Talk:The King of Fighters XII

About this new character
Well in the picture to the right you can see that a new character is depicted. He's looking like a masked professional wrestler that led to some people say he's Raiden. Wikipedia says it's him, but the source only speculate the character to be Raiden. It's to be noted that the character has a tattoo on his right shoulders that is not depicted in any of Raiden/Big Bear's appearances and that the design of his mask is different from Raiden's mask. He also wears different gloves. Although SNK displayed its interest in putting Raiden/Big Bear in the King of Fighters series since '94, let's not affirm that the character is indeed Raiden, until it is confirmed by SNK. It's really easy to speculate, since I could speculate that he is a brazilian pro wrestler, since the brazilian flag is by his side or that he is just Tizoc with a different mask... Anyone disagree? - Mr.Kraken 13:03, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That sounds plausible. I'd love it if it was really Tizoc in Raiden's getup. Imagine all the possibilities have with that one like all the wrestling things they can say about that one ("He was an honorable opponent and thus I don his mask!"). I guess we won't know for sure until TGS really... Sake neko 17:46, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's Raiden... cool! -- Mr.Kraken 20:35, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

11/29 Event footage with sound
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5399835

For anyone who wants it. Sake neko 00:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Can't watch it. Aparently, I have to register. - Mr.Kraken 09:53, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This one should work but you can't make the video bigger. Click the comment icon bottom right of the video box if you want to turn off the niconico user's comments: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/sm5399835 Sake neko 10:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, there's also these ones from Cyberfanatix. Most of them look the same but it's cut up into different shorter sections: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Cyberfanatix&view=videos Sake neko 00:05, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Ages
Were the characters' ages retconned? Terry is 24 years old, Athena is 18 years old... Goro is 29 years old! -- Mr.Kraken 11:53, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope. For the King of Fighters regulars, they've been those ages since '95 as '96 "froze" their ages for everyone. Raiden was never given a solid year for his birthdate so they made it up for KOF. I've read one news source saying that Ash was actually 17 but he's the only age that I can think of being retconned. Sake neko 14:12, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * So, Goro is really still 29? Damn, he looks like he's in his fourties. Also, he looks... big, VERY big. And Joe lost some weight. Any clue about the boss? -- Mr.Kraken 20:43, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty blown away with Goro and Shen being the same age. As for the boss, maybe Rugal? I'd want a '94 Rugal and 2003 Adel tag team personally. :) Sake neko 22:53, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * So, the rumors are true, then? The game will be a dream match and will have no story, is that really true? Damn, they didn't even conclude the Ash saga... oh, why, SNK? WHY? Guess we'll have to wait a lot more to see who is behind Those From The Past. Oh, man... - Mr.Kraken 20:38, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the producer flat out said that there will be no real story for this one. Seems like they're still conceiving it and want to give us a KOF to pass the time. Characters in this game will have some sort of story blurb but they probably won't really count for much in the actual storyline (except for flameless Iori). It's sorta like how Nameless has a little story behind him even if he's a dream match character. I like that they're taking their time to test the waters, but they really are teasing fans too much with this new storyline. :) Sake neko 00:54, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, boy... let's just sit back and wait, then... but I still want to play with brutal, cruel, meat-slashing, little emo, Iori. :D -- Mr.Kraken 01:00, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup, I'm with you on that one. :3 Sake neko 01:36, 6 December 2008 (UTC)