New Mortal Kombat game for PS3 and X360

[Cure]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

Peanut, I know you'd like a chance to take out some aggression on me ;]

Hahaha, Peanut on PSN.

Also, anyone have any advice for the

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Raiden vs. Shao Kahn

fight in story mode?

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I was able to spam Lui Kang's attacks against him but dude be kickin' my butt as Raiden. I also dunno how I'll be able to face him in arcade ladder, lolz.

[Ninjinister]

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I just kept using his Lightning Bolt and Flying Thunder God moves (don't remember the names in this game - Midway/NRS changes attack names like every game). It took me three tries but eventually I gave 'im whatfor.

[Cure]

I'll try that out. Thanks, homie.

[azrael]

I love this game MK2 was my favorite MK game and this takes it all back.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Cure

I'll try that out. Thanks, homie.

Overall just keep zoning. If he happens to get close, either throw an uppercut, or if you've got it, your X-Ray. Duck or block the Spear if you can and remember that the hammer throw is unblockable, so gtfo the way if it comes toward you.

[Cure]

Weeeeeeeee, I did it. Thanks again. On to the Challenge Tower!

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Anyone been scared sh*tless by the screamer in The Krypt yet?

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

This game is a blast. It definitely plays better then any previous Mortal Kombat. Now I don't have to feel ashamed for loving a gaming franchise, despite more then half of the games sucking.

Anyone else playing this on Ps3? When the network goes back up we should get some technodrome "King of the Hill" game modes going. Anyone game?

Peanut, I know you'd like a chance to take out some aggression on me ;]

Actually, I could care less. Also PS3? Lawl.

[AquaParade]

I didn't know PS3 was so unpopular over here. I'm honestly surprised, though maybe I shouldn't be, as my opinion seems to be in the minority over here (that's okay, it keeps things interesting). Playstation 3, to me, seems like the better choice to me, when compared to 360, which is probably the console that has the most in common with playstation 3.

-Free online gaming (yes, I know I have chosen the worst possible time to make this point, but if it saves me $60 a year, I have no problem putting up with some inconsistencies. I won't be accusing Sony of having given way to our credit card info until it is proven. Call me broke. )

- A better lineup of exclusive games ( Gears of War, Fable, and Halo are good games, but Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted, and Demon's Souls are classics!)

- Blu Ray player as opposed to dvd player.

- A much better life expectancy than the 360. I had a 360 break on me two times in two years...Seriously feels like a piece of broken hardware, to me.

While you may prefer 360, to laugh off the ps3, in 360's favor, makes you look pretty dumb...oh...imho.

Seriously though, hard feelings aside, if any of you are playing this on psn this week, my username is Multiple_8 and I'd love to get a lobby going. Smoke, Kitana, and Ermac are my preferred characters so far.

[Cure]

Yeeeeeeah, we don't need to know the "pros" of a PS3 some 5 years later in a Mortal Kombat thread.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Cure

Yeeeeeeah, we don't need to know the "pros" of a PS3 some 5 years later in a Mortal Kombat thread.

The topic came up, so I touched on it, as well as staying on the mk topic. So,unless your a mod....shutup. lol.

Hell, I'll even mention that some of the "pro's" I've listed of the ps3 aren't five years old. Games like Uncharted 2, and Demons souls, as well as The life expectancy of these consoles wasn't exactly up to date information five years ago. Thought we were off topic before?

[Peanut]

I own a launch a PS3. I enjoy PS3 exclusives. Team Ico games and the Uncharted series are some of my favourite games of all-time. Calling Metal Gear and Demon's Souls (also...classic?) Playstation exclusives is pretty weak considering the next game from both series will also be on 360. All my friends own 360's, we all play on 360. Thus, my owning a multiplatform multiplayer game on PS3 is laughable. Hence the lawl.

I play a lot of games and I'm a fan of no single console exclusively, despite whatever horsesh*t you may think. I play everything I can get my hands on, regardless of console.

And people need to let go the "PS3 doesn't break!" bullsh*t. It's so old and 360's have been pretty much solid since the Elite. Should I bring up the fact that I paid nearly $1,000 for my PS3 and a game when it came out? That complaint is about as relevant as referencing the RRoD at this point in time.

[Krutch]

I dont know how I suck so freakin' bad at this game. I've got my ass kicked pretty much every time I played.

...Except when I play as Cyrax, oddly enough. I'm like 20-0 or something with that guy.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I own a launch a PS3. I enjoy PS3 exclusives. Team Ico games and the Uncharted series are some of my favourite games of all-time. Calling Metal Gear and Demon's Souls (also...classic?) Playstation exclusives is pretty weak considering the next game from both series will also be on 360. All my friends own 360's, we all play on 360. Thus, my owning a multiplatform multiplayer game on PS3 is laughable. Hence the lawl.

I play a lot of games and I'm a fan of no single console exclusively, despite whatever horsesh*t you may think. I play everything I can get my hands on, regardless of console.

And people need to let go the "PS3 doesn't break!" bullsh*t. It's so old and 360's have been pretty much solid since the Elite. Should I bring up the fact that I paid nearly $1,000 for my PS3 and a game when it came out? That complaint is about as relevant as referencing the RRoD at this point in time.

I guess I should do my research on your social/gaming life before responding to a post that says "ps3 lawl". Lord knows I shouldn't get the impression that you are laughing at playstation 3 as a product.

Sure Dark Souls is coming to 360. Good point, that's great for 360 owners. I won't pull the same "its not a sequel" crap, that 'from software' has to pull . But, calling metal gear rising a true sequel to the Metal Gear Solid series, is definitely jumping to conclusions at this point. This isn't proven to be a quality Hideo Kojima game, yet.
I still feel my example stands tall. PS3 exclusives have risen above 360 exclusives, despite plenty of ignorant mainsteam game player's I have met that still love to quote the five year old line "ps3 has no games".

And sorry, people aren't gonna let the fact go that microsoft made owning a 360 a royal pain in the ass, for a while. Everyone I knew who owned a 360, had to send it in and have it repaired. That is some of the biggest ******** I have ever witnessed in gaming.

ahh, but by now, we really should take this to another thread. Peanut, who have you been using mostly in mk?

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Krutch

I dont know how I suck so freakin' bad at this game. I've got my ass kicked pretty much every time I played.

...Except when I play as Cyrax, oddly enough. I'm like 20-0 or something with that guy.

I just realized today how awesome Cyrax is. I hear he is being spammed online quite a bit, but if you are still having trouble, I suggest giving Smoke a try. He's quick, and his "teleport" type move, where he turns into a cloud of smoke, is super fun to use.

[Peanut]

I've always rolled Scorpion, Liu Kang and Kung Lao for as long as I can remember, but as I've only been playing single player stuff I haven't used any specifically yet.

[The Stryker]

I rotate quite a bit but if I had to pick one character it would probably be Johnny Cage.

[azrael]

smoke scorpion is all i have played so far... i hate cheap shotting shao kahn i wish you could really fight him but oh well... SamuraiSpade psn when it gets back up

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

Everyone I knew who owned a 360, had to send it in and have it repaired. That is some of the biggest ******** I have ever witnessed in gaming.

I've owned 4 PS2's in my time. All 4 broke. My launch PS2 had to be sent in for repairs because it stopped reading disks. Sent it in and got a replacement. The replacement broke like a week later so we sent it back and got a brand new one. In the mean time we bought another one because some new games came out we wanted to play. When we got the replacement it eventually broke. We sent it in, they claimed they fixed it, and a year later it died. The new one we bought in the store died shortly after. The conditions it was in were perfectly normal. We never dropped it, spilled water on it, stuck it on a corner where it couldn't breath, put dirty games in it, nothing.

I still don't hold it against Sony though and I'm not the only one who had this problem. Our roommates at the time went through the same thing. As I recall when the PSP came out those were getting returns/repair requests like mad too.

PS2 had all those errors because it was the first of that generation. PSP had those problems because it was the first commercial disk based handheld. And 360 had it's problems because it was the first system of the last generation. They perfected hard drive integration it just took time. PS3 would have suffered similar problems had it came out first. In fact it did, cost. They had to remove features from it just to make it affordable. While we're at it the the Wii mote was a POS until the motion plus came out, and even then it's still not perfect.

[Peanut]

I always find it funny that people don't remember how notoriously poor the original Playstation and first batch of PS2's performed. My first PS2 actually ate and destroyed the only game I owned at the time and my second one started reading discs so slowly it would take upwards of 5 minutes for the smallest load.

It's like they're all too young (which is still insanely hard for me to grasp) or new to games to remember people having to play their PS1's upside down to prevent them from overheating or being unable to read discs.

More on topic, I just saw Noob's x-ray for the first time and died laughing.

[AquaParade]

Originally Posted by Peanut

It's like they're all too young (which is still insanely hard for me to grasp) or new to games to remember people having to play their PS1's upside down to prevent them from overheating or being unable to read discs.

You seriously can't grasp that some people were born later than you? lol no hard feelings.

I'd still argue that the failure rate of x-box 360 is a big jump ahead of either playstation 1 or playstation 2. I played my ps1 for years, took **** care of it, seeing as I was like 12 years old. Same with my ps2. I had it for like 6 years throughout middle and highschool, until it stopped reading dvds and I treated it like crap. Got my 360 as a responsible, capable college student and it broke twice on me in a year, after being put on a pedestal. Sure, every console has it's hiccups, but comparing 360's to any other major one is silly.

Spitfire, your situation with your ps2 sounds terrible, but your case was not near as common as the millions of kids who had to send in their 360's multiple times. Also the ps3's initial high price point is sort of another issue. But, for the customers money they sure did get a more reliable system than the 360, along with an expensive blu ray player, and a great cell processor. Was the ps3's initial price worth it to me? Hell no, but I do think it was a fair value.


I've basically mastered Smoke in this game, but I am hearing everyone is using him online, so it slightly diminishes my desire to play as him. Although, with Smoke and Kitana, I make for a pretty good adversary in tag team. I've been trying out Ermac, since he seems pretty neat, but I am having trouble getting good with him, without memorizing combo's.