Talk about SNK games. I'm playing pic related and it's pretty fun.
Dang that boxart is rough
>>11997015I think it's charming, and at least it matches how the game looks.
>>11997327I often say that the guys in trenchcoats are rapists.
>>11996807It's so dumb how they perceived and used English >Psychological soldier.....shorten it to psycho sounds snappy!>Don't realize psycho is short for psychotic >Sounds like Athena is a mental patient or serial killer
>>11997453>>Sounds like Athena is a mental patient or serial killerI can fix her...
The song is absolute fire
For me, it's Crystalis.
Are the Fatal Fury games worth playing? The lane system seems interesting. I'd just be playing against the CPU though, so I know it's going to be hard as balls.
>>11997510Yes, of course, absolutely
>>11997453>PsychologicalPsychic.
>>11996807snk 40th on sale for 5 bucks on gog btw.
>>11997504>Neo Geo CD>Crystalis 2...fuck.
>>11997510Fatal Fury: The Battle of Destiny: Rough, it's a more cinematic Street Fighter 1 instead of a SFII rip-off. It's still pretty interesting, and it's where a lot of SNK's unique style got started. Fatal Fury 2: This is the SFII knock-off. It's kind of neat if only for how cool Krauser is, so play through it at least once. But in terms of competitive scene it's utterly overtaken by...Fatal Fury Special: The SFII: Championship Edition of Fatal Fury. Adds in bosses and some extra characters, but takes out the story. The concept that would become King of Fighers starts here. It also has a good early example of SNKglish.Fatal Fury 3: Absolute height of presentation, but it was not a popular fighting game. But man, that presentation. Introduces a lot of important story concepts, hidden behind a completely bizarre English translation.Real Bout Fatal Fury: A slapped-together game made from Fatal Fury 3 assets, it's super smooth and fun to play. It's also the canonical end of the whole Geese arc, and it's worth a playthrough just to see that. Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: They redid all the sprites for this one, it's also super smooth and fun to play. It's a toss-up between this and RB2 for the ultimate classic Fatal Fury experience.Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: It's like Special, but tuned up a bit and with a couple extra characters. Garou: Mark of the Wolves: The most SF of Fatal Fury games, it's popular with people who don't want to deal with the lane system. It's like SF3 in that it throws out almost the entire classic cast for a set of newbies, but unlike SF3 people like these guys. Worth playing if only to see how damn pretty it is. By the time you hit around Real Bout you're looking at some of the prettiest fighting games of the 90s, so it's worth it just to enjoy that.
>>11997791Instead we just got a shitty GBC port. Too bad the Saudi prince that owns SNK now probably never played the game.
>>11998053Well, the idea of God Slayer would come across as...a bit haram.
>>11997869>RB1OUT OF BOUNDS
>>11998129Yeah, unfortunately.
>>11997453Sounds like someone doesn't have English as their first language.
>>11997453>Sounds like Athena is a mental patient or serial killerShe kind of is
>>11998217Yeah the Japanese who don't understand what psycho means
This one slowly but surely became my favorite shmup of all time, and to an extent one of my top 10 games. Can't believe I missed out on it for so long.Very cool gameplay mechanics and 90s anime stuff is my shit.
>>11997869Thanks so much for the writeup, anon. I was thinking of playing them all in order, and you convinced me to do just that.
>>11998485Are you playing with overclock to get rid of the slowdown?
>>11999104I have played multiple versions and that included the Saturn/Dreamcast ones, where you can remove the slowdown. These runs were pretty tough.
>>11998423They picked it because it sounds cool.
>>11998423>what is psychokinesis
>>11997869
Playing through KoF 97 for the first time, it's weird how some stages/characters don't have music.
>>11998485had anyone played the ps2 sequel? i'm not sure if it is worth to give it a try.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYyRGv9AbU
>>11999428Yes I did.It's worse and easier but still fun for a quick 1cc.
>>11998401Her English voice actress?
>>11997869The only thing that stops me from going through all their old fighting games are the bullshit bosses in every single one.
>>11998485How beginner friendly is this? I've been thinking about getting into shmups...
>>12000907Your first shooter should always be Einhander.
>>12000907It's more mechanically involved than most shmups, but that also means that you only learn how to play TSS when you actually play TSS.
>>11996807they're all fucking peak.
>>11997015Derpy box art is low key kino
>low keyZoomer.
>>11997510On top of what the other anon said, FF1 which was made by the same guy who made SF1, to me feels like a proper evolution of that game, instead of SF2 which feels like a completely different thing. FF1 was made as a PvE game first just like SF1 and unlike SF2, and you can only pick among the 3 main characters. This allows some creativity from the CPU characters since they don't have to care about balance, like Billy Kane being fought in a 1 lane stage and having his staff mechanic, or a character like Tung feeling like a boss with a transformation.>>11997869>but unlike SF3 people like these guysA lot of people pretend to. Number 1 complaint I hear about the new Fatal Fury is that the cast is bland. People want the old characters like Geese, Yamazaki or Blue Mary.
>>12001191I'm beginning to realize this. Even among retro games, SNK titles feel particularly soulful. I didn't grow up with them, so it's not nostalgia
>>11996807I fucking love Psycho Soldier!Also, Vanguard gave us "Luther destroys the Gond!" so I will forever love SNK for that
>>12002032Why was the English in their games so bad anyway? Even compared to other Japanese games it sucked
>>12002869No clue, I assume somebody's nephew was "hired" to do the localization, IE work for free
>>12002869It's for decoration and nothing else.
>>12001472Actually im a millennial and my point still stands. Shitty box art is pure sovl
>>12003109You write like a huge faggot. Go back.
