For real. UMK3 is that new shit. MK and KoF were the first fighters I’ve ever played.
I use to go to the store, and cut out the movelists from random magazines for MK. lol
LOL i think everyone did that. I used to go into walmart, grab a magazine and walk to a place where the cameras can’t see me. Then i’d commence to tearing out pages of fatalities etc.
LMFAO I remember doing that shit too. I would def enter if evo had umk3.
UMK3 would be hype. But it’s ancient and hasn’t been played in tournament for a loooong time. It would be really really random if Evo held UMK3, because there’s no way to know what the player base would be like since it doesn’t get played as a main tourney at majors or anything.
I guess sales data from XBLA UMK3 would be a start. And it is coming to DS + online, haha, maybe that will make casual players aware of it again.
It’s got to be the only U.S. game remotely worthy of Evo though.
Actually, MKII is only a few months older than ST…It’s basically from the same time, end of 1993-early 1994, and I remember ST coming out in 1994.
I ran some Midway fighting game tournaments, a “Mortal Kombat” arcade championship when MK4 was pretty big…we wanted to kind of make it like MWC each year, but for MK games…We got around 40 people in each game we ran (MKII, UMK3, and MK4), but the arcade scene completely died for those games. Midway was fully aware of this as well. MKII was definitely the biggest MK title in the US and its scene was comparable to the Champion Edition and Street Fighter II scene. Hyper Fighting was SF’s last big hurrah in arcades, it was dying rapidly at that point, or at least, everyone was branching off to KI, Tekken, Primal Rage, and Neo Geo games…
As far as UMK3 goes, it was a much better game than MK3, but it was not “bigger” than MK3 was. It was a free upgrade for arcade operators, but that game had the same problem as ST, too little too late…
As far as “casual” gamers go, MKII was the king, and I would go as far to say that Killer Instinct was definitely bigger than UMK3, but not MK3.
DreamTR, thats pretty inciteful. I love talking about the old days, as i was never around to witness it all, i was too young. Some of the older guys at the arcade i play at now say they wish i was around during early and mid 90s where i would have seen some real ST pros.
Anyway do you think if Capcom had held out and not rushed out ST and released SSF2 and just went from HF to ST do you think it would have made a difference to the scene back in the day. Or maybe even going straight from CE to SSF2 ( i think it would have been better recieved since peopel wouldn’t have experienced HF speed) or ST
Sorry for the long delay on this one…
SSF2 was supposed to follow along the same speed lines of CE, and basically with the jump to CPS2, was supposed to rid the US gamers of all of those bootleg Rainbow/Hyper Edition boards available out there.
Since HF was basically the answer to the existence of those boards through some gameplay tweaks that involved James Goddard, I don’t think Capcom really took the speed increase that players enjoyed seriously enough until they started heading back to HF.
That’s what it was like at our arcade. We got 2 SSF2 machines, but the 3 HF machines, 3 KI machines, and 3 MK2 machines remained packed. EVeryone was already moving onto to other things, and the speed was a big turnoff to most people. A lot of times, SSF2 is not really considered a valid SF anymore these days like it was when it came out.
When “speed” plays a role, it seems that HF of the CPS1 series, and ST of the CPS2 Street Fighter II series are the two games chosen by players.
For the Alpha series, Alpha 3 was the choice over Alpha 2, but it seems to have made a slight comeback (Alpha 2) these days due to GGPO at least.
CVS1 was taken out for CVS2, but I still think a lot of players follow along with what someone else is playing. If EVO decided to put CVS1 in there, people would play it, they’d follow along somehow and someway, and I think it can be said for almost anything, but the numbers just would not be up to par like they are with the popularity of 3s and MVC2.
so what’s the deal, umk3 for evo or what? lol let’s make it happen!!!
Rainbow Edition FTW!!! I got an Edition 1 board in my closet right now. I’ve only played it once…
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I’d be down for some UMK3, I was in the top 100 on xbox live at one point lol.
Only games genres that are good from America are, First Person Shooters, Action/Adventures and Sports.
According to Gametrailers (because they had a debate) a person from America went to Japan to embrace their culture and learn their stuff. So he comes back to Gametrailers and says in general the Japanese do not like the senseless killings in video games they prefer a “reason” to kill albeit a really good reason. Thats why Metal Gear Solid/Ninja Gaiden are popular. They think FPS games are senseless violence. Anyway, as TornadoFlame stated. The American video game corporation has really turned into a business, something like movies. Nothing is done for passion, although in interviews they probably lie about that. VG in America is basically… “trying” to appeal to everyone so they could fork over cash. Look at Halo3, Call of Duty 4, especially COD4, although good, these games were made for the general public so A.) They could get money. B.) So we could waste our money C.) So another crappy sequel can come out.
Isn’t UMK3 horribly, horribly broken.
Striker = Fat Cable
the game is deff tier based but u can win with the lower tier characters if u put in some work
and no its not horribly broken
that was mk trilogy
I don’t know man. unblockable ninja jumping punch gets old fast. Or was that trilogy? i forget.
if u mean that relaunch combo shit yeah thats a bit broken
but the timing is hard on it and i have yet to see anyone get it more than like 2 times in tourney
If UMK3 were in Evo, then I presume you would use the Xbox 360 port. I am wondering about controllers though as the fucking port does not let you map buttons. Those who have sticks without quick disconnects will be screwed. Perhaps Evo should provide a few sticks for MK.
UMK3 not enough players. Even MKII, not even players. You’d get more with Street Fighter Anthology these days now that Alpha 2 has a rebirth.