1UP writes: "My heart beats faster and my fingers tremble violently. I can't hold my joystick steady; I'm too caught up in the moment.
I just rage quit my last -- and final -- ranked match in King of Fighters 12.
I'm not angry with the opponent, though. I'm angry -- no, furious -- over the atrocious lag. Horrible latency issues complicate and exacerbate the online experience to a point where games are unplayable, unbearable, and unwelcome. Playing in such awful conditions will test your temperament, and your patience with SNK Playmore's handling of KOF12's transition from the arcade to the console. SNK touts KOF12 as the rebirth of a franchise, a reinterpretation of the entire series from new character designs to new gameplay mechanics. But will fans accept these changes?"
GameDynamo - "Fighting games have enjoyed a period of spectacular growth after being a nearly nonexistent genre for so many years prior. Because of this sudden growth, we're seeing a lot of companies taking different approaches to the traditional fighting game formula that has stood since Street Fighter II first came onto the scene."
Star Trek Online developer Cryptic has ruled out the possibility of it releasing a sequel to the game in future years - telling CVG it would rather constantly update its existing MMO.
I'm glad they aren't going to make a sequel. The current game is unfinished and flawed, they need to fix that first.
A sequel is the last thing people are thinking about right now, it's an online game! You don't need a sequel, you can just keep building the game and change the story arc for as long as you want.
The Start Screen reviews King Of Fighters XII for the PS3. They cover how far fighting games have come and with the showing that SNK Playmore's KOF XII, how far we need to go. The game was seemingly released incomplete with an time trial for an Arcade Mode and a seemingly broken online mode. Did the 772 MB patch help?
I'm taking my copy back to Gamestop today with a receipt before the 7 days are up. I was told by an employee there to get it at his recommendation and the game was already opened. I'm confident I can b*tch my way into a full refund for this heap of junk so I can just get something else.
Do not buy this game. It sucks more than Mark Wahlberg's rap career.