Vigilante_FireDragon
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Thanks!! The reason I have to give UMK3 credit is for the arenas. I like it and plus, most of the battles take place in the city in Earthrealm. They should've put some more city-type arenas in Armageddon.
Are you ****ing retarded? UMK3 gameplay is cheap & cheesey. I bet you like it more because all you can do is use Ermac's or either Smoke's corny combo. MK2 is better than MK3 in every way.
There is zero reasoning as to why MKII, MK4, or MKG are better than UMK3. You have to do better than "I like it more." which is all I'm seeing. The graphics and all that garbage are virtually indentical, you're getting into pixel comparisons. When it comes down to pure gameplay, UMK3 blows all other 2D MK games out of the water, and pound for pound, still more impressive than 3D MKs. They went overboard with features in 3D MK games, which in all honesty are 2.5D and not real 3D, they didn't test enough at all and wound up with games that have already died, while UMK3 reigns supreme and is the most played MK game right now. Once MK8 comes out, MKA will be completely forgotten, if it hasn't been already, and UMK3 will continue to be played.
MKII's lifespan on PS3 is shortening everyday, and it'll almost completely vanish within months, because MKII is just not fun for the majority of players. I have always said that if and when MKII comes out and is massively playable for people, that eyes will open and I see on every site. "MKII is just not as good as I remember." - phrases like that are common.
So take your fatalities, your musics, stages, character designs, and all that crap people fantasize about and remember, preferences for those types of things are wholly based upon opinion, and there's nothing mathematical or provable about which is better when it comes to aesthetics. When it comes to gameplay, you can define what is better, what is more balanced, what game harbors more competition, what game has more on the fly options. Saying MKII is better than UMK3 is like saying SF2 is better than SF3:3rd Strike.
As far as my ability, I can random select in MKII and UMK3 and beat you, using your best characters. I can guarantee this based simply upon how you type. If you say UMK3 is cheap and cheesey, then you probably don't know how to play any MK game. Go to youtube and search for EWAShock or Shock UMK3 and you will find plenty of UMK3 match videos, then and only then might you understand why I can say the things I do.
That's the thing, MKII is not so popular on PS3, not even remotely close to UMK3. There is an online ggs thread for Kaillera and PS3 online for MKII and Kaillera and XBL for UMK3, and the UMK3 thread is immeasurably more active than MKII.
It will become abundantly clear once MKII is on PS3 how lame of a game it actually is. There are lot of people I know who will try it and be disappointed, because UMK3 is that much more of a game, which they already play.
Personally, and apparently I'm the minority opinion here, but I enjoyed Mortal Kombat Trilogy, the extension of UMK3, far more than MK2. I agree with all of you that MK2 did take it more seriously, and to be honest, that is exactly what I don't like about it. It is a difference of taste. I love Mortal Kombat because it is an intently over-the-top surreal fighting game parody. Or, at least it was as MK3 and MK4. Mortal Kombat Trilogy has a sense of cocky showmanship that takes the over-the-topness to a level that you can only get with cocky sarcasm and never with realism, in my honest opinion. The fatalities were far more flashy in MK3. MK2 fatalities were far bloodier, and I suspect that is why most fans like them more. In MK3 Stryker would jump over, strap on a bomb, jump back, plug his ears, then KABOOOM! In MK3 Smoke would let loose a barrage of bombs, then we see the entire world explode! In MK3 Sektor would bring out a huge claw and completely squish the opponent. In MK2, all you get is people split in half and heads ripped off. There is some sarcasm in the friendships, but nothing to the level of sarcasm of MK3. To me, a gory fatality is awesome, but a comical, gory, sarcastic one with showmanship if priceless. MK3 is the latter. MK3 also had far better digitizing of kombatants and arenas. I am not talking about style here, just technicals. The style, just like style in anything, can be debated endlessly. What I am talking about is technically the kombatants and arenas were clearer and had better frame rates. Also, personally, I like the style better too. More surreal, again. More showmanship. The storyline was also more expansive. MK2 was very, in my opinion too, simplistic with its storyline. MK3 is what broadened it and made it more accessible as a true mythology and not just a short story. MK3 is what started the story being more archetypal and legendary, and not simply like old karate movies which is as creative as MK1 and MK2 got with the story. I like UMK3 far better than MK3 and MKT far better than UMK3. MK3 was, unfortunately, still trying too hard for real and not surreal. UMK3, with its new backgrounds and larger story, really brought MK into being surreal. MKT, for me at least, gave it a sense of completeness. Why have every kombatant in the 2D series and leave out five? Raiden, Baraka, Goro, Johnny Cage, and Kintaro. Also, the four alternate kombatants gave the series a sense of completeness as well; as well as a glimpse into the nostalgic past; as did revitalizing the arenas from MK1 and MK2. I am far more a fan of MK3 than MK2. And my favorite version of MK3 is MKT. I prefer it for a more legendary story, better graphics, surreal atmosphere, and better showmanship in fatalities. And I prefer MKT for having all of this plus completeness and nostalgia. MKT is the best 2D MK, and I am talking the non N64 versions. MKT rocks, and that is my take on it all!