MK vs SF2

[razu]

Right, now the hype has died down I'd like to settle an old argument.

Street Fighter 2 is better than Mortal Kombat.

I remember when the sf2 machine became easier to get on. All the coin-op casualti bundled over to the MK machine, saying how it was much better than sf2.

Well, I think you'll find you were all wrong. So there.

MK was better than most, but it wasn't in the same league as sf2 by miles.


P.S. I got my dad to change the fuse on my US SNES this weekend. Tonight I played through sf2turbo on hard, bit rusty so I took a few continues to beat Bison. Screen fades out, can't wait to see the credits...

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nothing. Screen never faded back up. FFS! This is why we need emulators, bloody carts ft:

Brilliant game though. And my SNES pad feels so worn in. I can't imagine my ps2 pad ever getting that used.

And, oh look, Link To The Past sir? Suits me!!

Sorry, rambling now...

[innovator]

"MK was better than most"

I disagree with that. There were many better 1 on 1s back then.

MK was always about 1 player, just showing off and doing the fatalities. As a 2 player game it has always been very poor and limited.

[TEZBEK]

Do we even have to discuss this?

MK was NEVER a contender. NEVER!

[mr_sockochris]

Mortal Kombat was nowhere near the level of Streetfighter 2. SF2 is still a brilliant game to this day (as the huge amount of hours i've piled into Hyper Edition shows) while i doubt i'd play MK for more than 10mins before turning it off. The only reason people played MK was for the Fatalities, nothing more.

[Chadruharazzeb]

MK was the second cheapest and nastiest game ever made, the first being Pitfighter. Get rid of it.

[razu]

Cheap and nasty? I refer you to "Street Fighter: The Movie" for recalibration.

Of course the grand master of filth was Pit Fighter, which is what I was remembering when I said MK was better than most.

[Saurian]

Streetfighter The Movie was by Capcom USA who have never made a decent game - they also brought us the wonderful Final Fight/SF EX hybrid beat em up which was a complete insult.

Mortal Kombat does not work as a VS challenge game, all the MK games were about going down the arcades, playing single player and showing off how many command fatalities you knew. It is in NO WAY a contender to SF2 as a game, just like how Killer Instinct is complete and utter **** as a VS challenge game but as a single player game it's almost like a puzzle game in which you work out combos - that is why people played it and for that it's superb!

SF2 is a very tight and refined game system, it's like advanced rock, paper, scissors in that everything is beaten by something - player challenge eachother to test skill, you can put SF2 on nowadays and it's still a tight system. The fighting in Mortal Kombat has very little behind it, it doesnt work with 2 good players against eachother, it's supposed to be violent and that's all you get. It's buggy, the enemy behaviors are boring and can be controlled and the only way the CPU ever wins is by pure skank. There is a lot of CPU skank in all beat em ups - but MK was just silly.

[Durham Red]

All MK games are rubbish except MK II, which was ****ing brilliant.

End of.

[optimusomega]

Mk was never about the two player challenges, as said earlier bug ridden to hell , but that's what made it such a fun single player experience, can't believe I used to know EVERY single move, fatality etc in those games.
Street Fighter wins hands down though, except for movie

[martTM]

Durham Red said:

All MK games are rubbish except MK II, which was ****ing brilliant.

Damn straight. One of my fave games when growing up - fond memories of it, not in the least because I got to the point where my head was so packed with moves, I had to play as Shang Tsung so I could be everyone at once.

In fact, that's the only reason I'm even going to consider buying the Midway Arcade Classics 2 disc when it comes out - my Xbox MAME won't run MKII at full speed, so I'm going to need an arcade perfect version from somewhere...

[Durham Red]

Shang Tsung was just the ultimate fighter in that game. Sure, characters that mimic other players was nothing new but being able to switch between them all during a fight was. Laydown a massive combo with Scorpion ending with the uppercut then morph into Kung Lao and catch them with the hat on the way down was exhilirating (tho' I think I could only get it to work in the arcade - the otherwise beautiful SNES version seemed a little bit too slow to pull some moves off in that regard) Then switch to Sub-Zero, freeze them a few times at the fatality then switch to Mileena for the coup-de-grace. Or Kitana. Or back to Scorpy...

Ah, happy days.

The first time we saw the Kintaro fatality...now there was a surprise.

[djjimbob]

Yup - Shang Tsung the man. I used to love pulling off the frozen dragon food fatality. Morph to Sub Zero, freeze 'em, then into Liu Kang for the dragon fatality - glitch graphics. Cool.

Jimbob

[Durham Red]

Even better - morphing into Reptile and kicking some helpless chap's arse before sucking their head off...all the time while invisible.

[Saurian]

Killer Instinct was truly sick aswell for show-off material

There is nothing more satisfying than totally screwing up the system with TJ Combo to perform an absolutely insane Ultra only to carry on juggling them when they are like 200ft above you!
Or just standing there bussing 46lp with Eyedol juggling the opponent until the time runs out!

Broken games they may have been but messing with the fragile systems was too much fun!

[randombs]

SF2 definitely, no one argues with that, so maybe this thread won't conjure up the argument we would have hoped for, unless someone comes on to qrgue in favour or mortal kombat

Here's an argument : Whats the best SF version???

I like the old ones especially SF2 Turbo and I like SSF2 Turbo too. Alpha 3 if I'm feeling cheap...