Kombat Pack 2 Characters Revealed!

mandead said:
SF is undoubtedly a much more technical game, but I've never been interested in it. I do own SF IV Arcade on XB360 and I think I've played it for about 90 minutes in total. I've never been a fan of the animation style, voices (Japanese? no thanks), story/lore or single player content. Also, in my opinion a lot of SF characters feel very bland and interchangeable in a way that MK characters don't.

I can see why SF is popular, and I can certainly understand why it is so popular within the tournament community, but speaking as a 'casual' player who rarely plays online and never plays competitively, I will take a mediocre MK game over the best SF game any day of the week.
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Amen brutha. Hahahaha :D
 
BBBLP said:
Except for gameplay, music, alt costumes, balancing, longevity and international appeal.
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you're on drugs if you think sf has better gameplay than mk. sf is trash. the only thing sf has over it is how well it can expand (like how SF vs marvel worked but mk vs dc didnt)
 
MKXGoon101 said:
you're on drugs if you think sf has better gameplay than mk. sf is trash. the only thing sf has over it is how well it can expand (like how SF vs marvel worked but mk vs dc didnt)
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Word? Here's the numbers for Evo registrations.

Mortal Kombat X – 1162 (It's first year at Evo)

Ultra Street Fighter IV – 2227 (It's 6th year)

Over one thousand international players think SF has better gameplay than MK. And nobody around knows gameplay better than tournament players.


Done burnt your lips one too many times on that pipe bro
 
Ricochetmatt said:
Street Fighter still sucks.

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SF is just so boring to watch or to play (however MvsC 2 and UMvsC 3 was SOOOO fun to play and watch). MK is so much darker and brutal and mature to play and watch. Its just better in every way. Even when i hear the sound of an attack in MK.. you just can feel the force of the move, the brutal impact and damage it does. But with SF... its frickin sparkles and high pitched screaming girls yelling japanese... its just so fluffy and SILLY to me. I am however impressed with how the toony fighters look now (SFV). But still... SF is a joke in my books.
 
BBBLP said:
Except for gameplay, music, alt costumes, balancing, longevity and international appeal.
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Are you SERIOUS?!?! Okay i admit the music was terrible for MKX... but MK in general has WAYYYYY better music then SF's silly beats... and oh god Tekken has probably the worst music for a game ever oh wait Soul Caliber wins that one actually. But anyways, the sfx are better in MK also. Gameplay is far more superior on MK side also.
 
I think alot of fanboy blindness is happening here.

I LOVE Mortal Kombat. It's my favourite fighting game franchise alongside Killer Instinct and Street Fighter, but all in all, Mortal Kombat is my #1. But Street Fighter has had a professional competitive scene for a loooong time, and that community have helped the devs at Capcom to make Street Fighter what it is today. The gameplay of Street Fighter is much finer tuned and more tight than MK, the tech have been worked on for alot longer time than MK, there's alot more variety in character types than in MK etc.

For professional/competitive players, Street Fighter is a better game.
Mortal Kombat has only just recently with MK9 entered that scene, but MK as a franchise offers alot more when it comes to the more casual gamers. They offer stories and lore that, for a fighting game, is pretty deep and varied, the gameplay is easier to go at for a casual gamer, the many modes in the games like the mini-games, Konquest mode, Story Mode, the many Towers, the Krypt etc., they are all there to attract casual gamers. Even the main things Mortal Kombat is known for, such as the blood and gore, the Fatalities and various other finishers - they are all there to attract casual gamers!

I'm not a pro or competitive player, so all those things speak to me, while a game as Street Fighter seems more intimidating to me, because it caters more to the pro/competitive community and they've had so many years to build up this image. Mortal Kombat hasn't.

So for which one is better of the two - they cater to different parts of the fighting game community, so it depends on what perspective you are watching at it from. But there's a reason Street Fighter is one of the top popular fighting games world-wide, while Mortal Kombat has taken a backseat compared to it. Yes, MK is known and popular, but not because of the gameplay, but because of the aesthetic choices the MK team made when making it.

All that said... I think it is awesome Mortal Kombat has with the two recent games made more of an attempt to make MK appeal to the more competitive community, but it is still very new on that scene where Street Fighter is a veteran. And there's no denying that.

Sorry for the long off-topic post. :P
 
theincubuslord said:
they are all there to attract casual gamers!
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TRUE history! The proof is right in front of our eyes with all those guest characters on KP1 and KP2. Plus, we know they sell much more (and you can see that on my character usage thread, where Tremor and Tanya are in very low positions and Jason is TOP 10 (i think) and Predator is climbing it slowly (and higher than Tanya and Tremor).
 
well , since the thread has derailed, might as well give my own opinion. I only ever loved three fighting games, MK, SF and KI with MK being my very favourite. KI has turned into an abomination imho so unless they make a brand new one without that.. weird freaking gameplay I won't ever get interested in it again. as for the other two, I think key points for someone to love one more than the other are gameplay style (visually and technically) and the overall roster as in, what each fighter offers. others love a more brutal style, others love a more vanilla style visually and when it comes to moves/comboes/super moves, others like human fighters in a tournament more, others prefer the supernatural element inside. it's all subjective really, I love both myself, but the mystery around MK and its fighters, the gameplay style and the brutality it includes attract me much more than SF's vanilla. I played the crap out of SFIV and will do that again with SFV but MK will always be my favourite

so tl;dr, no need to argue with each other, it all comes down to what each person loves more in both franchises
 
theincubuslord said:
I think alot of fanboy blindness is happening here.

I LOVE Mortal Kombat. It's my favourite fighting game franchise alongside Killer Instinct and Street Fighter, but all in all, Mortal Kombat is my #1. But Street Fighter has had a professional competitive scene for a loooong time, and that community have helped the devs at Capcom to make Street Fighter what it is today. The gameplay of Street Fighter is much finer tuned and more tight than MK, the tech have been worked on for alot longer time than MK, there's alot more variety in character types than in MK etc.

For professional/competitive players, Street Fighter is a better game.
Mortal Kombat has only just recently with MK9 entered that scene, but MK as a franchise offers alot more when it comes to the more casual gamers. They offer stories and lore that, for a fighting game, is pretty deep and varied, the gameplay is easier to go at for a casual gamer, the many modes in the games like the mini-games, Konquest mode, Story Mode, the many Towers, the Krypt etc., they are all there to attract casual gamers. Even the main things Mortal Kombat is known for, such as the blood and gore, the Fatalities and various other finishers - they are all there to attract casual gamers!

I'm not a pro or competitive player, so all those things speak to me, while a game as Street Fighter seems more intimidating to me, because it caters more to the pro/competitive community and they've had so many years to build up this image. Mortal Kombat hasn't.

So for which one is better of the two - they cater to different parts of the fighting game community, so it depends on what perspective you are watching at it from. But there's a reason Street Fighter is one of the top popular fighting games world-wide, while Mortal Kombat has taken a backseat compared to it. Yes, MK is known and popular, but not because of the gameplay, but because of the aesthetic choices the MK team made when making it.

All that said... I think it is awesome Mortal Kombat has with the two recent games made more of an attempt to make MK appeal to the more competitive community, but it is still very new on that scene where Street Fighter is a veteran. And there's no denying that.

Sorry for the long off-topic post. :P
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That's a beautiful explanation.

Yeah. These two games are pretty much the opposites. Like Fire and Ice. While Street fighter has a high quality online, finely tuned gameplay, balanced characters (well more balanced than MK at least) and tight fighting community, it lacks in story, lore and extras department. It is always like that. Turn on the game and basically you have two options. Arcade story mode or Online. And any other extra you might have, is dedicated to teaching you how to play.
MK on other hand. Towers, challenges, full fledge story, character lore connects with each other, they have reasons why they fight and so on (unlike SF where character sees another one and they are like "Hmmm... for some reason I like you! So let's fight!") And gameplay is way more friendly to casual player. MK combos are easier to make than most of the characters Ultra moves in SF.

But that online.... again from technical standpoint MK is inferior to SF. Cause both those framedrops and online crappiness just killed the fun.
And MK was always number 1 fighting game for me. While SF was second. In the last two years I started changing my mind about that...

Btw aren't we supposed to talk about Kombat pack 2 here?
 
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I hope NRS adds at least one more of the following in Kombat Pack 2 so I can have my 4th main!!!

Sindel
Li Mei
Sareena
Nitara
Jade

Then they can move on to the next game.

If I were them and if they want new characters to be created well and not rushed, I'd save Li Mei, Sareena, Nitara, and JADE for the next MK.

Instead have Sindel and Rain be added in Kombat Pack 2.
 
Going back on topic, I'm really not a fan of this pack at all.

Bo Rai Cho is the only character I'm interested in, Tri-Borg is whatever to me. So far, none of the guest characters NRS have put in their games have interested me in the slightest. Horror movies bore the everlasting shit out of me so I couldn't care less about Jason, Freddy and Leatherface, and Alien and Predator have a niche following, one that I'm not a part of. To date, NRS have not really had mainstream guest character that everyone can get into, and that's kind of annoying.

Hell, maybe a lot of people like Horror characters and I'm just one of the few odd ones out. But yeah so far the guests have all sucked in my opinion.

On another note, Trash you need to calm down. You don't have a right to deem any fan lesser than other fans. Chill out with that.

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Taj Gill said:
Going back on topic, I'm really not a fan of this pack at all.

Bo Rai Cho is the only character I'm interested in, Tri-Borg is whatever to me. So far, none of the guest characters NRS have put in their games have interested me in the slightest. Horror movies bore the everlasting shit out of me so I couldn't care less about Jason, Freddy and Leatherface, and Alien and Predator have a niche following, one that I'm not a part of. To date, NRS have not really had mainstream guest character that everyone can get into, and that's kind of annoying.

Hell, maybe a lot of people like Horror characters and I'm just one of the few odd ones out. But yeah so far the guests have all sucked in my opinion.
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Couldn't have said any of this better.
My exact feelings on this whole KP2 situation.
Kudos!
 
I feel like a Judas, having read through this thread, but I like everything in KP2 except Bo-Rai Cho. Think they could have picked a better classic MK character than that, but whatevs.
 
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