ya know, i actually did think that MKD felt a little sluggish at first,
but after playing it hardcore for like the last 32 hours, i think it was all in my mind...
im having much more luck dodging firebals with teleports now, i think i know why too.
in MK 2 and up they beefed up the teleports ALOT. i cant remember if it were arial then or not but at least MKULTIMATE and up you could do scorp's port in mid-air.
also as far as MK1 goes,
i bought the special edition MKD that comes with the 'Arcade Perfect' MK1...
near as i can tell it realy is a perfect version of classic MK.... (very good, except for the fact i cant change my button config-so i can use my arcade stick)
but oh my god is it slow. i remember reading at the time how they reduced frame rate of animations to save memory, and man... you can see it now.
so anyway, just keep playing, i think once you get the feel for its timing you will see that it is pretty responsive.

Yeah, I agree. At first it seemed a bit sluggish. I couldn't handle Scorpion as well as I did in MKDA, and he was my star player. But now I'm pretty mean with alot of the characters. However, I've gotta say I do wish it was faster. I remember the days when I could teleport punch, spear, combo, jump kick, teleport punch, spear, etc..
Man, those were the days.

Yeah man, that was some pretty inteligent insight. I hear you man. Another thing is that when a player blocks your combo, of course your supposed to be vulnerable but do they really need to make the vulnerability time like almost a full second. The entire pace of the fight in MKD needs to be just a little faster.

I like the game alot and I have put prob. 30 hours into it. I hate to bring up Tekken but in that game your player feels like an extentension of the controller. I agree with you too Brinkster. There will be times when the block just does not register....