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[existensmaximum]

I enjoyed old Mortal Kombat games; old fatalities, brutalities and even babalities were cool. However, in recent years, it seems like the game is heavily marketed based on these ridicilous fatalities. It almost feels like violence pornography at this point.

Violence pornography - that's exactly how Mortal Kombat was described back in 1992 when it was released - times never change.

 

[ShadowLag]

People should be focusing more on everything else MK is doing right. Like this:

 

[TexMex]

does cringe even mean anything anymore? I swear once everything is labeled cringe, nothing is

 

[abstract alien]

It's silly, but the amount of freedom they have with their fatality system is pretty impressive. They've come a long way from people exploding and three rib cages popping out.

 

[chlorate]

Is that a low-key Skeet Fighter homage?

 

[Fart Knight]

 

[Wolfpact1983]

It would have been much funnier, if they would just have a nice and friendly meal together...lol.

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

It’s dumb but it’s not bad. I don’t think they should charge for it but I’ve heard the game is pretty good and if you’re into it, kicking ass and want to give an extra “fuck you” with that in online matches for a couple bucks, whatever.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.

Not every idea will land but these hoes will try anything. Either the market will eventually find a happy place or crash again. If it does, at least this time it won’t be physical cartridges in a landfill, just internet financial transactions from parents to Epic or that head in a toilet thing.

It’s a win win.

 

[xion4360]

Define "cringe"....id say its gross.

 

[SJRB]

Wait, you have to pay for this fatality?

No way.

 

[DavidGzz]

That was good imo. Gluttony kills.

 

[JohnnyTropics]

ngl, when he shakes the tablecloth at the camera to unfurl it, i chuckled.
just so i dont get an @ or a downvote, what am i supposed to be mad at?
are we saying it's too graphic so as to be disgusting, or too silly so as to make MK not be graphic enough?
Are we protecting the kids on this one, or are we mad at the kids for playing the game and making it too childish for us?
Rage missile locked and loaded, give me the coordinates to aim this fucker.

 

[drotahorror]

I kind of agree that once you see the fatality the novelty is gone. This one in particular is designed very well though. I just wouldn't want to see it more than once or twice especially if I was doing it/someone doing it to me. Bad enough to lose a match, then have to watch a whole fatality til you can move on.

Paying for them sucks that's for sure.

I will say that my favorite 'alities are the modern brutalities. They don't interrupt gameplay, they're fast and happen naturally. They are more impactful imo than fatalities and don't waste anyone's time. In a perfect MK game, I feel like a brutality for every special move on final hit would be really cool.

 

[rofif]

I really don't like what fatalities have become.
They were gruesome ways to kill people.
Not gruesome ways to torture them

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Violence pornography - that's exactly how Mortal Kombat was described back in 1992 when it was released - times never change.

I'm pretty flabbergasted at those comments LOL. The problem with this is that they are charging MONEY for shit like this.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I have true admiration for the quality of the Omni-Man animations especially his post clash laugh but Jesus Christ this was just garbage. lol.

 

[Hugare]

I ... can't see the problem, here

Some fatalities were always silly in other MK games.

This one being about Thanksgiving, of course it would involve food/vomit etc.

And if you dont want to pay for it, dont pay for it. Every online game has unique stuff for some celebrations (skins for Halloween, Christmas and etc. in Fortnite, Apex and so on). Its something that was present since the PS3/360 days.

 

[havoc00]

I like it, dont like they are charging for it but I do like the fatality

 

[March Climber]

I have said many times, the tone of modern MK games is very childish. You would think a game with such violence should be for adults but it's the kind of violence 12 year old boys imagine in their heads so they can laugh. I remember drawing such silly violent scenarios when i was at that age.

It’s always been over the top since arguably MK3 and teenagers have always loved these games. You have either missed a lot of MK history or you’re thinking of Killer Instinct.

 

[RedPyramidHead]

 

[DiddyInAHellcat]

Mk Trilogy will always be the best

 

[BennyBlanco]

I really don't like what fatalities have become.
They were gruesome ways to kill people.
Not gruesome ways to torture them

This is why the brutalities are so much better. Quick and effective. I don’t need a drawn out B movie horror scene at the end of the match.

 

[Banjo64]

I was expecting someone to make a thread about them censoring a classic outfit in an M rated game

Those tits on the right

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Those tits on the right

Those are big by NRS standards

 

[Sub_Level]

MK is fucking cringe.

Its had good entries. MK2, UMK3, MK Deception, MK9.

 

[Barakov]

Here you go, watch it here.....don't give the pieces of shit at WB a nickel to tell them charging for fatalities is ok. If people don't stand up to this nonsense now that they're doing, MK as we knew it in the past will be dead and gone.

This one is actually disgusting in a not good, and not funny way IMO

 

[Shake Your Rump]

a couple bucks, whatever.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.

“a couple bucks”… The game itself is $90 CAD. The fatality is $13 (Priced in “jewels”, as any predatory scheme would, of course).

The problem is that the market is so large, that even if “we” don’t buy it, even if 99% of players don’t buy it, the executives will consider it a success. As someone else said, if even 100 people buy this thing, it will be perpetuated. There is effectively no longer the capability to “vote with your wallet”.

 

[NeverYouMind]

“a couple bucks”… The game itself is $90 CAD. The fatality is $13 (Priced in “jewels”, as any predatory scheme would, of course).

The problem is that the market is so large, that even if “we” don’t buy it, even if 99% of players don’t buy it, the executives will consider it a success. As someone else said, if even 100 people buy this thing, it will be perpetuated. There is effectively no longer the capability to “vote with your wallet”.

How about just being financially responsible for your own sake?

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Time for MK to go back to its roots and have real person looking characters and fatalities somewhat grounded in reality.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Happy Thanks(for)giving(usmoremoney)