Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter

[DK]

Different moves, even slight ones, make it count. Even if they were only there for one game they count, because in the start of MK there were only two ninjas, Sub Zero and Scorpion, so yeah.

Edit: How is Allen like Dan? He has a Hadoken, a Shoryuken and a special flying kick style move, and his super is the same as Ryu's Shinkuu Hadoken.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Yeah, but he's not Shotokhan. He's probably erither a trainee or using a similar art. Judging from those white bandages on his arms he's probably got a bit of Muay Thai.

[crashNUMBERS]

Lmao!! Isn't that the Man?? Or just that pic he has??

[Shoden]

Mortal Kombat was an amazing game i despised Street fighter because it was boring.

Mortal Kombat's system is a smurf load better you can slam thew enemy through windows, through the floor and throw them into a sea of pirhanas <3

Deception was great including Baraka

[DJZen]

Unlike MK, SF doesn't need to rely on cheap gimmicks like blood or pirahnas to be good. Besides that, Mortal Kombat will NEVER EVER EVER have a character as awesome as Dan.

We shouldn't even be discussing this, we should be discussing whether Street Fighter or King of Fighters kicks Mortal Kombat's broke ass more. I personally feel that while SF delivers an elegant axe kick to MK's spine, KoF does a bit of a curb stomp to it.

[Polnareff]

Okay, so that makes....

Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Sean, Evil Ryu, Shin Akuma, Violent Ken, and "Allen".

MK, by the same token has...

Scorpion, Sub Zero, Reptile, Rain, Ermac, Smoke, Noob Saibot, and Khameleon.

Now they're tied for greatest number of cheap knockoff characters, unless this "Allen" who I've never heard of before is actually a joke.

Also, as an afterthough, anyone who accuses SF of turning into a projectile fest has never played for very long. Any player can throw a fireball, but any GOOD player can make you seriously regret throwing that fireball.

Allen doesn't exactly count, as he wasn't made by Capcom. (Heck, the EX series itself wasn't made by them :P)

But on the MK side, you can't forget the Cyber Ninjas, like Sektor, and Cyrax, and I think there's a couple other ones as well.

[Pure Strife]

I thought SF flowed better than the old Mortal Kombat games, but the ones on the current generation are great. No palette swaps, each character has three unique fighting styles, weapons are in and the characters themselves are largely pretty cool. There are some cliches and whatnot, but Sf has them too.

But what really makes MK stand out for me is the evolution from MK1 up to MK Deception. Since the start they've added new characters and moves constantly (MKTrilogy was the only one where they had ALL the palette swapped ninjas), and now it plays really well if all you're looking for is a good laugh and a friendly kickabout.

How much has SF really changed since SF2? And I don't mean all the little niggling [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] with stats and whatnot that virtually no one notices, I mean big differences. If you can beat someone at SF2 odds are you can beat them at any SF game.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I'll fill in your question, Strife.

SFII= Standard fighting
SFII Turbo=Adjustable combat speed, different pallet swaps, and playable boss characters
Super SFII Turbo= 4 new characters, 8 different pallet swaps for each character, and super moves that can be done when your super bar fills up.
SF Alpha= 3 different combat styles for each combatant, and multiple super moves. Plus custom combos
Street Fighter III- Super Arts that the player chooses, EX moves, and the finest tuned controls I ever seen.

[Spammerman]

Mortal Kombat at least it's more violent, you can throw people to pirhanas!

or rip out their spines, or turn in to a bunny and eat them, or burn them to death.

[Erdrick Holmes]

So killing people is alot more fun than a fight with substance and challenge?

[Shoden]

Mortal Kombat has a better storyline.

Mortal Kombat gives you a bigger sense of satisfication than SF

[Dreddz]

its personal choice everyone, so dont judge or question peoples views...

[Shoden]

anyway whats wrong with gore and several ways of killing?

[MecaKane]

So killing people is alot more fun than a fight with substance and challenge?

Of course, that's why people buy Mortal Kombat and GTA instead of crappy 2D fighters!

[DJZen]

Well, for one thing, I got over it back in highschool. Gore in games is just so ubiquitous in games anymore that it just doesn't do anything for me anymore. It's like that one song that you hear on the radio every 5 seconds. At first it's cool, then it's everywhere, then it's annoying.

Mortal Kombat RELIES on schlock value. Imagine if it didn't have blood or fatalities. It would have died out shortly after the first like every other fighting game that came out in 1994. I can't even name all the fighting games that came out during that time period, that's how many there were.

Besides, Time Killers was WAY more violent than MK. I don't hear anybody singing that game's praises.