KOF XII Official Rant Thread

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by BP » Tue May 05, 2009 22:00

..I'd rather wait for the JP official boxart, lol.

Pen's rant is pretty spot on. Can't say I disagree with that at all.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by PenPen » Wed May 06, 2009 14:38

They could've used that KOF XII official poster which does the same thing but better. You can even do that in MSPaint!

Or if Ignition is lazy enough, they'll release both covers and call it "Kyo cover" and "Iori cover" and make some really weird/evil marketing shit where you need to buy both covers, and send both redeem codes to get a DLC for K' and Mai, something like that.

That was too evil. I'm destined to be a marketing guru.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by PenPen » Wed May 06, 2009 16:10

Since I can't find a thread that fits and I feel like double posting AND it doesn't warrant a thread itself (and it's not necessarily news), someone over at FightClub bought the board himself last month and plugged it into a monitor.

Thread here: http://arcade.fightclub.com.pk/forums/s ... p?t=267402" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm just selecting some of his observations that we didn't mention, one thing is that he wasn't impressed with the English voices.

1. Japanese/English selectable, voiceovers change as well.
2. Only 3 difficulties for arcade operators: Easy/Normal/Hard.
3. There's a "rally mode" where both players can play against each other (just like versus) but the game ends after the match ends. Seems useless.
4. It runs in Windows XP wut
5. A clock that cannot be re-adjusted. He says there may be time released characters, but I really dunno.

The next post consists of the board and the monitor and actual arcade cab sticks to show that we are all poor people.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by SonicTempest » Wed May 06, 2009 17:49

PenPen wrote: 1. Japanese/English selectable, voiceovers change as well.
Fail D:
4. It runs in Windows XP wut
Well the Taito boards all use Windows XP Embedded as their firmware...they're basically gaming PCs lol.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by Yuki Yagami » Thu May 07, 2009 10:22

Might be leaving these...

http://img265.imagevenue.com/img.php?im ... _539lo.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Elisabeth is not dropped at all (in the consoles)
...and Mature wearing Iori's threads...
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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by Fuu » Thu May 07, 2009 13:38

Mature... with pants?
they really don't want to sell this game right?

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by BP » Thu May 07, 2009 15:59

Fuu wrote:Mature... with pants?
they really don't want to sell this game right?
With Mai (apparently according to the art) likely to be in, they'll be fine.

Nice to see Liz (though expected from the old poster) and Mature (even if she's dead, she still gets to wear new threads!) in this. So with that we're getting 2 (+ 2 more, just need more in-game images) console exclusives. Wonder who'll pop up next.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by Bugle/Hawk'M » Thu May 07, 2009 16:28

Weird. I always assumed Vice was the one who wore the pants. Its an interesting/odd choice of character to add, but I like how she plays so I'm okay with it. I'm happy to see Elizabeth, too.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by SonicTempest » Thu May 07, 2009 19:17

All the official press releases say 'over 22 characters' for the console versions, and now we have 22. So I guess we're getting 23 characters, then. lol

Part of me thinks that one of them will be Rugal since that's Mature in her KOF'94 secretary outfit...

Side note: the article says Mature was in '96, '98 and 2003. lol wut?

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by Tiamat » Thu May 07, 2009 22:49

the scan looks very old, we sure this isn't from before the location tests happened or something? something about it screams "fake" to me

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by SonicTempest » Thu May 07, 2009 23:13

Apparently it's from this month's Famitsu.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by hebretto » Fri May 08, 2009 03:00

If it's true I'm hard right now hahahahaha

BTW this "rally mode" is basically for tournaments so that you don't have to reset the game or have someone sit there and beat the shit out of the last winner's team. It's called "Event Mode" in Capcom games and trust me it saves SO MUCH TIME when you run tournaments on a board. When we tried to run KOF tournaments back in the day it was twice as long cause we had to beat the previous winners team ... they should've had that "re-select" team option like in 2000 haha

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by SonicTempest » Fri May 08, 2009 05:57

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1224032_1124.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Confirmed.

The JP boxart shits all over whatever Ignition was trying to get us to vote on.

Also:
http://www.famitsu.com/image/1192/GW2WR ... fPNRC.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What the hell, EO mode? There had better be a way to ban it for online play.

Also, there will be downloadable content released after the game is out.

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by Tiamat » Fri May 08, 2009 07:17

Thanks for confirming, and I agree those covers are a million times better.

I'm happy Elizabeth made it. Mature looks retarded.

...but what about K and Mai???

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Re: KOF XII Official Rant Thread

Post by SonicTempest » Fri May 08, 2009 07:50

Jesus that was quick.
http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/ ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Video.

Actually I'll post these in the thread for the PS3/360 version.

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