/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6095739]

Why is KoF 2002 so popular? I know this franchise is popular with south americans, but why this game in particular?

[Anonymous No.6095746]

>>6095739
It's fast, has a large cast, and the engine is solid.

Not my personal favorite but I'll throw down in it anytime.

[Anonymous No.6095747]

Its a good game, has a lot of characters, the input window is long, it's easily emulatable

t. Cuban

[Anonymous No.6095790]

>>6095739
It's basically the second Dream match and '99-'01 all had various failings which 02 picked the best bits. Like '98.

[Anonymous No.6095805]

I remember going to the only arcade center I had access to, which was around the very center of my city. At first I would hang out there early, but as I became older, I started getting until very late, the place itself closed at like 5 AM, so you could really stay there the whole night.
Anyway, I remember playing KOF 2002 with probably over a hundred different people as I was there. I remember every friday this group of criminal-looking thugs would gather around and play the game, they were pretty good as it seems they were also huge 98 players. People you'd never expect to see playing around with anime girls, but here they were, and they were older, like 25+, 30+.
Then there were girls too, a lot of cute ones who were good players. A lot of them dated other guys who were also good players. tfw I never got a kof gf, but I remember the gf of one of the guys I think liked me, or so I believe.
Anyway, 2002 means a lot to me, it's a whole epoch of my life.

[Anonymous No.6095810]

Why is Last Blade 2 so unpopular on Fightcade? Averages around 5 people at peak. I think it's SNK's best fighting game overall.

[Anonymous No.6095813]

>>6095810

probably because its somewhat slowly paced and has a small cast of characters, but I'm not sure. I love that game

[Anonymous No.6095825]

>>6095810
fightcade sucks for anything that isn't jojo, 3s or kof98/2k2

[Anonymous No.6095883]

>>6095805
what country?

[Anonymous No.6095921]

>>6095739
It's a broken unbalanced game with various ways to be a cheap fuck, thus the popularity between south americans. Same deal with '97 and the chinks.

[Anonymous No.6095923]

>>6095921
What about Ultimate Match?

[Anonymous No.6095937]

>>6095739
>2002
>retro

[Anonymous No.6095991]

>>6095937
All KoF games up to 2003 were for the OG Neo Geo cabinet you retarded piece of shit

[Anonymous No.6095992]

>>6095747
Didn't KoF 2k2 have a PC version that was based on the Dreamcast port? I'd imagine that would've run even better than emulation, but you can never know with those weird Japanese PC ports.

[Anonymous No.6095994]

>>6095992
Oh wait, i'm confusing it with kof 99, my bad.

[Anonymous No.6096098]

>popular with South Americans
>game features overly effeminate males
Makes sense

[Anonymous No.6096101]

>>6095739
It's basically 98 but bigger.

[Anonymous No.6096106]

>>6095810
It doesn't have the recognizability of KoF sadly. As a SamSho fan I know how you feel, SSII has decent numbers but SSV:S usually has five or so people at best on most days.
>>6095923
Not him but people only play 02UM, no one playing vanilla 02. It's like how no one touches 98UM, only vaanilla 98.
>>6096101
Nah, 02UM is a much more technical game overall which makes it much harder to break into then 98.

[Anonymous No.6096120]

>>6096106
>02UM is a much more technical game

Yeah, nobody cares. You know what most fans see? THIS GAME HAS FUCKING EVERYBODY! IMMA PLAY IT. And then they mash and have fun and call each other broken ass insults in spanish.

[Anonymous No.6096143]

>>6095739
I got into KOF because they'd come out and almost immediately be playable in NeorageX. 2002 just has a huge roster and all the characters I like in it, 2003 added faggots and anything earlier was either Korean shit or didn't have the Nests Saga people.

[Anonymous No.6096192]

>>6096120
Then why is 98 more active on fightcade retard?

[Anonymous No.6096365]

>>6095739
If compared to '98:
>more waifus
>more lenient inputs
>more combos
>longer combos
>faster

[Anonymous No.6096382]

>>6095739
Original 2002 - no idea.
2002 UM is pretty fucking good though.

[Anonymous No.6096396]

>faster
>more characters
>awesome combos
>those goddamn hit sounds, gets me everytime

[Anonymous No.6096409]

Lots of characters
Its fast
Its broken

If anything why it isnt popular with amerimutts and chinks which is the weird thing. Guess you people really value your shit ass slugfests. You like basebore after all.

[Anonymous No.6096450]

>>6095739
basically just roster size
i started with 2002 myself and later moved to 98

>>6095810
it looks/sounds great but not the best to play at high level
no one wants to play randoms and get hit with a normally banned infinite

[Anonymous No.6096451]

>>6096192
Because it's superior

[Anonymous No.6096513]

>>6095739
>balanced gameplay
>more combos
>forgiving inputs
>great rooster

It's a great game.

[Anonymous No.6096541]

>>6096513
>great rooster

[Anonymous No.6096919]

>>6096513
>balanced gameplay
if anything, it's a broken mess and that's why the playerbase likes the game

[Anonymous No.6096994]

>>6096919
>one unplayable character
>broken

nope

[Anonymous No.6097028]

>>6096513
No mate, 2003 has a great rooster

[Anonymous No.6097035]

>>6095739
It has great physics, big roster, cool sound effects. Learning curve is infinite, you can play it since launch and still learn stuff and get better at it.
That ost tho, I got PTSD from a friend that played it on his laptop 24/7 some years ago.

[Anonymous No.6097040]

King of Faggots is SNK's shittiest fighting game series, and flies are attracted to shit.

[Anonymous No.6097184]

>>6096106
>not him but people only play 02UM
Where? Vanilla 02 is one of the most populated games in Fightcade at all times, and nobody plays ports of old SNK games.

[Anonymous No.6098027]

>>6096396
og98 has more characters.

[Anonymous No.6098028]

>>6096513
>who are Angel and May Lee
02 has worse neutral than 98

[Anonymous No.6098170]

>>6097028
>2003
>unplayable roster
>awful physics
>annoying soundtrack
>awful animations

It's a bad game,,,

[Anonymous No.6098251]

>>6098170
As I said, 2003 has a great rooster

[Anonymous No.6098329]

Because it's king of fighters 98 part 2 without team USA and team Orochi

[Anonymous No.6098331]

Because it's king of fighters 98 part 2 without team USA.

[Anonymous No.6098384]

2002 roster is basically rehashes and whatever scraps of characters that didn't make the cut in previous games. 2003 roster is superior in every way

[Anonymous No.6100040]

>>6095739
It's a tie between KoF: 2002 UM and XIII as the best KoF game.

98' was the first really good one but FFI isn't everyones' favourite FF, right?

[Anonymous No.6100242]

>>6095739
I ask the same. The game is a mess.
T. Latino

[Anonymous No.6100274]

>>6100040
I simply can't stand the way anyone looks in XIII to the point that I barely touched it. I like '02UM but '98 will probably always be my favorite now which I actually find rather saddening.

I still hold hope for the future.

[Anonymous No.6100459]

>>6100274
Same. Characters like Ralf look awful in XIII. Look at how good this edit looks compared to the ingame sprite, it's ridiculous how much better it looks.

[Anonymous No.6100594]

peak kof was xi

[Anonymous No.6100636]

>>6100040
'98 isn't even close as the FF1 equivalent of KOF. That'd be '94.

[Anonymous No.6100641]

>>6100594
No, rushdown was too good and zoning got nerfed to the ground. Jump-ins had too much hitstun, they didn't even have to be deep to be combo-able. Incoming mixups are stupid. KGO was stupid. Stages looked dull.

[Anonymous No.6101306]

>>6100641
why was gato considered so good? couldn't his super guard crush very easily?

[Anonymous No.6101353]

I spent a decent chunk of my childhood in Mexico and all I know is KoF02 was indeed extremely popular. Seemingly every other mini super had a MAME machine and all anyone would ever play would be hacks of KoF02 that let you play as Rugal (which everyone did) or Metal Slug.

[Anonymous No.6102421]

>>6100459
It's still pretty damn ugly though.

[Anonymous No.6102439]

>>6102421
It's still gotta look like Ralf at the end.

[Anonymous No.6102447]

Dunno about 2002(is it like dream mach???) but KOF95 and 98 were huge deal in my local arcade.
There were literally lines to play it and it was usually the loser who pays for the coin.

[Anonymous No.6102453]

>>6095739
So we all know the dream matches are probably the most polished, and they certainly have the biggest collection of characters, but what is the best yearly game in each of the sagas, and is there a case where you prefer them to the dream matches?

For me:
97
99
XI

And I like 97 a little better than 98.

[Anonymous No.6102469]

>>6102439
It's still very cartoony looking which I don't think suits KoF.

[Anonymous No.6102470]

>>6102453
I like the backgrounds in 99 but dislike almost everything else. That's the year where it feels like everyone just kinda sucks.

[Anonymous No.6102547]

>>6095937

Came out on the NeoGeo AES, which is a 4th gen console. Its retro.

[Anonymous No.6103251]

>>6102547
It's also on Dreamcast.