/vr/ - Retro Games

To start off the thread myself, i just want to say i believe Stryker is pretty based, he's just my favorite UMK3 character

>>10825092
Stryker remains BASED.

>Favorite Characters?
Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Smoke (Human and cyborg)
>Favorite Rumors?
Ermac in MK1
I usually only play up to MK4, but recently, I started replaying Deadly Alliance again after not touching it since Deception came out, and dear Lord, do I hate this game. I just can wrap my head around the new gameplay, and I swear the AI is cheating.

>>10825083
I thought MK1 was kind of lame back then (I appreciate it more now) and MK3 I thought jumped the shark a little, but I was super obsessed with MK2 and played it like crazy. Right from the start is felt like a huge step up from 1 and had so many awesome characters. My house was pretty close to the school so once I got a copy for Genesis I would run home every day at lunch and play it the whole time.

Two favorite memories come to mind. The first was that my mom thought it was really cool and I taught her how to spam teleports and rolls with Mileena and when my friends came over she would sometimes sit down for a round, kick their asses and then do her fatality as she'd cheer "Go Mileena, eat em up and spit out their bones!" and then go back to gardening or whatever. Good times.

The other was when we went to see the MK movie. Opening night and we were hyped as fuck coming out of it because that movie rocks so much more than it had any right to. My friends go to use the washroom and I'm waiting so I throw a quarter in the MK2 machine in the lobby and start playing.

Some guy comes up with his kid brother and doesn't even ask, just puts his own quarter in. I'm slightly miffed because I was having fun examining the arcade AI because it fought different than the home port. So he takes Liu Kang and I pick Mileena... Round 1 was just pure bullshit teleport and roll spam and he barely even got to move let alone land a hit. Round 2 I played a little more fair but still kicked his ass except that near the end of the match he finally landed a hit. I turned and looked genuinely offended and said "you ruined my flawless!" Teleport kick and the fight is done, he glares at me and starts to walk away when his little brother stops him and says "wait, look!" and he stands there in delighted awe and his brother with disgust as Mileena eats him up and spits his bones out.

anyone able to recommend a good version of any of the first three games to play on a handheld emulator? I know the arcade versions "work", but a lot of things get awkwardly mapped to shoulder buttons.

reminder that the movie is kino
I like 2D MK. I've only ever beaten 1's arcade mode. 2 and 3 kick my ass with cheap AI.
>favorite characters?
REPTILE.
https://youtu.be/qI-Takf76RY?si=PdXfqBbEfyVv8so_

>>10825092
Stryker is based. An underdog survivor using conventional weaponry against demons and cyborgninjas is super likeable. He is a realistic guy but somehow that makes him the most absurd character in the roster.

one of my earliest memories using the internet was browsing an mk fan site by a guy named ratman. he had moves, codes, secrets, humor, all types of mk related stuff. a few weeks ago i was up late at night and got curious about it again, so i did some digging on the waybackmachine and found a bunch of these old mk photoshops. i printed a lot of these out and saved them in a folder in my room. i'll post a few in case anyone remembers them.

barney jokes were the epitome of 90s humor

Bug!

last one for now, if anyone remembers one of these, i probably have it saved

>favourite stage
soul chamber and then the rooftop and lost from umk3

>>10825596
For me it's Living Forest, but there are so many awesome ones.

>>10825083
mortal kombat project isn't retro faggot,mugen is another thing and not retro as well.

I love how these fan games make these awesome edits of stuff that never was, like classic vs images or actual running sprites for these mk1/2 characters.
But I dont like how they keep making the game faster and faster, its this weird Killer Instinct feel where it plays at double speed with enormous combos.
I wish we could go back to the mk1/2 gameplay, not the turbo charged umk3 on steroids that modders go for.

>>10825570
>>10825574
>>10825578
>>10825579
>>10825567
These all take me back to "The Kombat Pavilion" a very neat Mortal Kombat fan site developed by Tabmok99 one of those dudes still faithful to the retro culture of Mortal Kombat, good times really.

>>10825672
>"mortal kombat project isn't retro faggot,mugen is another thing and not retro as well."

The thread doesn't even imply that it is Retro.
Thread asks those who love Retro Mortal Kombat if they feel its a good spiritual successor to the 2D era of the series which is a fair question considering it could keep the Aesthetics, Sound and Gameplay style of the original retro games.

Also, consider this your only (You), cuck.

RAIN

>>10825473
>my mom thought it was really cool and I taught her how to spam teleports and rolls with Mileena and when my friends came over she would sometimes sit down for a round, kick their asses and then do her fatality as she'd cheer "Go Mileena, eat em up and spit out their bones!" and then go back to gardening or whatever

>>10827047
That color tone for Rain is pretty rare, it was used in the attract mode for UMK3 Arcade but Rain isn't playable there, and then neither the console ports or Trilogy nail that color tone for his outfit.

>>10825083
My favorite character is my own of course

>>10825493
Based anon saved my kinogrid

>>10825083
>Favorite Characters
Kano, Sektor, Ermac
>Favorite Rumor
being able to fight Blaze in MKII (lot of trolling with this on the Midway forums in the early 2000s)
>Favorite Stage
The Pit, Living Forest, The Graveyard, The Bridge

>>10825083
>Favorite Characters
Kano, Sektor, Ermac
>Favorite Rumor
being able to fight Blaze in MKII (lot of trolling with this on the Midway forums in the early 2000s)
>Favorite Stage
The Pit, Living Forest, The Graveyard, The Bridge

>>10825083
>Favorite Characters?
Smoke's my nigga. I like Cyber more than Human but I played both extensively.
>Favorite Rumors?
None that I remember.
>Do you enjoy MUGEN (aka MK Project) as a spiritual succesor to the 2D era of the series?
Haven't tried it.
>Favorite Stage?
Wasteland from MK2 and the church from MK3 come to mind instantly. Living Forest is usually great regardless of game.

My favorite is UMK3, although I played MKT a lot too. Honestly, I love MK2's music and aesthetic, but never could properly get into the gameplay. Also, I don't remember MK4 being as bad as some people say it is nowadays. Haven't played it in almost 20 years, but back then I played it quite a lot and had fun with friends; It was a goodish follow up to MK3. Great music too, my favorite soundtrack in the franchise after MK2.

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>>10825493
first movie is kino. 2nd one is dog doo. the new one is a new level of shit.

>>10825083
Favorite is of course MK2 I was obssesed with that game back then, hearing the screams in the arcade even from far was an incredible experience. Midway really knew how to make cabinets. The speakers really brought Dan Forden's opening to life.
I do a few replays on arcade emulator every month or so, sometimes like to check the home ports just for nostalgia sake.
The only problem is that I tend to end up playing by exploiting the AI due to how cheap it is. I wish it was more like the AI on the King of Fighters games, where you feel like you are almost playing against someone.
Not too long ago I was checking the MK4 PC port and was surprised at how good the music sounded, most of my MK4 memories were on N64 (I did play a few coins in the arcade back then) but the N64 audio was so incredibly compressed, comparing the two is very funny.

>>10828876
thank you based anon for bumping my thread. <3

>>10827117
>>10825493
Any idea who put this kinogrid together? is there more?

>>10828941
I was obsessed with every stage in every 2D MK game, everything felt like the world was so much bigger.
When i started finding these type of fan-made stages on the internet it blew my mind but at the same time the re-used assets made them feel so much more like they could really belong and exist in the world of Mortal Kombat, that's one of the things i like about playing it on MUGEN, ive got every original stage ever and some customs that feel like they could also exist, also people really make an effort to make more stuff that canonically exists into the 2D style which is cool.

>>10829119
Yes by my kinogrid I meant I made it. Here's an alternate one that's for the actual kombat

>>10829190
thanks, these are great

>>10825493
Right now I'm thinking about what made Stryker seem so out of place back in the day. It can't just be because he's human since there are many others yet Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Kano, Sonya, Jax, etc. don't feel out of place. Kang has the whole mystical chosen one monk thing going, Kano and Jax have cybernetic implants so I get those, but what makes Stryker feel so different compared to say Cage and Sonya? I guess it could be something as simple as the movesets as they both have their own energy blasts, Cage's shadow kick looks like a super power and Sonya's weird 90 degree flying move also does, whereas Stryker doesn't even have moves like those. Was Stryker the first MK character who didn't have any moves that even looked remotely like they were harvesting energy? Even Kano's knife throw in the first game looks like it does (plus the cannonball being a superhuman feat).

>>10825083
scorpion because I know his moveset by memory already

>>10829969
sub zero for 3 ultimate because he was the first character I learned how to do real combos with. but in terms of just character without use or anything like that, I'd say scorpion or smoke from mk2. he just looked bad ass.

its interesting to hear about how there was actually a very competitive scene for UMK DS

I feel there isn’t enough fatality in .gif format posted. I should make some unless a mortal kombat fan site exists with that?

>>10829964
Stryker also just kind of has a really frumpy design that's unappealing to most people. He looks like a PE teacher.

>>10830113
i always thought he looked like the golfer phil mickelson. his design was just so uninspired. he didnt even have his gun move in vanilla mk3. it was added in ultimate.

MK is for low-IQ morons with no taste.

>>10830127
being a contrarian doesn't make you unique or interesting

>>10830120
>>10830113
>>10829964
He is also the one with the rarest behind the scenes presence, hard to find any footage or pictures of Michael O' Brien playing Stryker.

>>10830306
The rarest is Chris Alexander who did MKT Johnny Cage, I'd give >>10830127 his left nut for some BTS footage of that.
Not even sure when they shot that footage, probably mid 1996, I do recall reading an interview with the guy where he said it was a bit of a hastily done thing, maybe someone should ask him on Twitter if he still has some bts pics.

>>10830787
Yeah, Midway was totally trying to replace Johnny Cage as silently as possible for Trilogy, regardless of the different narratives thrown around about Midway's relationship with Pesina its pretty obvious it came down to money and personal issues, they even included his brother's sprites for Raiden lol, why go the extra mile to replace Johnny Cage when they already got those MK2 sprites.

>>10831740
you can still see the writing on johnny's pants in mk2 if you do shang tsung's soul steal fatality on him

>>10831747
It keeps the Otomix writing in Mortal Kombat Project, i think that's a pretty neat detail.

Mortal Kombat (1992) Scorpion BTS

Verification Not Required.

I love love love the arcade versions, they were definetely the versions to aspire playing. But I also have a soft spot for the ports.
Has anyone checked the Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition Enhanced romhack for the Genesis port? It completely revamps the original port in so many ways it's insane. The graphics, the intro, music, sound, voices, everything is incredibly better. You can even see SubZero regain his pose instead of a 1to1 clone of Scorpion.
All because the original port was likely done in extreme deadlines and with the mandate to use smaller cart sizes.

I wish someone cool could do something similar to the gameboy port of MK2, that game had a 262kb size cart, so tiny. If they used a larger cart I bet they could have put more songs and more than 2 stages. Just imagine the possibilities with double the cart size, or even a 1MB cart like the pokemon games.
It would have made a really decent port into something amazing.

Who was in the wrong here?

was there ever any bts footage of the umk3 ninjas? I always wanted to know that

Going to be playing UMK3 soon. Think I'm going to main either Sub or Scorp. Literally never played a classic MK game. Any advice?

>>10832293
scorpion in umk3 is just an objectively worse version of human smoke (slower walk speed, no popup combos) fyi. theres no reason to pick him unless you just like the character

>>10832302
I'm not a tier person. I also don't know what popup combos are.

>>10831747
>>10831752
Didn't the MKII Source leak have all the original sprites with the Otomix in them?

>>10832293
>Any advice?
Yeah, play MK1 and MK2 first, UMK3 might play nice but loses a lot of that neat eerie feel.

>>10832637
>UMK3 might play nice but loses a lot of that neat eerie feel.
Completely disagree.

>>10825493
MK2 AI literally plays a different game, it can do OTG sweeps and throws and a real player can't.

>>10832638
Not him but I totally agree. MK3 kinda jumped the shark for me and just went goofy.

>>10832319
Are you playing the game with other people or as a single player thing?

If it weren't for the gimmicks (gore/fatalities, digitized graphics, etc), no one would have ever given a single solitary shit about Mortal Kombat. It has always been a fucking terrible franchise. The gameplay has always been complete ass. Everyone's normals are exactly the same (flailing arms like slap-boxing). All the motion is super rigid and stiff. The inputs for specials don't make a lot of sense (on one hand, they are simplified to input compared to other fighters. On the other hand, each character has completely different inputs between their equivalent moves, so you really have to do a lot of re-learning if you want to know more than one character's moveset), Dial-a-combos suck. Having a block button rather than just holding back sucks (block buttons only really work for 3D fighters like Virtua Fighter and Soul Calibur). The story/lore is inconsistent in regards to taking itself super seriously and being completely silly/nonsensical (Not that I particularly give a shit about a fighting game's story, but story seems to be one of the main things people praise about Mortal Kombat). The character roster is small compared to it's competitors at the time, and a lot of the roster is just lazy palette swaps (Street Fighter's shotos have more effort put into differentiating them than Mortal Kombat's ninjas). The AI in single-player on the higher difficulty settings is literally impossible to beat because it cheats (reads your inputs, has lightning quick reflexes beyond the limits of an actual human, able to perform specials on command without having to do the actual inputs for them, etc)
I fail to see how it ever built up a competitive scene, or even just a casual fanbase as strong as it continues to be. It doesn't even look good to just spectate high-level players.

>>10832876
It doesn't have a compative scene, shit like undernight and granblue has more players at this year's evo, it's more of a game for casuals then fucking smash bros is.

>>10828941
I remember the MK2 cabinet's presence at the bowling alley growing up. Raiden on the side with all the lightning.
I would challenge people but only knew how to jump kick and uppercut.
I redeemed myself with UMK DS, though it was laggy.

>>10832276
Footage exists of John Turk playing Unmasked Sub-Zero from MK3, he also played the masked ninjas but i am unable to find any of that content, im sure some of the original devs might have some BTS if requested on Twitter/X, they released some Stryker pictures a few years ago.

>>10825092
>fat proto paul blart literally BTFOs wannabe ninjas and monsters
This man is so based that he literally destroyed the lore of MK. He’s such a chad
>>10825484
You can try to emu the Midway Arcade Treasures versions. Or just play a home console port

>>10832876
just say you're garbage bro

>>10832876
>The gameplay has always been complete ass. Everyone's normals are exactly the same
Not exactly the same, there are different hit boxes for each character. The good thing is that it also had plenty of normals to choose compared to other games, and some of these normals turned into specials like the spinning kick and the uppercut that would only be available for a few characters in Street Fighter.
>All the motion is super rigid and stiff.
The "game" was actually a filmed digitized interaction like Pit Fighter, you can't expect flying uppercuts and fluid fast paced action like Street Fighter because real people can't fly or jump around the screen. But there were some crazy looking specials that made some use of this gimmick. The game would be rigid and stiff for retards who don't know how to apply those specials. And by what
>The AI in single-player on the higher difficulty settings is literally impossible to beat
Not if you play in the best version (SNES). AI in arcade games are usually intended to cheat.

>>10832830
>MK3 kinda jumped the shark for me and just went goofy.
Just say you're a fag who wants nothing but ninjas.

>>10836153
The cyber ninjas were lame, Kabal is lame, Stryker is super lame and Shang Tsung looks like a goth Crow ripoff.

>>10836260
The old characters were still there with their old moves though.

>>10825083
>fav characters
Reptile and Kung Lao
>favorite rumors
Belokk, raining forest in MK2 for a secret Rain fight.
>MUGEN as a spiritual sucessor
Sure, If I remember correctly the MK Project stopped at MKP5.1 during early 2010s. Found it cool so far and personally I think that's how MKT should have looked. Not following the current scene right now since the original team was disbanded
>favorite stage
The Tower (MK2) and the Tomb(MK4)

except for mk3 and 4 , i rather liked all the backdrops , i wish we had high res images of those , mk5, and deadly alliiance, deception, shaolin monks also had cool areas i wish i had high res images of.

>>10825083
Ermac, Rain, Erron Black, Terminator

Oh and Sektor/Kabal

>>10837229
Always wanted Terminator in classic MK (Kano fan) but glad he got in MK11. Wish he could just be an endoskeleton the whole match.

>>10831824
The original arcade version still got the best looks though.

>>10836260
Yes, that's what I said. You're a ninjafag.

>>10832830
I want to play it on fightcade against others.

>MK1-7
>kino story, kino modes, kino ost, half-assed gameplay
>MK9-1
>soulless ass with good gameplay

>>10839537
>numk
>good gameplay
No

Always thought Tanya (MK4 version) was underrated. I liked her design and she was fun to play. Was happy to see she came back in MKX and loved playing her then too. But now...

I like Kobra and fuck anyone who says otherwise.

>>10838990
Sorry I think ninjas are cooler than bike cops and plastic robots lol.

>>10836445
You're thinking of later versions, ultimate MK3 and then later Trilogy. I'm talking about my reaction when the game came out.

TimeSlaughter was a better Mortal Kombat than Mortal Kombat

At what point did Ed Boon stop giving a shit? Because it's obvious now he has no fucks left to give anymore. Was it Armageddon that did it?

>>10825083
>pick Mileena
>spam the three moves in rounds 1 and 3
>friend walks away, even when it's on freeplay

>>10840037
>Was it Armageddon that did it?
i think so. i wasnt the biggest fan of the fighting in deadly alliance/deception but the games had a lot of content and you can tell they were putting the effort in, especially with deception's konquest mode. even though it was jank as fuck it was still pretty cool for the time.

>>10825083
>Favorite Characters?
Kano, Stryker, Sektor, Cyrax, Smokes, Johny Cage, Raiden, Jax, Sub-Zero
>Favorite Rumors?
Back in the day? There were tons. Some true, some not. Don't have one.
>Do you enjoy MUGEN (aka MK Project) as a spiritual succesor to the 2D era of the series?
What?
>Favorite Stage?
Anything you can bust through the ceiling with.

N64 Trilogy is my favorite. 3v3 Kombat is just too much fun and shenanigans. I wish they would make a modern version that combined the PS1, N64 and UMK3 Arcade together. Best of all three. It would be the last fighting game I would ever play.

>>10840037
Probably after MK9; you can tell what was left of Midway still put its soul into that game. After MK9 got the franchise back on track the Warner influence was pretty much rampant, and you can clearly see it with how they monetized and handled the DLC of each game starting with MKX.

Speaking of Warner, they seem to have something against the old games, because outside of the MK Arcade Kollection (which was a bare-bones bundle of arcade MK1, MK2 and UMK3—and mostly just to tie into MK9) they never re-released any other game. IIRC they have even delisted both MK9 and MKAK from most digital stores at this point. I can understand keeping games like Special Forces and maybe even Mythologies under the rug, but something like Shaolin Monks deserved another run.

i always liked vanilla mk3 over ultimate. the addition of the masked ninjas threw off the game's atmosphere imo, and the new stages were mostly terrible and repeated way too much.
why versions of 1-3 havent been released in forever is beyond me. one would think it is one of the easiest things for them to do.... oh well.

>>10840429
>IIRC they have even delisted both MK9
I heard that was because the rights to Freddy DLC expired but that could just be a cover story.

>they just expected you to figure out all the moves and fatalities by yourself while playing

>>10840480
No, anon, we expect you to buy the guide.

>>10840480
Here you go, anon. this will contain everything.

what are the best MK mugens to check out that are recently updated?

>>10840480
yeah, that's based.

>>10825579
This one gave me a hit of nostalgia. I remember seeing this in a videogame magazine as a kid and thought it was something you could actually do in one of the games.

>>10840480
There were also babalities, animalities, and friendship and other hidden secrets to play with new characters. People all over the world were forced to buy magazines to do this.

>>10840476
>I heard that was because the rights to Freddy DLC
100% no. Freddy was in MK Mobile after that

>>10842184
If that's not the reason then that's a real shitty thing to do, to pull it from the stores. I got mine off Steam before that but sucks for people who want it now.

>>10840915
always thought that model of johnny cage looked like shredded drew pickles

>>10842645
They don't want anything with the original timeline available in any official manner.

>>10841335
as a kid i wanted to be baraka, as an adult i want to be kitana

>>10840429
>>10842645
Getting off /vr/ a bit. If I recall, WB had to pull MK9 because of a lawsuit from Wes Craven's estate over who owned what that was eventually settled. They did add MK9 Komplete Edition to the Xbox backwards compatibility library afterwards, but there was no option to buy it. Presumably there would have to be a new agreement to license Freddy and WB didn't want to pay up again which is why it was abandoned.

Ed Boon said he as much Mortal Kombat as they could possibly on Xbox Back compat as well but the only one they got was MK Vs DC. Presumably, something was amiss on the emulation of the software as WB were good with Xbox back compat in terms of licencing because they got a lot of licensed Lego games on there.

>>10843974
They put something in the water around 2000 and we all know it.

>>10843990
I wish they'd just re-release MK9, remove Freddy/Kratos and add Fujin and Tanya and like give everybody their classic skins and call it a day.

imagine getting the shit end of a licensing agreement over a washed up ip like freddy motherfucking kreuger

>>10840915
I always remember that scrapped tiger man RARNK

>>10843974
Baraka, Kitana, Kung lao had no magic powers so they had to use blade weapons.

>>10844323
true for baraka but kitana could levitate you and kung lao could teleport

>>10844935
>kitana could levitate you and kung lao could teleport
Those aren't magic powers. Anyone can do that.
I'll teleport right behind you in about 47 seconds.

Bros do you like this Sareena design?

>>10844946
Kitana levitate people by blowing wind at them. kung lao teleport by using camera tricks.

>>10844323
magic isn't real anon

>>10825083
Yeah
I mainly used Liu Kang and Sub-Zero
The one where you could perform a stage fatality in Living Forest by throwing the opponent into the tree that eats them
Living Forest

>>10845116
She looks like one of the Hex Girls from Scooby Doo.

>>10845346
Throwing fire balls is what I meant by magic.

>>10845449
it was all a show, anon

none of the cast was ever in mortal danger

it should've tipped you off when they hired a mainstream hollywood actor like johnny cage to "fight"

>>10845452
Having actors digitized in the game made it seem like a movie

>>10840957
https://byspeed.com.br/mugen/

>>10839537
MK9-1 had a generic 3D fighter gameplay and was only trying hard to be a Tekken japanese 3D fighter. MK1-7 had their own original unique gameplay with clunky but more realistic movements and not necessarily bad gameplay compared to Japanese fighters at the time that were only trying to make the gameplay look faster with flying combos in the air.

>>10847653
MK9 and later don't have sidestepping. They are 2D fighters. The thing that MK9 stole from Tekken is that each face button corresponds to a limb. MK4 through MK vs DC are 3D fighters.

>>10825083
>Favorite Characters?
Toad and Luigi
>Favorite Rumors?
Marty the Thwomp
>Do you enjoy MUGEN (aka MK Project) as a spiritual succesor to the 2D era of the series?
huh?
>Favorite Stage?
Ghost Valley 3

>>10845452
Are you trying to imply that in universe Mortal Kombat was a TV show or something?

>>10849012
He's saying that like Mario 3 it was all staged! except Mario 3 was a play and MK was a tv show.
MK the tv show the game turned into a movie and then got cameos in the new game which referenced the movies based on the game which was a tv show.
deeeeeeeep lore.

>>10849012
>reality TV is real
>"Yeah man, a Hollywood actor really joined an interdimensional martial arts tournament! It's totally real!"

bump

>>10844323
Didn't Baraka shoot some generic blue fireball projectile? Or was it just supposed to be a spark from his metal blade?

>>10847857
>each face button corresponds to a limb
This has never happened in a Mortal Kombat game, on every single game we had High Punch, High Kick, Low punch and Low Kick along with dial-a-combos(since MK3).

>>10850848
spark, he apparently scratches his blades together.

>>10847857
>MK9 and later don't have sidestepping. They are 2D fighters.
They remain 3D fighters even without 3D stepping. Characters remain fully 3D and use 3D physics in a 3D environment to attack only lacking 3D physics to move sideways which doesn't affect the main gameplay 3D factor because both use the same 2D fixed camera angles and therefore both aren't fully 3D either.

>>10838890
To this day I don't understand why the Dragon logo was flipped in the Mortal Kombat select screen.

>>10836709
Well there is the new MUGEN clone called IKEMEN which is much more customizable, downroad to (allegedly) remove the obvious template/placeholder vibe from the old Mugen engine, and actually being allowed to be used for commercial sellable games, but there's only been one so far.

>>10852119
MK9 functions in all ways as a 2D fighter, it just has 3D graphics. It's ironically very mortal kombat in nature.

>>10844003
I liked it, kinda

>>10852198
i never wouldve noticed that. maybe they didnt either. they might not have settled on which direction it was facing when they made it and just never changed it.

>>10853934
Sounds good I guess, I'll wait until someone releases a demo and see if it is as good(or better considering newer technology and tools) as the one released by the OG team.

>>10826848
fuck man that was ages ago, i remember the fake mortal kombat games and huge ass select screen

>>10854175
>it just has 3D graphics
Same can be said about sidestepping fighters functioning as a 2D fighter when you are not sidestepping. The 3D graphics affect player attacking movements and hit boxes even without the sidestepping.

What a neat thread.

Does anyone want to play mk2 on fight cade.


https://discord.gg/QrVnRPxa

>>10858650
NTA but you're wrong. 3D fighters, like Tekken, have 3D hitboxes which move in x, y and z coordinates in 3D space. This enables the possibility of i.e. the moves that hit from the sides as opposed to just from the front or back.
2D fighters like Street Fighter have strictly 2D hitboxes which only move in x and y. The hitboxes are separate from the graphics engine thus modern SF games can be 2D while having 3D graphics. Picrel illustrates this pretty clearly. I don't know how modern MK works though, never studied it.

Wasn't MK2 just the fucking best?
I know it's long in the past, but I've always hoped someone would make a new sprite-based, motion-cap actor fighter just like MK2 but with new characters.
With all the blood, fatalities, and the eastern mysticism.

>>10825083
>Can we have a Retro Mortal Kombat Thread?
Please.
>Favorite Characters?
Stryker, Johnny Cage, Kano.
>Do you enjoy MUGEN (aka MK Project) as a spiritual succesor to the 2D era of the series?
Never tried it.
>Favorite Stage?
Subway.


>>10839537
MK9 gave us the Earthrealm invasion from Stryker's perspective and it was awesome. That alone redeemed it in my eyes.

>>10860071
i wish, i would, i don't own fightcade anon. :(

Opinions on these?

>>10862348
>MK Mythologies
I like that they tried something new, and I miss digitization in games. but ultimately it sucks.
weird idea that they were even planning other Mythologies games but with other MK characters like Liu Kang.
ngl, I would have enjoyed a Johnny Cage one.

>MK Shaolin Monks
Amazing game, if you're into MK1 and MK2 then you MUST play it.
its a great brawler with lots of secrets and it ooooozes that spooky eastern mysticism feel that >>10860259 mentioned.
its awesome, I'd buy a PS5 if they released a remaster on it.

>MK Special Forces
Never actually played it, but the cover alone gives me that "MK was always about shitty power rangers scifi shenanigans and never about Enter the Dragon Blood Sport.."
fuck you Tobias, MK was great till you went all weird with it with MK3.

>>10862348
They're fine but depart from what makes MK fun to play

>>10862602
I don't typically like brawlers, but that sounds damn good and I do love MK 1 and 2.

>>10860259
Opinion on Mortal Kombat II 32X Arcade fan patch?