The MK Meta - Episode 1: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

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6 жыл бұрын

Welcome to a new video series. The MK Meta!
We take a trip back in time and explore what made older Mortal Kombat games or characters tick in a high level. To start this series, we explore Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. The game that many old school players began competing in.
Huge thanks to Shock for helping me put this together. His knowledge helped fill in the missing pieces to make this video a lot more complete.
Find out an in depth history of the competitive scene in an interview here: iplaywinner.com/news/2011/6/21...
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@PNDKM 6 жыл бұрын

Expect a lot more from this series. Although they will individually take longer to make than our usual content, Mortal Kombat will always have a special place in our hearts as content creators. Taking you through the history of the scene and games alongside it is something we've always wanted to do. And going into 2018, Mortal Kombat content will become more regular in the form of the MK Meta. Huge thanks to Shock for helping me iron out the mammoth script that I had to write for this episode. You can follow him on Twitter over at: twitter.com/UMKShock He also took part in a really interesting interview lining the absolute history of the games competitive community: iplaywinner.com/news/2011/6/21/ipw-x-tym-feature-history-of-the-mortal-kombat-scene-by-shoc.html Hope you guys enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it.

@allenguzman9770 6 жыл бұрын

PNDK&M do you guys know when they'll show a trailer for Mortal Kombat 11?

@Alvaro89Rus 6 жыл бұрын

carry on!

@flipsvstheworld 6 жыл бұрын

Allen Guzman You probably will not see an MK11 trailer until late 2018/early 2019. All the games since MK9 have been following a release schedule.

@ResidentBen4 6 жыл бұрын

MK11 announcement will likely be made at E3 2018

@alexsere3061 6 жыл бұрын

PNDK&M loved the video, please do more theoretical content!!!!!

@Alvaro89Rus 6 жыл бұрын

We didn't have internet or even manual with characters moves in 90th Russia because everybody had pirate version of game. So we had to discover combos ourself and writing them in notebook. Every kid had cheap standart school green notebook reserved fo MK combos. Still remember first time I thought "could next move in in this cool Liu Kang combo be block button??"...

@PNDKM 6 жыл бұрын

It took me years as a kid to find out how to pull off Sektor's Homing Missile. The idea that you had to do a half circle input blew my mind.

@Alvaro89Rus 6 жыл бұрын

... and then you spam it until all your friends forbid you to take Sector

@benbelap 5 жыл бұрын

Lol that was us in Nigeria. We had loads of notes

@AmoaYuriyMonika 5 жыл бұрын

In soviet Russia you not make combos, combos make you.

@ChitenBugMan 5 жыл бұрын

I had the exact thing going for me

@charlykoparabola7940 4 жыл бұрын

Every time I see Jax's stomp fatality, I am reminded of a joke I read on a website in the mid 90s, "Yo mama so fat, when Jax tried to stomp fatality her he twisted his ankle!"

@FreneticZetetic 3 жыл бұрын

This is arguably the most perfect 90’s internet slam lmao

@BrowneVisuals 3 жыл бұрын

website in the 90s? ummmm

@flowrepins6663 3 жыл бұрын

reminds me of professor klump movie :p ik one. ur momma so fat when she plays mk scorpion yells stay over there. maybe thr spear breaks i dont remember

@Vikutto 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Im surely gonna bring that to my friends! xd

@canman87 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrowneVisuals Yes, the Internet was widely accessible for most people for the majority of the 90s.

@ShadowBaofu 5 жыл бұрын

I had no idea the older MK games even had a meta. That is incredibly insightful. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

@PNDKM 5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. More to come in 2019!

@Sushi-Katana 5 жыл бұрын

Everything has a meta once you plug in an online community.

@princesssleepyhead8043 6 жыл бұрын

I already wish this type of video was being made for every game since SF2, this is absolutely brilliant content and I can't thank you enough for making it!

@PNDKM 6 жыл бұрын

That's actually partly why I decided to start making it. I've always wanted a focus, streamlined video for games that I never understood but loved watching, but could rarely find what I was looking for. If I can at least make that exact kind of content for the games I've grown up with, it's guna help someone else for the same thing.

@daisukedoi9284 5 жыл бұрын

@@PNDKM It would be cool if you did this with obscure fighting games as well

@Loveistheirwholehapp 4 жыл бұрын

Check out SRK Wiki. They have a lot of info on a lot of fighters.

@naqaychaayal302 4 жыл бұрын

I can still remember the smell of the arcade... This was top tier arcade fighting back in its day.

@dominicesquivel3901 3 жыл бұрын

What did it smell like?

@naqaychaayal302 3 жыл бұрын

@@dominicesquivel3901 Snack bar food, pop corn... and Bromine, the chemical they used for the waters around the arcade, they had bumper boats. It was an open air arcade so the breeze would blow through the arcade. I loved it.

@Shiratto 3 жыл бұрын

This mans knows the Smell of the Game.

@jakejutras5420 Жыл бұрын

@@Shiratto I know it's a year later but have you been enjoying Strive? A lot of people have been giving it hate but I've been having so much fun with it.

@Shiratto Жыл бұрын

@@jakejutras5420 Haven’t had time to play it recently but I have no doubt it’s still fun. I should go back and give it another go since I bought dlc characters I haven’t really used yet XD

@kmaru80 5 жыл бұрын

I'll never be good enough at a fighting game to need any of this minutia but I find it incredibly interesting. Thanks for creating the video

@Sushi-Katana 5 жыл бұрын

Not all fighting games are hard. The best ones (gameplay wise, not graphics or lore) are accessible.

@Dark-sk1uv 5 жыл бұрын

Tournament Edition was the greatest thing to happen to UMK3, and truly is the breath of fresh air this game needed for YEARS.

@ThisShitIsDumbAndYouKnow 5 жыл бұрын

I played UMK3 on the DS online. There was this person named "Sonya" or something like that. By some chance you read this; Hah I finally beat you that one time.

@sunshinensmiles2178 4 жыл бұрын

Whoops LMAO

@jadebayoba7073 Жыл бұрын

Oof

@jakejutras5420 Жыл бұрын

This is hilarious, thank you. Made my day.

@nigerianstatue3411 Жыл бұрын

nice t-dub reference btw

@twistedspine2641 5 жыл бұрын

If Hara Kiri's return in MK11 and Cyrax is in, I'd love to see his self-destruct fatality as his Hara Kiri for a throwback

@davidcox6454 5 жыл бұрын

If smokes in he's gotta blow up the world again

@michaelknight4099 5 жыл бұрын

smoke ftw

@swordofcoffee 2 жыл бұрын

@realmjumper8154 Жыл бұрын

Smoke had it in deception I believe

@scorpionwins6378 4 жыл бұрын

Every Friday night my family would go out to Me&Ed's for dinner. I remember being more excited to play this game than actually sit down to enjoy pizza.

@MgoUmk 6 жыл бұрын

9:54 You just need to press down 2 times to perform a Mercy, this is one of the most common input errors in the history of the game, it took me some time to realize that ;)

@rob5687 4 жыл бұрын

haven't played the game in forever I thought it was down three times and then hit the run button. Also I never knew you couldn't hit the block button to do friendships and babalitys that doesn't seem right to me.

@blakfloyd 4 жыл бұрын

@@rob5687 It may not seem right cuz the stipulation was different in MKII. In that game it was just avoiding punches but kicks and blocks were still fine to use.

@mortalkombatanimations6836 4 жыл бұрын

I had the nastiest combos with Stryker in the MK3 styled games. His launch combo combined with his gun made for some easy damaging combos!

@Tremuoso 6 жыл бұрын

This is a video I always wanted. A big fighting gamer, only played MK/NRS games after Injustice 1, so only played the old games casually as a kid. And whenever I've seen competetive footage of MK3, it always looked crazy as hell and ultra-lethal so I always wanted a proper explanation of the game just like this. Excellent work lads.

@darklight2432 5 жыл бұрын

My first MK game. This is the start why i love MK so much until now. I miss those days playing with my childhood friend :)

@finallyanime 6 жыл бұрын

I REALLY REALLLYYYYYYY REALLLLYYYYYYY enjoyed this. Please more like this, I appreciate it so much

@co81385 6 жыл бұрын

This is an excellent video! I played the MK series growing up, and I still enjoying playing MK 1 through Ultimate/Trilogy. However, I never knew much about the series' tournament scene, and why certain characters would be considered powerful. Growing up, I only had the Prima Games UMK3 guide to go by. This video was extremely informative, and I am anxious to see the next one.

@atrocity3010 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! This was a trip down memory lane. While I never really played UMK3 (didn't had the execution required for fighting games) I became fascinated with it after discovering Shock's combo videos on his site (this was right before KZfaq existed). I still have them saved on my hard drive along with a ton of old matches.

@greenman360 5 жыл бұрын

UMK3 was, and still is, the best Mortal Kombat game.

@blind_surgeon 5 жыл бұрын

Wrong, that would be Trilogy

@1zzat 5 жыл бұрын

CHICKEN Gotta side with you here, trilogy was awesome

@blind_surgeon 5 жыл бұрын

@@lemfandango uh no?

@jeramiah6244 4 жыл бұрын

I agres about Trilogy, but it's basically UMK3, with all the other characters. Which all being blocks of MK3. The better question is, what was the best version of UMK3? PlayStation, or Saturn?

@tigerclawthunderdome4823 4 жыл бұрын

Trilogy

@tigeros8995 6 жыл бұрын

I cannot describe how amazing this video is!

@PNDKM 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@BIGGIEDEVIL Жыл бұрын

The amount of info and content in these meta videa is incredible thanks for all you do this video amazing and must have taken a long time to complete to look this good 😊

@diavolog5997 6 жыл бұрын

This was really awesome guys. Very nostalgic as well. Can't wait to see what's next!

@HeadmasterAutobot 6 жыл бұрын

This is exactly the sort of series an increasingly-large, increasingly-introspective community needs to better understand the games it plays. Good work, lads.

@rbreeze789 6 жыл бұрын

tons of appreciation for you putting this together!! keep up the great work !!

@ResidentBen4 6 жыл бұрын

Great vid as always fellas! It was fascinating delving into the competitive side of UMK3

@Admired 6 жыл бұрын

This was really enjoyable. Definitely will be waiting for more.

@ezekielcervantes9251 6 жыл бұрын

Admired lol i found u. im waffle2k. or derp

@JaimeAGB-pt4xl 6 жыл бұрын

This video is... AMAZING.... FLAWLESS VICTORY ... great content for a very important game. I hope this gets expanded on by characters and other titles in the franchise (MK4 and even the 3d era 😅) ... Thanks for the effort and care, keep it up

@Evil1nside 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, man. Brings back old and good memories. Thanks a bunch!

@baranda0 Жыл бұрын

Happy 30th anniversary mk!!! Had to revisit the mk meta series for the franchise that completely introduced me to the fighting game genre!! 🔥💀👑

@SOLIDANAKIN 6 жыл бұрын

This was amazing. Thanks for the history lesson. This was all new to me. Great job.

@dimifisher7942 4 жыл бұрын

Liu Kang was the one that I mastered, but Shang Tsung, Sheeva, Jax and Nightwolf had really cool combos

@AdamBarkerThe Жыл бұрын

Would love to see an MK2 video like this! Also maybe touching on different releases like the mk arcade kollection which is great but also problematic (you can literally just quit out in ranked games if you are losing so you don’t lose your rank).

@RealSneeSnee 6 жыл бұрын

ahhh this was great to watch, I would love to see the same for other titles such as MK9 and MKX..... OUTSTANDING!

@MEJBelloz 5 жыл бұрын

Love these videos! Would love to see the development of tier lists for each conpetitive game (for example day one tier list and how it changed by the end of the competitive scene)!

@Cirina_K 6 жыл бұрын

This is a fantastic video. Looking forward to seeing more!

@luxul1879 6 жыл бұрын

"Kabal.. HA!" Fantastic video btw!

@CSPCantStopPlaying 6 жыл бұрын

Only halfway through but amazing video so far! Glad to see informative content is still being made for older games. Also, congrats on 40K! You guys deserve way more tbh.

@PNDKM 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@clipCommander101 5 жыл бұрын

Umk3 on xbla was my introduction to fighting games at a competitive level. Smoke ftw!

@clipCommander101 5 жыл бұрын

Btw, does anyone know if the xbla version is backwards compatible on xbox one?

@FortunePayback 6 жыл бұрын

How unexpected. Both fun and interesting. Looking forward to seeing more of these in the future.

@rockingrooster5136 3 жыл бұрын

I love your channel dude I remember getting my copy of mortal kombat 3 for saga genesis for Christmas it was a good Christmas

@09BertoSS 6 жыл бұрын

This was the first fighting game my brother ever played, we grew up loving this Game in the arcades & has to beg our parents to buy it for our console so we could play it endless hours as kids. We played 1 & 2 after knowing about MK3, also the all the games after but MK3 was the fighting game we loved. Seeing all these combos/loops now as an adult amazes me because I never the game could be this complex lol since we never played it competitively as kids just for fun.

@GrissosFighters 6 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, UMK3 was always fun to play. Good stuff guys!

@LuigiFan64 6 жыл бұрын

This. I really loved this. I can't wait for the next one!

@MT-fl1eb 4 жыл бұрын

Love these videos! I play mk 11 and seeing the history is nice!

@Teebs1996 6 жыл бұрын

I LOVE this! I would love to see more of them!

@richardsilvas3152 2 жыл бұрын

I just got the 1up mk3 arcade cabinet at work and work with some youner guys. We started playing 3 months ago and I was kicking their butts... but they found your videos ans now they almost pulled even with me. I use smoke and they use Stryker, Scorpion and smoke against me. Such great times.

@Angel0ndeado 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Subbed. Fav game of all time.

@kleskk6736 6 жыл бұрын

yo this was so cool, cant wait for more of these

@DevFromParaplegiance 4 жыл бұрын

You should definitely make tier lists for all the older games! I would love that

@SilverHawk555 5 жыл бұрын

Good job guys. This is gold!

@funstorm1789 5 жыл бұрын

This was a very niche video that appealed to my interests. GG

@NosepassTheRNGenius 5 жыл бұрын

PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE, I LOVE YOU GUYS AND I LOVE THESE DAMN VIDEOS!

@Demondzeta 5 жыл бұрын

you have a lot of good videos but this is what made me subscribe. it seems it has been a long time since you uploaded it but i hope the next one comes soon. I never had the chance to play MK and the idea of learning about the meta is so awesome for me. i wish i could find videos like this for otjher k games or old competitive games.

@PNDKM 5 жыл бұрын

Whats crazy is, I'm actually working on the next video right now. But as I'm not a fulltime creator and the MK meta vids take AGES to produce by myself, things keep coming up that I need to focus on first. The next video is going to be roughly 40 minutes long if you add up all my commentary I've recorded. I promise it will be done. I want the MK meta to continue more than anyone. They're by far my favorite vids to make.

@Demondzeta 5 жыл бұрын

@@PNDKM thanks i'll be waiting. You do an amazing job.

@G_Gr00v3 3 жыл бұрын

The differences in Hitboxes reminds me of the different weights in games like Virtua Fighter and Guilty Gear, learning variations in combos is always key with those

@SomniaCE 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like UMK3 deserves a remastered episode. Every other episode of MK meta has been jammed with so much more history and knowledge that this feels more like a proof of concept by comparison. Still, this is a legendary video in a legendary series

@PNDKM 2 жыл бұрын

In all honesty, it was. This was the first of its kind and I didn't really have the formula down back then. I saw my trilogy video as a revisiting of the style with a lot more detail.

@SomniaCE 2 жыл бұрын

@@PNDKM Definitely! You are definitely right to point out that the Trilogy video covers a lot of common ground with UMK3, I hadn't really considered that for some reason.

@ninjasolbadguy 3 жыл бұрын

8:24 When the Characters section pops up, Kano does a fatality where he removes the opponent's skeleton, playing on the fact this section of the video is going to show the ins and out of characters. Nice details Ketchup!

@SubReikoPy 6 жыл бұрын

To be honest This mk should be the "melee" of the mk series.

@ElectricNikkiGames 6 жыл бұрын

I'd consider it more the "Super Turbo" of MK

@jLootaveli 5 жыл бұрын

@@ElectricNikkiGames actually it makes more sense for it to be the "melee of mk". the game itself was rather broken, with good characters being *really* good, and bad characters being *really* bad. Not to mention, the community trying to fix the game by releasing fanmade mods only strengthens our point

@TyRiders2 5 жыл бұрын

It's the KOF 98 of MK

@PikachuUseSpiritGun 4 жыл бұрын

The Tag Tournament of MK👊

@the757general2 2 жыл бұрын

More like the "3rd Strike" of MK

@dannaldfgc2373 6 жыл бұрын

even though ive never played the older games, im super excited for this series as i just really wanna know what it was like in them.

@PNDKM 6 жыл бұрын

That's the idea :)

@kylenguyen7371 6 жыл бұрын

To quote the games, "OUTSTANDING!"

@9493waltbabyluv 2 жыл бұрын

My mom bought me MK 2 when I was 9 not knowing what it was. After she saw the game she didn’t take it from me but she refused to let me have UMK3. So I had to settle for playing it at the arcade in Mazzio’s Pizza MAYBE one night a month. That longing to play the game and those few fleeting moments of excitement when I would finally get those opportunities makes this one my personal favorite of the series.

@danielmorgan508 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite MK to this day, first game I've ever played and still very high on my list of favorite games

@Greciler 6 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! This game has a lot of obscure mechanics.

@xXSpaceMexicanXx 5 жыл бұрын

I was pretty beast with Sub Zero I'm so happy and MK game is making it to the switch

@kevinmanga117 6 жыл бұрын

I loved this video, keep the videos coming :)!

@ToeTag9899 6 жыл бұрын

This takes me back to 2004 when I got hooked on UMK3 and was going on the MKO forums.

@GranValor97 5 жыл бұрын

Great video!! 👍🏼👍🏼

@pizzahighfive2612 3 жыл бұрын

This Arcade was so loud at the mall in the Tilt room next by the food court. As a kid, it was mesmerizing watching older teens play and everyone getting all hype.

@terrasonusmusic112 6 жыл бұрын

This was my childhood MK and its an easy favorite of mine!

@davidcox6454 5 жыл бұрын

This game has so much nostalgia for me I remember playing this for hours on SNES

@dothedew8250 5 жыл бұрын

i love anything regarding UMK3, I really hope you do an update on N64 MK trilogy. Thank you!

@thesmilingvagrants 5 жыл бұрын

You forgot to note that noob and human smoke are in regular umk3, they just don't have their own icons and you have to do some menu-ing. Sort of like picking old sagat in super turbo

@Angel0ndeado Ай бұрын

This video is a masterpiece.

@cubeuhhgaming5034 4 жыл бұрын

Ultimately the perfect Mortal Kombat game for me would be revisiting how the classic Mortal Kombat three game played but using the graphics of Mortal Kombat 11 think that will be the perfect fighting game right there and using the sound effects from Mortal Kombat two

@ShadyLizack 4 жыл бұрын

56 dislikes from people who watched the video and still don't know how the meta works, , loved the video guys keep up the good work

@khaoticjordy4779 6 жыл бұрын

Very good vid well done man

@RoyArkon 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video guys. Are you gonna do these for every main game, including the the more recent ones like MK9 and MKX?

@thetruth45678 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up on MK, cutting my teeth on the original, battling for hours with friends. I forced myself to get good at every character, never focusing too heavily on one. I eventually just went in with Shang Tsung every round and morphed to counter whomever I was up against. I was a beast. I had to tone down my play so my friends would still want to play, meaning more reliance on the basic attacks and tactics, rather than devastating combo chains and special moves. I was so familiar with the game, I could beat my opponents without even looking at the screen, just using the sound effects to go by. When a lot of us were playing, I would often throw the fight so others could fight each other, otherwise it'd be just everyone in line against me, and that's no fun.

@BrowneVisuals 3 жыл бұрын

played mk3 on my mates snes remake yesterday and i thought of this, that game is so much fun

@ScarsUnseen24 5 жыл бұрын

I'd love to have MKX-style brutalities in MK11. Such a fun, quick, and dramatic way to end a match.

@icecoldtruth3478 6 жыл бұрын

More of these, that was super interesting

@Shala69 4 жыл бұрын

Man, the MK11 mercy was a callback to this game. I didn't even know it was a thing until this video.

@956MoE 5 жыл бұрын

I remember adding shock on umk3 on xbox live. Dude was good.

@s1l3nce75 6 жыл бұрын

this was a beautiful video , like !

@dupirechristophe7703 4 жыл бұрын

Dude, the MK Trilogy Megadrive Russian hack game was nuts. The added moves and crazy combos, the energy bar that could be doubled for more intense matches. I don't care if it was a pixelated Megadrive version, I was insanely fun.

@senormarston 3 жыл бұрын

Man, I started playing UMK3 on my Super Nintendo back in the day and I still play it til' today on my XBox 360 or through the Fightcade on my PC

@alexx196z5 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Tier list next please

@WutTheDeuceGaming 4 жыл бұрын

Loved this game, and absolutely HATED it at the same time. The increasing arcade difficulty, even on the lowest difficulty, is a thing of nightmares. You want to talk about rage inducing, you're talking about MK3's arcade mode.

@VOAN 4 жыл бұрын

Remember if you beat this game on Novice you won't get to pick the more awesome Kahn's Treasure.

@PhantomSnake84 2 жыл бұрын

I actually think MK2 had far worse AI. MK3 is difficult but still felt fun and rewarding, MK2 was just bullshit, especially Liu Kang and Kitana.

@the757general2 2 жыл бұрын

MK3's A.I. can easily be cheesed even the bosses.

@keffers97 5 жыл бұрын

Idk how I got here but I loved it

@Major_Kenny 3 жыл бұрын

i have been playing MK for about 25 years and i NEVER knew that you could avoid being grabbed if you pressed back lol Can you do a video on MK Deception?

@YJSho_Nuff_ 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite online player to watch back then was Gokuren. He was super godlike in UMK3

@Th3El3ctricGh0st 6 жыл бұрын

The only mk games Ive played were Mk and Mk2 when I was a kid and then Mk9 and MkX more recently. I sucked at the game when I was younger but I still loved it.

@brunoramos9747 3 жыл бұрын

The greatest Mortal Kombat in the world besides trilogy a true Mortal Kombat fan been playing since 92

@PSM515 2 жыл бұрын

If there was a way to bring this back it would be amazing to see old fighters show off the muscle memory.

@cubeuhhgaming5034 4 жыл бұрын

Also will be interesting if they made the possibility of introducing easy fatalities like they've done in more modern Mortal Kombat games so that you don't have to remember specific input for each character when it says finish hammer her you can just basically click yes or no like Francys Square or Alex one will be S and will be now and you can continue the matter after that rematch her

@pinkpidgeon6926 6 жыл бұрын

if i want to play mk3 online now which game should i download and form where?

@Shinku4949 2 жыл бұрын

Born in 87. Even as a kid you knew the fatalities had been rushed and looked terrible compared to 2.

@cubeuhhgaming5034 4 жыл бұрын

I personally thought that ultimate Mortal Kombat three was the most balanced of the final classic Mortal Kombat games but the fact that trilogy had all the characters was a huge selling point for me and the reason why I recently purchased it for PlayStation one was because it did have all the characters if they could somehow combine the balances of ultimate with the characters being all there like trilogy And fixing things like removing the infant is it would be the perfect game hopefully they do ultimate Mortal Kombat for some day

@Capin91 Жыл бұрын

Whoops- looks like this afternoon I’m gonna learn a lot about Mk😅

@anthonytmein 3 жыл бұрын

I never understood the point of friendships or babalities bc I never played competitively. I’m just now learning that they were like sending a message.