#KOFXIV

[bison2winquote]

“On a case again? You’ve got it rough, Mary.”- King after defeating Blue Mary, The King of Fighters XIV (SNK)

[ercdouken]

The King of Fighters XIV (PC/Steam) - Leona/Love Heart/Blue Mary Story Playthrough

[sleepysoren]

Shermie sketch from when she was announced for KOFXV

I've never played but DAMN IF SHE AIN'T HOT

[fidenciojesusfan92]

Megaman, Cammy and Nash

Team Cannon Spike - the team Special, Capcom vs. SNK (SFIV, SFV and. SF6 vs. KOFXIV and. KOFXV)

[gaymer-hag-stan]

PS4 / PS5 Era Fighting Games Ranked By How Many Female Fighters Are Playable

If you're like me, and I know I am, you always pick the cunty bitchy girlies in fighting games over the gross sweaty guys so I decided to make a tier ranking of all the (decent) modern fighting games that actually matters!

No Boys Allowed - No games in this tier because our world is imperfect

Almost... - Skullgirls gets pretty close to nailing things but they went and added TWO whole MEN and ruined things!

Let's Just Meet In the Middle - Melty Blood, Dead or Alive 5 and Cross Tag Battle feature a pretty healthy amount of female characters with Granblue, Central Fiction, Under Night, Persona 4 Arena and Chronophantasma following cloaw behind.

This Is Practically a Sausagefest - To be fair, the situation in SoulCalibur VI, Street Fighter 6, KOFXV, Samurai Shodown, KOFXIV and Guilty Gear Xrd is salvageable, but the situation gets progressively worse from SFV onwards. MK11 only has 12 girls, Strive has 8, Tekken 7 has 16... In a cast of 50 and so on...

...Boys Are Gross! - By far the worst offender though is Dragon Ball FighterZ where only FIVE female characters are playable, and one is just a different version of Android 21!

In all seriousness though, I'm just joking here, all of these games are great so if you haven't already go pick any of them and play!

Although more female fighters is obviously always a good choice. Tell me who is your favourite!

[antiv3nom]

btw i erm. may have ordered all six volumes of the kofxiv manga today.

[qwertyzorovague]

Hi!

Recently I've been getting into KOF, which also means Ive found new favorite characters to talk about and sometimes ramble on about too.

EXHIBIT A: Irish Krizalid from KOF '99

(art drawn by @/tanzong830 on twitter/youtube, click here to go to the direct source!)

one of the big three of NESTS, I hear!

this man has a hard boss fight (if you dont cheese it) and cool asf design. Headcannons go crazy with this one. Also might be my main on KOF 2002UM soon. I wish he'd be part of one of the boss challenges or DLC on KOFXV as well..

overall: I like this character alot and it seems that lots of others do too

EXHIBIT B: Shun'ei from KOFXIV

one of the renders of Shun'ei from XV, taken from the SNK wiki

This character just screams "Modern new-age Protagonist" and I love it. His motion inputs are simple enough in XV, his climax super looks fucking awesome, and he also feels cool to play as.

I wonder how his story's going to end, I don't know... I hope it ends well, considering that he may have mastered his powers according to Team Hero's ending in KOFXV. His headphones, his outfit, the cool jacket he wears on his back, auughh so cool...

EXHIBIT C: K', from KOF '99

The Beast of Prey himself, with wicked-ass magic(?) shades, the fire from his robot arm, and the cool outfit. yeh. Also his name is pronounced K dash since there's a dash in his name-

winpose in 2001 taken from the SNK Wiki

God. So cool. If you wanted to see "THE cool new-age protagonist before cool new-age protagonist was a thing", K' was your guy. Granted I was born nowhere near the time '99 came out, but ever since I discovered KOF, K' has been one of my usual picks despite knowing fuck-all about how to play him properly, because I think he's cool as hell

Sure he's a bit edgy but he's got moves to back it up. his shades, his heavy treanchcoat and leather(?) pants, the robot arm, his fire, goddddddsdfakjsdfjklasdfh

he's so damn cool.

and that sums it up about my KOF rambling. tl;dr: Krizalid, Shun'ei, and K' are so cool... and so is KOF

[woopyfishherehello]

something addicting about 90's kyo illustrations and something so fucked up about KofXIV kyo model.

[shibuyashotos]

Fighting Games

So in an effort to connect better with my audience, I figured this would be a fun post to make. Mentioning what fighting games I play and who I play in them.

My main fighting games are The King of Fighters XV and Street Fighter V: Champion Edition. The other fighting games I happen to own on playstation are:

Dragon Ball FighterZ,

Fighting EX Layer,

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2,

KOFXIV,

Marvel vs Capcom Infinite

Multiversus

Nickelodeon All Star Brawl

Power Rangers Battle For The Grid

Samurai Shodown

Tekken 7

Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown

Now here comes the list of characters for each game.

KOFXV/XIV: "Team Ikari, but something is Slightly Off" - Terry Bogard, Leona Heidern, Ralf Jones

SFV: Ryu, Ken, Cody, Rashid, Dan, Akira Kazama

DBFZ: Fusions Team, Team "Real Goku Hours No Substitutions" (every goku except fusions, goku black, ginyu bodyswap, Bardock, Gohans), and mainly SSKu, Bardock and Vegito.

FEXL: Terry Bogard

Rev 2: Sol Badguy, Chipp, Faust

MVCI: Any combination of Ryu, Dante, X, Zero, Sigma with Time and Soul Stones

Multiversus: Superman ("Scooperman")

NASB: Hugh Neutron

BFTG: Ryu, Jason, Cenozoic Blue

SamSho: Baiken, Haohmaru

Tekken: Jin, Lars, Lee Chaolan, Leroy Smith

UMVC3: Ryu, Dante, Viewtiful Joe or Vergil, Joe, Phoenix Wright. Also Iron Fist.

VF5US: Jacky Bryant, Akira

[extremeeastfgc]

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OSHI NO KO ❌ THE KING OF FIGHTERS

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[sosb-lxtwlgt]

Actually mine 9564418414 if you want, try KOFXIV yappari esaka .. salutations only please!

Randomly good and befitting👌 Side note: picked up an odd habit of listening to "tainted" music mostly amazing songs that have alarming titles or actually sound alarming. The effects (if any)[ideally there shouldn't be]feel unknown though and it's frustrating sometimes

[jose92gt]

El día de Hoy KOF esta de aniversario, el KOF 94 juego que cumple 29 años de su lanzamiento, dando así el inicio con la saga de Rugal y KOF XIX en su 7mo aniversario dando así el cambió generacional

Como curiosidad

KOF94 comienza el desarrollo con 8 empleados y se expande a 60.

-KOFXIV comienza con 5-6 miembros y termina con 30-40.

[bison2winquote]

“Whether you win or lose matters, but knowing what to do when it happens is important.“ - Oswald, The King of Fighters XIV (SNK)

[djangoultra]

Six Fanarts Challenge

[gaymer-hag-stan]

So Ed Boon of NetherRealm Studios (Mortal Kombat, Injustice) has finally decided to address the poor quality of their games' animations and... Well...

First of all, it's not just the attack animations, it's also the idle ones and their fighting stances. Not a single character in MK9, MKX or IJ2 looks like they're actually in a fighting stance and when they attack their bodies are anything but realistic-looking. On top of that, games like Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Killer Instinct and, after 5, even DOA feature characters that go for a more realistic tone. None of them animate that bad.

NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros make the most money out of all studios that produce traditional fighting games, more than Street Fighter, more than Guilty Gear, more than Tekken, more than KOF, more than any of the them, and yet their animations are consistently the worst in the industry. Their character models on top of that, their "realistic characters", looked hideous and inhuman until IJ2 and MK11. Period. Much smaller studios are able to pull off much better results with considerably smaller budgets.

But I'm just a random person on the internet, so maybe someone with actual knowledge on the topic of animation can better explain the issue at hand.

Did I expect Ed to go all "yeah our animations suck"? No, but I did expect, so many years after the release of MK9, which came out in 2011, for them to actually get better and better and produce even higher quality games, yet all the way in 2019, their animations still looked like crap... There's literally no excuses.

Maybe a little less budget spending on the Rhonda Rouseys and the Jean Claude Van Dammes of the world and a little more on making a substantially better game than your competitors and not an artificial one?

Tekken 7's characters' robes, chains, shirts, skirts etc. flow perfectly whereas the superheroes' capes in IJ2 look like they might as well be made of iron.

SNK was able to animate Kim Kaphwan's PANTS to perfection time and time again to the point where the community have made a meme out of his pants being a separate character! Yes, his pants in KOFXIV, the first game in the main series to feature 3D models, look like shit, but what did they do in XV? They actually improved them! Shocking, I know!

Team Ninja produced some gorgeous looking water effects all the way back in 2012 to illustrate characters sweating in Dead or Alive 5. Character sweat in MKX looks like the characters have giant blisters all over their bodies after every single fight. MKX came out three whole years after DOA5.

Virtua Fighter 5 characters have idle poses showcasing character personalities with examples like Sarah brushing her ponytail out of her face (she hops around in her idle pose so her hair gets in the way) while Lau Chan, who is terminally ill, will cough on occasion. That is a TWO THOUSAND AND SIX GAME

And I don't think I need to even talk about the pinnacle of 2D animation that ArcSys have reached or Skullgirls, an INDIE game

I know it feels like I'm trashing on NRS a lot but, like I said, they are currently on top of the industry and a lot of the other studios look up to them and attempt to mimic their results so I would much rather we either actually stop praising mediocrity or they get their shit together and make the games that their current position and status demands.

MK1 is still plagued by issues detected TWELVE whole years ago now so it's clear that improving their weak points is not a priority in NRS's books so I'm not sure what more can be said at this point because I'm sure MK1 will still go on to sell millions of copies and get high review scores so, in NRS's eyes maybe it honestly looks like they don't even have to bother, which is honestly very sad.

[antiv3nom]

so i have now read the first three volumes of the kofxiv manga (i would have read all six but four and five are gonna get here later than the rest of em did) and oh my god its GOOD

so far honestly the best thing this series is doing for me is giving me an idea of characterization for characters that i dont know much about, seeing the team china v team aof and team mexico v team ikari fights were both great

ON THE SUBJECT OF THAT SECOND ONE i think? angel might be an unlikely new favorite???? but shes just so :3 and i love her so bad

some highly expected favorites have been shun'ei and meitenkun but like i already loved them its just nice getting a better look at their personalities :] shun'ei is presented as a lot more of like...a mysterious x-factor at the very beginning of the series than i was expecting but its cool! i like it!!!

oh and then in a segment i will be calling Poppet You Knew This Already: kyo and iori are so gay about it all. and also i Keep Forgetting that benimaru canonically a) is straight up a model and b) STICKS HIS HAIR UP WITH ELECTRICITY? THAT SHIT IS ETERNALLY FUNNY TO ME

anyways. very good so far. greatly enjoying myself. im also rewatching the retrospective series i originally watched mostly bc i really liked the way they presented the lore and i need something to watch in the background while i crochet so you will be hearing more from me