The Only People That hate Mortal Kombat Are fukking Weeb Involuntary Celibates
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Sleepy Floyd
Superstar
Casually it's great, but competitively it's not fun ir exciting to play or watch. It's really clunky, stiff and awkward with horrible animations and bad balance
Well MK should be in those tournaments, the game is far too good and popular not to. It would be an irrational hate to want to eliminate this type of game.
Believe it or not but that shyt actually happens.
Yeah I can definitely see the dial-a-combo being funky for people. I know when I got into MK9 and X, it took me a minute to figure out that I could just press everything in sequence quickly to get the strings to come out.I actually don't think MK is as stiff as it looks(design choice) but fukk since we discussing it I'll go all the way fighting game nerd with it
If we talking every other fighting game vs MK:
MK got WEIRD input windows. There's really no buffering the way there is in most fighters and there's a certain weightlessness to MK normals. In street fighter there's more weight on individual normals that determines input timing based on the hitstun
So in street fighter if my combo is lp mp into shoryuken, I would lp->mp--(buffer shoryuken)>shoryuken
In mortal Kombat there's no special buffering like that so it would look more like lpmp THEN input shoryuken. The shyt typically referred to as dial a combos. In most fighting games you input the combo as it goes, in mortal Kombat input the combo then watch it happen. And then you gotta adjust those timings if the opponent blocks. That shyt feels WEIRD
Mortal Kombat also defies most traditional fighting game rules. In just about any fighting game that's ever existed, you can throw armored moves. The idea is "hey a single attack will get blown up, but you can opt to throw instead". Rock paper scissors. You can't throw armor in MK so if you're not prepared to blow that armor up with a fast enough 2 hit string, yo ass better be blocking. But armored moves are typically plus in MK so if you blocked that's yo ass still
Mortal Kombat is also the only fighting game where projectiles don't clash and I promise you most fighting game players think that is the stupidest shyt in the world
Those are the most egregious examples but there are more. Basically to go from a "normal" fighting game to Mortal Kombat you have to make a lot of adjustments, many of which you may find dumb or beneath you
That said I do think MK is great in its own unique ways and I think MKX is one of the GOAT fighting games period
No it isnt.
Competitively speaking MK is generally a janky, stiff, 50/50 fest. And it can take forever. Moves have baffling properties and there is a definite weightlessness to shyt. The frame data for some of the shyt in those games is inexplicable
Its easily the wackest fg played in tournies and if WB didnt pump events with money no one would play that garbage as evidenced by its absence the past few years. Mk12 coming out now so ofc WB dropped a bag to have it at evo but no one cares about that game
Street Fighter stans 
This post is exactly what I'm talking about.
The most popular fighting game next to smash bros, and the fgc feels like it doesn't deserve to be included in tournaments.
SupaHotIce
All Star
Iconic characters tied up behind trash games 
You're conflating issues tho. If you care so much about sales why do you care so much about being taken seriously as a fighter? MK players have a chip on their shoulders. Partially understood, but mostly y'all be mad as fukk for no reason
Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
Nah, there's a reason they mad too and you already stated here exactly why that is, lol.You're conflating issues tho. If you care so much about sales why do you care so much about being taken seriously as a fighter? MK players have a chip on their shoulders. Partially understood, but mostly y'all be mad as fukk for no reason
My thing is they should sit in what they are with no shame, and I don't even mean that condescendingly because again I think MKX is one of the GOAT fgs period
Since MK9 they made a lot of strides in becoming a good fighting game. Hell my biggest issue with MK11 is them going too hard trying to be a "real" fighting game. Mk11 fits that criteria but is all the more boring for it
MKX is a perfect balance of being a real fighting game and embracing the broken bullshyt fukkery the series is best at
All they had to do for 11 was keep the fast paced action of X and tinker more with the customization and variation system and 11 would of been damn near perfect.