No, screw that. If these bosses are to remain unplayable they should be a force to be reckoned with. No point in making a boss easy to fight if we can't even enjoy using them. Shao Kahn is as hard as he should be, it's a shame Goro and Kintaro are so pathetic. Even the Boss version of Shang Tsung is tougher than the two Shokans.

why does a BOSS have to be nerfed? thats the whole point of him being a BOSS now i can see if he was playable but I would disagree keep him as he is......YOU just cant beat him lol.

Shao Kahn has a built in auto-nerf. The more times you lose to him, the more he taunts and the easier he gets.

Bosses are meant to be challenging. If you could pwn a boss on expert, the game is a failure.

But if you want him nerfed, buy one of these:

He is the only person I can beat i can win against nearly anyone online with one of my worst characters *cough* (Jax) *Cough* because im good with them all. Just cant beat mileena, shao kahn, kintaro, and goro on expert without getting hit. I beat Kintaro and Goro like there a rag doll but mileena does that enhanced ball that makes me get hit

Hector even said the bosses are cheap, it's just a fact that they are. They should not be able to keep going through with their attacks when you connect a blow. It's bad enough that they build up their x-ray meter so fast and do 53% damage with it but they should NOT be able to just ignore your attacks. That is either lazy or just bad AI programming. Bosses can be tough but they shouldn't be cheap, people need to see the difference.

umm mk bosses been cheap since the beginning...this is nothing new and i want them to keep it that way

Well good for you, that's also been a complaint in just about every review and almost any negative comments I've seen about the game are that the bosses are cheap, if you want to stick with a trick that was used back in the early 90's that's fine but I expect more from a series that's been around for 20 years. The rest of the game is amazing but the bosses are cheap and just because something started out that way doesn't mean it shouldn't evolve and get better. They should be hard no doubt but cheap? NO that's just being lazy or not knowing how to do it any other way.

For the record, I don't care as much about the xray build up although they do too much damage but the only thing that truely pisses me off is you hitting an upper cut or any other hit and them just randomly flashing yellow and it not having any effect on their animation, if you get the first hit in then it should be respected not ignored.

I sorta like the fact that they ignore moves. It makes them seem....bossier....or something like that.

Nah, I hate the whole ignoring your hits mechanic. If they did away with that, I would take no issue with the bosses in this game.

I like the way they are. It's not as if they're impossible to beat. Battling against Shao Khan when you stay away form him and throw projectiles makes it easier. If you wanna go head to head with the Emperor, well be my guest. He's most likely gonna ignore your attacks and just eat your Health Bar up.

The bosses are indeed hard and I did get my ass whooped several times when I tackled down the Ladder, but you just need to think of a good and effective strategy to defeat them. That's what I love about Mortal Kombat.

i have not found any boss to be impossible. they usually were tough at first, then i noted certain attacks, cheap tactics that worked on em. not every fighting game boss can be the pussy algol was in sc4. i do not disagree that bosses in mk9 are cheap, but i would not want them to be any other way.

i couldn't beat him in story mode....like the first time you fight with liu kang againts him...he beated the crap out of me in like 15 seconds....what's worse...i was in easy mode....now thats sad...

IT'S OFFICIAL

If you think that's bad, try Challenge floor 269. It's an endurance fight with 3 Shao Kahn's and you as Stryker.

I felt guilty shooting Kintaro with Striker. He could do NOTHING >:I

Hearing this makes me consider returning the game... just kidding but you get where im goin with that

Have you ever played war gods. I only played the arcade version but he was the hardest boss I've ever faced. Impossible to beat.

Which is just bizarre. It makes End Game a lot easier

I beat him in story. All that matters

Stryker's pistol > Bosses








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QFT

I mean really, just go the whole screen away and repeatedly fire Stryker's pistol. Kahn won't be able to touch you.

That's actually what I did to beat the Kahn's too. Well...and jumping the hammer toss Kahn would throw out.

This is ANOTHER reason why the bosses should have been balance, playable combatants -- they could have posed a 'proper', commensurate threat instead of just being outright broken and cheesy with all manner of cheaty buffs and armors to give them an artificial sense of 'boss-likeness'.

Fail design decision.