[quote name='y2kenjination']Not what I read. I've been hearing it's going to be 2.5D with cel shading (think Rumble Fish). However, SNK has yet to reveal any official details about KOFXII so this is all speculation.[/QUOTE]
Ya know, the term "2.5D" just breeds confusion, because it's used to refer to many very different things. "2.5D" has been used to refer to games which have 2D characters moving along all three axises in 3D environments (such as Paper Mario), games with real-time 3D backgrounds sitting behind 2D characters moving along just 2 planes (like The Rumble Fish, which, by the way, doesn't use sprites of the characters, but rather sprites of their body segments, which are attached at the joints and rotated around each other to form animations; either way, they aren't "cel-shaded," because the sprite segments are hand-drawn, while cel-shading is strictly a 3D graphics rendering technique), games with fully 3D graphics but strictly 2D gameplay (like Klonoa 2 or Viewtiful Joe), and even isometric games like SimCity 2000, 3000, or 4.
The only word so far on what KOF XII will look like comes from Yoshihito Koyama, who very specifically described it as "a 3D fighter that is shaded to look 2D." It sounds a hell of a lot more like he's describing a fully-3D graphics game with cel-shading, than a game with 3D backgrounds and sprite characters sitting in front of them. The language is clear: all shading techniquess aside, KOF XII will have fully 3D graphics, one way or another.
Just like the "SF IV in 2D" people, the KOF XII 2D diehards are just setting themselves up for disappointment. I'd like it to be 2D as well, but I'm not going to allow to naivety let me wind up massively disappointed.
Of course it's possible that Koyama was misinterpreted, but again, there's no reason to set one's self up for the potential disappointment.
[quote name='Rodimus Donut']KOF 12 is still going to play like a 2D fighter, that's not changing.[/QUOTE]
Where did I say anything about how KOF XII will play? And yeah, I'd bet my ass it'll play strictly 2D, but to note, they haven't
actually overtly confirmed that.
