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07/15/09
I can think of at least 10 characters who I would rather have in;
Heidern
Mary
Yamazaki
Kula
Maxima
K'
Yashiro
Vanessa
Takuma
Yuri
I would still have more to select over Mai. Its about time they started to drop in a few rarer faces. Mature is a nice addition, nice to see Andy and Raiden as well.
Mai fun to play as, and see is pretty good, maybe a few to many special moves though in my opinion.
How come there was never such a big fuss made of SF characters not being in SFIV?
Where was Alex and Dudley? I would even like to see Cody and Guy back from Alpha 3.
Mai isn't even a major character in any storyline. She wasn't even a major character in FF.
The only people that want her in are the people who just want to see her boobs 100% hand drawn.
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I would swap Heidern for Chris, though.
And people were complaining about lack of Dudley in SFIV Dudley and Makoto were the two that people complained about the most. Dudley even won the Capcom-Unity poll for which character the fans wanted the most. After Dudley won, they took the poll down and reupped it without Dudley as an option. :)
07/15/09
She was never a popular PLAYER character in any of the KOF games I played (meaning no one ever picked her). That's obviously just from personally experience though...
Seems like the people making a big deal about it (Kotaku included) are more casual fans who know about the games but don't actually play them.
Enough with the no Mai no buy comments. :P
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Unless that was the (sick) point.
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Mainly because it's pure truth.
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Like someone said, it'd be like taking the Chun Li out of Street Fighter.
Capcom, you better not get any ideas...
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She'll be available as DLC and will cost at least 10 bucks.
Since everyone likes them some boobies everyone will download the DLC.
BAM! SNK is rich!
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Either way, if SNK is as smart as I'm hoping they are, they'll drop KOF XII, wait a couple months, then drop her as DLC they've had in the wings all along and laugh all the way to the bank as we scoop her up for $3.99.
07/15/09
Seriously, can Andy just get her knocked up already so we don't have to see her? Hopefully if she is DL content there's an option to block downloadable charactors :p
07/15/09
If I mention Mai to someone who doesn't play KoF, they'll actually know who she is. People who have seen the anime may know Terry, Andy, and Joe, but Mai's easily the most widely marketed.
And I wouldn't say she's mained by people who don't care about the game - some incarnations have had so many special moves you could never use the same twice in a fight - you can seriously crack the books and study her moveset, and use it in some devious ways.
...personally, I'm more of a Yuri/Iori fan myself though. I'll pull out Mai once in a while, but I don't keep using her because it's kind of unfair to others to have such a huge box of tricks at my disposal.
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...I thought I was the only one! *glee* YAY FOR MAY!
07/15/09
However, I've also heard she's not an actually good character, and should I ever start playing the game, there's tons of characters I'd be more interested in using over her. I've gotta side with the people that say she's really not that important to have in the game. The main reasoning behind including her seems to be because she's always in the games, and she's very popular among people who aren't too serious about the game, mostly because of the fanservice. I don't even play King of Fighters, and there's still some characters I would've liked to see show up in XII over Mai.
Also, this video appears to be absent for me. Just a large blank space.
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May Lee is ALL woman.
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Did you know that in some levels where there is a shade (say like under a rooftop), darkened sprites are redrawn -- and not filtered -- to reflect the shade? Definitely passionate and well-meaning, but inefficient.
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Mai is just a part of why im not buying this game. Ive bought every Kof game to date on pretty much every platform(1 per rendition, sometimes 2 or 3 times ive bought such as with 98) The reason I enjoy the titles is because of the diversity of the characters, the depth of gameplay, and the personality of the characters themselves. Mai is my main in the title, not becuase of boobs, but becuase she is fun to use. Im not a pro gamer, just a fan of fighters in general but Ive probably logged more hours into KoF games than most. To discredit her as a crap characters is something done by elitist scum.
KoFXII has bastardized Athena by making her a loli school girl with an extra 30lbs on her, taken out pretty much every female fighters, and absolutely destroyed the biggest reason KoF games were good, the diversity. As someone who bought SNK games dating back to when I had a CVS Neo Geo, Im appalled. But I digress, maybe it will turn out well, I just wont be a part of it. (this vid is a slap in the face too if you ask me)
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Except for leaving out Mai, but she was left out of XI. How much would people be willing to part with to pay for her as DLC?
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(*´Д`)aaaaaaaa (o )Y( o)
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People who actually play King of Fighters never use Mai. I think SNK is looking to please those fans first, and is giving a big middle finger to the horny fans who love Mai because of the fanservice and nothing else.
And they'll probably cash-in on those people as well, when they charge them to download their favorite character.
I say bravo, SNK.
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I have to disagree... fanservice is complimentary in most fighters, but when I use Mai, it's because she's jam-packed with special moves for a wide range of situations.
I try Chun-Li once in a while against a non-serious opponent, but I find any character who has to charge a direction to do a move is significantly disadvantaged to any who don't - often fatally so.
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They're cool, but not that effective in my hands! Let me just turtle for a minute while I... ow! Don't hit me! Stand back and let me charge! Ok, here we go... omg, you blocked! How could you know it was coming?!
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07/16/09
Chun-Li has always been a top-tier, heavily-played character in practically every game she has appeared in.
Mai has always been little more than a portrait on the character select screen, except in KOFXI where she didn't even get that.
Seriously, screw Mai (Figuratively and Literally, if possible.) You want to get the experience of playing as Mai in KOFXII? Play as the lowest tier character in XII while simultaneously looking at the Google image results for 'oppai'.
07/16/09
It sounds like a safe assumption, but no; actually I don't get to play very often because I only know one or two people who can beat me a reasonable amount.
I don't play tournaments, but ever since SF2, I spent many years playing most fighters that came out, learning every move for every character, and beating them... I just don't like charge-based characters, and thankfully, they seem to be an extreme rarity compared to qc/hc move-based ones.