What characters are you looking forward to using?

[RoboCopAK47]

Me personally Kabal, Smoke and Robo Sub-Zero.

[OOFMATIC]

I'm planning to main Noob and Reptile.

[franman]

Sub-zero and Raiden maybe.

[t3hmAsTarOth]

i played Ermac in MK:Deception... and in here he is still really sick... but Smoke runs shit and counters everyone... plus he has Akuma teleport...!!! so i'm maining Ermac and Smoke...

[neorussell]

Welcome Sami, you only heard about this site now. Jeez, your always out of touch. Welcome welcome.
It's all about Kitana and Noob. "Noob"dy else matters. See what I did there? LOL!

NeoRussell

[azurefighting]

i like black people. jax and rax.


ps. when the dojang opens up to mk9, i think i am only going to be running tag sessions... i don't see why peeps playing solo when the tag pretty solid.. or maybe cuz that's the only way i can get an over 20 dmg combo wit' my jax and i haven't met some teams like liu/kung who have 100% combos...

[neorussell]

Umm... Yeah... MK has always been singles play. Tag is awesome but not really tourny level. It's just fun factor level. Not my call but that's my two cents.

NeoRussell

[t3hmAsTarOth]

i really like how the tag system of this game works... it reminds me of kofxi in some ways where u can tag switch to pressure or combo or to cover your unsafe moves... in mvc3 u can't really combo into another character, can only do shit like dhc... and assists r free every 5 seconds...

in mk9 u can call assist or assist switch which costs 1 bar... or do tag combos... mk is a rather simple system... not saying it's a bad game by any chance... but probably the simplest in terms of complexity out of BB/kof/tekken/sf4/mvc3... only a very few characters have crazy ass difficult combos like Kung Lao... so i really feel that this game will shine at most on the tag battle system... come on... doing combos in a FG with a friend?

i also kinda like Sektor and Kano... blanka ball is fun... and Jax is just sad... poor guy could've at least had a launcher... ground pound unblockable sucks so far... only fun thing is he has Tekken combo... jab > dash > jab > dash > jab > dash punch... lol... Kung Lao is also really sick... probably the sickest character in the game...

[t3hmAsTarOth]

k Ermac's my favourite... but man i'm reaaally liking Kabal... freaken guy is bad-ass... his combos look soo sick... and damn fireball whoring... lol... i can even anti-air with it and go into a dash spin combo...

k after playing the game quite a bit and watching match videos, i declare MK9 to be the 2D Tekken...

why? well lets look at the facts... *Russell u agree... right?*

- tekken-ish idea of combat... turtle... space... bait... punish with 50% combos...

- moves come in strings... no linking/chaining... combos are tekken-ish juggle based and timed hits...

- purely tekken-ish combos... dash > w/e > dash > w/e... a lot of dashing involved...

- most characters can't get big damage from lows... same as tekken...

- jump attacks don't really have much variety... same as tekken... *KOF/LB2 are heavy jump attack games*

[azurefighting]

well, for russell maybe because his idea of movement is box step so in mk, it'd be his "russelldash" *stifled laughter*.. but u obviously don't know how to move in tekken or you would never consider spacing in mk in the same world as spacing in tekken... but i can see what u are trying to say. move recognition will go a long way as letting go of block and ducking a high u KNO to be in a string will be as "tekken-like" as the game will get... the shitty negative edge "feature" is horrible and needs reworking... x rays, invincible wake up attacks, and one break throws are also all "for the kids" features...

bottom line: let's play tekken!!!!! come sun/thurs. get ur game on