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"What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 10:22post reply


Something that came to mind..................I was pondering this after playing 2k1.

As you all know,change is sometimes good. And Athena,one of the most coolest and versatile characters ever by SNK,changes a lot each year.

As we last saw her in 2k1,she sported a cool outfit,but dykey hair. I finally got used to her new look.

Now! What's in store for this year? How can they improve her? She's gone through lots of changes. Will she grow her hair back?! Will they cut her out this year?!

What do you guys think?






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"Re(1):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 10:52post reply


quote:
Now! What's in store for this year? How can they improve her? She's gone through lots of changes. Will she grow her hair back?! Will they cut her out this year?!

What do you guys think?



Two words: Bikini outfit j/k

Hmm...
1) give her long curly hair, hehe
2) make her more "mature"? I think it'll be nice to see an "older" Athena.

Can't really comment on her moves. I'm quite used to her as she is. Maybe they could add all those red sparkly magical stuff in her moves like they did in MvC2.





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"Re(2):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 11:19post reply


quote:
Now! What's in store for this year? How can they improve her? She's gone through lots of changes. Will she grow her hair back?! Will they cut her out this year?!

What do you guys think?


Two words: Bikini outfit j/k

Hmm...
1) give her long curly hair, hehe
2) make her more "mature"? I think it'll be nice to see an "older" Athena.

Can't really comment on her moves. I'm quite used to her as she is. Maybe they could add all those red sparkly magical stuff in her moves like they did in MvC2.

Like any woman really wants to look older than they really are...







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"Re(2):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 13:03post reply


Ewww...long curly hair? Ewww... No way. Long, straight to the waist, I prefer. I do agree, though, that an older, more mature Athena is definitely in order. They all need to grow up eventually...





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"Re(3):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 13:49post reply


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Ewww...long curly hair? Ewww... No way. Long, straight to the waist, I prefer. I do agree, though, that an older, more mature Athena is definitely in order. They all need to grow up eventually...


everyone wants Athena to grow up -_-
hehe, i guess that's what i get for discovering SNK years later than i should've

although Athena looks damn cute with short hair, i would like to see her with longer hair. also, it'd be nice to see another outfit that shows off her legs (eek, CvS2) or possibly her belly button

other things i'd like to see in kof 2002
- Terry with his MOTW outfit!
- an older Ryo (white hair, dark gi)
- Iori with a new outfit (his striker one is perfect! sing, Iori, siiiing!!)





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"Re(4):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 13:55post reply


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Ewww...long curly hair? Ewww... No way. Long, straight to the waist, I prefer. I do agree, though, that an older, more mature Athena is definitely in order. They all need to grow up eventually...

everyone wants Athena to grow up -_-
hehe, i guess that's what i get for discovering SNK years later than i should've

although Athena looks damn cute with short hair, i would like to see her with longer hair. also, it'd be nice to see another outfit that shows off her legs (eek, CvS2) or possibly her belly button

other things i'd like to see in kof 2002
- Terry with his MOTW outfit!
- an older Ryo (white hair, dark gi)
- Iori with a new outfit (his striker one is perfect! sing, Iori, siiiing!!)



it's almost likely we'll see a crappy Garou terry sprite in Kof2002.. as terry already gave rock his hat..





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"Re(1):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 14:31post reply


Hopefully a grown up Athena, that'll make me happy. And the short hair is ok for me...





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"Re(4):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 15:29post reply


quote:
Ewww...long curly hair? Ewww... No way. Long, straight to the waist, I prefer. I do agree, though, that an older, more mature Athena is definitely in order. They all need to grow up eventually...

everyone wants Athena to grow up -_-
hehe, i guess that's what i get for discovering SNK years later than i should've

although Athena looks damn cute with short hair, i would like to see her with longer hair. also, it'd be nice to see another outfit that shows off her legs (eek, CvS2) or possibly her belly button

other things i'd like to see in kof 2002
- Terry with his MOTW outfit!
- an older Ryo (white hair, dark gi)
- Iori with a new outfit (his striker one is perfect! sing, Iori, siiiing!!)



I'm not a fan of Athena's short hair, although I still use the Psycho Soldiers as my team of choice. However when combined with the generally ugly character portraits of 2k1, the short hair was less tolerable.

On the topic of older characters, I always thought that an interesting character for SF3 would have been an older Sakura, having shed her schoolgirl garb and adulation for Ryu and become a more serious fighter.





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"Re(5):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 16:48post reply


Heh,yeah,I have a bias against curly hair. I like long straight hair on chicks.

Anyway,heh,since someone brought something similar up,I wish they'd get rid of Takuma. He's so boring! He sucks,too.





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"Re(2):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 17:34post reply


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Maybe they could add all those red sparkly magical stuff in her moves like they did in MvC2.


Heh, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who gets __vs.__ abbreviations confused when I'm typing. ^_^ As for Athena, I predict that in KoF02 they are going to figure out how to make her voice even more high pitched and squeaky.





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"Re(3):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 17:45post reply


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Heh, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who gets __vs.__ abbreviations confused when I'm typing. ^_^



Ah, I didn't notice! My office has been playing too much MvsC2 on the DC these days so it's been on my mind a lot :D
My boss is a scrub... keeps on using 3x Cable teams *sigh*

As for the curly hair bit, maybe I should have used the word wavy instead. I don't mean hair like Scary Spice's! More like...

<--- Tessa's hair ^_^





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"Re(5):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 18:44post reply


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On the topic of older characters, I always thought that an interesting character for SF3 would have been an older Sakura, having shed her schoolgirl garb and adulation for Ryu and become a more serious fighter.



Capcom's afraid to age Sakura IMHO, which is why she is in non-canon games only. They probably don't know how to age her, or are afraid alot of her fanbase would be put off by the aging....(Since alot of her charm is the whole school girl thing...).

As for Athena, I'm hoping for a more mature. college student look. Perhaps also more of an idol singer theme to the clothes, and less magical girl.

I would also like to see her take more of a leading role with the Psycho soldiers, which means Chin has to move on (But then it's probably time he retires...)





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"Re(1):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 18:48post reply


The fact that SNK toyed with her age in her character bio data (someone pointed out that she was 16 in KOF94 and 21 in KOF2001) shows that they do not want her to be given a more mature look that soon. She is a pop star too, remember? Anyway, I suppose this year she will be spotting her short hair again, unless Eolith/SNK wanted to please the fans so they made her grow back her age, otherwise I kinda like her short hair - it fits her age.

Nevertheless, any costume/image change should be for the better hopefully. I did not like Andy's new KOF2001 outfit. It is impossible, but I would like to see blood and bounciness of Mai's breasts back...heh...

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"Re(5):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Wed 17 Jul 19:42post reply


quote:
Ewww...long curly hair? Ewww... No way. Long, straight to the waist, I prefer. I do agree, though, that an older, more mature Athena is definitely in order. They all need to grow up eventually...

everyone wants Athena to grow up -_-
hehe, i guess that's what i get for discovering SNK years later than i should've

although Athena looks damn cute with short hair, i would like to see her with longer hair. also, it'd be nice to see another outfit that shows off her legs (eek, CvS2) or possibly her belly button

other things i'd like to see in kof 2002
- Terry with his MOTW outfit!
- an older Ryo (white hair, dark gi)
- Iori with a new outfit (his striker one is perfect! sing, Iori, siiiing!!)


it's almost likely we'll see a crappy Garou terry sprite in Kof2002.. as terry already gave rock his hat..



Ummm, they should have Athena's hair grow back a little bit, to the shoulders.

When did Terry give his hat to Rock. If he did he should just fight without the hat, and then later on cut his hair then change the jacket and stuff. Change him up at a moderation.





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"Re(1):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 04:59post reply


Everybody know it already : each year, Athena's hair are shorter. In 2002, she will be bald.





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"Re(2):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 05:06post reply


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Everybody know it already : each year, Athena's hair are shorter. In 2002, she will be bald.



Haha, the hair thing is like Ripley in the Aliens movie series,
long hair -> shorter hair -> bald ^^

So that means *gulp* 2003 = headless Athena??
*runs away*





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"Re(3):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 05:15post reply


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Everybody know it already : each year, Athena's hair are shorter. In 2002, she will be bald.


Haha, the hair thing is like Ripley in the Aliens movie series,
long hair -> shorter hair -> bald ^^

So that means *gulp* 2003 = headless Athena??
*runs away*



No, in 2003, she will be like this guy in Star Gladiator, with his brain out.





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"Re(4):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 06:14post reply


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Everybody know it already : each year, Athena's hair are shorter. In 2002, she will be bald.


Haha, the hair thing is like Ripley in the Aliens movie series,
long hair -> shorter hair -> bald ^^

So that means *gulp* 2003 = headless Athena??
*runs away*


No, in 2003, she will be like this guy in Star Gladiator, with his brain out.



In 2004, Athena will rename herself as Krang and Kensou will rename himself as Shredder. They will team up with two new chinese members called Rocksteady and Bebop to form a new Foot...I mean Psycho Soldier team.





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"Re(5):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 10:07post reply


quote:
Everybody know it already : each year, Athena's hair are shorter. In 2002, she will be bald.


Haha, the hair thing is like Ripley in the Aliens movie series,
long hair -> shorter hair -> bald ^^

So that means *gulp* 2003 = headless Athena??
*runs away*


No, in 2003, she will be like this guy in Star Gladiator, with his brain out.


In 2004, Athena will rename herself as Krang and Kensou will rename himself as Shredder. They will team up with two new chinese members called Rocksteady and Bebop to form a new Foot...I mean Psycho Soldier team.


That, or I'm hoping for the Athena with removable head that she can throw at her opponents like Dynamite Headdy.





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"Re(1):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 10:20post reply


quote:
Now! What's in store for this year? How can they improve her? She's gone through lots of changes. Will she grow her hair back?! Will they cut her out this year?!

What do you guys think?



By storyline, Athena choose the short hair as a way to show her discontent towards the gods because they took Kensou's phsyco powers; now that he has regained them, there is no reason for her to keep her short hair (unless she is now unhappy because Bao 'lost' his/her? powers)





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"Athena-chan in 2K2" , posted Thu 18 Jul 10:50post reply


Athena will keep the same seiyuu. No surprise.

Um, I'm guessing her hair will be somewhat like Miyuki's of Taiho Shichauzo! Why? I don't know.

I think this will be the year she has a totally different outfit. I think she'll have jeans instead and a blank shirt along with wristbands.





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"Re(1):Athena-chan in 2K2" , posted Thu 18 Jul 14:19post reply


Athena with short hair, jeans and a t-shirt...hee hee! It would be my favorite "costume" ever! I love it when fighting game characters dress down. I wished so much I could use Ibuki in SF3 wearing the clothes she does in her winposes.





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"i'm not the only one T_T" , posted Thu 18 Jul 15:48post reply


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I wished so much I could use Ibuki in SF3 wearing the clothes she does in her winposes.

argh me too





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"Re(2):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 16:37post reply


quote:
Now! What's in store for this year? How can they improve her? She's gone through lots of changes. Will she grow her hair back?! Will they cut her out this year?!

What do you guys think?


By storyline, Athena choose the short hair as a way to show her discontent towards the gods because they took Kensou's phsyco powers; now that he has regained them, there is no reason for her to keep her short hair (unless she is now unhappy because Bao 'lost' his/her? powers)



Interesting,I never knew that. Thanks Toxico!

BTW,I doubt she even cares about Bao........





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"Re(3):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 20:40post reply


quote:
Now! What's in store for this year? How can they improve her? She's gone through lots of changes. Will she grow her hair back?! Will they cut her out this year?!

What do you guys think?


By storyline, Athena choose the short hair as a way to show her discontent towards the gods because they took Kensou's phsyco powers; now that he has regained them, there is no reason for her to keep her short hair (unless she is now unhappy because Bao 'lost' his/her? powers)


Interesting,I never knew that. Thanks Toxico!

BTW,I doubt she even cares about Bao........



where'd Bao even come from, anyone know?





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"Re(4):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 20:46post reply


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where'd Bao even come from, anyone know?


He's a little Chinese psychic boy.





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"Re(5):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 20:55post reply


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where'd Bao even come from, anyone know?

He's a little Chinese psychic boy.



so... the psycho soldiers just recruited him or something?





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"Re(4):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 22:41post reply


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although Athena looks damn cute with short hair, i would like to see her with longer hair. also, it'd be nice to see another outfit that shows off her legs (eek, CvS2) or possibly her belly button



Longer hair- KOF'94 - '98
Outfit that shows off her legs and belly button- KOF'99.

Can't get it both ways (yet).





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"Re(2):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Thu 18 Jul 22:44post reply


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The fact that SNK toyed with her age in her character bio data (someone pointed out that she was 16 in KOF94 and 21 in KOF2001) shows that they do not want her to be given a more mature look that soon. She is a pop star too, remember? Anyway, I suppose this year she will be spotting her short hair again, unless Eolith/SNK wanted to please the fans so they made her grow back her age, otherwise I kinda like her short hair - it fits her age.

Nevertheless, any costume/image change should be for the better hopefully. I did not like Andy's new KOF2001 outfit. It is impossible, but I would like to see blood and bounciness of Mai's breasts back...heh...

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I liked Andy's 2k1 outfit.





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"Re(3):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Fri 19 Jul 05:57post reply


OK! I have a question!

Where is Athena actually from? China or Japan? I've heard that she's mostly from Japan. But a site or two has her listed as being from China.





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"Re(4):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Fri 19 Jul 06:22post reply


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OK! I have a question!

Where is Athena actually from? China or Japan? I've heard that she's mostly from Japan. But a site or two has her listed as being from China.



She's Japanese. Chin and Kensou are Chinese, though, and the team represnted CHina in the first 2 KOF's...





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"Re(2):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Fri 19 Jul 08:45:post reply


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By storyline, Athena choose the short hair as a way to show her discontent towards the gods because they took Kensou's phsyco powers; now that he has regained them, there is no reason for her to keep her short hair (unless she is now unhappy because Bao 'lost' his/her? powers)



Kensou had his powers in KOF 2001 and Athena's hair was the shortest yet in that game.

Another costume change is a given.
The only gamplay changes that'd surprise me is if she lost the ability to do aerial versions of her Psycho Sword and/or SCB (I wouldn't be too upset if she lost that.)

As for maturing more, Athena's personality is fine as is IMO. She's leader of the team so she can be grown-up and mature when the situation calls it.

Besides, I have this feeling making the characters more mature will end up turning KOF into another SF II. What a bunch of stiffs those guys were!

Offtopic, why all the hate against Takuma and Chin? The Masters are usually some of the coolest fighters.





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"Re(3):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Fri 19 Jul 11:34post reply


She should have dreadlocks this year





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"Re(3):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Fri 19 Jul 17:00post reply


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Offtopic, why all the hate against Takuma



I don't have a problem with Chin, it's just with Takuma. Back when I still thought the game was fun I fought too many people that used an unimaginable team that almost always included Takuma, Kyo, Iori, and Seth (Striker).





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"Re(4):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Fri 19 Jul 18:01post reply


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She should have dreadlocks this year





Dreadlocks would be cool on an Asian fighter! That would set a cool trend!

HEY! Since she's a hot pop star,why not make her more sexier? Like Alicia Keys sexy?





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"Re(5):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Sat 20 Jul 02:54post reply


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The only gamplay changes that'd surprise me is if she lost the ability to do aerial versions of her Psycho Sword and/or SCB (I wouldn't be too upset if she lost that.)

eeeek, that'd hurt me if they changed that. my basic combo would be gone -_- and it's pretty useful against some of my frog friends

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Offtopic, why all the hate against Takuma and Chin? The Masters are usually some of the coolest fighters.

yea, i dunno. other than isolated personal incidents (like Amakusa's), a lot of people have a sincere hatred against the Kyokugen and Psycho Soldier teams, and their members (most everyone hates the AOF team, with the exception of Robert. and no one really likes the Psycho Soldiers, except Athena. even so, there's still several who dislike Athena)

as for me, i think the Psycho Soldier team's my favorite. i learned to use them all pretty well (i play a mean Chin ^-^ i've made a few people curse at the top of their lungs when he breathes fire ROFL), and of course Athena's my favorite SNK character <3 as for the AOF team, it's my second favorite team. i look at them like i'd look at legends. i think they're all amazing. i wish Kyokugenryu Karate was real





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"Re(5):What's in store for Athena this year?" , posted Sat 20 Jul 03:17post reply


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HEY! Since she's a hot pop star,why not make her more sexier? Like Alicia Keys sexy?



That'd be ace. I'd definetly play as her more if that was the case. Or how about making her a punk with a red mohican and a nose-ring? Maybe she could be like that when she becomes possesed by the evil dragon spirit (like Bao in 2k1)