if you took the over the top fatlitys out of mortal kombat your left with a very shallow plain boring arcade fighter with terrible controls
but at the same time mortal kombat gave us the violence we see in video games today it was a land mark title for video games in general
but from my perspective an many other arcade fighter purist's its gameplay sucks the big one compared to street fighter
its more about what era you were in , what your arcade owner liked more , what type of players were around your local arcade , an as always what you enjoyed playing the most
they are both great games in there own right but i just love street fighter cant get enough of it