MK3 has such a "we have KI at home" vibe: urban stages, techno music, some of the characters, silly finishers, auto combos. Did they actually rip KI off?
>>11494316I think they just really ran out of ideas.
Killer Instinct character designs and SGI art completely blew away anything Midway was capable of.
>MK3 has such a "we have KI at home" vibeNo one thought or spoke like this.
>>11494316No. Both were inspired by the Predator.
>>11494372yep. even down to the Brutalities that came from Killer Instinct's Ultra Combos.
>>11494316But neither KI or MK have auto combos.
>>11494316>urban stages, techno music, silly finishersThey went full '90s. Never go full '90s.
>>11494316It was the aesthetic of the time
>>11494316Actually I have both at home on my Super Nintendo Entertainment System
>>11494349It helps that they actually did things like design a robot instead of photo capture a guy in motocross pads and pretend it's advanced cybernetics. MK was way more limited to what cheap costumes the developers could cobble together on a $20 budget.
Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here.
>>11494638MK3 robots are cooler than Fulgore though
>>11494753Not even
>>11494316Brutalities were based off KI's ultra combos
>>11494773nta but this complete cringe. No wonder KI never took off as anything else than a MK3 spot warmer.
>>11494857nta but fuck off plebian
>>11494857yea bro that's cringe but animalities are based lmao gtfoh
>>11494857Does it really matter? Midway manufactured the hardware for both arcade games.
>>11494349Yeah but it looks like shit cause now those 3d models that they turned into sprites for KI look shitty, they would look shitty in a game from 2002. MK has aged better because of the novelty of the sprites being photographs of actual people.
>>11494857chad reply
>>11494773>>11494857
>>11494857you're gay for thinking this isn't a little funny and cool. MK has some nightmare fuel tier cringe compared to this
>>11494857Cringe? Why? It's a badass robot transforming his head into a monsterbot gun. There's nothing cringe about that, it's cool.
>>11494316MK became associated with techno music from Mortal Kombat: The Album, which featured the song that also became the famous theme song of the live action movie, so can't really credit KI with that, more like they were just leaning more into their own multimedia brandingThen, as for cyber ninjas vs. Fulgore.....there are slight similarities, but they're both obviously based on Predator design wise, probably with a little influence from Terminator as well being fully robotic, which were both very popular at the time
I guess they could've been inspired, but the hard truth is that any "hardcore" wester fighting game was ripping off Mortal Kombat in at least one way, to the point that I'd wager almost all of their initial pitches involved a direct reference to Mortal Kombat.
>>11496836I like both the approach of KI and MK. MK was like taking martial arts movie tropes and blending them with whatever cool influence, usually movies or comics or w.e, while KI was kind of like "let's just shove kewl shit together.....like a skeleton pirate, a raptor, a werewolf, a robot!"
>>11497576I never understood, does Kano have a cybernetic eye OVER his skin, or under it?
>>11497780Idk but in the new movie he gets it fucked by a lawn gnome or some shit
>>11494857KI never took off because KI2 was inferior to the first game.
>>11497780No idea, but in the first Mortal Kombat arcade game his metal plate/cyber eye is always on the side of his face that is facing the camera, so essentially it can magically swap sides depending on whether if he's facing left or right!
>>11498630How did Kano, nobodies favorite, end up one of the show stealers in both live action movies?
>>11494316>urban stagesA thing since Mortal Kombat 2, where you had the Foundry level.>techno musicMortal Kombat The Album predated it.>some of the charactersLiterally who? Fulgore? Fulgore is just a ripoff of the Predator.>Silly finishersBeen a thing since Mortal Kombat 2 where you had Friendships and Babalities.>autocombosMortal Kombat doesn't have autocombos. It has strings. >Did they actually rip KI off?Other way around, kiddo. The origin of Killer Instinct literally grew out of a desire to rival Mortal Kombat.
>>11499831>Nobodies favorite >Villain you love to hateMakes sense to me
>>11495294Games don’t age
>>11494316I always got the inverse impression. KI is yet another MK clone.
