Atlus announced King Of Fighters XIII

[wip3outguy7]

Waitwhat? It was playable at E3???

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/06/07/th ... -xbox-360/

http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6318806/e3 ... ly-details

So SNK did port it and Atlus is publishing it? At least that's what I gathered from the first paragraph in the siliconera article.


Pic is from 1up article.

[MrPopo]

I also think Atlus is an odd choice - Atlus makes great original games, but they have problem distributing games. SNK/Playmore has enough trouble getting their games into peoples hands, that's why Atlus seems like a poor partner.

What? The only thing I'd say there is Atlus goes for niche titles so the sales numbers don't get as high as mainstream titles. They brought over Arcana Heart a few years ago.

[Veno]

Did they get rid of critical counters in XIII? One thing I really liked about XII was the critical counters, but from all the gameplay I've watched, it looks like they removed it.

And that reduced price brings a tear of joy to my eyes.

[the7k]

Did they get rid of critical counters in XIII? One thing I really liked about XII was the critical counters, but from all the gameplay I've watched, it looks like they removed it.

And that reduced price brings a tear of joy to my eyes.

Yeah, critical counters were supposed to be one of the things unique to KOFXII. Every KOF is supposed to have some unique mechanic in place to separate it from all previous and subsequent entries, I guess so that they won't just automatically become outdated.

[wip3outguy7]

Critical Counters are gone.

Actually, there isn't much of XII left in XIII, if anything. The game feels a lot like a fast paced Mark of the Wolves or a more complex version of KOF 2002.

You can built meter stocks again and meter carries over. So battery characters are back.

Trust me, if feels infinitely better than XII did. I enjoyed XII quite a bit @ UFO. But I wouldn't touch it again after sitting down with the greatness that is XIII.

[Bradtemple87]

Hopefully this and Street Fighter X Tekken have a nice long break between releases so I have plenty of time for it.

[the7k]

http://orochinagi.com/2010/08/kof-xiii- ... -character

There's some development art here, including some other KOF characters done in the KOFXIII style.

If they added a team of Malin, Momoko and Oswald into the console port, I think I would just nerdgasm on the spot. I don't care what anyone says, I thought they were really damn cool characters.

[wip3outguy7]

Eh, I'm not getting my hopes up. I think we will receive an arcade port with added modes. We are lucky to get that. I would expect a super special ultimate edition with a poster and maybe one of Mai's fans or something (hey, it's Atlus) before I would expect extra in-game characters.

[the7k]

I'm not expecting extra characters, but God knows I'd love to get those three. I hope at the very least they'll be in KOFXIV.

[wip3outguy7]

KOFXIV.

Whoa, 7000. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.