If you've seen other posts of mine you'll know i'm an SNK fan. KOF, Samurai Spirits II, Fatal Fury, Metal Slug, Plustar, POW, Ikari Warriors It's all pretty much awesome. I even Like KOF MI 2 But just what is it that makes SNK so.......awesome the fact that VERY rearely they put out a horrible game even the worst of the KOFs are better than most Capcom fighters. lets see here for KOF I like in order from least favorite to Favorite, 94, 99, 2001, neowave, 2000,95, 96, XI, 98, 2003, 2002 For Sam Shodown I really only enjoy II, III, IV and V just were blah and I Can't beat Goah even with the game set to Dumbass. Love Both Last Blades Can't decide on my favorite Metal Slug Loved World Heroes Garou is godly Fatal fury is alot harder than I remembered it being the first 4 games anyway. Broken as it is SVC Chaos is still better than CVS 1 and 2 I think Plus it has Genjuro!!!! GENJURO!!!!!! The Whore's son So yeah........your SNK apprecation?
???? Come on, the king of fighters '95 is total crap. Personally I think KOF '97 is one of the better ones. I guess being a SNK fan you are going to diss Capcom but to say even the worst SNK fighters are better than Capcoms is taking it a bit far I think. Fatal Fury for instance is really bad. I like SNK stuff myself but I'd rather play Street Fighter III 3rd Strike than KOF games of the same period. Yakumo PS: World Heroes is ADK isn't it? Aren't they a different company?
I think SNK bought ADK or aquired them at some point. The main Reason I prefer KOF 95 over the other is Iori's Debut team which is perhaps the most Bad Ass team in all of KOFage besides the 96 boss team. You know, I do defy anyone to find a better more refined 2d fighter than 3rd strike But I dunno Capcom Characters lack personality. Every SNK character even the Ever annoying Bao have individual personalites. I think Garou is every bit as refined as 3rd strike too better than 3rd strike is debateable but Def just as good. I wish that Robert had been in a VS game.....I'd kill to see him interact with Dan. I think Art of Fighting 3 doesn't get alot of Credit speaking of Robert. The Sprites in AOF 3 are ALMOST as detailed as the SF III sprites plus they were mocapped. Pretty unique game. Wasn't Guilty Gear's Daisuke also partially responseable for Garou? I know he did last blade 1 and 2 but Didn't he have a hand in Garou?
If any company doesn't need an appreciation thread, it's SNK. I totally disagree that the worst KOFs > most Capcom fighters. Apples and oranges, and I happen to prefer most Capcom fighters to *ANY* KOF. I still do like KOF, to a degree, but in general Capcom fighters, well the CPS2 ones at least, have aged a little better. I'd play KOF over SFIII though. I also rank KOF '95 as higher up, perhaps because it was my first. There's also the fact that the art was consistent and not sometimes hideous like in the later games, especially around KOF '98. Metal Slugs... Definitely MS, MS3, MSX, MS5, MS2, MS4, in that order. Boy was outsourcing MS4 a fuckup. For me World Heroes was always a joke, I would never play it when SSFIIT was in the same vicinity. I never "got" Garou and the later original Neo fighters (ROTD, Matrimelee) though I would have to say that Garou was the best of them. Not nearly as groundbreaking though in 1999 as Samsho 1 was in 1993.
I highly disagree with the KOF > Capcom. I can't believe you rate KoF99 below Neowave, 95, and 96. That's just harsh. What was wrong with KoF99? I agree with Calpis, SNK doesn't need any extra appreciation. I like some of their games alot but they certainly all aren't winners. And I definitely wouldn't say they are better than Capcom.
I don't like 99 because I hate Krizalid and in the MVS version you don't get Iori and Kyo right away I hated the striker system too. The Reason I like 2000 more than the rest of Nests is because the over all feel just felt right plus it gave us Lin and Kula and Vanessa. 99 gave us uh......k'.....pfft.....
I like the King of Fighter series, but not as much as Street Fighter. Also I think the Vampire Savior characters are full of personality, like Jeda with his insane laugh and limb detaching moves or Q-bee's quick attacks hiding behind her lazy appearance... well that's how I see it. I love Samurai Spirits III and the Last Blade series but my favorite fighers are mostly Capcom ones.
Well I'll give you Kriz, he's a bitch of a Boss. But I could kick his ass so I didn't mind. I didn't play the other KoF games that much, but like 2000, I believe the Boss really pissed me off and I never got that much into it. My favorite KoF is 98'. So ofcourse KoF 98' is the only one not on PS2.
it will be soon enough http://arcaderenaissance.blogspot.com/2007/08/king-of-fighters-98-ultimate-match.html
Capcom fighters are more immediate, SNK fighters are more hardcore. That's not to say that there aren't hardcore Capcom players, I know there are plenty. However, I feel that SNK were slightly above Capcom until the late 90's. Now they are a mere shadow of their former selves. I was pretty disappointed with SNK Vs Capcom. I liked a lot of their intention, but the delivery was really flawed. However, it is better than Capcom Vs SNK.
I think SNK just rushed the code that was done for CVS chaos and used left over KOF 2002 music. I think Neo Geo Battle Colseium would've been SVC Chaos 2 had the Capcom Deal still been on going.
KOF games are broken. So are all the fatal fury games. They're fun fighters, but none of them can be played on a serious competetive level.
I second that :nod: As much as I like garou mark of the wolves, there is still a way to pull of infinites in the game which makes just like the rest of the KOF family. Chaos is a joke man the game has no good points about it at all and to be honest I think SNK really ruined the Capcom Vs SNK games after the last one. Its a real shame SNK still have one more CVS games to make before its back over to Capcom....I'm not knocking SNK at all since garou was a really nice game and also the Metal Slug games are sweet :thumbsup:
Fatal Fury Special can be played competitively I've seen a few tournaments going as well. You want a good point about SVC Chaos? Ok how about the Roster?
Theres less than past cvs games which isn't helping :banghead: Yeah theres new but they forgot about some of the old and I really liked the other engine capcom was using.
Geese, Zero, Genjuro, Earthquake, Shiki, Demitri getting a new sprite, Goenitz Hell that's enough win for me. The CVS games had pretty crap rosters full of useless characters too Capcom was taking fan input for CVS and didn't listen to ANYONE. SNK DID Genjuro was the most requsted character from what I heard.... I know because I spammed Capcom begging for Genjuro.
Funny you mention Mai. A guy I talk to on AIM had his girlfriend leave him I cheered him up by saying he should get a Mai Blow up doll.....but if it starts calling him Andy we have problems. Kinda funny how uh......insane Mai is. Mai Obviously has Dependant Personality Disorder
Well the Metal Slug concept wasn't SNKs but Nazca (a company former of ex Irem employees) but we won't let a small detail like that get in the way. ADK are a seperate company to SNK, they were first called Alpha Densha and there first game was Janputer, the first mahjong arcade games. It was released by Sanritsu. However SNK would buy ADK when ADK went bust in 2000. SNK have made bad games, a lot of the early games on the Neo Geo were really awful. Riding Hero being a genre that SNK should have left well alone... The thing is that most of SNKs output were fighting games, after the early part of the 90s SNK basically ceased doing anything that wasn't a fighting game letting other companies do the puzzle and shooters... Not to say the fighters weren't good, but after the adismal Hyper 64 you knew it was only a matter of time before SNK went bust...
I'm not sure middle school molesting sims are something SNK should be doing either.......... but it's selling which means we'll see more DS middle school molesting sims.
