Hi, i know this is gonna sound stupid, but as a kid MK4 scared the ever loving shit out of me, in retrospect MK4 is the goofiest MK title, but the dark ominous atmosphere espcially in goro's lair, and that one stage with the big blue face things, the continue thing where the character was falling down in a well, plus i mean i was friggin 5 or 6, and my cousin's used to tease me because they knew it scared me shitless, and scorpion's get over here was just the worst of them all.
What about y'all am i alone on this lol?
Mortal Kombat 2, especially on the Genesis, was unnerving for me as a youngster. My cousin had the Genesis. I still played it with him once, but still. Heck, I even misremember the attract mode theme being more intimidating than it was.
Admittedly, I was kind of a coward as a kid. The intro for Gargoyles scared me into not watching it, and as an adult I feel like I seriously missed out. :v S
Still, I had the original on the family SNES and it didn't scare me. Neither did the movie! And I wasn't allowed to play our PC copy of MK4, but I read the manual and thought it was cool. By the time we got Trilogy on my PS1, I was old enough to not be spooked by Mortal Kombat, and MK2 became what I feel is the coolest game of the original quadrilogy.
I've spoken about it here before, but MK2 scared the shit out of me as a kid. I was like 2 or 3 when MK2 came out on SNES and getting knocked into the Deadpool by Scorpion was possibly my first exposure to the concept of death, that shit is etched in my brain.
I was never scared by these games and enjoyed them. I was also introduced to Phantasm at an early age. That scared me senseless so the Mortal Kombat series was never an issue for me.
Mortal Kombat 2, especially on the Genesis, was unnerving for me as a youngster. My cousin had the Genesis. I still played it with him once, but still. Heck, I even misremember the attract mode theme being more intimidating than it was.
Admittedly, I was kind of a coward as a kid. The intro for Gargoyles scared me into not watching it, and as an adult I feel like I seriously missed out. :v S
Still, I had the original on the family SNES and it didn't scare me. Neither did the movie! And I wasn't allowed to play our PC copy of MK4, but I read the manual and thought it was cool. By the time we got Trilogy on my PS1, I was old enough to not be spooked by Mortal Kombat, and MK2 became what I feel is the coolest game of the original quadrilogy.
I've spoken about it here before, but MK2 scared the shit out of me as a kid. I was like 2 or 3 when MK2 came out on SNES and getting knocked into the Deadpool by Scorpion was possibly my first exposure to the concept of death, that shit is etched in my brain.
I don't think I felt any sort of adverse reaction. The blood was too blatantly fake to trigger my hemophobia, too. Most I can say about it is that it's one of my introductions to the glory that is not having a human body in Smoke, and in being something else in human skin in Reptile.
Not scared per se, but Vanilla MK3 was kinda ominous. Earth is fucked. Billions are dead. Shao Kahn kinda won. There's like, seven or eight good guys left, Raiden LEGIT can't do shit to help this time, LOL. MK2 has that cool sense of the unknown, like "look at this new world" and whatnot, but MK3 was sort of a twisted version of Earth, or at least it seemed to be. It was kind of a ballsy approach at the time, even though I don't think they went full force with it, even less with MK9.
The "Supreme Demonstration" of all Fatalities, Brutalities, etc., in the PS1 version of MK Trilogy always felt oddly unnerving to me. Perhaps it's due to a combination of many things, such as the darkened arena background, the characters constantly screaming throughout the first phases of the demonstration, and the awkward loading times between each finishing move. The change of tone with the silly Friendships and Babalities later on somewhat helps to alleviate the "creepy" feel of the whole thing, but not by much.
The screaming is at its worst during the Animalities; some of them can be quite ear-piercing.
I remember seeing the arcade after it was released in the 90's (maybe i was 12/13 years old) in a place somewhat close to my house. Still remember how impressed i was when i saw some guy with sub-zero pulling out the head of an opponent. A good memory.
No, as young kids we all thought it was the coolest thing ever. I stopped paying attention after 3 though (the series fell off for a while) and it wasn't until later that I realized the games never played that well IMO. But they perfectly captured what a lot of kids wanted in the early/mid '90s, and at that age we weren't discerning about fighting gameplay (I remember think Pit Fighter on the Genesis was good).
I'm not sure I actually played MK before I was 11 or so. Would've been Trilogy on N64. By that point I'd already decided I didn't really care for that sort of aesthetic, so it seemed more corny to me than anything. But I can appreciate it now! Really thick atmosphere on some of the stages.
I can't appreciate the new ones, though. I'm awful with gore & torture stuff, especially with them fancy-ass aitch-dee graffixxes. Whatever other people get out of it totally eludes me (and I'm kind of annoyingly woke about the effects needing to create such things has on the workers).
Really this is intresting, for me i feel the high def reduces the ominous vibe, it feels more tangible thus less ominous but it's merely my brain lol, but yeah dude i get it, mk games don't scare me but i'm not a big fan of horror lol, life is too f'ed up anyways no need to add to it haha.
I'm not sure I actually played MK before I was 11 or so. Would've been Trilogy on N64. By that point I'd already decided I didn't really care for that sort of aesthetic, so it seemed more corny to me than anything. But I can appreciate it now! Really thick atmosphere on some of the stages.
I can't appreciate the new ones, though. I'm awful with gore & torture stuff, especially with them fancy-ass aitch-dee graffixxes. Whatever other people get out of it totally eludes me (and I'm kind of annoyingly woke about the effects needing to create such things has on the workers).
Dude preaching right here, i read about the workers needing to watch snuff films and whatnot, that's not ok, the goofy fatalities were good as they were, no need to subject people to this kind of exercise, for me the high def graphics defeat the purpose as it removes the ominousness of it all to be honest.
The "Supreme Demonstration" of all Fatalities, Brutalities, etc., in the PS1 version of MK Trilogy always felt oddly unnerving to me. Perhaps it's due to a combination of many things, such as the darkened arena background, the characters constantly screaming throughout the first phases of the demonstration, and the awkward loading times between each finishing move. The change of tone with the silly Friendships and Babalities later on somewhat helps to alleviate the "creepy" feel of the whole thing, but not by much.
The screaming is at its worst during the Animalities; some of them can be quite ear-piercing.
i can't see myself shitting my pants as a young child at the sight of this but this was way before my childhood, but i do remeber my cousins playing trilogy.
I don't think I felt any sort of adverse reaction. The blood was too blatantly fake to trigger my hemophobia, too. Most I can say about it is that it's one of my introductions to the glory that is not having a human body in Smoke, and in being something else in human skin in Reptile.
For me the over the top nature and absurd nature made it more unnerving, mind you my first exposure was really early, also i did play the game for a while at age 4ish until someone explained what was happening and it freaked me out lol.
Dude MK dreams were fucking scary, i once had a nightmare that melina was after me or something to that affect, it was because my asshole cousin pranked me by showing me the melina fatality on either deadly alliance or deceptionn the one where she eats the loser from the neck that shit haunted me.
Always found Mortal Kombat more corny than interesting, and given its history in gaming culture, it seems the majority of people agree, with many of the games being underground up until X
Hell the biggest part of the franchise’s legacy doesn’t even come from the games (the Mortal Kombat theme is from the movie, look up the actual Mortal Kombat themes and you’ll be disappointed)
Always found Mortal Kombat more corny than interesting, and given its history in gaming culture, it seems the majority of people agree, with many of the games being underground up until X
Hell the biggest part of the franchise’s legacy doesn’t even come from the games (the Mortal Kombat theme is from the movie, look up the actual Mortal Kombat themes and you’ll be disappointed)
Always found Mortal Kombat more corny than interesting, and given its history in gaming culture, it seems the majority of people agree, with many of the games being underground up until X
You're missing the most important part of its history. Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 were massive hits and the series became a cultural phenomenon in the early '90s, and MK3 was still a big hit in 1995. It was one of the first video games to get a Hollywood live action movie for a reason. Even the digitized graphics were cool and cutting edge for a few years, as everyone was chasing realism and 3D wasn't quite there yet. The problem is it completely floundered after that as video games transitioned to 3D in the 32-bit era, and before long it became more of a niche series, with several poorly received entries and spin-offs, while things like digitized sprites were now seen as dated and corny in retrospect. There was still some goodwill associated to the name for many who'd grown up with it, but the die-hards who still cared were just hoping for a return to glory.
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