Haven’t seen one yet, so I decided to make one. Everyone feel free to post strategies, gripes, general opinions, kombos, etc. etc.
IMHO thus far, re: competitive/tournament play, only Shujinko and the step-infinites need be banned. Aside from all that yeah, some characters are blatantly more powerful than others, but such is true with every fighting game. I suppose whether or not the game is truly tourney worthy (or just a complete joke) will be determinded in the coming weeks/months when everything is unlocked/discovered etc.
While I’ll most likely always look up to UMK3 as the top-tier MK game, it would be nice for one of these new school 3D MKs to catch on…I for one would like to see Deception given a fair chance.
As always time will tell…but in any event…what does everyone think of the game in general? Think it will ever be a tournament game? Will even more super-broken tactics be discovered in the near future…? (It scares me that so much junk has been found a mere week+ after the release.) :rolleyes:
gamefaqs is just as bad as the MK Online scene. I tried explaining to them that someone can still find a game fun while at the same time recognize its many flaws, in this particular case the infinites. Those slugs only believe in “You will love this game 100% or else you suck.” Even after poitning out and explaining the infinites they came up with “They don’t exist you are making it up scrub.” I swear, every year that place gets worse and worse, from the “parrying ruined 3S” debate to the “V-ism is useless in A3” one, just avoid that scrub fest altogether.
I cancelled my preorders cause I knew this game would be shit. I stopped following this game about a month before release.
I don’t go to MKonline anymore cause as jester said: That place is so fucking backwards. For a fucking YEAR I told them this game would suck ass and it seems I am right.
Good job colguile. :tup:
Someone give me the details on what are the whored styles and techniques. Tier list and the online scene.
Some dude on here claims to have an Ermac infinite I’ve yet to see too.
Shujinko has easy high damage combos, 70-80%
Sub-Zero is still ass
Kabal seems pretty ass, not sure though, last I checked and played he was pretty low.
Scorpion is still a beast.
Online cheats I have experienced:
People picking Jax, Cage, etc. and crashing the game
Infinite life
Throw anywhere
Records that say 999-0
I can’t even express how disgusting online is between the hacks and fuckers disconnecting after losing one round or right before it says “Finish Him” Also 12 year olds who think cursing is funny should be tied and beaten with a stick.
Its nowhere near as bad as you think, guile. From a general view, it can be fun, and IMO ts better then DA in production values. From a serious competition standpoint, MKD ‘sucking’ is still arguable right now.
My problem with the gameplay is how abusive simple shit can be. A few key characters are obviously broken or overpowered. The game is still mostly playable, until someone brings in Shujinko, Noob or a few others with noted infinites.
And right now, I don’t think anyone outside SRK cares about the gameplay’s flaws, sadly. Everyone is busy trying to find new shit to unlock.
With all that said, I hope in the next game they do better with move selections for characters. Nightwolf, for example, feels like his whole damn moveset was made with the intent of keeping you away for as long as you could keep up the pressure. His reflector is the icing on the cake for people that want to trade projectiles with him.
Puzzle Fighter is the only thing I play on and offline now.
Chess is ass also, its not really chess since taking a piece involves fighting an actual match. Basically you can know zero about the chess game, but be good at the fighting game and always win. :tdown: They should have just made it normal chess with MK pieces Battle Chess style, that would have been kick ass.
if it wasnt for puzzle fighter this game is not worth 50 bucks. puzzle kombat is awesome, only if thye could fix the fucking server so i can save my countless beatings i have layed out. i should easily be 80-10
I hear ya, my rankins were totally fucked after the hackers came. My fighting game record was about 120 something - 12, now it changes from day to day even if I don’t play any matches. As for the actual ranking #, thats even more fucked up. How can I go up 500 spots without actually playing, then 10 minutes later drop 1000? :lame:
Bahahaha aha…Yeah. I really wanted it for MK1. Then I heard they screwed that up. MATII, same deal. Wack. They can’t even make arcade ports themselves properly. These new MK’s are garbage and once again, Midway is cashing in. Now there’s another new adventure game coming out. Wha? Even after the first two flopped? Whatever. Midway knows zombies will eat it up as long as they keep creating these “cutting edge” extra features that are currently plaguing current MK’s. I might pick up the new MK soon…someday…never. I fell out of my chair when I read a thread at MKO that was complaining about people using cheap tactics online. All the while blaming the people who use them instead of the MK team that made them. Obviously, MK can do no wrong. Weren’t we telling people that was going to happen for the last year? Why yes we were. But they didn’t listen. All they wanted was confirmation that Tanya had pubes and Liu Kang would look rotten.
In the meantime, only a few more months until SFAC hits Xbox Live. Woohoo.
Putting it simply here. MK needs to go back to its 2D roots.
No 3D game even comes close to a SF 2D game yet imo (mayyyyybbbeeeee a KOF 2d fighter but that game is barely a game.more like a sick joke) and there’s no surprise why. 2D gives fast fluid gameplay that works and feels right. 3D is clunky, slow and complete smeg.
From how much this one and the last mk game is selling… it seems they’ll NEVER think about gameplay I had opportunity to play this yesterday… cant say that i was pleased. It really cant compete on a technical level with most other 3d fighting games. To put it mildly, VF1 feels less robotic than this game. The fluidity of movement just does NOT compare to the likes of tekken, virtua fighter, soul calibur or dead or alive. They could have done better, but they were too busy working on crap like puzzle kombat and chess kombat… I really cant say anything about tiers and such since none of the chars were unlocked and i had a good 45 minutes to play it. These last two games really have NO longevity compared to the likes of UMK3 or MK2.