MK2 too hard?

[Thought_Disorder]

Me and a group of my mates have been playing it (MKII) around the clock, but we continually seem to get bogged down by obviously OP AI. Nothing seems to help other than sheer luck of landing the final blow, which seems to be up to the the AI's discretion.
We have put the difficulty down to very-easy and have checked out Youtube for guidance but it is still too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ difficult. Most tactics observed simply don't work in this version.

[TomJ]

dis game sux

[Greedy.]

Hey man just finished it today morning..not that hard you have to learn the specials and when to do them since there are no combos...i find my self confortable with baraka good luck!

[ANGELFENRIZ]

I used to play these games fanatically in my youth and enjoyed them, well I picked up this the other day and they have done something to the A.I. it is not fun at all now the A.I. counters every move you make almost, even on easy. I did some research and apparently others have noticed this as well so it's not just you this version of the game has been tampered with in some form. I might pick up the old ps1 version of mk 3 just to see.

[Sabbat]

this works with most characters but for simple sake i'll say pick Scorpion and by the time you get to your 3rd opponent up the ladder, start doing this technique. just let the opponent start to walk up to you, when they are close to you high punch the air infront of their face a couple times and then jump kick backwards, the ai opponent should stop in their tracks, and then just jump at you, which leaves you to counter with something like High Punch them outta the air, teleport punch, spear, uppercut combo. do that twice and you'll win the match.

[GNU/LINUX]

hahaha, welcome to how games used to be. I've been playing this game since the BETAS WERE IN THE ARCADE (v 1) !!!! The original Mortal Kombats will make you a FIGHTING GAME GOD. I can count on my hands and toes how many times I've beat mk2 (it's freaking hard !). You play because you love the flow, not because you get some baby achievements like in new games. Mortal Kombat 1-2-3 are games for men. Keep playing and you'll notice that when you challenge your friends at one of these new baby fighting games you'll completely destroy them .

[KingSigy]

This isn't how games used to be. While the MK games weren't easy, this is borderline broken. The AI knows your moves before you do them. It's complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. There is no point in having special moves because they never land.

[کilversurfer♒]

Rofl my first experience with Mortal Kombat was on the psx, MK Trilogy if i'm not mistaken. So i bought this collection to experience the original trilogy.
Boy it took me about 20 rounds to beat Goro on MK1 and another 30 or so to beat Shang Tsung. While playing MK2 i barely manage to get through the first 2 combatants... Is the difficulty bugged or what? i tried to mess around with it but no luck..

[Thought_Disorder]

@Sabbat,
Did your tactic work for this version specifically?
@Silver Surfer and most others,
Yer same story with me.

[Thought_Disorder]

@arm_and_hammer,
I dont think developing strategies to beat obviously broken computer AI could possibly ramp up one's skill level in PvP fighting games.
BTW the computer is not only able to read commands and counter, they can also perform rapid move execution bypassing cool-down times.

[codo]

I've been thinking about doing a video for this, but really just crouch (mainly to avoid projectiles) and when they get close to you, jump back. if you time it right they will sometimes jump as well, opening up for a high kick or whichever counter you choose, but beware of doing this against liu and mileena with their air attacks. when you reach the wall, you can drop kick and they will just walk into it. also, for shao kahn, just keep walking towards him and high kicking him in the face. its not fool proof, but I'll say it works at least 80% of the time, I guess they never accounted for anyone trying such a strategy.

[codo]

okay I went ahead and did the video walkthrough, if you go to the videos tab on the community hub for this game and go to most recent, you will see it there. hope it helps

[Vyse]

Should be pointed out these games use ye olde arcade code rather than the easier console code. Console peons expected to see the ending screen more than a few times without any real difficulty (unless they ramped it up) while arcades needed to make money.

There was a way to beat MK2 stupidly easy with Sub Zero though. You just did ground freeze > uppercut > ground freeze where they land > uppercut > ???? > profit.

[Thought_Disorder]

@Codo- Thanks for the vid dude. I'll give ur strategy a spin on the weekend :)

[Meecrob]

Used to have MK2 on the SNES and it was challenging, but actually BEATABLE! This is impossible even on "very easy". No matter what I do, the AI counters it. Pressing down and high punch gets ME uppercutted every time as the AI magically speeds up and uppercuts me automatically. I'm lucky to get to the third guy. Also, not enough time to perform the fatality when you do manage to win.

There should be a setting for arcade impossible mode for those who enjoy getting destroyed and a mode that's beatable, like, for instance, a difficulty setting that makes a difference!

I should have read this thread before I bought this. Wasted money.

[Sleemo]

it was meant to take your money in the arcades its going to be hard lol just look up strats on youtube or something