Mortal Kombat 9 Shao Kahn

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omega 616

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Lord Beautiful said:
omega 616 said:
Lord Beautiful said:
I hate him with a fiery passion. He usurped Seth's position as Supreme Emperor Bullshit Magician. I want to beat his designers in the balls with a sledgehammer for their insolence. If you have to overpower a character that much to create difficulty, you fail as a designer. Period.

That said, I can rape the shit out of him as Ermac when I'm driven to the level of lunacy it takes to want to fight him.

Oh, and Goro can suck a fat mule dong as well. He's nowhere near the bullshit magician that Shao Kahn is, but he's still a prick.
Goro is so easy! Kintaro is a little harder than goro, with his fireballs and flame thrower but even he is easy.
Thank you, Captain Condescending. I can beat Goro just fine. And Kintaro is far easier to beat than Goro.
I wasn't being condescending, just saying he is easy. Besides smashing the floor he doesn't do anything, Kintaro does annoying fire ticks atleast.

If you can beat them just fine why are you calling him a prick ...
 

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i beat him by just spaming the projectile attack. the only complaint i had was that liu kang kept doing his STUPID high pitched shout!!!!! WHY DOES HE DO THAT WHEN HE COULD JUST SHOUT IN HIS NORMAL VOICE!!!??!
 

Lord Beautiful

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omega 616 said:
If you can beat them just fine why are you calling him a prick ...
He's still significantly stronger than the player and tougher to boot. He still has the stun cancel that Shao Kahn has (although to a lesser extent). And he's still a monument to failure at design.

I'd much rather have a Goro that is balanced with the rest of the cast but is made very challenging with proper AI. Same with Shao Kahn. Cheap tactics should not be employed or rewarded by any fighting game characters, bosses included.
 

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I actually find Shao Kahn pretty easy to beat, you just have to use a certain strategy on him to beat him. I found out that if you dodge his close attacks by jumping over him and quickly perform a 2-4 standard combo on him and keep doing that, he is pretty easy to defeat. now for his long range attack. His spear throw you can simply block, but I find it better to dodge it. You HAVE to dodge his hammer throw though, blocking wont help. Just beat him up everytime you get behind him or as soon as he have finished an attack. Remember to give him hell everytime he taunts you, he'll never be as open as he is when he is taunting you.
Shao Kahn is cheap yeah, but you just have to find a certain strategy on him and he should be pretty easy to defeat... Tsang Tsung on the other hand...
 

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I find myself running away, waiting for him to throw his hammer or taunt.

(He seems to leave himself more open when he does this)

Attacking him and, then, getting my ass out of there.

Rinse and repeat.

I actually got him one round by running the clock out. >:D
 

FalloutJack

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rokkolpo said:
FalloutJack said:
*Raises hand*

Uhh, excuse me! Relevant point of interest!

Shao Kahn has ALWAYS been cheap from DAY ONE when he first appeared in Mortal Kombat II! This complaint is nothing new!
This.
I hate him.
And as a kid I would hit reset on my ps1 when I reached him.
To be fair, I couldn't abide by his ways, so I always used Scorpion or Subzero, whose moves could INTERRUPT HIM. Especially freezing. I always found it good that him and Kintaro were still freezable.
 

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FalloutJack said:
rokkolpo said:
FalloutJack said:
*Raises hand*

Uhh, excuse me! Relevant point of interest!

Shao Kahn has ALWAYS been cheap from DAY ONE when he first appeared in Mortal Kombat II! This complaint is nothing new!
This.
I hate him.
And as a kid I would hit reset on my ps1 when I reached him.
To be fair, I couldn't abide by his ways, so I always used Scorpion or Subzero, whose moves could INTERRUPT HIM. Especially freezing. I always found it good that him and Kintaro were still freezable.
I never managed any of the special technique's xD
Never.
There was no tutorial and no FAQ as I had no internet. );

I jumped in glee whenever I button bashed me a fireball.
 

FalloutJack

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rokkolpo said:
FalloutJack said:
rokkolpo said:
FalloutJack said:
*Raises hand*

Uhh, excuse me! Relevant point of interest!

Shao Kahn has ALWAYS been cheap from DAY ONE when he first appeared in Mortal Kombat II! This complaint is nothing new!
This.
I hate him.
And as a kid I would hit reset on my ps1 when I reached him.
To be fair, I couldn't abide by his ways, so I always used Scorpion or Subzero, whose moves could INTERRUPT HIM. Especially freezing. I always found it good that him and Kintaro were still freezable.
I never managed any of the special technique's xD
Never.
There was no tutorial and no FAQ as I had no internet. );

I jumped in glee whenever I button bashed me a fireball.
Being at this for a while, I try the usual combinations almost immediately. Many games, especially MK games, hold true to their basics. So, I'll freeze, fireball, teleport, spear, hat throw, acid spit, and whatever else before ever seeing a manual.
 

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FalloutJack said:
*Raises hand*

Uhh, excuse me! Relevant point of interest!

Shao Kahn has ALWAYS been cheap from DAY ONE when he first appeared in Mortal Kombat II! This complaint is nothing new!
This is so very, very true. I fucking hated him and Kintaro in Mortal Kombat II. If anything, they're easier in Mortal Kombat 9. Still very frustrating to fight though. The best strategy I've come up with so far is to teleport, execute short combo, teleport, short combo, repeat until he's dead.
 

FalloutJack

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Kajt said:
FalloutJack said:
*Raises hand*

Uhh, excuse me! Relevant point of interest!

Shao Kahn has ALWAYS been cheap from DAY ONE when he first appeared in Mortal Kombat II! This complaint is nothing new!
This is so very, very true. I fucking hated him and Kintaro in Mortal Kombat II. If anything, they're easier in Mortal Kombat 9. Still very frustrating to fight though. The best strategy I've come up with so far is to teleport, execute short combo, teleport, short combo, repeat until he's dead.
Wait...

Are you saying that MK9 might be easier because of my past history in MKII?
 

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they also decided to give the bastard limited invincibility on most of his moves.
It's actually a mechanic called "super armor". It basically means their attack can go through other attacks, but they still receive the damage from your attack. A lot of characters have some super armor on their X-Ray attack. The problem is... Shao Kahn throws that goddamn stun hammer way too often, and has super armor on EVERYTHING. He isn't hard to beat (stand at full screen and mash projectiles as fast as you can), but you can't actually fight him. You just have to lame him out.
 

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ameemo said:
I fought him in the arcade ladder normal mode, won with johnny cage. After that i tried with Noob, got soo pissed i stopped playing on normal altogether, i just play on easy or beginner now. I really wanna punch the designers in the bollocks! I've been trying to beat him with raiden in story mode for a while now, no luck with that. I really, really hate the bastard.
ill share my strategy to beat him teleport, uppercut repeat 50 times x-ray when avialible
 

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FalloutJack said:
*Raises hand*

Uhh, excuse me! Relevant point of interest!

Shao Kahn has ALWAYS been cheap from DAY ONE when he first appeared in Mortal Kombat II! This complaint is nothing new!
gotta agree, he has always been a royal pain in the ass, use raiden or scorpion, and spam with dive and teleporting.

thats how i've done it since he showed up.
 

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X, <X, rinse and repeat

I'm pretty damn sure that is the only way to beat the bugger. Can't even grapple and his projectile attacks are just at the right height to get you both jumping and crouching.

Seriously, screw that guy.
 

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BoogieManFL said:
I'm not that far in the story but Shao Kahn has always been a cheap SoB. He's never been fun to fight as a last boss because he's overpowered. Enemies that are hard because they ignore mechanics that are central to the game everywhere else (knockbacks, obeying blocks etc) and hit you for a ton of extra damage are just badly designed.

I had fun, even though it was mildly frustrating, fighting Shang Tsung. His AI seemed a bit more aggressive than the others and he was a good solid opponent without being all overpowered and poorly designed.

Goro was just stupid. If I got close he'd decimate me but he almost never blocked so I could keep doing the same move over and over so long as it started farther away. And his little I STOMP ON GROUND AND HURT YOU move is freaking dumb. Any time most players feel they need to resort to cheesy AI exploits and boring play to overcome a boss, you've failed miserably as a designer.


Bottom line, there are better more intelligent ways to make an end boss more challenging. Because being a cheap overpowered SoB isn't challenging, it's just lame and annoying.
Bicycle kick the one true solution to this problem
 

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Lord Beautiful said:
omega 616 said:
Lord Beautiful said:
I hate him with a fiery passion. He usurped Seth's position as Supreme Emperor Bullshit Magician. I want to beat his designers in the balls with a sledgehammer for their insolence. If you have to overpower a character that much to create difficulty, you fail as a designer. Period.

That said, I can rape the shit out of him as Ermac when I'm driven to the level of lunacy it takes to want to fight him.

Oh, and Goro can suck a fat mule dong as well. He's nowhere near the bullshit magician that Shao Kahn is, but he's still a prick.
Goro is so easy! Kintaro is a little harder than goro, with his fireballs and flame thrower but even he is easy.
Thank you, Captain Condescending. I can beat Goro just fine. And Kintaro is far easier to beat than Goro.
i hated having to fight both of them with sub zero i suck with subzero
 

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I have seen people fighting him on youtube and real life and he looks easy actually. Why? Because even if you are right in front of him he will start gloating/taunting you and you get easy free hits on him and it seems you can just simply duck to dodge his spear throw projectile.
 

Lord Beautiful

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For the past half hour, I've been trying to beat this asshole with Stryker. I've not won a single round. I'm reminded of how much I want to beat the shit out of his designers.