I’m just hoping the combo system is like MK4 but it looks like it revolves around a lot of juggling. But I hope it’s good.
Kratos will have the best fatalities. That is just a fact.
I think the 360’s exclusive character will be Lobo (DC comics) for some reason.
…and Kratos being exclusive isn’t a big deal as far as PS3 goes since he’s a Sony character.
Though if he’s NOT broken or overpowered, shouldn’t that still make him playable and such?
I can understand the resentment towards Kratos in the game from a competitive standpoint, but I have a question to a few of the purists that are more vocal here.
Are you expecting characters like Goro, Shao Kahn (maybe Motaro, Kintaro) to actually be balanced/playable in this game? It is my understanding that in past iterations of the games (including the glorious UMK3), that boss/secret characters were usually playable to some extent by unlocks/codes, and were very broken.
Isn’t the competitive community already used to the concept of banning characters in the first place?
Granted I hope they do not go that route. I would hope that any playable character in this game is balanced appropriately (including Shao Kahn, Goro, Kratos), and the worst of our worries are whether or not console exclusive characters should or shouldn’t be banned.
lol those people are complete idiots (i mean the folks over in the Kratos reveal thread). How many of those people posted in the MK section of SRK or on MK dedicated sites anyways?
People run their mouths with no merit behind it.
Amusing.
There are no playable boss characters in UMK3, there are no banned characters in UMK3. The console exclusive characters will be banned from tournaments, whether they are balanced or not. The problem some of the offline community is having is the fact that we already have to ban at least 2 characters before the game even has came out. In actuality, it’s not a big deal, it’s basically just the idea of already having to limit something in the game in order for it to be tournament ready.
No because 360 players will have no experience Vs him. Bottom line, he won’t be playable in tournaments, unless the tournament organizer is an idiot.
Yea you are hitting are some of why i have a problem with this whole issue. Its not that Kratos isnt cool, or bad ass, because he is. And just about ANY OTHER time or game this might have been a great idea. But trying to “reboot” the franchise, while trying to recapture the “magic” of the first couple games, this is such a stupid gimmick to throw in.
Its not about that. For us, who have been waiting YEARS to just get a new TWO DEE game, this is just more stupid shit they dont need to be focused on.
Yes, thank you for your wisdom. Stop your trolling.
They turned their backs on the core of people who made the series millions, then want us to come back, then more stupid gimmicks. Thats the issue.
Not always.
MKA’s problem was it is was MKA.
No, 360 owners who dont play the PS3 will be at a huge disadvantage. Everytime this console specific character crap happens, those characters are just automatically banned and thats the way it should be.
Glorious UMK3? No, its the Magnificent, Super totally awesome, ass kicking, auto combo’ing, pile of wondeful MK-ness. Sir.
Playable bosses are retarded, but i dont think Team MK understands that yet, still. after all these years. ugh.
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MKA’s “Problem” wasn’t the point. At all. The point was that people whine hard over trivial shit and it’s disgusting. The MK Team is finally showing some initiative to make a decent game and people actually want to bitch about Kratos being in it while not affecting anything. I’m not saying that there should be NO criticism about the game at this point; I’m just saying that acting like Kratos is going to bring the whole game down is fucking stupid.
you’re making it more of a problem by dwelling on it.
he’s in and nobody is going to do anything about it, other than ban him at tournaments. some people might have a blast playing him online and against their little brother, but in the end he’s a novelty.
edit: and everyone needs to just drop it.
i was just going down the line, making comments but real ALL of mine in that post.
What I said still applies. When I see MORE gimmicks than Kratos, then I’ll side with the whole “they’re ruining the essence of the first few games with gimmicks” standpoint. But you want to see real “dangerous” gimmicks? Go back to Puzzle and Chess Kombat in Deception. Go to MKA and Motor Kombat. Those were way more damaging gimmicks to their respective games and the “aura” of MK than Kratos will ever be, and they were all home grown. Yet, here it is about 4 months before MK9’s release and Kratos is the only gimmick we’ve heard about. All the others I’ve mentioned (aside from Motor Kombat) were being talked about more than the damn gameplay way before that.
Generic Kratos character in X-box 360 with same moves/animations just in a different game model
Generic X-box 360 character in PS3 with same moves/animation just different game model
These 2 things would pretty much fix everything for the “competitive side”, don’t fool yourselves PS3 will be the standard.
yeah man, just like how Darth Vader and Yoda were exactly the same character
And how Spawn, Heihachi and Link were the same character.
what the FUCK are you talking about?
When has that ever happened?
He’s saying that an easy way to solve this and please everyone is to have a generic character for the 360 that plays like Kratos and that if the 360 gets a exclusive character have the PS3 have a generic character with the same moveset. That way everyone is happy.
That’d just be lazy. Microsoft wouldn’t be willing to just outright “be the copy”. It won’t happen.
IF 360 even gets a console exclusive character, it’s almost guaranteed it’ll be someone from Gears of War, Halo or maybe even somebody from DOA like Ryu Hayabusa.
Seems like someone from gears would be most fitting though, using guns and grenades in the same fashion as Stryker, and using the chainsaw gun for some specials and fatalities.
I don’t see the problem.
Yeah, great, some stupid character that has nothing to do with MK gets revealed before some others that are really important do. Way to throw hardcore players off
This might be just the begginning. Fucking sell outs
You don’t even sound like you wanted to buy it in the first place. The game looks awesome, the combos, the 2-d plane, fatalities being so brutal, and well the game finally looks like what Mortal Kombat should have been.
If you were going to buy it, characters are one of the first things looked at. That’s casuals.
For the “hardcore”, it’s all about the gameplay who cares what or how many characters are present. As long as the game plays awesome and isn’t too skewed or broken, then cool.
So Far gameplay looks good
Also, yeah “generic character with transposed moveset” might be lazy, but it is less work, and it leads to characters not being banned.
Plus the “generic character” could have some cool “omage” design of that other character.
Also I used Yoda. Yoda>>>>Everybody
Considering I did this specifically for MK9:
That statement couldn’t be more false.
NetherRealm Studios is pushing the “return to roots” motto so hard, but then pulls this out. That is NOT a “return to roots”. I’m still getting the game, don’t get me wrong, but this definitely isn’t fair for the crowd of people this game is “aimed” for, considering the MK team has not delivered what these guys have wanted since MKDA.