Mortal Kombat

Who do you main?

Kung Lao here.

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It is supremely comfy.

I was shit at the game, but I mained Shang Tsung. I might not have won many fights, but I nailed every transformation and lost looking like a boss.

>>3635827
>tfw MK2 Reptile main
>tfw slide doesn't go under Mileena's projectile

Why the fuck

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>>3635867
dammit forgot image

>>3635827
IT'S OVER OP

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>Raiden
>back back forward
>IGOTTASAWWWW
>AYABABADEEEE
>HALAGALUAUGH

It never stops being funny

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MK2 definitely had the best feel and atmosphere. I think UMK3 is a better game, but the feeling was definitely shot after they introduced more urban environments.

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>>3635843
My specialty with Shang was to morph into Sub Zero just before winning. Then start his freeze fatality but instead of finishing it with the uppercut I would morph into Scorpion and do his toasty on them. There's just barely enough time to do it and looks awesome.

MK2 was my favorite of the classics, MK3's combo system always felt kind of weird and the run button was a good idea but not implemented super well. MK9 is my favorite game overall.

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>>3635830
Reptile

>>3635827
ultimate mk3 is a legit game and its entirely by accident and i love it

>>3635827
this because vr full of nintards

>>3636092
>and its entirely by accident and i love it

how so?

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>>3635827
I agree that MK2 is the overall best in the franchise but due to nostalgia MK1 will always be my favorite.

>>3635830
My main in all 2d MK games is Scorpion

>>3636061
Have you played MK XL?

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>>3636154
Nah not yet. MK9 kind of wrapped up what I was looking for from the series and then Injustice turned out to be one of my favorite fighters ever so I was still rocking Wonder Woman when MKX came along.

And the game design for it looks cool but I'm a little over the MK aesthetic so it didn't grab me as much. And now KoFXIV is out and that's gone back to competing with other fighters. I'll probably get MKX sometime when it's cheap but in no rush.

>>3636061
Bro I used to that and find cross fatality glitches

>>3636061
Armageddon was tight

>>3636185
Never bothered to try it out since I was out of MK since a little bit after 3 until 9 came out. Maybe I should go back and look into it.

>>3636004
>>3636092
UMK3 was by far the best. It combined all the good aspects of the previous games with some decently responsive gameplay.

>>3636201
I would like to see a game like UMK3 done in MK2's style with no run button and dial combos. Something about that just never quite felt right.

Realistically, what are the odds that Jax was banging Sonya?

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Kerri Hoskins AKA Sonya now makes awesome art.

>>3636265
Let's just say when Jax comes to visit, Johnny has to report to his cuck shed.

Awful game
Awful series

>>3636069
SOURCE, this doesnt look like the actual MK2

>>3636530
It's the modern incarnation of the faggot insult 10-20 years ago. History repeats.

>>3636250
You're not the only one here who mentioned seriously wanting a UMK2.

>>3636131
Does he ever actually say "get over here"? In the movie, and only there?

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I don't suppose anyone has an idea of what the arcade version requires to emulate? Like, a 1.2ghz arm A7 but not a 700 mhz A8?

>>3635827
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is the best game in the franchise.

If you disagree fight me irl.

>>3636131
>pic
Oh shit, it's Sub Minus Seven, watch out!

>>3637263
OK

>>3636185

that's an odd way to spell "shite"

>always liked the setting and lore of MK
>completely terrible at the games no matter how much time I spend on them

I do wish they would try to do more than just fighting games now. Yeah, most of the spin offs suck but surely today they could make something good?

Anyway it's been a few years since I've played any MK game but I remember spending most of my time with Jax. Can't tell you what it was but there was something about him I liked.

>>3637297
A new and improved game on the vein of shaolin monks would be absolutely fantastic.

>Anyway it's been a few years since I've played any MK game but I remember spending most of my time with Jax. Can't tell you what it was but there was something about him I liked.
Classic jax was pretty cool.

I'm REALLY glad they moved away from the deception/armaggedon/dedaly alliance design in the new games though.

>>3636185
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5c9fCfSVY0

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>tfw you were the only kid that didn't know how to perform a fatality

>>3635827
Nah I totally agree. MK2 seemed to balance the martial arts and dark fantasy aspects of it perfectly.

>>3636753
MK4

>>3635827
I used to play tons of mk2 back in the day. I agree.

>>3638372
Genesis had the good version of MK, kiddo.

>>3638383
So the non-censored version of MK is the shitty one?

>>3638390
All console versions are shit Genecuck

>>3638395
lol

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>>3636420
its a mugen fan game. its dope as fuck.

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>>3638435

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>>3638437

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>>3638442

>>3636768
works perfectly on a raspberry pi 3b

>>3638442
yeah yeah enough teasing, "mugen fan game" doesn't cut it.
post actual name ye fagoulas

>>3638450
using what MAME tho? i have lr-mame2003 that runs 0.78b ROMS, is that enough for me to play up to UMK3?

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>>3638451
http://www.mediafire.com/file/u5qgw408011k1kt/MKP_4.1%2B_%28400x254_Edition_v1.1%29.7z
and the dlc pack
http://www.mediafire.com/file/kxa6sk43ntaegaa/MKP4.1%2B_%28400x254_Edition%29_Additional_Characters.7z

>>3638454
I'm using lr-mame2003, just tested mk3 and it works fine as well. I don't have umk3 on this build, not sure why.

One quick tip - mk2/mk3 have extremely low volume by default. If you're going to set it up, have a keyboard handy and hit F2 to get into the game setup and adjust volume there.

>>3638457
just realized umk3 is considered a clone of mk3 so it was filtered out

>>3638457
yeah i just noticed lr-mame2003 doesn't support umk3.
well i guess i'll set up up to MK3 on MAME and get Mortal Kombat Trilogy fo the PSX emulator, that is, for me, the definitive MK experience (the PC version does run better but the music problem can really shoot it in the legs)

>>3638461
wot? really?

but it has always been a parent, different chip and all.

crazy

>>3638357
I know right. It's fucking pathetic.

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>>3638456
holy shit drahmin is in this!

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>>3638442
>>3638437
>>3638436
>>3638435
>>3636069
these are pretty rad

>>3638446
dude thats just fucked lol

What makes UMK3 better than Trilogy?

>>3638395
Please provide picture of your original Mortal Kombat arcade machine time-stamped with possibly a monitor nearby denoting the thread.

Either you do that, or it means you probably play a console version of MK, a bad port for PC or in non-cigar smelling MAME machine.

Just say you're sorry and shove your Dragon Dildo back up your ass, kiddo.

>>3638357
You can thank the mods for that. Also thank them for banning posters inside shitpost bait threads while leaving said shitpost bait threads still up. That's such a kind gesture.

Who does everybody play?

I use Kitana because her damage is op as shit in MK2.

>>3638383
You're a dumpass. All the weebshit like JRPGs and anime platformers were on SNES.

Mortal Combat vs. Eternal Champions vs. Killer Instinct

Who wins?

>>3639326
Never heard of mortal combat. So I guess killer instinct.

>>3639326
EC > MC > KI

Sucks that Champions from the Darkside didn't get a re-release on Saturn.

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>>3638689
Sub Zero

Remember when mortal combat was good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey5gDUEawHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xgIMNeZDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubHksZRFkQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET0Jw9ytxpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfuCHaKRoTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErOUIeEsUYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29zN3XP_i-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT9cXBsXxq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGREBXSaRxs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mMkFMK9OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEb173CvwwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10frnpNtm3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4XQEHxGa1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUPEg-PIqdw

Me neither

>>3639670
show me one fighting game without exploits

besides, back in the day, no one knew this, so who gives a shit now. pretty sure there ain't any important leagues of MK1, 2 or 3 anywhere.

>>3639670
>remember when mortal kombat was tool assisted?

no, but these are pretty cool tho

>Planned out a slightly more lighthearted retelling comic of the original timeline, taking more influence from the martial arts movies that inspired the series
>For better or worse I will never get around to drawing it and therefore exposing the internet to that level of autism

>>3639708
>back in the day, no one knew this
Your kidding right?

The game had multiple revisions in a desperate attempt to remove the infinite's

So what are some of the fatality bugs from the first one? I know you could uppercut someone's head off with johnny cage and nut punch and the head would return, I think scorpion and subzero had some weird ones too.

>>3638505
DOS MK-II is best home MK.

>>3635998
>New mk game is out.
>First thing I do is check if he still does that

>>3638436
Loved this one. Did you increase the speed for the webms? It looks smooth as fuck.

>>3639708
>>3639670
MK is more like a party game along the lines of Smash than it is a serious fighter. It was made so anyone could pick it up and have fun, but not balanced as well for high level play.

>>3635827
Mortal Kombat II is awesome, but my favorite is Mortal Kombat Trilogy for N64.

Rain is awesome.

For people who haven't played the series, don't listen to the people shitting on the games. There are good reasons why these games are always in top fighting game lists.

>>3640059
>Keyboard controls.
>No gamepad button mapping or joystick mapping available.

Spot the PC fanboy who is shilling games he's never even played.

>>3640742
Not him, but one of the best KoF players I've ever known mained keyboard.

>>3640740
Name just one.

>>3640919
Also not him. It doesn't belong on any top fighting lists, but it is a good party game for casual play like Smash. >>3640489

>>3640742
Mechanical keyboard is miles better than a shitty gamepad for fighters. Get the fuck out of here.

>>3640742
Since when do gamepad buttons need to be remapped? It worked fine! I may not have a particularly good gamepad OR keyboard hooked up to my dos machine right now, but that's irrelevant. How's that Saturn version, with its special gamepad and slew of buttons working out for you?

>>3641026
That shouldn't really be an issue in the first place, the normal setup for a computer is at a desk, so in that situation, an arcade stick would be far nicer. It's a huge shame that option doesn't exist and sprawl out.

>>3636004
MK1 had the best atmosphere by a mile... not even close.

MK3's urban bullshit and gay characters indeed hurt it badly.

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>>3642397
>MK1 had the best atmosphere by a mile... not even close.

Nah, MK1 was cool, but MK2 hit the sweet spot.

>>3637832
>SNL
Super Nario Land?

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>>3637832
Daily reminder that no matter when you start watching, you will think SNL as only ever good for a handful of years then went to shit.

>>3642765
saturday night live.

>>3639670
>combat

>>3640740
Nobody who knows anything about fighting games would ever put mortal combat in a top 10, mortal combat games are terrible low brow swill aimed at casual children who think gore is cool.

>>3635827
Can't get it to run on Steam since I had to reinstall it and GFWL support got dropped. Am perpetually stuck on the title screen.

I've helped myslef along with the GOG Dos versions, but it's just not the same.

>>3644803
MAME

>>3635869
It's ReRe!!!

>>3640731
It's a murrican game, violence is okay but sex is not.

>>3635827
I would fight you IRL to defend the honor of MKDeception

>>3645035

Can you please use reading comprehension to literally Re-read my comment you literally copied and pasted and put into green text?

>>3645056

It's pretty obvious you nit picked comments since they're not responses to one another.

Nice Mortal Kombat thread we got here :)

>>3645331
Who cares? MK is baby tier trash

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Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door. /pol/ is two blocks down

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"Come out to the VR, we'll discuss retro vidya and Mortal Kombat, have a few keks and on-topic banter..."

Enough with the Hillary supporting cocksuckers. We get it, you are sore losers. I just want to talk about Mortal Kombat. Now, on to a very important question.

What gives Mortal Kombat 1 that retro feel?

Would MK have worked without the fatalities and blood? Often wonder how the reception to the series would have been if it was a straight up enter the dragon tournament game, with some wacky characters inspired by big trouble in little china. Probably lukewarm at best, could easily see it dwarfed by street fighter on that equal turf.

>>3645691
>Would MK have worked without the fatalities and blood?

No chance, that was it's whole gimmick. If you take away the gore it's just another of the dozens of shitty SF clones everyone forgot about.

>>3645702
Yeah that's what I figure too. Not even the digitized sprites or Jean-Claude Van Damme lol

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>>3645715
What would have made it fly is if the game was well made. But SF:the movie showed us that digitized JCVD can still make for a shit game.

>>3645691
It would have been pretty big just on the graphics alone. People forget how mind blowing MK1 was when it came out. No one knew about the fatalities at first, but it still raked in money. It just wouldn't stick around aslong as it has.

>>3645721
>>3645724
I can see it moving based on the graphics, they still look good. still remember being blown away by MK2

>>3645737
whats your problem?

I say UMK3 is the best.

MK2 was a massive improvement over 1, whereas 3 and UMK3 were small improvements over 2, so I can see why someone would say MK2 is their favorite.

>>3645774
i'm not hardcore into mk but the common complaint with mk3 is the dial a combo stuff and dashing. really I don't mind, I just find the game very bland in it's presentation compared to 1&2. too many urban stages and lackluster new fighters didn't win me over I think

>>3645774
Mk3 was not an improvement over 2, it was a toss up, pretty much a different game. And... UMK3 was a rather big improvement over 3, it added stuff rather than turning stuff on its head.

>>3645772
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdzLFNELeCI

>>3642573
MK2 was a little cartoony... MK1 was spot on IMO. Best soundtrack too.

There was something quite dark about MK1's overall atmosphere.

Soooo... does this board have like zero Mods or are you all too stupid to report and sage?

Which is it?

>>3645785
I'm usually the one around here who rags on MK3's dial combos and dashing for making it not feel like Mortal Kombat. I don't think the idea was all bad, but it didn't work for me. Really though it could be that I was just getting bored with MK as a series having played so much of the first two.

I actually really like the invasion of earthrealm, the urban stages and a lot of the new characters. It's the game that didn't hold up, but that probably would have been the case if they'd kept it close to MK2 anyways. That game is pretty rough if you try to play it now.

>>3647175
>There was something quite dark about MK1's overall atmosphere.
MK1 had grit I think. MK2 kept the same grit while easing in more fantastical elements. I think that's whats so interesting about the aesthetic of these game, outside of the fatalities and blood (to me at least)

>>3647842
Am I alone in thinking all the MKs are pretty goofy? It's like a live action cartoon.

>>3636250
aint there a fan game in the works like this? i remember it being demoed at MK9 tournaments

>>3645673

Why does Mortal Kombat always attract the worst kind of people?

>>3648259
I have no clue wtf caused the thread to derail this hard or why the MK thread. Like any other fanbase it has retards I guess.

I like this video of this aussie gushing over MK1, it's over an hour so skip around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycX3wWN3h6w

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**MK2 is the greatest fighting game of all-time.**

MK1 had the greatest A E S T H E T I C S of any fighting game all-time.

Hipster posers that don't get why MK2 is the GOAT are beyond reason. A good fighting game is about fighter balance and pure twitch reaction + strategy vs your HUMAN opponent.

>>3638497
It has better music mostly, but I don't see how it's better

holy shit someone finally fucking reported something

hallelujah

Kind of hard to explain how immense these games were if you weren't at that particular age when they came out. The lore and hype around MK I and II were unreal. Between the school yard and early internet culture (Prodigy), an insane amount of info trading (real and fake) went on. I remember a huge binder of MK cheat printouts I shared with a few friends. I even sold a few copies of a huge MKII FAQ I compiled (printed and mailed). I'd bet a large amount of white guys between 28-35 had a few years of their lives swallowed up by MK back in the day.

>>3648468
It was far bigger than SF2... like 10x, no joke.

SF2 was considered corny and slow (hence all the sped up versions like Hyper etc.)

>>3648596

SF barely registered a blip. Fatalities, different colored ninjas, nude code rumors...it's like Boon and Tobias knew exactly all the right buttons (har) to push. The best way I can describe it was that it was like an absolute fucking mania....everyone was obsessed with playing MK and finding hidden secrets.

>>3648670
SF2 was a hit with the SNES before MK1 home ports arrived, but yeah, it got smashed.

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>>3649071
>>3649079
nice out of date data, samefag

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-28-street-fighter-5-sales-grind-to-a-halt-as-community-calls-for-revamp

MK X outsold SF5 by FIVE TIMES OVER

Anyone still play umk3?

>>3649037
I was just sharing memories of what it was like to be a kid when these games came out. Sure I remember playing SF, it was cool, but it didn't cause the mania that MK. Mania is the only word I can think for it...every kid was obsessed with learning fatalities, every issue of EGM or GamePros was packed with MK coverage, every internet message board was choked with rumors and secrets.

>>3649513
MK 1 and 2 were the biggest cultural video game experiences in my lifetime.

Can't even think of a close second... all the Skyrim hype maybe? GTA5?

>>3637765
>balance the martial arts and dark fantasy aspects
MK1 did it better... its simpler play mechanics just didn't hold up as well as 2 did.

Everybody get pumped and get on Kano's side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovDaPeQk_0

>>3651282
Johnny Cage says YOU will die!

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK44Et3QB5w

>>3637962
i thought in either mk1 or mk2 he alternated between "come here" and "get over here"... or am i confusing that with mk4?

>>3649092
>release barebones, incomplete game.
>Sell a measly 100,000 units in five months after an initial underselling shipment of 1.4 million

Capcom are such a joke. I'm glad it's all coming down on them now, although it has been for a while. MKX is so much better than SFV it's not even funny.

FRIENDSHIP,
FIRENDSHIP!


....AGAIN!?

>>3652729
It's been going downhill since they raped SF2 tbqh. SF4 was overrated as fuck, it was barely average.

>>3651180
I mean let's be honest....MK has never ever been even halfway decent at representing martial arts, it's always been a the B movie shlock Western "martial arts" stereotype of the fighting game world....and for me, that's part of the appeal

I mean how can you say it in any way tried to represent martial arts when every character had the same exact basic moveset regardless of what martial art they were supposed to be a practitioner of?

>>3649037
>>3649054
>>3649067
>>3649092

Mortal Kombat has made SF "uncool" in the west, because MK was made for Westerners by Westerners, but it was always considered a joke by people who took fighting games seriously and by people in places other than North America

I love MK too, but the reason it had so much success in the West and only the West is easy to see....not only was it tailor made for Western sensibilities, but MK was also a pop culture phenomenon because of the media against violence factor that made it a must have game, much like GTA games later

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>It's cute that you think anything could be as good as MK: Special Forces.

Seriously though, if you're not maining Mileena in MK2 then what the fuck are you doing?

>>3652729
Not long before we see a new Mega Man...

...[Pachinko Machine]

>>3653568
pure autism

i bet you own a katana that's been folded 1,000 times

>>3653606
No, I'm just not retarded. MK has never in any way represented martial arts at all....and with competition like SF, which turns martial arts into a cartoon, that's saying a lot.

MK has always been the casual's choice and was always tailor made to cater to Western stereotypes which is why it got so popular in the West, and if you can't admit that you're basically proving my point.

>>3653653
>*RATTLES TITS* CASUAL CASUAL CASUAL CASUAL

>>3652729
>mk9 was better than sf4
>mkx is better than sf5

i never thought i would live to see the day when mortal kombat games where legit better than street fighter games

>>3653752
Arguably already happened... MK2 and SF2 CE/hyper etc.

It may or may not be your style, but MK2 was as solid as a fighting game can get.

>>3655507
>a keyboard is the best way to play fighting games.
Except that he didn't say that you braindead faggot.

>>3656181
Unless it has microtransactions it's not casual, anon

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>>3656195
You are legit retarded.

>>3656181
>rattles man boobs

>>3656226
Sorry mate but that's the official definition. Pick up and play games with cash-skips are casual.

>>3656298
It's *rattles tits* you faggot, get it right.

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>>3656303
>Pick up and play games with cash-skips are casual.

That part is true but it's not what he said. Not only microtransaction games are casual. MK is the original casual fighting game. My fucking mom played MK in the 90's and could do Mileena's man eater fatality when she won.

That doesn't make it bad, I've always liked MK better than Street Fighter, including MK9 over SFIV, but there's no arguing that it's objectively an inferior game. Even the playtesters who did the Mortal Kombat 9 podcast were sick of how broken it was by the end.

That doesn't make it bad for casual play and it doesn't make it bad that it's casual. Smash is the exact same and that's why it's so popular. Pick up and play is great, but saying it's secretly better than a serious fighting game is ridiculous.

The problem with SFV is the same problem with vanilla SF2, Alpha1, SF3NG and vanilla SFIV. They always cock it up the first few times and then usually refine till it's among the best around.

I think it's a lame series with mostly stupid characters, but there's no denying it's quality. And it's obviously as popular as it is with good reason.

Also remember not to get your panties in a twist if what you like isn't the most popular. I spent many many happy months whooping ass in Injustice even if it was never going to be as popular or tourney worthy as some other games.

Just discovered /vr/, this whole board is made of nostalgia and feels, remember playing 1 & umk3 in my sega genesis, never tried 2, is it any good?

>>3656142
its less that mk9 is brilliant and more that mk games improved a little while sf games declined by a lot

>>3657237
>never tried 2, is it any good?

I love these moments. They're like meeting some undocumented tribe for the first time.

MKII was commonly considered to be the height of the series for many years. The only game to really surpass it in terms of popularity was MK9, and that game was mostly based on the story of MK2 anyhow. It's deadly hard as a game though, ludicrously so even, and it's pretty simplistic compared to most other fighting games of the era in terms of gameplay, but as an experience it's still very enjoyable.

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>>3658202
>It's deadly hard as a game though, ludicrously so even

Ohh my god. You're not even joking are you?

>>3656414
>MK is the original casual fighting game
>a serious fighting game
fighting games are not fine art, ever

>>3658306
>fighting games are not fine art, ever
Who mentioned fine art?

>>3635827
I like both the sf and mk retro games. I grew up with sf2 but admired mk. Mk is fun to play, although it suffers in various comparisons to sf2. Both are good fun, mk offering something sf2 never could, and vice versa.

>>3658492
What does MK offer than SF2 doesn't?

>>3658545
A plethora of easter eggs and doing things for the sheer hell of it.

>>3658549
SFII has that as well though.

>>3658549
So your answer is nothing?

>>3658212
>muh exploits

Not an argument. Try again.

>>3658545
It's a great game for casual players.

>>3658580
Where did he mention exploits? Why would it matter if he had?

>>3658585
Using sweep is an exploit in Mortal Kombat because the AI always falls for it.

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>>3658589
>Using sweep is an exploit in Mortal Kombat because the AI always falls for it.

>>3658603
Pretty much. It really is sad how bad MK's AI is.

>>3658582
So is Street Fighter though.... Pretty much every fighting game is great for casual play.

>>3658623
SF's skill ceiling is too high. Mortal Kombat is better balanced.

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>>3658628
>Mortal Kombat is better balanced.

>>3658637
Better balanced for casual play libtard

>>3658643
>libtard
MKiddies, ladies and gentlemen.

>>3658637
MK2 has okay balance from what I remember, since everyone basically does the same outside three special attacks. Only a few characters have broken attacks (Kung Lao has one for sure).

Street Fighter never was well balanced.

>>3658671
>Street Fighter never was well balanced.

>>3658671
It dosent MK2 has horrendous balance

S: Jax, Kang, Mileena
A: Kitana, Raiden, Kung
B: Scorpion, Shang
C: Cage, Sub, Reptile
D: Baraka

S tiers are literally unbeatable by anyone not S tier, the game is beyond broken and pretty much devolves into "first hit wins"

SF2 in contrast has a much wider verity of viable characters and even mid/low tiers can hold their own against the top tiers.

USF4 is one of the most balanced if not THE most balanced fighting game to date.

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>>3658689
He's talking about casual play, where he sort of has a point. It's designed so that new players can pick up characters quickly. You just learn their couple of special moves, which are also designed to be easily performed and go to town. I was the one who mentioned my mom being able to kick ass with Mileena in MK2 and fatality people when she won and it wasn't a joke.

Street Fighter has more traditional balance where they tried to make the characters all roughly as good as one another, but they also have very different playstyles. So it's not just learning new moves, it's learning new moves and how to play rushdown or tutle etc. You need to know your character and your opponent in and out to know how to fight them in a way you don't really have to in MK.

They're just different, for different audiences.

I like Sheeva and Baraka even if they suck ass.

>>3658714
The S tiers in MK2 aren't even hard to play, you literally just flood the screen with instant air fireballs and in the case of jax ground pound, mileenas projectile doesn't even have an input you literally just hold the button for a second jump and release rinse and repeat.

On no level is MK2 more balanced than SF2

>>3658724
You're talking about high level play though. That's what I'm saying, MK isn't good for that, but it wasn't designed for that. It's designed to be accessible to everyone so they can just pick up and have fun quickly.

My mom could whoop ass in MK but SFII may as well have been in Greek. So even though SFII is a "better" game in terms of actual mechanics and balance, it's not a better party style game. And I don't think there's anything really wrong with that. There's room and markets for both. Just look how massive Smash is....

>>3658729
Any game can be played at a low level, thats a moot point, MK's selling point is edgy gore, i ate that shit up when i was a kid too.

smash is only popular because of nintendo characters, look at all the "smash clones" that no one plays, same reason why nintendo fanboys desperately try to claim SC2 was the best SC game.

>>3658731
>Any game can be played at a low level

True, but MK is designed to be more fun at a low level where as SF is designed to be more fun at a high level. That's all.

Smash isn't only popular because of it's characters. Games like that appeal to some people.

is the fan revision for mk2 any good?

>>3658821
You cant polish a turd, anon

>>3658689
This does not apply to 99.999% of the gamers who are not autists.

>>3658731
Talim was my girl in SC2. I quit playing SC when i heard they removed her.

>>3658689
>SF2 in contrast has a much wider verity of viable characters and even mid/low tiers can hold their own against the top tiers.
not really

especially if you mean world warrior

>>3659190
you absolutely can

sf2 world warrior falls apart the second someone picks guile, meanwhile hyper fighting is one of the best fighting games ever made even though its just gameplay tweaks

>>3658724
>On no level is MK2 more balanced than SF2

It certainly is, except for the 0.1% of the hardcores.

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>All of yesterday's posts deleted
>No political shit flinging
>Just discussions and reasons Mortal Kombat isn't a great game

Here I thought fighting game threads on /vr/ couldn't get any more retarded, but this is some next level shit. Looks like our resident MK baby who found comic gore so compelling as a kid is all grown up now and finally realized his dream of being a janitor, for 4chan.

Slow clap friend, this is true comedy gold.

>>3662516
>0.1% of people play MK seriously at all
>this is supposed to be an endorsement of the series.

>>3662661
>why were my shitty posts deleted?

>>3662661
Some posts praising MK were also deleted, like the one I made about how the VS series is infinitely more broken than any MK game. So I don't think it was an MK baby janitor.

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Speaking of MUGEN, this MK game is pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekPp7adkNE

>>3636118
its like jousting, but everyone's retarded and the loser explodes

much, much more fun than it sounds

>>3663607
Think he might be referring to umk3 explosive combat 2v2 for arcade, the console ports umk3, or mkt64 2v2/ 3v3(wish they brought this back 3v3 was one of the best modes.)Also run jabs are a happy accident.

Here is a video of high level mkt64 which plays completely different from umk3 and regular mkt. This is due to the low kicks and low punch having +20 frames on hit and block (Boon reduced the recovery frames of the moves to save on memory of the nintendo 64 cartridge).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7y0IM-Mdqk

>>3648426
only reason why i prefer UMK3 over 2 is because UMK3 has combos.

Mk3 the arcade version is insanely addictive. Just found this out a few days ago.... Dont know if its good 1v1 but the ai isnt too cheap and its beatable.

>>3663282
>all those donut steels

Nothing else ever looked as cool as this unfinished one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaicZGtPhlA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7QkZQvrwmU

>>3663836
holy shit these animations are awesome. I mainly like chaotic because of all the characters and stages, but damn i wish they would just make another 2D MK game kinda like this.

I don't like MK as a fighting game but holy shit do I love reading the lore.

>>3662516
its really not

>>3663780
>1v1
it's great

>>3663136
Well whoever it was, bless them. Perfect cherry on the top of all this.

>>3664098
it really is

>>3666354
Its really not

>>3667647
it really is

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>>3664098
>>3667660
>>3667647
>>3666354
lol

>>3635830
I like Sub-Zero and Scorpion.

>>3667660
Its really not

Mortal Kombat is pure nostalgia at this point. They didn't bother to diversify "playstyles" until Annihilation.

The irony is that MK2/3 are way more fun than any sequels that came after them. Overall, that just means it's a mediocre fighting game series.

Street Fighter has always been superior ;_; I'm still a big fan, nonetheless.

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>>3669365
>The irony is that MK2/3 are way more fun than any sequels that came after them

Nah

>>3669476

9 was the hottest iteration of all the ninja girls, to be quite honest.

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>>3669603
Nah UMK3 was the best for ninja girls

>>3669603
Anon, they looked like trannies. Male bodies and faces with ridiculous breasts.

>>3669621

I disagree but respect your opinion

>>3669648

That was X, bruh.

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>>3669621
I like the MK9 versions of the MK3 outfit.

>>3635827
Hmm MK2 is good.
I prefer MK Trilogy
All character playable (even the bosses)
its like they included all real 2D MK characters in one package.

>>3637389
Fatalities where fucken difficult, no instructions outside of magazines and they always where a mess of inputs.

No one fucken knowe how to make fatalities.

>>3669476
MK9 got back to the roots.
MK X is showing some rot, I'm not digging MKX character design practically everyone looks old + some mad max rejects.

>>3658689
Can you demonstrate
(Video or webm) how you can use S tear in MK2 to annihilate everyone?

I want to see this for my self.

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>>3639670
>>3639708

Actually the infests make it a peace of history showing how exploits can change a game.
Its a testament to how game mechanics can be abused.
Besides this:
infests are compleat fun if you learne how to do thme on friends!

Are the infests not something that changes the game and makes it competitive on another level? Like now you need to not get hit and the game consists of you working around this.

I remember that there is another uber pro game like this named jump dive or jump kick or something where there are only 2 buttons and one hit = victory.

I have no idea since I'm not a tourney fag.
Game was fun never know about the infests kind of.
Game is great for casuals, you can master it if you learn the infests faster giving you a macrocosm of what a lifespan of a fighting game is like.

Classic MK is to other fighting games what tick tack to or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDWPi1pZ0Po
is to chess. Other games have simply a longer learning curve before you learn the perfect win every time strategy.

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>>3671446
Yeah, I'm still too into Injustice to care about MKX. It's a shockingly good fighter for an NRS game.

>>3645691
I probably would have enjoyed it. Honestly the fatalities and blood never did anything for me as a kid, probably because I was raised on 80's action movies. I loved the ninjas and cool otherworld stages and the easter eggs.

>>3671505
>Actually the infests make it a peace of history showing how exploits can change a game.
>peace of history
lol

What is an infest?

>>3671841
>What is an infest
infinite, fucken auto correct.

>>3671505
>Actually the infests make it a peace of history showing how exploits can change a game.
>Its a testament to how game mechanics can be abused.

People also discovered this in Street Fighter 2 but it led them to develop real combos, not broken infinite.

>Like now you need to not get hit and the game consists of you working around this.

Of course you don't want to get hit, that's what the games are all about. But turning it into "first hit wins" is terrible.

>I remember that there is another uber pro game like this named jump dive or jump kick or something where there are only 2 buttons and one hit = victory.

Dive kick is a joke game. It was briefly popular with the casual fighting games crowd because it makes for a fun party game and forces you to learn basic footsies which most casuals ignore. It's not a serious fighting game by any measure though.

>Other games have simply a longer learning curve before you learn the perfect win every time strategy.

A good fighting game doesn't have these.

>>3672891
Are you LARPing as a titty rattler?

>>3635827
kek

>>3675259
Are you sure you quoted the right post? Not the guy talking about infests who can't even be bothered to look at his trolls before posting them?

>>3672891
>People also discovered this in Street Fighter 2 but it led them to develop real combos, not broken infinite.

They discovered 50% damage redizzy combos and Guile's Handcuffs.

>>3636061
I used to do the first half of the sub-zero fatality and just leave them frozen.

>>3672891
>forces you to learn basic footsies which most casuals ignore.

how could anyone ignore jump kicks in a fighting game? they were always useful. I found backwards jump kicks were excellent for breaking the AI.

>>3635827
>Mortal Kombat 2 is the best game in the franchise.


Agreed!