Warner Bros. Games and NetherRealm Studios Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Mortal Kombat

[Prima.Vera]

To be honest, only the 1st film was the best to depict the game as it was. The rest of the movies, including the latest junks were pure crap and had nothing to do with the games.
Also MK3 was the best game from all their history. Everything after was and is just junk focused on useless gore and unrealistic moves.

 

[AusWolf]

Also MK3 was the best game from all their history. Everything after was and is just junk focused on useless gore and unrealistic moves.

You're not wrong, but most of them were fun with their "easy to play, hard to master" approach and same screen PvP fights.
Kind of the same way rock music in the '80s was fun, even though every song was about drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll or a combination of these.

I liked nearly every MK game from the PS2 era and before (MK3, MK4, Deception, Armageddon, Shaolin Monks). Newer ones overcomplicated things, and the new generation of characters just never felt right.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

You're not wrong, but most of them were fun with their "easy to play, hard to master" approach and same screen PvP fights.
Kind of the same way rock music in the '80s was fun, even though every song was about drugs, sex, rock 'n' roll or a combination of these.

I liked nearly every MK game from the PS2 era and before (MK3, MK4, Deception, Armageddon, Shaolin Monks). Newer ones overcomplicated things, and the new generation of characters just never felt right.

Their gameplay never stacked up to Capcom and SNK fighters though. It was always the game for edge lords and people who were bad at fighting games. I enjoyed them, but gameplay was never their strong point.

 

[AusWolf]

Their gameplay never stacked up to Capcom and SNK fighters though. It was always the game for edge lords and people who were bad at fighting games. I enjoyed them, but gameplay was never their strong point.

Well, I was bad at fighting games, so there we go...

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Well, I was bad at fighting games, so there we go...

They were stupidly fun which is the point! But they took no real skill and lacked the depth that the competition had. Their move to 3D was interesting but again there were better 3d games. Their reboot in the PS3 was well done and the reason they were more complicated was specifically because they wanted to be taken seriously, though by MK11 they'd botched that again.

 

[AusWolf]

They were stupidly fun which is the point! But they took no real skill and lacked the depth that the competition had. Their move to 3D was interesting but again there were better 3d games. Their reboot in the PS3 was well done and the reason they were more complicated was specifically because they wanted to be taken seriously, though by MK11 they'd botched that again.

They took no skill to have fun, but they took a lot of skill if you wanted to master the combos, which was kind of the point. Or at least in some of the games. Fatality moves in MK4 were ridiculously difficult.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

They took no skill to have fun, but they took a lot of skill if you wanted to master the combos, which was kind of the point. Or at least in some of the games. Fatality moves in MK4 were ridiculously difficult.

Nah, they didn't. Not compared to their competition.

 

[skizzo]

I find it funny they never once mention the Annihilation movie which has been and always will be panned as one of the worst movies ever, at least in the MK franchise. They literally act like this thing never happend....shhhhh don't talk about it sorta thing lol