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MORTALLLLLLLL KOMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
>oi m8 mk sucks Jap fighters are much better n such
Yeah who cares MK is still a fun franchise, MK thread. Favorite characters, games, stages, etc etc

>> No.5237968

>>5237963
>character
Reptile
>stage
Pit II
>song
MK3 Graveyard/MK2 Wasteland
>game
MK2

>> No.5237972

>>5237963
Shit game

>> No.5237983
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>>5237963
>Favorite characters
Scorpion
>games
It's mosyly nostalgia but mk1
>stages
Mk2 trees

>> No.5237986
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>>5237963
MK was an awesome party style fighting game that was zany and accessible to everyone. I don't even think it and Street Fighter are that similar in many ways.

Mileena all day every day and forest by far

>> No.5238015

>>5237963
>characters
Johnny Cage and Sub-Zero
>stage
The Courtyard
>games
1 and 2

>> No.5238026

>>5237963

>character
Scorpion/Cyrax/Kabal
>stage
The Pit
>song
Acid Pool
>game
MK3/UMK3

>> No.5238062

Scorpion, Kung Lao, Jax
These are the funnest characters to be

>> No.5238140
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFFTeAepw8

The thought of some black lady singing about how bad of a guy Kano is then saying "but I like you!" always makes me laugh

>> No.5238932

bump

>> No.5238954

>>5237986
>accessible to everyone
>having to do weird ass combinations of up up, down down, forward block at a 2-character distance to pull off fatalities

>> No.5239027

>>5237963
It's not fun unless you're like six.

>> No.5239094

>>5238954
Ahh yeah but that's just for fatalities which are really bonus show-off moves to prove your skill. For getting in and learning to play, everyone controls very similar with their basic attacks, uppercuts etc and special moves are both easy to do (no diagonals, dp motions etc) and of only a few types.

Walking up to an MK machine then anyone could pick whatever character they thought looked cool and learn to play them using all their moves really quickly and easily. Sure Baraka might suck, but he'll still be slicing and dicing in no time. Compare that to some poor chump new to fighters who wants to main Zangief. That's a tough road ahead.

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>>5237963
Jap fighters focused too much on mechanics, MK focused on being Big Trouble in Little China: the Videogame.

>> No.5239395

>>5239381
And then MK3 rolled around and it focused on just being plain shit.

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>>5239395
I don't like the dial combos or run button, but I love the Outworld invasion of Earth theme and some of the characters (the ones that aren't roboninjas)

>> No.5240234

>>5239438
This. MK3 wasn't too great mechanically but was great thematically. It's not my favorite MK game but it is my most nostalgic, just such a spooky feeling to a lot of those Earthrealm stages

>> No.5240243

>>5239381
>games focused on mechanics being better
>this is somehow bad
MK could've kept being BTiLC without being trash.

>> No.5240394

>>5240243
It's not trash though. It's hardly top shelf, but it's not Primal Rage, Rise of the Robots, Ballz level crap.

>> No.5240420

>>5240243
>>5240394
MK has solid gameplay, it's just not deep gameplay.

And let's be honest, the deepness of Jap fighters was pure coincidence and created by obsessive fans discovering different ways to win, the developers never even intended for it to be as complex as it became.

>> No.5240430 [DELETED] 

>>5240420
Used to have top gameplay until 3, then they added a fucking RUN button, dial-a-combo, broken kombat kodes and removed a bunch of fan favorite characters.

>> No.5240479

>>5239395
>>5239438
>>5240234
WTF?

UMK3 is the most competitively played retro-MK

that games is fuckin bonkers fun, but in a good way

MK1 is hardly playable nowadays

MK2 still holds up, but is just a spam fest

UMK3 is an offensive run and kick-your-shit-in hypefest


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poV5sKm3tvY

https://youtu.be/tinitviQ7iM

>> No.5240493

>>5240394

primal rage is fun as hell

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>>5240479
It might be now. At the time I didn't care for it and never really got into it the way I did 1 and 2. Then I discovered KoF a couple years later and that was that. Though I did play a good deal of MK9 when it came out (partially due to KoFXIII being shit) and an embarrassing amount if Injustice.

Watching high level MK3 play is kinda fun but I don't have a ton of interest in it.

>> No.5241656

>>5237963
Overrated series du jour, Le Mortal Kombat. The first game was great, the second game was better, and all the rest suck.

>> No.5242931

>>5241616
>KoF XIII being shit

as opposed to what?

KOF as a series is mostly garbage

and XIII is probably the pinnacle of the series, unless you don't like HD combos, and iori infinites. But if thats enough to rustle your jimmies, then you clearly don't know the problems plaguing the good KoFs as well.

>Bad KoF
>94, 95, 96, 99, 00, 01, 03, XII

>Good KoF
>97, 98, 02, XI, XIII

>> No.5243890

>>5239395
3 was the low point in the series. It was too set on being realistic. Like who the hell wants to fight inside a bank? I gotta deal with banks IRL, that's not fun. At least by DA they went back to fantasy with the game taking place in Outworld again.

>> No.5244009

>>5243890
I like the MK 3 Earth stages, most of them have a really creepy feeling, considering it's supposed to look like everyone has already been killed and the whole place is desolate

>> No.5244486

>>5237963
>character
Scorpion
>stage
Acid Pool
>song
Acid Pool
>game
Shaolin Monks with occasional MK2 playthrough (the AI sucks though)

>> No.5244495

>>5237963
Trash franchise

>> No.5244508

>>5244486
>Character
Noob Saibot
>Stage
Living Forest
>Song
Wastleand/The Pit II
>Game
UMK3 for goofy crazy matches, MK2 for raw aesthetic

Kinda tempted to track down those home console/PC source code leaks that appeared a while back to see what I can do with them.

>> No.5244620

Baraka/Scorpion mains

Raiden/Sub zero 2nds

Generally depend on who i was playing

Acid pit stage

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>>5237963

Anyone who says this franchise was bad didn't play all the other copycat games. Remember Bloodstorm.

>> No.5244880

>>5237963
>oi m8 mk sucks Jap fighters are much better n such
things that nobody has ever said during the entire existence of fighting video games.

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>>5244635

>> No.5245125

>>5244906
I keep forgetting the name of this one so I just remember this as "that one Japanese-developed MK klone"

>> No.5245227

>Favorite Character
To play: Scorpion
For design and backstory: Cyber Sub Zero

>Game
Not retro but MK9
MK 2 would be my second favorite.

>Stage
The Subway

>Song
*gong*
*heavy breathing*
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY

>> No.5245228

>>5240243
Anon never said that's a bad thing tho.

>> No.5245232

>>5240479
I'd play UMK3 way more but I'm just not too much of a fan of its combo system.
I like my combos more "free" like the old Marvel
Vs. series.

I still play it from time to time but casually. I don't have enough memory or brains to memorize those predetermined combos.

>> No.5245234

>>5245125
its predecessor was a mediocre Samurai Shodown clone oddly enough

>> No.5246064

>>5242931
>>5242931
What series do you consider KoF shit compared to? Surely not MK. Anyways, I freely admit my bias against XIII is mostly the aesthetics. It's decent quality but the art style looks hideous and upon buying I found out even getting decent looking colours was behind a pay wall. Not to mention a proper Kyo abd Iori. I literally only played a handful of rounds then shelved and never touched it again. The locals I get together with are all purists who don't even like the ultimate matches so I was happy just living in the past when it came to KoF.

It did get me to try MK9 and then Injustice though which were good stupid fun online.

>Bad KoF
>94, 95, 96, 99, 00, 01, 03, XII

>Good KoF
>97, 98, 02, XI, XIII

With the exception of XIII, I'd agree with this too. At least 95% of all KoF time has been 98 and some 02.

>> No.5247350

>>5237963
main character
Sub-Zero and Scorpion. but love Rayden design
>stage
Dead Pool
>song
The Portal (MKII)
>game
MK2

>> No.5247390

I always played cyrax and I thought smoke was awesome in UMK3.
Shaolin monks is underrated

>> No.5247395

I remember there was a windows 95 ultimate MK3 version but I can´t find it, not even in gog, they only have the mk3 for DOS.
Anyone have idea where can I look for it?

>> No.5247454

>>5247395
There is no windows 95 port of UMK3, just mk3 and that was more similar to the ps1 version IIRC. Same thing of you're speaking of Mortal Kombat Trilogy, just a port of the ps1 version, minus load times.