Baraka407 Wrote:
No offense taken, Temp. I post regularly over at the Double Helix board and I've seen more than a few people wishing that DH had kept the style/concepts from the previous games. People that don't like DH creating differing playstyles for characters, removing moves from characters, making Glacius in to a zoning character, changing their looks etc.
There's a key difference though. Some people don't like these things because they would've preferred to have seen something different done or would've made different choices on how to update/change certain aspects.
Then there are the people that are angry because things are being done that aren't "faithful" to the original games.
You might think that I'm creating a straw man here, but I'm specifically speaking to the latter group of people that literally want the 1995 game with updated graphics, and that group does exist.
Of course, not everyone's going to like what DH does and simply would've preferred a different style choice or a different look or whatever and I agree, that doesn't imply that they simply want the 1995 game with prettier graphics.
But I'm honestly not talking about those people. Heck, I don't like every change that they've made and unless you're totally drunk on the kool aid, I'm sure that any fan of the originals can find at least one or two things that they'd change about this game.
I personally don't like the street fighter font style or that Sabrewulf and Chief Thunder had to sacrifice their projectiles for the sake of fitting their archtype. I understand the sacrifice, I just don't like it.
My apologies if implied that people not completely on board with every choice of this game are just people that want it to be 1995 again. I didn't mean that at all. I was addressing a very specific group of people that can't stand the idea of any changes being made from KI or KI2 not because they would've done something different, but because of the mere fact that they are changes at all.
For the most part, it sounds like we see eye to eye on the game. I haven't visited the Double Helix boards, but if there are people on the DH boards who are entirely against change on principle, then I retract my original statement. My focus has been mainly on Eventhubs and SRK, and if there are purists to that extent on those sites, I haven't seen them.
But even though I misinterpreted your statement, I knew you didn't write it out maliciously. You've never been one to condescend. And as butthurt as I am about Glacius, I still have his render as my wallpaper (on phone and desktop).
SmokeNc-017 Wrote:
If it's a brand new character, it's already better designed than the three we got in KI2.
Agreed, but Kim Wu or not, why cover up the face? Having a visible human face at all would have made this character far more unique among the current cast. Fulgore and Spinal have no faces, Glacius doesn't have a human face, and Jago's face is covered. Chief Thunder has a face, but it's all covered in shit (which looks cool, but still).
And if it is Kim Wu, it seems like even more of a lost opportunity, cause honestly, she didn't have many distinguishing features beyond her hair and her color scheme. Right now, this new character's head looks like something I could make in Soul Calibur 3's create-a-character mode.
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