Groove Heaven
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I think they're both good games and yes I think they both win in certain aspects.
MKX has better balance and more depth, there are more than like 7 or 8 viable characters, and it is genuinely fun and fluid to play.
MK9 functioned more like a traditional fighting game to me. AAing was more straightforward, the neutral and fight for space was more intense, and there was less cheese on the raw mechanic level (what I mean by this is that all the cheese existed in each character's playstyle, not in the neutral and oki itself). The strong focus on rushdown and 50/50s kind of kills MKX for me.
Basically, my gut reaction is that I loved MK9 and like MKX on a causal level. I always wanted to be better at MK9 much like how I felt about SF4 (too bad I started playing both right as they started to die lol). I thought about how I could improve and MUs and stuff when I wasn't playing. I wanted to play all the time. I had so much fun every time I did.
MKX...I kinda just pop in when I'm bored and I wanna play online. I don't lab or grind MUs. I go to like 1 major a year. I don't have the drive I had when I started MK9.
Great game but not as engaging on a fundamental level...that's just my 2 cents.
MKX has better balance and more depth, there are more than like 7 or 8 viable characters, and it is genuinely fun and fluid to play.
MK9 functioned more like a traditional fighting game to me. AAing was more straightforward, the neutral and fight for space was more intense, and there was less cheese on the raw mechanic level (what I mean by this is that all the cheese existed in each character's playstyle, not in the neutral and oki itself). The strong focus on rushdown and 50/50s kind of kills MKX for me.
Basically, my gut reaction is that I loved MK9 and like MKX on a causal level. I always wanted to be better at MK9 much like how I felt about SF4 (too bad I started playing both right as they started to die lol). I thought about how I could improve and MUs and stuff when I wasn't playing. I wanted to play all the time. I had so much fun every time I did.
MKX...I kinda just pop in when I'm bored and I wanna play online. I don't lab or grind MUs. I go to like 1 major a year. I don't have the drive I had when I started MK9.
Great game but not as engaging on a fundamental level...that's just my 2 cents.