Bottom line is that MK 's fanbase is similar to KOF’s. They care more about character art and storyline rather then gameplay.
I agree with that to some extent, but there are still those of us who care about the gameplay.
Matt
Which KOF fanbase? I don’t consider 2/3rds of the US “fanbase” to be actual fans of the game.
Yeah, US fanbase of KOF is pretty small. Most of them are just Mai fan boys. I’m a Hardcore KOF player. I bought the newest KOF’s for my Neo*Geo. THe only game I play besides MKT/MKD is KOF2k3.
The only fan base I know of in the US that acts that way are the people on the gheyfaqs message boards, as well as the ng.com forums. Too damn picky!
It’s funny, because there’s a handful of GameFAQers that share the same outlook I do. There’s a shitload of jackasses in the SNK fandom, but it’s commonly known that they’re all separated into two classes, the Collectors, and the Fanboys. It’s sad when there’s more collectors in the NG world than there are actual players.
Please don’t group the MKO fools with the [mostly…mainly] UMK3 players who actually care about gameplay and such. Seperate the MK Community into two groups - MKO people, who only seem to be concerned with fatalities/secrets/etc. and the UMK3 people, the ones who care about MK. (…and would still like to see an arcade perfect UMK3 port for console) I suppose you can formulate a 3rd group, the MK2 people, but I don’t run into them very often, if there are any still around…
Neo/Bill/MKLegend/MKGOD/whateveryoucallyourselfthesedays - you comin’ to NEC5? C’mon…bring your buddy Sham with you…I wanna see EWAShock vs Scam, er, Sham…Human Smoke vs Human Smoke. I wanna tape that shit…it will provide entertainment value for years to come. :devil: It’s ok to be afraid.
Yeah, MKO is whack. After reading the transcript from Fight Night I just sat back an laughed. That dev team doesn’t give a shit, it’s that damn simple. Saying shit like “there’s no avoiding infinates” is quite nausiating. What really pissed me off is that they showed no respect what so ever for the fans.
One dude asked if they feel an ethical and moral obligation when making the games. They pretty much called him a retard. Almost like, “wtf, you question us?” 
MK will probably never get it’s shit together, sadly. I’m to the point now where I really don’t care anymore. That’s dissheartening, but why waste time with this shit? I spent sooo much fucking time on MKO, trying to preach. A few got it, most didn’t. “Oppinion this oppinion that.” Well, fuck oppinion. Oppinion doesn’t mean anything when you have no clue what you’re talking about.
Only a few people are still there and actually care. Peeps, who should know better, are trying to make this shit work. Well, it wont. Time to just move on and hope midway gets bought out.
BTW, that Satyagraha guy is godly, lol.
I’m not. The UMK3 players are the only real MK fans left.
You helped convert me from scrubdom, Saty. I mean, I was good at fighting games when i was younger, I loved Street fighter, but I had no sense of real competition in ANY game until the past few years. Honestly, I didn’t even know what buffering or frame advantage actually ment until Soul Calibur 2!
But I’ve learned much from reading your posts, ideas, and even just chattin with ya. :china:
Anywho…
I couldn’t believe my ears when I watched this video clip in the content section of Deception. Its recockulous that he still has control over the gameplay when even he knows he doesn’t fully understand what he’s doing with it.
I guess I take it a little personal becuase a friend of mine was on the QA team at Midway, and I got second hand experience of how shitty things are run on that team. But, Boon doesn’t play other fighters, hell, he doesn’t even play his own! Producers will tell him games like Soul Calibur 2 and Guilty Gear suck just to kiss his ass and make him feel better about Mk. And the testers… Thats all they are… Space monkeys I tell you! If they had any balls to tell Boonie how to fix his game, he’d fire em… Wait, that happened… :sad:
Seriously, there is not a single reason to own this game. They even fucked up Chess. If they had just made it where you’re character does like a fatality and just takes the square, instead of actually having to fight, I would probably still own this game. But no, they had to fuck it up and put their piece of shit excuse for a fighting engine into CHESS.
Yeah Menthol knows the difference between the fanboys and the real fans, and I have pretty much filtered through all of MKonline and there’s maybe a dozen, and that’s generous, people on it who are true players and not Fatality Fanatics. As for the Boon comment, I think he’s actually going all the way back to when MK2 came out, I know there were big combos back then, but they were eventually fine tuned to be even more ridiculous, to the point where if he saw what people can do 12 years after the fact, his head just might explode. Actually, it might look like this :party:
But regardless there is obviously some serious problems with Ed Boon and his ideas of what is good anymore.
Matt
Online wise, I think UMK3 on Kaillera is the best choice to go. I think it’s time to lay MKD to rest and replace it with the game that was in my PS2 before MKD… MKT.
Oh yeah about MKO, does it state in their Rules and Regulations that “NO GAMEPLAY TALK IS ALLOWED”. If such nonsense is spoking, consider yourself banned. MKO Slogan: Come for teh fatalities, stay for teh drama!
If they just released UMK3/MKT every year with updated graphics and sound, I’d buy it. The MK team isn’t going to make a better fighter than that without having to pay Namco or Sega to make the fucking game for them.
HAHA @ that Kitana video. “I knew there was something special”. Yeah. Because he knows no matter how badly he makes a fighter, people will buy it. Ugh somebody please delete him. How can you make a fighter and not even understand what makes a fighter? Even in fight night he was propping MKD for adding combo breakers to get rid of cheap combos. Oooooooooook.
Man, you are right. If it was just regular chess, but with the MK characters at the pieces and when a square is taken, then just chop their head off, that would be the dopest shit ever. Actually, I thought it was going to be like this when I first heard about it. oh wellz. I just don’t get why Midway doesnt see that MKDA and MKD are so clunky gameplay wise. wurd em up… 
LAtes,
Mike
One thing has been bugging me as of late. What’s the deal with MK FAN BOYS (MKO & Gamefaqs posters) hating on Stryker. Do they even know he’s a solid character in UMK3 or just hate him due do lack of character design / story? Oh wait, maybe it’s his lame fatalities.
Its cause he a gringo. :karate:
I heard originally that Boon wanted to do everything with MK that was opposite to SF. So they had projectiles that didn’t cancel out, juggles, blood, blocks that broke after a few attacks. But what does he think now that he has basically broke every convention of fighting games in the first place?
OC
stryker sucks because, well, he’s stryker
he’s just a terribly lame design
just because a character is good in-game, doesn’t mean their design doesn’t suck
its why i dislike bridget
First ever note-worthy GameFAQs post.
LoL @ “ugh somebody please delete him”
Also, yeah the only reason anyone hates Stryker is because of how he looks. If they got a better actor to play him, he’d be more popular because from some of the old artwork I’ve seen he’s supposed to look young and jacked like Brock Lesnar. Other than that, Stryker kicks ass, he has easy 50% plus combos (working in the 2 mistakes theory, he has much higher damage combos than that) not to mention he has every conceivable type of infinite in the game, special defense, zoning, anti air, wake up, mix up, he is a complete character, not to mention he is anti-Nightwolf.
Matt