Talk:The King of Fighters

message: I´m removing this part:
The King of Fighters introduced the 3-on-3 team battle system to the fighting game genre along with other sub-systems, such as "attack deflector" (dodging) and "emergency escape" (rolling), running, short jumps, "super desperation moves", autoguarding attacks, and multiple control formats. Many subsequent fighting games adapted these features and helped establish The King of Fighters as one of the most recognized fighting game series of all time.
Explanation: The King of Fighter did not introduce those features.
3 on 3: Games such as Fatal Fury and Street Fighter already allowed the use of more than one character in team battles, just check the snes ports.
Attack deflector: Art of Fighting 1 and Fatal Fury 2 already had it.
Emergency escape: Vega in Street Fighter 2 had it. One feature does not have to be shared by all characters. AOF1 already had desperation moves, but only 2 fighters could perform it. Sf2 had double jump, but only for Vega and Chun-Li.
running: AOF1 and 2 had it. Samurai Shodown 1 and 2 also had it.
short jumps: Play Fatal Fury 3.
MCF: I don´t know what does that mean: Is it related to the advanced and extra from KOF 97? Last Blade 1 had it. Also, Super Street Turbo used a similar system, in which the person could choose to play by the rules used in the previous version.
SDMs: Fatal Fury 3 and Real Bout 1 had them.
autoguard: AOF had it.
I renamed this section, because you sound like a KOF hater. Maybe you're Badmash from GameFAQs or something 24.14.120.92 03:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lies from fanboys

message: Was King of Fighters '94 really released on the Saturn or Playstation? I can't find any information on the game or any copies on either format. (Galvy 14:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The game was remade in 2004 for the PS2 as The King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout in Japan; however, it had problems getting released it in the US. According to Ben Herman, the president of SNK Playmore USA, bug fixing would have taken too long, resulting in missing the holiday season [1]. The game was then announced to be released on the Xbox; however, the game was ultimately cancelled in March 2006 (the month of it's scheduled release). No announcements were ever made as to why the Xbox version was cancelled. It would have had completely new features like online play, team edit, a playable Rugal Bernstein, and the addition of Saisyu Kusanagi.
Was it that the PS2 version was denied due to price issue while the X-Box version was cancelled because of the bugs in the online component, according to Ben Herman? 
I think this passage needs to be clean, sound confusing. Nauto 20:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: KoF '94 ports?

message: Can someone fill in the overall description of each plot arc, in the space before the individual games are listed? Also, I'm not sure offhand what all of the ports are like. It's probably a good idea to list what home systems each game is available for, and what significant differences there are from the original version.
Kyo is the most people favourite character from KOF.
By the beart of Zeus, why is the plot summary so LONG?  It even appears to have short stories placed in a few spots... I think a little culling is in order.  I appreciate the filling in of the plot arc, but this is a bit too much...
buliding off zeus... Will someone PLEASE seperate kof into it's apropriate enumaration (94, 95, 96, 97 etc). It will help reduce the clutter, and seriously, each game is different from the last, especially in the recent ones.
Let's vote to achieve consensus on the validity of the hizokus section, I think it's just speculative and stupidly fanboyish garbage that doesn't belong anywhere in this article, perhaps in it's own article but not here.
It's not speculative, it's official.
SNK talk about it on their KoF 10 year site!
It's the longest running storyline in KoF.
By your reasoning we should take away anything to do with storylines altogether.
Sign your messages!!! Bowen 14:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a Lin article now. It'd probally be best to add it to there if you still want it on Wikipedia. Kid Drac 21:00, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  By the beart of Zeus 

message: Why is there two articles on the KOF series (King of Fighters (series) and King of Fighters series)? Shouldn't they be merged? ---> Sagitario
::My word. I never noticed that... Yes, they should be. -ZeroTalk 05:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is there two? 

message: In the 'Spinoffs' section, regarding the KOF: Another Day DVD, this line pops up: "The DVD is notable in that it contains an English subtitle track, as well as an English dub audio track for all four episodes, in spite of only being coded for playback in Region 2 players." However, the UK is in region 2 and most UK DVD players can happily accept the disc (provided the TV can accept an NTSC picture). Perhaps this should be reworded?
:: Fair enough. I'll touch it up. --MoriyaMug 18:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Region 2 and English 

message: The external links section definitely needs cleaning up, there are a lot of pointless, biased fansite links there. The only ones that are really necessary are the official website and a link to information about the series on a major gaming website such as IGN or Gamespot. The links to sites about individual games are definitely unnecessary as those can be linked to from the games' individual articles, external links on this article should be strictly about the series as a whole only. Timkovski 18:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: Mr.Karate appeared on KoF 96's GB version,don't remove him from template! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KnighTeen87 (talk • contribs) 21:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mr.Karate

message: Okay, I've been meaning to take a look at this series' article and how to clean it up. I've got a few ideas, and I'm throwing it out to the community here to see what you all think of the ideas.
*The first thing that comes to mind is the lengthy Games section. While the games are important to the KoF series, the list is excessively long and clutters up most of the page. Looking at Final Fantasy, it's countless games and spinoffs are documented in a separate List of Final Fantasy games article. I am thinking of creating a separate List of King of Fighters games article with the contents of the current "Games" section (with some major clean-up, of course).
*The second idea would be to kill the trivia section, per the guideline WP:TRIVIA. Two of the trivia bits are uncited fancruft; another is cited but is still cruft, and the last point can be integrated into the article itself.
*Third, per the guidelines at WP:CVG there needs to be more information about the history of how the series was created and the general impact the series has had; in other words, clarify why the series is notable. And it can't be just "I'm a member of an SNK forum which has X number of members; that's the kind of impact it has"; any claims must be verifiable and come from reliable sources - in other words, no fan forums.
So, does anyone else have any input on these plans? Or does anyone have any other ideas to help improve this article? NeoChaosX  (talk, walk) 22:41, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up ideas 

message: I have moved their articles to Elisabeth (King of Fighters) and Rugal as no surnames are given in the games only in additional sources. Surnames are still given in first sentence of the article.  Please do not change back as per Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-12-21_Street_Fighter_character_articles and Talk:E. Honda. Thank you. Mr.bonus 17:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Elisabeth & Rugal

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED -- as there was  a consensus for the move per discussion below. --Philip Baird Shearer 14:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Add  # Support  on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.  Please remember that this survey is not a vote, and please provide an explanation for your recommendation.
====Move article to The King of Fighters====
#Support per comments above.--SeizureDog 12:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and one of those cases is when the article is a part of the name itself. A cursory glance at King of Fighters will reveal that this is the case. -- Exitmoose 01:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Page name

message: #Support per comments above.--SeizureDog 12:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Move article to [[The King of Fighters]]

message: #Oppose, per WP:NC, which states that we do not use usually put articles at the beginning of titles other than in a few exceptional cases.  Chris cheese whine 02:50, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and one of those cases is when the article is a part of the name itself. A cursory glance at King of Fighters will reveal that this is the case. -- Exitmoose 01:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Keep article at [[King of Fighters]]

message: *:King of Fighters → :The King of Fighters —(Discuss)— Another massive move request by me. I think it's pretty clear that the series is known as The King of Fighters and feel that it should be moved to such a page. The logo has the "The", every game in the series has the "The", and the lead includes the "The". The current location is as wrong as Clockwork Orange or Jerk would be. I don't think there would be much disagreement here, but I don't fill completely confident with requesting a "uncontroversial" move. —SeizureDog 00:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kof-logo-enlarged.gif

message: I'd like to make her a GA, kthx. --Niemti (talk) 21:05, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could someone copyedit [[Mai Shiranui]]? 

message: The article currently states that "The first games of the series were only available in Japan with the exception of The King of Fighters '95 which saw a U.S. release on the PlayStation and a European release on the Sega Saturn in 1996. However, in 1999 when SNK was expanded to North America, the games were also released there." This is incorrect as all KOF games prior to The King of Fighters XI were originally developed for SNK's Neo-Geo system, which includes both the MVS arcade cabinets and AES home console. MVS and AES were both available in countries outside Japan and all Neo-Geo KoF titles were multi-lingual from the get-go, often including Spanish and Portuguese language choices in addition to Japanese and English.
Thus, the above excerpt is erroneous and I shall be removing it. It might very well be that the original Neo-Geo games were not ported to other systems outside Japan before 1999, save for KOF '95, so if someone wants to rephrase the excerpt to reflect this and add it back in, be my guest.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.234.180.209 (talk) 20:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early games released outside Japan 

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