WHERE DID MORTAL KOMBAT GO WRONG

i didn't know any of them past 3 existed, so kudos to their marketing ppl

shaolin monks was fucking awesome

imo it was MK4 although MK3 is very close. MK1 was dope, MK2 was also dope. the rest... well, i liked the post-apocalypse thing, but who gives a fuck about a kurt stryker

xp haha gff

(The one where they added a fat cop)

so much truth here

I enjoyed I and II but they were minor pleasures compared to SFII etc. because the gameplay nuance just wasn't there. Never played anything after III.

MKII was the SHIT, that game was so fucking awesome (Kitiara TROO WUV 4EVA)

i hear that, polyphonic re: street fighter beating it, but i have to admit a guilty pleasure of mine is keeping up on mortal kombat's COMPLETELY FUCKING LUDICROUS storylines. WAY more entertaining than "yet another robot cyborg from shadaloo." Seriously, each MK character's wiki page is, like, 5 pages long. its AWESOME.

Also whose wiki articles are in the running for the dryest shit on wikipedia to hilarious effect. this is from reptile's page...

RECURRING FATALITIES
# Tasty Meal: Reptile takes off his mask, revealing a reptilian face. He then opens his mouth and stretches out his long tongue, sticking it to his victim's head, then quickly retracts it, ripping off the head and eating it. Reptile then rubs his stomach, giving a satisfied "Mmmm..." noise. In Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Reptile also eats his opponent's abdomen and legs after eating their head, and does not rub his stomach. (MKII, UMK3, MKT, MK:SM)
# Hidden Chop: Reptile turns invisible, then rips or cuts off his opponent's torso before reappearing. How this is done is not precisely explained. (MKII, MK:SM)

Seriously one-two punch of LOLs there.

i don't think i played any of them after II, so that must mean 3 is the answer.

2 was so the best

MOOOORTAAAAAALLL KOOOOOMBBBAAAAAATTT!!!!!!!!!

3 had dial-a-kombos and that stupid run button and half-assed fatalities. I stopped playing there.

fighting games with multiple palette swap characters are lame

MK3 changed it all over to dial-a-combos, which weren't nearly as satisfying. Also the character design got even worse, somehow.

(Kitiara TROO WUV 4EVA)

http://sidewayspony.com/images/trough/production/2007/jun/11/28511_orig_purplesexyninja_20copy.jpg

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

wau so thorougly pwned

3. 2 was decent. 3 was like "Why do all the characters STILL have all the same moves and physical strength?"

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.

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.

and also it had motherfucking Baraka

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Galaxy/2153/images/t_baraka.gif

I think the Mortal Kombat movie is still probably the closest game-to-film adaptation yet.

I think MK II was one of the only games I saw people actually LINING UP to play

do arcades exist anymore at all?

was this game always 'realistic' graphics, or did that come later?

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.

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).

I think MK 3 looked really silly next to all those 3D fighters coming out at the same time.

WAIT WAIT so all the ones past 3 are arcade?

what the fuck, am i supposed to hang out at airports or something??

I think the Mortal Kombat movie is still probably the closest game-to-film adaptation yet.

-- 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!"

IN MK3 YOU COULD UPPERCUT PEOPLE UP ONTO OTHER LEVELS HOW COOL WAS THAT?????????????????????????????????????????

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

SF2 hardly counts as a sequel imo, the first "street fighter" was so weird and different

do arcades exist anymore at all?

-- 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

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!

but MK3 loses points for switching to arabic # system

the terrorists have won

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, 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.

i used to be able to play HARD DRIVIN' at the dolphin in romford :(

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...

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!

Afghani guy?! i have no idea what you mean! was it 3d polygons?

Also wasn't this one of Kano's powers?

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?

Couldn't one of the robots in 3 drop through the floor too? forward forward lowkick or something?

Arcades died when home systems were able to meet and more or less surpass cabinet quality graphics/sound/design.

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

crying-eagle.jpg

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

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

mortal kombat se7en mma

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.

so many femurs

Yeah otm. 2011 MK was a great return to form though!

http://kotaku.com/5949630/sonya-blade-is-running-for-the-county-board

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/181fg6zyj1mbqjpg/original.jpg

'90s HOT: A picture thread.

you guys are crazy, fatcop was the coolest thing about MK3

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

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZD2RGyGX-v4/maxresdefault.jpg

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

http://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/382/613/352.gif

it’s what hr giger would have wanted

don't forget people are also mad at it for it making the controversial political statement of "slavery was bad"

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

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

Barry on HBO sometimes feels like a sub-zero/quan chi cutscene

and that's all of the mortal kombat i need rn

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

i could watch that alien-with-chainsaw gif all day

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

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’

it's jax's ending apparently? it rules imo

bb i'm gonna check that out

ha it does indeed rule

"i'm not gonna wait a few centuries for people to get woke!"

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBa_aHwCbC4
it's kind of exactly what you would've asked for if you had asked for it

Why did so many people in this thread think the cop was fat, is this a Mandela effect thing

https://i.imgur.com/9sJKfBM.jpg
He ain't 8-bit Mega Man, but....

I can't believe how many mortal kombat games there are. It's the same game, right?

Well you could say that about street fighter, tekken, king of fighters…new versions are the same but different yknow

They make a new Madden every year!

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

just watched mortal kombat (2021) and honestly couldn't have asked for anything more than what i got.

sold!

it has:

2-3 really nicely staged and executed scenes
2-3 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 games
1 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

so cheesy, total fan service. story very clunky, but as B-grade schlock, good!

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

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.

there are some funny moments but i was frequently bored. suffered from a lack of lambert. all the casting is terrible imo.

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.