King of Fighters XIII - General Discussion

[Don Vecta]

So, yeah, general rambling here. Mind you, keep wishlisting, speculation and other retarded shit in the other thread.

[FighterBoy]

Does Ash die ? ? ? ? ? ?

Noooooo!!!!

P.S.: I'm scared with the Ruins of the Stadium.. 

[Tizoc]

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Hey I'm just sayin; if a fictional manly character can have a real life funeral, fictional flowers can be dedicated to a fictional character.
...and it's possible one of SNK's people went to that funeral, I know I would

Anyone got any word/rumors on a console release?
Speaking of which, is there a mag or site in China that follows arcade games progress and such?

[Don Vecta]

Should be, but since I don't understand jack I really dunno.

Okay, let's recap some of the highlights from the most recent news or discoveries.

More Story Mode Pictures
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Source: http://www.imnextonline.com/2010/07/14/kofxiii-arcade-single-player-mode-videos/#more-711

mbisonhatclub- As you've requested, here's a quick sampling of player's voices.

-The game's touch, its "rythm" (sic), is so different from past KOFs, it shouldn't carry the franchise's name
-The tragedy that was XII has ended
-The game's speed is slow but it's probably going to still end up unbalanced with insta-death combos like all other KOFs
-As usual, Kim is broken
-The game's taken the same path as SF4 and returned to its roots
-Simple, stressless. Not the crap that XII was.
-The rom-only set is cheap
-People stop coming in when you're using the K' team
-My favorite characters are like, so different from before
-This isn't the KOF that I remember. The last boss is so butt naked
-The Ikari team has got a serious case of metabolic syndrome
-K', Ash, Liz, Duolong. Top tiers.
-Hey you can rip the girls again. But the boss is more damn nude
-Everyone's using the old characters.. but at least the old players are coming back

More Final Boss Pictures

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Note: the other pictures are posted sideways.

[Dody]

Dont know where to post this. Ladies and Gentlement, here's our famous naked villains and Ash in shadow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqISeeC_oA

So Dark Ash actually just a powered-up of Ash with shadow. And from his performance, looks like he won't be playable in Arcade and will be banned even if he's playable in console.

Still wonder whether there's normal Saiki for playable or not???

[GTKheirro]

Thank you Dody that was fast 
@ sugarboy: i thank you for your hard work to provide us with informations about KOF XIII

[Solid Snake]

Ugh,so the actual last boss is Dark Ash and not Naked Saiki?That was...unexpected lol
I guess normal Saiki is the mid boss than?

[Eddie]

So, Saiki share some of Ash's moves in all it's nekkedness.

And Dark-Ash is pretty much an overpowered Mugen pallete swap done by a fanboy.

Hmm, something tells me Ash haters are gonna hate him even more when they face Dark-Ash.

Thanks for sharing the vids Dody.

[Don Vecta]

We're still yet to see him in action, though...

[Dody]

We're still yet to see him in action, though...

Normal Saiki??? Or another..............................

Ah well, KOF XIII are really thrilled me.

[Solid Snake]

Also from the video it seems that Dark Ash can do Normal's Ash NeoMax with only 1 super bar!And the stage you fight him is kinda annoying 

[GTKheirro]

Is Dark Ash's color is solid black or my eyes decived me ?

[Solid Snake]

Yeah...it seems like that.I think we have seen dark Ash transformation in the first promo video,when he puts that black flame into himself and becomes all black,so yeah i think he is entirely black with dark aura too...,still they should have changed his stance

[affinity]

(Boss1) Saiki Boss =  One of the coolest bosses EVER!!!!!!!   The background is one of the most epic too!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They better make him playable in home version, even if they have to add a anti-boss filter as default for online rooms for those who won't wanna fight them.

Saiki transformed > Orochi > Goenitz > Igniz > Krizalid > Rugal > Magaki > Zero
in coolness and pure epicness in presentation and style.

(Boss2) Dark Ash is pretty epic too, especially with the background like that.  
Also if you notice in the portrait Victory screen, Ash still has light skin, but his clothes are black, and during battle, his aura is so black that it makes it seem like he's entirely colored black.  

They really did a great job even though its a shame almost all of the Those from the Past members were put to waste.   (But I still think they will be playable in Home version.)


But I wonder who is the Mid-Boss everyone was talking about?  

[Don Vecta]

lol, the Naked Saiki, even with his manly guttural voice still has the flaming motion of normal Ash... so yeah, he's still as flamboyant as a foam party with Pete Burns and Boy George in a club in San Francisco.

Dark Ash it's EXACTLY normal Ash but in turbo and high priority attacks and quick frame recovery fb's. Nothing much under the sun with him.

Stage looks awesomely scary, though.