Also what’s the deal with the krypt? Why do I have to guess what I want to unlock? Cheap way to add more “replay value”.
Oh, you do the Air Dash loop? Yeah, that’s the one I want to learn next before I tackle ROM. I’m slowly upgrading my bnbs w Magneto and improving my execution. I originally did: S-h-mh-fly-LH-LH-LH-LH. But that did like 405 and just built 1 meter and realized i needed more damage and meter so i just improvised off of that combo.
Gonna hit the training mode today w mk9 and mvc3 to work on stuff.
If you played Deadly Alliance you would get it. In deadly alliance there was something like 676 tombs to unlock for features and it was kind of fun to go through them all and see what you would unlock. IMO, its really annoying to navigate through the Krypt in this game.
I like the idea of not knowing what you’re going unlock. (if you do it the legit way and do not look online) It keeps you playing to get those alt outfits, stages, fatalities, or whatever else the game has in store.
I’m just going to guess you were never a big MK fan. To me, Mortal Kombat was one of my core games as a kid. I still remember the day I first played MK II and the lines behind that machine to play that game. My brother and i were in the Trumbull mall going to play MK I because we loved it. We got there and were like “what crowd would not be around playing mk?” We walked over and we were like “Mortal Kombat II??? What the hell???” So many memories playing those games. To me MK9 is a giant smack in the head of better times when I was a kid. I’m just glad they didnt royally fuck it up. I could care less about online play or competitive play. Im playing it the way video games should be played today, having people over and passing the stick/controller.
I hate how online play is diminishing person to person interactions. Its depressing.
In both Marvel and SSFIV, even though their netcode is still slightly sub-par, when you have to two players with a good connection, the matches are more than playable. Tekken 6 has bad netcode. Take that, and add in the fact that it’s crashing systems, and you have, well, even worse netcode.
Also on the MK subject; I’m going to have to shake my head at MK9 as well. I had a convo with Kryo after playing the game for awhile at home and we both came up with more or less the same overall reasons for the game being unpleasant. Kryonik noted most of the technical difficulties that he and I agreed upon, some of which I’ll add to.
I’m sorry, while the graphics during game-play are solid, the dev team did not take advantage of this anywhere near its fullest potential. Fatalities for example. Almost every fatality left me disappointed, and they were not at all creative. They either started off well and fizzled out, or were short and disappointing, overall a majority of them didn’t feel unique to their specific characters.
Reptile as an example - Spits acid down your throat to help him rip out your stomach. In all honesty it was completely out of context. You see the acid go down his throat, but that’s the end of it. It was as if he could have ripped your stomach out without doing it. It was corny and left me feeling unsatisfied. Boring.
Stryker - He tazers you, and blows your head off. Boring again. What did they do to spice it up? Showed the same gun shot to the face two more times in two different angles? Talk about a lazy excuse to make a lame fatality “look better” than it already isn’t. Half of them are technically reptitive - Liu Kang, Kano, Reptile (not to use him again). Only a couple of them caught my eye as unique: Ermac, Raiden, Sub-Zero, and Sheeva.
I have to agree with Kryonik again in terms of the choppy gameplay. MK:Deception > MK* in regard to any sort of gameplay mechanics/engine. MK9 basically takes Deception’s comboability and flow, makes it slower, choppier, and less intuitive. The sense of timing for combos is completely unrelated to what happens on screen; it almost felt like there was no corellation.
I played the shit out of MK:Deception on the PS2, and online as well. IMO, that iteration set the bar for each version going forward.
Just because “that’s how it was done” does not make it a good idea. I spent a bunch of “koins” to get a code for big head mode last night and almost frisbee’d my disc out the window. I just want fatalities and stages and costumes, everything else is absolutely worthless to me. Forcing a player to go back and replay the game over and over again to get what he wants is a cheap way to engender replayability.
I *was *a big MK player back in the MK2-3 days. But nostalgia is no excuse. This game is not good.
Did you seriously just type that?
There are guides for the krypt.
I do wish it was more like deception too though. That game was super fun. Don’t know why that game wasn’t explored more from a competitive stand point.
Also does anyone know what they are doing in this game yet? I have no idea how to play.
Person to Person is different than Player to Player
maybe you didn’t get my point? Remember the arcade days? Going over to a friends house if you wanted to play again? Having a bunch of people over to play a game you just bought? Goldeneye 4 person on the N64? That’s what im talking about.
Yeah, online lets you talk and communicate across the world and so on and so forth but people are so concerned with whats going on long distance sort of speak and not taking advantage of what is close to them/right in front of them. It goes with simple things such as learning too.
Simple examples of close proximity necessities: people dont know how to count change or how to tip when they go out to eat but they know how to use skype and talk to someone in Canada through their computer or some shit.
I hate this new age online generation…
Whats diminishing person to person interactions is playing online WITHOUT A HEADSET. Its like having phone sex without a phone. How is playing online not person to person. Arent you playing someone while online???+
Goldeneye was good, Perfect Dark was badass, WWF NO MERCY WAS THE SHIT
Coming from the guy who can’t be bothered to go to tournaments in person.
hey man if you wanna pick me up and drive me to the tournament and back to my house ill go.
Corrected for grammar. :wonder:
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I don’t really like playing his game against people, but I’d be lying if I said I don’t love training mode lol
I dunno, but I kinda love this new age online generation. Playing people from all over that I’d normally never get to play is pretty awesome. Plus part of growing up is having a job and less free time to do stuff (you seem like a busy guy so I thought you’d at least appreciate this) so getting together with my local buddies to play a couple matches is nice and effortless and less time consuming and to top it all off from the comfort of my home.
Then you play tommy online, and your like WTF. lol
Yea. Like, how can this guy play so well in lag? He can see the future.
Without online the fighting game community wouldn’t have grown as much as it has.
Just saying.
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Whatchu know about day 1 80% combos?
I got some shit with scorpion… even tho feels weird doing 40% BnBs after playing MvC3 for awhile lol
After I bought the game and turned it on, I felt like returning it right away but I dont know I think I’m starting to break the game down and it feels mortal kombat at last! it’s starting to grow on me lol
We will see how it turns out later on
Just had Needles and Blackout over for casuals, is there anyone else that plays from around northern CT? Windsor/Manchester/Enfield/Hartford and such. Definitely trying to get more people from this side of the state.
Looking for more ways to level up and get people that may not be much into the events to join us.
Also:
Amen, help put an end to it by not posting ever again.
Yea we definitely want to find some more people. Lol we played pretty much all day. Also Cyber bots for best fighting game ever. Though I get the feeling if the people from our side of the state haven’t already posted then they are probably not hanging around the SRK forums, or at least not the CT thread.
Also
DAT MOUSE PAD!!!
you guys should hit us up in springfield, we meet up two minutes off of 291.
Mk9 is so super fun.
Cyberbots, Darkstalkers, Third Strike, Mousepad, PIZZA. GOD LIKE