N-Tactix

It's the fact that the writer doesn't have any links or presence in the FGC or is a ethnic minority for me.

The writer of that article is a white guy. Who posts absolutely wonderful articles about the "horny community" getting representation on Resident Evil https://twitter.com/luke_winkie/status/1390361491610669057?s=20

Muscle memory goes a long way when it comes to SNK games. I remember ending up doing a completely different move than what I intended when I first started playing them on emulators and such. At the same time, that's usually only reserved for desperation moves and such which in KOF, can pretty much decide the match if the super goes unblocked. The vast majority of special attacks are pretty easy to execute.

There are alot of timeline generators online. Some people use them in the sort of work I do but I don't really use them. For example: https://online.officetimeline.com/app/#/new-from-template

Wasn't S3 her lowest or at least where she got considerably nerfed? Because I remember I wasn't facing much Cammy's and it got to the point where even the story thread were discussing her nerfs there.

Sorry for the double post but basically this. She has most of the fundamentals in check. A decent anti-air, speed, Cannon Spike can corner the opposing player or make you close the distance without the possibly of getting hit. It's why Ryu for a time was somewhat dominant. The SFV system is more friendly than past games so there's an added safety net that wasn't there before.

It's 2000 all over again. Watch there be antics between King and Ryo. http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/neogeo/b/kof2kart-22.png

They're better than XIV. The only problem is that Ryo's head is too small compared to the rest of his body. Same problem that Ralf+Clark had in XII-XIII.

Ralf and Clark seem like the only characters to reveal together (not because they're "lesser" or worse than any other character) but that's obviously not them.

Same vibe

He could go well if they change him up a bit to fit with the original Final Fight/Street Fighter vibe. He probably would be a minor character I think. I actually think White from Fatal Fury was a pretty decent character for example. Wasn't he killed by Dean in FF3?

Given the current story arc for KOF. He might just return for the next installment. His disembodied spirit spoke to Mature if Verse defeats her. It could be interesting to see how Rugal feels about Adelheid and Rose... Besides, we all know the newest story for the KOF games is just an excuse to bring dead characters to 3D.

And how many times have you gotten killed again?

He used Shin Shoryuken against Hugo during the 3rd World Warrior Tournament. Hugo managed to actually take the hit but later lost the fight. Ryu would later go on to lose to Oro, who forfeited after taking a interest in him, while Ken also quit after learning Ryu was disqualified leading Alex to basically be the champion by process of elimination and face Gill.

Rose at the end of her character story

Flashbacks to when Abigail first came out and he was near unstoppable

Did it? Because I always assumed that there was a 2 year gap between A2 and A3. Ryu was 23 when he defeated Sagat, while Chun-Li was 19 when she joined Interpol, meaning that A2 was in August-November of 1987 as that matches up with the SF2 birthdates. But this gets thrown off since Ken's stage in Alpha 2 is during Eliza's birthday meaning that the events encompass late May too. Granted, most of this useless information I shouldn't have bothered about but it's still interesting. Though, as you said, Cammy's age is what throws the whole thing off. She'd have to be born in 1971/1972 for that to work, thus meaning she would have to be at the most 20 when SF2 happened .

When I was younger and first heard of Q via the Internet. I used to theorise that he was Vega after seeing his CVS2 ending where he ponders on leaving his "mortal shell" to achieve permanent beauty while everybody else though Q was Chun-Li's father or something. That on top of the snake aura Vega emitted in one of victory animations. @ShakunetsuIrrelevant to your main points but Geese didn't survive the first fall because of the scrolls, he didn't even have them in possession yet. He used a rough version of his double reppuken to cushion his fall and was left injured. He did use the 2 scrolls he had to make it out the burning building in FF3 before he sealed all 3 of them away so they wouldn't be misused, only reading them again when he seeked info on Verse.

I wonder what they would have marketed the game as. Because as it stands, most of the SF3 characters would easily fit in the Alpha/SF2 vibe. Assuming that New Generation was always the same before they plonked Ryu+Ken into it, how would it have distinguished itself? Darkstalkers, Cyberbots, Red Earth and Star Gladiator all have a distinct theme and motif. The SF3 roster without Ryu+Ken just seem like Street Fighter characters with a more contemporary vibe. SF3 NG probably would have been slightly better selling had they took some more time to refine the mechanics and add more SF veterans back in. But the sprites were extremely detailed and the CPS3 was notoriously hard to program for.

When you take a step back and think of it, most of the SF characters have had their arcs and storyline repeated to some tiny extent several times across Alpha-SFV. I don't think anybody here wants a massive overhaul of the characters but having them finally moving on from their current motivations and storyline has been overdue for a LONG time.

The worst thing about this all was that the need to have detailed sprites meant that alot of characters missed out on alot of their moves. Andy and Kim became shells of their former selves and Maxima was completely gutted. XIV didn't even bother adding most of them back. Here's hoping they'll add all those missing moves back.

It's not even Yuri or the women having fiveheads aren't the worse offender for me. It's Ralf and Clark becoming bloated messes and Maxima being blonde in the earlier builds for me. Ash and Duo Lon are one of the few characters that work well in the XII sprite style. Speaking of Duo Lon, anyone find it weird that his plot of searching for Ron was just dropped randomly?

@Darc_Requiemthanks. Now that I think of it, XIII's development really did hinder the story they were going for. It seemed like Adelheid and Rose were going to play a more bigger role than before. Maybe if they went for the cheaper 3d route, they could have added in more characters and had a more expanded roster. I also wonder if they made Ash erase himself because he was so despised outside Japan and the scapegoat of any criticism people had during 2003-XI. Not that it matters because Ash is likely going to return for XV.

The bullied kid that will snap and get somebody hospitalised by the end of the school year. Also: https://br.ign.com/the-king-of-fighters-xv/89019/feature/kof-o-que-aguarda-kyo-e-iori-no-novo-jogo It's the usual PR dodging questions about the game's details/plot but the illustrator Ogura has said that he personally considers Kyo and Iori to be evenly matched and yet not the strongest KOF fighters out there.