Top 10 Reasons Mortal Kombat Deserves To Be As Big As Street Fighter

Major League Gaming will be host to the second Mortal Kombat tournament of the year this weekend in Raleigh. Some of the best players in the country will be in attendance to compete for $7,000 on the MLG stage. While Mortal Kombat has received positive acclaim from various outlets, most consider Street Fighter, Tekken, and now Marvel vs Capcom as the pinnacle of fighting game titles. Even so, Mortal Kombat deserves to be held in that same breath, and here’s why.

[StifflerK]

MK9 is an excellent game, the best of the series imo.

[zeeshan]

To me Mk is number 1

[Pozzle]

I'm surprised there are people who still think MK shouldn't be in tournaments because it's is a noob-friendly game that anybody can pick up and play. Sure, you can probably button mash your way through most of the story mode, but if you're up against a competitive player who knows all the special moves and combos, you won't have a hope in hell of winning. A fair bit of strategy is involved in defeating an opponent, tbh.

[Baka-akaB]

i think pretty much all you said and paraphrased , except it not deserving to get tournaments .

Noob friendly or not , if a game got a public for a tournament it will gets it period .

I'm just not interested at all by MK , because i prefer my fighting games to be more complex , and/or with tons more of hidden depths to it .

Just a matter of personal taste and feeling , not some definitive bible of what should be in a good fighting game

[LastDance]

I would say that Tekken is more noob friendly than MK...If you don't know combos in MK your boned, but Tekken to its credit has a combat system that flows even if you haven't memorised the combos - Great for cool looking fights, but I have seen a 9 year old best a 20 something player who's played tekken for years simply with some serious mashing

[Venoxn4g]

great game... best modern mortal kombat

[Kee]

Wait... It's not as big?

[Quagmire]

Street Fighter is overrated and overhyped.

Tekken and Mortal Kombat is where its at!

[meday354]

I'M A MK FAN, BUT IT WILL NEVER BE ON THE LEVEL THAT STREET FIGHTER IS ON. STREET FIGHTER IS A WAY OF LIFE, ITS A LIFE STYLE FOR SOME LIKE MY SELF. THA BEST MORTAL KOMBAT WAS 2 AND ULTIMATE AND TRILOGY 9 IS NOT THAT GOOD ITS OK NOT GREAT.

[ivanjp1882]

YAWWW!!!!

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

MK I feel deserves a honorable mention for GOTY. As it is a legend in its field and has rose back to glory after being stagnant for so many years!

It's nice to have MK back!

PS = People complain about the DLC prices and stuff, just imagine if this were at the arcade and not on consoles yet. You WOULD'VE been spending TONS on this game if it were like MK was back in its hayday. I remember with MK1-MK4 in the arcade days... by time I'd buy it for my Sega Genesis.... I'd easily be over $200 into the game, including my arcade time with the titles!

[maniacmayhem]

MK9 is definitely an much needed improved version of past titles. But it's not quite at SF level. They still need character tweaks and a much improved net code.

I wish KOF would get an overhaul the same way MK9 and SF4 did. The new KOF is good but it deserves better.

[zero_cool]

The mortal kombat series dose not have to be compared to other fighting games it's in a league of it's own!

[ivanjp1882]

UMK3 was is and will for ever be #1. but MK 2011 it rite there next to it. because ever since its release i just cannot stop playing MK 2011. i need more dlc though.