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Sometimes I get bored and pop on the console to play a game. I got stuff like Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur 4, Brutal Legend, stuff like that. I don't play the PS3 very often (it's my sisters plus I can only play it at night) and yeah I'm not afraid to admit I'm a casual gamer when it comes to PS3 games.

But people just play like Grade A pricks. I bought Mortal Kombat on my birthday cause I use to play MK3 all the time when I was a kid, I figured it'll be fun, and I wouldn't miss much since they reboot the story. I enjoy the single player fun and became pretty decent with Mileena so I decide to play online.

Playing online is probably one of the biggest mistakes you can make in Fighting games. Just like in any Fighting game most players choose the exact same characters.Everyone in MK either picks Scorpion, Cyrax, Kung Lao, Noob Saibot, or Kano with the intentions of spamming the same moves that are unblockable or otherwise hard as hell to block.

Oh and god help you if you lose to a spammer, cause afterwards in the chat channel they will brag as if they are kings of the freakin universe. ( OH and you can't swear in the Mortal Kombat Chats...You get these **** symbols when you curse, unless you misspell the cursing. )

This problem isn't MK alone, it seems everyone uses the exact same characters in other Fighting games too. For me the real question is "Why bother playing online!?" Sure you can have fun playing these games against others in parties and stuff (Especially MK and expose newbies to the gore filled fatalities xD) but in general, playing online seems pretty pointless. Your either going to fight oceans of the same character, OR spammers, sometimes both.