The King of Fighters 15
 

Anyone else excited about this? For anyone that preordered, the fun starts Monday. I enjoyed the betas and I'm eager to play the full game with all the characters. Sucks I have to wait til after work though, but oh well.

I enjoyed 14 so Im glad this isnt Playstation exclusive.

Awesome, hopefully I'll run into you or anyone else here online sometime.

MarkRodriguez09 on PSN.

I'd like to try it out, but kind of low on money to buy it.
Besides, I suck at fighting games, so it doesn't matter whether I join now or two years later.

So you're like me then? As in "I like 'em but ain't actually 'good' at 'em"? Interesting.

Because I do think they are very fun in general but I think most human beings could beat me very easily.

I kinda feel for some games like these you have to jump at least during the first month that it's out, when everyone is still a 'newb' at it. If you wait too long, everyone will destroy you.

I didn't own a PS4 when KOF 14 came out, so by the time I finally got one, the game became like 'just put the controller down and let them wreck your ****'. For me games like Mortal Kombat/Injustice, Marvel VS Capcom and eventually Dragonball FighterZ kinda turned into 'don't even try'. Like I never adapted properly with the MK/Injustice system. Like it's fun to mess around with friends and play around with how the different characters react to the different environments and things but going online is a whole different story. It's 20-30 hit combo time with no chance to even fight back.

Soulcalibur for me is pretty hit or miss. I know character creation is a big thing for it but it kinda bugs me. Like I just wanna fight the guys in the game, not all these weird made up demon things (everyone wants to be some sort of demon goth thing in that game) where I have to guess their moves cause I have no idea what character base they used.

Tekken is 50/50. But Street Fighter 5 and Dead or Alive 6, I can always randomly hop in and land a few victories and make people rage quit.

But KOF 15 looks fun. I'll try my best to grow alongside everyone else and try to stay at their level.

Oh ****. Just realized that this game comes out in 6 hours since this is going by Japan time. If I disappear from the forum for a few days, you'll know why.

Yeah, that's a problem, fighting games are VERY good at filtrating everyone wo are not willing to invest a lot of time and effort in the training, which is why I abandon them, after going through the Arcade mode.

I've started playing fighting games with MK (NES bootlegs on my Famiclone, no less, LOL), then discovered Street Fighter, KOF and 3D fighters. But generally, I am not big fan of 3D fighters - they are too complex for me and I can't remember controls and moves for them, if my life depended on it.

Looks like it was mostly all rooms during the pre-order week, where everyone and their mother are busting out insane combos.

Now that anyone can buy the game, matches are up in ranked and casual where you get a decent mix of regular players and the 20-hit combo guys that play this game as if it were Marvel VS Capcom.

It's rough cause I have to use my best characters instead of experimenting with others, but I mean, that's how one improves with people you're not familiar with. Just choose whoever until you get better at using them.

How's the story mode?

I think there's no dedicated "story mode".

You just get cutscenes between some fights in Arcade.

That's a shame, the last game had one so Im surprised this wouldnt.

KOF was never about storymodes. At least not those 3-4 hour mini-movies the Netherrealm games do.

There are cut scenes that explain the plot, the characters have rival cut scenes if they run into them and then there's an ending for each team after you beat the bosses.

I really like KOF, but haven't had the chance to play the more recent entries.

As for competitive KOR gaming... well, first of all, the game is rather niche. Unlike SF, Tekken or MK, there's way less people playing it competitively. Second, I feel like 90% of KOR players online are from South America. It's kind of a well-known fact among the Fighting Game Community that South America is KOF-land. Was the Neo Geo popular in that part of the world or something? Anyway the problem is, that means I'd have a lot of lag with most KOF players. There's very few European KOF players from my experience. Unlike in Street Fighter where you find tons of them.

Bought it this morning, there's a dedicated story mode.

There is, but I think he means like a 2-3 hour movie like the story modes seen in the the Injustice and MK games. KOF doesn't have THAT kind of in-depth storymode.