Let's talk: MKX on PC

[looktotheluna]

Because the PS4 or Xbone aren't worth owning for one game. They're basically multiplat machines at this point with only 1 or 2 decent exclusives. Also I refuse to pay for online multiplayer.

I can see you're point there, but investing time into a garbage port with crap support from day one is not worth the money, time and effort. Each to their own I guess.

 

[Juxtapose]

Because the PS4 or Xbone aren't worth owning for one game. They're basically multiplat machines at this point with only 1 or 2 decent exclusives. Also I refuse to pay for online multiplayer.

^I agree with this, personally. Originally, I figured I'd have to buy a current gen console for the game, but when they announced it was launching on PC at the same time, there was no point.

I don't want to spend $400.00 to $500.00, plus pay for premium multiplayer that's way overpriced, and deal with lackluster console sales for overpriced DLC when I already have a solid PC.

If a console platform gets about three exclusives that I really want, then I might pick one up, as I don't hate on consoles at all.

 

[Juxtapose]

I can see you're point there, but investing time into a garbage port with crap support from day one is not worth the money, time and effort. Each to their own I guess.

But that's also the thing, I got the game on PC for 25% off from the get go. So not only did I get a sale for launch day, but I also don't need to pay the generation tax. I can play online for free as well.

The quality of the port is, of course, a shame, but I also haven't had hardcore game breaking bugs and have been able to really enjoy the game since launch.

The only thing really that's been a con for me thus far is waiting on patches for balance stuff, and I'm not impatient so two weeks doesn't bend me out of shape.

To each their own as you say.

 

[GrandMasterson]

I can see you're point there, but investing time into a garbage port with crap support from day one is not worth the money, time and effort. Each to their own I guess.

I'd be wasting more money buying a PS4, MKX for PS4, Kombat Pack, and a PS+ subscription. It's just not worth it. Also I got the full game + Kombat Pack for $60 on PC.

 

[RVB]

I'd be wasting more money buying a PS4, MKX for PS4, Kombat Pack, and a PS+ subscription. It's just not worth it. Also I got the full game + Kombat Pack for $60.

If it were like buy a console and have like 10 games on it you want to play then yeah I'd consider getting a console but right now there's a drought of games to play on ps4 and xbox so it's like you said buying a console for 1-2 games doesn't really pay off.

 

[GrandMasterson]

If it were like buy a console and have like 10 games on it you want to play then yeah I'd consider getting a console but right now there's a drought of games to play on ps4 and xbox so it's like you said buying a console for 1-2 games doesn't really pay off.

Bascially. This is the worst console generation ever, and that's saying a lot. No free multiplayer, no backwards compatibility except for the Xbone and only for select games, exclusives are almost non-existent, still no graphical options or just an option to have 60fps over cinematic 26fps (I give Naughty Dog credit for doing this in the TLoU Remaster, every console game should have this).

It's just shit all around and it's really disappointing. I remember when consoles weren't trying to be underpowered PCs and actually had advantages over PC gaming. Those days are over.

 

[Juxtapose]

I remember when consoles weren't trying to be underpowered PCs and actually had advantages over PC gaming. Those days are over.

I'm old enough that I actually do remember when consoles were trying to be underpowered PCs. And I'm old enough to remember an earlier time when they weren't.

I actually find it's a cyclical process. The Xbox 360 really established consoles as a dominant party over PC's, and that generation of consoles lasted crazy long. Now though, it's flipped back again, and that really started roughly around 2011, give or take.

I agree that the current generation of consoles are very underwhelming, but like any gaming product, it does have it's advantages and a specific market. Had the Xbox One launched with backwards compatibility properly, I would have taken a better look at it instead of going back to PC's just like that.

 

[EntropicByDesign]

Sigh.

And another game changing patch that totally alters the game, with no release date or info for pc owners.

Small stuff is one thing but meta changing patchs need parity across all platforms, its three shades of horseshit
That this keeps happening. Im giving it till the Predator drop and if we get dlc without true parity, I'm done. I'm not really playing in the meantime, I've parked my ass in Street Fighter IV and im keeping it there. For me, its difficult to get motivated to grind matchups and such when the version of the game I'm playing is basically outdated and pointless. Not to mention I was working on Dvorah and with her SQ changes, no practice I put in will amount to much of anything.

Mkx is losing out to sfiv more and more by the day.

 

[Juxtapose]

I'm guessing July 7th is when we'll see Predator and the patch.

 

[Audit]

I am so glad I sold my PC game key. The support for the PC version is laughable.

 

[I GOT HANDS]

Bascially. This is the worst console generation ever, and that's saying a lot. No free multiplayer, no backwards compatibility except for the Xbone and only for select games, exclusives are almost non-existent, still no graphical options or just an option to have 60fps over cinematic 26fps (I give Naughty Dog credit for doing this in the TLoU Remaster, every console game should have this).

It's just shit all around and it's really disappointing. I remember when consoles weren't trying to be underpowered PCs and actually had advantages over PC gaming. Those days are over.

I was with you, but exclusives aren't a good thing for consoles, they are just a contract they will sign with someone's product as a way of incentivising you to buy their console instead of the others because of their exclusives. If that platform didn't exist, they would develop it for a different one, exclusives are in no way your friend and the less of them is a good thing

However, you are extremely wrong about exclusives, with Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Infamous, hell you mentioned a big one in TLOU Remaster... There is plenty of awesome PS4 exclusives, and it's a bad thing for you and me

 

[GrandMasterson]

If that platform didn't exist

But here's the thing, they do. Casuals overwhelmingly love consoles because they're convenient, and casuals will always be the dominating force in video games. Which means consoles will always be here, so talking about circumstances where they don't exist is pointless.

You might think those games are awesome, but I couldn't care less for them. So far the only game I care about on these consoles is MKX and that's only because the PC port was handled so terribly. The games I want to play are on PC, and for some people the games they want to play are on console. I'll probably get a PS4 in 3 years when I can get it used for $100 and actually, maybe, has exclusives that I care about.

 

[I GOT HANDS]

Just because these consoles do exist, doesn't make exclusives for them a good thing. It's a way to force their console on you. It might matter less to you if you are willing to get multiple platforms, for or the rest of is it's the worst thing in the world when the most recent release from one of your favorite series / developers becomes exclusive to a $600 console you don't own. Same thing with the games. You might not care individually for the games that are exclusive, but you can't say "there is no exclusives" when nearly half the games designed for PS4 are exclusive. Having a very niche taste off your own doesn't make it any less bad for people who don't, and gamers who just want to play the games and not participate in console wars.

Just because it affects you less or you don't care about it as much doesn't mean exclusives aren't a terrible thing, and in no way to be looked at as a plus. It reminds me of people who look at day 1 DLC as a plus for more content available, because they don't bother looking at the broader picture and releasing that it just means it's been cut out of the game itself to milk another purchase out of you

 

[RVB]

I do have to admit that @I GOT HANDS has a point when you really think about console exclusives.
I'm a huge Halo fan and if I were given the choice to play MCC on PC or Xbox I'd go with PC of course.

The console exclusives only exist for one purpose and that is to make you buy the hardware in order to play that game you love and that's it... some of us may not like this practice but it's been around for quite some time and it will go on.

I think being a 'hybrid" gamer you get the best of both worlds that is if you can afford to dish out the cash required to buy the consoles you want to play on and have a gaming rig... and with that said my dream of winning the LOTO carries on.

Consoles and PC have their specific advantages and there's really no point in discussing them here but I think when MKX is concerned right now PS4 is the go to platform.

Here's hoping we get a reworked MKX on PC from QLoc.

 

[I GOT HANDS]

Yeah, it's gunna happen and that's it, may as well accept it. It definitely sucks though when I'm played Dark Souls 1 & 2 on PC and then From Software goes and releases their follow up IP exclusive to Playstation 4, and I'm just sitting here like damn.... exclusives aren't something to be happy about, and even if I owned a PS4 I wouldn't see it is a good thing that only me and other people who chose this console have access to a specific worthy game... That doesn't benefit me in any way, this is that stereotypical childish console player mentality on show. If anything making the playerbase smaller just means less people to connect with about the game in both real life and online, I don't get why people are like "aww yeah my console delivers the best exclusives, gotta love em for that" no bro, they literally pay the studio to keep it strictly in house to them so that you ain't allowed to play it if you haven't bought their $600 piece of hardware almost guaranteed to be significantly subpar to spending the same amount of money building a gaming PC (depending where you live)

 

[ZeZe]

Didn't recent E3 show a positive trend though? Microsoft started noticing PC gamers and thus we are now expecting Killer Instinct cross platform between PC and Xbox. Halo in the future most likely will come back to PC, too : http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/06/05/microsoft-halo-could-come-back-to-pc/. Should Microsoft go this way and share Xbox exclusives with PC, things might only turn for the better.
I'm just too happy MK is the only console focused title I care for. My other fav. games are mostly PC exclusives (Thief 1,2,3, Baldur's, Torment, Vampire the Masquerade Redemption/Bloodlines, Pillars of Eternity, Neverwinter Nights etc. etc.). Tough exclusives are bad, I agree. Should Vampire be released on consoles, we might have third game of the series. Don't devs lose funds if their product is restricted to one platform only?

On the topic: this patch is a big mess. Nobody knows who now supports PC port. Is it Q-loc, HVS still, what is this WB testing? We want some answers goddamnit!

 

[podizzler3000]

A little Kobu Jutsu Jason to start things off since we all want tanya to have a taste of her own medicine.

sorry about the skipping i had too much shit running in bg apparently.

any requests? i was thinking maybe commando dvorah

 

[Atriox]

Fabulous. As. Fuck.

 

[Bildslash]

Love the mask!

 

[podizzler3000]

Dvorah & Kano Swap

 

[Hini]

Really surprised how well the different animations translated to completely new rigs and meshes.

 

[Juxtapose]

So, I'm sure all of you know about the fiasco that was the PC launch of Batman: Arkham Knight. Sources are coming out saying Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment knew about the state of the PC version of the game, and chose to release it anyway because "they believed it was good enough."

This shouldn't be surprising to anyone, seeing as how Mortal Kombat X was and is being handled by the exact same publisher.

For months now I've been saying that at the end of the day, it's not High Voltage Software's fault, or NetherRealm Studios fault, for the state of Mortal Kombat X (PC), but rather Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment because they're the primary decision makers here; there's no way they couldn't have known the state of the game prior to launch, and simply did it anyway.

Batman: Arkham Knight is a bigger launch than Mortal Kombat X, and WBIE messed that up royally as well because they thought they could get away with it, just like they did with Mortal Kombat X. At least with Steam Refunds now, people were able to take a proper stand this time.

Shame Steam Refunds weren't available at the time of Mortal Kombat X's launch.

 

[Immortal]

So, I'm sure all of you know about the fiasco that was the PC launch of Batman: Arkham Knight. Sources are coming out saying Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment knew about the state of the PC version of the game, and chose to release it anyway because "they believed it was good enough."

This shouldn't be surprising to anyone, seeing as how Mortal Kombat X was and is being handled by the exact same publisher.

For months now I've been saying that at the end of the day, it's not High Voltage Software's fault, or NetherRealm Studios fault, for the state of Mortal Kombat X (PC), but rather Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment because they're the primary decision makers here; there's no way they couldn't have known the state of the game prior to launch, and simply did it anyway.

Batman: Arkham Knight is a bigger launch than Mortal Kombat X, and WBIE messed that up royally as well because they thought they could get away with it, just like they did with Mortal Kombat X. At least with Steam Refunds now, people were able to take a proper stand this time.

Shame Steam Refunds weren't available at the time of Mortal Kombat X's launch.

Don't worry, IGAU 2 and MK XI gonna be probably the same shit on PC like MK X and Batman. They just don't care. Well they maybe care a little now since the new Steam refund system but thats only because they have no say about it.

 

[buyacushun]

So, I'm sure all of you know about the fiasco that was the PC launch of Batman: Arkham Knight. Sources are coming out saying Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment knew about the state of the PC version of the game, and chose to release it anyway because "they believed it was good enough."

This shouldn't be surprising to anyone, seeing as how Mortal Kombat X was and is being handled by the exact same publisher.

For months now I've been saying that at the end of the day, it's not High Voltage Software's fault, or NetherRealm Studios fault, for the state of Mortal Kombat X (PC), but rather Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment because they're the primary decision makers here; there's no way they couldn't have known the state of the game prior to launch, and simply did it anyway.

Batman: Arkham Knight is a bigger launch than Mortal Kombat X, and WBIE messed that up royally as well because they thought they could get away with it, just like they did with Mortal Kombat X. At least with Steam Refunds now, people were able to take a proper stand this time.

Shame Steam Refunds weren't available at the time of Mortal Kombat X's launch.

If steam refunds were a thing when MKx came out I would love to see that stats on that. I'm sure it would've been almost 100% refund rate with how bad launch was and the game still is. It'd be kinda funny to know they lost all that money and they never bring up how bad it was yet they would have to try and promote fixing it so people would buy it.

 

[RVB]

Any news on that QLOC taking over from HVS thing or was it just a rumor ?