Do you consider the King of Fighters Graphics to be old and dated?

[Frogacuda]

Yeah, the game looks like it runs on 10 year old 16 bit hardware.

[Kidnemo]

All I'm going to add is this:

I just got KoF 95 and 96 for ye olde Neo cab today.

Woo!

[Taito]

Originally posted by Wilykat
I prefer the stages in Street Fighter III: New Generation the best out of the three. Like Alex's NYC alley backdrop. The game still gets my vote for best looking fighter to date.

True, NG's backgrounds were more or less put together better than the other two. Alex's graffitti-scrawled background in NG still looks great, and Ibuki's stage did look nicer with her ninja clan standing behind her for support. I just like 2nd's minor updates and color changes made to NG's backgrounds (like Necro's and Oro's, for example). And Gill's bg in 2nd was just badass.

[FX]

Originally posted by Kidnemo
All I'm going to add is this:

I just got KoF 95 and 96 for ye olde Neo cab today.

Woo!

Rocketh on, Nemo! I'm still kicking myself for missing that MVS unit for $100 when I was 15 years old. Oh, if I only had the money and space.

[CypherUppercut]

KOF has its own style aesthetic that works well on the MVS. Sure some other fighting games look prettier than KOF, but does sthat make KOF awful or inferior or bad? Its all opinion i guess...

2k2 has the most animation I've seen in a KOF game to date. Granted its not a whole lot more animation, if you pay attention you can see just about all the characters were tweaked a little animation or frame-wise (and some where completely overhauled like Athena). I always liked SNK cause these little things game their characters personality.

Yuri has one start-up frame where she shuts her eyes and mouth when blocking a hard attack in 2k2. Sure a lot of people don't notice stuff like that, but some people do and learn to appreciate it. Its one lousy stinking frame, but it wasn't there in KOF2k1.

If SNK does decide to move on to new hardware and redesign the game, then more power to them. When they decide to change they'll do it right. The games they make right now are still high quality in my book, even on ten year old hardware. You don't need the best hardware or the best system to play or make the some of best games around. KOF still satisfies me and that's all i care about.

[FX]

My favorite thing about KOF is the fact that the characters look "realistic", not cartoony and muscley compared to Capcom's characters.