The original games benefited from being realistic in an age where all games looked cartoonish, in the 3D era they should have embraced a cartoon/comic style like that of John Tobias' official artwork, as other 3D fighter graphics went more pseudo realismImagine the classic aesthetic but with the simplicity shining due to an emphasis on comic hooky art, as opposed to having to be more detailed to feel more realistic in the 3D model style that looks awkward with what even 2D digitized sprites of real people could get away with
>>12053830You mean like crap like Viewtiful Joe and Drake of 99 Dragons?
umk3/mk trilogy really just shouldve been the end of the franchise
original MK had big cock
That's not Tobias art, but Patrick Rolo's.
>>12055302Naw
>>12053830I like the 3d era art, does a great job at keeping characters recognizable but making them more distinct especially the ninjas, who all have great updated looks
>>12053830animation was also garbage. MK4 was in arcades after T3
>>12057527All 90s 3D looks objectively bad, even the best of it like tv shows and films. MK4 had nice graphics but it looked ridiculous cause they tried to copy paste the overly animated style of the 2D games where characters are bouncing around all the time
Well Tobias didn't like working on MK4 but Ed was the one who discovered that he made one of the young interns suck him off in his office at Midway, and Boon used that as blackmail to get Tobias to resign.
>>12058593Uhhhh
>>12057457Why did they gender bend Mileena
>>12057457>pic unrelated
>>12059967Why
>>12057457>>12059967It's good, maintains the vest and mouth cover that define MK "ninja" but plays into the actual canon, Rain being a scorned royal of Edenia residing in Outworld, his design looks more like a rogue with hints of regality, it's good. Really only Scorpion and Sub Zero should retain the totally classic aesthetic because they're both from Earth realm and are from rival clans, it doesn't make sense for the others to have an identical look beyond graphical limitations, but their initial appeal was still being pallet swaps ninjas so they should retain at least the mouth cover and V vest. Modern games fuck it up by over doing it, making Rain a warlock, Ermac a mummy, Noob a just grim reaper guy, it's too far gone at that point
>>12060129it's fucking stupid, just make him a ninja>>12060452he looks like a bitch
>>12060881He has everything MK ninjas have, a face mask, a tabard vest, and black spandex.Ninjas didn't even really look like that, it's myth, so it's all fantasy anyway and from Rains first appearance he had a backstory of being not a ninja, because he's not from Japan
>>12061793he looked fine as a purple ninjathe face scarf and fancy hair and shit is stupid, makes him look like prince of persia. it almost always looks worse whenever they change the design of the ninjas. just look at every Reptile after UMK3, they're all shit
>>12062023Mileena is way hotter this way though
>>12062095shit, what the fuck.fairReptile still looks terrible in Deadly Alliance tho
>>12062095AWOOOOOGA
>>12056196tell us something we don't know professor
>>12053830 (OP)So are you imagining this being done in 3D or not? I don't know how any visual style for a Mortal Kombat game could get around the problem of 3D graphics being as crude as they were when the 3D era began... I claim that the fatalities concept calls for a certain level of graphical fidelity that's beyond what something like a PSX could achieve, unless the game stuck with 2D graphics.
>>12063420If you must know I was thinking about a mix between marionettes and stop motion animation, kind of like Celebrity Deathmatch
>>12063420Yes 3D, but with a stylized animated look rather than pseudo realism. You can still have gore, it's just stylized cartoony spray of Kool Aid like you see in anything like this
>>12053830MK made a lot of mistakes along the wayThe hits never stopped year after year1997 - MK Sub Zero was a mess1998 - Going 3D with MK 4 was a mess1999 - Bringing MK to N64 was a mess2000 - John Tobias leaves Midway and MK forever2001 - MK Special Forces was a mess2002 - Only MK game was for GBA and was a mess2003 - MK:TE for GBA was a mess2004 - Mortal Kombat: Deception was a mess2005 - Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks was a mess2006 - Midway posts up major losses and begins it's bankrupcy while finishing it's last 2 games (Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and a DS port)WB swooped in and bought Midway and saved the franchise from obscurity. The reality was that MK from 1992 to 1996 was the kino eraMK 1-3 were great, the comics by Malibu were great, the first movie was great, the cartoon TV series was greatBy in 1997 we got an ass movie sequel, an ass live action TV series in 1998 (Conquest) and along with everything else listed above, it was a death spiral for the brand2011 was the only saving grace with "Mortal Kombat 2011" which brought back the sex appeal and story from the original 1-3 but once again after that came we enterred a repeat of the post-1997 era and it all went to shit.
>>12064562thought both Deception and Shaolin Monks were pretty well regarded? Not amazing but good in the way that most good MK games are good? i.e. fun but unpolished combat, lots of content, fun cheesy aesthetic
>>12064562MK as a brand wasn't obscure during Midways collapse, it was the only thing keeping them afloat is the issue. 3D era MK was only unsuccessful via old school purists who rejected it, for 00s era fighting games they sold fine, even MK vs DC sold decent and wasn't even horribly reviewed, MK diehards just hated itAs for MK9 returning sex appeal, no idea what you're talking about. MK never lost that until post MK9 when they hired Zillennial "talent" like everything else. MK Deadly Alliance probably had the most bimbo character designs of all complete with ridiculous DoA jiggle physics
>>12053830He looks tasty like green hi c
>>12065135its always been rumored ed boon was gay and the horrifying bolted on tit bimbo look of the women makes me believe it. when you think about it its really no wonder troons latched onto mk so much. its the only vidya franchise where you can murder/dismember women
>>12064562Hey man I liked MK Conquest
>>12065924A. Boon doesn't do shit, he pays Gen z people who make up the industry now to make games and he collects a paycheck B. MK isn't the troon series, it's too much machismo and metal imagery, troons are all weeaboos who like anime inspired shit with catirls, not retro kung fu and dark fantasy The biggest LGBT game is Darkstalkers, it's fake edgy, mostly cute/quirky, that's what they like. They like Hazbin Hotel and MCR, not Bloodsport and Slayer
>>12055302MK Deadly Alliance, Deception and 9 are all fucking great. The series hit a rough patch with Mythology, 4, and Special Forces all flopping back to back. We also had the decent first movie and a shit second movie. Now we have a mediocre new movie with a sequel coming out. I’m glad they’re actually series continued. I think Armagedon was shit and the last 2 games didn’t really entertain me. Last good one was MKX and even then it felt like a downhill race.
>>12065924I thought Tobias was the gay one.
