What Mortal Kombat Is

Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?

  • YES!

    Votes: 10 58.8%

  • No, shut up!

    Votes: 7 41.2%
  • Total voters
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MoonEye821

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One of the biggest complaints I have with the Mortal Kombat fan-base, and with the video game community at large, is that they forget what Mortal Kombat is. Mortal Kombat is a fighting parody. A parody is a form of media that pokes comical fun at another form of media. Mortal Kombat, initially, was a quick project that was put together and shipped out. Little did Midway know it would become their name-brand. What is the greatest parody of all? BLOOD!!!!!!! Before Mortal Kombat, no video game company really had the balls to make a fighter with blood. And, more to the point, death. Making a bloody fighter was, in and of itself, the ultimate parody they could have committed. As such, a strange and wonderful thing happened. To many people, the parody game became more popular and more loved than the, "true fighters." That was back in the 90's, a time of innocence. Before fighting games competed against each other. Before the industry was so large. Back when a game could be made, and played, and enjoyed. And maybe I was the innocence back then and there where always pr***-critics. But, whatever the event, it felt a lot simpler. I saw a cool game and played it. I would compare video games ratings to fashion. Something a lot of people fallow but has no real point to it. So what if Tekken is rated better than MK? So what if Street Fighter was too? So damn what if they are "better" games, with "better" graphics, and "better" engines? I'll tell you some things they are NOT. They are NOT more imaginative, far from it. They are NOT more epic, not even close. And by far they are NOT funer. They are BORING AS ALL HELL ROLLED UP INTO A RUG AND BEAT WITH A BASE-BALL BAT! I've tried other fighters in the arcades a bit. I felt like falling asleep. Most of the characters where boring, lifeless, without emotion, passion, or conviction. The fighting engine, maybe "better and smoother," was not fun. There was little to no blood, which sucks Donkey ****. And I ALWAYS had the knawing and tormenting feeling in my soul of, "Wow, if this arcade didn't suck I could be playing a Mortal Kombat right now." So screw the freakin ratings. Up theirs, for the freakin critics. And the protest groups can roll over and suffocate on the cow their having. I don't want a "better" fighting game. I don't want a "smoother" engine. I don't want "more realistic" characters. I don't want the "best the industry has to offer." Do you know what I want? I want a game that is fun, damn it! And Mortal Kombat beats the pants off every single one of the competition in that department. The other fighters take themselves too seriously, which makes them feel serious, which makes them feel stuffy and boring, which makes them, to spite their "advancements" bad as frick.

I don't know if I will get a hoorah or a ban for making this topic. I just am sick everyone complaining about MK so much and want people to realize that it is the greatest, and to bow to it again. Just wanted to know if anyone else felt this way too.
 
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Actually, I'm pretty sure there were games which had some form of gore before Mortal Kombat (though not to that extent) can't think of any off the top of my head though.
 
yes, yes a thousand times yes! I HATE when people take these games so serious! "oooh look at the graphics, the realistic sweat, the bruising! look at the wavy hair strands and whatnot!" I say FVCK ALL THAT SHXt!!!! I want a game, not a mechanics demo. I mean, if you can get the game to be really fun FIRST, and then put the rest of that stuff in, fine, but it's not essential to fun.
 
Dude, I totally feel you on that one. Although, I like all fighting games, MK has always and will always be my fav.
 
Mortal kombat is my favourite fighting game but its not enough any more to point at it and say wow thats hilarious, pity about the game play. At first mortal kombat was a quick project a parody of other fighting games as you say, but now that mortal kombat is one of the largest fighters in the world it is no longer enough. It's become mainstream and as such is now open for parody and ridicule itself. Years of Mortal Kombat has given it's inherant dark humour less impact and can no longer rely upon this core theme to push forward the franchise on its own. It all comes down to gameplay if mortal kombat wants to compete it has build on its playability which since mk4 has been sub standard.
 
Simply put, Mortal Kombat is not for fighting game fans. Mortal Kombat is for Mortal Kombat fans.
 
Definitely. I don't play MK for it's gameplay (though it is VERY fun) I play it for the characters I love and the mythos I can study. I love to analyze MK even more than I like to play it. It has one of the most involved stories of any game franchise.
 
I love the 2D MK games and MK is one of my favourite series but everyone has an opinion of their own and not everyone thinks MK is so great they should "bow down" to it. It's a great game but not everyone has to love it.
 
Shao Khan said:
MoonEye821,you couldnt of said that better!..I love you hahaha
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HEY! Where's MY props?! :P

XxJadexX said:
I love the 2D MK games and MK is one of my favourite series but everyone has an opinion of their own and not everyone thinks MK is so great they should "bow down" to it. It's a great game but not everyone has to love it.
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Very true... but I haven't heard anyone yet in this thread that says anyone should "bow down" to MK. However, a lot of people give it a bad rep, not because of any technical issues (I know there ARE some), but ONLY because it ISN'T Street Fighter or it ISN'T Tekken... If anything, I've been trying to get the point across that no one should be so judgemental, whether they like the game or not.

... fortunately, I DO. :)
 
juergen said:
Other games had blood and guts before Mortal Kombat 1. Mortal Kombat 1, 2, and 3 were not because of the fatalities. It was because they had a deep storyline that seemed more or less believable. With the ancient Far East Asian mythologies and kung fu movie parodies and just the ancient Far East in general sush as a shaolin tournament.

Also, during MK1 and MK2 they had the Highlander and Kung-Fu series parallel Mortal Kombat. They had that one episode with Chu lin and Kiem Sun. Kiem Sun was like a Shang Tsung and Chu Lin was like a Liu Kang. Props included stuff from MK1 as well like the Yin/Yang symbol, etc.
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I agree with you half-way... I think that the Fatalities ARE what made the games famous. I mean, back when I was young and playing MK1-2 in the arcade, people never asked, "How do you do this move?" They asked, "How do you do this Fatality?"

I believe, however, that the story and mythology is what has given MK its lasting power. No one would play the games anymore if there wasn't anything interesting about the characters. In fact, the storyline is my favorite part of the MK games and probably will continue to be.

In an older interview (I believe it's on MK : DA, if I'm not mistaken, but I could be), Ed Boon said that the inspiration for MK1 was actually John Carpenter's "Big Trouble in Little China." If you haven't seen that movie, you definitely should give it a watch. Rayden = Lightning; Liu Kang = Wang; Shang Tsung = Lo Pan... Etc.
 
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