I swear I just cant' get over how damn good and perhaps undereated this game is, especially among the "KOF Eliete" that exist here.
I've been on my late night KOF binges lately (a good half an hour to hour of play before bed at about 2AM) and I've been going through most of em and I gotta say KOF2k is just too damn fine a game to not get the appreciation it deserves.
YES its very different from the classic KOF that everyone here just orgasms over (KOF96-98) because of the Strikers and much faster gameplay and combo's, but god damn its a good game. Plus the amount of characters it has is also quite impressive and it encorporates so much from both the NESTS and Orochi lines that I can't say I'm not happy with the character line up.
Plus it also offers a nice balance between the over powered KOF98 to the toned down (read balanced) versions of classic characters in KOF2k1-2k2.
Plus the extra strikers that are in there are just straight up fan service that I just enjoy to watch. I mean I'm not heavy on the strikers, I use em mostly for defense if I'm getting pressured not for those insane combo's that you see in videos on the net. But if I have a fan service striker then I'll definitely pull em out more during a match because its just damn fun to do.
And I don't want to hear anything about the Music and BG's. I find the BG's to be quite good, with minute details in em that you really can apprecaite if you actually sit there and look at em. And the music? Its different from the Orochi music, but it damn well isn't inferior (like a port). Hell the KOF2k AST beats the living shit out of the 98 AST any day of the week any time. Plus while characters were toned down a bit from their 98 versions, other characters got a nice little bump. Andy is a good example, I mean post 98 Andy just rocks, but my favorite KOF2k character has GOT to be King. She's just a monster in that game with her moves, priority, and speed. I mean if I have KOF2k and I can put you in the corner with King, your ass isn't getting out of there unless I want you out because I either don't want to be extra cheap or because I want to have a more interesting match.
This isn't to say the game doesn't have its faults, but god damn it has so much to offer that I hate to see it not get the respect it deserves around here.
*goes back to listening to the KOF2k AST* buttrock
<small>[ April 30, 2003, 12:03 PM: Message edited by: JHendrix ]</small>
I've been on my late night KOF binges lately (a good half an hour to hour of play before bed at about 2AM) and I've been going through most of em and I gotta say KOF2k is just too damn fine a game to not get the appreciation it deserves.
YES its very different from the classic KOF that everyone here just orgasms over (KOF96-98) because of the Strikers and much faster gameplay and combo's, but god damn its a good game. Plus the amount of characters it has is also quite impressive and it encorporates so much from both the NESTS and Orochi lines that I can't say I'm not happy with the character line up.
Plus it also offers a nice balance between the over powered KOF98 to the toned down (read balanced) versions of classic characters in KOF2k1-2k2.
Plus the extra strikers that are in there are just straight up fan service that I just enjoy to watch. I mean I'm not heavy on the strikers, I use em mostly for defense if I'm getting pressured not for those insane combo's that you see in videos on the net. But if I have a fan service striker then I'll definitely pull em out more during a match because its just damn fun to do.
And I don't want to hear anything about the Music and BG's. I find the BG's to be quite good, with minute details in em that you really can apprecaite if you actually sit there and look at em. And the music? Its different from the Orochi music, but it damn well isn't inferior (like a port). Hell the KOF2k AST beats the living shit out of the 98 AST any day of the week any time. Plus while characters were toned down a bit from their 98 versions, other characters got a nice little bump. Andy is a good example, I mean post 98 Andy just rocks, but my favorite KOF2k character has GOT to be King. She's just a monster in that game with her moves, priority, and speed. I mean if I have KOF2k and I can put you in the corner with King, your ass isn't getting out of there unless I want you out because I either don't want to be extra cheap or because I want to have a more interesting match.
This isn't to say the game doesn't have its faults, but god damn it has so much to offer that I hate to see it not get the respect it deserves around here.
*goes back to listening to the KOF2k AST* buttrock
<small>[ April 30, 2003, 12:03 PM: Message edited by: JHendrix ]</small>