PolluxTroy
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Lol...
Best Mortal Kombat
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Nostalgia has to be the main reason for anyone to go for subpar ports. I know snes port of KI is crap compared to the OG, but I still love the port due to childhood memories.
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If there were a physical or DRM free arcade port/emulation of MK II I'd buy it. As far as I know the only arcade perfect (or close to it) versions are on PSN or Steam.
I have the GOG version but that seems to be a port of the DOS version. I have the Midway Arcade Treasures version on Xbox but the sound is all fucked up (not synched to the video).
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The first is the best IMO, more of an indie game than MKII, which was too commercialised, the violence was toned down from MK, and the too many special moves/fatalities, and they were too difficult to perform (and some fatality moves were specific to certain levels). In MK, you just had one fatality to learn for each character, and it was easy to pull off. For MKII, you had to be a fanatic to know all the moves and pull them all off. And Sub-Zero was so weak as to be useless in MKII, but he was my favourite character in teh first game.
I also like MK Trilogy, just for the sheer number of playable characters (including the bosses). Which Trilogy is meant in the poll, N64, PSX, or both?
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oliverclaude
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Two had the biggest impact on me, so, simply put: there goes my vote.
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Nostalgia is sweet but sometimes so misguided...
Danthor
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Ummmm... I don't think those 2 statements work. "2 was bad because it had too much, but damn I love me some Trilogy."
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Dude, joe8 is a wacko, don't mind him, it's a pity he came back...
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Mk2 too by far , but i like Mk on ps3. I also have a soft spot for MK ... it started it after all and stamina tests are fun. Lui Kangs half assed leg spin fatality is pretty funny to see
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Personally I'd also go with 2, allthough I did like Trilogy too and apart from the gameplay itself: I did like the story mode in MK9
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That´s easy: MK2! I still own the dedicated cab but haven´t played it in years since I left it in my parents home when I moved out... I should really fire it up the next time i visit them...
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I'm glad they stuck with it through all those mediocre to bad games because X really is good (so is Injustice). I spent a lot of time as a kid trying to convince myself Mortal Kombat Gold didn't suck on Dreamcast, but it totally did.
Sort of like Sonic. Nobody likes Shadow the Hedgehog or Sonic '06, and rightfully so because they suck, but if SEGA had given up on the series we wouldn't have gotten Colors, Generations, or Lost World.
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MKII on mame all day. Great overall gameplay and good character selection. Although my favorite fatality is still sub zeros in MK I .
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Yeah, I view Deadly Alliance and Deception kinda like growing pains.
Mortal Kombat vs DC was the platform they needed to test the waters on going back to basics and it fucking worked!
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The number of moves/fatilities to learn is one thing I don't like about Trilogy. But the number of characters means it's more fun than MKII to play, even without using fatalities. It also has the strong version of Sub-Zero. They weakened Sub-Zero in MKII, because of how he had dominated in MKI. But Lui Kang also dominated in every 2D Mortal Kombat game, and they didn't do anything to tone him down. To me, Trilogy on PSX didn't have enough from the original games- it was missing the MKI and MKII versions of some of the fighters, and some of the backgrounds, and Sub-Zero's spine rip was censored (as if it had to be on the adult-oriented PSX console).
When MKII was released on SNES, they promoted it as being uncensored. But the arcade game MKII didn't have the spine rip that MKI had, so they didn't have to censor it as much, anyway.
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I actually like DA and Deception, thought they were pretty cool on their own. DC vs MK was also a decent step forward, I liked the premise but it looks so bad, I'm not just talking about graphics, I'm talking about the style, the art direction, everything feels mediocre but decent nonetheless, the QTEs moments where kinda cool and I like the air battles as well.
Both MK9 and X turned out to be great and like them both better than Injustice which I find a bit on the mediocre side like DC vs MK was, they are both fun games though.
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UMK3
MK2
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Since when is any fighter on the original Gameboy a good game? The Gameboy can't do fighters, that's probably why it took Capcom so long to release a version of SF2 on it.
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MK2 for me, I actually just picked it up two days ago on the saturn and was playing it last night.
I probably played MK3 and UMK3 on the PSX the most growing up though
I did have MK2 on the 32X, but some of my friends were MK3 players so we played that alot
Side Note
My high school was within walking distance to a mall, I dont't know if it was the first or the second one being released but when we were taking the bus home, there were groups of kids putting their hands up and yelling "Mortal Kombat!" To all the kids on the busses as they were walking to buy the game at EB, I thought it was pretty awesome at the time
I probably played MK3 and UMK3 on the PSX the most growing up though
I did have MK2 on the 32X, but some of my friends were MK3 players so we played that alot
Side Note
My high school was within walking distance to a mall, I dont't know if it was the first or the second one being released but when we were taking the bus home, there were groups of kids putting their hands up and yelling "Mortal Kombat!" To all the kids on the busses as they were walking to buy the game at EB, I thought it was pretty awesome at the time
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