99 can eat my peen.
KoF ‘99 wasn’t that great back then. It felt rough. SNK’s e3 2000 booth was empty. People simply didn’t care much about 99, the NGPCs running cool cool jam, or the staff there who were just paycheck collecting dudes that didn’t care about the product line. Upstairs, people crowded the Capcom vs SNK machine to play as raiden even though the game was buggy as hell. Why? Because it was fresh. KoF was already pickled 6 years later. So much is still wrong with 99. The character design was out of touch, and still is. But yeah, the rain stage.
I know it’s an unpopular game amongst the fanbase, but I also really enjoyed kof99 and consider it one of my favorites in the series. Kof98 felt like the perfection of the ideas and mechanics they implemented from 94-97. Kof98 featured the return of almost every character (plus classic moveset variations) and was a sweet celebration of everything done with the series at that point.
It’s understandable that kof99 tried to do something new by switching things up with new characters and a new darker theme (no doubt thanks to members from team Fallen Angels/Daraku Tenshi). Although kof99 doesn’t feature my favorite roll mechanic, I appreciate that the change was made to encourage more aggressive play. The striker system was an interesting expansion of a mechanic that was already present since kof94 (the old team attack move that could be used to escape dizzy status).
I don't disagree with you. But for myself, I am having a hard time coming up with new, fresh ideas for KOF following 98.
They could have followed the same formula into oblivion, or tried something new - which, admittedly, never took root. So maybe I'm commending them for going down that path even though it ended in not meeting expectations.
It has been some days. You have successfully passed the cool guy test. Now is the time to respond in your birthday thread.
My apologies LS, I thought I responded to everyone that night when I got back. I’ll go check it out.
False!
Holy shit, that is disconcerting. I was about to post that exact one word post.
where all the genius of your life dissipates into dementia.
BRO
RAIN STAGE BRO
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
RAIN STAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE