomer versions with absolutely no personality or charm.Sixth, if you count Soul Edge/Blade.
metal plate terry is best terry
>>504435756>Fatal Fury do timeskips sequels and it worksI wouldn't call dying for over 25 years and having to solely rely on KOF it "working"
>>504495013
>>504487165That's not exactly a problem with Fatal Fury specifically and more with SNK as a whole.
What was Falcoon thinking?
>>504535371That Another characters have to be as dramatically different from the original as possible. Hence stuff like Another Mai, who cuts her hair short.
>>504538165Another Mai still looks like Mai, Another Mary looks like a completely different character
>>504535371Dunno, but I'm thinking based.
>>504558714which snk game do i play while waiting
>>504535371More like FalCOOM
>>504558714those faces just did not help, athena look like an alien and yuri got some bug ass eyesare they even looking them over themselves when they put these out
>>504434897Funny how ALL the series fell for the meme "a new generation for a new millenium". And all of them backtracked.
>>504571425Backtracked how? Fatal Fury is still broadly committed to the Garou:MotW roster and hasn't tried to bury them.
>>504579813
>>504591134Do these two interact or do they only get shipped together because they're kids?
>>502732512Vice was stumped when she met an actual rapist btw. She is a good girl just like Mature.
https://x.com/SNKPofficial/status/1863855692156903658Viva Mexico!
Kyo has a tiny dick
>>504593703>because they're kids?That and they debuted in the same game as a "hero" and "heroine" of sorts.
>>504618149Ho, Iori
>>504629465I have no idea who this Iori is... My name is Miss X, you fool!
cotw trailer and kofxv trailer will probably be shown here
It's $10 because that's how much it costs to license this series.
>>504646509Game Awards have more eyes on them, I don't think most people know this is even a thing.
>>504648258they'll do both.they already showed of a character at one of these events. they'll save whatever the ronaldo shit is for tgas
>>504648112>10 dollar amazon gift cardoh shit they're really upping the stakes here how do they find the budget ????
>>504649280By cheating most of their fandom out of participating. Not only does the survey open in japanese language, but from the comments it seems South America is not part of it?
>>504649507well shit they're gonna miss out on being able to pay half the shipping costs on an item they want from amazon
>>504649606You jest, but maybe those $10 could have been just the amount someone was still missing to save enough for Iori cosplay costume for bedroom foreplay that will save their marriage.
lolhttps://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-multiplayer-video-games
>>504659476It's true though?
>>504654783Cute.
The VS collection will include a mini comic, that if nothing else, it will have Udon drawing SNK characters for the first time
>>504664612That's a young-looking Haohmaru.
>>504664612Wow they used Kyo instead of Terry in the cover. How will Terryfags recover from this?
>>504664612Nice
>>504664612The Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection came with one too. Guess the preorders did well enough that they decided to do it here too.>>504666176And Morrigan instead of Chun-Li. Cool that they added Kyosuke, though.
Oda posted some of Isla's scrapped designs but this is all what he had to say about it>ISLAさん。 #KOF #SNKThanks Oda, very enlightening
>>504667856
>>504668120
>>504668559And no, he didn't include the one with all the references to Xanadu
What are these 2 planning
>>504633064Miss X looks like she eats ass
There will be people that would pretend that Isla that we got in the game doesn't mog all the scrapped designs for her.That said, I wonder if they intended to give Isla Thgiartsami a Mr. Y variation.
>>504671987I'm very happy we got final Isla.
>>504671987The first two are really good designs but they certainly don't match the childish, Shun's cocksleeve we got. Only for that I'd rather them go with any of those than having a Mai 2.0
>>504646509Why is it not on the weekend?
>>504672846All the early designs have some sort of gauntlet or glove or arm prosthetic, while final Isla doesn't. That feels better for her.
>>504648258They dropped the Dong Hwan trailer during the EVO France/Europe roster reveal.
>>504672708>>504676769okay bro you sold me on islawhat do i do with her
>>504667856>>504668120>>504668559>>504668878Just retailor some of these early designs for a different character later on, why would that be so hard to do?
>>504672708Yeah, her trusting her specter so much works well as a 'rival' to Shun's fear of it; it's not as in your face as sun/moon - fire/ice - light/darkness.>>504676769>gokurousan oniisanSo that's what the numbers mean, I thought they were just random.
>>504671609Lucky Chloe for COTW.Cham Cham for Tekken.
>>502650728>The only one flourishing is Strive and that's not with gamersplease explain
>>504676352because they have to announce these dates as early as possible so people flying in can plan their trips.
>>504646509It starts in 3 hours?
>though billy's fireball skip was qfc kick but its just forward kickhmm but it still sucks right for skipping fireballs?
>>504668559
>>504646509Nah they're just showing the lineup, I'm amazed XV is actually even still hanging in there.
>>504718509wait 15 minutes
>>504718623There's nothing else I don't think, this isn't like with EVO Francehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_DBeo1hyRc
>>504676352Flights and hotel booking isn't cheap
>>504718509SNK said they intend on continuing to support KOFXV, so there's no reason for them to drop the game immediately, especially with Mature and Vice launching soon. Besides, it's literally a two week gap between FF:CotW and EVO Japan '25, and that's way too soon to put a new game on the mainstage; it's a good thing SNK has another active game they're supporting.
>>504732451>SNK said they intend on continuing to support KOFXVI'm not sold on this, Samsho's support effectively went dead once KOFXV came out, and there's no way SNK's main fighting game team is going to split their development efforts across a game past its spotlight to their latest fighting game that they want to push heavily.Maybe a skeleton crew at best, but getting even one balance patch after Vice & Mature would be a miracle. Samsho to this day still has not had a new balance patch after Baiken's release, and she's still running rampant with no patches to reign her and Hibiki in.
>>504732857It still stands that SNK hasn't missed an EVO mainstage event in years, so there's going to be something on the mainstage no matter what.
>>504677246EVO France is a new thing on map, the organizers probably wanted something more to the show to make it more visible.
>>504668559Proto-Isla ZR porDesign would also improve if made flat
>>504740865*prpr
>>504668559Something about this design looks very familiar, and not just because she has Sylvie hair in different color.
>>504737269What is the purpose of these posts?
>>504732451>SNK saidthose are grand endorsements for consistency and commitment
>>504718509>Initial release date: April 21, 2025I think this is... weird?
>>504755436I'm still salty about that one
A pretty cute Preecha cosplayer.https://x.com/Mokako_2432/status/1863893346005246372I don't know how download twitter videos.
>it's called "The King of Fighters">but since it's also "for Girls" it has no fighting
>>504773574ugly fat mai from overwatch whore
https://www.bookoff.co.jp/buy/anime/new_ltd_0006_tkof94.html
Based gooks
>>504558714Fundoshi Yuri was the best one an d didn't add ity.
>>504785015Fighting was there, you just wasn't playing as a fighter.
>>504664612The real news is Kyo starring on the front page.
There they are!https://youtu.be/-rcrRSQvzwU?si=Ga1vVrYYDkzHkhei
>>504841742All that hype for the skirts and don't even look that good
>>504841742their faces look about as okay as kofxv can get to that level anywayand not man-esque like b. tran-et's
10 gazillion years for these recycled broads to finally come out and they couldn't even give us the superior XIV outfits as a bonus like they did with Sylvie, Geese, Billy, and Yamazaki?
>>504843235it take halfu a characteru to makeu costumeu, you don't understand recycle deveropmentu, pls enjoy 10 dorrar amazonu giftu cardu
>>504841742This is the 4th time in the series that both get a new HSDM/Climax
>>504841742Not sure how to feel about this remix. I think the versions from XIII and Smash Bros. were better. Also:>Vice and Mature have special intros with each other and Iori>Rugal doesn't have any with Kyo or Heidern
>>504841742Problably the best trailer they ever did for characters, they look really good too. I'm happy.
>>504841742So is this it for KOFXV?
>>504845828This is coming out of my ass, but the picture they showed at the end looked like it wasn't the whole thing. Maybe if we're lucky, chances are low, but maybe they'll cap off XV with adding Orochi to the boss mode.
>>504841742>YET ANOTHER Stormy Saxophone 2I'll accept it, but man, you'll milk that cow bone dry, won't you?
>>504843235Is it really a big deal you don't get pantsuit-with-vestigial-skirt Hakkeshu bitches?
>>504845085>and Smash Bros.this is the first time i've heard someone LIKE that version
>>504845828At least until FF:CotW launches, probably.
>>504841742They actually look good imo and the intro cinematography has improved exponentially since the start of the game, however, I'm still salty about no cleavage so I have to give them a 0/10.>>504845085It's because they use an electronic sax and it doesn't sound as good.
>>504841742
>>504849865Why is Leona here, she's not a hakkesshu, and if it's just because she has Orochi blood then where's Iori
>>504850149Leona is always used as a stand-in for her Hakkeshu biological father, Gaidel.
