[General Discussion] Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat

KoF. Lol, KoF owns both.

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lol there's always one... not that I have anything against kof I mean look who I have for an avatar Terry frecking Bogard! Should we add kof to the poll now due to Taegueki's flawless 5 word arguement?

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Street Fighter. Don't get me wrong, MK is good, I enjoy it. But SF for me is the better one in terms (as Skex said) "fluidity". And it has the best 2D fighting games out there. 2D fighting games is win.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Personally, I got more hooked on Street Fighter than with Mortal Kombat. It might be in part that my parents wouldn't let me play MK because of the blood and gore, and that street fighter was more cartoony and ok...

I got especially hooked on Street Fighter II Turbo for SNES. It was a fun game to play. I never got hooked to MK when I started playing it. One of my friends however, loved it to pieces.

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the mortal kombat gameplay is crappy as hell. and they make very stupid chars like zombie liu kang. how the hell can a zombie fights and say waachaaa woooooo!?!? the endings suks! the only thing good so far is the konquest mode. which means streetfigher tops it completly. if capcom makes another streetfighter game it'll flush mortal kombat down the drain

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another thing mk have too many clones. first start sub-zero and young bro sub zero. then sub zero and noob saibot. then scorpion and rain. then rain and ermac. then kitana and mileena. mileena and jade. then jade and tanya. then sub zero and frost. then smoke and human smoke. then smoke and cyrax. then cyrax and sektor. and plus another crappy zombie char havik. he is the most retard creation ever. his neck break move dont even hurt the opponent. then his fatality. he rips his own head off. and scares the opponent to death. wtf is that! plus the bosses are easy as hell. come on onaga and blaze. they are crap. all u have to do is do a branching combo which are easy and their health goes half way down. sure its fun some times but u dont get addicted. mk need to stop worrying about graphics and work on their gameplay and storylines.

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I found the original Mortal Kombat to be slow,annoying, and repetitive. None of the moves flowed the way may thumbs wished they did. The thing I found most annoying was the fact that you held back to trip instead of down. That's about as absurd as an uppercut doing more damage than a fireball to the nuts or being pulled by a rope attached to a knife that's embedded in your chest.

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- You had to press a button to block in MK, which didn't work effectively.
- MK's A.I was rigged, just look at Kabal in MK3 onwards.
- Uppercutting barely worked, because people the cpu would always mysteriously counter.
- Nobody knew how to do fatalies because gamefaqs didn't exist.
- MK4's fatalities were pathetic.
- MK progressively became worse in 3D. DA's fatalities were also lame (Quan Chi's "neck stretch")
- The story of MK contradicts itself. Characters die, and are magically in their sequels (Liu Kang, Sub Zero)

I've spent a huge amount of time with MK, and I didn't enjoy it. Takling about 50 or so hours across 1, 2, 3, 4, and DA. Mostly 1 trying to defeat the ridiculous 1v2 battles and Goro. Sure, it was addictive, but it isn't what the hype in the mid 90's is worth. It's media attention was only brought on by violence, and that's it. There was next to no blood in Street Fighter and it managed to compete side by side.

Also, KoF would come into it had there of been a proper version on the consoles (Megadrive and SNES) but it just didn't exist, and it was too late anyway.

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In my mind, Street Fighter 2 is always going to be the classic 2D fighter; it’s branching evolution into the Alpha/Zero and crossover series helping to further enhance the reputation of the franchise.

Hype around MK centered around the blood, the fatalities (Finish him!) and the secret characters etc. Early on, ideas like endurance round, and mirror matches (originally lacking in SF2) helped to differentiate the series. My personal beef with the series was having to use a specific button for block –it was just something I never got used to. For me, MK II was probably the highlight of the series: the digitized graphics were revolutionary for the time, but it hasn’t aged well. While it had some original characters (Shang Tsung), and some signature moves (Scorpion, SubZero) were totally different from anything SF2 offered, most of it is forgettable.

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I voted Mortal Kombat, but I'm not really sure why seeing as I haven't actually come up with a real decision yet.

Street Fighter was(is?) great because it's remained mostly basic over the years, but it changes enough to keep you interested. Except for the 3-D one(s?), which I really didn't enjoy.

I think I do like Mortal Kombat more though, because it is much more in depth. Combos, weapons, fatalities, all that good stuff. Being a kid, that was way more fun than just depleting someones life bar, you know?

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Street Fighter was(is?) great because it's remained mostly basic over the years...

I think I do like Mortal Kombat more though, because it is much more in depth. Combos, weapons, fatalities, all that good stuff.

Wow. Sad to see comments like this that illustrate how totally clueless most gamers these days are about fighting games.

First off, Street Fighter II fucking INVENTED the "combo," due to an unforseen glitch that allowed players to cancel the animation of attacks into other moves. So I really don't see how you can list "combos" as an advantage of MK over SF.

Second, how the fuck do cheap gimmicks like fatalities and weapons give a fighting game DEPTH? If you want depth, try playing Virtua Fighter. There's a reason you don't see MK being played in serious tournaments anywhere these days.

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I have to give the nod to StreetFighter... something about the game feels more polished than Mortal Kombat. Don't get me wrong, I loved MK back in the day, but I think Street Fighter has the edge over it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Street Fighter, with Mortal Kombat very close behind.

I love MK Deception's Konquest mode. I've yet to play MK armageddon.

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Wheres the love for Tekken??? What about SNK???

Well either way I voted for Street Fighter. To me Mortal Combat has become progressively worse as the days go on, but Street Fighter, or any other Capcom fighter has become progressively better as time goes on. BRING BACK PROJECT JUSTICE!!!!

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