Art of Fighting 3

[Anonymous No.4500050]

Wow, a 2D fighting game that plays like a 3D one! That's probably what they call a hidden gem!

Or not, it plays like shit.
Damn.

[Anonymous No.4500063]

AoF was always a sort of "cinematic" fighting game, main attraction were the bigass detailed sprites.
Fatal Fury is where it's at. Special has Ryo as unlockable and hidden final boss.

[Anonymous No.4500138]

>>4500063
It's not like the two first game at all. AoF2 is a very dynamic fighting game despite the huge sprites. It's fast and there's a nice input buffer so it feels pretty good.

AoF3 is... strange. There's strings, juggles, huge knockdowns with ground attacks, a counter button... It's more like Virtua Fighter than Street Fighter, it's very weird. The characters are incredibly well animated but they feel stiff.
I've been playing a bit more and some characters are way better than others. Ryo is so much more fun to play than Robert.

>Fatal Fury is where it's at. Special has Ryo as unlockable and hidden final boss.
They just had a challenge at Mikado to beat level 8 Ryo in Special, shit is insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBXzO6TwCks

[Anonymous No.4500163]

>>4500050
Too many fucking knockdowns in that game.

[Anonymous No.4500175]

>>4500050
I love the way it plays personally, but playing like a 3D title when its 2D can wear on you after a while. The Rumble Fish series was similar as it typically 3D mechanics but in a 2D title such as juggling, and grabs having huge priority. They're both still admirable as games, but admittedly flawed. At least Art of Fighting 3 has some of the best pixel art in existence.

[Anonymous No.4500294]

>>4500050

More like you play like shit. AoF3 is great.

[Anonymous No.4500340]

>>4500294
>AoF3 is great.
Said nobody ever.

[Anonymous No.4500497]

>>4500175
I enjoyed. Especially the stages.

[Anonymous No.4500506]

>>4500340

This. it's the worst game of an already bastard spin-off.

[Anonymous No.4500581]

> Buy a Neo Geo CD
> Buy AoF3
> Wait through the load times
> The characters are smaller because NG CD doesn't have enough RAM for full sized characters
> Paid $500 for a non-arcade perfect port where all the characters look like midgets because the backgrounds are the same size as the arcade

This WASN'T me thank god but I know there had to be a few hundred people who went through this bullshit.

Also, the original AoF port on SNES actually had scaling (characters get smaller when further apart) yet I don't think any other SNES port had this (I know the sam shodown port didn't). Why only this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8CuMFysN4

[Anonymous No.4500602]

>>4500581
I'll try the Neo CD version one day because it's the only one with endings for Sinclair and Wyler.

AoF looks and sound good. It's the only version with the complete ending too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHjB6MtcXQ
SNES AoF2 is just pitiful.

[Anonymous No.4500610]

>>4500602
I didn't even know AoF2 came out on SNES, I checked a video and wow it was pretty shitty looking and looked like it was clunky

[Anonymous No.4500638]

>>4500581
>NG CD doesn't have enough RAM for full sized characters
Doesn't it have more?

[Anonymous No.4500653]

>>4500602
The SNES version had a much better soundtrack than the original imo.

neo geo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d086Bs0m_4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeSKasbRT24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ZR_DvEXBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_m61NZj94

snes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQQZwuST_PQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TkANl0GELM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaOGFNeFXkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SqPDXtm7Hc

[Anonymous No.4500693]

>>4500638
It does but not enough to hold all of the full-size character sprites in memory at once, regular NG doesn't have a lot of RAM but it's able to load data from the cart fast enough that loading a large sprite and throwing it away just to load it again a second later is no issue whereas that's not feasible on a CD system

[Anonymous No.4501105]

>>4500610
That's cause Takara did the AoF port but not AoF2 port and it showed.

[Anonymous No.4501109]

>>4500340

Except I said it. Right there. Do pay attention. Im sorry you have shit taste.

[Anonymous No.4501501]

>>4500163
It doesn't even make any sense visually. Attacks that look like normal pokes in any other fighting game will cause hard knockdowns in this one. It's fucking maddening.

[Anonymous No.4501505]

>>4501109
AoF3 is horrible dude, they killed off everything that was good about the series and didn't even bring fan favorite characters back. Not even playable Yuri, that's unforgivable.

[Anonymous No.4501512]

>>4500050
AoF is a terrible fucking all style and no substance series like everything else SNK has put out on the Neo Geo

[Anonymous No.4501523]

>>4501505
>Not even playable Yuri, that's unforgivable.
Yeah, what was the deal with that? She even got her own sprite and role in the story.
A lot in this games seems unfinished or plainly poorly thought-out.

[Anonymous No.4502952]

>>4500653
based on your links, I'd have to disagree.

[Anonymous No.4502987]

>>4500050
Art of Fighting 3. SNK’a love letter to all their valuable South America customers.

I love this game, but players at the time punished this game for the same reasons they punished Garou: Motw and SF III, all new cast.

[Anonymous No.4503097]

>>4502987
Not only an all new cast but they left out fan favorites like Yuri and Eiji from AoF2.

[Anonymous No.4503103]

>>4503097
>>4501523
>MUH YURI

Oh boo hoo. Just go play every KOF game ever. Yuri's a bitch anyways

[Anonymous No.4503117]

>>4503103
>being this mad
Did something crawl up your ass and die?

[Anonymous No.4503124]

>>4500050
amazing looking game with great music, but i agree it plays like shit unfortunately

[Anonymous No.4503127]

>>4503124
They tried being too fancy by rotoscoping the sprites. This resulted in more realistic movements and fights but the gameplay suffered.

[Anonymous No.4503135]

>>4503117
>le mad

You're the one whining your shit not in a game like it's the end of the world

[Anonymous No.4503137]

>>4503127
Some moves have so much build up or recovery frames they're basically useless.

[Anonymous No.4503142]

>>4503127
SFIII also used rotoscoping though it didn't suffer as much.

[Anonymous No.4503147]

>>4503135
All I did was pont out that Yuri was not in the game. If ponting out the facts is considered whining to you then you need help.

I'm willing to listen to your problems and let you vent. Now, who hurt you?

[Anonymous No.4503162]

>>4503135
The only one whining here is you. Go fuck off somewhere else if you can't stand people discussing about things you don't like.
Honestly I fucking hate shitposters like you who act like a gigantic bitch all of sudden and get mad when they're called on their shit.

[Anonymous No.4503182]

>>4500653
Why the melodies were so different on the SNES port?, they had worse instrumentation, but the melody structure actually sounded more memorable.

But then again, most of the SNK ports on SNES were dogshit.

[Anonymous No.4503187]

>>4503182
The best adaptations were the Game Boy Takara games in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.4503221]

>>4503182
Mr Big's theme sounds like early 90's new jack swing. Much better than his Neo Geo theme imo.

[Anonymous No.4503231]

>>4500653
this, SNES AoF had fuckin amazing music

[Anonymous No.4503260]

>>4503221
His theme was so good, the whole thing wasn't put on the cartridge. Like Frog's theme from Chrono Trigger, there's more than just the version heard on the SNES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIOV-DY4fzs

[Anonymous No.4503580]

>>4500138
This is stressful to watch holy shit. SNK why?

[Anonymous No.4503625]

>>4503127
>realistic movement
Looks like cheap Flash animation at some points.