Over evolution destroyed those games the only reason I picked up armageddon was for the UMK3 extra but I’m sick of everyone on this forum downing MK grow up. all 3D MK=suck but lay off the first 3
Please wipe the sand out of your vagina.
Yeah but none are built around lame, childish gimmicks like violence & gore. This wouldn’t be a problem if that wasn’t the PRIMARY selling point/appeal.
Every time i see one of the newer fatality’s i can’t help but imagine that this game is being designed with slack-jawed retards as their audience.
'cause who cares if the fighting system is complete garbage as long as you get to wank off on the ridiculous gore right?
Not a MK fan I take it? UMK3 was Excellent it had fatalities sure its MK it was gonna(a bit campy that time though) but thats no reason to hate on it. it wasn’t perfect but it was one of the better fighting games to come out of the 90’s. and saying it’s designed with slack jawed retards in mind would be like saying SF4 was designed with Anime loving preteen boys in mind. Why all the animosity?
Isn’t the whole point of this thread about how much we are hoping the fighting system isn’t garbage and actually good this time?
Of course,the violence and gore doesn’t hurt for casual buyers.
some people can’t help but slam something, guess they have nothing better to do. it looks like this MK will actually redeem the series and some people don’t want to think of MK as ever being able to match SF
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It’d be pretty funny if they have Robotic Smoke and the Fatality that blows up the earth again.
That would be sweet. they said characters would be changed because of some timeline shift. I think it would be cool if they had Kabal with no mask
UMK3 was a long, loooong time ago and the 90’s are long gone. My posts are mainly directed towards the recent titles and their suckitude.
My animosity stems from the feeling that the morons in charge of this and all other MK games of the last 12 or so years, seem completely stuck in the past!!
It’s like talking to one of those old granpa types who thinks he knows “what dem kids nowadays like yer”. However he is just totally out of touch, the days of dumb violence making a game wildly successful are over.
Thats the MK team: Either A) Not getting the hint and still thinking all they need is that right amount of dumb violence to grab back their glory days, or B) not even giving a damn and just trying to squeeze that last bit of cash from the ol’nostalgia cow.
I WISH they’d follow Capcom’s example and come around, realizing that a GOOD QUALITY game is what will sell million upon million, and gain respect back to the franchise.
I hate to see a classic property bitched with terrible game after terrible game, because idiots are in charge either don’t know what works or just don’t care. Just keep running the franchise into the ground.
The violence is how they pay the bills. If they didn’t have it all the mindless drones wouldn’t buy it. And those drones buy a lot. They are the same people that bought DOA for boobs, SF because they played it in the arcade when they were 7, GG because they think anime is just so OMG^_^ cool and will buy MvC3 because Deadpool talks to the players.
So thats an excuse for them not even trying to put out a good quality game anymore?
Street Fighter may have also relied on the nostalgia factor to get today’s gamer to give it a chance also, but then they backed it up with great gameplay afterwards.
You didnt distinguish MK games you just said MK I’ll admit that MK4-armageddon were horrible but is it so hard to believe that this mk will be good?
Looks like it won’t be THAT broken and it’s good to see they got with the times and replaced the run button with dashing. I had a premonition that MK would take the SFIV route and that’s what happened, it’s like we’ve gone full circle.
Yes! A LONG-TERM track record of garbage can only expect more garbage.
I have my share of MK nostalgia from back in the day as well, but that never takes the sting away from a crappy game.
Its the sonic cycle only with MK:
we just have to wait and hope they dont fuck up. although im not sure what to suggest since i only played mk for fun. so i dont have any say on what they could do to make this a good mortal kombat game.
still i love the mortal kombat universe, and im hoping this will be a good.
I’m still trying to see who’s put a gun to your head, because if you really feel that you’re not going to like it then don’t play it. Even veterans like EWAShock, Tim Static, MKHanzo and others have less negative things to say than you do and they actually know real shit about the MK games.
You’re just another person with an opinion on a game that actually seems to be shaping up nicely. Let’s face it, MK Vs DC looked shit to begin with but it didn’t stop millions of people buying it and that game didn’t even have that gore factor you hate so much. Myself and others feel that this game has the potential to be fun ‘AND’ competitive at the same time. Why do you feel you need to be heard so much? FFS…
No, not an excuse, just an explanation of why violence is in there. If it didn’t have MK style violence I don’t think it would make much of a difference to the gameplay. You are just creating a false dilemma by assuming the violence is why the games haven’t been good.
The games not being good quality, I believe, is because Ed Boon and his team don’t know how to make a good quality game. I think there is still a chance they’ll stumble onto something with MK9 but I won’t believe it until its been out for a few weeks and a bunch of people have played it. We could always end up with another UMK3, but that seems about as likely as a versus game with 6 attack buttons now :-/
Same for a Sonic fan who wishes the newer games wouldn’t be so craptacular as well.
Though i’m nowhere remotely near the MK fan that i used to be, all the recent boatload of garbage titles with no sign of changing broke me of that.
Shaolin monks was surprisingly good, but that was that.
No… just no.
I have little actual faith in this game. I think, at best, it’ll be a good “launcher” game to one day get MK’s gameplay up to the standards of its peers.
However, what I bolded above is hating just to hate. It’s perhaps the dumbest MK criticism I’ve heard; it’s just bullshit. How is Mileena ripping someone’s head off and chewing on the neck (or ANY new fatality we’ve seen) over the top, yet Mileena sucking up someone’s whole body and spitting out the bones is the reasonable simplicity of the “old days?”
MK has been “gayed up to extremes” on gore for the past 18 years. The main difference between then and now is that the gore is realistic. This is the best we’ve seen fatalities look presentation-wise, yet you have to complain “too much” when they’re actually tame (concept-wise) compared to previous games (even MK2-MK3).
MK has burned away my faith in it in the past, but even I can give credit where credit is due.