[quote name='mykevermin']I really want to like MK3, and I do. For the first two fights. The difficulty from the third fight (on any tier) on is just staggeringly different from the first two. Roughly 60% of the moves I try in that fight on are instantaneously reacted to by the single precise move that is a perfect counter to it, each and every time.
If I throw a iceball as Sub-Zero, Liu Kang will throw a low fireball, Jade will use her invulnerability (*as* she runs towards me), Scorpion will use his warp punch, and so on.
It's goddamned frustrating, and it ceases to be fun. I can't even beat the Endurance round on novice for this reason. The game can be fun, and is fun, in XBL matches. My desire to try to get all the achievements for single player though is going to be a massive exercise in frustration.
It's an enjoyable game overall, but the clearly poor substitution of these kinds of behaviors for something resembling "AI" in the game is just unexcusable. Even if it is, as a result of its inclusion, "arcade perfect." It's goddamned cheap, I tells ya.[/quote]
QFT I couldn't throw anything at jade because she would just do that invulnerability. After her it was easy until I got to motaro and shao kahn.