1) Gameplay looks incredibly smoother. What more do you want? The slow, looking characters from Deception that looks like bits of clay getting pushed around by people?

2) "The new Parry system" - a lot better than being stuck with the same crap from Deception. Atleast they are adding stuff that in fact COULD lead to a some-what more balanced game when they aren't even CLOSE to finishing it and giving us the final product.

3) Wake-Up Game - Why bother when this engine is broken anyway? If anything, he should just not waste his time and save that for the new, improved engine that we'll be getting with MK8 on next-gen.

4) Yes, you can take your created fighter online. That's one of the main purposes. To make it challenging and fun. When you go to play online, you'll never know what to expect. Instead of 60+ characters, now there will be an unlimited amount of opponents that you can face in the online world. That's one of the bright sides to Create-A-Fighter. I think you're the only person I've seen on here that DOESNT think that idea is cool.

5) Better he's actually saying it then not saying a word. This atleast gives us hope that they are actually attempting to do just that this time around. So in conclusion, it's official. It's not even E3 yet and you're making yourself look like a dumbass.

i think you are completely retarded for wasting your time and typing that response. Maybe you dont like deception because you suck at it. Maybe the reason you wont like MKA is because you are afraid you will suck at that too. that is so bad ass you can take your charcter online. it wont ruin on line! wat r u dense? the gameplay looks awesome. open ur eyes tard

It's obvious he IS dense. He's giving his final judgement on a game 7-8 months in advance before the game's even release OR remotely completed.

For an early build for the game, I think the gameplay looks pretty good. Could be better, but there is time for improvement. I think the game looks good.

Yea, what is his deal?

Yeah, the gamplay still does look stiff and all around blah. That said though they finally appear to be trying to add things that should have been in DA so that is a good thing. Whether or not it plays well officially we'll know in October.

the gameplay imo look much more better.

How would it be crap? The parry system and even faster gameplay would actually make it more fun. Considering I also play Tekken and used to their fast engine and parry system. I think it would be awesome.

I agree.

We just have to wait and see. So far it looks like Im really going to have fun, lest just hope its not broken and full of infinites.

What the hell is a Wake-Up game?


I leave for a year, come back and theres a bunch of terms I gotta learn (like Infinites for example)

You stay havin somethin negative to talk about.

A wake up game is the options you have when knocked to the floor.

Games like VF, Tekken, DOA, and others have moves that you can do when you get up from the floor.

You can also choose to stay lying down.


The wake up game relieves some of the pressure on the player who got knocked down, because you have a way to defend your self.

If the opponent tries to hit you while you are about to get up, you can stay lying down. That way you can avoid the attack, then get up and counter.

There's other stuff related to it, but you get the idea.

The lack of a wake up game in MK games causes tactical problems and even free hits.


Infinites refers to combos that can not be escaped once the first hit connects. These combos never end, or cause 100% damage.

An infinite with Bo Rai cho
puke, side step twice
You can repeat that over and over and the opponent can't escape.

With Smoke, you can do
d+1, walk up to opponent, throw
just repeat that over and over.

There's a lot of these in the game.

Looks good to me

Looks and functionality are different things.

There needs to be a good balance, or have both be strong.

It's not good enough to have for example, an awesome sports car, with a motor that doesn't work.

IMO, MK's game play ( actual combat ) is weak on both looks and function.

Did you not notice that mortal kombat is the 2nd best fighting game ever in history next to Street Fighter. Second of all did you notice that MKD got an 8.5 and voted best fighting game of 2004 over Dead or Alive Ultimate. And third and final of all your the dumbass who thought that this game has bad parry's, horrible gameplay, and bad new features when the game is still 8 months away. Who knows they might improve or change some things, so you might want to think about what you say before you say it!

Wow, Bleed...thanks a ton for the explanation...its amazing the Wake Up is something so simple, just a different term...

Thanks for the infinite explanation too...I was told what they were, but I didnt get an example until now...so yeh...

it looked a lot more 'fluid' IMO and faster gameplay = better gameplay it will amke the game less chunky and solid

1. Welcome to 1997.

2. Having said that, I agree.

3. DA sucked, but it's looking better all the time.

4. To Ed, a "Wake up" game involves using a Test Your Might meter to get your character out of bed.

5. Infinites already ruined online. Bringing in created characters won't make that much difference, especially seeing as how most people will use the same movesets anyway.

6. I got nuthin'.

1) I want moves to have more than 3 frames, than you will be able to SEE the moves and BLOCK them, a very basic thing in good fighting games, but not in MKD.

2) Why do you settle for a mediocre parry system, did you see the video? it looks exactly like the reversals in MKDA and they were crap.

3) Why bother? are you kidding?

50\50 after a plant, Bo and Darrius's glitch throw combos, free throws, some infinites.

If MKD had a proper wake up game and throw reversals so many glitches would have been prevented.
It's a must.

4) How can you defend against a character you don't know?
It will ruin online play.

5) I remind you that this is the guy who in response to a question about Bo's infinite he said and I quote: "That's what breakers are for" they have no idea what they are doing, we will get the same game with more glitch combos, on the air and on the ground.

Those ratings are given based on eye candy and extras, not so much on game play.


DOA's game play is waaaaaaaaaaay better than MK's, because it's better designed. It has a lot more of the basic game play elements that MK is missing.


MK gets a better score from them because it has puzzle, konquest, chess, fatalities, more characters.......

Stuff that doesn't determine whether the fighting in the fighting game is good or not.

hjs-Q brings up very good points. I remember I made a thread expressing my concerns for MKA and you were the very first person to bash me. But I do agree about the gameplay looking smoother and overall better. And the new Parry System isn't going to have much affect because once you get stuck in an infinte you won't be able to get out using the parry system. I think the MK Team approached the infinites in the wrong way, a wake-up game would have fixed the problem. And they are reversals from MKDA, instead of fixing the problem they are just going to try to take the easy way out. If they can't make 25 infinite free characters with pre-set moves how do you think the ability to select your moves will go? But yes hopefully they do test the game and eiminate the obvious glitches.



The main reason that MK was popular wasn't because of it's gameplay but its gore. It was the first game to really cross the boundaries and actually put blood and guts in its game. If IGN found any of the infinites I guarantee you they wouldnt give it that high a score. DOA is a much superior game, I personally don't like it but MKD should have never even been compared to it. The parries as i said before are just reversals from MKDA, not that hard to put in a game, I mean the inclusion of reversals is good I don't know why they were left out of MKD. But I don't see why they are hyping up "This New Parry System" up so much when it was in a game that they make 5 years ago.

I can understand why people would not want KaKs on-line for the possiblity for heavily broken characters, but this whole "I won't know my opponent's movesets, omfg!!" is just silly.

This is supposed a game about people who fight to the death, not some sports tournament were you get to study your opponents ablities on video for weeks before you play them.

Scorpion to KaK: Ummmm.... yeah. I'm going to go ahead and need to know all your moves and tricks ahead of time before we try to kill each other. Yeahhhhh..... you see there's these people that feel this deathmatch just wouldn't be fair otherwise.

Ideally it'll be a feature that can be shut off like the deathtraps in MKD. That way the people who don't want do deal with them don't have too. And people like me won't have to deal with those people.

I agree also. They have plenty of time to build on it and make it look better and make it work properly. I really hope they do.

Have you played it yet ? EXACTLY so how do you know what is weak and whats not i swear people purposly just look for flaws and lil things all day 24/7 just to complain that or they just hate Mk cause it has always out sold and out played there lil fighting games