This game is already on my must-buy list.

Yami

YotaruVegeta

Derigor

Please, don't antagonize SNK fighters when don't even know the correct terminology.

Mr. Karate

And about that Hydokun spam bitching, bitch all you want, there are ways around it in every iteration of SF, either by using specific specials to cut through it, or simply jumping over the projectile and kicking Ryu in his face because of the moves fairly decent recovery time, especially in later SF games. You getting this you SNK tards? There is a DAMN good reason why you don't see pure SNK fighters at EVO. There is all sorts of problems with most SNK fighters, such as how there isn't a big weight/speed/handling difference between characters in ANY SNK fighting game, making any stat differences between characters completely pointless. I could go on and on, how most of the time you can simply cancel a shoryuken type attack, or even supers with a basic punch, defeating the purpose of such an attack, massive character imbalances, and ESPECIALLY about the BS in games such as the latest Melty Blood (oh GOD, the first was a complete wreck) and Guilty Gear's EXTREMELY sloppy ground combat, you know, "normal too normal" combat, because the way things work out in GG:AC, with using your normals to try and poke and chain, even with specials and supers (over drives) is just one of the worst damn things I've ever witnessed in a fighting game. With some characters, especially in a mirror match, you might as well just turn the game off and start throwing dice to figure who's gonna win a match, how in the HELL the game figures what has priority over WHAT sometimes in the latest installment is just, god doesn't even know, I even asked him, wait, in fact, he asked ME first.

He said, "Bando, why is GG:AC so fucking broken?" and I said "God... I just don't know anymore, I just don't fucking know." Also, FUCKING TRAPS! Who the hell thought it would be a great idea to give a character the ability to lay TRAPS in a fucking 2d, side scrolling fighter? Especially with the ability to lay MULTIPLES of said traps, and of different types, FUCK! Don't even get me started on Eddie. Scrubbiest character in AC. PERIOD.

It may seem like I'm leaning more on the side of ripping on SNK fighters, but... YES! HELL YES, I am TOTALLY ripping on SNK fighters :p

Bando

Why would you use THAT pic as an example of the hand drawn sprites? I can't even tell what the hell is going on there!

kidnicky

Big SNK fan, here. I'm also a big SF fan. SF carries more nostalgia, but SNK takes the cake for better characters.

Mavwick

Anyway, what's really the big deal here is that SNK is actually remaking graphics at all. It's major!

Yin

DanTheMagnum

shouryuuken

In Guilty Gear, first keyframes are drawn by hand as high-quality ineart, which are scanned in and turned into 2D sprites by sprite artists. The completed keyframes are then passed on to in-between animators, who sprite the frames in between the keyframes and complete the animations.

There is no "computer animation" involved, I have no idea where you even get such nonsense.

What's more, KoF XII isn't actually "completely" hand-drawn, but rather, the animations were done in 3D CGI first, and then drawn over.

Guilty Gear, on the other hand, is drawn as lineart right from the first stages (the Guilty Gear X Drafting Artworks artbook has pages upon pages of the original lineart keyframes).

Want TRULY impressive 2D hand drawn sprites? Look at the sprites in BLAZBLUE -Calamity Trigger-, the spiritual successor to the GGX series: [japan.gamespot.com]

Suzaku

Anyway here's what's known about the game system:

3 on 3
Wall Stick
Hit Clash
"Guard Attack" where you can instantly switch from Attacking to Guarding.
Location Test in April, Tokyo Area

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Past SNK Locations Tests has been done at Hey Arcade Akihabara, so this is just a guess but it might be there also.

Dir_en_grey

summerdrone

KoF 98: Ultimate Match and KOF XII

I wonder which will be better. But I'm betting that it will kick the 2 SFs coming out this year

Capcom vs SNK at its finest again!

But I really hope they have an explanation for Terry going back to old school costume again

KaliKOtt

Zio

KoF will be 100% hand-drawn. Everything.

Polywhirl

NiteShado

Forkball

Any suggestions on King of Fighter games for someone new to the series?

DanTheMagnum

@Capt-Fury-: dunno...haohmaru killed the devs?

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mmmmmm can't wait.

ManjiKengo

Guard Attack- I see that as either CD counters, or maybe a RB-style breakshot

Attacks cancelling into each other- BC mode from 2k2, which was kinda broke, or Roman Cancels?

I hope this doesn't end up a Guilty Gear clone.

arstal

kubevubin

Captain Fury

Btw, SNK games were the stuff on Asia, Europe and Latin America, specially the KOF games. I wonder why their games never had a huge following on North America.

Lider

Also, without repeating myself about some of the differences between SNK and Capcom in the design department from awhile back, I wholeheartedly agree with your statement above. King of Fighters has always had more innovative features than Street Fighter in terms of gameplay and design.

KeroseneClimax

summerdrone

okenny :)

Dave Silva

GameNutt

neoraul20

neoraul20

You're probably right about KoF, I really have very little memory of it. It could have been one of the many other fighters out their back then... it was all a blur (with the sex and drugs of the 60s) and in they way you described it, it seems pretty neat. I just don't remember many of any of those in my neighborhood... or the faux-arcades (with 6 cabinets max)... it didn't stand out.

LOL, again... I'm probably talking out my ass here because the game(s) I saw may have not even been an earlier incarnation of this one but it stood up like a sore thumb when I read the name so my apologies. I'm just reminiscing at the expense of this game.

okenny :)

Mr. Karate

@okenny :): Not to rude against Street Fighter. But when SNK started developing its Fighting Games they had much more substance compared to Street Fighter. Fatal Fury had the two-plane system (Character could shift between a foreground and a background) and Art of Fighting with their special charge meter and Super Attacks. As far as The King of Fighters being a "poor man's Street Fighter" KOF94 had WAY more gameplay mechanics did than Street Fighter ever did. Dodging, Front and Back Step, and 3 on 3 Matches.

SNK Pioneered at lot of the fancy stuff you see in games like Guilty Gear and Melty Blood. So this isn't a third rate game made by a third rate company.

Mr. Karate

okenny :)

EggmaniMN

I can't wait to see some more gameplay footage from the location test.

KeroseneClimax

neoraul20

Maybe if I have time / depending on the location.

Witzbold

neoraul20

mikeeb13

excel_excel

Polywhirl

okenny :)

indeed great year for figthing games

(俗・ ) Grey Gecko

Forkball

Fyren