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still the best fatality in Mortal Kombat history

>> No.8822797

That's not MK1 Spine Rip

>> No.8822801
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8822801

look at this shit

>> No.8822809
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8822809

this one is pretty cool too

>> No.8822843
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>>8822809
If he had the power to do that all that time. Why didn't he just do that at the start of the fight?

>> No.8822971

>>8822843
Wouldnt be fair

>> No.8823021

>>8822801
The moment that Midway admitted that they never understood what made MK cool to begin with.

>> No.8823039

>>8822794
MK characters who use weapons are tools. Yeah I'm looking at you Scorpion you cuck

>> No.8823061
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>>8822801
>>8823021
There's a very delicate sweet spot between edginess and goofiness that worked great and was probably accidental in the first and second games. The third one just looked plain stupid most of the time, and from 4 onward the series just went for blunt edgelord nonsense.

>> No.8823067
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>>8822794
But that's not The Long Fall in Eternal Champions

>> No.8823078

>>8823061
down, forward, back, back, high kick
I'll never forget it.

>> No.8823528

>>8823067
Wow

>> No.8823597 [DELETED] 

>>8823067
This is Itchy and Scratchy-tier

>> No.8823613

>>8823067
Eternal Champions had the most annoying finishing move conditions. Everything was crazy specific. The character had to be standing in the right spot, doing the right thing, have the right command input...

>> No.8823949

>>8823061
It's this one for me, haven't played it in years but I still know it's d f b b hk
Classic

>> No.8823957
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>>8823613
Even the common special movies are fucking ridiculous; there's no rhythm or reason for the patterns, they just feel randomly generated. The regular finishing moves are on that same vein, but yeah, the stage-based finishers are near impossible to pull off

>> No.8823970

>>8823957
You have to build a super meter to use even standard special moves right? If your super meter is empty you're stuck using basic punches and kicks, I think. It's one of those games that had good ideas and terrible execution.

>> No.8824458

>>8822794
agreed

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>>8822794
>Every character has a victory animation whenever they win a round.
>Except Shang Tsung.
>He turns to the camera, breaking the fourth wall, staring straight at your soul.

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>>8824463
I think his victory animation only triggers if he's the cpu.
Must be related to him being delegated to the position under Kintaro. (in the beta he was just a random fighter)

I guess they wanted to make him more special.

>> No.8824913

>>8823061
I think 4 still had some decent fatalities (Reptile's face eating one is still one of my favorite ones) but DA and Deception were either too goofy or unimpressive.
Quan Chi's neck stretch or that one were the character pops-out Banjo-Kazooie eyeballs are too silly even for MK standards.

>> No.8824923

>>8824889
has there ever been a case of an mk2 player maining shang tsung?

>> No.8824932

>>8824889
Maybe you're right. But I find it funny how he abruptly turns to the camera and look at you.

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wrong

>> No.8825017

>>8822809
Looks like a cartel execution torture.

>> No.8825074

>>8824932
I wonder if it was an oversight or a deliberate choice to disable his victory animation, someone should ask Tobias on Twitter.
and then also ask him why they put that big black image in between the layers of the deadpool, thus disabling the red skyline.

>> No.8825109

>>8822794
beating someone and doing annoying friendships over and over has to be the highlight of videogames for me.

>> No.8825119

MKII was just so damn impressive back then, detailed impressive fatalities and secrets and weird as fuck stages.
MK3 with its techno robots and MSpaint fatalities almost seemed like a totally different franchise. like they had gotten Atari to do it or something.

>> No.8825164

>>8825119
mk3 felt like they were trying to borrow from their wrestlemania game, shitloads of goofy crap and everyone reimagined as gimmicks in striped spandex pants

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MK3 is pure kino in all aspects and I won't be hearing hogwash saying otherwise.

>> No.8825218

>>8825119
It does feel like MK3 ditch the mature vibe of the first 2 to appeal to toy makers and get less attention from politicians.

MK didn't recover until 9 reboot came out.

>> No.8825274

>>8825218
they had no idea where to take the series in terms of mechanics, but they were still saturating the market with spinoffs, ports and upgrades. by '98 mortal kombat was the new doom, getting unnecessary releases that only made people more and more sick of it. mk3, umk3 and even trilogy were well received, it's stuff like sub zero mythologies, mk4 and shaolin monks that damaged the franchise.

>> No.8825593

>>8825274
>shaolin monks that damaged the franchise.

Fuck no. That game was the best thing to come out post-MK2.

>> No.8825689

>>8825274
Shaolin Monks was great. What really happened was MK3 and UMK3 were well received but MK Trilogy started to feel like they were milking it a little too much while other fighting games were seriously stepping up. MK started looking a bit long in the tooth and then MK4 was just really weird looking and goofy. Combined with the second movie the series quickly became a laughing stock.

>> No.8825841

>>8825274
>shaolin monks damaged the franchise
Without the positive reception from that game I'm not sure mk9 gets made, shaolin was a huge lifeline after the failure of all the early 6th gen fighters.

>> No.8826258

>>8825274
>shaolin monks that damaged the franchise.
You're missing out on arguably the best MK game released and easily the best brawler of all of gen 6.

>> No.8826268

Any of you guys remember the secret with Johnny Cage where he does the uppercut fatality and punches the head off? And if you hold down certain buttons after putting in his finisher, he will punch 3 of you opponents heads off?

>> No.8826585
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>>8825164
And then they did the Xena like tv show, and the cartoon where they fought the baddies and then there was the coloring book and the have your own adventure book for the toddlers and the Stryker crossing guard whistle and the Raiden COOKING BOOK!

I mean.. I get that they liked making money, it was just.. weird seeing it done after that whole senate hearing about them being murder sims.

>> No.8826589

>>8825274
Shaolin Monks was great, it was like MKII the brawler!
the only problem it had was that Midway went a little goofy with everything they did, but even then its an amazing game!

Fuck MK3, fuck UMK3, fuck MK45678 but Shaolin Monks is great.

>> No.8826594

>>8826268
That COMPLETELY ruined my immersion yeah

>> No.8826607

>>8826594
it was a glitch in the first game, where if you do the fatality inputs a second time really fast then he punches off a second head
i guess the three head thing in mk2 was a nod to that

>> No.8828073

>>8825017
No it doesn't.

>> No.8828095

>>8826607
>i guess the three head thing in mk2 was a nod to that
Yeah, it was intentionally put in the game for mk2

>> No.8828096

>>8825274
>by '98 mortal kombat was the new doom, getting unnecessary releases that only made people more and more sick of it
There was Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, and Doom 64, then that was it, did people really get sick of it?

>> No.8828107

>>8828096
A lot of people didn't know Doom 64 was a new game rather than a port, and/or were sick of its primitive-by-1997 engine.

>> No.8828314

>>8828107
>A lot of people didn't know Doom 64 was a new game rather than a port,
Sure, but then they'd just assume it to be one of the many obligatory console ports and not pay any attention to it, probably already having Doom on another machine.

>and/or were sick of its primitive-by-1997 engine.
I suppose that attitude persisted.

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8828362

While Killer Instinct has infinitely better gameplay than MK, can't argue that its fatalities were never as cool or violent as the ones in MK. They were always more on the funny side sometimes though (like Orchid's tits one).
gif related was badass though.

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>>8822794
Always was fond of this one

>> No.8828418

>>8822809
Mortal kombat 4 is the best mk ever

>> No.8828483

>>8828096
Doom clones also didn't helped. Every FPS before 1996 was Doom with some wacky gimmick.

>> No.8828661

>>8824923
Yes, he's top tier in the arcade.

>> No.8828862

>>8828375
>imagine how much carnage can you do with 4 arms
>just punch her lol

>> No.8828867

>>8828107
Or you know it was a Mature game on the Nintendo console that was seen as being only for children

>> No.8829003

>>8824923
Me. Morphing into the 4 other characters I chose for him and knowing all their movesets was a blast.

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>>8828867
>that was seen as being only for children

>> No.8829302

>>8828867
Wasn't a problem for Goldeneye. People wanted a true 3D FPS and not another Doom game.

>> No.8829367

Do edenians have tight pussies?

>> No.8829376

>>8822797
This is the greatest fatality and the most iconic by far.

>> No.8829517
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>>8824463
Based & Goldberg Pilled
2YNPW

>> No.8829904

>>8828095
iirc it takes extra inputs to make it 3 heads instead of 1 as well.
fun fact, i was googling mk1 glitches last night and found a video of johnny cage hitting THREE heads off in the first game. Im not sure if it's tool assisted but daniel pesina is the pinned comment saying he didnt know about it.

>> No.8829912

>>8829376
i like how it has its own music that im pretty sure you dont hear in the other fatalities

>> No.8829918

>>8828418
LOL

>> No.8829992

>>8822843
Same logic as villains in DBZ not blowing the planet before fighting Goku.

>> No.8830038

>>8822801
Ö

>> No.8830065

>>8825274
>Shaolin Monks damaged the franchise
Watch your mouth.