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| Alucard
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|  "Useless statistics for KOF..."
, posted Wed 11 Dec 14:55
Hi folks,
don't believe I'm workless, but I've enlightened the country representation in KOF ; in fact, I've noticed the country birth of all characters since '94 to '02, and the results are quite amusing :
31% come from Japan (surprised ?) ;
28% come from an unknown land, or from nowhere (what can I say ? SNK does believe that no other part of the world can be equal to Japanese fighters ?) ;
16% from US (less than half of Japan...) ;
7% from South Korea (Kim and his sidekicks will be always here !!) ;
4% from China (Sorry guys, even the China's team leader is Japanese !) ;
3% from both France & Mexico (I'll never thank SNK enough to put French characters in their games - For Mexico, seems that the petitions from Juan work ^_^ ) ;
1% from Brazil, Canada (a robot !), England, Germany, Italy, Russia (from Hinako's grandmother !), Sweden & Venezuela.
For the world repartition :
57% from Asia ;
25 from North America ;
12% from Europe ;
6% from South America ;
Africa & Oceania are not represented... Even Capcom had included African characters in SF (but still no one from Oceania, I guess).
Feel free to respond (if you think it worth it ^_^).
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| Alucard
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| "Re(3):Useless statistics for KOF..." , posted Wed 11 Dec 17:00
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Well, to be honest, where a character is from shouldn't affect your opinion of them.
No, but it's always gratifying. Sometimes even surprising, i.e. when I read that Zato-1 is Spanish  ! Or, more precisely, from Spain (born and raised). Or even more when I found a Catalan character in an SNK game (even more )!! It's J.Costa from Windjammers. The J stands for Jordi which is the Spanish "Jorge", or the English "George", the guy who killed the dragon I mean  .
KOF is based upon a world fighting competition (at least with '94 - see the select screen), even if its title is not "World warriors" ^_^.
In fact, we're all here coming from different countries, and it's even nice to see a compatriot in this game, especially when it's made by a japanese company (for the foreigners like me). But even if I like much King, she's not my favorite character (who is... no, it'll be for another topic).
What I like in KOF (and with others games), is to see how SNK represents foreign characters.
For example, King is very caricatural with her glass of wine... Surprisely, Shermie's not. And this is what made KOF so appreciated by non-japanese (not only for that, sure, but a bit I think), because characters are not so stereotyped (It reminds me of Breakers, with "Pielle"... awful).
Ramon doesn't wear a sombrero (it could have been so easy to do it), it shows that SNK designers worked hard on their characters to give them a non-carnival look.
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| Gen 1064th Post
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| "Re(1):Useless statistics for KOF..." , posted Wed 11 Dec 18:44
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Hi folks,
don't believe I'm workless, but I've enlightened the country representation in KOF ; in fact, I've noticed the country birth of all characters since '94 to '02, and the results are quite amusing :
31% come from Japan (surprised ?) ;
28% come from an unknown land, or from nowhere (what can I say ? SNK does believe that no other part of the world can be equal to Japanese fighters ?) ;
16% from US (less than half of Japan...) ;
7% from South Korea (Kim and his sidekicks will be always here !!) ;
4% from China (Sorry guys, even the China's team leader is Japanese !) ;
3% from both France & Mexico (I'll never thank SNK enough to put French characters in their games - For Mexico, seems that the petitions from Juan work ^_^ ) ;
1% from Brazil, Canada (a robot !), England, Germany, Italy, Russia (from Hinako's grandmother !), Sweden & Venezuela.
For the world repartition :
57% from Asia ;
25 from North America ;
12% from Europe ;
6% from South America ;
Africa & Oceania are not represented... Even Capcom had included African characters in SF (but still no one from Oceania, I guess).
Feel free to respond (if you think it worth it ^_^).
So what country is Bob Garcia from?
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| talbaineric 4574th Post
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| "Re(1):Useless statistics for KOF..." , posted Thu 12 Dec 15:29
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1% from Brazil, Canada (a robot !), England, Germany, Italy, Russia (from Hinako's grandmother !), Sweden & Venezuela.
Africa & Oceania are not represented... Even Capcom had included African characters in SF (but still no one from Oceania, I guess).
Yes,there should be MORE British,in fact,more Europeans in 2k2.
Yes,and it's be nice to see more African fighters in games as well.
CLICK THE TAG! I DARE YA!
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| Sensenic
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| "Re(4):Useless statistics for KOF..." , posted Fri 13 Dec 11:29
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No, but it's always gratifying. Sometimes even surprising, i.e. when I read that Zato-1 is Spanish ! Or, more precisely, from Spain (born and raised). Or even more when I found a Catalan character in an SNK game (even more )!! It's J.Costa from Windjammers. The J stands for Jordi which is the Spanish "Jorge", or the English "George", the guy who killed the dragon I mean .
Don't forget the Alhambra stage in KOF98!! It was very gratifying to see it there, given the fact that i can go there in less than half an hour and it's exactly as the KOF graphists represented it.
Yup, you're right. I forgot it 'cause I was thinking only of characters. About stages I can recall now Barcelona in FF2 & special (I think): a Plaza de Toros with the (oh surprise...) Sagrada Familia in the back, I guess it should be Monumental since it's close.
And, out of SNK, who can forget El Mesón de la Taberna  from SF2?
PD: No he estao en la Alhambra por cierto, qué pena, tol mundo dice que está muy bien...
The ugliest Solid Snake ever is watching you...
-I thought you were arian....
-I'm vegetarian...
Dialog between Schulz and the jewish barber -The Great Dictator-
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