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General Discussion / 10+ year game?

« on: July 10, 2012, 08:19:27 PM »

Ok, so it seems like KOF13 is doing pretty well.  The cast balance seems to be pretty good, and nothing terribly broken has been found.  In the face of lackluster competition, the popularity of this game is increasing steadily.

Do we think that this could be a 10+ year game, like ST, KOF98, 3S, KOF02, MvC2, etc?

Let me put it a different way.  Let's say SNKP faced a major crossroads and decided to choose between 1 of 2 strategies:

- Business as usual.  KOF14 coming soon.  New characters, new system, new balance. Pot luck whether it's better or worse.

- Let's pretend to be Blizzard.  Support KOF13 with very careful balance tweaks, bug fixes, feature updates, improved netcode, and other non-gameplay improvements, for the next 10 years.  Pay for it with cosmetic DLC if games sales & Climax arcade revenue isnt enough.  Port it to PC, OnLive, Wii U, and any other system it can run on.  Polish the game to perfection and spread it far and wide.


Which route would you prefer they take?

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Training Room / Doing f+B instead of charge b, f+B

« on: January 14, 2012, 07:32:02 AM »

Hi, if I'm using Leona, and holding db, but I want to do her f+B command attack, is there any way to trick the command interpreter into not doing her charge slash move?

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Training Room / Easy combo characters

« on: January 07, 2012, 05:19:14 PM »

Hi, I've been playing KOF since 94 (although I stopped after 99) but always at a casual level.  My characters were usually Ralf, Athena, Kensou and Shingo.

Anyways, I've always been bad at combos, so I want to choose characters that dont really need to rely on combos much.  I am especially bad with link combos and other such things that require specific timing.  Unfortunately I'm not so hot with grapplers either.  In 98, I thought I did ok with Ralf/Kensou/Athena doing pokes, throw mixups and simple cancel combos.

So what would be good characters for me in 13?  Athena seems relatively the same, and doesnt seem to need anything much more complicated than j.C > cl.C > f+B > qcb+D.  So I will keep using her.

However from mission mode Ralf seems to be all about links, and Kensou seems more combo oriented too.  So I need some characters to replace them.  I have had some minor 1st day success with Yuri and Leona.

So yeah, I'm looking for characters like 3S Chun Li - characters with simple execution but great natural advantages like good pokes, high health, useful moves etc.

Any advice would be appreciated, apart from "Man up and practice combos you scrub."

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King of Fighters 98/UM/FE / So, uh, 98FE??

« on: September 09, 2011, 02:56:35 PM »

Wow, I dont think I've ever seen a version of a game be ignored quite so thoroughly.

Does anyone know anything about it?  Is it better/more balanced than 98UM?  Or is it worse?
Is it popular at all, anywhere?