What? Mortal Kombat had more story than all the other jap fighting games combined. And it actually makes sense, to boot.

Blazblue is so much better than Mortal Kombat it wouldn't be fair to compare.

omfg will you 'fighting game buffs' please stfu already...yeah yeah every japanese fighting game gives you a hard on and is super balanced, etc etc etc.

Nobody here has argued that MK is the most balanced fighting game ever, the only thing people has said is that its 'fun' and 'nostalgic'.

Shut. Up.

QQ

would you? Please?

word

I wasn't referring to the balance at all, I was responding to the story thing. Fignuts brought up Japanese games, I just offered my retort.

Jesus, get all offended.

Kalyx, shouldn't you be writing eight page summaries about the balance in MvC3 right now?

Ok seriously; Mortal Kombat is fun, oldschool, decent mythology, and all that fluffy shit - but it is a fighting game. And if it wants to be respected as such it needs to accept criticism from fighting gamers. From what's been shown it seem Mortal Kombat's making a komeback, but our 'series wide' perspective is on the money. MK's been the bottom of the heep and I don't give points because Scorpion still screams "Get over here!"

The new MK seems to be what it is because of guys like me and .44, as explained by Boon himself.

Yet you keep bitching about it...

I'd very much like to but a) the game isn't out yet so I've only detailed the Exchange Counter system (found in the thread, read now) and b) my old essays on entire mechanics will be limited these days anyway because b.1) you guys aren't worth the trouble and b.2) my efforts on the matter are currently shifted to something else...

HINT HINT FUCKERS

I think Ed Boon raped Kaylx as a child, and that's why he harbors such a hatred towards MK.

I've said nice things about this game. Are you reading the thread?

Ed Boon is a videogame terrorist. Look at his eyebrows.

What's sad is that it's true.

Ed Boon has huge eye brows.

He should be terrorizing Claire Bennet.

Thank you for making MK better for us Jean Kalyx. I appreciate your accomplishments

Those are on par with Martin Scorceses (SP?) eyebrows.

Yeah, I read the whole page where you bitched about fucking sliding kick

And the sliding kicks were obviously a deep, serious criticism that you had with the series

Why do you fucking hate Mortal Kombat so much, Kalyx? Why can't you just leave the sliding kicks alone?

Thanks for your take

Not the Shadow Kick that's been in since MK1. Surely Kalyx hates the new game because of something that was around before it.

'That about right?

If I hated on something exclusive to this game in the series you'd have a case but I don't have to like old shit to like the new game. Jesus.

I never said you hated it. Are you reading the thread?

So change it to whatever fits, the point stands. Shadow Kick sucks; I like the new MK.

Wrap your head around it.

Splitting hairs vs refuting argument

We're on some next level shit, now.

So Kalyx, the reason you hate the kick is because of the animation for it?

I think it's more the lack of an animation for it.

He just sorta stands there with his leg out. ...And then he slides.

or alternatively, video game Peter Gallagher

Thanks Kalyx.

Oh wait.

I did throw an "I think" in there.

I mean, that's what I gathered from the discussion that we already had, and is still readable earlier in the thread etc.

I just found it interesting that one move out of the hundreds in the game is such a big deal to him.

In fact,

My God, he answered the question before it was asked. ...!

He didn't actually make that big of a deal about it, either, people just keep giving him shit over it. When a guy routinely does 500+ word articles over game mechanics across multiple forums, I don't think one sentence of "that was lame" is a "big deal."

I hate the idea of sliding one frame across the floor, that's mostly it. I understand the idea of a ground, pressure move that moves the character forward (though you really shouldn't give that to a character with two projectiles but MK gets to slide on this).

50% of my beef with the series is the animation, particularly the short-cuts and half-assed recovery animations - that 'freeze frame' deal they had going on. Oddly enough their damaged animations are fluid; arms and legs flailing in the air, slipping on the ground, stumbling all dizzy after a hit, etc. They just go to sleep with the attack animations.

Must have missed that.

MY BAD