Killer Instinct 3 (They F**ked It Up)

MasonicGamer.com: So Killer Instinct 3 is a thing now, you’d think I’d be happy about this but nothing could be further from the truth. This is without my biggest nightmare come true, 16 years of waiting for Killer Instinct 3 and all I get is this piece of s**t. Words cannot even describe just how bad they’ve already f**ked this one up.

[Snookies12]

I agree, it doesn't look that great. Especially considering I loved Killer Instinct back in the day... :\

[blackbeld]

Yep, also you have to buy a character to play.

Graphics looks mehh.

The old 2D graphics looks even better.

[IAMERROR]

You can purchase the game whole without F2P model, the game is gorgeous I've seen it in person. Those lighting effects are amazing truly something you have to see in with your own eyes. Game looks next gen imo

Gameplay is nice, they got rid of what was bad in KI and added some SF elements. It still plays very much like KI though. I urge people to at least give it a shot if you're getting a Xbox One. If not then hopefully it'll be made for arcade. Just my two cents

[mikeslemonade]

I don't care if you saw it. You probably don't have a good critical eye to see if it looks next gen. It looks 360ish and looks like it's gonna be a X1 arcade title.

[LeCreuset]

@IAMERROR

What do you mean "give it a shot?" It's not like Xbone players can just rent the thing, or trade it back in for an alright price if it isn't good.

[Boody-Bandit]

The first thing that came to mind when I saw KI during MS's E3 event was it looks just like Street Fighter IV with KI animations <- and considering it's suppose to be a next generation game? That's not a compliment.

It looks like it could easily run on 360 hardware and it doesn't have the fluid 60 FPS animation that SFIV has from this generation. It looks like they copy and pasted the engine from KI on the N64 using SFIVs cell shaded graphics engine. Every gamer I know that is a KI fan all feel the same way I did after watching all the KI videos online. It looks really rushed and unpolished.

Being the KI freak that I am, I'm holding out hope that the team behind this title will add some serious polish to it and take it to another level with the final product. From what I've seen of it so far? I'm not overly optimistic.

[IAMERROR]

@LeCreuset
The entire single player is free to everyone that has an xbox one...

@Mikeslemonade
Define next gen? That's why I said IMO, arcade titles can't have next gen graphics? I never presented it as fact

[Belking]

You need to get your eyes checked then because that looks awesome and faster than the old KI. If you want to play the old KI then go play nintendo. This is 2013.

[HammadTheBeast]

Double Helix who make terribad games are making it, not the old RARE.

[Timesplitter14]

I invite you all to take a look at the games Double Helix (the devs of KI3) have made :

- MX vs. ATV Reflex
- Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
- Battleship
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

yup, not looking good

[Plagasx]

- Silent Hill Downpour (single-handedly ruining the SH franchise)

[Software_Lover]

But everyone said it looked good, until the next day when they heard it was a different dev. Then everyone said it looks bad.

[Timesplitter14]

When people said it looked good, it's because they wanted to believe...

Killer instinct...
Rare...

But take off the nostalgia goggles and it looks very meh. Just imagine if this game wasn't Killer Instinct, but some random new IP. It would've gone completely unnoticed tbh

[Name Last Name]

As a young gamer I had never seen or played KI before and to me it looked average.

[caseh]

Too much time has passed since KI graced the arcade. At the time it was jaw-dropping and combo's above 5 hits didn't exist so the combo system was it's big selling point, 48hit combo WTF!?

These days, all the above has been seen over and over again in many games. It doesn't really have a selling point any more.

Maybe the combat system will redeem it and the fighting community will show us what its all about. I guess we'll know if thats the case once EVO passes next month as it will be showcased there.

[Loki86]

Uh Cinder did 80 hit combos fairly often using the cancel ultimate glitch. I could consistently juggle with Orchid for 40+ hits, so no this is wrong.

[caseh]

@loki

I was just generalising, rev 1.4 (i think) was broken to hell giving characters like TJ Combo infinites.

Orchid couldn't reach 40+ hits without her Ultra if i rememebr rightly.

[Vandamme21]

Ultra comboooooo lol

[rytlok]

i think it looks like crap

[Loki86]

You made this clear in the other twenty threads kid.

[V0LT]

I still say if you watch it a few times it starts to look like street fighter. It would have been better to do an HD remake IMO.

[MasterofMagnetism]

Exactly right. First time I saw it I immediately thought of SFIV.

[My_Name_BTW_Is_Dante]

So basically this is just another doom & gloom article about some jealous fanboy who didn't play the game to begin with and really knows nothing about it.

And no, you don't HAVE to buy individual characters. The option is there if you want to. You can buy the whole game and get everything without paying microtransactions for other things.

[Up_N_U]

I still own my snes and I will tell u in person if I could this game looks like shit. deal with it.

[nightfallfilms]

Sorry to say it but this will be the norm as long as MS keeps their new policies. You will see articles like this attacking anything MS even if it is something positive. Hell MS could announce that they are going to give the Xbox One away and you would see negative articles about that.

[Snookies12]

No man. Putting aside any crap I have against Microsoft or their new console... AND the fact that I was a HUGE Killer Instinct fan. This doesn't look great. It's not crap, but it doesn't do the series justice at all. I'm honestly disappointed I've waited this many years, only to see this. I hope they make it better, I REALLY do, but at this point I wouldn't touch it for fear of losing nostalgia saved up from my past experiences with Killer Instinct Gold.

[karl]

well.. fanboys take exclusive sky high regardless of how good they really are..

actually with so many new ips all the exclusives may be crap but right now they are thought as the best of the best

now this goes for xbox and playstation aswell

im only a bit more confident about ps cuz infamous and killzone are sequels .. and we already know what to expect

[Foxgod]

Another opinion, great, cant we make N4g for articles only, and restrict opinions to the comments sections.

On topic,
My opinion is this game is gonna own, but i wont write an n4g article about it.

[madjedi]

"Another opinion, great, cant we make N4g for articles only, and restrict opinions to the comments sections.

On topic,
My opinion is this game is gonna own, but i wont write an n4g article about it."

Double standard much

[project_pat36]

this is the case when you actually want a company to sell out.. come to Sony Rare. They will treat you better and pay you more ;) You know you want to.

On Topic:

Looks nothing how I envisioned it.. especially with it being on a supposed next gen console

[Up_N_U]

fuck that come back to Nintendo where you can finish where you started.

[Mr_Nuts]

Do you really think the Nintendo of now can handle those types of franchises, they seem too family friendly. I suppose they could handle Banjo but KI, Conker, Perfect Dark would have to go to Sony

[strifeblade]

"yeah because this isnt on playstation it looks crap." Excerpt from the diaries of the playsation fanboy

But seriously the demo looked okay but i was checking out people who have played the game and their impressions and they were saying the game was much better than what the demo showed at the conference- so im glad to hear it and for an arcade game this looks big budget and so does crimson dragon,

Last i checked the exclusive psn games at sony conference and they did not look graphically nearly as good.

[impet25]

You haven't seen warframe and they only showed indie games 4 psn downloads.

[Loki86]

Full purchase release, 60 fps, f2p model optional and gives you the whole game for free with one char. Team is made up of three studios who all have fighting game experience, working closely with Rare, and finally the impressions have been great from critics and the fighting game community. If you're going to trash it at least have the facts, sigh.

Edit: Not one thing I said here was incorrect so anyone who disagrees is obviously misinformed on this game. Do some research people.

[Loki86]

I'm actually leaning towards a PS4 but the amount of ignorance among PS fanboys is just ridiculous. People trying to find something negative with every x1 game, when most of them look great just because they chose the other console. Biased bs is what is wrong with the industry and the gaming media as of late. I am absolutely sick of it. Gamescom should confirm my decision one way or the other, but this site along with a few others need to drastically changetheir policies and stop allow trolls to flood every article.. Such a shame.

[SilentNegotiator]

"Team is made up of three studios who all have fighting game experience"

Go ahead and clarify on that.

hint: You can't, because you're just repeating what other misinformed fanboys are claiming. For starters, Double Helix was created from a meager of TWO, NOT THREE, studios in 2007, neither of which have much fighter experience.

Even if you're referring to RARE as the third, they're only consulting and they hardly have ANY of the original people left in the studio that worked on KI back in the day.

[Loki86]

Sorry you were saying:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Watch this video the DEVELOPERS THEMSELVES explain everything I listed above, they combined THREE different studios all which have fighting game experience. This game was built from the ground up for X1. You are sadly the one who is misinformed.

[fardan85]

It doesn't look like a top-class fighting game. It seems like button-mashing game. Not interested.

[NateCole]

MS can't catch a break. This and Ryse has been getting pretty bad previews sofar.

[TheHardware]

Hey I am no M$ lover, but i think that pay-for character model is kinda cool....I used to play with saberwulf.....If I could buy just saberwulf and pay much less....i wouldnt be so mad

too bad ill never buy an xbone...

[ironmonkey]

It looks like something you see on xbox and ps3. Thats where ms lacks when it comes to helping their own developers. Heres some money,go make something.