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Mortal Kombat |OT| Going back in time!
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lazybones18
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Anyone up for a MK Game Night for XBL sometime this week?
Still haven't played an online match, and I figured I should get that out of the way
Still haven't played an online match, and I figured I should get that out of the way
Neuromancer
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Dude yes. What a bad ass!Irish said:
corrosivefrost
Member
fernoca said:
Managed to get it after all. Thanks guys.
Anyone on PS3 noticing slowdown issues at times? I had it happen mostly on the street stage, and then on the fight with Shao Kahn/Kintaro for the Shaolin Monks: Final Chapter challenge.
Finished this off tonight, that last boss was retarded. Unlike another complainer though I don't think it ruins the game, I just fail to see the point of making that particular fight so damn hard. In fact, really , the only parts of the story mode that take more then a couple tries are the 2 fights against that boss.
I ended up putting the difficulty to beginner for the end fight (played through the rest on medium) because I no longer have the patience to deal with that kind of cheap bullshit. I didn't really want to break the disc in half or smash my arcade stick and it was getting to that point after the 20th loss in a row.
Game is Ace other then that though.
I ended up putting the difficulty to beginner for the end fight (played through the rest on medium) because I no longer have the patience to deal with that kind of cheap bullshit. I didn't really want to break the disc in half or smash my arcade stick and it was getting to that point after the 20th loss in a row.
Game is Ace other then that though.
SixStringPsycho
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Ive had some off sync sounds, slowdowns and no voice on intro battles. This happened in VS mode. PS3 version
So I guess on MK's twitter account, they've been denying the toys r us ad I had posted about earlier this week, that DLC characters would be coming this wednesday.
I just find this a bit frustrating, and think that it's completely STUPID if they don't have any DLC lined up soon...at this rate, when they do come out with any DLC, I'm gonna have moved on to the next game, and not has much time or interest to play MK anymore. My chances of buying their DLC will have dropped considerably.
As a perfect example...like with Marvel vs Capcom 3. Prior to that game's release, I KNEW that DLC would not be coming until a month after the release of the game, but at the time I was really stoked for it. I couldn't wait, which is why I bought the SE version of the game. Then I played MvC3...and by the time March 15th came around, I had no interest in the game anymore. Granted, I think MvC3 is a much worse game than MK, and was a huge disappointment, but my patience for this stuff isn't gonna last forever, and my gaming time is limited.
This is kinda why DLC for games of this type are so stupid IMO too. Fighting games are only fun to play as long as there is interest from the people around you to keep playing. My friends are not gonna wanna keep playing MK for months and months, so my usefulness for whatever DLC they are taking their sweet ass time to come out with is gonna be zero if they take too long.
Single player game DLC can be frustrating because it seems like they've cut content from the game. At least in that situation, I'd be more likely to buy it though if I really want it no matter when it comes out, because it's not dependent on other people having an interest in playing with you as well.
I just find this a bit frustrating, and think that it's completely STUPID if they don't have any DLC lined up soon...at this rate, when they do come out with any DLC, I'm gonna have moved on to the next game, and not has much time or interest to play MK anymore. My chances of buying their DLC will have dropped considerably.
As a perfect example...like with Marvel vs Capcom 3. Prior to that game's release, I KNEW that DLC would not be coming until a month after the release of the game, but at the time I was really stoked for it. I couldn't wait, which is why I bought the SE version of the game. Then I played MvC3...and by the time March 15th came around, I had no interest in the game anymore. Granted, I think MvC3 is a much worse game than MK, and was a huge disappointment, but my patience for this stuff isn't gonna last forever, and my gaming time is limited.
This is kinda why DLC for games of this type are so stupid IMO too. Fighting games are only fun to play as long as there is interest from the people around you to keep playing. My friends are not gonna wanna keep playing MK for months and months, so my usefulness for whatever DLC they are taking their sweet ass time to come out with is gonna be zero if they take too long.
Single player game DLC can be frustrating because it seems like they've cut content from the game. At least in that situation, I'd be more likely to buy it though if I really want it no matter when it comes out, because it's not dependent on other people having an interest in playing with you as well.
They've been talking about DLC and of course they had plans, but keep in mind a few things:
#1. PSN is down and the store won't be back till "later this month". The least thing they want to do now is release exclusive DLC on 360 and piss off PSN users (even more); who won't be able to not even redeem their online passes till then (so far). Though 360 users can see it as "incentive" for the whole thing about "no exclusive content'. But doubt WB wants to piss off Sony after the whole God of War, 3D things.
#2. The team received a lot of backlash because they were talking about DLC before release. Even more after the leaked Gamepro article detailing the characters of the first DLC-pack. So the team can't be blamed for "not talking about their DLC plans".
#3. Many people play fighting games months..even years after release. So releasing content so soon ,to then abandon the game doesn't make any sense.
#4. Calm down. There will be announcements soon.
#1. PSN is down and the store won't be back till "later this month". The least thing they want to do now is release exclusive DLC on 360 and piss off PSN users (even more); who won't be able to not even redeem their online passes till then (so far). Though 360 users can see it as "incentive" for the whole thing about "no exclusive content'. But doubt WB wants to piss off Sony after the whole God of War, 3D things.
#2. The team received a lot of backlash because they were talking about DLC before release. Even more after the leaked Gamepro article detailing the characters of the first DLC-pack. So the team can't be blamed for "not talking about their DLC plans".
#3. Many people play fighting games months..even years after release. So releasing content so soon ,to then abandon the game doesn't make any sense.
#4. Calm down. There will be announcements soon.
Word....fernoca said:They've been talking about DLC and of course they had plans, but keep in mind a few things:
#1. PSN is down and the store won't be back till "later this month". The least thing they want to do now is release DLC on 360. Though 360 users can see it as "incentive" for the whole thing about "no exclusive content'. But doubt B wants to piss off Sony after the whole God of War, 3D things.
#2. The team received a lot of backlash because they were talking about DLC before release. Even more after the leaked Gamepro article detailing the characters of the first DLC-pack. So the team can't be blamed for "not talking about their DLC plans".
#3. Many people play fighting games months..even years after release. So releasing content so soon ,to then abandon the game doesn't make any sense.
#4. Calm down. There will be announcements soon.
Dibs on Kenshi
Interfectum
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Yuripaw said:
The game just came out. If you are already losing interest in it I highly doubt two new characters are going to satiate your appetite for much longer anyway.
corrosivefrost
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(1) At least the NRS team is more on the ball with announcements of actual coming DLC or plans than Capcom's MvC3 team seems to be. :|
(2) Is there a way to select the alt costume for a character without pressing start? Someone on the levelup stream was selecting smoke's alt and I never saw the "costume" dialogue pop up during selection (though player 2 was doing so for ermac).
(2) Is there a way to select the alt costume for a character without pressing start? Someone on the levelup stream was selecting smoke's alt and I never saw the "costume" dialogue pop up during selection (though player 2 was doing so for ermac).
infinityBCRT
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Yuripaw said:
I honestly don't think they'll do DLC until AFTER Evo. Right now they are probably more worried about fixing glitches and balancing and why not save the DLC for after Evo so that tourney players get something new to play with for next year's Evo? And then in 2013 we'll probably hear about the next game at that point.
Interfectum said:
That too.
corrosivefrost said:
Now, I don't know if this is the case for sure or not, but it may be possible that the player went into that mode by pressing start. When you do that for challenge tower, it automatically puts everyone in their alt.
NVM. Pressing start to go into Challenge Tower only puts them in their alt color, not their alt costume.
Houston3000
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Alright, if I can't remember if I did or not but if I ever doubted the complainers regarding the final boss of story mode I take back everything I said. You guys were right, the fight is absolutely ridiculously cheap, unbalanced, and terrible.
For reference, when I was playing as
, literally four fights before I was achieving Flawless Victories. It took me only one match to defeat
and only two to defeat
- and that was a very obvious flub on my part (was experimenting a little). I defeated
in one match, etc... I get to the final boss and I literally played about 20 matches before quitting out of frustration - I couldn't win even a single round... though I got marginally close using extremely cheap tactics
The story was really picking up at that point,
Now I'm stuck on this shit, I haven't been stuck this bad on anything yet so far - worst was like 4 matches with the
fight earlier in the game.
For reference, when I was playing as
Nightwolf
Sektor and Cyrax
Sindel
Scorpion
Shao Kahn is such a fucking spammer, often times he would catch me with the hammer, then literally continued throwing it two or three more times before then throwing a spear in as well - being stunned I can't jump over any of them and they all do a good 18% damage or so at least. Raiden's only projectile requires he stands which means he gets hit by spears if you try more than one and teleport/superman spam almost works but if Shao Kahn manages a block you're literally stuck in a corner doing your bounce off stagger animation while he pummels out his 3-hit charge combo... same if I swap superman for one of Raiden's 20% combos except Shao Kahn is magically invincible randomly
The story was really picking up at that point,
Holy shit, every single fucking person's dead except for maybe Johnny and Sonya. Raiden killing Liu Kang was a big surprise!
Liu Kang vs. Shao Kahn
Houston3000
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Irish said:
I didn't even think there was a retry option. Never-the-less I heard the difficulty gets lower so I was hoping after like 20 matches it would actually be easy... the longest I've gone before in any of the other fights was four matchesrayner said:
not surprisingly against the earlier Shao Kahn fight with Liu Kang... the difference is Liu Kang is a much better character, at least against Shao Kahn's cheap ass tactics. With Liu Kang I could Bicycle Kick without worrying about stagger and if I was in a pinch close range I could do his Parry, better yet I could counter Shao Khan's spear spam with low fireballs - not only do you get a fireball hit in but Liu Kang ducks to shoot it so you dodge the spear if you time it right. Not to mention how infinitely better Liu Kang's combos are (I was talking about them a couple pages ago).
I'll try the uppercut trick tonight. I really don't want to resort to lowering the difficulty. It seems a lot of people just switch it to Beginner for that fight (is there any trophy/achievement to go along with beating the game on Medium?). I'm really really curious to see how the story wraps up. Speaking of which, I'm still amazed that I actually care about the story in a fighting game.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
you cant change the story modes difficulty its preset and the final fight dosnt get any easier if you keep losing just gotta exploit to win
ThingontheFloor
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Houston3000 said:
No, there's no achievement associated with beating it on any particular difficulty, just one for completing it 100%. Wont affect anything but your pride.
It does feel, like in Ladder mode and the Challenge tower, that the difficulty lowers itself after about 3-4 times of getting your ass whomped.ThingontheFloor
Member
Rygar 8 Bit said:
Yes you can, in the Options if you exit to the Main Menu.
corrosivefrost
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Houston3000 said:
No trophy or achievement for difficulty, just for completing the story mode.
Personally, I thought the Raiden fight with Shao Kahn was much easier than the Liu Kang one. I definitely had less trouble. Teleporting and uppercut/combo/escape was much easier than trying to get in the low fireball pattern with him when using Liu Kang.
I wonder if Raiden's superman goes under the spears... :-k
Just wait -- you'll have tons of fun if you ever go for the ladder master trophy/cheese.
Neuromancer
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Wrong on both counts.Rygar 8 Bit said:
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
ThingontheFloor said:
that would of been good to know while i was doing story mode lol oh well
Houston3000
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I guess lowering the difficulty could be an option... I just have too much pride I think to do that.corrosivefrost said:
As for the
Liu Kang vs Shao Kahn
Liu Kang
Raiden
No, superman doesn't go under spears
The Lamonster
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false and false.Rygar 8 Bit said:
edit: LATE!
Houston3000 said:
Hmmm that's weird. I can maybe understand the quarter circle motions but the rest is really weird. Maybe try not doing quarter circles on the dpad. The jump thing I don#t really understand. Just put you thumb in the empty space between two direction and press down. I really doubt you have that small of a thumb that this shouldn't work.
Remember that you can't fight the bosses like you would fight any other character. Super armor and cheap moves will mess you up. Stay back, spam projectiles, when he gets into an attack animation, teleport then do a quick combo, then jump over him and jump punch and go into another combo.Houston3000 said:I guess lowering the difficulty could be an option... I just have too much pride I think to do that.
As for thefight. To be fair, I playedLiu Kang vs Shao Kahna lot, I beat the arcade with him twice already (Medium and Hard) and play him in Practice mode all the time with an attacking AI. I was kind of planning to make him my regular #1 go-to fighter for versus (maybe Nightwolf as well) so I've had a lot of training. The fact that THAT fight took me 4 matches made me angry since I kind of considered myself pretty good at that point with him, at least against the stupid Medium AI bots. WithLiu Kang, the first time I played as him was in Story Mode, I kind of rage quited into Practice mode with him at one point to get down the timing on a couple combos but only for a few minutes and it didn't seem to help.RaidenNo, superman doesn't go under spears
Houston3000
Member
Well, no... it's easier for me to do quarter motions on the d-pad but back and forth I have problems with. Like Kung Lao or Raiden's teleport is Down-Up and I fuck that up so much on the D-Pad it's stupid. I kind of bit down and adjusted, maybe it was the long ass time I spent on that fucking ridiculous last boss fight yesterday. I'll get the hang of it, I went to Gamestop, not going to spend $40 on a stupid wrestling game controller.Xater said:
infinityBCRT said:
Not all of us who play fighting games, are into the whole tournament scene, and maybe play games...i dunno, for fun?
When a game ceases to be fun, I won't keep playing it; which kinda goes back to my point that once people I know aren't playing the game anymore, my chances of continuing to play it are slim.
notworksafe
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Do you really think the game will be played at the next EVO? I mean as a main game.infinityBCRT said:
notworksafe
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TTT2 or SFxT are possibilities. SC5 is another small possibility.DasRaven said:
Just saying as a main game. There will be an MK side tourney no matter what. But look at last year, they had Melty Blood of all games playing with the big boys. Yes, that was because of a vote but I'm just pointing out that even smaller games can get main game status.
Either way, I registered to play MK this year just in case it won't be as big there next year.
notworksafe
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Well pretty much every fighting game is there, so I wouldn't be shocked to see a Skullgirls side tourney.
My hope for EVO 2012 is AE, Super MVC, TTT2, MK+DLC, and SFxT on the main stage.
Who knows if the BBCS2 people get their game in, but I was shocked to see BB this year.
My hope for EVO 2012 is AE, Super MVC, TTT2, MK+DLC, and SFxT on the main stage.
Who knows if the BBCS2 people get their game in, but I was shocked to see BB this year.
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