Like I said before and I will say it again KOF's success is due to the fact that Terry as well as the other characters from FF&AOF MADE a huge impact on it. If there was no FF and AOF in KOF guess what?...THERE WOULD BE NO KOF....[/qoute]
That's just an assumption, you can't prove that. Samurai Showdown, Last Blade, Kizuna Encounter, Waku Waku 7, and to the lesser extent World Heroes became great games without characters from other games making appearances. It's just a testament to SNK's talent for fresh new fighting games because the engine was vastly different from alot of the other SNK fighters out at the time. Sure, I'll admit that FF/AOF helped KOF out.. only because they were already established.. but its not like the Ikari's, Athena, and the original cast really stank or anything.
Also I recall you stated that KOF would survive without Terry and the rest of the FF gang....YEAH RIGHT. You know how many Terry fans there are?!...Andy Fans, Mary fans Yamazaki and Kim fans
most of the KOF games is made up of FF&AOF characters...and if playmore was that stupid enough to do that, than I see alot of money falling through their pockets...I for one would never touch the game AGAIN.
Actually its more like:
[none] of the KOF games is made up of FF&AOF characters
looking at the latest.. at best the ratio between FF&AOF characters versus Non-FF&AOF characters is dead even, I even compiled the list:
2002 11:31
2001 12:28
2000 12:23
99 13:19
98 13:22
97 12:20
96 13:14
95 12:12
94 10:14
Sure there are tons of Terry fan(boy)s, like most of you here who probably DO NOT play KOF..
Fans of KOF don't neccessarily have to love FF/AOF sure it easier to come up with characters each year, but KOF fans of KOF because of its (changing) playstyle, (changing) interesting story, and ever changing cast.. at least that is what THIS KOF FAN likes. Alot of the Original Characters are incredibly popular like NFT, and I'd rather see several NFT calibur teams show up for a couple years then having the same old same old hogging space. If you love FF/AOF so much go and play those games.. as you only are interested in the characters. Sure I admit I like TO PLAY KYO, but I wouldn't want him in there forever (because at this point his story is over) but if they removed Kyo I still like to play K', Clark, Jhun, Lin, Vanessa, Angel, etc. I mean what.. Kyo was supposed to be the poster boy for KOF right? I didn't whine and bitch about him being usurped by K', its something that just happens.. I still find Kyo cool, and I also like K'. I don't think anyone here is trying to look at this objectively.
<small>[ April 04, 2003, 12:48 AM: Message edited by: shin-kyo ]</small>