Mortal Kombat

[Typhoid]

So I honestly only knew about this game halfway through last week, but after seeing it, and hearing/reading about it, I am very excited.

As a stern fan of the original series, I am completely taken back by the return to 2D fighting styles. Not to mention the fact this game is apparently really violent. That's what I need in my life today. More video game violence.

Thoughts/Visions/Etc.

[Fox 6]

Fatalities look great.

Johhny Cage is such a Bro now.

[Typhoid]

I got this game yesterday.

First of all, this is by far the most fun I've had playing any fighting game since I played the very first Mortal Kombat when I was little. This game just feels old - but not in a bad way.

It's the most needlessly graphic thing I've played, and by Zeus it's fantastic.

The story mode in the game is ACTUALLY pretty good. I mean, obviously the game itself is just a fighting game - but between the fights there is a storyline set out that is actually relatively entertaining. It's like watching a (Not excessively terrible) MK movie, then fighting the fights in the movie. You get back story on the characters (which is cool).

What I think is that they're re-doing the entire series, on the basis that this game takes place near the beginning of the MK video game series - and the basis of the storyline is to alter history.

Anyways, if you enjoyed the original MK games when they first came out, I almost guarantee you'll love this game.

There are tag matches (which you can play with up to 3 other people), there is a challenge ladder of (apparently) over 200 challenges. They do still include the "Test your Might/Sight" parts, as well. There is also online, beautiful, beautiful online.

The makers of the game even found a way to make the un-lockables section needlessly graphic. Of course, I found this out after wandering through a forest (In FPV) of trees that have what appear to be intestines stemming from the tree, through the mouths of humans. Upon selecting which thing to unlock, some goo rushes through the intestines into the mouth, then into the belly, where the person then explodes - and you get your fancy little prize. Which can be anything from a new fatality, to just some concept art.

[Zen]

I hate you people playing this and not street fighter.

[Vampyr]

This game looks amazing. Really testing my resolution not to purchase it...

I'll pick up later after a price drop.

The story mode looks worth the price alone though, honestly.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Zen

I hate you people playing this and not street fighter.

Personally I'm not a fan of the "Super fast, cartoon-y graphics, button-mashing, seizure-inducing, strobing-light" type of fighting games that Street Fighter, (And every other Capcom fighter) turned into.

Give me a slow-paced fighter that takes some tactics and skill over violently palming your controller while rotating your stick in various directions to just mash your controller faster than the other dude.


To each their own.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Skill? In Mortal Kombat?

"Hold block button, sometimes tap down, wait for opponent to make a move, if he gets too close jump away so you don't get thrown"

That's mortal kombat in a nutshell.

Plus it has the easiest inputs of any game... Well maybe tekken is easier, but don't tell the tekken crew that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq54gDSOmCE

Watch his inputs. Look at all that sweet fucking button mashing he's doing and still doing the combos.

Casual game is casual.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

Skill? In Mortal Kombat?

"Hold block button, sometimes tap down, wait for opponent to make a move, if he gets too close jump away so you don't get thrown"

That's mortal kombat in a nutshell.

Plus it has the easiest inputs of any game... Well maybe tekken is easier, but don't tell the tekken crew that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq54gDSOmCE

Watch his inputs. Look at all that sweet fucking button mashing he's doing and still doing the combos.

Casual game is casual.

I wouldn't complain too much - it's games like this that will keep the fighting genre popular and thriving.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Eh, at least it's pretty.

[Zen]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Personally I'm not a fan of the "Super fast, cartoon-y graphics, button-mashing, seizure-inducing, strobing-light" type of fighting games that Street Fighter, (And every other Capcom fighter) turned into.

Give me a slow-paced fighter that takes some tactics and skill over violently palming your controller while rotating your stick in various directions to just mash your controller faster than the other dude.


To each their own.

street fighter is by definition slow and you need fundamentals to win, if you are being beaten by mashers you are doing it wrong

[Typhoid]

I definitely wouldn't call any current Capcom fighter "slow", when compared to Mortal Kombat.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Played it finally. It would be a fun game honestly if it was balanced.

[Angrist]

Your football example is beside the point here. We're talking about game mechanics, not player skills. In football the rules are the same, while the team skills vary. The only thing that might be unbalanced is weather conditions (1 team having to look into the sun), but that's why they switch sides (at least I assume they do).

Gamewise, every character needs to have a fair chance against any other character. Starcraft 2 for example is 99% balanced. And they constantly fix the 1%.

[TheSlyMoogle]

In pretty much every fighting game there is a certain amount of unbalance sure, and there's pretty much some reason for that, be it like Street fighter where certain character does a lot of damage an is easy mode.

However generally in a fighting game even the worst characters have a fighting chance assuming you A) know the matchups, and B) Understand your character.

I'm not complaining about unbalance in fighting games in general, I actually appreciate it. In guilty gear I play pretty much the worst character in the game very well and I get a lot of respect for it.

However, MK9 is officially Mortal KungLaobat the game.

The only characters who have a chance against him is Cyrax, and that's because of glitches in the game itself that allow him to give guaranteed unblockables from his command throw and net. Also Reptile, Ermac and Sub-Zero do decently, and I've heard rumors that smoke is decent. However when tournaments are majorly made up of Kung Lao because he's so good... Well yeah.

2 major mortal kombat tournaments have now passed as of yesterday and they're already planning on pulling it from line ups of any of the majors because it's so unbalanced.

[TheSlyMoogle]

In the meantime it will stay pretty popular in the casual scene, it's new and flashy, pretty easy to play, and eventually A group of friends will play it a lot, and one will stumble onto some combo video with some character and rape all his friends and that's how MK goes.