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

[Viper]

I liked KOF's graphics, up until KOF 2000 came along. Brezzasoft seem to have hired some inept artists to do the new artwork for KOF 2001 and 2002. They've added some nice new animation to the older characters like Iori and Kim, but they never bothered to make sure it matches the appearance of the old animations. It looks really weird seeing Iori change appearances when he goes from standing to walking forward. That's just the result of laziness on the part of KOF's current graphics team. Finish what you start, please!

[MechDeus]

Originally posted by rezo
aww. . .I was going to say battle beast. . . but that was on the PC.

I think I can find at least a few more high-res fighters on the PC, all fan-made Japanese stuff (like Eternal Fighter Zero).

people ought to be familiar enough with what hi-res is to not need the popular example pointed to them.

Companies ought to be familiar enough with what high-res is so that we don't only have one example.

[rezo]

I agree with that. I've always thought it was because of the amounts of memory on consoles(which shouldn't be much of a limit anymore). I wouldn't be surprised if 2D games on PCs now are using 16-bit sprites, just because they can. Although, the playstation should have been able to have the amount(or more) of graphics an SNES game would have in memory, albeit in a higher resolution. =\

[cka]

Considering the MVS hardware they use is about as old as I am, yeah. 

[arjue]

I like it, but yeah, there is plenty of room for improvement, and making it look actually nice would attract a new crowd to it.

Man, If they managed to make it look like garou, I'd jizz everywhere...

[Adrian]

Originally posted by arjue
I like it, but yeah, there is plenty of room for improvement, and making it look actually nice would attract a new crowd to it.

Man, If they managed to make it look like garou, I'd jizz everywhere...

You have very low standards if Garou is enough to make you cream yourself.

[arjue]

well, its the prettiest fighter I've ever seen, with excelent, bright, well designed and well animated characters. If they combined KOF gameplay with visuals like Garou, it would truly be blissful (although I prefer Garou's game play style).

[Viper]

I'd have to agree with Arjue, to an extent. It's certainly the prettiest MVS fighting game I've ever seen. I think Guilty Gear X is probably the best looking 2D fighter of all, though. It's amazing what a resolution and colour depth boost can do.

[Taito]

Yeah, but Guilty Gear's character design is totally yuck.

Actually, I was never impressed by GGX's visuals. GGXX looks nice though. Right now, Mark of the Wolves, with its Metal Slug-like explosive FX, fluid character animation and palatable character designs, gets my vote for overall best-looking 2D fighter.

[MajinRyu]

Originally posted by arjue
well, its the prettiest fighter I've ever seen, with excelent, bright, well designed and well animated characters. If they combined KOF gameplay with visuals like Garou, it would truly be blissful (although I prefer Garou's game play style).

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike is the most beautiful 2D fighter… EVER!