right. i think kofxiv is quite a disappointment, visually speaking, whether you compare it to it's own series or other 3d series. this game actually looks like a solid 8 in terms of it being 3D and still being KOF.

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Posted by zero on November 02, 2019 at 09:37:01 EST in reply to KOF XIV being a pretty low bar, of course. (n/t) from Paleface.

right. i think kofxiv is quite a disappointment, visually speaking, whether you compare it to it's own series or other 3d series. this game actually looks like a solid 8 in terms of it being 3D and still being KOF.

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I don't dislike the graphics as much as most (probably SF fans ;) seemed to. Some of the character models are okay--I really like the design of the first boss, for instance--but most are a little weak, and they're all excessively plain. The stages are bland. The animations are bad--that was the part that really got me in the end, because the old KOFs, while not having high frame counts, always animated like they meant business, and just look and feel so much better in motion than XIV. If we're talking out of 10 I'd have to give it a...6, maybe? Hm, at most. Probably 5.

(Paleface)

(13:08:57 11/02/19 EST)

Yep, you said it. Japanese devs simply do more when they have less. With no walls they’re clueless and confused but tell them *exactly* how many bytes they have to squeeze that winning animation into and they’ll fucking nail it. All the best Japanese cars are made the same way.

(SignOfZeta)

(22:18:49 11/04/19 EST)

(Mike Chicago)

(15:39:21 11/05/19 EST)

I’m a big Honda fan but I’ve never heard a single bad thing about a Prius from someone who owned one. Toyota quality dominates all others, it really does. That being said the Insight is one of those cars Honda does a better job of (Fit based, sold in Japan, probably made there too) as opposed to the designed/built for/in Ohio stuff like the Pilot or USDM Civic which quality is...ehh...up and down. They are the only two hybrids I’d buy. Both are great choices as long as you don’t like responsive ride/handling/power because both have zilch of either. Both are super ugly on the outside but I greatly prefer Honda interior to Toyota. This is why I have a Fit but also a VW because seriously it makes or breaks long road trips to have a “real” car. We couldn’t have two real cars though. The financial risk would be too great. One has to be a Honda that costs me zero in parts for years on end to make up for the borking I get at the VW dealer. Just don’t buy the VW and you’ll be good, I guess that’s what I’m saying.

(SignOfZeta)

(04:40:14 11/06/19 EST)

also you have to not care about looking out the rear view window because it's just like... for show? you can't see anything out of it in either car and have to use side mirrors exclusively. I've driven both insights and priuses and I can say without a doubt that the insight is the worst honda I've ever driven, but the one I've driven is from like 2014. For that reason I'd kind of tend toward the prius because a) it seems to have a bit of power sometimes and b) it's not just a disappointing honda :P

(exodus)

(14:36:50 11/06/19 EST)

Visibility does seem to be an afterthought these days with some Honda’s in particular being loaded with massive blind spots. This is made slightly less worse by backup cameras being mandated now but they aren’t good enough, even if there are two or three of them like there are in the new Fit for some reason.

(SignOfZeta)

(14:01:49 11/07/19 EST)

yeah, and the backup cameras don't help on the freeway! it's really odd to me how much visibility is getting constrained.

(exodus)

(17:32:52 11/07/19 EST)

I agree. When the 2006 Civic couple came out two of the first ones we sold came back for collision damage, both making left hand turns IIRC. Rearward visibility is the worst in new stuff. The Honda Clarity, for example.

(SignOfZeta)

(13:40:36 11/09/19 EST)

jeez, but it makes sense! plus, in my experience, people really like rear ending other cars these days.

(exodus)

(16:51:13 11/12/19 EST)

Yeah, I was just going to bring this up. I just rented whatever the luxury version of the current Prius is (triple upgrade because it's all they had?) and you couldn't see shit backwards. I would never buy a prius off the back of that.

(aerisdead)

(14:50:24 12/09/19 EST)

yeah, I don't get where that comes from. it's bizarre. but maybe if a person drives in one from the start they'd get used to never using the rear view

(exodus)

(20:07:06 12/13/19 EST)

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