/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5887673
98

I'm partial to '99 which kinda sucks cause it's also probably the worst game.

>>5888120

>>5888125

I always prefered KOF94/95 backgrounds, because they were still doing weird things like spooky forests and foggy factories and stuff like Neo*Geo Land and eh.. a lot of it still had a lot of that FatalFury2/AOF2 feel to it with classic cameos and all.
after that a lot of the backgrounds became just standard gardens and plazas and street at night stuff.
the backgrounds certainly became more detailed, but for me lacked that SNK feel.

99, 2000, or 13

>>5887673
'99 unquestionably. Arguably the best stage backgrounds of any fighting game ever made.

>>5888140
I really did 97, it's the only one with the "world tournament" motif. BUT AMBIENT ONLY NO MUSIC OH WELL

2000.

>>5887673
99 and 03 for me

>>5887673
98 or 02

>>5889164
surprising you're the first person to say 03 too. I feel like that game never gets enough attention.

>>5889160
>BUT AMBIENT ONLY NO MUSIC

I remember when I bought a bunch of MVS cartridges from China in 2001, I was shocked and thought they had sold me a bad bootleg.
I remember asking someone on a forum if it was supposed to be this way, because I had never played KOF97 before.

>>5889223
>03

I'm surprised they managed to go back to nice looking backgrounds, I was losing hope after the horror that was 01 and the boring 02 ones.

>>5889250
2003 was a bit like a return to former glory in the backgrounds department. After the previous shit shows.

>>5889658
No fucking way, they still look monochromatic just like 2001. One of the levels is entirely puke green.

>>5888120
I'd love to see a behind the scenes for the making of these backgrounds.

>>5889250
01 and 02 weren't made by Playmore.
SNK kinda were bankrupt at that time.

>>5889682
This one? While it has little animation it looks really crisp

Was this because brown = real was going on?

>>5888140
Agree. KOF 95 has possibly the most "interesting" backgrounds of the whole series: the jazz bar, the factory at sunset, the Korea team refuge in the mountain, etc. And the intros are great too.

Kof 96, 98 and 99 ones are also good. The problem with 98 and 99 is the loss of a background for every team, as they opted to have generic backgrounds that, even if they were very well done, made the games lose a bit of character (as in SF4 and 5). Kof 97 had too many "tournament" backgrounds which were kind of uninteresting for the most part. Last, but not least, I hated the ambient tracks.

>>5890571
Visual direction evolves and matures as time goes on. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm glad we don't have bottom-right.

>>5890650
Is literally the same but with less color saturation, mate.

98 and 2002 are the best gameplay-wise.
But 97 wins by virtue of having the absolute best ending fights of any fighting game. Everything about the Orochi trio fight, and then Orochi himself is perfect.

>>5890667
It even says that(!), and because of that it feels different as a game. Changes need not be obtuse to differentiate.

>>5887673
94-95 /thread

>>5890921
man, the kof 94 stages really looked nice

>>5890921
This shitty meme needs to die

>>5888120
>>5888125
>>5888129

These are so gorgeous. 2000 is up there for me too.

>>5891163

>>5891138

I hear that, the Brazil stage had a fucking monkey walking around while you fought.
You just can't get any better than that.

>>5890571
>>5890650
I remember reading somewhere that the simpler, less gaudy backgrounds were an effort to make the characters stand out more but I never agreed with it a ton. When you're playing these stages hundreds or sometimes thousands of times it's nice to have a lot of little details to notice.

KoF's are good but Last Blade has the best stages

>>5892584

The SNK stages with the most SOUL belong to Fatal Fury

>>5892592
I'll chisel your gravestone sleep well

>>5892594
you were good, you fought well

>>5887673
I liked 97. I the whole TV Broadcast/World Tournament motif was really neat. Shame about the music.

>>5892592
YOU'RE PERFECT! I MET... MY MATCHHHH

Krauser is so cool

>>5892631

I love stages like these, really channel that old Fatal Fury 1 feel.
Such a shame that KOF slowly turned into a bishounen wiener party with soulless backgrounds.

>>5892625
You can get up by yourself

>>5892651
Huh?

>>5893205

Huh?