Koth mode looks great. The lobby system in the past few MKs have been bare bones. If anyone has watched Netflix on 360 with a friend, the presentation of Koth mode is a lot like it. You have your avatars in a little theatre type environment, watching the fight waiting for their turn. While they wait, they can give respect points and do little actions/reactions to the screen. Like pressing a button will make the avatar boo or cheer, laugh or cry, taunt and whatnot. It also confirms up to 8 players in Koth mode at a time, as well as the winner goes on which is where the name "Koth" comes from.

I also dig the different character avatars you can get. I thought they'd just have maybe 5-6 to choose from, but they seem to be offering lots of characters if not all of them. In that trailer was(from left to right): Baraka, Ermac, Some female(Jade?), Jax, Johnny Cage, Some male, Some ninja(Sub?), Cyrax. Plus we already know Scorpion and Kung Lao are confirmed attires you can get. This also brings up an interesting question...

Minor spoiler regarding small unlockables obtained in challenge tower mode:


Anyways...It's a great addition imo, much better than just sitting there staring at title cards humping while you wait to fight(MvC3), or not having the ability to have more than just 1 on 1 matches(MK:D-MKvsDC). I hope they have a tag team version of Koth lobbies, where you can have up to 4 teams of 2. That'd be awesome as well.

Wow Kratos looks boring. I hope he'll look better after seeing more game play.

Kratos looking like shit. Surprise? Not really.

nope your not the only one. kratos gameplay looks freaking amazing... just wish the video had a better quality.

hmmm during the KOTH section the character right next to cyrax starts making an ice ball.... but that's not subzero, i wonder who it could be ;)

Yeah, that quality was pretty crappy.

This is somewhat off-topic, but how do people make those videoclip gifs?

Kratos looks great. The quick time throw is lolawesome. King of the Hill looks pretty cool too, though I doubt I'll be using it much. Why would I want to wait to play someone when I could be playing someone else?

I really don't understand all the heat Kratos is getting. There is nothing boring or lame about his moves. I feel like everyone just hates him because hes the outsider, and Sony just put him in for the money.

And I guess KOTH mode is just the name they are giving to basic online play? Sounds like a good lobby system. Especially after the pile of garbage that was MVC3's.

I know a lot of MVC3 fan wold probably flip out over this. But I really feel like MK9 is showing why MVC3 is not a good game. Pushing gameplay aside, look at all these features MK has packed in. Then look at MVC's bare bone offering. Not to mention MK provides an alt costume for all their characters when MVC makes you pay $5 for a hand full of alts.

Exactly. MK has had shit gameplay for a decade, so this will NOT be better until proven otherwise (Not that MvC3 wasn't broken, but at least it had solid gameplay.)

While MK's gameplay hasn't always been top notch, they games have always had a lot of extra stuff and reply value. The demo already proves that the gameplay is better than ever.

MvC3 may be really fast, but I find it to be kind of annoying. And I really really hate the roster. So many retard characters that don't matter and are not interesting in any way. And no extra feature to make up for that crap.

Well put. WB better let NRS announce XBOX content soon

You can perform Fatalities on him mid-match

So pumped for King of the Hill mode. I'll be rockin my JC avatar.

So who is anticipating to use every characters fatatlity on Kratos and make him look lie the Mortal of War on PS3? :P

Look nothing impressed me about his moveset. He seems slow and the way he swings his chains didn't do anything for me. His air throw were he just lightly knees them in the side looks weak. It also looks like he took the shoulder ram and arrow from nightwolf. I also find the buttons appearing and slowdown to be tacky, but as I said in my original post I'll wait to see more of his gameplay before I pass judgment. I would very much like to see way you liked his gameplay, since you called my opinions into question sir.

I think Kratos looks epic, very happy I own a ps3

Looks like you figured it out already.

An efficient method would be to open the video file with a video-to-jpg converter, and save all of the frames of the video as individual images. Then, use a free gif creator program to construct a gif from the images you saved. I'm pretty sure there are some decent video-to-gif converters out there, but the ones that I've tried ruin the gifs with watermarks.

I'm going to destroy some asses as Kratos, yeah!

Im so glad I have a 360, sorry PS3 guys, good luck with the Horde of Kratos.

@Red Freak:

I was not really calling your opinion into question. I suppose I shouldve have phrased it as "I dont see anything lame about his moves" rather than "Nothing is lame about his moves"

But anyway. Why I think his move set is fine? I like the God of War series. The things hes doing in the gameplay vids, are things he would have done in God of War. They are staying true to Kratos. Whereas you find the button command tacky, I find it a wonderful nod to the series hes from.

And from a straight up gameplay aspect. The swinging chains are new weapon dynamic, unlike any other characters. It doesnt do anything for you, but for me its an exciting new style. As for his generic looking moves, I've never really had an issue with that. I'd say most of the moves in the MK series are generic. Quan Chi's skull projectile shoots just like the tons of other projectiles in MK, but I don't mind that.

As for slowness, do you just literally mean he moves too slow for your style? I don't mind slow guys as long as its a learnable style.

It should also be noted my comments were not singling you out, since your comment was much more reasonable and tame than maaaany others on the forum. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and thats reasonable. For example, I dislike Sindel immensely but I'm not going around saying "she sucks, horrible character. Dislike her moves". I understand other people adore Sindel, I just don't see eye to eye with them. Again, I'm not saying you unjustly bashed Kratos, since you have your own personal reasons, and you are also waiting for more gameplay. I have more of a problem with the people who just straight up say Kratos sucks without question, just because they may not like aspects others would.

Cant wait to own kratos with everbody from mk xD

As for people talking about MK's past gameplay

If you play Sf with a friend or mk, which is more enjoyable?

exactly

Jade's kick and Kratos's gameplay are pretty damn good.

Actually, I did it the hard way... I paused the video, pressed PrtSc, copy/pasted into Animation Shop, went back to the video, quickly clicked play then pause again, and repeat. XD

Is there an easier way to do this? How do you do that video-to-gif thing?

I didn't mean it like that. I never felt singled out, but you did make a sweeping statement and I really don't like people assuming motives like that. I find it far to ask what your opinion since you didn't really go in depth as to why you liked him. Thanks for the response.

I never played a God of War game, so I have no attachment or knowledge of the character. I'm just trying to judge him as if he was any other fighter. I do like slow characters, but I don't feel the excitement or impact from his moves like I do from Sub-Zero and Jax..