/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9550994
>The AI seems to react to my exact button presses and I'm only able to win by time outs and playing defensively. It's crazy.

Seems to me you are new to MK games.

>>8817326
Meanwhile, this is the 3-button layout.

>Any version of the game where the AI isn't fucking bonkers?

No.

>>5973137
>try to throw
>enemy throws you first

>uppercut
>get sweeped first

>crouch block
>enemy does nothing but crouching low kicks at you

>move back
>enemy move forward
>move forward
>enemy moves back
>go forward too far
>enemy runs in and combos your ass for 45% damage

>throw projectile
>enemy jump kicks

Literally toddler level AI, Boon is a notorious hack. Frame data is just ignored for the AI and they do whatever they want even if it's impossible for you. The games are actually unplayable as a single player experience.

>>5319830
A myth perpetuated by whiny SF fanboys who couldn't handle the heat.

>>4405568

>>4337889

>>4281321
So every move in the entire game?

>>4152825
Gotchu covered, ninja

AI was fucked

>>3816978
Looking back I wish Boon had gotten his way. The AI in MK2 was such utter bullshit they would throw Raiden mid torpedo. If anything keeping throws in broke the game because you couldn't get within 10 feet of the AI without getting grabbed.

>>3068961
Maybe Boon was onto something...

But yes he was/is incompetent. He couldn't even figure out how to make a character switch sides and keep their weapon in the correct hand. Then goes on to blame the character for it and call him shit for the next decade.

>>3036479

>>2763434
>not when they do shit like grab you when you are doing a sweep, or trying too uppercut them, you know, shit a normal player cant fucking do!

Indeed.

>remove Johnny
>remove Sonya
>remove Kano

>left with lightning monk guy, ninja guy x2 and kungfu guy

Yeah, nah.

>>2134156
Mortal Kombat at least had a consistent and easy to remember control scheme.

Mortal Kombat has an input-reading AI that perfectly reacts to your every command whenever it can. This is OLD NEWS.

The only single way to beat it is to trick it combinations it cannot react to right. Like in UMK3, when you do a backflip air kick, the AI will ALWAYS react with a fireball if the character in question has one (which practically every character does). You can abuse that if you have a character that can teleport. Smoke has a three hit 40% damage combo for example (teleport uppercut -> air kick -> cancel to air throw when it hits).