GameTavern - Mortal Kombat

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Originally Posted by manasecret (Post 276448)

I find it very entertaining. Please go on.

I do as well, this is why I was carrying on with it.
I've been stoned for every post, and it gives me something to do for 5 minutes.

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(i do understand you play these games for fun and that is perfectly fine, but when you need to have "in house" rules for a game that is a sign of broken tier)

I conceded to that a long long while ago. I was saying it's an easy fix to get around a character being a little better than the others by making up a rule with some friends. Now as I said, me and my friends do not play our games competitively. We do not enter tournaments, nor think about them.

Then again, maybe I don't find making exceptions/rules for video games when playing amongst friends to level the playing field as a horrible thing. Me and my group of friends do this for many games. No Mach Bike in Mario Kart, because it will rape casual players/ blocking certain people from using characters they completely dominate with in Smash, because that is no fun/Nobody playing me at NHL 11 because I will decimate them.

Personally, I don't see things like that as a big deal. If it helps level the playing field, and makes the game more enjoyable for everyone, problem solved.

Now, if for some reason I go to enter a MK tournament, and I'm the only person there who isn't playing as Kung Lao, then sure. I'll concede even more.

I just honestly haven't come across the whole "Kung Lao being unbeatable" thing. I never said his FPS wasn't better, or any of that technical shit. For probably the third time, I'll say that I don't pay attention to that, blah blah blah. All I know is every time I've played the game online/offline and faced Kung Lao, I (personally, again) haven't gotten entirely raped. Sure, I've been beaten by someone as Kung Lao, but it wasn't ridiculously devastating. Now, sure - maybe the person's character isn't Kung Lao - but I'll just back up the fact that despite the fact he may be better programming-wise, if the person is a casual gamer, it doesn't really make any type of difference.

As I said before, the problem of something like this is only a problem for people who play tournaments, considering it's a conscious choice to pick him - so if someone picks him for a tournament, clearly they're doing it to be a dick, and for the flat-out-reason of only winning, and not having fun. And I'm nearly 100% certain on that, because considering he's better than the other characters, the only way you'd be him (if you're not a casual gamer) is to easily ruin your opponent. Or for people who have friends who can't stand to lose, and will find the easiest way to win every time. And even if that's the case, and you do outlaw Kung Lao (or make some type of "Don't do the same move every single time" rule), that person would probably find a way to abuse another character for the easiest, and fastest win. Kung Lao was just the easiest to exploit, if they patch it and make changes, someone else will get exploited.

It's like in SC2 where people are constantly exploiting technical weaknesses. A simple patch fixes that problem (As they have released multiple times) - but then it's not long after until someone exploits a new weakness that that patch made apparent, then soon everyone is exploiting that weakness, until a new patch is released, and so on...

Edit: I'll also say I backhandedly enjoy how serious this is being taken. I've probably said in every post, or every second post that I've been stoned when posting to this thread. And I view this as a normal discussion between me and John.