WHERE DID MORTAL KOMBAT GO WRONG

IMO MK2 > UMK3 > MK > MK3

the rest, haven't played

UMK3 added back some stuff that was good with MK2, but by then the franchise had already turned and a lot of people had walked away before it came out.

imo ultimate MK3 > MK ultra

the mortal kombat movie is awesome. up there with the sf animated movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MqZn7E-mk&feature=player_embedded

lol! Michael Jai White and Jeri Ryan (guess she ain't doing much these days)

MK Rebirth movie demo is very cheesy but I would probably rent it if it was all like that.

And today:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/10/wbs-new-mortal-kombat-tests-our-might-in-2011/

how did mortal kombat go right twice in the same week?

haha, i know!

i also like that they're going back to ripping off what SF is doing, MK vs DC was ehh

lol, that actually looks... OK!

i just noticed the fat cop (Stryker) in the movie test around 30 seconds in

ha, i'd love to see how'd they do a "dark n gritty" raiden

FIND SHANG TSUNG AND FINISH HIM

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man the first mortal kombat movie was awesome, no matter what anybody says. probably the greatest thing that could ever happen to a 9 year old

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs21/f/2007/244/1/6/Baraka_Obama_with_Background_by_Methados.jpg

I don't think I'm down with this whole 'realistic dork knight' mortal kombat. MK is all about opening up portals to other dimensions and shit. how the hell are they going to explain goro? why is scorpion speaking? why does he not have a huge flaming head on his neck? wtf is deacon city?

how did they show an entire fight with johnny cage without showing the ball punch?

YOU HAVE TO SAVE SOMETHING FOR THE SPECIAL FEATURES ON THE DVD

I HAVE DECIDED TO ONLY TYPE IN ALL CAPS ON THIS THREAD

xp maybe reptile is secretly a woman

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-new-mortal-kombat-teaser-is-an-extreme-fatalit,41940/

the new MK is supposedly a retelling of MK1-3

http://i50.tinypic.com/280rvnp.gif

whoah

http://i45.tinypic.com/10z1lie.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6UiEuCYXA

Rebirth is being made into this miniseries called Legacy. Includes gunkata and Helo from BSG.

just the right level of camp, imo

The new game looks like it might be fun, there's one fatality that features somebody being slow-clapped with their own severed hands

demo was very much like playing mk2 which is good news really

yeah. this is the first time i've been stoked about anything mk related in years. hope it's worth buying used, at the very least!

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/04/8_mortal_kombat_characters_that_are_goofy_even_by.php

lol "kurtis stryker"

http://www.writeups.org/img/fiche/2513.jpg

Meat?

I'm too layzee to start it myself but there needs to be a thread on ILG about the best/worst hidden playable video game characters

Complete with the backwards <s>cap</s> kap!

You talking a poll or a regular thread?

Helo from BSG a definite improvement from the old Stryker

Piece on this in today's NYT

Really? Where? I saw the bit on game ratings.

So I picked this up yesterday. It's a blast, especially if you liked the first two games. Going back to 2-D was a great move. Story mode is actually really entertaining (albeit hella cheesy, but it's MK so that's a given).

the Shaolin Monks game was really good, especially if you loved MK2 like I did; just nonstop action, Die Hard Arcade style

lol Johnny Cage is a reality star!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqlaU5OMsks&feature=player_embedded#at=10

justin wong won the $10000 mk9 tournament prize. i bet he never plays mk again.

oh man, the new game is so wonderfully stupid. i'm amazed they put this much effort into such an idiotic story, and i love it.

Yeah I got the new one yesterday for cheap and it is pretty goddamn awesome

yeah this was definitely one of the year's pleasant surprises

the story mode is what my 12-year-old self really wanted out of the movie

the movie was awesome fuiud

i think the soundtrack was one the first cds i bought with my own money. lol

MORTAL WOMMMMBAAAAT

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.

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.