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https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/us/press/2020/022502/
if they wait until coronavirus is gone, they would have to delay KOFXV to 2013.
Not only life cripplingly autistic, but also a time traveler.
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https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/us/press/2020/022502/
if they wait until coronavirus is gone, they would have to delay KOFXV to 2013.
That wasn't the main part of the post you should be worried about fixing. You are a horrible human being.wait waaait that's a typo. I meant 2021
I love Street Fighter and I hate to say it, but this is 100% true. It was sad as hell to see so many players at the arcades shun the new direction that the SF3 series took at that time. I still have the news article from EGM magazine celebrating the demise of the Street Fighter 3 series after Third Strike had run its course.
It really wasn’t until the Third Strike Evo moment that more players gave the game another shot, but even after Capcom included a port of Third Strike on the Street Fighter Anniversary collection (PS2/XBOX), it still did not grant Third Strike huge commercial success. With Third Strike having made the jump from being a console exclusive on the Dreamcast to a widely available release on PS2 and XBOX, its presence on the ill-fated Dreamcast was not entirely to blame.
Ono fought an uphill battle to get a new Street Fighter off the ground and thank goodness he did. Having Nishimura (formerly SNK and then DIMPS) himself return the series to something that veterans and newcomers alike could get into turned out to be just what the series needed...for a time. Outside of the competitive community SF is still far away from the resurgeance it experienced with the release of SFIV, but that’s a completely different talk.
Back on topic: I hope KOFXV sees success along the lines of the new Samurai Shodown. I wish them luck.
However, quality of the game is not one of them. There's no fighter imo to this day, that plays as smoothly and as responsively as Third Strike. However, when you take an advanced userbase who have been practicing for over a decade, you will alienate new players. No one wants to lose to some 15 hit combo before they even learn the game at the arcade. Not to mention, arcades themselves were beginning to lose some steam by then.
I like SNK more than Capcom. Full stop. But MotW is not as good a game as Third Strike.
darn it, capcom should quit being such tryhards spreading bad information about their mediocre product. SF3 TS is one of the most mediocre fighting games.
it has been surpassed even by its predecessors!
the sprites are awful art direction. everyone looks worse and that is worsened by its inconsistent character designs. Necro, Seven, Oro are some of the most horrible and stupidest character designs ever. Urien is one of the most laziest character designs, which is basically a modified Gill. Chun Li has absurd turkey legs and takes proportions to extremes.
also SF3 series has THE WORST music ever, tied with MVC2. and its rap and juvenile themes are trash tier nonsense.
plus that era has the worst rosters since SF1. in a lot of ways SF3 series is the anti SF compared to SF2, Alpha, and SF4 eras. even SF5 has better taste in roster. SF3 was lacking too many favorites and adds so many rejects.
anyways, Im surprised there are no roster leaks of KOFXV yet. KOFXIV's roster was leaked like a year before launch.
motw has the audacity to introduce 2 taekwondo practitioners, they being Kim's offspring - something which pays homage to Kim's presence in the FF series. I liked this.
Just some random comment about Jae Hoon and Dong Hwan
Was it SNKs answer to Yang and Yun?
I definitely always felt like it was their answer to the SFIII twins while also being a neat send up to the fact that Kim’s sons were present in the mangas, animes, backgrounds and or win/loss poses throughout the series but hadn’t been playable up until that point.
Since Savage Reign was the original sequel series to Fatal Fury, Kim Sue Il was the original Kim successor. Then with the series direction shift that occurred with MotW, they walked the timeline back and went with Kim’s sons rather than his distant descendant.
There were so many thematic parallels between SFIII and MotW anyway, that it is hard to rule out that SNK was directly influenced by SFIII in more ways than one at that time. If only MotW had been a 2D fighter created for the Hyper 64 hardware rather than the aging MVS.
Also I think there is something to be said about SFIII being almost too good looking or at least too sophisticated visually to garner mass appeal. I know it sounds weird but with the game taking itself so seriously I think it took away from the instant gratification factor many casuals tended to look for in arcade games.
What do you mean? Can you clarify. I always found the game pretty eye-catching.
also SF3 series has THE WORST music ever, tied with MVC2. and its rap and juvenile themes are trash tier nonsense.
FWIW I love the SFIII soundtrack. The D&B genre is such a weird choice but it works perfectly.
Was all the rage back then, jungle music was, you knew this though I'm sure
I was still listening to Brit rock in '97. I was still in grade school and didn't know much about music or the trends. But even now, I was under the impression that D&B was really popular in Europe / UK, but not really the US. Is that not the case? I just remember a lot of people getting into hip hop and Jock Jams style techno around that time, both through classmates and the musical guests on All That, In Living Color, and SNL. (Though now that I think about it, a D&B "band" wouldn't really make sense on one of those shows.)