Gamezone
Gold Member
Angry Joe is trying to Mortal Kombat the microtransactions in his review.
https://youtu.be/X_2Qy-_Sfqc
https://youtu.be/X_2Qy-_Sfqc
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Angry Joe Mortal Kombat X Review.
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BreezyLimbo
Banned
Ok 30 seconds in and Other Joe is throwing money to do an easy fatality, this is gonna be good.
Phat Michael
Banned
this is quite annoying so far.
Gamezone
Gold Member
Why?
Believe it or not, this is one of the lesser grating videos of his. There's others where he's all high pitched and annoying as fuck. Makes this seem super pleasant in comparison.
Denton
Member
You mean impossible.
One would think that if I hate something, I would ignore it, but apparently that's impossible for some.
How else would he complain about something so trivial
They are always a Graveyard =p
SprachBrooks
Member
The best ones are the passive aggressive questions like 'why's this guy so popular, can someone explain?' that comes up in every single thread lol.
Don't like the guy, don't come into the thread and derail the discussion.
Don't get me wrong, I'm completely with him on this review, and a lot of his other reviews. He was just too high strung in them. He seems much more mellowed out though.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Well when easy Fatalities have been free in previous entries...yeah it's kinda stupid they're charging for it as well.
Gamezone
Gold Member
I remember that thread.
Nickel and dime DLC is trivial?
SprachBrooks
Member
Haha that money-throwing fatality, encapsulates what's wrong with such gross micro-transactions.
BronzeWolf
Banned
I like AngryJoe's style, especially when he is around otherJoe
Well when you can't input five buttons and have to pay money so that it's only one button, you deserve all bad things that happen to you.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
This is like, victim blaming. 'Well it's your fault for not knowing all the fatalities for every character!'
SprachBrooks
Member
Like being charged for something that was a cheat in previous games? Lol, corporate apologists take their mental gymnastics to olympic levels.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
If the free option wasn't there, then those people you speak of would never be ale to do a fatality. I lump them in with the people that pay $5 so their character is purple.
I dont think you could use cheats to use fatalities in MK9 online, could be wrong though.
The ingame move-list is very hard to see indeed.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I main and only play kenshi because his fatality is back forward back back
....or is it forward back forward forward....I AIN'T GOT TIME TO MEMORIZE FATALITIES OK, BUT I WANNA LOOK COOL IN MULTIPLAYER
Phat Michael
Banned
OK i must admit, this is only the 2nd video of his i have watched and i honestly couldnt get through it. I didnt find it funny at all, and i had to keep adjusting the volume on my work laptop as he kept shouting for no reason. Also, i didnt think the skits with ermac were funny and i didnt think the jokes were that great. I turned off after about 15 mins in as it really wasnt my thing.
The complaints about Goro and easy fatalities are fine but I am pretty sure the nerfed koin earning one in an effort to push the Krypt unlock has been proven to be false.
EDIT: Ugh, the complaints about story mode are so ridiculous. Yes, it is has less total fights but the story itself and the presentation are leagues above it. Would jamming in a couple fights like where Johnny Cage mouths off and Jax fights him really improve the package? It was filler then, it is filler now. The biggest criticism I have of it is the same as the rest of NRS' games where you don't get to play through a chapter for each character. That being said, I think that could be for the best as it keeps the story well paced. A separate story focusing on villains would be the best solution but means a whole lot more work.
EDIT: Ugh, the complaints about story mode are so ridiculous. Yes, it is has less total fights but the story itself and the presentation are leagues above it. Would jamming in a couple fights like where Johnny Cage mouths off and Jax fights him really improve the package? It was filler then, it is filler now. The biggest criticism I have of it is the same as the rest of NRS' games where you don't get to play through a chapter for each character. That being said, I think that could be for the best as it keeps the story well paced. A separate story focusing on villains would be the best solution but means a whole lot more work.
You could just hit start
Niggas never played the game they're pretending to be upset about. Carry on. rofl
This is the first MK with easy fatalities, also they are so easy to do anyway this time around I don't see why anyone would buy them. Also the Krypt has always been a meta game, some people complained about having secrets locked away in this meta game so the response was to offer a paid way to unlock everything.
CaptainGyro
Banned
I'm indifferent to stories in fighting games but I keep rewatching and loling at 3:30-3:46
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Use Scorpion, just down back forward up/Y
-MD-
Member
DryvBy
Member
Why are you playing a fighting game if you can't input commands that are a about 3-4 directional inputs with sometimes a single button press? Do people that pay for fatalities need to pay for special moves as well? Because if not, then why pay for fatalities? There's nothing complicated about any one of the fatalities in MKX. They even let you pin the move set to the screen while you play.
John Bender
Banned
Will never understand how people can watch.... "this" (and him).
EASTC0AST_GH05T
Member
LOL the beginning is killing me with other joe trying the fatalities and failing. LOL
I was pretty annoyed when I heard about the easy fatalities thing. Then couple of friends of mine who played it said that normal fatalities are ridiculously easy to do even if you're terrible at fighting games and you can check the move list from menu even while waiting to do the fatality. Saving my outrage for some Batman season passes, I think.
plasmawave
Banned
4 hours for a fighting game story mode seems more than enough.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Easy fatalities have been in since atleast the PS1 versions. You have to activate a cheat code, but it's fun to use when you're just shooting the shit with someone.
Yeah, in online it's annoying though.
I'm not going to pretend I'm a pro MK player, but aside from a few fighters(Kenshis whirling blade Fatality and Subzeros close fatality), but I'd like the option to perform an easy fatality without paying.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yeah, I like pulling off Sub Zeros brutality because it's easy(Freeze Ball+Enchanced Freeze ball.) Crazy that Jax can just instakill someone with his slam move though.
Dimitri LH
Member
I honestly dont like Joe's videos. But this was decent to watch......outside the long "comedy" sketches, but ill let it slide since it looked like he had fun makin them.
You have to unlock certain fatalities first to see the moves in the start menu right?
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
In the age of the internet this is irrelevant.
You need to unlock Brutalities to even use them tho.
Majima Everywhere System
Member
It's impossible for Angry Joe, apparently. You don't like games with DLC and microtransactions. I get it. Moveon.org
They are in the game without paying.
Angry Joe isn't against DLC. He just doesn't like bad DLC practices. Practices like locking a complete and ready to play on day one character out of the game as a preorder incentive, and then charging $5 for people who didn't preorder.
The game is $60 and comes with 24 characters by default. Ignoring everything else included in the base game, if you divide $60 by 24, that's only $2.5 per character. But Goro is (and all subsequent Kombat pass characters are) $5.
What kind of sense does that make?
This is such an idiotic thing to say.
giancarlo123x
Banned
I find the easy fatalities pointless. I like playing random with my friend online and when I win with a character I don't know anything about I literally have why more than enough time to push start, scroll to finishing moves, read the inputs and do it all within the "Finish Him/Her" time period.