Since MK9 is coming out, I wanted to know why there is so much hate for the gameplay in the Mortal Kombat Games.
because is a western fighting game
westerns don’t know how to make a proper fighting game
thats a pretty narrow view wouldn’t you say?
Is he wrong?
UMK3 wasn’t clunky when it came out. don’t tell me this is gonna turn into another MK hate thread
I’m just asking. I definitely notice the MK games (2d at least) are hard to control and I was wondering if someone could give a technical evaluation of it.
Compared to now? yeah its clunky as hell. the 3D games were just crap they didnt play well at all. MK died for me at MK4 and the combo system for deadly alliance, deception and armageddon was just horrible
And yet you are hype for a King of Failers? get real bro.
Every MK since UMk3 has been not very good to down right AWFUL yes.
but the Japs and every other culture sure knows how to fuck up a series COUGH SFIV TEKKEN 6 KoF12 COUGH
Haha. Was waiting for Tim to come in and pwn this thread. 
I would play MK 1 over SFIV anyday.
GET MAD
Really why do so many people assume that MK is a bad game without playing it? TC could have just just tried playing MK and made his own opinion about the games and wouldn’t have had to start anything.
I think its been a pretty safe assumption for years now, especially when (with the exception of the most recent iteration) the only “progressions” in the series that have been promoted for new MK games have been variations on fatalities and bring back characters. I don’t really have much hope for MK9 either.
I want this new MK game to do well, if only because in all honesty, I’m sick and damn tired of nothing but these goofy anime themed fighters. Yeah yeah, I know, not all games need tons of gore and crazy violence or grimdark stuff. But seriously, we can’t have a single one with that stuff in it, that’s actually good? Japan doesn’t even bother putting blood in any games at all. HNK was the one game that actually should have been full of crazy over the top gore, yet the game had none. Every Jap fighter is the same shit now, and the same character designs, just take a game, make it anime themed and full of anime show cliches, copy designs from popular anime characters and mash them all together(Nameless, anyone?), toss in a bunch of lolis, and voila, a new Jap fighter.
Seriously, remember when SF2 used to actually have at least some blood? No it wasn’t necessary but it was cool at least. Now in SF4 Vega’s claw and Blanka’s bite don’t even shed blood, just shiny rainbow hit sparks. Vice’s scrape your face across the floor move is just dust now, no blood. I’m telling you, if this MK game fails, the only fighters we’re gonna have are cutesy anime fighters where a third of the cast are lolis in schoolgirl outfits with high pitches voices, and characters like Yamazaki will have all the blood taken out of their attacks and replaced with pink and green hitsparks that cover most of the character. Worst shit I saw was Kensou’s NeoMax, it could have looked sick since it was him punching like a fiend, too bad all the goddamn rainbow hitsparks covered him up completely so all I saw was his goddamned head and legs. For fuck sakes Japan.
I love when 12 year olds on these forums type things like “King of Failers” and “Continuing Shitting.”
I guess you could play uncensored samurai shodown.
Yeah, what if people want a game with gore besides Samurai Shodown? There’s a gazillion “anime weeaboo” fighters, would be nice to have something different for a change. Only other fighting game I seen with any blood lately was Battle Fantasia, and that’s a hentai game(although it plays quite well oddly enough). I’m just tired of all these fighters from japan having to have the same old shit, bad anime cliche characters and lolis. Alisa from tekken 6 was just plain stupid, and this is a series with dancing bears as characters.
MK1 is clunky, MKII is less clunky, UMK3 is more fluid. Very different feel than MKII. The way you combo and juggle in the game is just different, Tekken is somewhat similar, but seriously, just deal with it. Deal with the fact that it’s a different series. Get over it. Stay out of the MK threads.
That’s part of the reason I really appreciate MK and want this new one to be good. Back in the day, violence and stereotypically badass character designs were all you saw for awhile. Now that stuff is gone and I really miss it. Not the violence specifically, but just that grim, dark aesthetic. Character designs that look like they were made specifically to appeal to 90s-era teenage males (because they were). That shit seems even cooler now not only because you don’t see it anymore, but it’s cool on another, kind of nostalgic level.
I mean none of us are kids anymore, but adult gamers still like Mario because he’s a classic character and the games are good. MK is likable in that same sort of way, just a different aesthetic. That’s what makes it cool.
Fuck, somebody listen to this man!! What will we do without blood in our fighting games!!! I’m afraid for the future…
the point is this my friends. some of you were old enough during the 90’s to enjoy MK when it was new. you full well know which game was more popular, most of you shit talkers know full well you played MK and you liked it. they had had 4 shit games Wah get over it. if this game blows everybodies expectations away you will magically transform from shit talkers to bandwagon jumpers and it’ll be 1995 all over again. I love SF and I love MK I will not choose theyre the 2 best friends you had in school you couldnt choose between you liked hanging out with both. yeah your other buddy got weird on you for awhile but you kept in touch hoping he’d straighten his ass up and now it looks like he is so hate on MK while you can it may be seeing a resurgence if you asked me 2 months ago if people would be talking this much about an MK game on SRK or even Capcom unity I would have laughed in your face and I think the fact that were even having this discussion speaks volumes for the game itself
LMFAO
holy shit. that’s a really really fucking good one.