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Cross Counter Killer Instinct Demo
- Thread starter GayForMaster
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I've still got a negative feeling about this game.
The fight engine doesn't seem anything special. When the two Jago's are up very close to each other, the way the leading arm clips into each other looks odd.
There was a certain look and feel to the original KI arcade in 1995 that I used to love. I played the hell out of the arcade machine. KI 2 came with a more rugged look that I didn't like and this seems to do the same.
And what about Jago's identity? He's a Ninja fighting in the backdrop of Tibet? I don't see him performing many trademark Ninjutsu moves. Doesn't seem like much of a true Ninja to me. He never has been. Yeah I'm being picky but still...
The fight engine doesn't seem anything special. When the two Jago's are up very close to each other, the way the leading arm clips into each other looks odd.
There was a certain look and feel to the original KI arcade in 1995 that I used to love. I played the hell out of the arcade machine. KI 2 came with a more rugged look that I didn't like and this seems to do the same.
And what about Jago's identity? He's a Ninja fighting in the backdrop of Tibet? I don't see him performing many trademark Ninjutsu moves. Doesn't seem like much of a true Ninja to me. He never has been. Yeah I'm being picky but still...
Miles Quaritch
Member
So you can't trial characters when playing in demo mode? I could have sworn as much was suggested in the gamespot feed from a couple of days ago, but I had that and the GT stream on at the same time and perhaps misheard or misinterpreted the comments.
Can anyone who knows more chime in. Can you trial characters you're thinking about buying in demo mode?
Isn't this just an alpha (or even pre-alpha) build?
The original Killer Instinct had a few of those fighting game mechanics and that was almost 20 years ago.
If you want deeeeeep then have a sniff around Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown.
FEATHERED OR BUST!!
Yup. According to the devs is a 5 week old pre-alpha or something they cooked really fast
GrayFoxPL
Member
Hard to believe, especially when the full thing is out in like 5 months. Never seen pre alpha being in so advanced state.
Their pre alpha is like Beta+
They've been working almost 10 months in this game so far according to Ken Lobb
RockTurtle
Member
Jago = SF4 Ryu
SabreWolf = Hakkan/Blanka?
i'm liking the neutral standing animations too. Sabrewolf looks very natural, and jago's leg shake looks natural too.
SabreWolf = Hakkan/Blanka?
i'm liking the neutral standing animations too. Sabrewolf looks very natural, and jago's leg shake looks natural too.
GrayFoxPL
Member
Jago is like MK Ninjas and SF Shotos melted into one. One of my favorite fg characters ever since KI1&2.
The Cowboy
Member
Man, it looks good but they really went overboard on the particle effects.
This game is really the only thing stopping me from moving my Xbox One pre-order to a PS4. Looks amazing and I spent so much of my childhood playing this game in the arcade down the street from my house. I was friends with the owners son so me and my cousin would get up early and be at the arcade when it first open and we could play any of the games for free and spent most of our time playing Killer Instinct. Wish the game had a little bit darker tone, but I think it looks amazing and really fun...
Darker...yeah. I like the sound of that. I was scared shitless of the announcers voice, but now he sounds plain lame.
Oh well. I won't be able to play this game anyways. :/
fallingdove
Member
Pretty standard stuff these days. These fighting experts were raving about SFXT too if I remember right.
I still don't like the art direction, but there are some very familiar aspects to the game having played the first two games to death.