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Its a really fun concept. It requires actual strategy too since you can't have duplicates. Do you put your main as your numerous pawns, or as your final line of defense? I think it could be really dope if it came back
Its a really fun concept. It requires actual strategy too since you can't have duplicates. Do you put your main as your numerous pawns, or as your final line of defense? I think it could be really dope if it came back
The different pieces also had different health bars from what I remember too. Seeing, like, an 8-man invitational Chess Kombat tournament would be great. lol
You could also place exploding hidden traps that instantly took one piece out if the enemy stepped on it, you could swap your pieces with the position of another from the adversary, you could freeze an enemy piece for one round, etc etc etc. There were lots of "spells" and nuances to the game, while being easy to understand and fun.
Bomberman confirmed as a guest character.
IDK if we have a Ed Boon watch thread but, what are we thinking y'all? 12 hours, 12 days? April 12th?
April 12th, I didn't put that together but holy crap that has a strong case. April is always a big month for NRS. They've released every single one of their games in April, going all the way back to MK9.
IDK if we have a Ed Boon watch thread but, what are we thinking y'all? 12 hours, 12 days? April 12th?
IDK if we have a Ed Boon watch thread but, what are we thinking y'all? 12 hours, 12 days? April 12th?
April 12th is WB HBO Max event. Maybe it isnt only Streaming stuff after all.
...except there are 3 rows. There are 4 columns though...it seems like April 12th indeed .... 4 rows , with 12 words tick, Ed made easy to get the clue ..... so .....
The chess part was, but it regularly forced you into fights and the game's fighting mechanics were pretty bad, so no, it wasn't fun.
So were MK11's, and yet many (maybe most people, arguably) had lots of fun with it. Yet, MK11 only had the vs mode and that grind-fest of towers of time with 765 poison missiles everywhere on screen. So, yes, Chess Kombat should return and it would be light-years ahead in terms of fun alternative modes than what MK11 had to offer.
Tried to get into it in Deception one night but I remember it just taking too long
Not in nearly the same way, and most people had lots of fun with it because it was significantly better gameplay than the 3D era.
I loved it and it got me to try multiple different character and strategize more effectively. Characters had different health pools too so you'd have like your pawns with lower health than your queen or knight(different names like sorcerer was one of I recall). I would gladly play it again in a new game....it would probably be phenomenal now.
Yeah, except we didnt have MK11 to compare to MKD's mechanics back then, so not sure what your argument is?
You could also not use offensive/defensive spells if your offensive/defensive sorcerer was killed! I thought that was very neat.
I didn't enjoy the 3D era gameplay at all because it was blatantly klunky and bad. You're the one who's comparing it to Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate's gameplay, and the core gameplay, while having it's own flaws, is leaps and bounds superior to that of the 3D era.
The Gauntlet, or Towers of Time in general? The Gauntlet was not fun, thus why I've not played through it. Regular Towers of Time are fine (they weren't at launch but were adjusted).
To this day MK still gets the complaint that it feels clunky. And there's been whole dissection vids on the animation of nrs games bringing more attention to it. It just feels ingrained in MK identity. You may not agree, but it gets spouted by more people. Yes it's more polished than before, but it's still a common criticism of nrs. I get not vibing with an era of a franchise (this is era I haven't been vibing with) but to make it seem like it was so egregiously offensive when they still get the same complaints decades later just seems too nitpicky lol
