Mortal Kombat X

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

I like the way grimdark endings contrast with emodramatic biowarian story mode.

 

[Silva]

Army fighters are shit.
Witch fighters shit.
Sons/daughters shit.
Archer fighter shit.
Granny fighter shit.

Scorpion, Sub-zero, Raiden, Hat dude, Blind dude and Pistolero cool. Oh, Insect bitch and Snake fag cool too.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

If they wanted to make a gay character, instead of an angsty, whiny bitch, they should of made a gloriously flaming Liberace type faggot complete with an ass rape fatality. MK is the last place I expected to see this kind of crybaby shit.

So basically, he needs to be Dio from Jojo.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

I actually like them making some of the girl's boobs smaller. Every single one was stacked in MK9 and variety is the spice of life.

Yeah, they all went from cow tits to flat chests and bland faces. Much variety.
In fact, I found most of the designs in MKX to be uninteresting.
Except for the cowboy. He's ok.

 

[Silva]

Snake guy is fag. You can see by the way he moves.

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

I remember playing MKI and II on SNES and having a decent time with them. I also played stuff like doom, duke nukem, rise of the triads, and never has brutality in pc games an issue whatsoever for me.

But I just watched the 'All Fatalities' youtube clip and now I feel very uneasy and bad. Maybe I'm getting old, but Mortal Kombat X makes me feel really ashamed of being a gamer.

Nah, you're not getting old. MK was always over the top, but it never savoured the gore before. The stuff in MKX is plain sociopathic and whoever came up with it needs psychiatric help.

That + shit characters + shit lore changes (for what little it's worth) = shit game all around. Can't say I'm too surprised after the mediocre reboot, but disappointed all the same: was a time when MKs were cool, campy games - now it's all been Dorito'd out for the angsty mental fuck-ups of a generation.

 

[Astral Rag]

+ crappy PC port, day 1 DLC, microtransactions, smaller character roster, the same shitty netcode,...

 

[Tehdagah]

I remember playing MKI and II on SNES and having a decent time with them. I also played stuff like doom, duke nukem, rise of the triads, and never has brutality in pc games an issue whatsoever for me.

But I just watched the 'All Fatalities' youtube clip and now I feel very uneasy and bad. Maybe I'm getting old, but Mortal Kombat X makes me feel really ashamed of being a gamer.

Nah, you're not getting old. MK was always over the top, but it never savoured the gore before. The stuff in MKX is plain sociopathic and whoever came up with it needs psychiatric help.

:mrfussy:

 

[abija]

the same shitty netcode,...

still no dedicated servers right?

 

[tuluse]

still no dedicated servers right?

Why would you need dedicated servers for a two player game?

 

[abija]

because user to user routes are usually beyond retarded, so unless you are on same isp or "friendly" isps it's not nice

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I remember playing MKI and II on SNES and having a decent time with them. I also played stuff like doom, duke nukem, rise of the triads, and never has brutality in pc games an issue whatsoever for me.

But I just watched the 'All Fatalities' youtube clip and now I feel very uneasy and bad. Maybe I'm getting old, but Mortal Kombat X makes me feel really ashamed of being a gamer.

Nah, you're not getting old. MK was always over the top, but it never savoured the gore before. The stuff in MKX is plain sociopathic and whoever came up with it needs psychiatric help.

wtf am I reading? DailyMail comments section is that way ---->

Anyway, I see the community is pleasant as usual.

 

[Duraframe300]

I remember playing MKI and II on SNES and having a decent time with them. I also played stuff like doom, duke nukem, rise of the triads, and never has brutality in pc games an issue whatsoever for me.

But I just watched the 'All Fatalities' youtube clip and now I feel very uneasy and bad. Maybe I'm getting old, but Mortal Kombat X makes me feel really ashamed of being a gamer.

Nah, you're not getting old. MK was always over the top, but it never savoured the gore before. The stuff in MKX is plain sociopathic and whoever came up with it needs psychiatric help.

That + shit characters + shit lore changes (for what little it's worth) = shit game all around. Can't say I'm too surprised after the mediocre reboot, but disappointed all the same: was a time when MKs were cool, campy games - now it's all been Dorito'd out for the angsty mental fuck-ups of a generation.

 

[tuluse]

1) MK is a series that got famous in part because YOU COULD A MAN'S SPINE OUT.

2) A huge deal in the 90s was that Genesis had the best version of the MK games because SEGA didn't censor the gore

3) I haven't played MKX, but MK9 perfectly did the schlocky-not-too-serious-but-not-being-ironic 80s action movie feel.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

graphics and mood change a lot.
the first mortal kombat tried to be serious but was outright silly. come on, the iconic sub zero's fatality was awesome because it was totally impossible and drowned in tomato sauce. it was retarded fun.
mk10 is just gore, blood, guts, dismemberments, brains being sliced in half and people with broken necks who keep on fighting like nothing had happened. it gives too many visual details to be retarded fun anymore. it's just retarded.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

So it's still impossible levels of gore but now it's bad because the graphics are more detailed.

 

[tuluse]

So it's still impossible levels of gore but now it's bad because the graphics are more detailed.

I think this is actually a somewhat fair complaint, but I think it's less fair to say the modern MKs are not the same tone/style as the old ones.

(detailed graphics I think also hurt Duke Nuken Forever, detailed strippers in UE3 is creepy while the old pixelated ones were more charming in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way).

I also haven't played MKX so maybe they messed up the tone compared to MK9.

I also think one problem is that it's just easier to do things that cause gore and is thus more common. This causes some kind of brain saturation which both makes it less impressive and gives a different overall feel. For this reason, I wish they'd tone down the X-Rays so it was just fatalities where the real shit™ happened.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

So it's still impossible levels of gore but now it's bad because the graphics are more detailed.

take one random bugs bunny episode and give the comedic stuff realistic consequences as highly detailed disembowelments, rivers of blood and slices of brains.
still as funny as before?

 

[ArchAngel]

This topic is full of retards. You are like some CS:GO retards that talk about how you don't like some details on guns and weapon firing sounds are not as good as you would like it while ignoring that the real game is not about the graphics or sounds.

MKX is about cool PvP fighting, over the top mutilations and murder are unimportant.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

So it's still impossible levels of gore but now it's bad because the graphics are more detailed.

I've watched all new fatalities, and frankly there is something I don't really like to see. The old 2d sprites with all the dismemberment were cartoony and over the top but never crossed the line of being distateful. This is offputing even for me, and I've finished all the famous +18 titles.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

So you find the 3D gore to be disgusting or it makes you wince. Fine, it's a matter of preference, but it's still as cartoony as it ever was (no, X-ray doesn't work like that IRL).

So it's still impossible levels of gore but now it's bad because the graphics are more detailed.

take one random bugs bunny episode and give the comedic stuff realistic consequences as highly detailed disembowelments, rivers of blood and slices of brains.
still as funny as before?

I don't get your point. MK has always been "gore, blood, guts, dismemberments, brains being sliced in half", and "people with broken necks who keep on fighting like nothing had happened" is not realistic at all. If anything, the sprites looked more "realistic" than these 3D models since they were cutouts of real people dressed up as the characters.

 

[Snorkack]

There is a difference between a few dozen white pixels that could barely be recognised as a spine amidst an indistinguishable red and brown mass, and a HD depiction of a human head, face sliced off, the remainder of the tongue still twitching.

 

[Adon]

I think this is actually a somewhat fair complaint, but I think it's less fair to say the modern MKs are not the same tone/style as the old ones.

(detailed graphics I think also hurt Duke Nuken Forever, detailed strippers in UE3 is creepy while the old pixelated ones were more charming in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way).

I also haven't played MKX so maybe they messed up the tone compared to MK9.

MKX, in part, does take itself more seriously. The gameplay does have stuff that'll make you chuckle, but the story is NRS trying to be more "legit" and given that they have nothing but mediocre writers, it's just a bore to watch. Granted, not all of it is terrible, but its enough of a change from the campy tone that it used to have. Then again I don't think MK9 really has that either, but it is less serious in its tone, sometimes reaching "so bad, it's good" territory. If Raiden accidentally killing Liu Kang isn't hilarious, I don't know what is.

I'm probably alone when I say I think MK4 was when the series reached its campy zenith with its brooding atmosphere, but hilarious execution.

 

[MaskedMan]

Men they are fixing the netcode.

Spoiler

But it won't be coming to the PC. Also no more DLC or balance patches. Don't lose all hope though, maybe they'll release a 200$ kumplete edition in a few years once the consoletards have been milked, new appid and all!