Ok, I've been playing the demo for a few days now and I want your opinion on this... 
 
Is Johnny Cage too good?   
 
To me, who is traditionally a Subzero/Scorpion/Raiden guy that hates Johnny cage, after playing him in the demo he seems much, much faster than anyone else. The ninjas are kind of slow, with to many animations per attack, but johnny is fast and snappy. 
 
Is it just me or is he way over-balanced in the demo? 
 
Hopefully this will be fixed when the game comes out.

I heard from a guy that they've re-balanced things a lot since the build that the demo is. I doubt he'll be over-powered or anything in the final version of the game. 

The demo is not final code.  Ed Boon has stated in interviews that the character balance in the demo was already outdated when it was published.
 
This of course does not mean that Johnny Cage nor any other character will be overpowered when the final game ships, but don't judge a character's abilities relative to the others on the demo; particularly when the demo has only four characters.

ahh good.  Thats what I was hoping you'd say.

 @Stonyman65:  After playing quite a bit of the demo and having a chance to play with a couple of different people for a few hours, I really don't think he is unbalanced. His X-ray is a counter, and a vary obvious one at that. his fire ball is weak at midrange, and  his normal don't do that much damage. In fact I would say he needs more tools to allow his to move forward safely.

I just hope they take the direction of MvC3 by making every character ungodly broken, rather than going SSFIV nerf-hammer on this game. 

I'm pretty sure Boon has even specifically said they know Cage is overpowered in that build.

" @Stonyman65:   I was kind of under the impression that Scorpion was to strong.  It might just be my bias as he's the only character I could really wrap my brain around. "

Maybe they made him more powerful for the demo cos everyone is obviously gonna play SubZero and Scorpion.

" @SirOptimusPrime:  I think I remember hearing from Jeff on the podcast that that was what they are doing. If a character is too powerful, raise everyone else to meet him instead of knocking him down. Should be fun, if not tournament worthy. Which is fine. I want MK to be fun. "

I hear that Stryker is God Tier.

I didn't really notice any balance issues with anyone in the demo. If I had to say anyone was slightly OP it would be Scorpion, but that is just from my experiences. Sub-zero and Mileena felt perfect to me. I'm sure the guys at NR are aware of any balance issues and will be fixed by the time the game launches.

" I just hope they take the direction of MvC3 by making every character ungodly broken, rather than going SSFIV nerf-hammer on this game.  "

" I hear that Stryker is God Tier. "

" @bartok said:

" I hear that Stryker is God Tier. "

If he's not, I'm not buying the game.  "

The demo version is a very old build of the game, so don't worry about balance related things. It's just to get a feel for how the game plays and the basics of the gameplay systems. 

" @SirOptimusPrime said:

" I just hope they take the direction of MvC3 by making every character ungodly broken, rather than going SSFIV nerf-hammer on this game.  "

I think that's the philosophy.  I remember hearing that somewhere, either the Bombcast or Mr. Boon himself. "

" @csl316 said:

" @SirOptimusPrime said:

" I just hope they take the direction of MvC3 by making every character ungodly broken, rather than going SSFIV nerf-hammer on this game.  "

I think that's the philosophy.  I remember hearing that somewhere, either the Bombcast or Mr. Boon himself. "

Please, no.  I played MvC3 for a week and I haven't touched it since. That game is unplayable. I hate fighting games that are about laughing at how cheap you were with the tapped-in combo that you found most people don't know how to counter.   Anyway, I've only played the demo against the AI so far, but it seemed to me that Cage just had more natural flowing combos, so it was easy to pull them off, but Scorpion felt faster than him to me. Without versus play it's a bit hard to tell if there are any imbalances. Sub-Zero did feel like he was too slow to pull off freezing moves, though. "

I usually play as Scorpion and I'm able to keep pace with my roomies who are both WAY more experienced with the game no matter who they choose. So either the game is more intuitive to pick up (cause they usually work me over in SSFIV) or Scorpion is overpowered. Or both.

I played around a bit with all four and found Sub-Zero to be the best. Dunno how well his Ground Freeze will work as a feint from an Ice Ball (since you can't trick the CPU with it), but other than that his combos take away a fair bit, his IceBall is a good projectile whilst his Ice Beam is fantastic, and his clones are pretty good for keeping attacks like Scorpion's Teleport Punches and Mileena's Teleport Kick out of the way (although they also make the CPU spam like a bitch).