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jamessmk

jamessmk

I am your god
The game is an absolute rush job. They did no even use the best roms to emulate. For what reason would they do this other than to get a quick buck. This was supposed to be a 20yr blowup. Instead it aint worth a blow job. Whoever rates this game above a 4.0 is on the take from WB for advertising money or just a clueless baboo who should seek employment maybe a a cheap hooker..

For Boon and company to even let this go out the door, they should be ashamed. Where is online play, some MK goodies of the past, some fluff and all the stuff that make the games great. Dam I would have bought a disk for 30.00

Well it don't matter, because even if they patch stuff it is not enough, they still dropped the ball AGAIN!! As an X-employee of Acclaim.... I knew a lot about dropping the ball on titles. It was always a corporate decision to let crap go out the door.

But, hey I am sure WB made a couple of dollars. Fix the game you crooks!!!!

PS. I will not run down a list of the 10,000 things wrong with the game, I am not in the developement side no longer, nor could they pay my salary. That is why they hire people to make sure the game is GOOD/RIGHT. Fire them
 
ssub-zzero

ssub-zzero

MortalKombatEU
mk2 with the xbox i beat khan twice with liu kang, no Gamerscore , i tried a third time with baraka, and i get it, on ps3 all throphies works fine.

another mk ak player told me that he has the same problem but he uses kitana twice, no Gamerscore on xbox.
 
9.95

9.95

Champion
I'm not looking to beat a dead horse, but after reading this article

http://myeg.net/team/3rd-strike-online-edition-interview-floe/

I feel the need to bring this to light. I have said it before and I'm going to say this again. The biggest reason that I'm disappointed in MKAK is because, in my opinion, it's such a wasted opportunity to do so much more with the classic games than they did.

Let me point out a specific quote that really hit home in the above article to make my point clearer:

floe said:
I ended up staying for 4 to 5 months to help implement features of the game, provide input as a member of the community, and ensure arcade-perfect accuracy of the port.
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Floe(a very well known high level SF player and 3s player) spent 4-5 months helping to ensure the accuracy of 3sOE plus provide ideas for additional content to make it even better. That's absolute dedication from Capcom toward its fans. 3sOE is really such a great fan-service game, in that, it's more than just a straight port of the game. Trials, tutorials, different modes, specific attention given to outstanding netplay via GGPO, etc. were all added to make 3sOE worth every penny for the consumer, and to say thank you to the fans for their appreciation. Total reciprocation from Capcom to their fans.

The reason MKAK is such a wasted opportunity because it comes as such a barebones package, with the games being less than arcade perfect, glitchy/buggy menus, and seemingly no real attention or care given to ensure that the online would be nothing less than an outstanding experience.

NRS/Other Ocean, if/when you read this and before you patch the game, please consider the following:

-Please test/debug the menu system and make it function properly.

-If the games are emulated, please tweak the emulation so that there is no frame skip/drop and the games play and function properly

-If the games are NOT emulated, please make sure the ports are tested properly for accuracy.

-Please consider asking members of the MK Community to help with Quality Assurance before this game is patched. Below are the best(to my knowledge) community members who are experts at specific games.
--Ask Shock, Lex, and Moe to test UMK3
--Ask Zaq, Konqrr, and Summoning to test MK2
--Ask The Soultaker, Dreadish, and JamessMK to test MK1

-Please add additional content to the game; There is room for so much more than just a barebones package, as we see with the 3sOE game.
--Talk to the above mentioned players to come up with tutorials, trials, combo trials, etc. so that new players and older players have a chance to learn the game and try some of the more advanced tactics and combos in a trial modes for each game.
--Look into some of the existing archived footage from tournaments and re-create combo scenarios to let the player experience those moments for themselves.

-PLEASE consider using some version of rollback netplay. This has become standard these days. GGPO uses it to really create outstanding connections between players and gives the best online experience, and is the best way to get close to an offline connection as possible

-Please penalize rage quitters with loss of rank points.


There may be more that I'd like to add to this, but this is where I will leave it for now. There is so much room to improve here and make MKAK the definitive kollection we have all waited for.
 
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infinityBCRT

Noob
I don't know... at this point I just would call MKAK a write off (at the very least patch online play) and then just hope they deliver a complete MK Kollection retail release with MK1-4+Mythologies which includes tons of bonuses like all of the arcade revisions ever released in an arcade perfect format, plus a new revision created for each game which fixes small glitches left over from the arcade versions, adds some small additions from home versions (like Rain/Noob in UMK3, 4v4 mode from MK2 SNES, MKG characters, etc), and gives the option to enable/disable HD graphics & remasted audio. Also would like to see lobby matches & quick tournaments; and perhaps an online "Arcade" mode where you start playing single player and random people can come and challenge you to games. And I'd also like to see a Krypt packed to the brim with extras that we haven't seen before plus anything pertaining to MK1-4 that was previously included in previous games' Krypts.

And they should do a similar MK 5-8+Shaolin Monks kollection. But I know Boon doesn't really care about older games so theres a fat chance of this happening unless someone who is really passionate about MK starts working at NRS and is able to sell the higher ups on a project like this.

By the way, one audio glitch I was able to confirm today is that theres music gaps in the MKAK version of MK2 (basically the parts where the music is "stitched together"/looped) whereas in MAME theres absolutely no gaps.
 
aj1701

aj1701

Champion
infinityBCRT said:
By the way, one audio glitch I was able to confirm today is that theres music gaps in the MKAK version of MK2 (basically the parts where the music is "stitched together"/looped) whereas in MAME theres absolutely no gaps.
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Xbox of PS3? I haven't noticed anything like that on the PS3.
 
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infinityBCRT

Noob
aj1701 said:
Xbox of PS3? I haven't noticed anything like that on the PS3.
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Xbox 360 version but I would be surprised if its not in the PS3 version. Its something thats immediately obvious but once you hear it, you can't unhear it. Just use some headphones and sit at the select screen or start a 2 player game on mame and then compare it to MKAK and you should notice that theres breaks in the music. Small breaks, but there are there and any audiophile would notice it.
 
NinjaGrinder

NinjaGrinder

A living, Breathing Piece of Defecating Meat
They're not going to just go and copycat 3s OE, come on...

They just have to show some respect to the players, and make the game arcade perfect in every sense and implement good online experience.

And I think Paulo would/could test UMK3 fairly good, since he was a top player himself back in the day. And he works there!! what does this teach us? he and several others weren't involved much in this so-called collection. They just delegated this important work (to recreate the loved classic games properly) to the wrong people. Yeah, MK9 this, MK9 that, you're all so busy patching and teaking MK9 but, come on now, we deserved better.
 
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infinityBCRT

Noob
NinjaGrinder said:
They're not going to just go and copycat 3s OE, come on...

They just have to show some respect to the players, and make the game arcade perfect in every sense and implement good online experience.

And I think Paulo would/could test UMK3 fairly good, since he was a top player himself back in the day. And he works there!! what does this teach us? he and several others weren't involved much in this so-called collection. They just delegated this important work (to recreate the loved classic games properly) to the wrong people. Yeah, MK9 this, MK9 that, you're all so busy patching and teaking MK9 but, come on now, we deserved better.
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To me thats a massive mistake. If they are passionate about this project, they should be doing it in house. And guys like Paulo should be demanding quality from it. They need to be the keepers of this franchise.
 
jamessmk

jamessmk

I am your god
infinityBCRT said:
To me thats a massive mistake. If they are passionate about this project, they should be doing it in house. And guys like Paulo should be demanding quality from it. They need to be the keepers of this franchise.
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Unfortunately, big conglomerate companies like WB are not as concerned for quality as the smaller NRS studio is. While it is certainly an issue they are addressing, from my experience do not expect the heavens to part and birds to sing with the new patch. It will more likely address issues deemed as major bugs IE:Net play and crashes, offline lags. It is what it is
 
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infinityBCRT

Noob
jamessmk said:
Unfortunately, big conglomerate companies like WB are not as concerned for quality as the smaller NRS studio is. While it is certainly an issue they are addressing, from my experience do not expect the heavens to part and birds to sing with the new patch. It will more likely address issues deemed as major bugs IE:Net play and crashes, offline lags. It is what it is
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I'm not expecting the patch too do much, but going forward NRS should tell WB that they want to keep all MK development internal including mobile versions of games (UMK3 iPhone was atrocious). I've gotta think if Boon tells WB that he wants this, they'd listen. From the outside looking in I just think Boon doesn't care about preserving these games. Hes just too close to the development of them that he can't see that they are so widely loved and that people want high quality ports of the old games.
 
CrashLand

CrashLand

Ready for Freddy
shano said:
Any news on the patch?

Still waiting for them to fix the game so i can buy it lol.
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Unless they patch in GGPO and the old sound effects, no sale for me. This stupid thing killed off any chance of a decent MK1-3 release until probably the next generation of consoles, at the soonest... it's almost worse than nothing.
 
shano

shano

Noob
ZAQ said:
That's not entirely true because these games were developed years ago and have had different companies dev the online play. All online play is, is code that allows you to do the same thing on your console as the person you are connected with over a network.
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Yes i know all that but what i was trying to say is developers decide on the netcode they are gonna use at the start of development of the game.

No way are they going to patch a new netcode in they will only tweak the current netcode if it's bad.
 
BustaUppa

BustaUppa

Westbury Nathan's 4 Life
Yeah GGPO is asking a bit much as far as this current release is concerned. It's more realistic to just hope for something at least as good as the 2006 UMK3.
 
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J-Bar-C

Noob
Well it's been a month now, is this thing ever going to get fixed?
While they're at it might as well throw in Custom Soundtracks for the Ps3, that would be sweet!
 
BigWillie54

BigWillie54

Noob
Not getting the "the chosen one" achievement even though i beat all 3 games and have the achievements for all 3. Replayed the first 2 games, no achievement.
 
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m_kagan

Noob
just bought this because i wanted to learn UMK3, never played mk before.
but theres no...training...mode.... :invisible:

how am i supposed to learn how to combo when the computer is cheap as fuck and just owns me haha
 
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