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King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 9:49:44

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. ..EVER!! This one was too important for me to not make a new thread about it. I remember there were some haters who doubted the work that SNK did with the sprites and animation. Well suck on THIS!!. They animated all the characters in 3d, then painstakingly redrew over all the animations BY HAND and it's in glorious 2d and HD to boot. As much of a hardcore SF and Capcom fanman as I am SNK has them beat this time hands and pants down. Capcom, you've been officially upstaged.

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Here's the same video but you need a NicoNico account to view it:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4663247

It's at nearly the normal speed as well and it's AWESOME. There are a lot of animation nuances from the first link that are missed that you see in the Nicovideo link. I'm not sure if it was just me or not, but I tried 3 different browsers and I couldn't get the first one not to perform choppy.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 9:52:39

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SNK FTW

So will it come to the consoles or just arcade?

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 9:56:40

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As the official biggest SNK Fanboy of this site, I give my stamp of approval to this thread. Could have been Gamer's Randomicity though.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 9:58:35

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Right now it's only been announced for arcade, but it's pretty much a shoo-in for console release considering it's running on the Taito X2 board. KOFMIRA and RA2 were running off the same board, so is Battle Fantasia, BlazBlue, Samurai Showdown Edge of Destiny (3d but not like the travesty SS64), and Street Fighter IV. So I'm guessing which could be wrong but at the very least we'll see a PS3 port, 360 as well since KOF2K2 and 2k3 were on the original Xbox with Live play and I believe they're putting '98 on Live.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 12:15:01

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Well, I don't really care how pretty it looks, because it is not the smoothest-animated 2D fighter out there. Capcom vs. SNK has incredible animation and effects as well, and that's from 8 years ago.

Yeah KOF XII has a higher pixel count, but I swear to everything that is holy, that this is not the best-animated 2D fighter.

Even KOF characters are animated better in Capcom vs SNK games!

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 12:36:07

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The video is actually pretty choppy, I've seen it running at full speed and it's on par if not better than 2nd Impact which is the smoothest 2d fighter I've ever seen. I'll have to wait until I get it to see if it takes the fighter's animation helm but I'm thinking it will. 3rd Strike has awesome animation as well and IS my favorite Street Fighter but there are some frames missing from 2I. Garou Mark of the Wolves also has better animation than CvS2, and yes I do love CvS2 very very much. Rumble Fish 2 is nothing to sneeze at either.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 12:38:52

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Yeah I have to admit Street Fighter III really impressed in the animation department.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 13:22:18

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To be honest, KOFXII looks amazing without doubt. But SSF2THD looks awe inspiring. They're pretty closely tied in the sprite department...

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 13:49:47

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 13:50:04

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mmmm....

sprites.....

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 15:00:31

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To be honest, KOFXII looks amazing without doubt. But SSF2THD looks awe inspiring. They're pretty closely tied in the sprite department...

Hah it's no contest KOFXII wins this one in the sprite contest. Capcom clipped the sprite colour count in SSF2THDR and the animation remains exactly the same from the original Super Turbo. I understand and agree with why they didn't add more frames for the remake but still, SNK wins this match hands down. We need more videos though, more than likely a few more will trickle down from the AM/JAMMA show. I need to go check magicbox and see if they updated with anything.

I was hoping Capcom would have done what SNK did for SFIV but I've grown used to it now. Oddly enough Tatsunoko vs Capcom pulls off the art style better than SFIV does, now they need to confirm online play for the latter and a port for KOFXII and we'll be in some serious business. I'll be picking up 2 copies of SSF2THDR, KOFXII, and TvC as well if it doesn't stay Wii exclusive (in that case I'd obviously only buy 1).

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 15:03:25

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SNK is the king of fighting games now. Capcom has gone down the casual sh*tter with their 3 button Tatsunoko vs Capcom...not to mention making Street Fighter 4 nothing but Street Fighter 2 in 3D.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 15:21:25

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SNK is the king of fighting games now. Capcom has gone down the casual sh*tter with their 3 button Tatsunoko vs Capcom...not to mention making Street Fighter 4 nothing but Street Fighter 2 in 3D.

Yeah I'm still pretty pissed about TvC being 3 buttons. My buddy went to Evo this year and played it, and he said the 3 button thing isn't as bad as it seems by just hearing about it. I don't know, I'll change my judgment when I finally get to play it. Oh and SFIV IS SFII in 3d, aka EX4. Ono got too wrapped up in recreating the "Street Fighter II Experience" for nostalgia sake they damn near redid the whole thing. Saving point is how they'll explain how the hell Vega/Bison is alive after dying in Super Turbo. SNK took the helm hardcore with this one though, I can't wait to see more of it and if they'll be giving anything else this treatment. I know Samurai Showdown's latest game is in 3d but damn would it be something fierce with the same sprite upgrades, not to forget Metal Slug.

I think I'm about to start plans to build a universal stick now, I wonder if I can get the wireless working and powered correctly with the PS360 combo of if I should just leave it wired.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 15:23:31

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To be honest, KOFXII looks amazing without doubt. But SSF2THD looks awe inspiring. They're pretty closely tied in the sprite department...

I would have to disagree with you there, I think KoF pretty much wins this one.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-18th-2008 22:48:43

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Youtube links:

Ash vs Athena and the original match with Shen and Ryo vs Kyo and Ash. It's official, animation is to effin notch as well, this game has it all. Also word has it from DrPirate that Metal Slug IS getting the same treatment as KOFXII. So damn, can't wait to see that.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-20th-2008 11:21:39

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Looks great, it should be downloadable on XBL and/or PSN

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-22th-2008 19:37:32

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DAMN!

''KOFXII doesn't have as many characters as previous entries, perhaps because the artists simply can't draw enough in their given development time. The game will feature a total of 20 characters by default, which is actually four characters fewer than even the original KOF '94.''

Read the complete preview here, there is tons and tons of info. Gamespot have really done a good job with this preview.
You will learn very very interesting things.

Btw.everyone knows Terry is for noobs. Rugal or Iori.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-28th-2008 10:15:46

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New trailer. I believe SNK is finally back. If this works, we can hope for some
new Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury games. A Metal Slug HD would not be a bad idea.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40505.html

This actually looks better than KOF 97 which was the one I enjoyed the most. But where the **** are Rugal and Iori?
Best 2d fighter of this decade.

I am also confused by the 12 at the end. I am more used to years.

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-28th-2008 11:29:26

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I think BlazBlue looked better.... but the animations were a bit choppy in that

SSF2THD is the winner though

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RE: King of Fighters XII = Most Gorgeous 2d Game. .. - Sep.-28th-2008 11:57:39

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The HD remix has nothing on KOFXII, it gets spanked in character detail, environment detail, animation, and colours. This isn't opinion either it's cold hard fact. Capcom screwed up when they halved the sprite colour palette (which still didn't look as good as XII anyway) to lower the filesize of the game. ..INITIALLY. After being granted the ability to have a larger filesize than most on XBLA, they never went back to the old sprites. BlazBlue looks good but it's pretty much Guilty Gear so it's nothing out of the ordinary, and again the animation is so/so. In order to fully appreciate XII you have to play it, or see a clear video so you can spot all the nuances in the character animation and how freaking awesome everything looks.

My only gripe with KOFXII is I've yet to see K` or Iori and I will be pissed if they're omitted from this one. They're the reason I got into KOF in the first place, or else I'll have to use Shen Woo or Kim. Then again they haven't shown all the characters, the boss, or stages so my hope is still there, mainly because K` is on the KOF 15th anniversary logo.

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