The Tone of MKX

What would make a fighting game horror?
Dan Forden's face jump scaring you every once in a while?
Give me a break.
I already said I was talking about the tone/mood/vibe of the game.
If you made a movie in the same tone as MK1 it would undoubtedly be an indie gore film, which is a subgenre of horror.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
 
yah i dont think mk was horror.....but i still think the fatalieis in mk9 sucked and felt rushed an unfinished
 
uKER said:
I already said I was talking about the tone/mood/vibe of the game.
Click to expand...

That's exactly what I was addressing.
Tone / mood / vibe of the game =/= horror.

Tone/ mood/ vibe of MK = darker than most other fighting games (i.e.- SF, Tekken, Smash Brothers, etc,etc,etc), but it doesn't have a horror feel to it.
Horror = Saw, Jason, Freddy and those types of things, and MK doesn't feel like any of that, which is why Freddy seemed out of place, as DLC, to me.

MK is about a fighting tournament to decide the fate of the realms, with magic, monsters and other beings with superpowers.
Just because there are fatalities in it, doesn't mean that the tone / mood / vibe is horror.
Not so.
 
You keep talking about the mood of MK9.
My money is in you being too young to have experienced the release of MK1, am I right?
Back then the tone of MK was radically different and that's the whole point of this topic: the mood of MK9 (and every MK after 4 for that matter) is wrong.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
 
MK is about a fighting tournament to decide the fate of the realms said:
thats why striker should never be in mk ever again....boon had his little jack off session with him, no one likes him...let him die....
Click to expand...
 
I agree Uker...there was nothing comical about mk1....come mk2....ehh a little with the frienship crap...but mk3...oh my god... the series became a joke...i hated mk3
 
Kabal's head inflation and scary face with ghost, Smoke's "blow up the earth in which we'll fight the next fight in a second", Kano ripping your whole skeleton through your mouth, Mileena blowing giant thumbtacks at you, Jax's giant foot... And the list goes on.
They weren't even trying.
MK4 stepped up a bit above it but then Tobias left Midway and it was downhill from there. They just had no clue what they were doing until MK9.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
 
man dont forget the in arcade drop..... that shat me!!! it was just so crapppppppp, the stages, the rappy ohhh yeahhh music, the urban earth realm setting..eeeww oh and stryker......eewww worst inclusion to mk ever.... even having robots in the game kinda gets me...i mean there were done ok in mk9 but, it just cheapens the whole lin kue thing an makes it jokey....cyborg ninjas? I mean come on...

animalities...jesus...they sucked...your the only guy in here who can see how far the series has strayed from its original dark tone...

i dont get why fans want all this pathetic jokey crap
 
uKER said:
You keep talking about the mood of MK9.
My money is in you being too young to have experienced the release of MK1, am I right?
Back then the tone of MK was radically different and that's the whole point of this topic: the mood of MK9 (and every MK after 4 for that matter) is wrong.
Click to expand...

Wrong.
I played MK1, in the arcade, when I was 10, and I also have MK1 on my Sega Genesis.
Try again.
You're barking up the wrong tree.
The tone of MK1 thru UMK3 was not horror, which is what I was mainly referring to.
MK9, while it did have some brighter colors to it sure as hell wasn't "cartoony" (as YOU are heavily implying) and had a bit of that MKII feel to it, which is what was missing ever since the MK4 thru Armageddon days.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu1FqmcjH3M

man please...look at your sig picture.....and look at this vid...it looks goofy and comical as hell....its looks sooo childish in comparisson to the vibe the trailer lets....

an he never said mk1 was horror, he just reiterated it set a darker tone then any mk has set yet ...hopefully mkx fixes this...

i for one, do not want to see/hear cheesy dialog "hay ray dude, lets go ruin some one elses life, im takin you out an you out an you out! ohh yeah imm sooo pretty!

sonya you will now fight subzero for no reason in a random place that has nothing to do with the tournament! ppfffttt


i also do not want medoiocre slice point fatalities...animalities, frienships or stupid babalities...i mean seriously shang stungs clown fatality?!?! why?!!
 
I want exactly the opposite of what you want lol.
I don't mind the seriousness in story. And I don't mind comic relief either.


As long as I'm having fun, I'm all in.
 
spader said:
i also do not want medoiocre slice point fatalities...animalities, frienships or stupid babalities...i mean seriously shang stungs clown fatality?!?! why?!!
Click to expand...
That shit was a rejected finisher from the Joker from MKvsDC.
Apparently it was so brilliant they couldn't go on with their lives if they didn't use it somewhere.

 
you dont need to turn the franchise into a joke to have fun....why does mk need comic relief? why? I dont get it...
 
spader said:
man dont forget the in arcade drop..... that shat me!!! it was just so crapppppppp, the stages, the rappy ohhh yeahhh music, the urban earth realm setting..eeeww oh and stryker......eewww worst inclusion to mk ever.... even having robots in the game kinda gets me...i mean there were done ok in mk9 but, it just cheapens the whole lin kue thing an makes it jokey....cyborg ninjas? I mean come on...
Click to expand...
I didn't hate the stages in MK3 except the exceedingly trivial ones, like the street, the bridge and the subway station.
It did have some really nice ones though, like the soul chamber, the pit 3 (save for the fatality) and the one in which you fight Motaro.
The robots thing, yeah, I didn't quite love it but I've learned to live with it I guess.
Wouldn't mind at all if they were gone though.
Stryker doesn't bother me. It's just a bland character I'll never choose, but it doesn't seem mind blowingly "what were they thinking" out of place like Bo'rai Cho and Mokap do.
 
uKER said:
Apparently it was so brilliant they couldn't go on with their lives if they didn't use it somewhere.

Click to expand...

No, the reason why they made that Shang Tsung's fatality in MK9 is because NRS was making fun of all the people who b****ed about "MKvsDC is PG-13, waaaah."
It's the same reason that Midway put Friendships and Babalities in MKII, to make fun of the people and critics complaining that "Wah, MK1 is too violent."

spader said:
why does mk need comic relief? why? I dont get it...
Click to expand...

Simple.
Because it's been there since MKII in 1993.
Frienships and Babalities were the comic relief, in 1993.

I find it funny that people want MK to go back to its "roots" and want MK to "be more serious," when MK hasn't BEEN serious since 1993 (MKII).
 
Oh, right.
Also, why would you want the economy to improve when it has been terrible for the last 10 years?

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
 
Last edited:
Araknyd_Commander said:
No, the reason why they made that Shang Tsung's fatality in MK9 is because NRS was making fun of all the people who b****ed about "MKvsDC is PG-13, waaaah."
It's the same reason that Midway put Friendships and Babalities in MKII, to make fun of the people and critics complaining that "Wah, MK1 is too violent."



Simple.
Because it's been there since MKII in 1993.
Frienships and Babalities were the comic relief, in 1993.

I find it funny that people want MK to go back to its "roots" and want MK to "be more serious," when MK hasn't BEEN serious since 1993 (MKII).
Click to expand...

Additionally...

Johnny Cage himself is comic relief. He was based on the original concept of MK.

Bo Rai Cho is comic relief. He plays a critical role in the MK story.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I547 using Tapatalk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top