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After 7 years of Rashid in SFV I gotta admit I still do an internal double take when he ships out a Ysaar at round start in SF6. 

A part of me still thinks "how did he get V bar so quick?"

8 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Hmmm, I'm curious when Ed will drop. Based on Rashid and A.K.I.'s release dates, he'd be dropping around now. Rashid dropped on 7/24 and A.K.I. on 9/27.

I wonder if we'll see any Ed at the Game Awards next week. Because with the whole "winter 2024" release window I'm still expecting January for his official release

Kimberly 's costume is my favorite. I love her hair

Idom just following the Sanford Kelly doctrine, can't blame him. Guess we'll see if it pays off

I see nothing wrong with that Marisa footage 

It  just feels right to see a new SF game in arcades

27 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Side note: NuckleDu put on one of the worst beat downs I saw in the entire tournament to get into to Top 8 losers. I'm surprised he wasn't arrested for what he did to Mizuha. It was that bad.

Wow that was brutal. Mizuha looked like he had never fought a Guile in his life before

I guess avatar item sets are a big draw for the casual crowd for SF6? I just find it wild we've had 3 or 4 sets drop since release but we still haven't seen the new costumes for the main cast

I kinda love seeing so much Kimberly in ECT so far

Uhh I get that protestors put on 'spectacles' like that to make people aware of real issues, but I feel like  a fighting game tournament isn't exactly the superbowl. I don't think a lot of people are gonna see your message.

Did Nemo put AKI in the bottom tier because she's only a week old and doesn't know where to place her or does he actually believe she's really bad?

I feel like she's got more going on for her than some of the other characters but that's just me

Dang it

I'm into her 😳

Thank god she's out next week 

I think it's obvious that someone HeavensCloud knows works at Capcom and give him the official confirmation 

If you main Marisa you're cool 🙂

1 hour ago, Dragonfave723 said:

A.K.I. Guide

Y'know, she obviously has some callbacks to what's his face with the poison and what not, but after watching this breakdown she kinda reminds me of Gen, at least how he played in SFIV. I think guys like Xian might actually like AKI.

And she certainly has a lot of cool tools. The poison Retribution is awesome but a strike invincible command grab to avoid corner shenanigans is nice. And the fact that she can get auto poison oki off Level 2 is nice too.

Not gonna lie I really hope this character ends up stupid good, she looks like a lot of fun.

I was looking for a blue checkmark to see if that Joey_FGC guy was just farming for reactions but nah, we really got homies saying SFV is more expressive than SF6.

And I'm a guy who liked SFV

Weird. My twitter and tiktok have been flooded with Baki memes for the past few weeks, now SF6 is having a Baki collab. It's probably a Capcom inside job 

Man after watching CPT East Asia top 8 from last weekend I actually almost ALMOST forgot Luke was good in this game. 

This move specifically is why he is the Pale Rider. It's Death

Hmmm I dunno if it was intentional but there is something homoerotic about Reiko that makes me want to use him. Honestly probably gonna end up my day 1 main since I'm still kinda disappointed with how Ashrah turned out.

Overall I think NRS kinda fumbled the bag with the MK1 hype train. With the 3 or so months from announcement to launch we got a lot of cool content and streams but the last week or so was radio silent. No more Kombat Kasts for a bunch of characters that were shown from the start. Like I'm pretty sure that footage of Mileena from the launch trailer was the most gameplay we've seen from her since the reveal. 

And Reiko got full on revealed during the launch trailer. Not a big deal since the game is out in days but just kinda weird

3 hours ago, ToreyBeans said:

So I’ve been more interested in MK1 than any other NetherRealm release. I’m curious about your opinions on the animations for the Kombatants. Since MK4, the series has had a significant amount of jank. This new one though is not as crispy as SF6  (think Ken’s free flowing Jinrai Axe Kick vs Johnny Cage’s stiff rising kick) but as a martial arts guy, overall I’m impressed by the animation quality and transition between moves. So yeah, what y’all think??

To be honest I think this is the best animated NRS game yet. There seems to be a lot less of those obvious looking mocapped animations (y'know, the ones that look like the characters are punching from inside a constrictive invisible box) and I think for the first time there are some animations that actually look really good!

One that came to mind is Sindel's fireball where she flips backwards while her hair flings a projectile forward using her backward momentum. I watched that part of the Sindel Kombat Kast a few times because it legitimately looked very cool. The characters just seem to transition better into different moves so it looks less jank. Obviously there are still some NRSisms still around but overall I think the animations as a whole have improved a lot.

3 minutes ago, BornWinner said:

Fox sounds much better as Nitara than Rousey was Sonya. The latter actually ruined the character in that game and the fact we had to hear her in the story was dreadful. 

I think the worst part is that they went from her obviously superior, gigachad voice actress in MKX (Tricia Helfer) to Rhonda just for the sake of pulling a celebrity. No offense to Rhonda but that's a big downgrade since Tricia was in the game for so long. 

27 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Everyone picked up on the "Jennifer's Body" movie reference but almost everyone missed the Mortal Kombat Conquest one. Kung Lao's love interest in MKC was also calle Jen.

Ahh that's a cool fact. Definitely went over my head I only really started paying attention to the MK games during MK9. 

I'm going to call Nitara in MK1 Jennifer's Body 2.

But I do really appreciate that Nitara looks pretty different amongst the other females in the game, for some reason all the other ladies are wearing bodysuits and that's kinda boring. And I'm pretty sure I saw her triangle jump wtf

I gotta say after watching World Warrior Japan top 8 I don't like how people stopped talking about Dee jay. Ken and JP are public enemy #1 and 2, sure, but Dee jay is just creeping around the corner, biding his time and that concerns me.

Rashid too. All the Rashid mains stopped posting tech on twitter about a week into his launch.  Now I know why, they were cooking cuz we got guys like Gachikun putting round start tornados on screen and putting people into Killer Instinct combos until they die.

47 minutes ago, AriesWarlock said:

I can fix her.

Find a girl that looks at you the way Aki looks at her victims moments before death

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 

She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her