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Mortal Kombat II (Any %) (Single Segment)
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I asked IsraeliRD about timing for this game. As it turns out, the in-game timer is inconsistent. This means that this run would be timed manually. As it is, the run isn't optimized for manual timing (fatalities). Unfortunately I'm sure the runner didn't know this and this is one of those scenarios where there's not much more I can say. I hope you resubmit.
Decision: Reject
Reason: See above.
This run will be available for a month. After that this link will no longer work.
http://queue.speeddemosarchive.com/queue/verificationfiles/193/
Mortal Kombat II (Any %) (Single Segment)
Verifier Responses
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video & audio quality: good / vhs transfer
cheating: no
gameplay: Not much to say, billion times played this game my self. The runner had use 'shang tsung' and had use on every opponent a morph with special moves and fatalitys. It is good, but not so good, because the only problem is, the runner had use 'very easy' mode. I mean this is a small fighting game and I know to the end it is very hard, but 'very easy' mode, not sure. Sometimes the medal dragons are wrong, so in the fight from reptile and scorpion, but this is normal, no problem.
verdict: accept, but discreet, can be easily improve
timing: I had time start from you hear the first time 'fight' and end frame is the last hit on shao kahn in round 2.
12min 57sec
cheating: no
gameplay: Not much to say, billion times played this game my self. The runner had use 'shang tsung' and had use on every opponent a morph with special moves and fatalitys. It is good, but not so good, because the only problem is, the runner had use 'very easy' mode. I mean this is a small fighting game and I know to the end it is very hard, but 'very easy' mode, not sure. Sometimes the medal dragons are wrong, so in the fight from reptile and scorpion, but this is normal, no problem.
verdict: accept, but discreet, can be easily improve
timing: I had time start from you hear the first time 'fight' and end frame is the last hit on shao kahn in round 2.
12min 57sec
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A/V is good, no cheating that I am aware of.
I really like this run from an entertainment stand point, but some fights (Rayden round 2, Scorpion round 2, Kintaro round 2) were all HUGE time losses due to either execution or bad AI. 17, 11, 13 seconds between each fight, I think that gap is too large. Some of it can be excused because of how the time was lost. But I cant think of anything for that Rayden round 2...
That said, 3 out of 14 fights were bad, 11 of 14 were good. I would really like to see this run be improved. It can be. It is a short run after all. I will pass this off with a weak accept. The over all quality of play is there, just a few issues. Showing the player skills with almost every fighter makes this good as well.
Timing for this games was chosen as time spent in each round (game clock). I got it at 8:12 final time.
I really like this run from an entertainment stand point, but some fights (Rayden round 2, Scorpion round 2, Kintaro round 2) were all HUGE time losses due to either execution or bad AI. 17, 11, 13 seconds between each fight, I think that gap is too large. Some of it can be excused because of how the time was lost. But I cant think of anything for that Rayden round 2...
That said, 3 out of 14 fights were bad, 11 of 14 were good. I would really like to see this run be improved. It can be. It is a short run after all. I will pass this off with a weak accept. The over all quality of play is there, just a few issues. Showing the player skills with almost every fighter makes this good as well.
Timing for this games was chosen as time spent in each round (game clock). I got it at 8:12 final time.
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Immediately I was surprised when I saw the player choose Shang Tsung. IMO the fastest character seems like Kitana, jump kick + fan twice and they're basically dead. Especially since he used her against Kintaro anyway. If you get it perfect, you can finish a round with 90+ seconds remaining. Now, I wouldn't expect that everytime because the AI can be a jerk. But he doesn't get any rounds faster than 88. His average round is an 81.43. On very easy, I'd expect to see faster wins than that.
It's definitely not the fastest decision to transform into every character that he fights against. Sure, it may make the run more interesting to watch, but this isn't tasvideos. The primary goal here is speed, and I felt like that was a secondary concern. As the first two verifiers said, it feels like it wouldn't take much effort to improve this run. It's not good enough as it stands now.
Also, I hate to see fatalities. If you time this run like a normal game from start to finish, then that by itself is worthy of an auto-reject. Otherwise, I also get 8:12 in game seconds for each fight. Here's the round by round times remaining:
86-86
86-85
85-83
87-85
81-88
82-86
82-86
81-82
81-82
87-76
87-70
85-78
72-58
75-78
Decision: Reject
It's definitely not the fastest decision to transform into every character that he fights against. Sure, it may make the run more interesting to watch, but this isn't tasvideos. The primary goal here is speed, and I felt like that was a secondary concern. As the first two verifiers said, it feels like it wouldn't take much effort to improve this run. It's not good enough as it stands now.
Also, I hate to see fatalities. If you time this run like a normal game from start to finish, then that by itself is worthy of an auto-reject. Otherwise, I also get 8:12 in game seconds for each fight. Here's the round by round times remaining:
86-86
86-85
85-83
87-85
81-88
82-86
82-86
81-82
81-82
87-76
87-70
85-78
72-58
75-78
Decision: Reject
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a/v good!
no cheating that i can see
After watching this run i knew instantly that it can be improved, for example what was mention.. using the kitana strat seems to be alot quicker. also the round 2 scorpion, round 2 rayden and round 2 kintaro as verifyer 2 mention. i agree with what everyone says cause i to have played alot of this game..and i think its worth it if the runner keeps trying for a better time. im with the weak accept but would like to see more attempts from the runner and test out more strats. i will add that i got for time RTA 12:56 but it really shouldn't be classified as an RTA concidering the fatalities and flawless fictories (its just to much time spent) and the in game timers are all obvious. overall the player is good giving him an accept, but a try for a RTA would be well worth it.
no cheating that i can see
After watching this run i knew instantly that it can be improved, for example what was mention.. using the kitana strat seems to be alot quicker. also the round 2 scorpion, round 2 rayden and round 2 kintaro as verifyer 2 mention. i agree with what everyone says cause i to have played alot of this game..and i think its worth it if the runner keeps trying for a better time. im with the weak accept but would like to see more attempts from the runner and test out more strats. i will add that i got for time RTA 12:56 but it really shouldn't be classified as an RTA concidering the fatalities and flawless fictories (its just to much time spent) and the in game timers are all obvious. overall the player is good giving him an accept, but a try for a RTA would be well worth it.
I asked IsraeliRD about timing for this game. As it turns out, the in-game timer is inconsistent. This means that this run would be timed manually. As it is, the run isn't optimized for manual timing (fatalities). Unfortunately I'm sure the runner didn't know this and this is one of those scenarios where there's not much more I can say. I hope you resubmit.
Decision: Reject
Reason: See above.
This run will be available for a month. After that this link will no longer work.
http://queue.speeddemosarchive.com/queue/verificationfiles/193/
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