@WrathOfFulgore said this the best.
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In Mortal Kombat, fatalities are around 15 seconds. If NRS made fatalities 4 times longer, people would RIOT. Nobody would be saying âhey! Fatalities are a part of MK, so if you donât like the new âquad fatalitiesâ, you dont like a part of MK identityâ No. Thats not disliking fatalities, thays just having a sense if good game design.
(Ultras can go over a minute in KI, so the equivalent of 4 Mortal Kombat fatalities- hence my example)
At one point a difference of quantity becomes a difference of type altogether. KI3 ultras are NOT the Ultras that were in the previous 2 games. They are not the staple of the series previous Ultras were, theyâre basically a overblown-to-the-point-of-parady mockery of what they once were.
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No, I think they understand it perfectly well. But they are the type of people who, for whatever reason, have nothing else in their life to bring them joy except trying to aggravate other people and then acting shocked that people are aggravated. And watch - the same two people on here barking about their right to a reward in the form of a double ultra combo are going to take a run at me all hot and bothered for insulting them.
These discussions are played out. Ultraâs are super cool. Hanging out with your friends styling ultras on each other is awesome. Going into ranked matches and hitting triple ultras just to bug your opponent is⊠sad. If someone wastes his own time doing multiple ultras after a victory I just assume he doesnât win much and is therefore not in a hurry to move on to his next defeat.
But the biggest lesson here is that we need something in the form of news to talk about because people are yet again wasting their time in one of these threads.
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EhâŠnot so much.
âŠOf course thatâs assuming youâre indirectly talking about me within those â2 peopleââŠif not, well, I canât speak for them.
No, I wasnât referring to you. I hadnât noticed you were even in here.
EDIT: I read your posts and I donât see you saying anything remotely like âan Ultra is my reward for winning.â I see a lot of good posts that I agree with, especially the one about how we have had this conversation a trillion times.
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Maybe there can be a switch like combo assist and ultra enders where the shy player can just see a one hit ultra and the winner at home can continue their 1,400 hit ultra and it just resets back to the selecf screen for the loser who canât handle a long ultra
I think we are almost coming to a full circle.
I think this thread ran its course before it began. People came and posted their reasoning, and made it basically clear that their minds werenât going anywhere.
It was the same people saying the same things they always say. âItâs a waste of timeâ says one, âTheyâre a reward for Gittin Gudâ says another.
And then both of them turn to each other and say:
Thatâs not to say that people on either side arenât reasonable; most of them are pretty cool headed posters. But this is one of those topics like religion or politics where normally pleasant people refuse to take their heads out of the sand, and it basically becomes a 2 groups of people hurling hyperbole and admonishing all but absolutism. If it doesnât favor their side, they scoff it away with sarcasm.
This isnât the first thread of its kind, and it certainly wonât be the last. If history is any indication, discussion of this topic will continue to go nowhere just like it always has.
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ButâŠbutâŠthe musical number.
AhemâŠ
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Well who else are you supposed to impress? some random stranger?
Well, it seems people get sensitive with everythingâŠ
This is the part where I say
âWELCOME TO THE MODERN AGE BABY!!!â
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Thatâs still and forever will be my favorite scene from that movie lol.
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I would like to say once again before the thread closes, assuming thatâs its fate, that I personally feel like a good middle-ground solution (maybe not appealing to all, but then again what is?) would be to limit Ultras to 1 max in ranked and give free reign to maximum Ultra goodness everywhere else in the gameâŠpossibly with a toggle for exhibition & lobbies. That way competitive players would get to get on with their fights and casuals can try for triple/quad/ whatever to their heartsâ contentâŠgo nuts & have fun with it.
Nah, just let them do what they want. Itâs a good test of patience. Hey, worst case scenario they go do something for a minute or two.
Hey maybe even get some exercise in.
Season 3 the complaining is Ultraâs
Season 2 the complaining was taunting and t-bagging
Season 1 the complaining was unbreakables and unblockables
The difference between Season 1-3? Larger community. What happens in large communities? What we remember when the game was small, the close nit KI Fans that got it first before it grew, had our own little sanctuary. We fixed the game and enjoyed the company. Now the game is relatively fixed, the new part now is the larger community, so now people are trying to fix that. The problem with fixing a variable that is outside of the game, is that you canât. Itâs rare to see a CoD match or Halo match without T-Bagging or Camping power weapons. As someone said before, I think the main reason behind the arguments is people donât like either A: They lost or B: They donât feel respected. Itâs an online game over the internet. You have to expect that people will go far above and beyond what they would in person because there is no fear of lashback. Really, all you can do is send them a hateful message which can be blocked, or yell at them through the mic which can be muted. I just accept that, if I lose Iâll either get no ultra, a small ultra or a large ultra. Iâm not going to let a game that I enjoy feel like a waste of time. If it was a waste of time, you wouldnât come back time and time again. There is a reason no one goes back to play Elmoâs Letter Adventure even if they loved it when they were 3. Shouldnât say no one⊠Someone might haveâŠ
Iâve come across matches where I play patient, I punish mistakes, and take advantage of having a higher knowledge of the game rather than mashing buttons. Iâve been told I play like a B**** or a P**** when I do that. If people online donât have the will to get better, the salt will flow time and time again. When I was a kid, we always had fun playing everything, there was always that 1 angry gamer who was always mad at everything that happened. Now that the globe is connected with gaming, that 1 angry kid who people tolerated because it meant having 4 players instead of 3, is now readily available at any time to be your next opponent. Such is the life of online games. I usually keep my mic unplugged, unless I come across someone cool. Then I chit chat and spread knowledge, help them get better, make new friends sometimes. Thatâs what should happen. Doesnât happen enough.
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Usually, I believe people earn ultras on me but, only after the 2nd win. Or if I get bodied. I usually get annoyed if itâs a triple ultra, gets a bit long at that point.
But hey itâs all good. Tis the game.
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Itâs quicker to Alt F4 and reopen the game again on PC than wait through an ultra so once I realise someone isnât planning to cancel their ultra I just do that.
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