King of Fighters XII

**Pared** · 07-14-2009, 12:03 PM

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After seeing that, I'm not interested in the game much anymore. I think I may go with Blazblue.

**eDotd** · 07-14-2009, 12:52 PM

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Oh Mr. Higashi how I've missed you...I will definitely be getting this.

**Phillmattic** · 07-14-2009, 02:27 PM

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Fighting games are going to own me this year. Going to be hard to balance them all out, especially with Tekken on the horizon.

**LingeringRegime** · 07-14-2009, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by Phillmattic

Fighting games are going to own me this year. Going to be hard to balance them all out, especially with Tekken on the horizon.

Yeah, it is the year of the fighting game for sure. BB is awesome, it has the best online of any fighting game I have ever played. It looks like KOF will be very similar also. And Tekken is my favorite fighting series ever so it is a good year.

**LingeringRegime** · 07-21-2009, 10:00 AM

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This is supposed to drop Thursday (July 23rd). I hope that the first review is a bad one. 3/5 in the Playstation Magazine.

Anyone find it early?

**LingeringRegime** · 07-24-2009, 05:15 PM

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Just picked this game up today. I would give it an 8/10, I like Blazblue better, but definitely a fun game. At first glance there are a lot of jaggies, there is softing feature that removes most of them though. Haven't gone online yet, but from what I hear it is not good. A patch is coming for the PS3 and the end of July according to SNK.

EDIT: The more I play this game, the more I like it. And I just was listening to a blog saying that it took 16 months to draw one character in the game. That amazed me.

**ThaGenecyst** · 07-25-2009, 09:38 PM

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what's with all these jaggies on the characters????

**LingeringRegime** · 07-26-2009, 03:04 AM

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Originally posted by ThaGenecyst

what's with all these jaggies on the characters????

It is annoying at first. It was the way they were drawn. You can use a filter under one of the options, but if you turn it all the way you lose the details. You get used to it after a while though.

**Phillmattic** · 07-26-2009, 11:14 AM

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Was looking really forward to getting this, but now I'm going to wait to see what they do to fix the online play.

Hearing about the jaggies is disappointing considering the beauty of the hand drawn sprites was a major selling point, and jaggies can be pretty distracting.

But from what I'm hearing the core gameplay is real good though.

**ThaGenecyst** · 07-26-2009, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by Phillmattic

Was looking really forward to getting this, but now I'm going to wait to see what they do to fix the online play.

Hearing about the jaggies is disappointing considering the beauty of the hand drawn sprites was a major selling point, and jaggies can be pretty distracting.

But from what I'm hearing the core gameplay is real good though.

the core gameplay is real good... but beautifully handdrawn sprites? I don't think so... I thought it was going to look a bit like blazblue (albeit maybe a little less colorful) especially with how those gameplay trailers looked but it seriously looks like they took sprites from the xbox/ps2 and just threw them on a next gen console without redoing ANYTHING... it really looks like the marvel vs capcom 2 demo on PSN. It looks even worse with the filters to soften up the image. That really takes away from the game for me but it's still classic king of fighters material gameplay wise.

I wish there was a boss at the end of arcade mode.. I'm not a fan of just a time trial kind of arcade mode

**LingeringRegime** · 07-30-2009, 07:12 PM

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This game has been getting murdered in the reviews. G4 gave it a 2/5, and IGN gave it a 6.0. I believe both are a bit severe. This game doesn't have a lot of modes, but the gameplay is real good.

**goh** · 08-02-2009, 04:52 PM

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Vice,Hwa,Takauma,Mai,King,Yuri,Billy,the KOF 98 version of Iori,Dark Ash and an un-named boss character are already on the disc,guess they'll be "DLC".

Can see here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthre...368986&page=37

I'm still waiting to rent this.

**LingeringRegime** · 08-02-2009, 05:02 PM

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Great find Goh. Good to hear that so many fighters are on the disc. Looks like the DLC will be very large, which should make those poor ratings null and void. I especially like to hear a boss character is included, which probably means the inclusion of a new game mode.

**goh** · 08-03-2009, 12:36 AM

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It's never good when they're already on the disc and you've gotta pay another $5 to use them. So there's no boss right now in arcade mode? (or whatever the standard mode is)

**goh** · 08-10-2009, 02:42 AM

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Well this isn't very good. I like the critical counter and there's something to aim for with the old school time records but otherwise it doesn't really compete with SF IV wich in turn doesn't even come close to competing with Blazblue so that puts this one pretty far down. Character models aren't very good looking but at least the backrounds are.

King of Fighters XII

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