The Mileena combos just look over the top stupid. Way too many TP kick, sais. ugh. Just dont like the way it looks. Now the way it plays could be different.
But the thing is, and i know im not the only one around who thinks like this, but i just dont have a lot of faith in NRS to give us a good, polished new MK game. I want it to be great, but i dont expect it to be
I think what you, and a lot of other people are missing, is the fact that these combo videos are done on incomplete builds (balancing won't be completed until sometime in March at the earliest) and performed by novice players. What we're seeing are the flashy combos that the dev team and QA team have come up with. But if you look at any pre-release developer videos for any fighting game, you'll see that the combos/gameplay are nothing like what you'd see in high level play after the game has been released.
As someone else already pointed out, there are several combos that we've seen (in this vid and others) that use a huge amount of meter. Unless it's the last round and you're killing the opponent, wasting that much meter for one combo isn't very smart. So you won't see a lot of those combos in high-level play.
I haven't enjoyed MK much since UMK3, but I have faith in this game. I've interviewed Boon multiple times in the past about previous MK titles, but his words have never given me hope that MK would return to its past glory. Just listening to the devs talk about MK9, there's a very clear difference. They have more time to tweak the game, and they're more focused on a tournament capable game. They want to see MK9 at Evo, MLG, WCG, etc. and they know what needs to be done to get it there.
My only concern is with this open combo system, there's plenty of room to find 100% combos. The devs have already stated that resets are in the game. Luckily, the devs have an easy way to patch, so as long as they stay true to their word, we'll see patches to fix any glaring balancing issues.
I'm with you. For right now, I'm looking forward to the much more in the way of free-form combat that this game seems to offer.
I guess my thing is, it's nice to see these pretty kombo vids, but I would like to see more in the way of an "actual match". A pity that it seems we'll have to wait until PAX for the next opportunity that this game will be playable by the public.
I'm not really interested in anything out of PAX. The build will be old and the players will either be novices or won't have a solid grasp of the gameplay. You can't really test frame data and things of that nature at PAX. My first day with this game is all I'm looking forward to. A few hours in practice mode will tell me all I need to know, and far more than anything coming out of PAX will.
Pleasant surprise to see not one, but TWO in a row. lmao 
Get on it Boon!
