>>738728341 Its clear that he wasnt happy with Bamcos management busting his nuts for over a decade when it comes to his projects. Saudis told him he will get creative freedom and money so he obviously went with that thats it lol.
>>738727880 >saudi dicksucker who got kicked out of bamco for flundering proper nintendo support for years This will LITERALLY end up like that notYakuza game that just go canceled after failing to find more 100 millions of funding to even make the game.
>>738727880 I can't tell if this is good or not. Snk has completely incompetent leadership and harada is a shitty game designer but maybe he's a better studio lead than snk has. I was going to say he'd never do something as retarded as penaldo but then I remembered negan
>>738728341 Tekken is a shitty fighting game and nobody at that studio knows anything about game design. Harada knows snk has better fundamentals and more potential if they hire some better artists.
>>738728104 That's most of them now and most jap artists worship money that's why they never defend their work against censorship because they don't care.
>>738729124 SNKniggas should be happy since Harada is the first actual human at SNK with actual talent to grace their doors in decades. Maybe SNK can actually produce something that people will actually give a fuck about, think is good, and play now.
>>738729559 You'd have to be retarded to hire Nagoshi now after he was going to go forty million over budget to maybe one day possibly finish his game.
>>738729984 He does make good games, he clearly just needs someone to hold his leash. Probably willing to let himself be recollared after murdering a studio
>>738729984 I mean, they probably already have a lot of shit done in that game already. It's probably worth the risk if they want the company to become more popular.
>>738728341 Harada hates Nintendo with all his soul and Bamco couldn’t afford to not publish their games on the Switch anymore so he had to leave Notice how after he left suddenly a lot of Switch ports got announced
>>738729552 Anything you can cope and say about Tekken is 1000000x worse for SNK. Nobody gives a shit about anything SNK. They've gained zero new fans in over 10 years. Every single game they've released since 2016 has had zero impact anywhere, and their latest game was in the Top 3 most embarrassing, devastating flop in Fighting Games. Really, I don't know how SNK fans even have the audacity keep trying to shit on anything else. Their company literally can't succeed no matter what, because they're so retarded and talentless. They can't even compete with niche Anime Fighters these days. The only reason they even still exist is because of dumb Brown dessert men with a lot of money.
10 years ago this would have been pretty exciting. But it's very hard to be interested in his next project after what Tekken 7 and Tekken 8 became. His "don't ask me for shit" persona gradually becoming more and more embarrassing as the games he was attached to became worse and more impossible to defend.
Maximilian Dood's response to this will be defining, given that he's a huge Resetera fag but he knows that badmouthing this project will likely leave a mark on his stay in the industry.
Too bad SNK can't release a good game to save their fucking lives nowadays. If it wasn't for Saudi blood money that studio would be dead in the water anyways and their IPs would be held by competent studios.
>>738730383 Bamco's anime division is the only one doing things right. Like, they are sitting on Gundam, the single greatest mecha franchise ever, and it had precisely 0 good videogames in its almost 50 year history. That should tell you all you should know about them.
>>738730439 Man in retrospect I really felt how bad things would get and picked the ideal jump off point as T7 season 1 ended. Absolute embarrassment of a product for its time and for the series as a whole.
>>738730260 truest take though with how far snk has fallen, anyone with even a semblance of talent can only improve snk, even if minimal af >>738730348 >may lee >not mai, but may lee idiot
>>738727880 >Virtua Fighter designer leaves Sega, goes to Namco to design Tekken >leaves after Tekken 2, a group of new guys take over the franchise >their number slowly dwindles down until only one man from that group is left, Harada >now Harada is leaving Namco to make a fighter for SNK
>>738730613 >they are sitting on Gundam, the single greatest mecha franchise ever, and it had precisely 0 good videogames in its almost 50 year history. They didn't get the right formula to profit, also, the mecha genre is not as popular as before, Armored Core is probably the most close to a proper mecha game, Also, Bamco didn't get proper budget to OPM to JC Staff for the season 3.
>>738727880 >Look up Harada'a works to see if he's made anything substantial besides Tekken recently that would warrant a new studio. >Shadow Labyrinth is a 2025 action-adventure game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is part of the Pac-Man series, WTF. Is this like a modern day Bomberman Zero lmao, can't believe no one has talked about this
>>738730613 I thought the Gundamn Overwatch clone was alright, but it had clear balance and map issues. Gameplay wise it was solid enough. Just needed Scamco to properly support it.
>>738730993 COTW is literally just EX to EX to EX combos over and over. Feinting + EX on block is also supremely positive. The stuff SNK makes now isn't any less unga and volatile than anything else out. Just way uglier.
>>738727880 SNK bros, we are so back! It’s going to SNK vs C*pcom all over again. Now we just need Sega to get back into the console business and all will be right with the world.
>>738730993 I can't wait until they add the next Final Fantasy protagonist to the game so he can fill the screen with eight billion particles every time he does a 1 jab (it activates his Omega state which gives him +15 frames on block for every attack)
>>738730940 AC6 is not Bamco, it's From knocking on Bamco's door and saying "hey we have game, publish game". It's not like they aren't making Gundam games. It consistently got vidya pretty much since its inception, like, the first one was in 1982 or something, just a couple years after the first anime. The problem is that none of them are good.
>>738730993 Look at this stupid faggot unaware that this is how current SNK games are too. A man who made a shitty game has moved to a company that makes shitty games.
>>738731359 >the fighting game company hired the guy that only every made fighting games in his life, but I don't think he will be involved with making fighting games
>>738731359 A new art of fighting (2d), samurai shodown (rpg) and metal slug (run and gun 2d) are being made, he's making a 3d fighting game. Could even be the new KoF
>>738727880 SNK has unlimited money but they're wasting it like retards simply just >do a 1v1 kof game (yes i know kof is supposed to be teams but fuck it, kof brand is stronger than ff) >modern graphics instead of ps2 one >great netcode and little to no bugs AT LAUNCH simple hope harada whips them into shape
>>738731609 They announced they are making a Samurai Shodown ARPG, so they want to make more things other than just fighting games now that they are expanding.
>>738731759 A new fighting game for someone that only made the fucking same asset flip fighter that uses animations from the fucking PS1 games to this day is something different.
>>738730993 >>738731348 >Producers come up with game design choices and mechanics Look up who is directing Tekken 8 and on what he worked on before. That's the reason why the game is like that, if you connect the dots (but you wont because you're clearly retarded).
>>738731117 i like it better than overwatch and marvel rivals, but it gets a lot of flak from being "not really a gundam game" also the director was mad obsessed on making an esports scene which is why he happily pulled the plug once he saw it wasn't working out
>>738731945 > How bad is Tekken currently? it's the worse modern fighting game by far, with no bright future ahead of it. It's only been downhill since Tekken 6 with shitty new chars and Murray leading the game design
>>738730949 I played this, it was directed by the director of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror and it's the first time he directed a game since that one came out in 2004. It's a unique brand of dogshit.
>>738732069 It's the director of these games who is ruining them. The guy who came up with Reversal Edge in SC6 also came up with the Heat System in T8.
>>738732186 SNK hurt me by completely botching the KOF franchise outside of Central/South America. I fucking LOVE KOF 98/02/UM and adore the old Fatal Fury titles. If SNK had half a brain, they'd re-release 02UM and 98FM on Steam with GGPO support. That shit does gangbusters and they're the #2 and #3 most played games on Fightcade with hundreds of people in the lobbies.
>>738731945 Season 1 was a cheap damage fest Season 2 was casino fest for everyone Season 3 is turning down most of the things (70% done), the content creators they still care about the franchise need to provide more feedback to praise the casuals and the competitive scene to the devs to keep the fix and think bigger for the next year.
>>738732349 Season 1 was a casino with no table games just slots and zero comps Season 2 was a casino with no table games just slots Season 3 is a casino with no table games but is bringing in video poker
>>738727880 I wonder if this is a Hideaki Itsuno DMC2 situation. SNK has been working on a new AOF/Buriki One game for a while, maybe development has not been going well and they got the best man for the job now that he's free
Realistically speaking, what could possibly come of this? The fighting game dev space signed off of doing 3D correctly something like 20 years ago. SF4, SF5, SF6, MK9, MKX, MK11, MK1, T6, T7, T8, Lethal League, Lethal League Blaze, and every anime fighter that doesn’t use 2D art do not warrant a purchase over an HD port of Dark Resurrection, VF5 R.E.V.O., or one of the pre-reboot DOA games or even Soul Calibur 6. We have Virtua Fighter 6 on the horizon, promising to be the best fighting game released since DR. What the hell could the replacement Tekken guy bring to the Fatal Fury team that would even matter at that point?
every time you hear about some game dev resigning a company is because they were pushed out. In Japan you don't get fired, you are sent to a banishment room where they give you minial work until you feel useless and can't take it anymore. In Japan you are expcted to work for the same company forever so if these fuckers are resigning on their own to join other companies then something is wrong, espcially if they are in big positions such as VC, directions, producer. Company board members probably tell them to leave the company.
It happaned to Kojima after MGSV when he left Konami to make kojima Productions. Probably happened with Hideaki Itsuno after Dragons Slopma 2 stlopped so he left Capcom to join LighSpeed Studio. Same with that Monkey Ball Yakuza goon wanna be who made Yakuza series but he left Sega and moved to China and now he is back to making Gang of Dragon under his studio, Nagoshi Studio Inc. When Harada announced he was resigning from Namco it was pretty obvious he was being pressured to resign from Namco because Tekken 8 was a flopslop.
>>738732809 Tekken 7 was not a casino. Sure we had armor moves that could defeat some pressure and the retarded cinematic rage arts, but you are out of your mind if you think the extreme pressure and rampant stance 50/50s existed in T7. For example, Heihachi had his classic mid/low waveu mixup pressure, but they could be read and if you were cracked in the moment you could react to the lows for parries. Now in Turd8, he has a free stance that gives him unreactable true 50/50s and can just loop it as soon as he gets oki.
>>738731980 0 fighting games are very niche and they are being held by old fans. Look that that LoL fighting game, it has a huge fanbase but nobody cares. Fightans are dead
>>738732321 >If SNK had half a brain, they'd re-release 02UM and 98FM on Steam with GGPO support. That shit does gangbusters and they're the #2 and #3 most played games on Fightcade with hundreds of people in the lobbies.
>>738733021 >He doesn't remember the leroy fest from Evo Japan 2020 Don't you remember how broken was Leroy on Tekken 7 season 3, it was the beginning of all powered chars on the meta?, harada left the lead team after season 2 and Murray/Nakatsu took charge, leroy was the first on the casino meta, after, fakh and Kunimitsu.
>>738732949 SNK has KOF studio that is specifically dedicated to making fighting games, i wonder if he will make fighting games at all in the first place
>>738733340 If you mean DOA6 no it's a sequel it's still has the same story. Or if you think reboot means desexualized less fanservice shit then that's retarded.
>Speaking to 4Gamer, Harada said that the games he makes in the future won’t deviate from the action and competitive player-versus-player elements he’s known for. >The producer also wouldn’t rule out working on SNK’s own fighting game franchises in the future. “Speaking personally, there are certainly things I’d like to do,” he said, when asked about potentially working on SNK’s IP.“However, since it belongs to SNK, I can’t really say anything too freely. >Harada said he’s still recruiting for VS Studio, but one former colleague who’s joined him at the new venture is chief creative officer Yuichi Yonemori, the director of multiple Tekken games, including Tekken Tag Tournament 1 & 2
>>738730239 >>738730662 >>738731195 >schizo He worked on Pokken and was directly helping with Smash, Schizo. That's also not how it works. Bamco was making ports to the Switch 2.
>>738733543 >Fakhruman with the guard breaks >Leroy with all powered moves and hermit stanece >Kunimitsu with dash moves (Victor is related to Kuni) >Lidia with 50/50 Oh, I forgot Lidia, you give them too credit to tekken 8's mechanics when Tekken 7 season 3 has begun to adapt those mechanics, it was the beginning what it it's today.
>>738733005 >kojambo cocksucker still trying to rewrite history The hack was the fucking vice president at the company and the major big reason why konami did so many shjtty western aaa budget turds. All the gambling to fund his hollywood actor addiction him too.
>>738733640 >the director of multiple Tekken games, including Tekken Tag Tournament 1 & 2 That's like saying you have the director of the Godfather 1 & 2 on board
>>738730595 I agree with your first point. They would be dead if not for the Saudi money. SNK were the living dead before they got bought though and where are the competent studios to take it over? Sometimes empires crumble
>>738732956 >SNK Corporation (Osaka Japan) is pleased to announce that it has decided to invest in a newly established game development studio founded by Mr. Katsuhiro Harada and welcome it into the group as a subsidiary. > In conjunction with this establishment, SNK Co., Ltd. will support the launch of the new studio and plans to make it a consolidated subsidiary.
as harada said, its a studio by him and that it's a not a 100% subsidiary yet . basically snk is funding the studio but has no decision making
>>738727880 >SNK CEO resigned after how poorly the latest city of the wolves game did >PS4/5, Windows, Xbox >Put one of the biggest sony fanboys in charge
>>738735238 They have been working on AOF4/Buriki Two for quite a while now while Harada is still recruiting people for his new studio, unless SNK is throwing away all development of AOF so far and starting over Harada is not working on it
i think the whole saudi talk is funny because capcom slurpers for some reason act like the 10% the saudi's own isn't a big deal when capcom is massive compared to snk but for some reason snk is the only people who catch hell over it because it's much easier to talk shit about something you dont actually care about
>>738732956 >>738733508 >>738734875 >>738734992 Sounds to me like it's the same relationship Intelligent Systems has with Nintendo. Even though they aren't owned by Nintendo, IS used to share a headquarters with a Nintendo division. They'll probably work on mostly SNK stuff but they're technically open to do a non-SNK project too.
>>738735735 The problem is that with SNK it's much more blatant and direct. Once you pull off stunts like the one in COTW you can't really fix your reputation as the studio run by saudis
>>738736012 the shit they did with cotw was the shit retards have kept telling them to do for years even here,now it's some how a issue when they listen to them
>>738735735 SNK is the only ones that get shit for it because SNK is 96% owned by the Saudis and there's tangible evidence of them forcing stuff on SNK. Do you really think a random DJ and Ronaldo is something SNK wanted to add to their game and wasn't a Saudi mandate? Be for real you retard.
>>738736112 I played both and they are very good, only don't expect them to have many extra modes like tekken/mk/doa games had around the same era, it's like most KoF mainly arcade arcade arcade, Very fun though. >>738736281 Played M2 on it and worked fine.
>>738727880 There is no money to be made in fighting games. Absolutely none. SNK is a company that only does that, and they are 2nd rate within that niche at best.
Saudis putting money into SNK is a vanity purchase, not an investment. It's no different from an oil prince owning a pet tiger. He does it because he wants to and he has already bought everything else in his wish list.
>>738728429 i was emulating this game just recently. its actually not bad at all. the worst thing about it is that it is a 2D game with a 3D skin. but the janky side step can be quite good. the Ai will fk you if you dont know how to play.
>>738737551 >Knows Bamco will never make Soul Calibur 7 Correct if I'm wrong but wasn't Harada only mildly in support of SC? After all it competed internally against Tekken in the past so I don't see it as something he would aim for.
>>738733889 >the vice president >the You are a retarded zoomer that thinks a company has a president and a vice president like it’s a government or something You are not qualified to talk about business Shut your jeet ass up
>>738737105 nta but there's a difference between some complaints being made about it and what's going on with SNK where you can't say anything about the company without being flooded with >AAAAAA SAUDI BLOOD MONEY AAAAAA comments.
>>738738557 >heroines nta but what was the plan there? It's not even a complete game and they didn't even use the hot skins like cow Mai in later games.
>something happens to SNK >internet immediately deploys people that beat the same saudi and ronaldo dead horse and act like none of the modern SNK fighters are good
It's like clockwork. Even with the Saudi stuff, I don't get the amount of hate that SNK gets. Even itt anons just make it sound like the cardinal sins of CotW are that it isn't mainstream enough and doesn't have realistic graphics.
>>738735735 >like the 10% the saudi's own >10% SNK was bought in full by the Electronic Gaming Development Company, a subsidiary of the Misk Foundation.
>>738735735 When Capcom starts forcing real life guests into games because they are owned by saudis then I will start shitting on them for being Saudi owned.
>>738738918 The sin of cotw is it not looking that nice despite having the infinite budget they now have. If fucking arcsys with their small than snk team can make games that look good why can't they? Also what the fuck did they do to jenet's face when every other girl's face is fine?
>>738739037 But aren't people saying >Saudis are bad, never support their blood money products and not >Saudi's are bad, but if they only partially own a company and put their blood money into it then it's okay
Like if you're against supporting a group, you should be against supporting them in any way. Not giving them a pass because they only own X% of a company.
>>738738918 If people didn't shit on the surface level shit like Ronaldo, Saudis or the Graphics then they'd have to try and talk shit about the gameplay. And the best you'll get from most people on that front is that it has no "sauce" (tl: There isn't particle effect vomit on the screen every 3 seconds and people actually play neutral.)
>>738727880 When people grow up they realize that the people making the games they love are the reasons why they love the games they made and they stop giving a shit about IPs and they start following the people who made the games they love wherever they go.
Based. This is why we hate Harada, because he destroys things when they don't get popular in the way he wants them to. He's not even worthy of eating Itagaki's dumps. He made Devil's Third, for fuck's sake.
>>738739316 You can't avoid evil from everything you buy, but it saudis, jews, corpo bugmen, or any other group you don't like. It is ultimately up to people to determine where their boundaries are, and 10% is a much easier pill to swallow for most than 100%, in the same way that blackrock has invested in bandai scamco. But unlike for SNK, blackrock or saudis aren't putting djs or soccer players into SF or Tekken.
>>738735984 >Intelligent Systems That's actually a good comparison. They're all but officially first party. They just go "NOOOO WE ARE TOTALLY INDEPENDENT!" while being bankrolled by Nintendo.
Same thing here. Harada is SNK. Until he pulls a Kojima and shows he's working with another company (Sony->Microsoft in Kojima's case and even then Sony only bankrolled funding the studio and allowed Kojima huge latitude in porting his things to non-Sony consoles past the first title [and a minor exclusive period IIRC?]), he's SNK now over Namco.
He (and SNK, I guess) are just trying to save face with double-talk so he isn't "HARADA IS OWNED BY THE SAUDIS NOW!"d, which is happening anyway.
I would give it to You if it was pizza face on this venture but his is dead at most kof games or such are start having nonsense or well Even more non story since Harada really doesnt give a shit
>>738741289 most fgctubers are massive faggots regarding the saudi shit, they complain about it but also still avidly play and make content about street fighter,still go out to tournaments etc
>>738742298 They have been hiring people for different projects for a while. The known ones so far that aren't fighters are the new Metal Slug and the action RPG Samurai Shodown
>>738742298 They did Metal Slug Tactics which flopped.
I tried the demo and wasn't too impressed. I still have it on my Wishlist for a deep discount (like CotW), but it wasn't what I was expecting a "tactics" game to do.
>>738742298 they said multiple times after the new fatal fury, art of fighting will be their last inhouse fighting game for a while, and also confirmed a new metal slug and new samurai shodown, the last one will be an action game
>>738742630 Not really. Hell, even Street Fighters attempt wasn't good.
That whole era of "let's try to 3D-ize 2D gameplay" was terrible. It took until Arc rotoscoped Sprites to actually "nail" the "3D model with 2D gameplay" look/effect.
>>738742924 >Can series Sega forgot until recently and killed all good will with a bunch of changes in the attempt to chase eSport money be good? No. And I say this as someone that was hyped for VF6. All the R.E.V.O. patches since it launched has just killed my interest dead.
>>738742924 With every big fg tournament my hopes for this game to actually exist fade away because they haven't shown anything for more than a year now. I think they did some footage for a couple of teasers to get investors happy and then paused development.
>told everyone Harada got kicked after ruining Tekken AND Soul Calibur >nah man, he is just retiring and becoming a family man LOL >rat bastard already managed to latch into another company
>>738727880 Wow, now they can double up on the western pandering censorship. Can't wait to see the fridge body notits women in burkas they design next!
>>738742425 Bro there are many, many valid complaints about Tekken 8 but the visuals aren't one of them. The visual noise fine. But the models and stages look fantastic. This is medium settings on a 1070.
>>738743252 Taking over the 3D fighting genre is genuinely the easiest lay-up ever for any company that gives a shit, but KT and Sega are both showing that they are completely incapable of delivering even the bare minimum so far.
>Harada said he’s still recruiting for VS Studio, but one former colleague who’s joined him at the new venture is chief creative officer Yuichi Yonemori, the director of multiple Tekken games, including Tekken Tag Tournament 1 & 2
>>738736990 i have no reference. its the only snk game i played. i think ijust cheesed him with full defense and always punish one specific move he does. butterfly lady before him fkd me up quite good a bunch of times. fk zoners in 2D games. it feels like playing fish in a barrel.
>>738728353 I actually wouldn't mind that. It'd be something to differentiate it and AOF3 alreaady plays slightly 3Dish with the chain combos and movesets and stuff. It would at least prevent it from playing like another KoF clone like what they did with CotW.
>>738728849 They have as much money as the Saudis give them and the Saudis only seem to give them the money needed to make CotW an advertising platform, not hiring actually skilled graphic artists or musicians or devs or anything like that.
>>738730940 All mecha games suck because everything is scaled down to human size. Mecha games should feel claustrophobic your mecha should take up most of the real estate on the screen and buildings should be grazing your shoulder. Instead you're always the smallest figure on the screen. Also I find it laughable that the creator of Lucky Chloe and the Heat System had no power at Namco so much he had to leave the company.
>>738731945 The problem with Tekken is that at some point in T7 Scamco's corporate suits took over the game and put Murray in charge. Harada basically got turned into a mascot having to defend shit he clearly disagreed with until he finally left.
>>738736261 Not just them. Kenshiro is in the game to advertise the currently airing CGI slopfest anime. I hate playing something and having it be used to advetise other shit. It's like trying to watch current WWE where half of every othe show is made to advertise other shit from TKO/Endeavor/Netflix instead of just doing the shit I'm watching the fucking show for.
I play Fatal Fury to play Fatal Fury, not to see advertisements soccer leagues, boxing matches, anime and Slop Fighter Dix.
>>738747471 Now you understand tekkucks are the Jeffrey Epstein of FGC. This is what we Tekken boomers have been trying to tell you since the time of begining.
>>738748047 It was about nintendogs not whatever schizo bullshit you're talking about. >we There is no we nigger, speak in your name or shut the fuck up
>>738728341 i think it's because the esports divisions and marketing divisions have a lot of influence over fighting games so devs just have to sit there and watch their game be ruined by people who dont even play. first thing he cites in the video announcement is having total creative control
>>738745591 >No it's not my choice I'm forced to jew the players this is true though, the way these companies operate is basically "put in the monetization or we will make your life miserable until you quit". in america it's "put in the monetization or we will fire everybody" and then if they don't make enough money they fire everybody anyways.
>>738750365 The issue with MK in Japan is that the games are almost certainly going to be rated CERO Z (their equivalent of an AO rating) without extremely heavy censorship, and at that point why even bother?
>>738750181 It's a late era PS2 game that looks like a late era PS2 game. Also it has relatively fine art direction and looks about what you'd think 3D KoF would look like. Modern SNK games have absolutely terrible art direction with the sole excepion of SamSho.
So, will Harada break the mold or will he be exposed as another has-been? So far, most "veterans" who make their own studio haven't really been successful.
>>738749960 That's real fucking ironic considering he's jumping ship to a company that shoehorned fucking Messi and Salvatore Ganacci into their premiere fighting game, which flopped. Despite his claim of "total creative control," I have a feeling that mid-development, Mr. Salman will ask (force) Harada into including some other celebrity to which Harada will say "mashallah, yes Master!"
>>738751930 they've kinda pulled back on that shit since the horrible reaction, unless you count kenshiro (which you shouldn't). everything else has been all fatal fury characters
>>738750178 It's not like the suits are in there personally coding the cash shop, anon. Devs still sign off on it and cash the checks. Acting like they're hostages with a gun to their head is pure cope. If your “creative vision” folds the second marketing waves a quarterly earnings report at you, maybe it wasn’t that strong to begin with.
Yeah corpos squeeze everyone, welcome to capitalism, but some of these guys are perfectly happy to design the treadmill and then pretend they were forced to install it. Funny how they only discover their morals after they’ve secured enough clout to jump ship.
Nothingburger. Every Japanese star producer gets fired then says he's retiring then sprouts an 'independent studio' with China or Arabs then makes shit like Death Stranding or makes vaporware like Gang of Dragon. The odds of him making anything good or anything at all is 50/50 like nu-Tekken meta
>>738752250 SNK got tekken4-tag2 director, it can be good, however, the characters/art direction, OST are the big question there, they can't make a tekken clone.
>>738733541 Actually interesting info. Yes, focused on 2D fighting games..... Tekken right now has a monopoly of 3D fighting games. >Soul Calibur is dead and there are no plans of reviving the series. Harada could EASILY make a spiritual successor. >DOA is okay, but is mostly fan service >Virtua Fighter... well who know when the hell that's coming out. I doubt he'll go head to head with Tekken as a first project cause failure would tank SNK... but for a 2nd project or a 3D KOF game.... oh yeah, I see it. >However keep in mind Harada has championed more controversial casual mechanics in games.... so there is a concern what he works on could be a lot more gimmicky and casual
>>738752881 I hit submit too soon. I think the plan is to utilize Harada to make 3D games for them and non 2D fighters. And not just 1 3D fighter. >Soul Calibur style game will probably be first >Then maybe a Tekken style game But there will probably be more >I could see some kinda powerstone like party game >Harada did help with Smash Bros so I could see a platformer fighter. At least that is what I think the SNK strategy is. Harada is probably the most experienced fighting game person around and Bamco was starting to treat him like dog shit.
>>738753330 Honestly here is how I see it playing out >Spiritual successor with either SciFi or TransDimentional realms of existence story. >same gameplay, same skimpy outfits and hooks after they check with legal. Maybe some minor gickicks that slightly change it like stage Hazzards or transformation stance. Harada was really open about wanting another soul calibur and how Bamco killed the game and disbanded the people who made it
>>738752881 This is my theory >>738732664 I think they want him to make AOF4/Buriki Two. Another option is that they want the SamSho RPG to have a fighting game mode, similar to SoulCalibur
>>738753832 Possible. I think the reason SNK gave him a studio is gonna be to make non 2D fighting games. Given the access to SNK IP that will be great. There is also another possibility. Tekken 7 showed they can make 2D mechanics work in 3D. Harada may make the 3D fighter that appeals to 2D players.
>>738759005 He said that back when he still had a leash on Scamco. Fast forward to T8 and we’ve got frame data subscriptions, legacy characters sold back to you, and battle pass cosmetics nobody asked for.
Either he couldn’t stop it or he stopped caring. “I don’t want DLC” hits different when your publisher smells season pass money. Harada quitting Tekken would be the least surprising patch note at this point.
>>738761595 He lost his grip, and rather than trying to fight to keep them in check, he actually realized that the current direction was not salvageable. He should be commended just for having eyes.
>>738731687 >they already said they're done with fighting games for a while after the latest Art of Fighting source? Why would they say that when they established KOF Studio not too long ago which is a studio completely dedicated to making fighting games?
>>738761595 >Either he couldn’t stop it Yeah? That's blatantly obvious. He can say he doesn't want to do it all he wants but when 68-year-old Senior VP Yamada tells you that you're selling Wang Jinrei back to fans for $20 then you don't have a choice.
Everything good about tekken is because of harada and literally everything bad about tekken had nothing to do with Harada. I've already preordered 500 copies of his new game because there is no way he will ever let us down.
Considering that public perception of Tekken is in the shitter right now, and who knows how the new VF and DoA are going to turn out. This is probably the best possible timing for SNK. The 3D fighting game landscape is wide open right now, give that man Samsho Sen or Buriki One and let him do his thing.
>>738763371 I'd take that too. Joining SNK is a L move desu. SNK is just a puppet with collabs and Saudi money. Licence so ass, Mai celebrates her wedding in SF6 instead of KoF or Cotw lmao.
>>738762592 They need to give Hiroaki a dump truck full of Saudi blood money to be their main characte designer/visual director. Ogura is dull as dishwater and a big reason their stuff feels so lifeless.
>>738763309 Last Blade is not coming back those games were never popular, best we can hope is more Last Blade characters in SamSho. There is a higher chance of a Metal Slug fighting game coming out than a new Last Blade Last Blade is SNK's Darkstalkers
>>738733005 you are retarded if you believe that this applies to corporate people that high up the chain. just read some shit online and now you parrot it.
>>738750545 I dunno, I'd totally play a version of Mortal Kombat that disables the x-ray effect of X-Rays, only has Friendships instead of Fatalities, and does the Chinese thing where all the blood is replaced with cum
>>738763959 >XV is also a good game. Nope. Part of why SNK's games are failing is because they're making fast paced combo heavy unga games to appeal to Brazillians and Mexicans who played pirated versions of KoF 2002 but all that's done is created games that are virtualy impenetrable to all but that small minority of people and hold no appeal to anyone else. And the LatAms are fine with it because they get to have games they dominate in.
>>738765545 nta but during EVO Japan I just saw the chats bitching that CotW looked too slow and sauceless. They don't make things flashy or fast paced enough for the modern fighting game audience.
>>738746156 >I just wanted Real Bout 3. me too more lane play and ringouts and less combozzz it even has a ringout stage and lane stage too so what gives why are they having trouble with implementing lanes on ALL stages i mean look at fucking smash bros every stage p much has a battlefield and fd version you mean to tell me snk sucks at programming things so much they can't do *that*? with 400 people under their wing? gtf outta here
>>738766030 >They don't make things flashy or fast paced enough for the modern fighting game audience. their visuals are also ugly at a standstill and all their characters are sauceless and have no aura maybe they should take a bull whip to their employees until they learn to step up and become talented at their jobs or else they get to meet tyler durden
>>738766815 Sakruai unironically likes the guy, like he's personally picked him up from the airport and invited him over to his house and shit, it's hilarious how much that pisses people off
>>738767515 >>738767616 These photos make me incredibly sad, feeling like the age of entertainment is over already, and now we just have to embrace AI nothingness.
>>738767695 I think it just happens they hang out together because they are from around the same generation. Surely there are good younger game devs too, right...?
