WHERE DID MORTAL KOMBAT GO WRONG

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.

Kabal was the MK3 character I'd always play as...he looked like a tusken raider from Star Wars

with long hair

http://www.mkdeception.com/downloads/MKD_wp21_800x600.jpg

oh lol I have never seen that guy before in my life

he was my guy in MK3. which I only bought due to loneliness and depression.

i wasn't allowed to have it or play it due to overparenting. but i bought allll the magazines for 1-3!!!

oh god I was in college for I and II, I old

nothing wrong with that! means you got to play them when they were cool. if games were ever "cool" anyway

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

MK2 had cool death moves and level design but actually sucked shit to an amazing extent when you were actually playing it

RONG

lol wtf @ ~2:30

err: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keIcdqP0Zz8

Even the fonts in MK3 were lamer... it is silly how the controversy after MK1 made it so they avoided bringing back the spine-ripping until MK4.

Also LOL at both that weird ass Fatality you picked and maskless Sub Zero.

talk about a "fist of doom"

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Ha ha, no one's played any since the ps1 days I see

Rightly so!

Actually, I think the realy tipping point was mixing noob sibot and smoke into "noob-smoke"

it just wasn't believable anymore

and then 9/11 happened

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXZpGsvWi8

uh, MK vs. DC is really damn good! Granted I haven't played a MK (or any non-Smash Bros fighting game) in like 13 years, and I am solely interested in the DC stuff, but this is both fun and solidly put together. Feels like a true MK despite being 3D. And Captain Marvel's Kingdom Come lightning blast move is awesome.

dude, this totally sounds like a gamestop user review.

MK3 is the best one, you fools.

guys, can we talk about this

it's p. important

that sub-zero was the hottest sub-zero. and the robots--cyrax, sector, smoke--were all awesome

loooool @ that video. dude sounds like scooby doo whenever he falls off a cliff.

morlol kombat ending is kinda... sad.

honestly i am cracking up here just thinking of that sound

hahaha poor Sonya

THIS IS NOT A BRU TA LI TY
THIS IS A FA TA LI TY

the cup is only being filled for the chance to have it spilled

I feel like I could write some funny Zizek-esque explication of that clip, but I'm too tired right now to think. But how about this; We expect Jared to die in the first sequence when Sonya has thrown him off the cliff, but he subverts our expectations and throws her off instead. But, because the medium feels guilty for mocking our expectations (and MK is all about obvious payoff), Jared must still die to Jax in the next sequence. This both revenges the feminine (Sonya), but also sets everything right once more. We expected Jared to die and so he must die. This is, in fact, the meaning of Mortal Kombat. Subtlety is eschewed in favor of gore and fatalities (for which the series was critiqued historically) - it's not merely an adolescent fantasy world, but a fantasy world about completion and expectation. What happens is what always must have happened.

This is, in fact, why the friend-alities are the most subversive aspect of MK. Except, of course, for the baby-alities. (Contrast this to the DC world where storylines and comics extend for hundreds of issues over decades. MK V. DC is actually a battle between completion/resolution and unending non-linearity.)

they are called FRIENDHIPs

The truth is, I always sucked at MK because I couldn't remember the really complicated moves.

i just ordered mk trilogy for playstation (i just got a ps2 for free so am buying some games for it). i hope its as good as i remember playing it in the arcades (and not a weird revamp). wondering if i should gt mk alliance.

The results of this poll are so so rong. MK3 is awesome u haterz

no, pretty sure it sucks goat balls

that is ONE FATALITY and people can't forget it

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

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.