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11/20/08
11/20/08
Thanks so much Kotaku, for saving me money this holiday season. I'm staying the hell away from this one. I mean come on, 'Heroic Brutality'? I think the only fatalities that seemed cool to me, albeit subtle, were from Deathstroke. That guy seemed to enjoy it.
Mortal Kombat is officially dead to me now. I'm so glad I own MK II - memories of a better time, when developers teetered on the controversial edge of gaming, instead of cowering into their conservative hole they now hide in.
11/20/08
11/20/08
Waaaaaaaaa...No blood! I needs bloods to enjoy MK! I needs gores and boneses and headses being ripped off!
I enjoy the gameplay mechanic of MK. It's not as fluid as Soul Caliber or Virtua Fighter...but I never really liked Virtua Fighter. Perhaps that's why.
I'll still be renting this one.
11/20/08
eeeeggh..
11/20/08
The Flash's fatality reminded me of Killer Instinct. I almost expected a "Ultra COMBOOOO!!" scream at the end.
My fave ones were Baraka's first where he twisted his enemy's tits until they died. And Batman's grappling hook one where he sodomized Wonder Woman til' she croaked.
11/19/08
Everything else was mehhhh.
11/19/08
People have been calling this outcome for months. All of our initial fears were clearly justified. Maybe the developers can learn a valuable lesson: if you have to spend as much time justifying your creative choices as you spent designing the game, you've probably already failed...
11/19/08
11/19/08
11/19/08
Those moves completely [i]suck[/i]!
Okay, there's two or three that were kinda cool, but not nearly cool enough to make up for how completely lame and bland this came out to be.
11/19/08
HEROIC BRUTALITY
11/19/08
11/19/08
So it's less about Midway wanting to turn MK into a T-rated game...and more about bending over for DC to make this game work.
It was still a terrible idea. Gut the piece that made MK stand out, all for a one-off like this.
BAAAAAD idea. Because when they try to do the next "real" MK game, this is going to be fresh in people's minds.
11/19/08
11/19/08
I mean
3D we have Tekken, Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter
2D we have Guilty Gear, King of Fighters, Street Fighter
Whats left is there for MK to bring to the table?
It was cool long ago but I just don't get why its still around.
11/19/08
11/19/08
Can somebody get that Fatality against Superman so we can put a stamp on how bad of an idea this game ended up being.
11/21/08
The Green Lantern power is based solely on strength of will. If you're so exhausted that you can barely stand up, your strength of will is pretty much shot, so yeah, a bullet could probably take you down. Alternately, one could argue that if you hit a point where you can achieve a fatality against GL, then obviously his ring's charge was on the verge of expiring, so you just got lucky about what time of day you got to fight him.