betweenthewheels
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Reptiles alt costume was the first item I went for in the krypt, hoping it'd be his mk2 look. So, I dont really like his alt.Frogfucious said:
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Dai Kaiju
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Teknoman said:When you've been doing inventive kills from the nineties...you kinda start to run low on originality after awhileOnly so many ways to kill someone.
Most of the fatalities I've seen so far are awful. Half of them are just pulling/cutting off limbs. I'd MUCH rather have them recycle some of the older, more original ones.
RedAssedApe
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Dai Kaiju said:
I wouldn't go as far as saying that they are awful. Some of them are pretty awesome. Some of them are meh (I don't like Sonya's...where's the kiss of death?). Personally I think that some of the fatalities started getting pretty dumb starting with MK3 and most of the MK9 ones are a return to form. If you think these are bad go take a look at the fatalities for the last few MK games. I think you would re-think your assessment after that.
SapientWolf
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Some 360 dpads are usable. The build quality is wildly inconsistent.Papercuts said:
crimzonflame
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henhowc said:I wouldn't go as far as saying that they are awful. Some of them are pretty awesome. If you think these are bad go take a look at the fatalities for the last few 3d MK games. I think you would re-think your assessment after that.
I feel that there are no unique fatalities save for a few. What I mean by unique is that the effect is shared by multiple fatalities. For example Noob's first and Kung Lao's second. Also, whats the point of Reptile's spitting acid in the opponent's mouth if he's just going to take out the organs in the first place? It would have served better if the acid corroded the opponent like Smoke's fatality. Not really complaining just making a few observations.
Frogfucious
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I agree. Reptile's fatality should have had a similar effect to deadpool. No point taking out the organ. Still cool though.crimzonflame said:
ThatCrazyGuy
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Finally beat Story Mode. Pretty good (not mind blowing). Raiden is pretty nonchalant with things, haha.
I do hope Capcom does something like that in the future. I can imagine street fighter 5 being good with that format.
Would had been cool in MVC3 too, to explain what is going one.
O yea, I have a Katana DLC code. Anybody want to trade for a Ninja one? For 360.
I do hope Capcom does something like that in the future. I can imagine street fighter 5 being good with that format.
Would had been cool in MVC3 too, to explain what is going one.
O yea, I have a Katana DLC code. Anybody want to trade for a Ninja one? For 360.
Absoludacrous
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I dunno how much more I can suffer through this lag
SentientStone
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I got an extra Reptile klassic code, anyone want to trade Reptile for an extra Subzero klassic code?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Is Nekropolis broken? Character endings are viewable there but after viewing it once, they aren't showing up anymore. Weird... :/
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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OK. So after restarting, the endings are visible again but I can only see the ending of characters that were player one in coop, which is stupid cause I have already seen some of the other endings and they are not there. Stats also disappeared and reappeared.
shagg_187 said:
What console you on? I only re-viewed Scorp's, hope it's still there.
Also, glad to read some of the hate on the 360 pad, I thought I was going crazy. Just going to fatality trainer (where they show your exact commands) was frustrating to me / confirming my problems. It's hard for me to press *exactly* down, without left/right also showing up way too often. That's why Raiden's teleport / uppercut combo (necessary for story mode) was such a pain in the ass. I had to resort to the analog (not ideal).
I *do* need a second controller. I was thinking official 360 pad, with the new dpad, any more confirmations the pad part is good? Also, if there's a decent (cheap) 3rd party one, I'd love to know about it. I mean, even something like the NES pad was perfect, so why's it so hard to get it right today?
Oh, and I do hope they try to sneak in secrets with the DLC packs or even patches. It would help the longevity of the game & that's been something they've done since the start (the first releases of MK1 arcade didn't have Reptile, for example).
Wow, so I've had three straight matches where I'm about to perform my fatality and my opponent pulls out the plug. Then I get a message saying, "Game session no longer available" and I'm not credited a win or anything. I'm not bad, but I'm not "that good" either, so I would love to see my wins count. I'm hovering around .500 win percentage, but these salty losers pulling the plug don't help.
henhowc said:I wouldn't go as far as saying that they are awful. Some of them are pretty awesome. Some of them are meh (I don't like Sonya's...where's the kiss of death?). Personally I think that some of the fatalities started getting pretty dumb starting with MK3 and most of the MK9 ones are a return to form. If you think these are bad go take a look at the fatalities for the last few MK games. I think you would re-think your assessment after that.
The fatalities are one of the only things the last few games got right.
I agree that updated versions of more classics would be sweet, but I think the new ones are generally pretty good in MK9. There are always better and worse fatalities in MK games, but the ratio in MK9 is solid. I do think that they could have pushed a little further to ensure the fatalities were all consistently as shocking or more shocking than X-rays though. The X-rays are all so impressive they undermine a few of the less creative fatalities. Scorpion's are both pretty dull considering things like his crazy spear-head-burst thing in DA; and Sub-Zero's first fatality is nothing compared to his amazing freeze-and-leg-shatter-then-stomp-on-crawling-torso from Deception, or skeleton rip from DA. Haven't seen his second one yet, so with a bit of luck it'll be more interesting. They both also have classic fatalities though, and those are excellent. Toasty could have been reworked a little more creatively, but it's still as solid as ever. Spine rip is forever godly.
Overall, I've been impressed by most of the fatalities I've seen so far. I can't actually think of any weak ones besides Scorp and Sub off the top of my head, but I've only seen about half of them. I like Sonya's so much more than the kiss of death though. It's a remake of one of her older fatalities, originally used in MK4. So satisfying.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Surprised that they don't give you the win the moment you finish both rounds. Everyone pulls plug during fatalities so win should count right away.jtrov said:
The Lamonster
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Yeah, if this is true then it's a big WTF Netherrealm?shagg_187 said:
This isn't the first online MK game. Everyone knows that losers are going to quit before the fatality. A win should be instant the health bar drops to zero.
ThatCrazyGuy
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How come sometimes during story mode you are allowed to do X-Ray moves and sometimes not?
ithorien said:
Medium difficulty (in everything) for me. The ladder seems tolerable though (but I've only gone through the ladder with Scorp and Kang so far. Other characters may end up being frustrating for all I know).
The problem is you face Kahn
twice in story mode. Once with Liu Kang and once with Raiden. And both times it's the craziest difficulty spike. The technique to fighting him is so different that it's just bad programming. Suddenly you're not doing aggressive combos, you're basically exploiting the AI, or failing. The Kang one I did easily once I looked it up (could have been luck), but the Raiden one really soured an otherwise great experience.
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Unless it's like some other games where it credits them late, but so far I've played 4 more matches and it still hasn't rewarded any of them. I wish this game had a "previous matches" list, like some sports games or any other competitive online games. For instance in Madden you could look at their recent games and see if they disconnected or quit a lot, before sending them an invite.
Doing a fatality after a hard earned fight is so rewarding, but I'm so scared now that I'm hesitant to pull them off and instead just quickly hit them to get it over with. Such a shame...
If anyone on GAF wants to make a room tonight, I'm down for some matches with guys from the community. I may not be the best MK guy, but I've always loved the series, and just looking for some fun. I'm already on the MKvsGAF tag on XBL, but if you want to invite me my GT is: jtrov
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notworksafe
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I was usingmalfcn said:
TAG - FP - BP
BLK - FK - BK
but I've just said screw it and am using
FP -BP - TAG
FK - BK - BLK
as it's closer to the default and makes more sense. You don't need a throw button as FP+FK will do a throw when you hit them together.
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