Word. My jaw hit the floor the first time I stood in front of MK1. MK2 perfected what MK1 started. MK3, in my opinion, was a step backwards. UMK3 was better, but MK4 saved the series.
How can the game be a step backwards when every single thing about it was a step forward except the fatality animations? Here you throw around the phrase "in my opinion" but you jumped on me in another thread for stating facts that refute your weak opinion. Then you say MK4 SAVED the series which is beyond comprehension, it is actually a lie. "It is my opinion that the sky is orange." That's all well and good, but it's very same thing as saying "MK4 saved the series." It is a fact that it took them 5 years to come out with a new MK game concept after MK4 because the franchise was in such shambles from the ultimate failure that was MK4 and G. They even said they waited that long because of saturation of the old games.
MK4's arcade scene was heavy at first but with arcade already on life support, its time was limited. People (MKII fans) seem to recall that MKII was some huge arcade success even if they aren't old enough to have witnessed it, experienced it, or participated in it, but there is a chance MK4 made more money in arcades than MKII did. I don't know how to really explain that to you because you're going to believe whatever you want to believe.
I'm glad you could somehow figure out that UMK3 was better than MK3 but I can bet it's got something to do with a yellow ninja being selectable, or something to that effect, and not the number of gameplay enhancements that came along with UMK3 over MK3. It's amazing that you say MKII perfected what MK1 started, but MKII wasn't done. It was far from perfect. I was one of those people who when first playing MK3, realized what was missing from MK1 and MKII, and that's enjoyment in actually playing the game vs people. You can do so much more in MK3 and UMK3 than you can in MK1 and MKII, and yet, you can do everything you could in MK1 and MKII as well, you just need a little discipline and not utilize the new, and necessary features.
It's unfortunate to see some new person come along and just try to wreak havoc in some old threads like this, but you're not the first and sadly won't be the last. I've had debates on virtually every MK forum about this very topic, usually 1 or 2 guys, probably the game guys on multiple forums just trying to get people to support them. It never works.
