NGBC site updated, Mars People added
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Mars People has been in the regular character section for a while now.
I have the feeling Playmore is behing the upcoming SS AW... That's probably a bad thing considering how they ruined so many games before, but I'll wait and see what NBC is like. It may be good. That'd give me hopes for the new SS...
I have the feeling Playmore is behing the upcoming SS AW... That's probably a bad thing considering how they ruined so many games before, but I'll wait and see what NBC is like. It may be good. That'd give me hopes for the new SS...
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The 'System' section is finally up, also (don't know if that's been mentioned yet -- I didn't see it).
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The Premium Gallery is niiiiice. Does anyone know who's doing the illustrations for this game?
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bokmeow said:
Even it looks weird! Man! We see some M<ars People when delivering Ramen!
Shito said:
Are you OK? you certainly have no idea about arts, have you?
Nona arts are pretty pathetic. He/She did arts for KOF2001 and KOF2002. Both suck to the highest level possible.
Good thing they brought in Falcoon in KOF2003 to make things half better than they were in Shinkiro era.
Anyway, on topic, This is, in no way, Nona!
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That's what I want to say to you. Don't try to present your fucked up opinion as fact. That's the beauty of art. You're allowed to have an opinion.athenafan said:
For example, even though Falcoon's work looks like semi-professional fan work, I still like it some. And even though Nona has more technical skill and understands light and shadow, and traditional painting techniques (even if he uses them digitally) a million times more than Falcoon, you are still allowed to not like him if you want. Isn't that great?
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Aren't you always speaking out against "fakime" and generic anime styles of illustration? Falcoon falls into that category in my opinion.Rade Kuruc said:
He's definitely talented, but you get the feeling that he's nothing more than an over-glorified fanartist when it boils right down to it. I'd take anything Nona did over Falcoon any day of the week. KOF2003 and SVC, while stylized, turned out to be rather plain and run-of-the-mill in the style department because of Falcoon's involvement. I mean, I'd go play a Capcom game if I wanted to experience some hackneyed aesthetic.
I for one am glad to see that SNKP is trying different things when it comes to their product's presentation, even if it doesn't go as great as they might have hoped.
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Fygee said:
You may be right. It's just he colouring tecnique (especially of the skins) deeply reminds Nona's. Moreover, we know he/she's a kind of changeling as for style, always experimenting... so I though this was Nona trying a more traditional approach to portrayits (not only that, actually imitating each character original designer's style..)
But I may prolly be wrong.
sQuareh4t3r said:
I do, in fact, but Falcoon's art is not be outright dismissed, as it gets the job done quite well. It's good, but it's not something anyone else (a professional) could do.
Nona offered something new, and it did cause quite a bit of controversy, as certain people really like that clean look presented in kof2000, and were dissapointed in 2001. I beleive some saw it as a step back, but IMO, it was the best part of the visual presentation that year.
I wouldn't classify it as "fakime", rather "safe-anime", in that it's something that will appeal to a broader audience. That is was SNKP seems to want with the KOF series.
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Rade Kuruc said:
Ditto.
KOF2001 in-game art is fuckin' incredible, actually catching each character personality in the 'exagerating' winning-portrayts... not to mention the select screen, with drawing actually matching the sprite design!
The manual art is just awesome. Again, very true to the original sprite design (something Shinkirou never achieved, his character all actaully seeming *cosplayers dressed-up as those characters*), with a colouring tequiniqe and a detail level simple IMPRESSIVE!
You seriously have to look at the artbook to see what I mean.
Oh, yeah... Nona's art use to be radical in term of design. That' why I like it that much.
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"Safe-anime" = generic. And yes, generic definitely does appeal to a large audience, and unfortunately, I agree that that's what SNKP is going for. I mean, KOF is already niche as it is, almost appealing solely to long-time fans of the series moreso than newcomers. New fans are necessary, since SNK's reign stretches back into a period of time where a lot of younger gamers weren't even playing games yet. Personally, I think that's a bad sign for overall product quality, but nobody at the corporate offices is asking me, are they?Rade Kuruc said:
But anyway, Falcoon is boring, and it will be interesting to see if he's brought back for the next KOF entry. I'm hoping he's not, but we'll just have to wait and see.
