10-23-2003, 10:56 PM
Speaking of Mortal Kombat reminds me of something I've been noticing alot lately. Alot of fighting games anymore seem to be based largely on special moves. In order to get good at them and win you have to learn how to do the special moves and then mainly just use them. With mortal kombat it was more of a balanced thing. Often if somebody was using special moves too much you could switch to actually fighting and then win by not giving them any space or time to do things. (I beat a friend of mine not too long ago by doing this. Really pissed him off too hehe.) You actually had to be able to fight in both ways. Now I haven't played alot of the newer games that everyone loves, but some of the ones I have played seem to be of the type that you really have to focus on the special moves.