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The Evil Leon just showed me a screenshot of the upcoming PS2 KOF game in the newest Game Informer.  Needless to say, I wanted to punch somebody's lights out.  It's in 3D.  Who the hell had that bright idea?  Somebody needs to fire them.

That's 3D, folks.  In a KOF game.  Blasphemy.

I'll go try to find images in a minute.

YUCK!

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I don't like the looks of that at all. But maybe we're wrong and it'll be an awesome game. (although it'll probably never feel like a real king of fighters game)

I'll say this for Ducks:   Its Stupid.

I'll say this for myself: Its really stupid.

I want high resolution sprites that look awesome, not polygonal crap.  This is as irritating as Mai being censored in KOF '00-01.

Yes.  It's yet another example of developers taking what works so well in two dimensions and putting it into three where it doesn't belong.  I can deal with 3D backgrounds, and in some fighters, they can be cool.  However, take the sprites out of KOF, and it's not KOF anymore.  It'd be like making Mario a used car salesman instead of a plumber.  It just kills the personality, the tradition, the character that makes the series what it is.  They may as well add Heiachi and Jin as secret characters, and have cute little FMV endings for each character.  Oh, hell....  let's just re-make Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero with the cast of Samura Shodown!  Destroy the last  few good 2D series out there, why don't ya?

Oh come on. Don't be so pessimistic. A lot of games made the chance from 2d to 3d and were still good and had the same personality. Mario comes to mind, or rayman. I say you shouldn't judge the game untill you've played it.

Don't judge a game by its dimensions.

Yeah, and Contra and Castlevania.

I'll play it, but I still think it takes away a lot of what KOF was about.  I'm not really sure who is developing this, but we all know it isn't the SNK of yore, even if it has SNK's name slapped on the packaging.  I don't think the old SNK would have ever done this....  and that's something else to remember.

the characters and backgrounds dont seem as good as they could be. For a fighter im putin my money towards MK: Deception

That is just like snk. they will give us a 3d king of fighters that nobody wants and the the high res 2d king of fighters every one is asking for

What about Samurai Showdown 64? Did that thing ever even come out?

no I don't think so. the hyper 64 did not have many games come out on it

MK DECEPTION

looks like I was wrong Samurai Showdown 64 was released back in 97:-[. This page has a release date list http://www.geocities.com/the_tea_monger/hyper64.html

I don't really understand why anybody cares, especially Nep. I've never even seen him play KOF. Okay, well there was this one time he did a few years ago and I kicked his ass repeatedly. But we honestly don't know how good this game will be. It might be awesome like Tekken. It might suck like Street Fighter EX +45 Squared^6 %100 - 92 /5.

Anyway, all of the ranting just proves one thing. The only reason people like KOF is because it is 2D. It's a product manufactured specifically for 2D fanboys. Aside from the awesome sprite animations (and they are awesome), there really isn't much there. MvC2 is FAR, FAR, FAR more playable. If you want to be upset about something, be upset about EA buying the rights to the Marvel characters. Face the truth about KOF. It was worn out years ago.

I agree with Evil KOF died with KOF 99 and EA has too much money they buy and ruin everything. So just go out and preorder Mortal Kombat Decption (Mystification in France(how gay is that name)) and you dont even have to contemplate the possible shitiness of this game.

I haven't honestly played all of the KOF's to be sure of this, but I think KOF died even sooner than '99, somewhere in the 16 or early 32-bit era.

Mortal Kombat was kickin ass then and still kicks ass now except 4 and special forces and mythologies but other than those 3 they still do and always will kick ass.

No the king of fighters is still going strong. King of fighters 2003 was released not to long ago

Wow, this is a big load of crap.  I think you've got that backwards, pal.

And so is the bit about KOF being a shallow game series that died years ago.  They are GREAT fighters, and just because your attention span requires super-uber fast gameplay like in MvC, that doesn't mean that the KOF series lacks any depth.  Fighting games don't have to move at 90,000 frames a second to be good.

What is MvC?

King of Fighters is one of the very few remaining 2D fighters; thus, with limited selection, those of us who love these games eagerly wait for the next KoF to be released.  Now the reason 2D is better than 3D in a fighter is readily apparent to some and not to others.  Since you are limited to a 2D plane, the style of battle changes, the attackes have to be faster to work, the holds are closer range.  Anyway, most 3D fighters lack a certain something to make me want to master the game.  Last 3D fighter I played was Rival Schools, and the last I bought was Soul Caliber (DC), but I still have a blister on my thumb from Guilty Gear XX.

Marvel vs Capcom im gonna guess
which has no depth, terrible music and to many capcaom characters but was made with a really good idea and is insanely fun

Proove it.

I own several KOF games.  You do not.

You know you can't play them worth crap.