Considering that MKD-MKA were terrible games competitively and in general, and MKvsDC wasn’t a great game either, the best possible thing they could’ve done was what they’re doing. Going back to the roots to see what made MK a great series in the first place. And that’s games like MK2 and UMK3. Also making it 2D again is another huge step forward, not back.
Look at it this way, more people would rather see the old characters than the new 3D MK characters. I can’t really even remember the new ones, which shows the lack of significance and impact they have on MK as a whole. Also consider that they really wouldn’t make since based on the storyline they’re going with, and that Boon has said in mulitple interviews that he wants to go back to having the classic characters.
Besides, don’t you want MK to have little to do with the failures known as 3D MK’s as possible?
MKA was just a ‘Greatest hits’ release and MK vs DC was a joke as it lacked any real MK feeling.
MK2 and MK3 were 15 years ago. They were great then but are dated now. 2D is just a big step back.
Don’t pull things out of your ass.
Oh so YOU personally can’t remember any 3D characters so they don’t have any impact on MK as a whole? Wow, talk about a small-minded rabid 2D fanboy.
With the exception of MK vs DC, the 3D games were mostly great, especially MKDA and MKD. If they had to do a remake, a remake of one of those would be far better.
LOL @ the notion that people want to see the old characters again being “pulled out of his ass.”
That notion is the ONE thing E3 has taught us for sure.
Let’s put it this way: if MK8 (or is it 9) was a reboot of the last 3 games before MKvDC, and people didn’t see it as a lazy do-over, you can not sincerely say that reboot would spark the hype we’ve seen for MK over the past few days.
E3 didn’t teach anyone that. The web is full of fansites to characters from the the 3D games, MK boards are full of love for them. If you’re too blind to see all that then open your eyes.
The hype we’ve seen over the last few days is because Boon and his team have gone back to doing a proper M rated MK game with gory fatalities, which is what people expect from an MK game.
If you act like a rabid fanboy then you’ll get treated like one. Trying to portray your personal opinion as fact and making shit up are always good signs.
Another sign of the close minded fanboy is he thinks anyone who says things he doesn’t agree with is ‘trolling’.
You really are clueless. All the hundreds of thousands of people who bought and loved the 3D games, all the MK websites where people talk about the 3D characters and express desires for them to return… none of these people exist because some guy on the internet who puts Os around his name wants to pretend they don’t.
You are getting angry, I don’t know why. I seriously thought you were trolling and still do. Though, if you’re being serious, sorry for calling you a troll. Honest mistake.
Yes, the midway forums love those 3D MK’s. I bet if you took a shit and it spelled “MK”, they’d love that too. A bunch of people or even the majority doesn’t make a game good just be “liking” it. Sure, the games were fun in a way. But not competitively, hence why there was no offline scene for them other than the small one MKDA had.
It is really ironic that you’re calling me a fanboy, when you say things like “The 3D MK’s were great”.
Alright, enough with this “Li Mei, the ironic pony” stuff. Let’s get back on topic shall we?
First of all, the word you’re looking for is hypocrisy, not irony.
Either way, it doesn’t apply.
Trying to make out I’m some sort of 3D fanboy because I pointed out you were a 2D one makes about as much sense as the rest of your crap.
There’s a big difference between being a fan of something and being a blind fanboy.
I’m the former, you’re the latter.
I prefer 3D games but I don’t deny the existence of people who prefer 2D ones. You came on here and tried to do exactly that to all the people who prefer 3D games.
I haven’t made ridiculous arrogant statements such as 2D characters mean nothing to the MK world because I don’t remember them all. You did that about the 3D ones.
I don’t pull statements out of my ass like ‘more people would rather see the old characters than the new 3D MK characters’ without having any statistical data to back it up. You did.
I don’t belittle people from certain websites just because they don’t think the same way I do. You just did.
I don’t try to make my opinion out to be fact in the way you’ve been doing since you started in this thread.
I’m not the one who calls people a troll because I can’t bear the fact they don’t think the same was I do. You do.
I had plenty of competitive games in MKD. Sorry if you didn’t but as we’ve already established, just because YOU haven’t done something doesn’t make it true for everyone.
But then as video game fanboys never seem to realise, they are not the center of the world and what they think only applies to one person - them.
For me, if people prefer 2D games then good for them. You won’t see me telling them to change their opinion because I’m not a fanboy who can’t bear it if the whole world doesn’t think the same way I do.
As you’ve shown yourself to be from the start of this conversation.
So sick of these fanboy types who come onto any thread and start arguments for nothing.
Any Atlanta MK players, or GA MK players? I know there is a few UMK3 players, but I’m sure there’s MK players who play other MK’s. Anyway, we need to get the MK tournament scene going for MK9! I really want to get UMK3 going too but I just don’t have the money or time right now.
I’ve never heard of any 3-D MK being played at a major outside of a mystery/joke tournament. If they were tournament playable I’m pretty sure they would have had a scene since even shit like Naruto has a scene somewhere. People would gave figured it out – great tourney games are not ignored because “this game is three dee I won’t play it”.
So that’s why people say no one cares about the 3-D ones. The old ones (well MK2 and MK3/UMK3) were the height of MK’s popularity and they also happened to be really good fighting games.
If you had fun with them that’s great. Realize that this is a competition-based site and no one else is going to share your opinions about games that were not worth playing in tournament.
a.) that’s not proper 3D like one of the proper 3D MK games. As it says in the description “plays like a 2D fighting game, but the linear plane in which characters fight often changes along a 3D battleground”.
The only troll here is you. You’ve contributed nothing of worth to this thread but pathetic insults, which have been reported.
How many more infractions DO you need before you get a permanent ban?
And you need to realise that people don’t need to go to tournaments to have competitive games. People played the shit out of the 3D games just as much as the early 2D ones.
You should also realise that none of the 2D MK tournaments are big money and none of them have big name players to compare in any way to games like SF.
I can name you several top SF players like Daigo or Wong etc. You name me some 2D MK players on the same level as them.
Oh, just wanted to say sorry I haven’t been updating the first post, I’ve been out of town for the weekend.
But anyway, let’s get back to discussing this rad new video footage that Li Mei posted a few posts ago!
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What are your guys’s thoughts on the EASE/DIFFICULTY of inputting a Fatality?
I think they should keep the execution barrier pretty high and tight for most of them. Otherwise they’ll simply become more boring to watch than anything if we end up seeing them after every random scrub wins a match.
They shouldn’t necessarily be a ton of inputs, but they should keep them easy to fuck up. For example if you’ve got one that requires you to be at sweep distance, I’d rather see a random scrub fuck up the input and throw a punch or kick to knock his opponent out cause either way he probably didn’t deserve the fatality anyway Fatalities should be a real reward, as opposed to just something that everyone just does as a second nature with some random simple input.
Fatalities should be a real reward, as opposed to just something that everyone just does as a second nature with some random simple input.