Decisions made by MK Team you hate

Agree massively on the 'create a fatality.' It just seemed so lazy not to include individual fatalities, but hey they tried something different.

I wouldn't call this a 'hate' since it was still great, but I would have liked more from the MK 9 storymode rather than to watch it unfold and then fight each battle. The whole week leading up to MK 9 I was rabid for getting my hands on the game. When I got it I just couldn't put the controller down, so the storymode was basically completed in one sitting. I'd really love to see a return of the Konquest mode. I love the free roaming. Deception Konquest was absolutely fantastic. I loved all the interacting. Having to be in specific places at specific times for chests to appear made it so much more exciting. I also loved travelling between realms and bumping into characters that weren't even in the game. I guess since the game has returned to 2D fighting, perhaps the aspect of free roaming is gone.

Also in relation to the last point, I don't really like when they give us the whole roster to begin with. I prefer to work for some characters
 
Omitting Scorpion from Original MK3
Nerfing the Ice Clone from UMK3 onward
Making the Ice Clone available to only ONE Sub-Zero variation in MKX
Kreate-a-Kharacter
Kreate-a-Fatality
Killing off most of the heroic fan favorites in MK9
Making Goro and Shao Kahn exclusive to the GameCube port
Giving what should've been Scorpion's Animality to SHEEVA!


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Kickinwing420 said:
Id like to add to the Reptile devolution thing.
I feel like it was a great idea, they just had a really bad execution.
They could have kept his ninja look, then added to it....

Like a ninja Reptile with a tail ripping out of his back, and a wide open mouth with his tounge all hanging out and acid dripping down his face.
I don't know, i just feel like there could have been an awesome way to keep a balance between ninja and creature.


I think something like this could have worked.

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It's not the perfect example, but I like the idea of a half creature half ninja thing. And I feel like Reptile would work better if he was more influenced by snakes. I know Saurian's are part Dinosaur or whatever, but they haven't really explored much of that.

With the MK9 design, I feel like the issue was mostly in the head...
Why give him such stupid baby teeth? And what was up with his alternate costume? The mask had teeth...But they're not his normal teeth...Can anybody explain that to me?

Anyway, i'm sure this has been pointed out a lot, but it realllllly pisses me of that human Reptile wasn't used and instead we got those two abominations.
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Almost the same thing,except for some differences according to my point of view. I hate reptile's evolution specially on MK4,MKDA and for me,his human form sucks(for me). I can accept his actual form in MK9,but for me the perfect reptile form comes from MKSM or MKA.
 
There is one thing.

They could have solved the issues with John Tobias and taken him back eventually.
 
Quasar said:
Almost the same thing,except for some differences according to my point of view. I hate reptile's evolution specially on MK4,MKDA and for me,his human form sucks(for me). I can accept his actual form in MK9,but for me the perfect reptile form comes from MKSM or MKA.
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About Reptile, that is really hard to nail character for MK Team it seems. Straight-out Lizardman does not work, and MKSM mummy Reptile resembles MKD Ermac. Reptile as monster disguised as human would make him far more interesting character than straight out monster, yet his costumes in latter games never seem to be a good expression for this approach.
 
Not adding Jason Voorhees to MK9 after adding Freddy Krueger. Woulda been awesome to have both.

But more importantly, never following up on their awesome adventure game, Shaolin Monks. Loved that game and BADLY needs/deserves a sequel.
 
- turning UMK3 and MKT into ninja clone wars. All fans ever asked for was Scorpion, Kitana, ninja Noob, masked Sub-Zero and better fatalities, instead UMK3 bringed in 7 clones and even more lame finishers. Gameplay was better yes, but everything else...they didn't even bother to change Liu Kang's ending picture, Cyrax somehow stucked in the desert stage and new characters didn't have pictures for endings and missed finishers. MKT destroyed what remeined of MK3 story completely - Raiden returned somehow, Cage, Goro & Kintaro were resurrected.
- forgetting about newcomers in the very next game
- killing and resurrecting Raiden in the very same game, resurrecting Liu Kang
- Kano ripoffs as new characters (Jarek, Kira) instead of him
- 2 lame newcomers deciding everything in Armageddon
- no normal Fatalities in Armageddon
- killing Kung Lao & Kitana in MK9
- resurrecting Kung Lao in MKX
- Boon & co attitude - "do first, think second"
- storyline plotholes
 
I agree with whoever said making the ninja costumes look too different was a bad move. A lot of their designs in the PS2 games were garbage, and to add to it, they looked too bulky. They seemed to have stopped with that mess now, thank Christ. Well, maybe not. Smoke looks awful with that hair showing. *shivers*

Turning Reptile into Leatherhead from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was stupid.

Kickinwing420 said:
Id like to add to the Reptile devolution thing.
I feel like it was a great idea, they just had a really bad execution.
They could have kept his ninja look, then added to it....

Like a ninja Reptile with a tail ripping out of his back, and a wide open mouth with his tounge all hanging out and acid dripping down his face.
I don't know, i just feel like there could have been an awesome way to keep a balance between ninja and creature.


I think something like this could have worked.

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That's a really cool Reptile design. I really like that his hood forms the shape of the head of a cobra.



RADEC said:
Giving Johnny Cage a damn tattoo across his chest with his name on it. Smh so stupid
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Standing by this decision 100%. It's such a Johnny Cage thing to do! People get their own first or last names tattooed on them all the time, usually douches. Johnny Cage is the type of douche who is douchey enough to get his name tattooed across his chest.
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vetalfox said:
- turning UMK3 and MKT into ninja clone wars. All fans ever asked for was Scorpion, Kitana, ninja Noob, masked Sub-Zero and better fatalities, instead UMK3 bringed in 7 clones and even more lame finishers. Gameplay was better yes, but everything else...they didn't even bother to change Liu Kang's ending picture, Cyrax somehow stucked in the desert stage and new characters didn't have pictures for endings and missed finishers. MKT destroyed what remeined of MK3 story completely - Raiden returned somehow, Cage, Goro & Kintaro were resurrected.
- forgetting about newcomers in the very next game
- killing and resurrecting Raiden in the very same game, resurrecting Liu Kang
- Kano ripoffs as new characters (Jarek, Kira) instead of him
- 2 lame newcomers deciding everything in Armageddon
- no normal Fatalities in Armageddon
- killing Kung Lao & Kitana in MK9
- resurrecting Kung Lao in MKX
- Boon & co attitude - "do first, think second"
- storyline plotholes
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I have same point from you, but in my case i don ´t forgive more with more deep, but your post makes that i avoid to write.

I wanna add something

-I will never to forgive that midway kicked out to John Tobias and Daniel Pesina, the real pillars of MK.

-I will never to forgive that midway decided give more power of management to ed boon since mk3 until Mk VS DC and Then by WB to nowdays with mk9 and mk10.

-I will never to forgive, that ed boon did the management of the martial coreography on mk actors, since mk3 until the present.

-I will never forgive how mk3-umk3-MKT had the most horrible finishers of the mk ´s history.
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-I will never to forgive how Boon copied ideas from everywhere and every games franchises.

-I will never to forgive, the stupid desision about classic subzero specially cause is weak in programing and human smoke at umk3 cause have not sense, extra ninjas for nothing.

-I will never to forgive, that midway allow the marketing at the two movies of mk, cartoon series of mk, and then WB with both mk legacy seasons.

-I will never to forgive that boon has converted to sub-zero into an stupid puching ball of scorpion.

-unforgiven too is: kobra,hsu hao, nitara, mokap, chess kombat, motor kombat, puzzle kombat,

-I will never to forgive the stupid crossover that boon and Midway allowed between MK and DC-

-I will never to forgive the stupid the reboot in mk9 and givigin 3 subzeros for nothing.

There are more and i am tired for to write.
So much energy i don´t have, i hate really in what mk has been converted thanks to the ed boon ´s stupid mind.

Bye.
 
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It's been a while so I can't judge the 3D game's, but the AI was pretty bad in all of the 2D arcade games and MKT. Some examples: MK1 was beaten on jump kicks, MKII was coaxing the computer opponent into jumping towards you and UMK3 you could win just about every non-boss opponent by getting a few hits in and then walking back and forth about a screens length from them and letting time run out.
 
I also hate the fact that Sub-Zero's MKX Ice Clone is tied to 1 variation, as well as Raiden's MKX Teleport only being available in the Displacer variation.

I'm all honesty, I think that Sub-Zero and Raiden would have gotten a bunch of complaints of "they're broken" or "they're OP" in MKX otherwise, but still: horse shit on both.
 
The names chaosrealm and orderrealm.
Giving known special moves to new characters. Kira for example.
Armageddons conquest mode, deceptions was more fun. Stuff to unlock areas to explore, mini quests.
Locking some special moves to certain variations.
Mileena skin being the 300 prize,
Challenge tower returning in mkx. This was such a grind in mk 9'
Tag mode not returning. Tag mode doesn't even need to be deep. Just give me 2v2 or 3v3 umk 3 style.
I'd like combo challenges to return, hated them in mkvsdc, would have liked them in mk 9
 
Music. I know they want to keep getting grittier and darker but I miss the days when MK stages had actual background songs. I get the feeling that they may view it as being too "90s" or corny, but it isn't like some of that stuff wasn't dark and creepy anyway while still being something that could get stuck in your head.
 
-The main thing I despise is the fact that Tobias was forced out and that they still haven't found a way to bring him back. This guy was the brain behind the lore and mystique of the series. Without him, we have seen countless retcons and the inability of the current developers to wipe out the cast. So what do they do? They keep trying to do it!. Like a bunch of broken records.

-Pretty much the entire story of MK 9. i.e., Raiden turning into an imbecile, Quan Chi being present for just about everything, the fact that Raiden can just make portals leading to other realms at any time and of course Mileena being wrapped in tape after having just been created; eliminating thousands of years of her relationship and rivalry with Kitana. I could literally make about 1000 things on this list.

-The fact that Scorpion has become the poster boy while Sub-Zero is pushed to the sidelines or constantly killed by Scorpion. Sub-Zero is almost as/just as popular as Scorpion. Come on!

-The properly set up game for the One-Being to become a factor that was whiffed on with Blaze, Argus and a pyramid.
 
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