I've always associated Fulgore as sort of the "poster boy" for KI. He's in the attract mode, he's on the cut outs, he's on the game boxes. They pushed that character hard and it's been ingrained in my head that he's the sell character for KI.

Not really.

The first thing most people see when they look at an arcade cabinet is the front/actual game screen, not the sides.

And way more people played home console games than arcade games even when arcades were still alive, and I believe Fulgore's on the KI1 boxart.

I'm just going to stop here because if we're going to talk about what a person sees when they walk up to an Arcade Cabinet, we're not getting anywhere. At least 3 different people posted who they felt represented KI. Each one wasn't exactly the same. Clearly we all see KI a little differently. (With the exception of Fulgore being in all lists.)

And I'm well aware Fulgore was on the KI boxart. I never said he wasn't a poster boy. In my original post about them not having the "Poster boys" I said "At least they are in the first wave."

That clearly alluded to Fulgore, since he was confirmed to be in the first wave.

I just meant the guy on the box ain't Spinal.

Regardless of whether or not Spinal is all that important or popular, complaining that he wasn't built earlier so he'd be done at launch is a little bit petty considering at least he's a season 1 character.

Who the devs made first seems to have a lot more to do with playstyles and having one of each type that fighting games usually have than anything else. They made Balanced/Shotoclone Guy, Rushdown Guy, Keepaway Guy, Grappler Guy, and an Air-based character, THEN started worrying about fan favorites with inspecific playstyles.

As I recall, Spinal's gameplay was always kinda goofy, he had to build up those skull tokens to do his moves. That probably had a lot to do with why they saved building him till towards the end of season 1 development.

I always think of Sabrewulf, Fulgore, and Orchid.

As of this post, they are doing a KI livestream on the microsoftstudios twitch channel. They started with a look at Shadow Jago.


Live stream

VoD coming later.

Shadow Jago was shown off during tonights stream:


He looks like a cross between Zombie Liu Kang and Scorpion. He looks pretty badass. Right now he's just a re-skin but in the future they plan to give him his own move set.

Shadow Jago looks good though not really what I expected. Hella curious what his other colors are going to look like.

He only has two colors. This version and a lighter color with blondish hair and even lighter skintone. Apparently he will be his own character down the line with a different moveset, but right now he's really no more than just a re-skinned Jago. DH did say he has his own story though.
[edit]: Max has a new video up featuring him in his alternate color: Max - Shadow Jago reveal

Though I had a feeling that was the case, I hope they add colors when he gets his own moveset. I mean, I don't know how development-intensive adding colors is, but my philosophy is "why not?"

I'm sure there's going to be some guys who think that Shadow Jago will lose some of his charm if he's green or pink, and although I don't disagree with that, more is more to me (with few exceptions).

In Max's video he said they actually change his entire color palette and even gave him an entirely different audio recording for his character (which i was unaware of). I mean hopefully they some more darker color palettes for him. I think the reason he may be limited is because they are having trouble coming up with darker color palette for him. With a normal version, they're kind of free be more colorful and creative, but a "Shadow" character evokes a more darker and neutral color tone, which is kind of limiting.

I got an email saying,

"Thank you for your dedication to Xbox. We want to show
you our appreciation, so we're giving you:

KILLER INSTINCT

We've unlocked all characters so you can hit the ground running."


Friggin' awesome!

What did you do to get that? Did it just happen?

MS is running a promotion where they are giving away the $20 version of the game to loyal XBL members who have high gamerscores relative to how long they've been an XBL gold member.

I assume it has to do with gamerscore completion %, because I've been a member for 9-10 years with a gamerscore of 38,600+ (roughly a 19% completion rating on my game collection) and didn't get a code. Players who did get codes and have been members for this length of time have reported gamerscores of 80,000+. I've also seen players who have said they've only been XBL gold members a few years with a gamerscore of around 30,000.

What i find to be a bit BS about this is I've seen some people claim to have gotten codes and haven't had an active XBL gold membership for a few years, but they do have high gamerscores (100,000+).

Reviews are in. The consensus is the game's mechanics are solid and fun. The game lost points for lack of content and modes right now. Plus reviewers don't think the character design is as good as the older games (there still are classic costumes which haven't been shown off yet).

Pretty much what I was expecting. Gameplay is exactly what everyone who has played it has been saying for months. It's solid, fun and easy to get into. Lots of midn games with the combo breaker system and much more open than the previous games.

They should had shown classic costumes - it would've immediately calmed people bothered with new designs.

I'm not really looking forward to the game as much as the rest of you but it is certainly something I'd download when I get my xbox. If it is gamerscore relative I'd wonder if I'd get it although they reset my gamerscore when it hit 90,000 for no reason.

KI gets a tourney

Kind of stupid if you ask me. Most people haven't even had adequate practice since it happens a day BEFORE the launch of the console/game.

I've been meaning to post this, just never got around to it.

One of the locations is actually 20 mins from me and i was considering entering it. The thing is I found out over the weekend that a number of pro players from NY are actually going to be making out to the Burlington, MA event (the one i was planning on going to)

https://m.soundcloud.com/mickgordon/killer-instinct-2013-music-1
KI Suite: includes themes of Orchid, new KI theme, Glacius, Thunder, Sadira and Sabrewolf.

Going to the KI tournament in Houston. Wish me luck, guys.

The guy is amazing. Don't know how he managed to top the original soundtrack,but he did.



Good luck. There is a good chance I'll be at the Burlington, MA event myself.

I seriously can't wait for this Friday. I haven't been this excited for a fighting game in a long time.
[edit]: Quote from the US Gamer KI review:
"If the game had 24 characters, a Story mode, and was priced at $60, it would be a system seller for the Xbox One. Even as what is essentially an Xbox One Live Arcade game, Killer Instinct is one of the best titles for the Xbox One, and will only be improving as more characters are added. Do yourself a favor and at least try out the free version for an hour. It could be the best decision you make at launch."

Kind of defeats the whole "Equal footing" thing doesn't it?