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| Juke Joint Jezebel 388th Post
 
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|  "Re(6):Poor Athena"
, posted Mon 27 May 07:58
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Considering how ugly they made one of my favorite gals in 2k1,I wonder how Athena will be in the next KOF
well uh .. when i first saw her art in kof 2001, i freaked out. then i thought about it... i don't think i would've freaked out so much if i hadn't seen Athena before. in other words, imo, i think they just went in a worse direction with the new artist's look, but if they had started her off with that look, she wouldn't have looked too bad
as for 2002, ehh, i dunno. i just hope she'd go back to her '99 outfit. i like that the best  but then again, that was the first kof i ever played (thus, ever saw her in) so i'm prolly biased there
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Along the same lines, I hate how both her and Yuri look in CvS2, they look like 98oz weaklings. Recent KoF games have struck a good balance between them looking like little girls and like well trained fighters, and CvS went way too far in the shoujo direction, if you ask me.
you noticed that too?!!?!?! WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM?!! christ they're not 12-year-olds! it annoyed the hell out of me when i saw their art done like that
i <3 Athena
oh yea, speaking of Athena, i was gonna mention this before but i totally forgot. in kof 99, i put the computer's difficulty on hardest and fought my best .. it took me a bit, but i struggled to get near the end when i ran into the women's team. it was pretty tough and so far the match was even. finally it was the last fight -- Athena vs Blue Mary. at first, Mary was slaughtering my ass, countering me and tossing me about the screen like a ragdoll. then finally, my life was low enough so that if i pulled off a DM, i'd have won the battle. i sat there, taunting her, hoping she'd come near me. finally when she did, i   PUNCH and what happens?!!!
MARY COUNTERS MY PSYCHO BALL!!!
which finishes me off. i lost the match  T_T
any comments? T_T
ARGH
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| Hungrywolf 961th Post
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|  "Re(7):Poor Athena"
, posted Mon 27 May 08:10
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Considering how ugly they made one of my favorite gals in 2k1,I wonder how Athena will be in the next KOF
well uh .. when i first saw her art in kof 2001, i freaked out. then i thought about it... i don't think i would've freaked out so much if i hadn't seen Athena before. in other words, imo, i think they just went in a worse direction with the new artist's look, but if they had started her off with that look, she wouldn't have looked too bad
as for 2002, ehh, i dunno. i just hope she'd go back to her '99 outfit. i like that the best but then again, that was the first kof i ever played (thus, ever saw her in) so i'm prolly biased there
Along the same lines, I hate how both her and Yuri look in CvS2, they look like 98oz weaklings. Recent KoF games have struck a good balance between them looking like little girls and like well trained fighters, and CvS went way too far in the shoujo direction, if you ask me.
you noticed that too?!!?!?! WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM?!! christ they're not 12-year-olds! it annoyed the hell out of me when i saw their art done like that
i <3 Athena
oh yea, speaking of Athena, i was gonna mention this before but i totally forgot. in kof 99, i put the computer's difficulty on hardest and fought my best .. it took me a bit, but i struggled to get near the end when i ran into the women's team. it was pretty tough and so far the match was even. finally it was the last fight -- Athena vs Blue Mary. at first, Mary was slaughtering my ass, countering me and tossing me about the screen like a ragdoll. then finally, my life was low enough so that if i pulled off a DM, i'd have won the battle. i sat there, taunting her, hoping she'd come near me. finally when she did, i PUNCH and what happens?!!!
MARY COUNTERS MY PSYCHO BALL!!!
which finishes me off. i lost the match T_T
any comments? T_T
ARGH
Blue Mary owns you for free and a neuticle. Unlike the rest of you, I have no problem with the CvS2 sprites or art.
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| talbaineric 3346th Post
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| "Re(8):Poor Athena" , posted Mon 27 May 08:14
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Considering how ugly they made one of my favorite gals in 2k1,I wonder how Athena will be in the next KOF
well uh .. when i first saw her art in kof 2001, i freaked out. then i thought about it... i don't think i would've freaked out so much if i hadn't seen Athena before. in other words, imo, i think they just went in a worse direction with the new artist's look, but if they had started her off with that look, she wouldn't have looked too bad
as for 2002, ehh, i dunno. i just hope she'd go back to her '99 outfit. i like that the best but then again, that was the first kof i ever played (thus, ever saw her in) so i'm prolly biased there
Along the same lines, I hate how both her and Yuri look in CvS2, they look like 98oz weaklings. Recent KoF games have struck a good balance between them looking like little girls and like well trained fighters, and CvS went way too far in the shoujo direction, if you ask me.
you noticed that too?!!?!?! WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM?!! christ they're not 12-year-olds! it annoyed the hell out of me when i saw their art done like that
i <3 Athena
oh yea, speaking of Athena, i was gonna mention this before but i totally forgot. in kof 99, i put the computer's difficulty on hardest and fought my best .. it took me a bit, but i struggled to get near the end when i ran into the women's team. it was pretty tough and so far the match was even. finally it was the last fight -- Athena vs Blue Mary. at first, Mary was slaughtering my ass, countering me and tossing me about the screen like a ragdoll. then finally, my life was low enough so that if i pulled off a DM, i'd have won the battle. i sat there, taunting her, hoping she'd come near me. finally when she did, i PUNCH and what happens?!!!
MARY COUNTERS MY PSYCHO BALL!!!
which finishes me off. i lost the match T_T
any comments? T_T
ARGH
Blue Mary owns you for free and a neuticle. Unlike the rest of you, I have no problem with the CvS2 sprites or art.
Blue Mary rocks!
BTW,Hungrywolf,I personally really like the CvS2 sprites and art as well. They're clean and clear. Unlike SNK's KOF's choppiness ones.
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| Hungrywolf 963th Post
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| "Re(9):Poor Athena" , posted Mon 27 May 08:18
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Considering how ugly they made one of my favorite gals in 2k1,I wonder how Athena will be in the next KOF
well uh .. when i first saw her art in kof 2001, i freaked out. then i thought about it... i don't think i would've freaked out so much if i hadn't seen Athena before. in other words, imo, i think they just went in a worse direction with the new artist's look, but if they had started her off with that look, she wouldn't have looked too bad
as for 2002, ehh, i dunno. i just hope she'd go back to her '99 outfit. i like that the best but then again, that was the first kof i ever played (thus, ever saw her in) so i'm prolly biased there
Along the same lines, I hate how both her and Yuri look in CvS2, they look like 98oz weaklings. Recent KoF games have struck a good balance between them looking like little girls and like well trained fighters, and CvS went way too far in the shoujo direction, if you ask me.
you noticed that too?!!?!?! WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM?!! christ they're not 12-year-olds! it annoyed the hell out of me when i saw their art done like that
i <3 Athena
oh yea, speaking of Athena, i was gonna mention this before but i totally forgot. in kof 99, i put the computer's difficulty on hardest and fought my best .. it took me a bit, but i struggled to get near the end when i ran into the women's team. it was pretty tough and so far the match was even. finally it was the last fight -- Athena vs Blue Mary. at first, Mary was slaughtering my ass, countering me and tossing me about the screen like a ragdoll. then finally, my life was low enough so that if i pulled off a DM, i'd have won the battle. i sat there, taunting her, hoping she'd come near me. finally when she did, i PUNCH and what happens?!!!
MARY COUNTERS MY PSYCHO BALL!!!
which finishes me off. i lost the match T_T
any comments? T_T
ARGH
Blue Mary owns you for free and a neuticle. Unlike the rest of you, I have no problem with the CvS2 sprites or art.
Blue Mary rocks!
BTW,Hungrywolf,I personally really like the CvS2 sprites and art as well. They're clean and clear. Unlike SNK's KOF's choppiness ones.
Oh, yeah, I feel the same way. I know a lot of that has to do with SNK still using the MVS system, but Capcom's sprites looked prettier. I don't know if they were talking about the art or the sprites when whoever it was said it made some of them look like "98 oz weaklings" but I thought it was all good in CvS2. I did dislike some of the CvS1 artwork though.
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| DKW
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Occasional Customer
| "Re(1):Poor Athena" , posted Wed 29 May 02:12
I really don't see what the big deal is with the short hair. King's had short hair (and dressed like a man!) since AOF1, and that hasn't seemed to hurt her appeal.
Almost without exception, all the character portraits in '01 are ugly. (Let me just say that's it's no small feat making someone like Vanessa ugly.) No idea why. Hope whoever's in charge of '02 does a lot better. (Personally, I think either '97 or '98 was the best.)
Never really had an issue with the outfits. Athena's a high-profile performer in two areas, fighting and singing, and the public is notoriously fickle. Dress for success, that's what I say. I don't even mind keeping that fake sailor uni around to toss off before each round (some guys really go for that, y'know).
Making her a little girly-girly girl in CvS2, a game she's 22 years old in, was just plain laziness, something Capcom has a bit of a reputation for. They just had no idea how to design a credible cute and pretty young WOMAN, so they used the '94 template. Frankly, this was unforgivable. I mean, they already had Chun Li as an example of how a Chinese WOMAN would look, so giving Athena WOMANLY charms like the successful, capable, confident WOMAN that she is shouldn't have been a huge challenge. (I won't even mention her gameplay; suffice it to say that a 22-YEAR-OLD <<WOMAN>> WHO'S BEEN FIGHTING IN THESE KINDS OF TOURNAMENTS FOR YEARS SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF MORE THAN THIS.)
Anyway, Athena's a cutie, and as long as she has her singing career, she always will be. Calling her ugly is a bit much, though.
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