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NeoGeo Battle Colliseum
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Apparently this comes out soon for the PS2. Some big ol' collection of a bunch of the Neo Geo fighting game characters all whacking it out in 2-D. Anyone heard anything about it? I've never played a Neo Geo fighter but I have some bizzare affection towards 2-D fighters with tons of characters even tho I suck heroically at them.
Here's some info shamelssly stolen from Wickipedia:
The game system of the arcade NGBC, as previously mentioned, is a 2 vs 2 tag battle, regardless to how many players are playing. While the 2-player game system is similar to most tag-team systems of other games, the single player system is unusual.
The game's single play is more like a survival battle, where the player must beat enemies after enemies as long as possible. However, the game gives the player 300 seconds, and when time-out occurs, instead of win or lose, the player will face the boss (depending on how well they perform). Only at this point of time is when time out will determine the victor.
During a single-play, the rule is to defeat ANY member of the team, not both team members. That is, unlike most tag-team systems, but similar to Kizuna Encounter or Tekken Tag Tournament, where all opposition must be beaten in order to win, in NGBC, the player only needs to beat up one member of the team to win, without the need to fight the other member if the former is defeated.
The survival battles are divided into rounds of 3 battles, and after a player manages to clear 3 opponent teams, they are given a chance to use one of the three game services provided:
The first is to gain more time. Extra time helps the player to beat more teams, which is so because the game records the number of teams defeated in the hi-score table.
The second is to gain full power gauge. This is simply to blow the opposition away as soon as the next battle starts.
The third is adding more life. Self-explanatory, especially due to the winning condition mentioned earlier.
The Characters
From The King of Fighters:
Kyo Kusanagi(in his NESTs saga outfit)
Iori Yagami
K'
Shermie
Mizuchi (a clone of KOF 97's Orochi)
From Fatal Fury:
Geese Howard
Mai Shiranui
Kim Kaphwan
Jin Chonshu
Jin Chonrei
Tung Fu Rue
From Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Terry Bogard
Rock Howard
Hotaru Futaba
From Art of Fighting:
Robert Garcia
Lee Pai Long
Mr. Big
From Samurai Shodown:
Haohmaru
Genjuro Kibagami
Nakoruru
Shiki
Asura
From World Heroes:
Hanzo
Fuuma
Mudman
Neo Dio
From Metal Slug:
Marco Rossi
Mars People
From The Last Blade:
Kaede (in his Awakened form)
Moriya Minakata
Akari Ichijou
Keiichiro Washizuka
From Athena:
Athena
From King of the Monsters:
Cyber Woo
From Aggressors of Dark Kombat:
Kisarah Westfield
From Buriki One:
Ryo Sakazaki as Mr. Karate
From Kizuna Encounter:
King Lion/Shishioh
Original Characters:
Yuki
Ai
The Bosses
Mizuchi: A clone of Orochi created by WAREZ.
Neo Dio: An alien form, boss from World Heroes.
King Lion/Shin Shishioh: The boss version of King Lion/Shishioh from Savage Reign and Kizuna Encounter.
Goodman: The real final boss of NGBC. He uses a flaming whip both as a weapon, and to command a fire-like gorilla spirit (called Saru Ou, or Gorilla King) in a manner similar to an animal tamer. Interestingly enough, he looks very similar to Igniz, end boss of The King of Fighters 2001.
Too little King of Monsters as far as I'm concerned.
Intro for the PS2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8HF5Pn75ac&mode=related&search=
A movie full of character combos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvfHBlnceQM&mode=related&search=
Thoughts? Comments?
Here's some info shamelssly stolen from Wickipedia:
The game system of the arcade NGBC, as previously mentioned, is a 2 vs 2 tag battle, regardless to how many players are playing. While the 2-player game system is similar to most tag-team systems of other games, the single player system is unusual.
The game's single play is more like a survival battle, where the player must beat enemies after enemies as long as possible. However, the game gives the player 300 seconds, and when time-out occurs, instead of win or lose, the player will face the boss (depending on how well they perform). Only at this point of time is when time out will determine the victor.
During a single-play, the rule is to defeat ANY member of the team, not both team members. That is, unlike most tag-team systems, but similar to Kizuna Encounter or Tekken Tag Tournament, where all opposition must be beaten in order to win, in NGBC, the player only needs to beat up one member of the team to win, without the need to fight the other member if the former is defeated.
The survival battles are divided into rounds of 3 battles, and after a player manages to clear 3 opponent teams, they are given a chance to use one of the three game services provided:
The first is to gain more time. Extra time helps the player to beat more teams, which is so because the game records the number of teams defeated in the hi-score table.
The second is to gain full power gauge. This is simply to blow the opposition away as soon as the next battle starts.
The third is adding more life. Self-explanatory, especially due to the winning condition mentioned earlier.
The Characters
From The King of Fighters:
Kyo Kusanagi(in his NESTs saga outfit)
Iori Yagami
K'
Shermie
Mizuchi (a clone of KOF 97's Orochi)
From Fatal Fury:
Geese Howard
Mai Shiranui
Kim Kaphwan
Jin Chonshu
Jin Chonrei
Tung Fu Rue
From Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Terry Bogard
Rock Howard
Hotaru Futaba
From Art of Fighting:
Robert Garcia
Lee Pai Long
Mr. Big
From Samurai Shodown:
Haohmaru
Genjuro Kibagami
Nakoruru
Shiki
Asura
From World Heroes:
Hanzo
Fuuma
Mudman
Neo Dio
From Metal Slug:
Marco Rossi
Mars People
From The Last Blade:
Kaede (in his Awakened form)
Moriya Minakata
Akari Ichijou
Keiichiro Washizuka
From Athena:
Athena
From King of the Monsters:
Cyber Woo
From Aggressors of Dark Kombat:
Kisarah Westfield
From Buriki One:
Ryo Sakazaki as Mr. Karate
From Kizuna Encounter:
King Lion/Shishioh
Original Characters:
Yuki
Ai
The Bosses
Mizuchi: A clone of Orochi created by WAREZ.
Neo Dio: An alien form, boss from World Heroes.
King Lion/Shin Shishioh: The boss version of King Lion/Shishioh from Savage Reign and Kizuna Encounter.
Goodman: The real final boss of NGBC. He uses a flaming whip both as a weapon, and to command a fire-like gorilla spirit (called Saru Ou, or Gorilla King) in a manner similar to an animal tamer. Interestingly enough, he looks very similar to Igniz, end boss of The King of Fighters 2001.
Too little King of Monsters as far as I'm concerned.
Intro for the PS2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8HF5Pn75ac&mode=related&search=
A movie full of character combos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvfHBlnceQM&mode=related&search=
Thoughts? Comments?
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Not as excited as I am about KoF XI, but at $20 there's no way I'm missing this.
EDIT: In fact I think I'll go make a KoF XI thread.
After dinner, that is.
Final Fantasy XI -> Carbuncle - Samash
KoF XI is actually supposed to come out first isn't it?
According to Amazon, KoF XI comes out Oct. 23, and NGBC comes out Nov. 13.
Is this necessary in every motherfucking thread?
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Cool, that's what I thought, just haven't checked recently. Definitely looking forward to both of these.
Only the ones not about Wii games . . .:P
And Athena. Holy crap, I thought I was the only one who played that.
So can anyone describe which games the hidden characters are from?
Edit: Hang on, cyber woo IS that ape, isn't he? I'm stupid.
Nuff said?
They are all in King of Fighters. Joe, Mary and Andy are originally from Fatal Fury, while Ralf & Clark are from Ikari Warriors. The rest are original characters. The secret characters are KoF exclusive as well, though K9999 is a "tribute" to Tetsuo from Akira.
You know, this game has been off my, and everyone else's, radar ever since it was announced. I'm a huge SNK fighter connoisseur, but I know very little about it. It's rarely discussed, and I really haven't encountered many people who have actually played it. I attribute this to the fact that no one has played it in the arcade, and that it has only been out in Europe/Japan thus far.
The game has a fuckton of characters, so I don't know why it hasn't gained much exposure, even among the hardcore fighting community. I guess you could attribute it to the game being shit, but I haven't heard any significant criticism against it. Mreh, I guess I should pick it up. It's been out in Europe for forever, and it's only like $20.
They had this game in Einstein's for quite a while, back when it was new. Not any more though.
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Ah, don't worry about chasm. He's just bitter about the amount of posts about the Wii in the Bionic Commando thread.
Yeah, I think it came out today or yesterday for the Wii. It's on the PS2 as well.
SNK has said in the past that they plan on supporting the Wii, and that the other two systems cost too much and/or have too small of installed bases for them to publish something for at this time; they're planning on putting stuff out for the 360/ps3 in 2009 iirc.
SNK's main market right now is on the PS2 though. It just makes sense for them to put their fighters on it right now.
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Are you talking disk games? Or all around? Because the 360 just got Fatal Fury Special recently, and I believe we're getting a couple Metal Slugs really soon as well.
It kinda is since this is PS2 only and the PS2 is (supposedly) dying and the PS3 is losing BC. Were this to be released on a current generation platform it would have to be the Wii because it doesn't meet the PS3 and 360 HD requirements.
So it's more along the lines of "Any chance of a port to a not-depreciated system?"
What was the price tag on this game again, i feel it is my civic duty to buy all 2d fighters.
If you guys want to see some high level NGBC matches from the best players in the US (possibly the world, as US and Japan have never played each other in this game), check out these Youtube channels:
http://youtube.com/cjnstrike
http://youtube.com/sieclayton
Also some KoF XI videos on there for you guys to check out.
EDIT: I picked up both NGBC and KoF XI for $10 each in Best Buy's clearance bin 2 days after their release.
Hey, that's what I did AND that's when I got them! We're synched up, you and me. O_o
I played both of these at the arcades, though, so I partially did my part.
It's just that I don't have a lot of time, and I feel like it's a pretty big commitment to really dig deep into good 2D fighters and get the most out of them.
But really, there are no excuses.
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Haha, crazy. I ordered God Hand too, plus I have the bitter play through of No More Heroes to do so I'm drowning in awesome games.
I've played some more and am enjoying it. I like how the game plays fairly differently from KoFXI. I was afraid they'd be too much alike due to coming out close together and sharing a bunch of characters. I know it doesn't really matter that much, but I'm a bit disappointed in the endings for characters in NGBC. Its just text that scrolls too quickly and is hard to read. KoFXI has really groovy kinda-animated endings.
But where it counts, the gameplay, it's ace. Marco and Mudman are awesome.
God I suck at these games. The only combo I can pull off is a jump kick. I don't even know what a combo is much less how to do one. The only special moves I can do is fireball+punch which will usually do SOMETHING with whoever I'm using.
I tried KOFXI last night too and it's REALLY groovy. The characters are all so normal looking; it's really weird. I did REALLY well with Kula, I think I actually managed to get a combo a few times.
But, christ, these SNK bosses are mega-cheap. They just spam projectiles constantly. It's more game to actually GET UP TO THEM then it is to actually hit them.
Kula is S-tier in XI. Kula, Gato, Oswald is basically the highest tier team in the game.
Here is a match that shows some of what Athena can do at a high level:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BwNn0P36YfU&feature=related
I assume you haven't played too many SNK fighters before. Welcome to the wonderful world of SNK bosses. Please bend over.
This is my first, actually.
OWCH MY ASS
The guy at the end of KOFXI was even worse. I eventually beat him with the reduced health "cheat" and the big vulture headed dude spamming suplexes. He still beat Vulture Head but then the rubbery guy in the bathrobe eventually hit him since he was at about 1 health. Took me about 7 tries tho.
I really need to learn their names.
Where is the other boss? I beat Mizuchi and the game ended.
edit: Hioly shit, there's 3 other bosses. Are any of them unlockable to play? Hopefully powered way way down?