Lt. Boxy Angelman
I WILL EAT THIS GAME
I could not have previously fathomed how addictive and insane the KP2 roster would be.
Even in the world of NRS based DLC madness we've come to expect...this batch of characters, coupled with the major overall changes to the game's mechanics and the improvements in the netcode, have resulted in what I can only describe as THE most fun I have had playing MKX since it dropped, and it isn't even a fair contest.
Even at the height of my Tremor fever, it's felt like an uphill battle ever since the start. There was no pizazz, no extra cheese on the pizza, an intangible variable missing from the puzzle. It wasn't nearly as much fun as breaking into Injustice after MK9 was.
But now...holy shit.
It's like someone dumped a barrel of LSD into the MK water supply, because now the meta has become pure unadulterated chaos.
Not only have the normalizations and buffs across the board taken the former top tier down a peg and reshuffled the decks of the original roster (case and point, Jason goes up VS Tremor goes down, etc.), but we have seen introduced builds in these 4 characters the likes of which no fighting game can boast ever having produced.
Bo Rai Cho, for all his flatulence, is IMO as perfect an incarnation of the drunken master as Liu Kang is an incarnation of MK's interpretation of the old king fu movie warrior. They nailed it. And made him a delusional pain in the ass to boot.
Alien is an absolute nightmare. Tarkatan does a better job of being Baraka than Baraka ever did, Konjurer is unique as all hell, and someone needs to call the doctor about Acidic because this variation and its tick damage is seriously effed up.
Triborg is a monumental cybernetic rebirth. Sektor is an addiction in and of himself; Smoke, a perfectly blended mix of his human and robot incarnations past; and I find it ironic that as opposed to MK9, Cyrax is now the most technical to win with while Cyber Sub-Zero is completely psychotic by design.
And Leatherface...my friggin' heavens above and hells below, I have never experienced homicidal kombative satiafaction quite as visceral or on point as I have behind the motor of the chainsaw. if there were an MVP award to be designated for the most absurdly enjoyable character design in the game, Leatherface would win three times over.
Of course, you could make the case that it's a terrible look in the long run to have the new wave of DLC almost completely invalidate the roster simply on merit of accessibility and bloodshed alone.
but then again...maybe that's the point. maybe this is how NRS draws the line between casual and competitive simply to challenge the will and raise the passions of the competition, as if to say "okay, Takeda or Sub-Zero or Reptile or Mileena players, let's see what happens when the entire field is upheaved..." do you take the side of the new arrivals and mow the competition down, or do you stick to the guns you've already drawn and get even better at what you do?
All I know is...robots and leather make for a hell of a combination.
I welcome the changing of the guard, and accept that I am going to have to get way the hell better in order to stand a chance against the rest of the world now.
Even in the world of NRS based DLC madness we've come to expect...this batch of characters, coupled with the major overall changes to the game's mechanics and the improvements in the netcode, have resulted in what I can only describe as THE most fun I have had playing MKX since it dropped, and it isn't even a fair contest.
Even at the height of my Tremor fever, it's felt like an uphill battle ever since the start. There was no pizazz, no extra cheese on the pizza, an intangible variable missing from the puzzle. It wasn't nearly as much fun as breaking into Injustice after MK9 was.
But now...holy shit.
It's like someone dumped a barrel of LSD into the MK water supply, because now the meta has become pure unadulterated chaos.
Not only have the normalizations and buffs across the board taken the former top tier down a peg and reshuffled the decks of the original roster (case and point, Jason goes up VS Tremor goes down, etc.), but we have seen introduced builds in these 4 characters the likes of which no fighting game can boast ever having produced.
Bo Rai Cho, for all his flatulence, is IMO as perfect an incarnation of the drunken master as Liu Kang is an incarnation of MK's interpretation of the old king fu movie warrior. They nailed it. And made him a delusional pain in the ass to boot.
Alien is an absolute nightmare. Tarkatan does a better job of being Baraka than Baraka ever did, Konjurer is unique as all hell, and someone needs to call the doctor about Acidic because this variation and its tick damage is seriously effed up.
Triborg is a monumental cybernetic rebirth. Sektor is an addiction in and of himself; Smoke, a perfectly blended mix of his human and robot incarnations past; and I find it ironic that as opposed to MK9, Cyrax is now the most technical to win with while Cyber Sub-Zero is completely psychotic by design.
And Leatherface...my friggin' heavens above and hells below, I have never experienced homicidal kombative satiafaction quite as visceral or on point as I have behind the motor of the chainsaw. if there were an MVP award to be designated for the most absurdly enjoyable character design in the game, Leatherface would win three times over.
Of course, you could make the case that it's a terrible look in the long run to have the new wave of DLC almost completely invalidate the roster simply on merit of accessibility and bloodshed alone.
but then again...maybe that's the point. maybe this is how NRS draws the line between casual and competitive simply to challenge the will and raise the passions of the competition, as if to say "okay, Takeda or Sub-Zero or Reptile or Mileena players, let's see what happens when the entire field is upheaved..." do you take the side of the new arrivals and mow the competition down, or do you stick to the guns you've already drawn and get even better at what you do?
All I know is...robots and leather make for a hell of a combination.
I welcome the changing of the guard, and accept that I am going to have to get way the hell better in order to stand a chance against the rest of the world now.
