Talk:The King of Fighters XIV

Kyo & Iori (KOF XIV) with similar clothes from a doujin of 1998
My friend bought an Iori x Kyo doujin and realize their clothes are very similar with the actual design of Kyo and Iori from KOF XIV ,this is very strange Ô.o

Ps:took the pic from her roleplay page and sorry for my bad english,not a native speaker



Characters

 * Kyo Kusanagi


 * Iori Yagami


 * Chizuku Kagura


 * K'


 * Kula Diamond


 * Maxima


 * Whip


 * Terry Bogard


 * Andy Bogard


 * Joe Higashi


 * Yukino Ozawa


 * Maki Kagura


 * Benimaru Nikaido


 * Goro Daimon


 * Shingo Yabuki


 * Elisabeth Blanctorche


 * Duo Lon


 * Shen Woo

King of Dinosaurs
If you people haven't realized yet, he's Tizoc. Welcome to your doom! 20:27, February 18, 2016 (UTC)

That's absurd, why would the King of Dinosaurs even be Tizoc? You're talking nonsense. DevilX90 (talk) 21:35, February 18, 2016 (UTC)
 * Until SNK starts releasing official character profiles, please do not make any assumptions on his true identity beyond that he's a new character. Kyosei (talk) 22:03, February 18, 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is an assumption and not official (that's why I'm just discussing on the talk page), but it isn't absurd and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Pay attention to the trailer, not only his moves are very similar, he even says "Justice Hurricane" during the Izuna Drop move. Welcome to your doom! 00:39, March 1, 2016 (UTC)


 * I still don't see how Tizoc and King of Dinosaurs are one in the same. Tizoc has the griffon mask, King of Dinosaurs has the dinosaur mask, they don't look one in the same. If anything, King of Dinosaurs could be Tizoc's rival. And don't even think about changing King of Dinosaurs' name to Tizoc, because you can't prove it. DevilX90 (talk) 02:21, March 1, 2016 (UTC)


 * Like I said, I'm just discussing here. Yes, could be him with a different mask, could be a rival, could be someone not related to him at all. And don't worry, I don't plan on changing the name in the article, I'm not a newbie. Welcome to your doom! 03:44, March 13, 2016 (UTC)

English Dubbed
Will the game The King of Fighters XIV will English Dubbed equal to the KOF: Maximum Impact (series) and The King of Fighters XII? 02:25, March 1, 2016 (UTC)

Don't count on it. The English Dub is not only awful, but "god-awful". The Japanese voice from all KOF characters are so much better than that crappy English voices. I'd say KOF XIV is better off without the English Dub, like every single good KOF game, not counting KOF XII nor Maximum Impact series! DevilX90 (talk) 03:21, March 1, 2016 (UTC)


 * And but I wanted the English Dub voice of The King of Fighters XIV for the Story Mode like that a Street Fighter V via DLC or Mortal Kombat 9 and Mortal Kombat X. 00:50, March 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, too bad, KOF XIV is better off without the English Dub. No way is this game going to have the terrible English voice-acting, so lower your expectations. DevilX90 (talk) 02:04, March 3, 2016 (UTC)


 * It has not yet been confirmed English Dubbed of The King of Fighters XIV's something wrong SNK Playmore USA? 18:42, March 11, 2016 (UTC)


 * I think this game deserves a dub--and not with the voice actors from MI and XII--I'm talking about actual voice actors that we love--like Johnny Yong Bosch, Vic Mignogna, Josh Grelle, Kate Higgins, Troy Baker, Nolan North, Dameon Clarke, Veronca Taylor, Steven Blum, Crispin Freeman, Wendee Lee, Gideon Emery, Tara Strong, Kat Cressida, Michelle Ruff, Scott McNeil, Caitlin Glass, Jason Liebrecht, Yuri Lowenthal, David Vincent, Laura Bailey, Christopher Sabat, Grant George, Robin Atkin Downes, Patrick Seitz, Michael McConnohie, Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Bryce Papenbrook, Spike Spencer, Grey DeLisle, John DiMaggio, Todd Haberkorn, or Mike Pollock. MrWii000 (talk) 04:14, April 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * Riiiight... We should be glad if SNK even consider fully voice-acted the dialogue w/Jap VA. Just look XIII, not even a voice for narrative so spending extra money on something as luxurious as Eng dub and that's not even guaranteed that it'd attract new consumers? I doubt SNK would do it given how tight their budget is right now. Dnoryu (talk) 11:43, April 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * No, the English dub is already considered a worst idea for this game, no matter how talented those voice actors are. KoF XIV is just fine without the English dub, as SNK made it official. DevilX90 (talk) 05:16, April 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * Something tells me that SNK unable to find a decent English Voice Actors who are outside Japan (mostly on USA, England and Oceania) & the voice acting direction, as well as due to a critical small budgets the company is having. Since the anime & live-actions of this series announced, who knows if we'll get to hear ENG voice casting too once the original airing is done on each seasons, as long as SNK finally found and make the ENG voice acting decent, especially the live-action acting too. Time will tell. ScottKazama (talk) 15:30, Septemper, 2016 (UTC)

Vice is still alive?!
That can't be real! I thought Vice went back to hell forever, along with Mature, you know, after Iori got his flames back in the end of KOF XIII?! I'm sorry to say this, but what the hell is going on?! DevilX90 (talk) 03:58, March 18, 2016 (UTC)
 * Seeing as SNK has said nothing about the story, I wouldn't be making any assumptions that she's alive. This could be another dream match game or a similar thing they did with her in XIII for all we know. Kyosei (talk) 09:21, March 18, 2016 (UTC)
 * SNK has said this will be the beginning of a new saga. Presumably XII filled the "dream match quotient" for the series, despite happening one game too soon (although we all know WHY). They're going to have to explain why Vice is still among the living. SolidSonicTH (talk) 12:18, March 18, 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to assume she's among the living or otherwise until SNK starts saying something about the story. Kyosei (talk) 06:41, March 19, 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, we've seen the gameplay of Team Yagami, and there's still no explanation of how are Vice and Mature still alive! When the hell will that ever happen?! DevilX90 (talk) 04:20, May 19, 2016 (UTC)

Dimps Corporation
The game's graphics and gameplay of The King of Fighters XIV were developer by Dimps Corporation and SNK Playmore. 20:10, March 24, 2016 (UTC)

Stages
Why am I the only one who maintained this section? There's more stages now. That festival stage, the aircraft carrier, the Great Wall of China...COME ON. SolidSonicTH (talk) 13:23, May 13, 2016 (UTC)

Mature is still alive?!
That can't be real! As it is impossible for the Mature it's alive, he said that Mature is dead it would not appear.

'''Did all the characters have physical appearances, Kyosei? Arrimas 15:34, July 2, 2016 (UTC)'''
 * I'm not sure what you're trying to ask but how or why Mature and Vice are participating in the tournament again has not been explained. I imagine most of the story details are going to be kept under wraps until the game's release. Kyosei (talk) 20:09, July 2, 2016 (UTC)

KOF XIV Team Story
http://www.snkplaymore.co.jp/us/games/kof-xiv/teamstory/

Okay, time to add to work on the team's prologue involving the appearance of NPC. -- ScottKazama, August 12, 2016, 3:00 PM (7:00+)

About the gamers who got this game early
There are some people who got this game early WAY before the release date. For instance, a YouTuber named MasqueradeGamer has just uploaded his videos of this game that he just got earlier today. And despite his warnings, his videos are being deleted for obvious spoiling. Tsk tsk tsk, some people are just being impatient! It's only a matter of time before his videos are deleted, and it must stay that way until this game is released. DevilX90 (talk) 06:06, August 14, 2016 (UTC)

I agree. This is what i fear might happen after reading a warning from Atlus & SNK, i did try suggest the guy there to keep the videos private until the release date in time, but still. I suggest we should hide what we find and gathered here (such as what ending art looks like). Except team story, which already in OW (official website), such as the appearance of Shingo & Whip for example. ScottKazama, (talk 12:32, August 15, 2016 (UTC)

And MasqueradeGamer got banned from YouTube, who'da thunk it? That's what he gets for spoiling this game before it is released worldwide. Too bad for him. DevilX90 (talk) 03:40, August 16, 2016 (UTC)

-|*_*|- i warned him: Keep the video private until we are allowed to release the vids in the nick of same time as release date publically. I should have known this will happen. Not all of us know how to set videos in private.ScottKazama (talk) 11:10, August 16, 2016 (UTC)

Producer
Yasuyuki Oda

Lead Game Designers
Yuji Watanabe, Kaito Soranaka, Hiroya Kobayashi, Hiroshi Otaka, Hidetoshi Ishizawa

Technical Director
Tatsuya Hayashi

Programmers
Seiji Ando, Haruhiko Yamazaki, Jim Bulmer, Shinji Maeyama, Masanori Tsuji, Yukimasa Kawai, Takeaki Yamamoto, Kosuke Itsuki

Art Director
Nobuyuki Kuroki

Lead Artist
Naoto Abe

Character Artist
Eisuke Ogura

Technical Artist
Atsushi Hakamada

Character Modeling Artists
Yusuke Amano, Yumi Okamura, Kazukiyo Masuda, Chika Ueyama

Character Motion Artists
Youichiro Soeda, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Kaori Sakata, Mitsutoshi Tsujita, Kyungmin Bae, Shunsuke Shimizu, Kenichi Murata

Stage Artists
Maki Fukunaga, Hidenori Kanbara, Sayo Ihara, Toshiaki Kawada, Hiroko Kiyosawa, Kotaro Urushihara

VFX Artist
H.T.

Interface Artists
Fumito Minami, Chizuru Nakashima, Maki Mukai

Illustrators
Daisuke Nakazawa, Masae Nonaka, Hiroki Nishimura, Akiko Magome, Asuka Takahashi

Authoring
Tatsuhiko Kanaoka, Haruka Matsuda, Yasuyo Oi, Tomohiro Nakatani, Yuh Sakaue

Design Works
OYAZI3, Goodspeed, Shinsuke Matsushita

Sound Producer
HORI_HORI

Sound Directors
Hideki Asanaka, ZOE, Minori Sasaki, Mayuko Hino, Naoki Kita, Rio Hashikawa

Voice Cast

 * Tomoaki Maeno (Kyo)
 * Atsushi Maezuka (Benimaru/Choi)
 * Takahiro Fujiwara (Daimon)
 * Daiki Takakura (Ryo)
 * Gō Shinomiya (Robert)
 * Ai Kakuma (Yuri)
 * Takashi Kondo (Terry)
 * Hiroshi Okamoto (Andy)
 * Kozo Mito (Joe)
 * Seiko Yoshida (Leona)
 * Bunsyu Shinoya (Ralf)
 * Tomo Kasaya (Clark)
 * Takanori Hoshino (Iori)
 * Keiko Tsutsui (Mature)
 * Mayumi Sato (Vice)
 * Yoshihisa Kawahara (K')
 * Yumi Kakazu (Kula)
 * Katsuyuki Konishi (Maxima)
 * Kong Kuwata (Geese)
 * Masaki Masaki (Billy)
 * Naoki Sagawa (Hein)
 * Harumi Ikoma (King)
 * Ami Koshimizu (Mai)
 * Akino Hayashi (Alice)
 * Kazuhiko Nagata (Kim)
 * Toshiya Fujisawa (Gang-il)
 * Chika Kino (Luong)
 * Haruna Ikezawa (Athena)
 * Yuto Kaname (Kensou)
 * Shintaro Tanaka (Chin)
 * Yūji Fujita (Xanadu)
 * Hiroyuki Arita (Chang)
 * Mai Nakahara (Nakoruru)
 * Namiko Otsu (Mui Mui)
 * Toa Yukinari (Love Heart)
 * Kiyoshi Katsunuma (Ramon)
 * Miki Ogura (Angel)
 * Hikaru Hanada (King of Dinosaurs)
 * Takashi Ohara (Shun'ei)
 * Hajime Shikase (Tung)
 * Seira Ryu (Meitenkun)
 * Kengo Takanashi (Nelson)
 * Ayumi Fujimura (Zarina)
 * Eiji Miyashita (Bandeiras)
 * Mio (Sylvie)
 * Hiroki Takahashi (Kukri)
 * AYUKA (Mian)
 * Moriyuki Hishida (Antonov)
 * Yusaku (Verse)
 * Kuniyoshi Itoi (Yakov)
 * Kazuma Otsu (Clemence Bellamy)
 * Rina Shikura (Boy A)
 * Noriko Abe (Boy B)
 * Yuma Yamaguchi (Ring Announcer)
 * Don Purdy (Male Announcer)
 * Bianca Allen (Female Announcer)
 * Maxwell Powers (System Voice Announcer)
 * Yuma Uchida (Rock)
 * Tsuguo Mogami (Yamazaki)
 * Mayumi Hata (Vanessa)
 * Shiho Kikuchi (Whip)
 * Haruo Yamagashi (Heidern)
 * Toshihiro Shigetsuka (Oswald)
 * Sarah Emi Bridcutt (Blue Mary)
 * Ayaka Fukuhara (Najd)

Quality Assurance
Wataru Sasaki, Toru Ito, Yuji Noda

Infrastructure
Kouji Tachibana

Public Relations
Naoto Mori

Domestic (Japan) Sales & Marketing Dept.
Makoto Ito

Asian Sales & Marketing Dept.
Takeshi Kimura, Iksoo Kim, Pengcheng Li, Zhidong Dai, Thomas Chu, Sham Cheuk Wah

North American & European Sales & Marketing Dept.
Adam Laatz, Laurent Vernézy, Keisuke Nishikawa

General Management
Hiroyuki Kouno, Kenichiro Tanimoto, Yukiko Nakazawa, Minako Yamamura

Executive Producers
Zhi Hui Ge, Koichi Toyama, Hidetoshi Torii, Charlie Zhao, Yutaka Noguchi

Theme Songs (Follow Me/Burning On)
Steven McNair

SEIJA Region Distributors
Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia, Sony Interactive Entertainment Korea, Sony Interactive Entertainment Hong Kong, Sony Interactive Entertainment Taiwan, Sony Interactive Entertainment Singapore

SIEA Region Publisher
Atlus U.S.A. Inc.

SIEE Region Publisher
Deep Silver, Koch Media

China Region Publisher
GAMEPOCH INC.

Special Thanks
Eikichi Kawasaki, K. Kawasaki

Production
Bee Tribe Co. Ltd.: Koichi Minami, Akira Masuda, Yoji Hosaka, Akane Kawataki, Takuya Kiguchi, Shūhei Fujinaga, Yufei Wang, Ryoko Mogami, Mizuki Tashima, Bidda Camilla Solvang Poulsen, Takayuki Ono, Kouzou Watanabe, Hiroyuki Ōtani, Kei Kurosaki, Hiroyuki Imahori, Sachiko Sugiyama, Shinji Utsunomiya, Kazumi Nihei, Kouta Hosoda, Yoshiaki Naemura, Shiho Nakamura, Shohei Fujimoto, Ai Matsumoto, Tomona Tsuzuki, Yutaka Ikoma, Yuki Shishido, Yoshihiro Haji, Takao Horikawa, Kazumi Ozahata, Yoichi Takai, Masahiro Miura, Masaro Tachibana, Taiki Masuda, Atushi Iyoda, Naoki Takeguchi, Shigeki Yamamoto, Kazuya Yamasaki, Takeshi Kataoka, Yuki Murata, Taro Uozumi, Shima Murano, Suzuka Kawasaki, Shintaro Umeda, Joji Sakaue, Shogo Ikemura, Ryusuke Inoue, Kaede Watanabe

NEURON・AGE Co. Ltd.: Tomohisa Fukui, Kento Shimada, Masashi Hatae, Chiho Fujita, Masaki Sekiguchi, Yuki Hashino, Keisuke Sannohe, Ren Sasaki, Shinji Ishii, Kaori Hotomi, Aiko Matsuura

CANPLAIZE Inc.: Takayuki Nakamura, Ayumi Miyake, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Naoto Okumura

ART-CODING Co., Ltd.: He Junxian, Shui Xiuyi, Yang Bo, Chen Junxiong, Jin Wenxiang, Yan Qiwen, Xie Yi, Jiang Jiemeng, Chen Min, Gao Yi, Cai Dadi, Shan Mengmeng, Zhi Qingsheng, Xie Chunsheng, Mao Ruici, Chen Sirui, Chen Yuzhang, Zhang Fuqiang, Huang Diexi, Yu Junjie, Wang Wenhao, Zhu Yuanjie, Chen Hong, Li Yifan, Pang Zhi, Liu Jia, Hu Haiyan, Yang Yanbin, Shen Yuexiang, Zhu Jing, Yang Ying, Yang Yiwei, Li Wenchao, Du Jinjun, Yang Mingen

Plusmile Corp.: Xu Lin, Wang Da Kai, Rao Zhi Min, Peng Lei, Li Xiang Rong, Qi Jian Xin

SUCCESS Corporation: Hirosi Murakami, Liu Dafeng, Liu Xiangdong

Dynamo Pictures inc.: Hiroki Inazuka, Motohiko Yoshimura, Akihiro Matsui, Akane Kurosawa, Takuma Kaneko, Kosuke Chiba, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Hidenori Takei, Asuka Yoshikawa, Megumu Oohashi, Masa Shigeoka

Aex inc.: Akira Takahata, Kenji Tsujimura, Ryota Hiraishi, Yasuhito Sakabe, Tatsuro Goda, Kana Inagami, Daishiro Tanaka, Ayumi Takahashi, Kentaro Kubo, You Bin, Masatoshi Azuchi, Wataru Matsushima, Masahiro Inoue, Daichi Kawamoto, Masahiro Sano, Masaki Bando, Fumiya Miura, Mahiro Yamamoto, Hitomi Watanabe, Chisato Tahara, Shizuka Kawasaka, Toshiki Izumi, Junichi Yokoyama, Takako Koguchi, Shoichi Ishihara, Mizuki Sato, Naoki Tanaka, Michina Nanen

DIGITAL Hearts Co., Ltd.: Takao Tamura, Yuzuru Hamada, Joshua S. Vanderbilt

Presented by:SNK

KOF XIV, "Ver. 2:
So, I am THRILLED that SNK is releasing such a major update for KOF XIV--for free! Plus, not only are we getting the graphical update but also two new colors per character, the KOF '98 fan fav Athena costume and a slew of PS4 themes--also all free! In addition, SNK has hinted at other incoming KOF XIV updates/additions.

BTW, I still think KOF, on the whole already looks better than SFV. The character models on SFV look like claymation. Sure, currently the KOF characters have a smooth, shiny, "plastic-like look." But I will take that over a pottery-looking Chun-Li any day.

But I digress. I am replaying KOF XIV after a few weeks away and noticed a few things:

1. Some, certainly not the majority, of stages have static backgrounds that appear dull. The new lighting might fix the dull issue but I would like to see a little more movement in some of the backgrounds.

2. Again, I am happy they are releasing two new colors per character. However, after the large number of colors (and color editor) for XIII, it feels like there should be a few more.

3. Being that there are already 50 characters in XIV, I doubt there will be any new character DLC. However, with the defeat of Verse, there could be a reintroduction of so many characters. The first on my list is Ash. I know many people think he is two feminine and not "strong enough" to be a (ant-)hero. I say boo to that and he was and can again be a great character. And, now that all the characters should remember the Ash saga, Elizabeth has to come back. Finally, I would love to see the New Faces/Orochi team again.

4. Speaking of characters, I wish they could bring in Rock and Hotaru. I know they are "future" characters. But SNK has said KOF is its own universe, so how about a second another world team? Again, these IMO are minor issues I would like to see addressed. It would be hard to do in XIV. SNK is already working so hard on improving the game, we cannot ask for much more from them. But maybe KOF XV can add some of content I mentioned.

Ok, end personal pipe dream :).

EKUAM (talk) 20:04, December 28, 2016 (UTC)EKUAM

Vanessa in XIV
https://twitter.com/HBJohnXuandou/status/842208214041034752/photo/1

But whatever we do here & other wiki related, do not update the XIV wiki just yet until her official trailer release.

ScottKazama (talk) 13:26, March 16, 2017 (7:00+)

Datamined Future DLC Characters Leaks
https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-king-of-fighters-xiv-community/the-king-of-fighters-xiv-steam-edition-futuras-dlc-datamining/146140039270460/

So the datamining leak really is true about these 8 more future DLC characters (6 oldies from pre-SNK games (Oswald already confirmed), while 2 others are new ones (1 already confirmed as female shadow Arabian newbie (code name “Nadj”), but the other one still unknown if he/she will be brand new or another SNK oldies)).

2 other Wave 2 DLC characters where Oswald & that “Nadj” are very PREDICTABO. 3 words: Heidern & Mary. Existing sprites quickly confirms it.

However, even though the datamine confirmed 4 of 8 other future DLC characters on each Waves, we’ll have to wait for the characters’ gameplay trailers or unexpected official model showcases like before, & even like recently in Street Fighter V too.

ScottKazama (talk) 22:40, January 30, 2018 (7:00+)