/vr/ - Retro Games

The most aggressive fuck-up is that they didn't digitalize an actual monke. Absolutely soulless.

important note: scorpion turns into a penguin and lays an egg, therefore he transitioned genders

>>7799323
Sheeva already got the scorpion animality because Midway initially snubbed the ninjas from MK3. There, actual answer.

>>7799502
Animalities were only in UMK3, so you argument is invalid.

>>7799507
They were in MK3 first. You even needed to do that "mercy" stuff to perform one.

>>7799507
There's some understandable confusion about this.
Both the Arcade and Console versions of MK3 had Animalities.
Only the Arcade UMK3 had Animalities. The SNES version swapped them for Brutalities.

>>7799478
How would you know his gender under the mask? Might just be a chick who smoked 5 packs a day for years.

>>7799323
>Autismo's Normality
How could they fuck up this hard?

>do ermac's friendship
>it starts off like a fatality

How's the AI in 3/Ultimate compared to II?

>>7799478
I always knew I like Scorpion more than Sub Zero and now I realise why.

>>7799502

All they'd have to do is add... a second scorpion animality. Like, just draw a different breed of scorpion doing a different animation. This isn't difficult.

>>7799846
MK3's AI is more similar to II's that UMK3's is. All still have the same issue of the cpu doing things that's impossible for human controlled characters.

>>7800937
Old Mortal Kombat games without a friend to play with are almost garbage. Did the devs finished programming that Skynet AI CPU and thought "yeah, we did a good job"? It ruined the single player mode. I had to resort to cheap tricks and I felt more like swindling the CPU than getting good at the game.

>>7800937
>>7801321
just fucking git gud

>>7801325
Just share your skills with us. It shouldn't be a problem for you.

>>7800937
>cpu doing things that's impossible for human controlled characters

A lot of video games had that in the day. Arcade games had it to munch quarters, home games had it because game retailers hated rental stores.

Just think of every character in a fighting game whose inputs required you to hit up without jumping.

>>7801350
>Just think of every character in a fighting game whose inputs required you to hit up without jumping.

One of the reasons I stick to shotos in fighting games. I love it when there's a character with a simple, yet effective, moveset. Maked the game approachable by me.

Mortal Kombat was not fun until 9.

>>7801637
Shaolin monks is peak fun, pleb

>>7801775
Sad story: my Ps2 died a couple of days after I started this game with my buddy. And I was having a lot of fun. I got so pissed that sold the console as junk and never looked back. I miss this game though.

>>7801321
>>7801330
Yeah it's all jump in kick/shiva stomp through the game.

>>7799478
Male birds lay eggs anon, they're just not capable of being fertilized

>>7799507
It's not like Midway learned from MK3's lukewarm reception

>>7799323
These finishers are cheesy garbage regardless.

>>7802369
What?
MK3 was a hot topic in my hood back then. Everyone liked the game, specially because you can fight as a police officer or a robot, which was a novelty.

>>7801350
>>cpu doing things that's impossible for human controlled characters
I always wanted to know how, in SNES Mario Kart, Bowser could drop fireballs and Peach could drop poison mushrooms

>>7803247
This and i remember every one at least owning either the snes or the sega regular MK3 and alot of the time those same people had later on

Either UMK3 or Trilogy

>>7802351
Bro

>>7803345
The updates were popular, the original sucked. Everyone thought KI was overtaking MK until UMK3 dropped

>>7803370
It's true. Where do you think your breakfast eggs come from? Male eggs go to restaurants and supermarkets, female eggs are kept until they hatch to raise more breeding chickens.

>>7803441
Bro

>>7803441
Kek

>>7803441
Wait, calm down. Are you saying *male* birds put eggs through his cloaca? Or just that we eat eggs containing a male chick?

>>7802351
>this is your brain on HRT

>>7803668
Eggs you eat do not contain any fertilized embryo so it is neither male nor female, nor even chick.

>>7803852
>>7802351

You know that's not what he was asking you to clarify. Are you really saying you think male chickens lay eggs? Because that sure seems like what you're saying.

Heavy smoking ITT
Penguin and a monkey are comfy
Scorpion being a scorpion is predictable and inane.

>>7804398
This. Animalities are joke finishers. It's funny that a vengeful fire ghost named Scorpion turns into a penguin.

>>7804398
>Scorpion being a scorpion is predictable and inane.
Actual reason here.

Animalities show that UMK3 was an after thought due to the luke warm reception that MK3 got.
Why? because why else would they give Sheeva the scorpion animality?
if UMK3 was planned from the start (like Tobias claims) then why not save the scorpion one for Scorpion?

UMK3 was a panic move because MK3 was received poorly.

>>7804669
>why not save the scorpion one for Scorpion
They did that for MK4.

>>7804669
This was already disproven. UMK3 was made as an "apology" to arcade operators, since MK3 was ported to the Ps1 shortly after lauch. In other words, console owners had a near-perfect port within six months after the arcade release, dwindling the profits of coin-ops. Since arcades were still a thing back then, UMK3 was made and no home port came to the 5th-gen consoles, maintaining the superiority of the arcade for some more time.

>>7804431
Then why did Scorpion turn into a scorpion in 4? They gave the fans what they wanted.

>>7799323
One of the characters already turned into a scorpion, and there's thousands of different reptiles Reptile could turn into.

Reptile should've changed into a dilophosaur. They spit acid and were especially popular at the time the game came out.

>>7805715
Midway didn't realize what had made the previous two games popular, which is why MK3 was like some sort of weird horror-power rangers-fighting game.

>>7799323
>Scorpion's Animality
>turns into a penguin
It's a reference to his past. He got iced

>>7805418
One of the many ways that 4 is an awful pandering mess that everyone ignores.

>>7806342
Now that's good.

Fun kinda Scorpion trick on the topic of finishers. In MK2 if you play Shang Tsung and kill your opponent as Sub Zero you have enough time to start his freeze uppercut fatality but then instead of smashing them turn into Scorpion and burn them. Near the end of MK2 days I mostly mained Shang and it became my signature. To the point that I could use it to startle who I was playing by turing into Sub because it usually meant I felt I had them on the ropes. Plus he'd been my main for most of the time before that.

>>7806619
>In MK2 if you play Shang Tsung and kill your opponent as Sub Zero you have enough time to start his freeze uppercut fatality but then instead of smashing them turn into Scorpion and burn them. Near the end of MK2 days I mostly mained Shang and it became my signature. To the point that I could use it to startle who I was playing by turing into Sub because it usually meant I felt I had them on the ropes.

Psychological games are dope! Did you ever used it in a pinch, as a bluff, and turned the tables?

>>7799323
This is the same game where the character is still screaming at the top of its lungs after they've already exploded to pieces all over the screen.

>>7806667
More than anyone else ever knew. This is why I love fighters so fucking much. I'd do a similar thing in Injustice, I always used Wondy who was one of the underrated top 5 characters and had my headphones right beside the mic so when I caught them with the whip the old WW theme would start blasting. Mind games like that and general fuckery is how I was in the top %10 in online ranked despite never practicing ever.

>>7806825
What you're hearing there is the echo coming back

>>7800937
You didn’t have to cheese the MK3 AI too much. UMK3 however had the difficulty bumped up at about the third or fourth opponent on the ladder. I regularly beat MK3 in the arcades but could never beat UMK3 in the arcade

>>7804808
Sega Saturn got a port of UMK3. Was pretty good too.

>>7807468
Guy's point still stands to a degree. The Saturn had a much, MUCH smaller audience than the PS1 in North America (where MK was popular for the most part). wouldn't have been as big of a deal.

It’s a joke you autistic fucking morons

>>7806917
>Lex Luthor plays Injustice.