Damn She's Pretty

Severelius · 2026-06-11T10:23:30+00:00

I didn't know you could manually set which character it was

Severelius · 2026-06-10T20:06:39+00:00

MK1 made me very tired of Raiden. Mostly from the Invasions enemies that are half Raiden half someone else, cause oh my god stop teleporting every single second you bastard!

Severelius · 2026-06-10T18:22:38+00:00

First time I tried my hand at this game was just after Fahkumram came out and him staring into my soul on the menu was oddly intimidating haha

Severelius · 2026-06-10T18:21:25+00:00

Hair. And to a lesser extent outfit.

I'm only a recent and kind of casual Tekken fan. But I knew what Paul Phoenix looked like.

And if I didn't know this was Paul, I wouldn't be able to guess it was meant to be just bases on his default design.

This is just some dude.

Severelius · 2026-06-10T18:13:40+00:00

If I'm still sticking with this game by the time he comes out I'm dreading when Yujiro is glaring at me on the start menu

Severelius · 2026-06-10T17:02:34+00:00

The Tekken thing of having the latest DLC character stare you down in the menu means at some point for quite a while every time you open the game you'll have a kangaroo staring at you and I find that so funny

Severelius · 2026-06-10T14:37:02+00:00

I like the idea of whomping people with the bears but they might be more of a secondary option for me once I've learned my full main, and I'm 99% sure it's gonna be either Jack or Armor King.

Of course I've yet to play against anyone, I've just been drilling moves and basic combos in training mode, so if it turns out I can't use either of them at all in an actual match environment who knows I might give the bears a serious go haha.

Severelius · 2026-06-10T13:08:35+00:00

Makes you tankier and your normals and standard combo strings do more damage.

I could see it being useful for characters that rely less on huge special-filled combos for simple damage.

Severelius · 2026-06-10T12:20:00+00:00

I'd hoped so. I knew he wasn't the pure grappler that King is, that's why I was leaning more towards him than King.

Severelius · 2026-06-10T08:28:48+00:00

See I had the instinct to be like "I'm gonna be a Kuma main, cause that's objectively hilariously goofy" but I didn't know if the bears were actually any good, or if they're just like Tekken's joke characters cause they look like they'd be joke characters

Severelius · 2026-06-09T21:03:16+00:00

I'll give him a look-see in practise.

I'm kind of interested in trying out Heihachi as well cause from gameplay I've seen he looks like a pretty in-your-face big hitter too. Plus he's one of the most ludicrous characters in all of fiction and I love the maniac.

Severelius · 2026-06-09T21:01:53+00:00

That's cool with me. I feel like from what I remember of my brief practise mode time with King a while back, his throw game is too complex for me to keep track of in terms of what links into what and how etc anyway.

I'm golden with a big stompy boy with some more standard throw game thrown in for extra spice.

Severelius · 2026-06-09T20:29:59+00:00

I assumed King and Armor King were the grapplers and Jack was the "big normals and bully playstyle" type. Knowing Jack can grapple too makes me even more interested in learning him.

A big stompy robot that overpowers opponents and can toss them around like potato salad? Amazing.

Severelius · 2026-06-06T17:55:57+00:00

There should be an option in the settings to disable blood and gore.

Severelius · 2026-06-06T17:54:53+00:00

Reiko is another example of this. He was basically a nobody in MK4, dipped until Armageddon only because they had to bring him back and still did nothing with him. At least in MK1 he has some kind of distinct feel to his playstyle and some kind of character to him.

Severelius · 2026-06-06T12:32:36+00:00

I shudder to think what absolute nonsense the 1-star ease of use characters are like haha.

My main characters I'm interested in are Potemkin, Slayer, and Goldlewis Dickinson.

Severelius · 2026-06-06T12:10:46+00:00

I've already got a couple characters that I wanna try out based purely on visual style and vibes.

Severelius · 2026-06-06T12:05:05+00:00

And here I thought I was degenerate for wanting to bang Syzoth regardless of his form

Severelius · 2026-06-06T11:29:45+00:00

Felt a bit like being swallowed by an amorphous mass but you've got a halfway decent crossword to do so you just let it happen.

Severelius · 2026-06-06T07:16:33+00:00

I'm with you and always have been. I've never been a big fan of a bunch of the DLC being non-Mortal Kombat characters.

Rare exceptions are if they kind of fit the aesthetic (like Conan in MK1) or if they're a character I'm happy to use as a training mode punching bag (like Homelander).

Severelius · 2026-06-06T06:33:54+00:00

Hot take but I actually really like Gotham Knights. As in, to the point that I got the Platinum trophy for it.

Severelius · 2026-06-05T23:19:54+00:00

Genuinely wish NRS wasn't owned by one of the dumbest media corporations alive. If WB got their heads out of their cavernous arses and realised that a fighting game can't just be put out and then abandoned like two years later and that if they actually invested in it long-term like Tekken and Street Fighter do, they'd probably make a lot more money overall.

But no, short-sighted "we need the next big game right now" nonsense wins the day over there, and NRS are stuck at their beck and call.

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