KoFXI
What you know bout that?
Probly nothin

>>715111387 (OP)
It has the best hebe character in the series that only Saigado ever did justice, as always.

>>715111387 (OP)
Not much, I watched the Guilewinquote video on it and that's about it

>>715111387 (OP)
played on my ps2, ps2 controller is so bad for fytan gamezz

>NESTS Kyo has the option to taunt after LDM
>starts glowing
>oh cool I bet he does more damage on his next combo or something, don't really fuck with it
>it's fucking MAX mode

>>715112552
Can't be much more painful than emulating it even with a stick, shit drops frames preceding dropped inputs without fail

>>715111387 (OP)
Underrated game.

>>715111387 (OP)
It introduced B. Jenet to KOF, so I love it for that.

>>715111387 (OP)
Best version of Diet
https://youtu.be/t-cP3OUVrCM

>>715116373
Best version of Big Shot too
https://youtu.be/xFgJu72gXrc?si=MrT2deVuRt-rYwdD

>>715116373
fighting games need more jock jams

>>715111387 (OP)
The fastest KOF to this day, Oswald is insane.

>>715119219
I'm kinda surprised he didn't come back for XII/XIII. His sprite in XI was already skewing towards the more stylized look of those games, like they could've touched up what they had and added to it.

>>715119436
I'm glad KOF XIV brought him back, SNK was better under chinese administration.

>>715119929
I skipped XIV, wish I hadn't in retrospect. Isn't even as ugly as I remember it being, but I think it had its lighting improved via a patch down the line?

this was the only fighting game I had as a kid on PS2 and I always thought it was cool even if I was absolutely just a retarded kid button mashing through it
really liked the fact that you could edit your own color palettes, I don't know why more games don't have that
also hotaru was one of my earliest crushes, that special where she rides you really didn't help matters

>>715120203
>but I think it had its lighting improved via a patch down the line?
Yeah, they added a patch to improve the graphics.
Overall KOF XIV was really underrated, had a great soundtrack, new designs, some characters carried their new specials from KOF XIII, like K', Shun'Ei was the new protagonist, and yet the chinese didn't tried to force the players to accept him, Kyo won the finals, had a manga.
Good stuff

>>715111387 (OP)
It's the best Kof in my opinion.
I hope SNK release the ps2 version for the ps4/ps5/Steam.

>>715120902
>great soundtrack
That's a big part of what made me wish I'd given it a chance when I heard it down the line, better than XIII's imo which never wowed me, even though I do appreciate it giving everybody new themes that are on-brand to suit it being the last sprite-based entry. Saxophone Under the Moon for instance though totally outshines Arashi no Saxophone 12815271247142 or whichever it was from XIII.

>>715120902
I really love Verse's theme, fantastically tense. Character itself I also found to be pretty neat. May not give off the same vibe as KoF's other bosses of pretty boys or badass old men, but I find the bulky, borderline eldritch design, the fire based attacks, and overall sound design on him to be great.

>>715121348
>>715121752
Shun'Ei vs Kukri was amazing too. Rookie vs his biggest wall yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_orRnAx5yc

>>715111387 (OP)
It had a bunch of weird characters in it. I wish Gai Tendo would come back. I'd like a new Buriki One, I need an mma game alternative to EA slop.

>>715111387 (OP)
I got this and NGBC on the PS2 in 2007 when I was on holiday as a teenager. Though I'm in Australia so NGBC was the PAL version where somehow they forgot to insert the translated text into the endings so you'd just get pictures and some mournful music with no context

Liked XI a lot actually, don't really mind all the bootleg MvC complaints because I like MvC and SNK shit.

I've had a weird thing for dicking around in this game for the past couple weeks because I haven't been in the mood to really play anything otherwise, and clipping stuff I find. Still on the hunt for a one skill stock stun combo with this or similar team composition, not counting ichigeki hissatsu. Opportunity to show this game in action in a relevant thread, in any case. May be worth noting to any laypersons tuning in that this one DOES have burst, lol

>>715111387 (OP)
it's definetely the most obscure title in the series, main series at least.
>what about KOF XII
There's no such a thing as KOF XII, XI went straight to XIII just like windows went from 8 to 10, that's it

Still very impressed with how much content the PS2 port of XI had. A huge base roster but then also a big challenge mode and a heap of unlockable bosses

Why do people dislike Playmore-era SNK again?

>>715123583
Playmore era was better than current one honestly

>>715123106
Oh shit, I left off the "stuff I find" part of this post. I've made a couple in the past about how input buffers are less forgiving than the likes of KoF '98 which only necessitates you deviate by a single direction to throw off the game interpreting your button press after a motion as a special move (for instance Kyo doing qcf, b+C, qcf + C to buffer super without getting rekka, the back input throwing it off). That won't work here. It will however be thrown off if you move TWO directions apart from your initial motion and still store it, so you get this weird shit that's like cranking a gear shift doing 236 61+(crouching) button 236 super confirm. You can also do whole motions in between segments of a super input, so you can do shit like vanilla Kyo 63214D 623C 63214E to get standing D x DP x leader super. Speaking of half circles, they're pretty strict in this game, unless you're Ryo. Ryo likes saying HAOOHH

Luckily, for the attached clip, the jump-in makes it so you can just buffer one qcf into that then do 2C36E on landing.

>>715123583
>challenge mode
I like this mode a lot, and how unlocking relevant characters is tied to it. The one where you unlock Robert by essentially playing Rose ball with King and can't move so you have to use specials to negate or avoid her fireballs is really cool.

>>715123583
KOF """"""fans"""""" hate everything that is not KOF 98 (or 2002 turbo magic faggot plus++ in latino countries)

>>715123583
I think there was an overlap in people's attitude towards both that merger and Square Enix at around the same time. Like a lot of gamers went "game company merger bad" as a rule of thumb even though in SNK's case it never made sense, it was the same dude absorbing his own company from a pachinko offshoot. Still wonder about just how many kept their jobs but I know at least a chunk of their sound talent stayed.

Does anyone actually buy these Capcom and SNK repo cabinets? I'm assuming they must because they keep making them but outside of FGC personalities on YouTube who I'm sure would get promo ones for free, who is their audience? I've never met anyone who actually owns one and they're fairly expensive so that'd price them out of South American audiences.

>>715126884
Damn fine selection of games there.

The challenge where you have to interrupt galactica phantom on reaction with Clark's SDM is really cool too.

>>715123583
It's a shame SvC Chaos isn't very good because its roster is a hell of a lot more interesting than the two CvS games.