They could've saved this game by making it fully polygonal
Feel the power baby
I would rather have a Killer Instinct The New Challengers. An arcade port of KI with more content.But yeah, full 3D would probably have more broad appeal.
>>12712261At least they could've bring back missing KI1 characters. It's called Gold ffs
its the mortal kombat trilogy of the series, what it needed was a moryal kombat deception equiv for the gamecube
Was KI2 an arcade hit? It wasn't fully polygonal either.
>>12712906No, it was considered a flop compared to the original. There's a reason you always see KI1 cabs and not KI2
>>12712220That kind of defeats the purpose of making KI, they wanted to use their DKC process to do MK but better
>>12712220How would that have changed anything about it?
>>12712908Did KI1 do well? The cab you don't see is the one AFTER the one that does badly. If KI1 did super well in takings, arcade operators would buy the sequel, no question. And then if no one played the sequel, then they'd nope out on a KI3 (if it existed.) If you don't see a KI2 cab anywhere, it's because nobody bought them because they knew what a shitshow KI1 was for their bottom line.Ultra 64 was hype, arcades wanted in on it. But then what we got was warmed over Midway shit and likely did more damage to the Ultra64 brand than good. Perhaps it would have been even worse if the Ultra64 cabs had actually been N64 hardware, but it certainly didn't help that it was using Midways jank as fuck rendering and "fuck you" AI for monetary policies.
>>12712917>How would that have changed anything about it?At the time 3D was an automatic extra 20% on your review score and kids wanted bad 3D games over good 2D. It's hard to put into words what it was like in the 90s where KI Gold just "felt" like an old game warmed up whereas actual trash like MK4 and War Gods just "felt" like the future. And that's before you get into GOOD 3D fighting games like Tekken2 that those damn playstation owners got.
>>12712920There are dozens of examples of this being bullshit, like Street Fighter EX and Mortal Kombat 4.
>>12712926Bullshit how? SFEX was mogged by Tekken. If you owned a playstation you weren't buying Alpha 2 any more than you were buying EX, you bought Tekken2 like a normal person. On the N64 you didn't have Tekken, you had various kinds of shit, and they were what was discussed, not 2.5D could-have-been-snes games. Obviously in hindsight we were dead wrong, but 3D was cool. 2D was not.
>>12712926SF EX was a good game
>>12712898How is it a MK Trilogy if it only has KI2 roster and is missing some KI1 characters?
>>12712932I don't know I was drunk when I posted that
Idk they said they "upgraded" the backgrounds on gold by rendering them in 3D but the weird scaling shit the arcade cab did looked so much cooler in person
The training mode in this game was really good, not sure if any training mode before KI Gold was as good as this.
I lost so many loads to Orchid's bare ass and Maya's everything in this game. First time I can remember just straight jerking off to characters in a game.
>>12713983Arcade backgrounds are much better, polygonal ones are a downgrade
>>12712220Not even close. If they could have made the N64 as powerful as the KI and KI2 arcade games to give us 1:1 ports, PS1 would have failed.
>>12714098Killer instinct 2 and gold had everything a fighting videogame needs: epic fights, sexy waifus, fanservice, fatalities,etc.
Off-topic but I don't wanna go on /v/. How's the 2013 reboot?
Rare's only successful franchise was a platformer about apes and not their fighting series.
>>12714365sent out to die by being microsoft store exclusive for years and retarded tie ins like a fucking battletoad and gears of war, but gameplay wise pretty solid.
>>12712220Saved it from looking good and being fun to play? Yeah I guess
>>12714587>looking good and being fun to playWhat game are you talking about?
>>12714362Michael Jackson lookin ass.
>>12714942Face too
>>12714449>gameplay wiseHow about coom wise?
>>12712918Yes, YES YOU IDIOT
I liked Killer Instinct.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLYBlQIf2A0
>>12712220>They could've saved this game by making it 20fps
>>12714362That's literally Janet Jackson
