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| Iggy 7470th Post
 
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|  "Christmas random news" , posted Tue 13 Dec 23:50
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Have I already said that I loved this insane man ?
Also, Mario Kart clone on cell phone by Sony.
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| Iggy 7486th Post
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| "Re(3):Christmas random news" , posted Sun 25 Dec 21:06:
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I hope you're not implying that this game falls into the category of all those awful 2D games... but which ones would those be, anyway? I haven't been keeping up...
I would say... Battle Colloseum, Ken Samu (which is not exactly awful, but a huge disappointment after SS0 and Supisupe), GGXX/ and Melty Blood AC.
Hokuto no Ken may have a good balance, but.... frankly... I'm not sure it's even relevant anymore.
The fact the instant kill can be comboed after even a small kick or a throw is insane. Oh, and even the computer often does it. I guess the concept behind the game is that only the players able to survive to a real post apocalyptic world should be allowed to insert a 100 yen coin in it.
Beside, the team behind the game has absolutely no interest for the original manga, which is NOT a good thing when you plan to sell a game on its name alone.
Maybe some western fans like it just because it's Ken and they're happy with it, but if they don't see what is wrong to put a Hokuto game with the GG engine, then I guess I have nothing to say. Or if the original moves of the characters don't have anything to do with what they did in the manga. Or if stupid moves names like "Grape Shoot" or "Punishing Strike" don't match the Hokuto no Ken universe (but I guess the developpers thought that making the name of the move appear in huge letters in the background was enough to make it look cool). Or if some voices don't have anything to do with what they said in the manga. Or even when they say it, it sounds wrong (or maybe Mamiya and Heartsama also were Raô's 強敵(とも), who knows). Or if the Hyakuretsuken includes a bunch of kicks and a ends up with a kick.
The developpers don't care about the manga at all. Their game sucks.
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| Spoon 1251th Post
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| "Re(4):Christmas random news" , posted Mon 26 Dec 15:37
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Hokuto no Ken may have a good balance, but.... frankly... I'm not sure it's even relevant anymore.
The fact the instant kill can be comboed after even a small kick or a throw is insane.
One thing to note is that at the moment, only two characters have been seen to be able to combo into instant kill off of some kind of throw, and those are Shin with his command throw, and possibly Toki off a throw against a cornered opponent. Shin's command throw is one of, if not wholly, his selling points. But then, you see Rei do a combo that takes off four stars, or Heart do his super and take off half your health, and you realize that there's a lot of abusable stuff in the game.
Nevertheless, this is old as hell. It was in the first batch of videos released, and the Ken player in the vid sucked. People screamed WTF! then, but after seeing Shin and Rei die numerous, uncountable times by DAMAGE (not instant kill) to Toki, we got over it.
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complaints that are not without merit
After the Hokuto no Ken OAV, all expectations are so low that the prospect of a decent and NEW fighting game that simultaneously happens to have HnK content is overwhelming. Yes, there's a bunch of stuff that the fanboy in me wants to cry, "UNFORGIVABLE!" over, but eventually the urges subside.
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| Red Falcon 5623th Post
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| "Re(4):Christmas random news" , posted Tue 27 Dec 03:46:
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The fact the instant kill can be comboed after even a small kick or a throw is insane. Oh, and even the computer often does it. I guess the concept behind the game is that only the players able to survive to a real post apocalyptic world should be allowed to insert a 100 yen coin in it.
The game is fun, and people seem to like it, and not just (gasp) WESTERN fans, who we all know are inferior. I for one like it and I'm glad I got it. Fatal KOs are comboable, but you have to empty their star gauge first so it's not exactly as abusable as you seem to imply. In real matches, you hardly ever see Fatal KO's with the exception of Shin's, whose... is actually kind of abusable. Sure, most of the moves are made up for the game, but it makes it an actually GOOD, FUN fighter... as opposed to every other Hokuto fighter ever made (and heck, most Hokuto games... seems it's been cursed with suckiness until this and the punching game)
Iggy = the Fox News of gaming info.
Edit: Arcadia tier list is already out. Heart = low, boo hoo.. Jagi = mid, YES. Of course they're flexible as time goes on, and I'm using Heart-sama anyway. And besides, tiers are stupid and shouldn't dictate how people play.
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| Red Falcon 5624th Post
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| "Re(6):Christmas random news" , posted Tue 27 Dec 04:03:
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I think Iggy is being needlessly negative about it (and its makers)...
Like I said, Iggy is the Fox News of gaming info. Don't get me wrong Iggy, you're a nice guy, but you regularly only report info that supports only the opinions you have/want others to have on a game. Normally I don't care, but I'm admittedly very enthusiastic about this fighter, as I've been waiting for 10 years or more for an actually enjoyable Hokuto fighting game. As somebody who has become sort of a "news mogul" on this site, you should strive for more impartiality.
Edit: Tier list. Forgot, Souther is high. Well, that's pretty nice. I guess things have changed since the first couple of tourneys though, where Shin was owning and Ken was creamed every time. http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105515
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| Iggy 7489th Post
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| "Re(7):Christmas random news" , posted Tue 27 Dec 04:55
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you regularly only report info that supports only the opinions you have/want others to have on a game.
Of course that's what I do. I'm not interested enough in what others think to smoothen my pre-made opinions.
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As somebody who has become sort of a "news mogul" on this site, you should strive for more impartiality.
Hum...
I don't like that "news mogul" thing (if only because I do nothing but translating Namae no nai Heya, random posts from blogs or 2ch, or just writing down things the Hagué discovers all by himself, and it's not like if those things were hard to do nor took more than a few minutes a day/week).
I'm only half joking when I say this board is my blog. I really have a terrible, terrible memory (the few people around here who know me can tell interesting anecdotes about the blackhole that lies between my two hears).
So most of the things I post around here (especially those in the random news threads) are just things for me not to forget.
Which means I don't care for what most people think about what I post here (I mean, even less then what they think about what I post elsewhere) or if the informations I post can interest anybody beside myself. This is really a glorified notepad, except that when I write something here I have bonus boobs to welcome me while I discover what I wrote the night before.
When I posted on the frontpage of IC, and if the Professor is desper... nice enough to ask me to post on the MMC frontpage, I was/will be adressing to people, the faceless readers of the site, and I will change my style accordingly.
As odd as it seems, I still have trouble imagining any real person reads this BBS.
I sometimes wonder if all the posters here are not just different personalities that write on the board while the Iggy and Guillaume personae are asleep.
At least the therapy managed to get us rid of the HazZan personality.
As for Hokuto no Ken, I just hate it because it's an awful tribute to the original manga. I can't see it as a fighting game but a licensed game. And as a licensed game, it's terrible.
I thought they could do something near the level of Jojo, but instead we just had another franchise forced into a game that has nothing to do with the original product like we used to have 10 years ago. But at least those used contemporary franchises to cash on their fame.
I don't see the point to take an old franchise like this one if you don't like it in the first place.
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