King of Fighters 15 - Rugal DLC

[Monsanto]

Until Virtua Fighter gets here, KOF is gonna hold down the genre.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Im really hyped for KOF to come back, good timing too because it'll hit next gen before SF does for a change.

Really hoping this won't be dead on arrival like 14.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

always had soft spot for KOF. been playing it since KOF94.




Man i miss the days of Arcades.
That musty armpit teenage aura full of competitive energy

 

[parallax]

that leona render looks good, but they look like they belong in a sf5 crossover

 

[mr.africa]

was always more of a street fighter,fatal fury and mortal kombat kind of guy.
KOF was dope too though.
damn, we had too many quality fighters in the 2D era

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Graphics look slight better than 14, but still not anything that blows me away.

I know it will happen because of cost, but I miss the 2D sprite era of previous games.

 

[Hersh]

whose that main dude now? rock howards kid? or just a new rock howard?

 

[Kaydigi]

It only took 18 years to get 2002 UM on PS4, Jesus Christ.

See you in 2028 when KOF 13 drops for ps5.

 

[SNYC]

Crazy, i just downloaded 13 on Xbox. Games with Gold finally has something decent

And i feel

I remember playing the first one in the arcade

 

[DaylitoJames]

 

[CarltonJunior]

It only took 18 years to get 2002 UM on PS4, Jesus Christ.

See you in 2028 when KOF 13 drops for ps5.

Good thing KOF13 is on Xbox One/XSX already

 

[DonkeyPuncher718]

All I know is Yamazaki better be in this bytch!

Show some love to Duck King!

And stop shytting on the American Team!!! Heavy D! Lucky Glauber and Brian Battler hasnt been in a game since 98 wtf!!!!

 

[CarltonJunior]

Graphics look slight better than 14, but still not anything that blows me away.

I know it will happen because of cost, but I miss the 2D sprite era of previous games.

Well they are in a weird position.

A lot of casual fans skipped KOF12 and 13 because it wasn't 3D and people considered the game to be niche. The games were extremely expensive and nearly bankrupted the company. The appreciation for it's 2D artstyle came WELL after the lifecycle of the game had basically ended. In comparison to the competition, they flopped.

KOF14 flopped obviously because the graphics weren't that great, but they had to put it out because they needed something in their pockets. That lead to the new Samurai Shodown which had success with this artstyle.

So not only is this artstyle more cost effective, but it removes the "niche" tag off of the KoF series that it had previously. There's people out there that flat out refuse to play 2D games, and this eliminates that group.

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Well they are in a weird position.

A lot of casual fans skipped KOF12 and 13 because it wasn't 3D and people considered the game to be niche. The games were extremely expensive and nearly bankrupted the company. The appreciation for it's 2D artstyle came WELL after the lifecycle of the game had basically ended. In comparison to the competition, they flopped.

KOF14 flopped obviously because the graphics weren't that great, but they had to put it out because they needed something in their pockets. That lead to the new Samurai Shodown which had success with this artstyle.

So not only is this artstyle more cost effective, but it removes the "niche" tag off of the KoF series that it had previously. There's people out there that flat out refuse to play 2D games, and this eliminates that group.

Which is crazy to me, because I grew up playing the 2D fighters of Capcom and SNK.

I know SNK wouldn't have money like Capcom to make something that looks as visually impressive as say SFV, but I am surprised that Arc Systems Works seems to have more money. In terms of popularity, I would think KOF/Fatal Fury were ahead of Guilty Gear/Blaz Blue, but Arc Systems games look incredible. Granted they are doing a different style than most.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Which is crazy to me, because I grew up playing the 2D fighters of Capcom and SNK.

I know SNK wouldn't have money like Capcom to make something that looks as visually impressive as say SFV, but I am surprised that Arc Systems Works seems to have more money. In terms of popularity, I would think KOF/Fatal Fury were ahead of Guilty Gear/Blaz Blue, but Arc Systems games look incredible. Granted they are doing a different style than most.

Well with Arcsys it isn't that they have more money, they just built the graphic engine so they can port it across franchises easily. It probably cost them $0 to make DBFZ and Granblue's graphical engine look the way it does because they already spent the money to develop it in Xrd so they can reuse it.

At this point they are just creating new models, changing the battle system and making story modes with reused assets and code. It's a good comeup.

KOF15 seems to be using Samurai Shodown's graphics engine but without the extra shaders. I'd say it looks as good as SF5, in my opinion.