Story Mode sucks.

[Larry]

You get four fights per chapter/character which isn't enough time to get used to them.

One or two of your four fights are an enemy tag team against only you(Which pisses me off beyond reason).

You're never told how to do your special ability when you have a full energy gauge and it's not listed in the move lists but i'm pretty sure it has something to do with Left Bumper of Left Trigger while pressing Right Trigger or something.

Controls are too finiky even on a controller and there's no way to adjust the sensitivity of the controller which makes doing specific Kombos ridiculously hard to pull off.

I loved this game at first. The story was actually somewhat interesting for a fighter game and the way they worked the story around fights was done really well but the whole format is just wrong. You end up getting stuck with characters you hate playing with in double team situations, characters who can be completely different in every way to previous characters. It just becomes a pain in the ass.

[T3CHSK4T3R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlTOfl9F2w

[Ponii-chan]

I am not able to land a 5-hit combo with any character and I still managed to finish the story mode without any bigger problems (only on normal difficulty though). If I can do it without frustration then everyone can.

Story mode is also a great opportunity to try out chars whom you've never played before. Usually first fights of all chapters are pretty easy so you can get used to characters. You can check all combos/specials in the move list so it's not really that problematic.

There is also a tutorial mode and I believe that the game teaches you there how to do "your special ability when you have a full energy gauge" (by which, I assume, you mean X-ray), combos and all basic moves.

I agree with you when it comes to tag fights. They are a pain in the ass. Especially the fight against Quan Chi and Shang Tsung which was much more difficult for me than the next fight vs Shao Kahn . Scorpion vs Sektor and Cyrax was also painful because AI always knows when to block and when to spam teleport.

The story is great and I loved all cutscenes. Shao Kahn is a badass (despite the fact that he's also a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ when you fight him).

[K1W1 GuY]

@OP Go into Tutorial if you want to learn moves. You can't 'adjust sensitivity' because this isn't COD -combos are timing dependant, try them in practice mode instead, maybe you're pressing buttons too fast, too slow, in the wrong sequence....maybe even the wrong button combinations.

Seriously, this is one of the worst rants I've ever read.

[Larry]

Originally posted by Ponisher:

I am not able to land a 5-hit combo with any character and I still managed to finish the story mode without any bigger problems (only on normal difficulty though). If I can do it without frustration then everyone can.

Story mode is also a great opportunity to try out chars whom you've never played before. Usually first fights of all chapters are pretty easy so you can get used to characters. You can check all combos/specials in the move list so it's not really that problematic.

There is also a tutorial mode and I believe that the game teaches you there how to do "your special ability when you have a full energy gauge" (by which, I assume, you mean X-ray), combos and all basic moves.

I agree with you when it comes to tag fights. They are a pain in the ass. Especially the fight against Quan Chi and Shang Tsung which was much more difficult for me than the next fight vs Shao Kahn . Scorpion vs Sektor and Cyrax was also painful because AI always knows when to block and when to spam teleport.

The story is great and I loved all cutscenes. Shao Kahn is a badass (despite the fact that he's also a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ when you fight him).

Indeed. The problem is the game doesn't go from easy to gradually harder it goes from extremely easy, moderate, VERY HARD AND UNEVEN to extremely easy, moderate VERY HARD AND UNEVEN, rinse and repeat for as many chapters as the game has. It's just the most stupidest format i've ever come across. It makes the beginning of each chapter at first fun and enjoying to challenging enough to "OMFG*Throws controller at monitor*" and does this time and time again so that it's just not fun after the fifth chapter. It's repetitive and annoying.

[sherpa]

Regarding difficulty, as I understand it the games uses something similar to ELO: if you win a fight, the next one will increase in difficulty (excluding match-up factors). Conversly if you lose the next rematch will be lowered in difficulty.

[Evil1nside]

Originally posted by Dr.Larry:

You get four fights per chapter/character which isn't enough time to get used to them.

One or two of your four fights are an enemy tag team against only you(Which pisses me off beyond reason).

You're never told how to do your special ability when you have a full energy gauge and it's not listed in the move lists but i'm pretty sure it has something to do with Left Bumper of Left Trigger while pressing Right Trigger or something.

Controls are too finiky even on a controller and there's no way to adjust the sensitivity of the controller which makes doing specific Kombos ridiculously hard to pull off.

I loved this game at first. The story was actually somewhat interesting for a fighter game and the way they worked the story around fights was done really well but the whole format is just wrong. You end up getting stuck with characters you hate playing with in double team situations, characters who can be completely different in every way to previous characters. It just becomes a pain in the ♥♥♥.

It's not the story mode... You are the one who suck.
Do yuou even know what you want brah?
First you are saying that only 4 or so fights with some character are not enough to learn him, and then you say, oh but there are some character that I don't even want to play with.
Well... it's a STORY mode, an interesting one, not a arcade ladder, and you are not allow to chose noob-saibot and shadow spam all the way trough it, deal with it.

[slimebuck]

What I dislike the most of story mode is you do not get to play as any of the bad guy characters.

No Ermac, No Shang Tsung, no Baraka, No Sheeva, No Quan Chi, no Sektor, no Kano, no Jade, Sindel or Mileena, no NooB, no Reptile...


Pretty much every one of my favorite characters is on that list too...

I hope in MK 10 there is 2 story mode options. Earthrealm side, and Netherealm side...

[Fat Pigeon]

Originally posted by slimebuck:

No Ermac, No Shang Tsung, no Baraka, No Sheeva, No Quan Chi, no Sektor, no Kano, no Jade, Sindel or Mileena, no NooB, no Reptile...
.

In Chapter 10 (Mortal Kombat 2 Storyline) Jade is playable. :)

[banzaigtv]

The story mode is quite good actually. It gives you a chance to practice with many kombatants.

[Grim-]

I had to set the difficulty to beginner to fight scorpion as sub zeros brother and it' still to hard to beat wtf but i can do arcade ladder on medium or hard ://

[MoDuL]

Scorpion vs Sub-Zero on storyline was the worst fight i had to take... Dislike pwning Sub

[SpaceDuck]

Originally posted by slimebuck:

What I dislike the most of story mode is you do not get to play as any of the bad guy characters.

No Ermac, No Shang Tsung, no Baraka, No Sheeva, No Quan Chi, no Sektor, no Kano, no Jade, Sindel or Mileena, no NooB, no Reptile...


Pretty much every one of my favorite characters is on that list too...

I hope in MK 10 there is 2 story mode options. Earthrealm side, and Netherealm side...

Umm... you do play as Jade, did you even finish it?

[Eifersucht18]

@OP
- Just lower the difficulty from the Option Menu > Story Mode Difficulty > Set from Normal down to Beginner

- At the start of each chapter > Press Pause Menu > Go to Move List > Learn some basic moves for each character

- For Doubleteams > Block, Block, Block / hit on counter

[SpaceDuck]

Originally posted by Eifersucht18:

@OP
- Just lower the difficulty from the Option Menu > Story Mode Difficulty > Set from Normal down to Beginner

- At the start of each chapter > Press Pause Menu > Go to Move List > Learn some basic moves for each character

- For Doubleteams > Block, Block, Block / hit on counter

Or do what I do, spam jump smash upercut on teams. If you're on Medium you can upercut jump chase half the health out of someone before they stop you

[Saint Pablo]

It's a pretty good story.Better than the movies.