Have Capcom & SNK lost the fighting game touch?

Street Fighter 4 looks like a 3D remake of Street Fighter 2 (although that Chun Li finisher is cute):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWk9QUq6uvE

KOF12 looks nice… but the new Samurai Spirits is like a watered down version of Soul Caliber 4:

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

They even have an Afro Samurai now… how cliche and sellout is that? :roll:

capcom lost the touch after snk vs capcom 2.

For snk, kof 11 was great so I hope the 12 will be as good (but since I doubt it will be on PS2, I will never play it).

The veterans from both companies are long gone, so it’s little surprise.

To me, they have’nt quite. see thread HERE.
although SNK is’nt involved in THAT [may be a good thing, i think]
I so want to get my hands on this as soon as possible, and maybe master Assasin’s movesets.

SNK lost it since KOF 99’ (with the last “acceptable” game from them, except maybe for Garou: MotW).
From Capcom, I really miss the crossover titles (X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, etc). They were awesome. I think the last really great CAPCOM game i’ve played was SF3 3rd Strike (a lot of gamers didn’t like this one, but I liked the advanced gameplay a lot).

It seems you can rape Ryu. :wink:

Here’s some KOF XII shots i saw on other forum:

What makes me afraid are these horrible special effects for DMs. :frowning: