King of fighters XIV coming to ps4 to japan in january

[J0e Musashi]

Well, if it's good, it'll be SNK's first particularly good 3D game. Can anyone name a previous one? I thought the two KoF:MI games were poor, Fatal Fury Wild Ambition wasn't great, Koudelka wasn't a rip-roaring success...

Buriki One is one of the finest 3-D fighting games ever made. Sadly never ported beyond the Hyper hardware.

[Neon Ignition]

Seems the Jan date originated from Destructoid as a bit of misreporting and the game is purely TBC 2016. It's good that they'll have much more time to do a proper job of it but still a poor reveal. Hopefully it gets an SFV spruce and polish as it goes. I'll miss the 2D art but they really need this to work to keep going. Hopefully we'd eventually get a proper Showdown and Metal Slug set of sequels too

[Neon Ignition]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5ZlqDDqFg

New trailer and confirmed for PS4 only

[fuse]

Starting to look a lot better, and 50 characters!

[Paddy]

That cheered me up hearing that as well. If they can continue improving the game's appearance and put that number of characters in the roster, I think we could have a decent rival to SFV (I'm aware it doesn't look as nice but looks are only part of the whole package).

[Asura]

That cheered me up hearing that as well. If they can continue improving the game's appearance and put that number of characters in the roster, I think we could have a decent rival to SFV (I'm aware it doesn't look as nice but looks are only part of the whole package).

Yeah, with a roster like that, balance is going to be the killer.

It needs to have good-quality netcode and multiplayer lobbies too. You need both of those things.

[Tobal]

Doesn't look any different to the 1st trailer in my eyes, so still rubbish art and animation. The animation looks poor like they've traced over the key frames from 12/13 which works fine for a 2D game like the old KoFs but looks rubbish in 3D. However the news of 50 characters does give me hope we'll see Vanessa, (my 2nd fav being Angel appearing in the trailer)

[speedlolita]

Yeah, with a roster like that, balance is going to be the killer.

It needs to have good-quality netcode and multiplayer lobbies too. You need both of those things.

Nobody plays KoF. lol

[eastyy]

[Shoju]

Doesn't look any different to the 1st trailer in my eyes, so still rubbish art and animation. The animation looks poor like they've traced over the key frames from 12/13 which works fine for a 2D game like the old KoFs but looks rubbish in 3D. However the news of 50 characters does give me hope we'll see Vanessa, (my 2nd fav being Angel appearing in the trailer)

I don't think it's changed much from the first trailer either, still looks graphically poor. I think the animations look ok though and importantly the gameplay looks like it flows well too. Now it seems there not restricted as they were before when it comes to the number of characters and their movesets.

[fuse]

https://twitter.com/EzerhordenLBO/status/673561343899934720

[eastyy]

Here is a much better match

[Neon Ignition]

All things considered I don't think this will improve visually much more, possibly hence the abundance of fighters to compensate. I'm not expecting a series best from this but the matches look like they might play well. This would do well to arrive in the summer, long enough after SF5 to avoid competition but soon enough to fill the needs of those looking for more of the similar and without risk of dying in the Autumn stampede. I can see me picking this up.

[Colin]

All it needs for me to buy it is Jae Hoon to be on the roster. Won't happen though.

[Baseley09]

The fighting looks fine but ive never been a fan of the arena based KOF Bg's, quite bland...and the character portraits are awful!