/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10218907]

Why Mortal Kombat still has so many fanboys? Even when it was first released there were much better fighting games with gore like Samurai Shodown and most Mortal Kombat "clones" have been much better than Mortal Kombat like Killer Instinct, Thrill Kill and Mace - The Dark Age. To begin with, calling all gore fighting games "Mortal Kombat clones" was as retarded as calling all 2D sprites fighting games as "Street Fighter clones" despite the fact that Street Fighter wasn't even the first fighting game of the market.

[Anonymous No.10218949]

>>10218907
Mortal Kombat got the right promotion. From arcades to every popular home system, got movies, action figures and animated series.

Samurai Shodown and KI didn't.


Mortal Kombat got the right appeal to general audience - exotic theme of ninjas and warrior fantasy when it was at the peak of popularity.

Samurai Shodown didn't.


Regarding Street Fighter - it was a breakthrough in genre.
Of course people would compare other fighting games to it, because no one remembers what was before it. Yie Ar Kung Fu can't compete with SF despite all it did for establishing fighting genre.

[Anonymous No.10218951]

>>10218907
>Why Mortal Kombat still has so many fanboys?
You can apply it to every franchsing

[Anonymous No.10219009]

>>10218662
2 "mk is bad mmmmkay" threads eh?

[Anonymous No.10219031]

Some people really like Mortal Kombat's lore. It has a unique blend of kung fu movies and eastern fantasy, which hit many people just right when they were at the target demographic age.

[Anonymous No.10219046]

>>10218907
>Killer Instinct, Thrill Kill and Mace - The Dark Age
>better than MK

[Anonymous No.10219352]

cream, the rabbit

[Anonymous No.10219676]

>>10218907
well most MK fanboys are troons so you get why it has so many fans.
is not a matter of is good or not the moment you say "is a bad game" they will jump at you calling you a xenphobic or similar stuff.
Let's be honest the appeal of MK is just the blood and nothing else,gameplay wise is really bad (playing arcade version) not only that AI is broken.

[Anonymous No.10219681]

I just liked the MK games because of the gore.
And most other games had none, so in comparison, it inherently made the other fighting games seem less realistic.

[Anonymous No.10219787]

>>10218949
>Mortal Kombat got the right appeal to general audience - exotic theme of ninjas and warrior fantasy when it was at the peak of popularity. Samurai Shodown didn't.
Are you retarded? Samurai Shodown was taking place in medieval Japan with samurais, ninjas etc. Also it had actual characters diversity, unlike Mortal Kombat with ninjas recolorings. Also Mortal Kombat was stereotypical as hell.

[Anonymous No.10219794]

>>10219676
>is not a matter of is good or not the moment you say "is a bad game" they will jump at you calling you a xenphobic or similar stuff
Xenophobic? Lol. If anything, MK was another American media with ninja and Asian culture stereotypes.

[Anonymous No.10219949]

>>10218907
>right timing
>cool lore
>cool characters
>edgy 90s blood/fatalities
>secrets and rumors
That's about it. Also it was cool to play with friends. So was Street Fighter of course but ripping someone's head off with the spine still attached is a really neat fuck you to your buddy you just beat.

[Anonymous No.10219959]

>>10219031
Whoever likes MK lore is beyond salvation. When a fat middle age cop *cough*stryker*cough* can mog supernatural Ninjas and super powered humans then you know your game lore is dog shit

[Anonymous No.10219963]

>>10219959
I bet you're some ghetto ass nigger who thinks he is a FGC king but can't even do infinite combos in MvC2.

[Anonymous No.10219971]

>>10219959
>complains about MK lore
>posts about character from MK3
Mortal Kombat jumped the shark with 3. Can't speak for everyone and I do overall enjoy 3 but MK2 was the last true Mortal Kombat game to me.

[Anonymous No.10220591]

>>10219787
That's the problem, it was TOO exotic (and wasn't advertised properly).

MK was appealing to normies during entire existence of the franchise. Easy to get in, easy to understand, you can pick your favorite ninja color and it looked different enough to choose it over SF.

[Anonymous No.10220659]

>>10219794
is not like you think,next time read again before posting stupid answers.
they will call you xenophobic if you complain of the game but not because of the content is because troons and mental sick people love said game so anyone against it is enemy and the mob will light the torches.
is the same as when we complained of fat prostitutes on gta games they said lot of stuff to anyone that was against it because "it was realistic so is fine" yet it was nothing like that.
Mortal kombat is the same you can't say anything about it without being called stuff.

[Anonymous No.10220665]

>>10220591
i think it was too advertised to certain public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuRhydFE4E

[Anonymous No.10220682]

Don't Cream the bed

[Anonymous No.10220690]

MK was popular because of well-meaning but misguided patriots.

>a beat-em-up made by Americans and not nips? USA USA USA!!!

[Anonymous No.10220694]

You can argue it’s not as well designed as any Capcom or SNK fighter, but the martial arts theming is really what sets it apart.

[Anonymous No.10220696]

>>10220690
>beat-em-up

[Anonymous No.10220734]

>>10218907
they liked it for the edge, it's not hard to get

[Anonymous No.10220889]

>>10218907
Zoomers will never understand being a 90s kid. I see you post modern Sonic furry bullshit. You don't get Sonic either. Sonic Advance is garbage and if you didn't own a Genesis, your Sonic fandom is based on crap.

Well, Mortal Kombat was never the deepest fighting game and it's not good because "it's the best fighting game", but it was a perfect storm of things you can only understand if you were an American kid in the 1990s. It is the soul of the 90's in a way.

[Anonymous No.10220971]

>>10220889
It's always fun to look at old fanart, where you can see budding fetishists, like that Psycho Fox in a diaper

[Anonymous No.10220979]

>>10220971
He looked like that in the game too

[Anonymous No.10221002]

>>10220889
mortal kombat appeals to a sense of cool other fighting games don't have. even killer instinct which tries to appeal to a similar sense, managed to be too saturday morning cartoon looking to fill the same niche. and if you're gonna play killer instinct, well why not play street fighter? mortal kombat is different enough from the standard to warrant its existence even if its not everyones cup of tea, moves are executed in an entirely different way and input style which is more casual friendly, and the moves themselves are totally different, with moves that have effects like stunning etc and teleport moves being a staple, it plays entirely different

[Anonymous No.10221005]

>>10220889
> muh classic Sonic era fucking Adventure bullshit

Grandpa, you've had your time.

[Anonymous No.10221015]

>>10218907
>Why [...] has [...]?
Learn to speak English, you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.10221021]

>>10221005
Only classic Sonic is true. Crap like Shadow and 06 that came out during your time are the entire reason the franchise has a bad rap today.

Funny thing is, you'd still have to be around my age for the OG Adventure games to mean anything to you either. Those games are likely even before your time by a few years.

[Anonymous No.10221028]

>>10221015
it's a zoomer thing, they think typing in infantilized ways is cute and quirky.
>y dis thing so? i think it b poopy yucky
etc

[Anonymous No.10221213]

>you le only like for le gore and le edge
stop putting words in others mouths you cockmonglers

[Anonymous No.10221402]

>>10218907
It appeals to unskilled fighting game fans.

[Anonymous No.10221476]

>>10218907
Turning consumers into cultists, brands into religions etc.
You know the deal, now post the source for that pic

[Anonymous No.10221524]

>>10219787
Zoomers gonna zoom. Samurai Showdown was an anime style game, anime wasn't widely popular yet in America. Also, there wasn't a huge market of people who were actual weeaboos who jerked off over feudal Japanese history. People liked kung fu and ninja movies and the fantasy/action movie trope shit they were familiar with. It being "stereotypical" was the appeal, nobody cared about real history nor the Japanese fictionalized version of it, they wanted what was then the pop culture version of it, and MK delivered that and then some. Hell most people back then thought ninjas were Chinese and nobody knew what the fuck a "shuriken" was, it was a ninja star, get the picture?

I knew all about the 70s and 80s when I was like fuckin 15, I don't know how zoomers are so entirely ignorant about what society was like before they were born but it is so tiring.

[Anonymous No.10221529]

>>10218907
We don't. Your ad agency wint shutuonthough so fuck you

[Anonymous No.10221585]

>>10218907
Because better doesn't mean it will sell as well nor that it will have more fans. A simple example of this is the very image you use: a franchise that has survived entirely because of marketable characters despite the many, many unfortunate releases. Now think of how many series ended up being far more obscure selling far worse despite being far better than most Sonic games.

[Anonymous No.10221678]

God I want too Cream the Rabbit

[Anonymous No.10222661]

like anon said the fact that it was a fighting game not made by Japanese was alone a big novelty factor

[Anonymous No.10222779]

>>10221028
lol that's so random, propane XD
(millennials are guilty of this shit, too)

[Anonymous No.10222802]

>>10222661
it was more like
>is a fighting game made by americans we have to support it.
it was only that is similar as the hate of mighty number 9 despite they love megaman even X series despite being similar in gameplay.
most of the hate is
>megaman japan destroyed by robots great game
>mighty number 9 USA destroyed by robots is the worse game of all.