MasonicGamer: After the short trailer at E3, I actually wanted to grab the nearest object to me and throw it through the window. Horrible character redesigns, a very forced announcer trying to sound edgy and gameplay that resembled Street Fighter IV more than it did the original Killer Instinct games all made for a bad first impression. The fact that Double Helix were developing the new Killer Instinct and not Rare was the final nail in the coffin for me. These guys were responsible for such classics as Silent Hill Homecoming, G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Green Latern: Rise of the Manhunters. Strangely enough, it’s Double Helix’s quality that’s starting to rise these days.
Killer Instinct for the Xbox One is a traditional one on one fighter that alongside Capcom’s vs. series helped popularise the combo system
Killer Instinct is like the forgotten cousin at the fighting game family reunion.
yeah they were such good and fun games but they never really reached the mainstream audience. Killer Instinct was widely known and respected.
Killer instinct is great, especially on snes but it’s not the most underrated fighter.. for me it’s Power Stone. So much potential in this series
Bloody Roar was a game that had a sick concept but wasn’t made the best. I’d say Killer Instinct was the opposite of that, it was well made but the roster of characters were so similar to every other fighting game in that era that it ended up feeling like more of the same. I could be wrong that’s just how I remember it at the time and I played a ton of KI on SNES because it was one of the first games I owned.
I loved this game in the arcade, my main was Jago, Ultra Combo!!! https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I remember trying my hardest to learn that "Ultra... Ultra.... Ultra...." finish. Such a great fighting game.
I can tell you definitely got some SNES time in. The slight differences in the ports due to hardware constraints were interesting. For example, the arcade version was Ultraaaa Coooommboooooooo! versus Ultra….Ultra….Ultra on the SNES.
Though SNES overachieved as a port for as demanding as a game KI was.The arcade version was one of the first cabinets with a dedicated hard drive and the SNES version was 32 megabyte cartridge which was huge for that system at the time.
Yeah, for sure. My local childhood arcade was always packed and it was hard to get a game in but once the SNES version came out, I was hooked. I can still feel the click of the power button.
Exciting news, Combo Breakers: Killer Instinct Anniversary Edition will be available TOMORROW, November 28, at 12PM Pacific!
Exciting news, Combo Breakers: Killer Instinct Anniversary Edition will be available TOMORROW, November 28, at 12PM Pacific!
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YES!!!!
Iron Galaxy wanted to come back
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Matt Booty made it happen
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This is how you support your first party games! Continued support after 10 years!
The Killer Instinct fans appreciated and the whole FG community celebrates!
Congrats goes to Matt, Mick, Adam and everyone at Iron Galaxy!
Tomorrow we fight together! I can´t wait!
I love KI (still play the old arcade version) but feel like the Xbox version is like a big intimidating chessboard with no easy way to instruct you to play chess.
The game is so deep in terms of little things to do that it makes Smash Bros melee look like a casual experience.
Honestly, doing a combo Breaker is punish/reward by itself but hey you can add a counterbreaker.
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Iron Galaxy is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Killer Instinct by launching a new Anniversary Edition for Xbox and PC and an extensive patch several years after the latest update.
There isn't going to be any chance of this being played at tournaments unless it appears on all platforms like all fighting games.
SF5 didn’t appear on all consoles and was still played at Tournaments. I’ve seen KI tournaments recently so I don’t think your opinion is accurate.
As much as I want to play this, I can't justify buying a 500 dollar console for one game
Dude! I just want to play it already :( Seriously debating about driving to one of those Major nelson Xbox tour things just to play it
it is hard to tell how good a fighting game will be just by playing it for a few minutes. because of one thing. "balance." it is something that has been increasingly difficult for even seasoned fighting game devs to maintain. so I doubt that his game with its 6 launch characters, with a dev that has never made a fighting game, is going to be well balanced and competitive, once it gets a community behind it.
It would have done everyone a favour if this game was multi platform
Played it at eurogamer today. They give you about 10 mins on it. Game was running on real xb1s in front of me. I'm not much into fighters but it was fun,fast and frenetic. We were using an arcade stick which had 8 buttons. The 4 main colour buttons and then duplicated. If you like fighters you will love this I think.