Killer Instinct Coming to xboxONE?

[darkcat1]

No, what you get RIGHT NOW for $20 is a 6 character version of the game. With no additional money you will get 2 more characters in the next couple of months and all game modes. I would much rather have characters released when they are tuned properly instead of having all characters available day one and a crappy game.

If I purchase the Ultra Edition ($39.99) then I agree it should be for all characters as they are released regardless if they are "Season 1, 2, 3, . . ." or whatever.

I'm still happy that KI is back regardless of how long it's development into a "final version" takes.

My thing is that they should have waited to release the game until ALL of the content was ready and not given us HALF a game! That's what you get for $40 is an INCOMPLETE game with content that's probably being held back just to line pockets with more crappy microtransation money. What you get is not broken but my complaint is pretty much valid since your $40 will probably double or triple just to get the game out of Shareware/Beta version status.

I have a somewhat similar complaint about how the new forza works since you can be charged $100 or race for 100+ hours just to unlock one car....

 

[rcaido]

I've been reading your previous post & i think im just wasting my time with you. Why do you keep bringing up $40? Its $20 for the game for 8 characters. 6 Characters playable as of right now. Season 2 will be an additional $20 to make it 16 characters & if the game is popular enough they will do Season 3. So $60 for 24 characters or 16 characters for $40.

Compare that to SFIV which was release with 25 characters for $60. Then when you upgraded to Super Street Fighter IV that gave you an additional 10 characters but cost you $50. Then AE came out for $20 w/ 4 additional characters making it a total of 39 characters for $130. Then of course the new Ultra Street Fighter IV coming out w/ an extra 5 characters which will add another $15. That's $145 for 44 characters which if you like the game series isn't that bad at all. I spent way more at the arcades during the summer.

Just because there are more characters doesn't mean its going to be good at all. Look at all the awesome fighting games in the past. The best arcade fighter of all time is SF2 Hyper fighting & that only has 12 characters. The original KI only had 10. Garou Mark of Wolves 12.

As for the game being incomplete, the core of the game is completed. The only thing missing is the 2 characters & the so coveted arcade mode. You have training mode, vs mode, & the silky smooth online play. If you really cant play the game until all 8 characters & arcade mode is available dont play it until March.

 

[XtraSmiley]

I agree with everything you just wrote, especially the wasting your time part. The game is good, a great deal for FREE as is, and a great deal for $40.

 

[darkcat1]

I've been reading your previous post & i think im just wasting my time with you. Why do you keep bringing up $40? Its $20 for the game for 8 characters. 6 Characters playable as of right now. Season 2 will be an additional $20 to make it 16 characters & if the game is popular enough they will do Season 3. So $60 for 24 characters or 16 characters for $40.

Compare that to SFIV which was release with 25 characters for $60. Then when you upgraded to Super Street Fighter IV that gave you an additional 10 characters but cost you $50. Then AE came out for $20 w/ 4 additional characters making it a total of 39 characters for $130. Then of course the new Ultra Street Fighter IV coming out w/ an extra 5 characters which will add another $15. That's $145 for 44 characters which if you like the game series isn't that bad at all. I spent way more at the arcades during the summer.

Just because there are more characters doesn't mean its going to be good at all. Look at all the awesome fighting games in the past. The best arcade fighter of all time is SF2 Hyper fighting & that only has 12 characters. The original KI only had 10. Garou Mark of Wolves 12.

As for the game being incomplete, the core of the game is completed. The only thing missing is the 2 characters & the so coveted arcade mode. You have training mode, vs mode, & the silky smooth online play. If you really cant play the game until all 8 characters & arcade mode is available dont play it until March.

Sorry but the game has 16 characters and an arcade mode(sorry but it's already planned out!). that should not have been withheld for more $$$. Also if the core of the game is there why couldn't we have all of it from day one? The game is not being withheld for tweaking issues but rather so M$ can line their pockets.

the minuim $20 gets you 6 to 8 of these characters and no arcade mode which means that right out of the gate you're missing a mode! This equals roughly half a game and/or "Final beta test version #1". Is having the beta test version bad? Probably not except for all the MISSING STUFF!

your $40 for the deluxe edition should have had all this stuff but they way things are going you'll end up paying at least another $40-$100 to get the rest.

It's also interesting that you brought up the SF4 versions but I consider those each a game unto themselves(like the versions of SF2). Comparing KI to these is pretty much a bad analogy because the content was created after the games release while KI's probably exists on some server somewhere or in withheld source code(IE you're are playing a game who's development cycle is still ongoing and is not complete).

Honestly I miss getting all the stuff in a game right out of the gate without having to keep paying more and more money in crappy microtransactions.

Also another story I read has me worried for an entirely different reason: The Xbone's nasty DRM system reared it's ugly head with this game.

 

[CMAC]

Do you really believe all 8 (or 16) characters were finished by launch and they are witholding it and arcade mode for more $$$? If so you haven't followed the development of this game at all and we are wasting time discussing it. I'm not sure how they profit by delaying it or portions of it that they ARE releasing with no additional cost (so far Sadira, Orchid then Spinal & Fulgore and the arcade mode). Cleary you hate microtransactions and Microsoft, we get that, but you just keep trying to spin the facts about this game. What's your true motivation?

 

[Tighe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbyj_TqmHc

 

[jow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbyj_TqmHc

Holy shit Tighe! THIS IS SO INNOVATIVE!

 

[Tighe]

Holy shit Tighe! THIS IS SO INNOVATIVE!

You would have a valid point if I owned the game or the Xbone.

Now that I have said that, Killer Instinct Gold was released on the N64 in 1996.

That is EIGHTEEN FUCKING YEARS AGO!

Unlike Super Mario:

 

[nesjess]

You would have a valid point if I owned the game or the Xbone.

Now that I have said that, Killer Instinct Gold was released on the N64 in 1996.

That is EIGHTEEN FUCKING YEARS AGO!

Unlike Super Mario:

Wow, you're going to have that discussion here too?

 

[Tighe]

Wow, you're going to have that discussion here too?

Jow started it.

Did you hear John's tirade on the VGO podcast this week? I thought he was going to have an aneurysm.