2 was so the best
― DG, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
MOOOORTAAAAAALLL KOOOOOMBBBAAAAAATTT!!!!!!!!!
― nickalicious, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
3 had dial-a-kombos and that stupid run button and half-assed fatalities. I stopped playing there.
― abanana, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
fighting games with multiple palette swap characters are lame
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
MK3 changed it all over to dial-a-combos, which weren't nearly as satisfying. Also the character design got even worse, somehow.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
(Kitiara TROO WUV 4EVA)
http://sidewayspony.com/images/trough/production/2007/jun/11/28511_orig_purplesexyninja_20copy.jpg
― Leee, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
MKII was the SHIT, that game was so fucking awesome (Kitiara TROO WUV 4EVA)
-- HI DERE, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
lol nerdian slip
― Jordan, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
wau so thorougly pwned
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
3. 2 was decent. 3 was like "Why do all the characters STILL have all the same moves and physical strength?"
― Z S, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Definitely 3, when they started introducing the Killer Instinct-style dial-a-combo bullshit. Also the worst character designs of the entire series. Everyone looked like hair-metal video extras or American Gladiators.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
MK II is perfection. Not as deep as Street Fighter but it had great graphics and sound for the time, smooth-as-Billy Dee control and awesome fatalities.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
and also it had motherfucking Baraka
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Galaxy/2153/images/t_baraka.gif
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the Mortal Kombat movie is still probably the closest game-to-film adaptation yet.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I think MK II was one of the only games I saw people actually LINING UP to play
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link
do arcades exist anymore at all?
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
was this game always 'realistic' graphics, or did that come later?
― Ste, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 10:13 (sixteen years ago) link
From the beginning it was that weird sprites-based-on-photos style that I guess started with Pit Fighter, but that must have come to an end with the first (shitty) 3-D one.
The first bad MK game IMO was the infuriating 2D-3D Sub Zero platformer.
― antexit, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
MKII definitely is up there in terms of "introducing awesome new characters in a sequel"; I think the only other games that compete with it are Darkstalkers 2 and Viruta Fighter 2 (SF2 blows all of them away, of course).
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I think MK 3 looked really silly next to all those 3D fighters coming out at the same time.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
WAIT WAIT so all the ones past 3 are arcade?
what the fuck, am i supposed to hang out at airports or something??
― gff, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:26 AM (Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:26 AM) Bookmark Link
When Chameleon appeared late in the movie, I was all "fuck yeah, just like the game!"
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
IN MK3 YOU COULD UPPERCUT PEOPLE UP ONTO OTHER LEVELS HOW COOL WAS THAT?????????????????????????????????????????
― DG, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
all the ones past 3 came out on consoles... 4, 5, 6, 7 all on PS2 as far as i remember! maybe 4 was on ps1 but i don't think so? i can't remember
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
SF2 hardly counts as a sequel imo, the first "street fighter" was so weird and different
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:31 AM (8 hours ago)
good question. i know there's one up the top of the trocadero because fatnick and i went on a quest to play outrun 2 there
― DG, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
it all went downhill when my local corner shop got rid of its SF2 machine
there's a couple in montreal, one of which i went to and had my ass handed to me a couple of times.
it's sad because the arcade system is pretty awesome... i get to play on an arcade stick without needing to build it myself and/or pay 200 bucks, all while standing at a cabinet that i don't have to put somewhere in my house and plathe best possible version of a fighting game!
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
but MK3 loses points for switching to arabic # system
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
the terrorists have won
― DG, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
BTW I foget who linked the "lame" MK3 fatalities but that was the last Mortal Kombat that I thought had AMAZING fatalities! i mean some of the UMK3 ones are uninspired (especially lame-o ermac), but some of the actual MK3 ones, priceless. i find it weird that they had to censor out sub-zero-classic's head/spine rip fatality (due ot the controversy it caused in MK1) but some of the ones they left in are WAY creepier/more brutal, ie. stretching a dude's mouth out and pulling their skeleton out through it, leaving a pile of skin?!?! what the fuck?!?! de-spine-i-tation seems tame in comparison!!!
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Will, how long have you been in MTL? It used to be an arcade PARADISE. There were six great ones on St. Catherine that I can remember. Now it's just the one, I think, on the north side by Drummond that has all those weird horseracing games and stuff.
― antexit, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
i used to be able to play HARD DRIVIN' at the dolphin in romford :(
― DG, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i've only been here for like two years. i missed the golden age for sure. but then again i've never really looked for places, an old coworker brought me there once...
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
which MK had the Afghani guy who could drop through the bottom of the screen? that's the last one I played. it was fun. yep!
― Garrett Martin, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Afghani guy?! i have no idea what you mean! was it 3d polygons?
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Also wasn't this one of Kano's powers?
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
apparently his name was Kabal. and apparently he wasn't necessarily Afghani, but from a dusty land, and perhaps even a desert. maybe he was Bedouin?
― Garrett Martin, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Couldn't one of the robots in 3 drop through the floor too? forward forward lowkick or something?
― antexit, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Arcades died when home systems were able to meet and more or less surpass cabinet quality graphics/sound/design.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Now, the only stuff that works to keep arcades alive are "event" games, like where you go skiing... for realz! Dance Dance/Beatmania used to keep it alive, but now that people have shown a wii/guitarhero willingness to buy peripherals, that well is mostly dry too. It's down to kiddie bullshit (whackamole, skee ball, treasure claw) and retro stylee arcades to carry the torch.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Kabal was the MK3 character I'd always play as...he looked like a tusken raider from Star Wars
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
with long hair
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.mkdeception.com/downloads/MKD_wp21_800x600.jpg
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
oh lol I have never seen that guy before in my life
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
he was my guy in MK3. which I only bought due to loneliness and depression.
― Garrett Martin, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i wasn't allowed to have it or play it due to overparenting. but i bought allll the magazines for 1-3!!!
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
oh god I was in college for I and II, I old
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing wrong with that! means you got to play them when they were cool. if games were ever "cool" anyway
― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
MK2 had cool death moves and level design but actually sucked shit to an amazing extent when you were actually playing it
I mean, can run through SF2 from time to time and enjoy it but MK's just like a series of awkwardly blocked punches and annoying shouting noises
Deadly Alliance was good
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 13 March 2008 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
RONG
― latebloomer, Friday, 14 March 2008 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link
another plus to this game is that it makes it really really obvious if you have worn contact points in your controller buttons FUCK U I PRESSED A style.
― cannonball aderall (jjjusten), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely MK3. On top of having a fat cop and losing the cool ninjas in favor of dumb robots, they toned down the oriental flavor massively. The coolest thing about MK was that it was the closest to a Big Trouble in Little China fighting came you could get. MK3 just had no style.
The background were sometimes cool though. I think Ultimate MK3 was a step back in the right direction. But yeah, the cop thing really seals the deal.
Also, those fatalities, you can tell they really just didn't give a shit in MK3, reusing the same explosions-of-blood and exploding-guts animations over and over again.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 2 September 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
so many femurs
― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 September 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah otm. 2011 MK was a great return to form though!
― latebloomer, Monday, 3 September 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/5949630/sonya-blade-is-running-for-the-county-board
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/181fg6zyj1mbqjpg/original.jpg
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Monday, 8 October 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
'90s HOT: A picture thread.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 8 October 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
you guys are crazy, fatcop was the coolest thing about MK3
― frogbs, Monday, 8 October 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Drake's new album Scorpion just makes me think of this and for that alone I am thankful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrwIMYV3-A
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 July 2018 21:09 (five years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZD2RGyGX-v4/maxresdefault.jpg
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 July 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
Glancing through the early user reviews and folks, so far it seems like the new one has gone wrong in two key ways: having maddeningly onerous lootbox unlocks, and having female characters that are wearing clothes
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
http://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/382/613/352.gif
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
it’s what hr giger would have wanted
― Campaign For Dean Gaffney To Be The New James Bond (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
don't forget people are also mad at it for it making the controversial political statement of "slavery was bad"
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
i don't really follow MK these days but i think the chainsaw guy from Mandy would be a cool and fitting character for the series
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
not just that slavery is bad, but that a storyline where time travel stops slavery from ever happening somehow promotes ‘white genocide’ban videogames, honestly
― Campaign For Dean Gaffney To Be The New James Bond (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Barry on HBO sometimes feels like a sub-zero/quan chi cutscene
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
and that's all of the mortal kombat i need rn
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
the last one I played was like 10 years ago. maybe Annihilation? either way I remember that mini-adventure game tacked onto it, I was fascinated with it because of how underdeveloped it was
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
i could watch that alien-with-chainsaw gif all day
― mh, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
i played mortal kombat mythologies sub zero a lot as a kid bc i was obsessed with the cut scenes (which are... real lol to me at this point in my life) and i thought it was such a cool idea (a mortal kombat platformer *should* be a cool thing!). however: fundamentally unplayable game
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
MK11 at its core, has gone right!The abominable, tedious unlock grind and always online games-as-a-service is godawful though. I feel you could replace the term "MK11" here with so many games in 2019.Female characters ARE a lot better in this one, though credit due to MKX for starting their trend of actually designing them decently
Still, it's MK - totally worth it for the goofy single player experience even if you can't/don't want to play with others. They've been a lot better than Capcom in at least delivering that. (Though I hate that so much is gated behind the online Towers. And the AI battles are such a waste of time as much as they were in Injustice 2.)
not just that slavery is bad, but that a storyline where time travel stops slavery from ever happening somehow promotes ‘white genocide’
― Nhex, Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
it's jax's ending apparently? it rules imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
bb i'm gonna check that out
― Nhex, Sunday, 12 May 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
ha it does indeed rule
"i'm not gonna wait a few centuries for people to get woke!"
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 May 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xjlKNniLq8
Shang Tsung trailer. Sindel, Nightwolf, Spawn confirmed. The leaks with Ash and Terminator probably true. Gotta give to NRS, they do these trailers well.
― Nhex, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBa_aHwCbC4it's kind of exactly what you would've asked for if you had asked for it
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 February 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Why did so many people in this thread think the cop was fat, is this a Mandela effect thing
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 18 February 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9sJKfBM.jpgHe ain't 8-bit Mega Man, but....
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 February 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
I can't believe how many mortal kombat games there are. It's the same game, right?
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 19 February 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
Well you could say that about street fighter, tekken, king of fighters…new versions are the same but different yknow
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 19 February 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
They make a new Madden every year!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 19 February 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
Only one of those I've played are Streetfighter II. I used to like MK1 and 2 on the SNES. I getcha though, just impressed they've managed to do so many, topping them every few years like the FIFA games
Xp lol
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 19 February 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
just watched mortal kombat (2021) and honestly couldn't have asked for anything more than what i got.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 25 April 2021 03:44 (two years ago) link
sold!
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 April 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
it has:
2-3 really nicely staged and executed scenes2-3 performances with enough charisma to carry the terrible dialog (though sadly not the lead guy who is basically one of derek zoolander's model friends enlisted to act)3-4 moments that will make you go yesssssss if you have any affection at all for the games1 very funny, subtle-enough callback to the gameplay of the first couple editions that should make you smile
as an object of IP care and feeding it does more than enough
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 25 April 2021 03:59 (two years ago) link
so cheesy, total fan service. story very clunky, but as B-grade schlock, good!
― Nhex, Monday, 26 April 2021 03:51 (two years ago) link
Sounds good to me. I am a fan of the very silly '95 movie and was worried this was going to be like a Zack Snyder take on the IP
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, 26 April 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
yeah I just assumed that what this movie was gonna be so I didn't have much interest in seeing it. if it's ridiculous and stupid I might watch it after all.
― frogbs, Monday, 26 April 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
there are some funny moments but i was frequently bored. suffered from a lack of lambert. all the casting is terrible imo.
― adam, Monday, 26 April 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
Watched it last night. While it *was* stupid, it also wasn't very much fun outside of a handful of the fight scenes. I feel like this property would be better served Netflix Castlevania-style as an OTT gory animated series.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link