King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match (or KOF NeoNeowave)

Toxic Avanger · Post by **Toxic Avanger** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 05:09

Angel & May lee have been in "pure" (PS2 neowave, for example) SNK games, and Eolith name doesn't show up at all. It was clear from the begging if you ask me, but the sad truth is that Eolith doesn't have the licenses for anything.

About K9999, the jp aniversary site hinted how they didn't wanted to blalantly promote the character because he was just too much of a rip off, and they could get in legal issues

even in that site Eolith isn't credited for anything. I don't know if he was in card fighters, but if he was, you won't see Eolith logo anywere, mind you.

Monpochi · Post by **Monpochi** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 08:04

Foxy, Diana or both of them in 2002UM would be awesome. They're like classy and sexy minus being extremely showy.

@Anti-K

Would be nice if she would just stop on her tracks with really bad recovery instead of just dying without hitting something.

Anti-K' · Post by **Anti-K'** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 08:17

Monpochi wrote:Would be nice if she would just stop on her tracks with really bad recovery instead of just dying without hitting something.

Yes. Hopefully SNK fixes that, as well as O. Shermie's "Random Lightning Bolt".

Seeing Diana in action would be nice.

Fuu · Post by **Fuu** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 08:57

http://www.famitsu.com/event/tgs/2008/_ ... 008/um.jpg

hmm got to say backgrounds look really nice, doesn't even look like 2k2 anymore.
The new char is a bit eh, proper Krizalid would have been better for me, don't really expect him to be much more than a palette swap. Hiroaki art is good news, 66 chars is crazy(i guess some are EX chars though?), i doubt they'll care much for balance this time around.
Still pretty interesting!

Yuki Yagami · Post by **Yuki Yagami** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 09:27

Teams are Revealed... (May Lee is in as well)

Japan Team: Kyo/Benimaru/Daimon
Yagami Team: Iori /Mature/Vice
Fatal Fury Team: Terry/Andy/Joe
Art of Fighting Team: Ryo/Robert/Yuri
Psycho Soldier Team: Athena/Kensou/Bao
Agent Team: Vanessa/Seth/Ramon
Ikari Team: Leona/Ralf/Clark
Orochi Team: Yashiro/Shermie/Chris
K' Team: K'/Maxima/Whip
NESTS Team: Kula/Foxy/Angel
Korea Team: Kim/Chang/Choi
Bonus Team: Jhun/Shingo/Lin
'97 Special Team: Yamazaki/Mary/Billy
Masters Team: Heidern/Takuma/Chin
Shoujo Team: Xiangfei/Hinako/May Lee
'96 Women Team: King/Mai/Kasumi
Clones Team?: Kusanagi/Kyo-1/Kyo-2
Edit Character: Nameless

4 Slots replaced by Roulettes: (Krizalid/Zero/Igniz/Rugal)

[align=center]R.I.P.
K9999
(2001-2008)[/align]

Monpochi · Post by **Monpochi** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 09:37

Yuki Yagami wrote:Teams are Revealed... (May Lee is in as well)

So that's 56 characters.. i thought there'd be 66? Or is the announcement for that coming soon?.

Oh yeah, here's the selection screen courtesy of Cyberfanatix:

HELL YAH HIROAKI!

Gojira · Post by **Gojira** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 09:42

Don't forget the ura orochi team, that's 3 more right there. Perhaps the other 7 will also be ura?

Monpochi · Post by **Monpochi** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 09:47

Gojira wrote:Don't forget the ura orochi team, that's 3 more right there. Perhaps the other 7 will also be ura?

I am hoping that they won't be the same URA that appeared on 98 already. However, it seems like this might become the case seeing that the mini-portraits looks like the 98 ones.

Gojira · Post by **Gojira** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 09:54

Monpochi wrote:
Gojira wrote:Don't forget the ura orochi team, that's 3 more right there. Perhaps the other 7 will also be ura?
I am hoping that they won't be the same URA that appeared on 98 already. However, it seems like this might become the case seeing that the mini-portraits looks like the 98 ones.

There's already 4 Kyos, how bad can it get

Yuki Yagami · Post by **Yuki Yagami** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:30

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof2002um/

Website is revealed. Hiroaki did an awesome job in the illustration.

Hiroaki

Tel · Post by **Tel** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:07

Wow, the art looks great alright. Hiroaki really pulled no punches for this one, and lots and lots of kudos to him for such fantastic artwork. The character portraits are so much better than the ones from 2k2 and remind me of the excellent ones from 99-00. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to SNKP artists however, so I'd appreciate a history lesson on which KOF Hiroaki worked on. I know Nona did 2k1/2k2 and the cinematics in XI, while Falcoon did the general art for 2k3 and XI, but I don't really remember the pre-2k1 years. I also can't remember who did the portraits in CVS(2), but I remember one of the Capcom artists being really amazing.

LOL@Kyo clones team. It would be nice to see some sort of special opening between the real deal and the clones, especially Kusanagi, since he appears to have a different personality. I'm also delighted King, Shingo, Lin and Angel will be coming back. I'm indifferent to May Lee and Foxy, and even if Nameless is exactly like our Tetsuo rip-off, I don't mind. So the remaining 7 characters should be the Orochi Team, our 3 NESTs bosses and Omega Rugal. So much for seeing SVC Geese and Goenitz in there, but it's a good deal nonetheless.

I'm hoping Seth gets buffed up bit though. Granted, he was unbalanced in 2k and 2k1, but he's so badly nerfed in 2k2 that I cringe when I get him on random.

Monpochi · Post by **Monpochi** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:29

Tel wrote:Wow, the art looks great alright. Hiroaki really pulled no punches for this one, and lots and lots of kudos to him for such fantastic artwork. The character portraits are so much better than the ones from 2k2 and remind me of the excellent ones from 99-00. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to SNKP artists however, so I'd appreciate a history lesson on which KOF Hiroaki worked on. I know Nona did 2k1/2k2 and the cinematics in XI, while Falcoon did the general art for 2k3 and XI, but I don't really remember the pre-2k1 years. I also can't remember who did the portraits in CVS(2), but I remember one of the Capcom artists being really amazing.

IIRC, he worked on:

Buriki One (Official Art, In-game Art as well i think)
KOF-EX2 (Official Art, In-game Art)
KOF XI (Official Art)

And a couple of box covers of KOF Titles (XI, Orochi Collection)

s_y · Post by **s_y** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:13

Personally I think Nameless is a clone made for Kyo and K' genes.As crazy as it sounds it's a fighting game so LOL STORY.

PenPen · Post by **PenPen** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 13:50

Bao? DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And Hiroaki iirc may have done the in-game portraits of KOF 99 (the ones in the character select screen). He's the official artist for KOF XI (also did early portraits of KOF XII if you remember), and did the awesome poster with K' in KOF 2k1 and 2k2.

I'll

when Nameless is actually K9999 under another sprite.

Tel · Post by **Tel** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 13:58

Monpochi wrote:IIRC, he worked on:

Buriki One (Official Art, In-game Art as well i think)
KOF-EX2 (Official Art, In-game Art)
KOF XI (Official Art)

And a couple of box covers of KOF Titles (XI, Orochi Collection)

Ah, I remember now. He did the lovely art for the XI posters and Ultimate Guide, while Falcoon did the in-game characters and Nona did the cinematics. He did EX2 and Buriki as well huh? No wonder the art style seemed familiar. I may be mistaken, but I think he might have done one of the promo art for 2k1 featuring K' doing a kick and K'9999 looking intense with his arm unraveling. There's no way that's Nona's art style, although I'm not sure if that's Hiroaki's work.