[QUOTE="parvie"]
Mortsl Kombat. Too many Ryu clones in SF (less character diversity).
Gen007
lol seriously. You must not have played much MK over the years. Last time i checked MK had more palatte swaps than anyone else. Granted overtime they have come to play somewhat different but so have SF's.
for example
scorpion, sub zero, reptile, smoke, noob saibot, chameleon, rain , and ermac were all palatte swaps at one point with many similar moves.
and those are just the male ninjas by the way. I could make a list just as long for the female ninja's, cyborgs, shokan's and whatever else thats in MK.
Sf has had Ryu, ken, Akuma ,and maybe Dan? But they looked different and their move sets do vary just like MK.
You are wrong about the ninjas. Yes, they all looked the same, but they did not share that many moves in common with one another. Scorpion and Sub Zero have no moves in common. Reptile and Sub Zero have one move in common, (the slide). Ermac and Scorpion have one move in common, (the teleport punch). Rain does not share moves with anyone at all. The rain ball is different than Reptile's force ball and Ermac's energy ball. The rain ball allows you to control your opponent if it hits him or her. The other ones do not. The speed of Ermac's energy ball is different than Reptile's With Reptile, you can do a fast force ball, then a slow force ball, and then an uppercut. I don't think you can do a slow hadouken, then a fast one, and then a hard punch of some kind. Noob Saibot also does not share moves any of the others. No other ninja creates a shadow of himself that attacks the opponent on his own. Sub Zero's clone is just ice that stands there. The opponent has to be close for it to work. Noob Saibots shadow clone does not have to be done close range His teleport is not like anyone else's. No one else automatically slams the guy right after teleporting. I will say that human Smoke and Scorpion are copycats.
The female ninjas are also not the same. Millena has a teleport kick that comes from above. None of the other female ninjas have a move like it. Kitanas flying punch is used in a completely different way. Kitana has a fan lift that no other female ninja has. None of the other female ninjas can stun her opponent at all. Jade can make projectiles go right through her and throw her boomerangs high and low. Kitana and Mileena have to jump in the air to throw their weapons high. Even then, the weapons don't go high, they just move straight. Mileena has a roll move that hits the opponent and takes her to the other side of the screen. None of the other female ninjas have that move.
Robot Smoke and Sector share one move together, (the teleport punch). Cyrax has an entire different move set than either of the other cyborgs. Cyrax has a net throw, timed bombs, and a fast teleport without an instant attack. Since Robot Smoke is human Smoke, he does play similar to Scorpion. Robot Smoke is Scorpion and Sector combined. Sector uses missle attacks. One of the missle attacks homes on the oppoent and is almost guaranteed to hit him or her. The other cyborgs do not have that move at all. I don't think hardly anyone else in the game does either.
Your arguement falls flat on 95% of what you said. If you think the ninjas and the cyborgs are the same, then you did not play MK enough to realize how different they all are. I find that people who sneer at MK usually didn't play it very much, so they don't know all the ins and outs of the game. MK might not have 3 different puches or kicks, but it definitely is not simpler by any means.
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