This is not a real MK. This is a Soul Calibur rip off in the MK skin.
>>11498798Pretty much. People shit on MK4/Gold but it was the last proper Mortal Kombat game of the retro era.
>>11498798I loved Deadly Alliance. It's my favorite of the 6th gen games despite it's shortcomings. It was cool switching between 3 fighting styles and pretty ambitious, basically tripling the roster if you think about it. At the time I didn't like how many new characters it introduced and thought some were bland... but now I really like Moloch, Bo-Rai Cho, Kenshi, Drahmin etc. Not as much as I love the characters from MK 1-3, but still pretty cool. They really tried to shed the neon spandex of the 90s games and succeeded for better and for worse.I liked how dark and evil the atmosphere was, this is like the posterchild for 2000s grimdark games.When I was a kid, I also watched the cooking with scorpion video over and over believing it was a true work of comedy genius.
>>11498798Delet this
>>11498798why did sub zero seem to age like 30 years more than everybody else
>>114987988-way movement doesn't make it Soul Calibur, it's just a 3D game like DOA and Tekken.
>>11498798You're not real.
>This is a Soul Calibur rip off in the MK skin.That doesn't sound bad though, besides Deadly Alliance, Deception & Armageddon where still fun and had that lovely edgy atmospherehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGdRKRk9abwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3KDN4HJZ4ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXvqaB5CUeQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p15TZ-g7xAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1W3wpi-j0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_r0oH60PJshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_1uqPXjBV4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozR0OC3gPNghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOT7DePOmk0>>11498817this
>>11498798Hated most of the characters and costumes in this one, Deception and even Armageddon were more fun
>>11498798Soul Calibur is a better game than Mortal Kombat, so is that really a bad thing?
>>11498798It doesn't play anything like Soul Calibur.
>>11498798>shotokanomg is he gonna pull a hadoken
MK has always been a trash rip-off second rate Steeet Fighter clone with tacked-on violence. Garbage.
>>11498798Some neat ideas but this gen’s MK games (outside Shaolin Monks) are not very good. I feel like the devs kinda knew this so they overstuffed the game with Krypt unlockables, extraneous story modes and Puzzle Fighter and so forth.
>>11499235It's stupid to rate them against each other (despite what they and everyone says) since the only thing they have in common is being fighting games
>>11499235MK is better for the setting/lore and SF is better for the gameplay, both have a placeI'm speaking about retro only, stopped playing MK after 4 and SF after Alpha 3, no idea how they are nowadays
>>11498798First new MK I got in stores. Begged my mom to buy it for me. All I remember is being disappointed that they killed Kang, and that I didn't like how Repitle wasn't a ninja anymore. Eventually Deception came out and I dropped DA like a hot potato.
>Deception dropping several mainstay characters in favor of giving some of the B-listers (Nightwolf, Jade etc) a time to shineKinda wish more fighting games did that to be honest
MK is interesting in that everything around the series is better and more interesting than the gameplay. Kahn's conquest, blundergod, the deadly alliance, the general worldbuilding, etc. I'm not sure how you could translate it to a different genre. Shaolin Monks is a good attempt but you can't really put the entire cast or even just like the dozen big names in a game like that
>>11499235street fighter has always been a trash rip-off second rate karate champ clone with gay characters. trash.
>>11498798And its beautiful
3D trilogy was better than 2D
>>11498817YOU CANT KILL ME, IM IMMORTAL!
>>11499235When I see people who say this, I always imagine they weren't kids who seriously played/play Street Fighter anyway since all the big fighting game players I knew played virtually every series, not just SF, usually those "SF ONLY" people are "fans of the fandom" types who know about SF second hand, watch e-sports, like the comics etc
>>11498914Virtua Fighter 4 already existed at the time guys....
>>11499331a musou?
>>11498798you're right, and that's why it's the best one
>>11499668Yes but nobody played it
>>11498798>This is not a real MK. This is a Soul Calibur rip off in the MK skinHuh, I'm usually not interested in MK but you make it sound like a good game
>>11499331This.I replay the Konquest of Deception and Armageddon gladly.I think it's close to objectively better than the mk9 story mode.Those story modes are for people under casuals, the people who don't play games regularlyand just check them from time to time 'cause games have been popular for some time now.As opposed when they weren't, or were more underground.But I know that Konquest, the way they made it, it's essentially a game inside the game.Nowadays you would have to release a standalone separate game.Street Fighter 6 tried something like that (no retro I know),but Street Fighter happens in earth in modern times, like many fighting games.There's not as much world building as Mortal Kombat.Devs and corpos are stupid not to use it.
>>11499908Nah I'll defend MK9 story mode, it wasn't interactive and cool in that way, but it's still the best MK cartoon/movie rofl
>>11499979nah I agree with anon. Not having all the other stuff was a letdown and 9's story was merely ok. It has its moments but they can do better than just a straightforward series of fights with a narrative backdrop
>>11500015The formula has gotten stale, but it was great at the time. About 20 years past since MKs glory days and the nostalgia was high, perfect time for such a thing. I wish they ditched it after since they couldn't top it but it was a good way for old fans to relive the story in a new way, and new fans to see what MK is really about.I have a lot of nostalgia for it even now desu, because I'm a long time MK fan but I played it with a younger friend who's introduction was MK vs. DC who really had no clue about MK's story or characters, so watching him get to experience it and see all the bloody, cheesey glory that is MK's world was a joy.
>>11498798Bait used to be believable. >>11499692LMAO. Actually good bait that is believable.
>>11498798as someone who avidly played all the SCs and MKs of that era, i can say you're wrong.
>>11498798haters gonna hate, but me, i love da.
>>11499235>t. nerd who still gets picked on in adulthood>>11500353Based MKDA chad.
>>11502385that super mario mini character grow is so hockey it stands out like a sore thumnb
>>11502385Jiggly boobies…
>>11500028u sure
MKDA and MKD despite their shortcomings and flaws they were still incredible fun and engaging to play, they also had a ton of content and stuff to do compared to other games of their era.A pity they werent a bit more polished since Midway was already on its death throes because you could tell they poured a lot of love on both games, they really have an aura of "Well we did what we could with the tools we had".
>>11502385>>11502498Li Mei and Nitara were some nice additions to the cast
>>11503838Too bad Li Mei has consistently manjaw, rockin' boobs though. Also they made her too much of a bitch in later games.Nitara though is top tier vampire waifu material.
>>11499649Every fgc autist openly mocks Mortal Kombat for being a casual dad game. Some of them will play it when a new game comes out for nostalgia, but it's not really rare for people to shit on it sadly
>>11504374>manjawzoom-kun....
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>>11504374> consistently manjawI dunno, MKDA li mei’s jaw structure always reminded me of Chyna.
>>11504951Chyna is a testosterone freak
>>11498798Shut up bozo
>>11504378If someone is young enough to think MK is for dads, they're not part of the fgc for real. If you never were in an arcade or experienced the genres popularity, you're not. You can be a LARPer, but you never saw the scene.
>>11498798Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
I still love this bloated piece of shit, faults and all.
>>11504990a bit of testosterone would do everybody good, it keeps them from feeling down, less nagging and more wanting to be active
>>11505238how fucking dare you
>>11499562Beat me to it LMFAO
>>11498798still better than the modern shit we gotatleast the soul calibur gameplay was good
>>11498798This was Mortal Kombat's Resident Evil 4, in the sense that there was previously burnout then a hiatus. Their comeback would have to be drastically different to avoid going under. I liked Deception.
>>11498904The dragon medallion he found in that game aged him.
>>11498798I'd rather MK would have continued developing in this direction. they finally started giving a shit about proper animations with the 3D games. then with MK9 everything went right back to shit again going back to muh 2D.
>>115083612D is better, zoomer. Nobody cares about muh 00s nostalgia.
>>11508380>MUH 6TH GEN>MUH MCR>MU LIMP BIZKITSo annoying coming from people who were 1 years old in the year y2k>>11506963It made sense at the time, it wasn't perfectly executed but MK never exactly was. The thing is, fighting games as a genre just weren't that popular at the time and MK's 3D era still managed to be some of the more popular ones based solely on brand recognition, in the genres lowest point before the nostalgia period that jumpstarted the 2010s, so even if it wasn't an era that survived the decade, it wasn't a failure either.MK vs. DC wasn't even a failure, that game sold a lot for a fighting game of it's era, regardless of how the hardcore fanbase all hates it.
>>11505962>bloatedThis game is the definition of fan service done right. I spent so much time in character creator, autistically tweaking my Zelda OCs
3d era MK were the last MK games with a good storyline. Deception is my favorite
