From what I gather they will be supporting this game for at least a year or 2 with character packs. If it is successful a sequel probably wont be necessary any time soon.

You will be waiting until 2014.
6 characters will be available at launch. Single player modes wont be available until later this year or early next. There is no definitive date as to when the other 2 characters will be released. DH said they are hoping to take the roster to 16 characters by holiday season 2014. Hopefully sometime between now and then they will add finishers. Right now they are focusing all their efforts on tweaking gameplay.

DH has only been working on this game a year. It's a shame they weren't given more time to make a complete game. It definitely looks pretty but 6 characters...... I don't know what to say about that without sounding like I am completely burying the game. Even 16 characters is a little slim for most fighting games. With all the fighters that have come out this generation I can't name any off hand that had 16 or less characters. I don't doubt there is but I buy most fighters and I can't think of any of the top of my head.

Personally I think DH should put this game on hold until it's complete. It seems like they are going to release a work in progress. And that's being overly kind but that's exactly what they are in fact doing if this game is released this year with only 6 characters and bare bone modes. <- Again, that's being overly kind.

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If you haven't seen it in person, you are likely to be more impressed with how it looks. I hated KI and KI2 back in the day. It looked like rendered garbage back then. Now that graphical capabilities have improved so much, KI seems to fit right in with what they can do. It is pretty impressive what they have done, even if it apparently doesn't run at 1080p

yeah they were such good and fun games but they never really reached the mainstream audience. Killer Instinct was widely known and respected.

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.

That combo was way overkill 😂

Tobal 2 was awesome. Sold really well cause art similarity to dragon ball

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.

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.