Originally posted by Fox1:
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http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/gamespotting/101901/p3_01.html
Sigh...not really a good article, he just explains how lazy he is hehe, oh well...
(This is really off topic, but I noticed on Toonami (cartoon network) they always said the future is now heh) Oh well...bye SNK...we will miss you =(</STRONG>
Pretty intelligent assessment. (Especially the "lazy" and "hehe" parts, nice job on those.) And the quoted post above is a heck of a lot better than the article in question, no doubt.
Originally posted by Drift King EX:
<STRONG>Well what he doesnt realize is other companies will pick up the SNK franchises, so there will be more games.
You can bet Capcom will no doubt get a few, they have most of the old snk guys working for them as it is.</STRONG>
What some of us on this board might not realize is that Capcom has officially stated it's taking a break from 2D fighting games, which makes sense considering the success of its other series, and the fact that it has to put down development resources for two new consoles (Resident Evil for GameCube and Onimusha for Xbox). And for the record, Aruze, SNK's "parent" company, isn't into video games; it's a pachinko company. I don't know Aruze specifically, and I don't like to spread rumors, but let's just say that several pachinko companies have ties to the yakuza (Japanese mafia). The fact that SNK "could not present its writings due to compelling situation" (quote from mmcafe) sounds especially shady, in light of that. We don't know the details, and we probably never will.
Will other companies pick up SNK properties? Who knows, maybe Eolith will continue the KoF series, if it's profitable enough and popular enough. How can we, the fans, make sure KoF 2001 is profitable and popular? By supporting it on the home system front (buy the home cart) and pester your local arcade manager to get it and play the hell out of it in arcades. (HINT: going around on message boards begging for ROMs does NOT make a game profitable, or support the developer; it does just the opposite) Eolith is a company, and just like any other company, and it'll follow the money. If KoF 2001 doesn't make any money, Eolith won't make any more KoF.
There's also apparently some sort of "Metal Slug 4 project" at
http://www.metalslug4.co.kr/ ...if you haven't been there yet, stop by. I don't know how far along this is, but if it actually sees the light of day as a finished retail game, we should support that too. (HINT: "support" DOES NOT mean downloading ROMs... it means buying the games and giving the companies money, so they'll make more games using that money. You can't support a company or pay a staff in ripped sprites and embarrassing "fan fiction," no matter how many Geocities sites or links to a dirty Hong Kong ROM ftp site you post.)
It's too late for SNK. They're bankrupt. Broke. I don't enjoy saying it; it makes me at least as sad as any of you, and probably more than others. Reasonably speaking, we might see our favorite characters continue to exist in another Capcom Vs. SNK game later down the line, because Capcom could (and would... this is Capcom, after all) add another 3-4 characters, 2 new stages, and call it a sequel; though what exactly they'd call the game is uncertain. If this "Metal Slug 4 project" takes off, there might be that. And of course, there's KoF 2001, and if we support Eolith (with money, not by downloading ROMs), there might be KoF 2002. Also, Agetec has done a pretty OK (not perfect, but certainly decent) job of publishing ported NeoGeo games for the Dreamcast; if you don't own KoF '98, KoF '99, Last Blade 2, or Mark of the Wolves, you should support them too. These games are $40-50 a pop, like most other new DC games, so you have absolutely, positively no excuse not to buy them if you don't already own them. $270 might seem like a bit much to pay for a home cart, but $50 is peanuts, especially for a great game like Mark of the Wolves. In other words, put your money where your mouth (and your crayon fanart page on Tripod, or Angelfire, or whatever free webpage you use for your "fansite") is.
