KING OF KIGHTERS XIII

[Afty2]

iiits Coming..Soon

[TamTam79]

I like my fighting games, but this had wanna be a massive step up from last years release. I thought that was one of the most dissapointing games of '09.
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[myzz]

I realllly hope this is good, they need to take a page out of SF4, they need to develop it longer, test it 1000x more than the past game (console port anyways) and ensure that Iori's moves are not changed again!
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[LeonJ]

Well, it was always coming. Rumours where they stopped development of KOFXII mid way through to start work on this.

I don't know what to think about it, they games needs a lot of work. They got so much of it wrong in XII.

XII was a solid game and had a great engine but had no extras.

I hope they -

1) Fix the online component, make it simplier. It really sucks.
2) Have the zoomed out as the default so the characters aren't pixelated. Makes the game look a LOT nicer.
3) A lot more stages, bring back old remix tunes.
4) Bring back the rival intros, include mutlple start/winning poses (XII had none).
5) Add a good story and do somethign alal Blazblue (intros/endings in cool still frames with voice).
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[dloiscute]

[LeonJ]

I just can't get my head around how the developers though the game looked 'great'. The filter does help a bit, but by default, the characters look like they are from 1994 KOF 1.

Maybe it was a slave labour camp where they had tiny monitors to develop on?
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Shin J Leon.

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[myzz]

The stages didn't look that good for me, playing it on a sony bravia the backgrounds were to dark in sections, i think it was the china stage, even after playing with the brightness it still looks pretty average.

A friend at work said that the KOF community are assuming that they will rip off SF4, I'm unsure how but i kind of hope so in a way lol.

I saw an arcade game on youtube a few months back and the graphics looked really good, maybe it was a bad port to consoles?

I haven't seen it in the arcade first hand though. Also haven't spent a great deal playing it though, only those few games we had Leon and i played and maybe 1 or 2 with others on live.

I hope the next game is good, KOF is such a great franchise, the memories of all the old games i loved growing up bundled into 1 such as fatal fury, art of fighting etc.

Deep down inside i wish they would make a Capcom vs SNK 3 on the SSF4 engine.
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[LeonJ]

Well I hope KOF 13 is a build on KOF 12. 12 is fine, they just need to fix up a number of things.

I don't want KOF to go 3D at all.
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[phenomenon9999]

[Afty2]

KOF XIII should not be build on KOFXII. As much as I didnt like the gameplay, characters looked funny too. SNK should take there time and make the game par with atleast Blazeblue if not SF4/Tekken. If they running out of time, I am happy even if they repack KOF 2000.
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[Ciel]

King Of Fighters need to go back to the good ol' days when it had a cool story and rivalries going. Mixing and matching teams to see how it affected the story was pretty cool too.

Each year they tinker around with the fighting system so I would expect more of the same there. Since they worked on the base of the graphics engine in KOFXII and no doubt they will use that and tweak it (I hope) I would imagine the rest of the work would go on the game balancing and characters.

They should make it look more like Blazblue with that high resolution cartoony look but since they've pretty much invested in the KOFXII engine no doubt they'll use that.
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[TamTam79]

Sometimes I wonder how this series is still going after soooo many games. It's been failing on and off for years, IMO.
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[LeonJ]

I hard rumours that they dropped XII mid way through development and started work on XIII.

Explains why no DLC characters where ever released. I think they pretty much wrote off XII and decided to do a full blown sequel.

KOF is all about personality. XII as very lacking in that department.

It's still a great game. I love the backgrounds and graphics mostly. I just hate the zooming in characters making it all pixelated.

If they add 12 more characters, 2 intro/ending poses, rival intros, zoom it out a bit (cause it looks AWESOME when both characters are on either side of the screen), a boss and great online mode, it would probably devert my attention from SFIV.
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Shin J Leon.

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[shinhawk]

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Heh, I was just about to buy XII to add more fighting games to my library, I'm glad I held out.
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[myzz]

@shinhawk: Woah, so sorry... I have only "compalined" one other time, that was the first time i played XII making that twice, and no I haven't played 11 so I didn't know the reason or even research about it, It was just something i noticed when i tried to play with him.

I haven't played to much XII because of the lack of people on my friends list that have it and when i try to meet new players they are always from asia/euro and are really laggy making it unplayable and pointless, and i guess most of teh aust players have moved on to other games by now :/

I have now seen the way that Iori is played in 12 and he is awesome but the fact remains that they removed it and I was coming from playing a bit of 98 to XII. It was just a comment nothing more nothing less, thanks for filling me in to the reason behind the changes.
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[phenomenon9999]

If you have the PS3 version of KOF 12, you may be lucky to find me Online... but it is a low chance. I still play it because I want the Platnium trophy for it but 1400 games is just too much!

My PS ID is...
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[Afty]

Few character scans, 3 new characters reveal
Would need help in lingo translation, Shihawk u out there help out..plz






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[LeonJ]

Well that all but confirms they are building on the XII engine.

Looks good. It's hard to get excited though as I was burnt heavily with XII.
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[shinhawk]

These don't look like new scans in light of KOFXIII's announcement. Its pretty hard to miss, but in case anyone did, it says that this is from the Japanese Official Guide for KOFXII which came out almost a year ago.

Its really tough to read because the kanji is so blurred out. The only real relevant stuff is in that box where its talking about the 3 characters shown at the right. The only part in that box I can make out is that those are sprites of characters that could possibly be used later on. Aside from that they also have a boss sketch. I can't seem to find his name, but its the magnificent-looking jerk with the cape and powers emanating from him. He kind of reminds me of Heinlein from Mark of the Wolf.

Again, because these are rough sketches from the KOFXII guide, these could be either scrapped ideas or planned characters for the next game.
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[gameOn]

After utter failure of XII Snk releasing XIII so soon its not even been a year.let shops they learn from there mistakes.

[shinhawk]

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[Darek Khort]

I do hope they have a boss stage in XIII, and I'm hoping they revert back to '02 or '98-style. I really despised XII; no boss fight, and played totally differently with the recover and stagger which I found detracted from the KoF franchise.