Look at what the Japanese patent office leaked

[Erdrick Holmes]

http://www.insertcredit.com/archives/000323.html

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I know I can speak for everyone when I say that my first thought was, "Will it have Duck King?"

[Erdrick Holmes]

That's what this game needs. Duck King.

[XxSephirothxX]

I'll be moderately excited when SNK actually stops releasing ten year old games over and over for new systems. Actually, no, I won't, because King of Fighters really isn't my style. :D

[Meat Puppet]

I was hoping for another bad fart joke. :(

[Shlup]

Those crazy <Japanese people>.

Edit by Kishi: Bad.

[Erdrick Holmes]

They're crazy, but they kick ass for making an 11th KoF game.

[Lindy]

http://img.penny-arcade.com/2002/20021213l.gif

Just replace "Tribes" with "King of Fighters" and make it 11+ games instead of 3.

[Dreddz]

sounds good but there all the same

[Lindy]

Oh yes, and that comic applies to Street Fighter, Guilty Gear, Soul Calibur, Tekken, Dead or Alive and basically any other fighting game, just to add~

LETS RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS WHILE I'M AT IT

*ruffles a duck*

[NM]

That comic could apply to any game with a sequel, not just fighting game's.

[Lindy]

It's more the fact that there are 11 or so King of Fighters and equally millions of the others, and since each game is identical to the previous, that's the point that you clearly missed.

And you can cite Final Fantasy, but at least they use different characters each game (even if the personalities are identical).

[Erdrick Holmes]

There were only 4 Street Fighter series, little boy.

And how can you put Guilty Gear on that where the series only has three games? (I am NOT counting that crap called Isuka, you can have that POS game)

[Old Manus]

I take off my hat to SNK for managing to make 11 games of basically the same thing and still pull it off.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Not exactly, they stopped using the Neo Geo engine back in 2003, they used Sammy's atmoswave engine to make the game. They might do it for this game also.

I also predict that Iori will die because his Orochi blood causes him to age quicker

[Shlup]

Well, Joel has figured out one thing they may revisit, and one story twist they may add. And they're making an entire fighting game for it.

I'll stick with the original Mortal Combat, thanks.

[MecaKane]

There were only 4 Street Fighter series, little boy.
Yes, 4 different 'series.' (with what? 3 games each?) i.e. 4 different looks and inconsequential back stories the same game over and over had.

[Shoeberto]

I'll stick with the original Mortal Combat, thanks.
IT'S KOMBAT. KOMBAT, YOU BLASPHEMER. I OUGHT TO DO A BICYCLE KICK TO YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW.

SONYA IS HAWT.

[black orb]

>>> I want to see K9999 in this game...

[Shlup]

I'll stick with the original Mortal Combat, thanks.
IT'S KOMBAT. KOMBAT, YOU BLASPHEMER. I OUGHT TO DO A BICYCLE KICK TO YOUR FACE RIGHT NOW.

SONYA IS HAWT.
I'm not awake yet! *cries and takes her beating*

[Meat Puppet]

Mortal Kombat is awesome.

[Lindy]

Killer Instinct is where it's at.

43 hit combo.

[Lionx]

Looks cool, the thing is some of the KoFs were not up to par say the earlier ones and the recent ones with the tag team that lets you continue combos. The main thing is, if theres enough fanbase and enough people willing to play it to a high level, its a successful fighting game. To me most of the KoFs were just getting polished, it gets a little better with each one except the last one i feel.

Fighting games since SF2 brung out something to the gaming industry that was unfounded before, and thats the desire for human competition. We like new things :P We dont diss your 14+games of FF, you dont diss our whatever number of fighting games(which just like FF had less than spectacular ones in the series).

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Human competition has been a major aspect of video games since the very first one (http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3116291).

[Lionx]

But it has never generated a real huge impact unlike fighting games(or rather has it ever had such staying power). Its almost that feeling of head to head action and butting skills. You rarely see a guy going HA I OWNED YOU AT PONG or MARIO PARTY! But seeing someone going i owned you at xxx fighting game is much more common and its more intense and head on and has that feeling of skill involved to it. You also get that drive to get better and its kinda like how Ryu is pictured at times, trying to be one of the best you can be.

The only other genre i can say has the similar aspects are FPS games and certain Strategy games which includes but is not limited to, Pokemon and Trading Card games. Fighting games IMO just made Arcades and some console(and soon online) genres flourish and stick out as a main conponent to me.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Here's the character roster. Kishi's wish came true.

http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/img/fxi-roster.png

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

http://norbert-x.com/rock/userfiles/Kishi/duckkingassist.gif