THe strikes were fast enough but the movement around the arena seemed really ponderous.

Yes, movement was pretty slow in MKDA. If you check out Rayrokka's "What was wrong with MKDA" thread in the MKDA discussion forum, you'll see this was a major beef for a lot of people. A lot of people say forward and side dashes would rectify this, and I'm inclined to agree.

Yep! it took ages to get up! Plus they were sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww wakers!!!! there should be a running option or they shuold just SPEED UP!

The gameplay definitely needs to be faster as do some of the actual styles especially the weapon styles.

Mk4-like speed would be nice. :D

The speed they had in MK4 was excellent, thats the kind of speed they should use in MK6.

I think that the pace should be speeded up, a bit, but not so much that it becomes cartoonish. I think MK4 was a little to fast, so fat, that it caused the fighters' movements to look kind of silly.

I say some things should be speed up, and some things left the same. I agree that there should be a sidestep, or a run or dash command added. I think MK:DA was bit limited in movement.

They should implement a dash run like VF, Tekken, and SC. I missed the speed from MKT and MKG.

I think they were trying to make it feel like MK2.

So they took out the running.

But I have to agree, It's too slow. MK6 needs Dashes in every direction, and Running.