Official SNK Neo Geo Games thread
 

Here's a thread for anyone that ever played a King of Fighters, Metal Slug or Samurai Shodown game for either nostalgia or updates.

KOF 15 just announced teams 3 and 4 for their DLC. Team 3 will be the Orochi forms of Yashiro, Chris and Shermie. And Team 4 will be Haohmaru, Nakoruru and Darli Dagger all from Samurai Shodown.

KOF 15 will also feature crossplay in 2023.

Samurai Shodown 2019 will also get rollback netcode.

And a new Fatal Fury game has finally been greenlit!!

What a time to be a fan.

I played and beat the last 2 KOF games and enjoyed the hell out of them. Story mode was well done.

Played almost all 2D SNK fighting games.
Their games always had special atmosphere and style to them. Sadly I feel their new 3D entries lacking this atmosphere.

I recall Nintendo magazines (not the most neutral source, of course) bashing SNK Neo Geo for being expensive, and lacking of challenge. For example, the February 1993 issue of the Swedish Nintendo magazine referred to it as For people with more money than brain.

People who were writing that had less brains than money that is for sure.

I've only played a small number of them, but they always intrigued me. Like most people, I couldn't afford a Neo Geo as a kid, so the first time I played any of the games was on various compilations years later. Like, I have SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 for the Wii, and I had a lot of fun with that. And I picked up the King of Fighters: The Orochi Saga compilation for Wii, also, for my wife. But I haven't gotten around to those just yet.

Back in the early-90s I'd just marvel at the screenshots in EGM and other magazines. I remember Samurai Shodown took a bunch of Year-End Awards in 1993 or so. But my own hands-on experience is sadly minimal.

I played Fight Fever last month

**** that game

Bringing up EGM and keeping this on topic with SNK games, it reminds me of the time they reviewed the SNES World Heroes, which to be fair was a pretty decent conversion, barring of course, the original's bigger graphics and more detailed music and sound, and EGM gave it a so-so review. By the following month or so, one of the guys from Sunsoft itself complained about the review and went on and on about how faithful it was to the original arcade and how at times 'was better than Street Fighter 2'.

EGM fired back with a long reply too but it was pretty much 'Yes, it was a very faithful recreation of the original Neo Geo arcade game, but World Heroes was a pretty average game, so even if the SNES did an amazing job, an adaptation of an average game is still and average game. Also good luck trying to sell more copies of World Heroes than Street Fighter 2'.

haha rekt :tgrin:

I've never had a Neo Geo nor have I ever known anyone who had one back in the day. I've only been bale to play some of its games through other systems. Like the Wii Virtual Console, for example.

I played soke of the King of Fighters games. Good games that I've always wanted to learn better, but it's hard to find Europeans who play them online. 90% of its players seem to be Mexicans or South Americans. Was the Neo Geo big in that part of the world or something?

Omg. Not just yes but HELL YES. I was still living in Mexico when I first got into Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting. I still remember the long lines for Art of Fighting 2, King of Fighters 94 and Fatal Fury Real Bout.

It's surprising because I've heard games and systems are very expensive in South America due to the protectionist trade policies a lot of those countries have. No idea about Mexico and Central America. And the Neo Geo and its games are ****ing expensive. So it seems like an odd part of the world for them to be so popular at.

Ah no, we're talking arcades here. SNK arcade cabinets were cheaper because rather than buying new cabinets, they just switch the games.

I hadn't even considered that but y'know, that makes so much sense.

Shingo Yabuki will be available soon, followed by Kim Kaphwan and Sylvie Paula Paula. There are at least 2-3 more mystery characters to come. It seems this time they're going for individual characters rather than entire teams.

Surprisingly Najd will also be coming back. I'd imagine the person that designed her will be honored she's making a comeback.

From what I've heard matchmaking is still garbage (people literally can't find matches) and balance was of the wack. SNK addressed the latter by making patch, which descriptions took 54 pages (!!), but not the former. Also, I am surprised that for the team game SNK will release characters one by one.

If I didn't know better they just want it to quietly die or something. Unless next year they will suddenly support it with more content, than this year.

We'll see. I don't know the sales numbers or if that changed anything, but I remember during press released the people behind the game did say they wanted to stretch out the DLC to make it last several years.

Kim Kaphwan trailer finally out. My bro will be in town month, I hope Kim is released by then.

King of Fighters XIII is getting a modern console re-release.

As for KOF XV, Kim Kaphwan is coming April 4th, Sylvia Paula Paula is next and Goenitz has been revealed as free DLC just like Rugal was before.

Not on Steam, so I am salty.

Glad that SPP and Goenitz are back.

I mean... Didn't steam already have a version of it though?

But it doesn't have rollback and now it seemingly won't.

Ah I see what you mean now.

The KOF XIII free beta on modern consoles is out for a few days, I think til the 11th. Looks good so far.

I've been having fun but I'm gonna have to remember all the game mechanics and such. Things like cancelling one super into the other and such.

The KOF XIII beta is back online for a few days. Will def be playing this during the week and wreck more fools.

Also Najd will be the next DLC. Sometime earlier Goenitz was revealed and released as free DLC similar to how Rugal was.

As much I liked early KOF games, I can't like KOFXV: it looks pretty boring and its gameplay is kind of...off. Like they are trying to replicate 2D gameplay, but its just doesn't work with new graphics.
IMO.

Najd is going to release August 8th. Duolon will be next. I'm pretty convinced by now that the final DLC character is Hinako but without her hat.

KOF XIII Global Match will release in November.

The newest Fatal Fury game will be called City of Wolves and will bring back most of the cast of Mark of the Wolves, but also Joe, Andy and Mai.

You wanted to write Duolon.

Oops lmao. That's right.

Hinako is the final character announced for season 2. She hasn't returned since KOF 11, so that's pretty awesome.

Hinako? Pretty cool. Momoko and Shion when!?

Vice and Mature have been announced as extra DLC for KOF XV.

SVC Chaos is going to be re-released on July 24th for all modern consoles.

I love SNK and Neo Geo. They are totally underrated. Samurai Shodown could have been better balance wise though. Samurai Spirits 3 and 4 were my absolute faves.
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Yeah, gonna pick up SVC Chaos this payday and see how it goes online.

I have it for free on fightcade. I play against people from all over the world. That goes for all NEO GEO and SNK titles.

Garou: City of the Wolves just announced Billy Kane. This marks the first of the classic Fatal Fury characters that were not in Mark of the Wolves to make a comeback.

Still waiting on Andy, Joe and Mai.

Hopefully we can get Tang Fu Rue?

If he comes back, he's gonna be hella old.

Anything is possible is capcom, snk, and namco. lol

Mai Shiranui returns in City of Wolves with new clothes (as well as her classic outfit).

SNK is counting down to the 30th anniversary of King of Fighters. Hopefully they announce something soon.