Thread 12143990

You know, people just don't give this game a fair shake.

>>12143990 (OP)
It's dogshit. Watch MrGstar's playthrough of it for lulz though.

It's really not very good.
As someone who liked MK back then, even we knew it was bad.

>>12143990 (OP)
I did. It really is that bad. The controls are slippery and the hit detection just feels off. You die more from the environment than from normal enemies and bosses. The turning mechanic was awful at the time and I didn’t get used to it until guilty gear isuka came out. It’s like if they took mortal kombat and turned it into a platformer.

This game was shit but I suffered through it anyway as a little child just so I could watch the cutscenes.

>>12143990 (OP)
The PS1 version is the way to play, if you're playing it. The bullshit is so obnoxious however I recommend you emulate it and save state though it. Those FMVs are golden.

>>12143990 (OP)
It would have saved the dreamcast

what's worse, this or Special Forces?

>>12145602
SF is just boring.

>>12145639
can't be any worse than T. Hawk Teaches Typing

>>12143990 (OP)
Shill spamming for the MK Collection, so not engage with this thread

>>12145694
Everything WB and Digital Eclipse have done is basically anti-PR so it all evens out

>>12145694
you just engaged tho???

>>12145602
mythologies is a kusoge if you have the right kind of autism. special forces is just pointless

MK is overrated as a fighting game to begin with, MK Chronicles looks like dogshit by comparison.
Fighting game sucjed until Tekken 3 thobeit

>>12143990 (OP)
I did, and I still liked it. I wish we had more experimental takes on MK rather than stuffing movie characters as guests into the latest outings.

>>12146403
I wouldnt mind guests that fit in with the kung fu /ninja exploitation genre but shit like Terminator or Predator simply dont belong.
Ninja Turtles would be fine though.

>>12143990 (OP)
I played it a lot as a kid and really liked some things about it, but making every level a maze and adding in a bunch of environmental deaths just got annoying. Most levels weren't too bad but like the earth level sucked for environmental deaths because you just had to guess where it was safe to go or not.

In my whole street back in the '90s, only one kid ever finished this game, and he said he played it for almost 50 hours. He said he almost had a heart attack (at 12!) trying to understand what to do at the final boss.
For anyone who doesn't know, Shinnok is slowly approaching you and he has a barrier in front of him. You have to wait for his amulet to shine and trade hits with him by using your freezing blast. Then you have to turn around, run through the portal, grab Shinnok's amulet, turn around and go out through the portal. All that in less than 4 seconds.

I've finished it 2 years ago, but took me too many tries to count. I didn't use save states, but it took me 2 or 3 weeks to finally get a winning run.

What's really difficult for anyone used to beat-em-ups is that the normal enemies don't just eat your attacks, most of them will block the first attack if you don't bait them into doing something first. The mazelike levels don't help either.

>>12146421
MK has both cyborgs and monsters in it though. In fact Kano was literally based on a scene from Terminator where his skin is torn showing the cyber eye beneath.

The ones I don't think fit are the superhero characters, at least something like Predator ties into like "edgy 80s-90s nostalgia" even if not inherently martial arts, but superheroes don't fit well to me, but of course that's because of WB owning them and the Injustice connection so whatever, I just don't really care about guest characters anyway

>>12146394
Anyone who types or speaks like you, should and will never be listened to for advice.

>>12146859
Not retro but
>Injustice 2 guest characters
>Get saddled with Raiden & Sub-Zero
>Next MK gets Robocop & Spawn, which are comic book characters
>Next MK gets Homelander and Omniman, both comic characters.

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>12146814
As a child i had a crush on Shinnok. I used to do his head popping fatality on Sonya and Tanya over and over cause it'd give me a boner.

>>12147446
Same, except I would draw pictures of me and Shinnok kissing and cuddling together in one of his giant skull hands.

I have no strong opinions on Shinnok, I'm just glad he can bring us all together like this.

>>12147446
>>12148628
homosexuals are dysgenic

>>12149954
you can't say that

>>12147049
Well who the fuck were they supposed to put in, Yo Noid?

>>12147446
>>12147446
>used to do his head popping fatality on Sonya and Tanya
>it'd give me a boner
For me it was Liu Kang's dragon tf fatality from MK II

>>12143990 (OP)
It was dog shit and filled with cheap bullshit, but I loved it when I was younger. Sometimes you can like a shitty game if it has the right character or setting.

>>12152535
what if you like a shitty game if it has the shitty character or setting

>>12153550
What are you some kind of violent asshole? You probably like Vice Shitty and think it's the best GTA too. I oughta slap you silly

Mk fans all love the og GTA III the best
It has the most big dick energy of the series, just like og Mk did

>>12154326
III is the best GTA
Vice City is a better III

I just realized something. Was Mythologies the last MK game to use digitized sprites?

Anyway I hate how bad the gameplay is because I actually love everything else about it. Focusing on one of the fan favorite ninja characters instead of some boring honorable monk guy or whatever, the temples/bosses based on the four elements, the cutscenes, even some of the music was memorable to me.

>>12143990 (OP)
>Mortal Kombat
I'll shake it all the way to the trash can.
If I ever become a billionaire, I'm buying 100 copies of every physical Mortal Kombat game still in existence and running them all through a trash compactor so nobody else can ever have them.
Those games are SO FUCKING GAY.

>>12155046
Only gay people don't like MK. You may as well say steak, football, and Pantera are gay. False flag

>>12155050
If you're talking about handegg, that's absolutely as gay as it gets. And Pantera is five times as gay as that. Steak is fine, but you probably have yours well-done with Coors Lite. Pantera is the well-done steak with Coors Lite of metal.

>>12155046
>>12155050
>>12155056
>kevin fucking smith talks to himself

>>12155056
Only black people eat well done steak and they don't like metal, because they used to get sold rotten steak and now it's just ingrained in them. Pantera is from Texas, literally the steak culture capital of the world. Nobody believes any coastal person has ever eaten steak properly , you eat gay feminine food like sushi.

Also only gay people like fancy beer, masculine people like cheap beer because only blue collar people can be masculine and have been drinking since they were kids on an allowance

>>12155072
Huh. So you're black, then?
A sushi is fine, too, but when I do eat steak/burgers/whatever, you can still hear the cow mooing a little bit. I won't have it any other way.
Who the fuck said anything about fancy beer? I'll have my ultra-rare steak with four shots of any halfway drinkable bourbon, neat. And I listen to black metal like a proper adult.
>Pantera is from Texas, literally the steak culture
And Pantera is the steak of the metal world. The well-done steak. With Coors Light.
And I'm sure there are bands from Texas who are the rare triple-cheeseburger with a double of neat bourbon of the metal world, but Pantera is not them. Pantera is for people who need well-done steak with Coors Light for their ears. It's for most people and people who don't know any better.
>>12152535
What sets it apart from the other MK games, then?

>>12155084
Black metal is the current age mallcore, only posers like it. Co opted by hipsters, fake goths, femboys, black metal parody shirts for cutesy stuff etc. Death metal is true and black metal is false. Black metal is inherently feminine because feminine people like it, because most of the band players have no muscles and the imagery obsessed with trees and shit can be seen as "beautiful" in a faggy goth way

And it's not manly to say bourbon, neat. It's only manly to say give me a whiskey

>>12155097
Death metal is fine. I listen to that, too, albeit less frequently. For some reason, I like death metal and specifically death metal and only death metal (doesn't work for other genres, including most subgenres of death metal) a LOT more when I'm on oxycodone or kratom or anything that touches my opioid receptors (not sure why this is, but it's consistent), but since I'm off of drugs these days, not as much as I used to. I do like Jungle Rot a good bit.
>current age mallcore
I mean, hipster black metal exists. So does that shitty candy-flavored peanut butter whiskey, and it doesn't make my favorite bourbons taste any worse. Doesn't change the fact that Pantera (and all groove metal bands with Brujeria as a possible exception) are Coors Light.
But only a poser would make that argument. Who the fuck do I care who "co-opted" it or what your random-ass opinion is on parody T-shirt or hipster aesthetics?
I listen to black metal because I like it. I drink whiskey because it tastes good. Because I have good taste. You listen to Pantera and drink Coors Light and play Mortal Kombat because you have very basic taste.
>>12146394
Preach.
>>12144124
Can't you just YouTube them if they're the only thing that makes the game worth playing?

Fuck off with your retarded schizo rants, kevin smith

>>12155097
>And it's not manly to say bourbon, neat. It's only manly to say give me a whiskey
I only just saw this, but, no, half the time people will give you Jim Beam and put ice in it if you do that. If you want something drinkable, you need to specify what and make sure they know it's supposed to be neat.

>>12155136
Whiskey no ice. Saying neat is like some yuppie crap

>>12155132
Pantera is much more masculine than black metal so is White Zombie, the only good groove. Pantera is only hated by gays. And if anything was lite beer of metal it'd be glam, nu metal, or metalcore. But glam is also peak machismo in a different way that triggers sois. Pantera is thoroughly based because they did everything well and kept true metals spirit while being aggressive. You can say they were influenced by hardcore, but not liberal politics or musical ideas like intentionally slumming it. Metal is about grandiosity even if it's coming from a redneck with a five inch goatee being the only famous shredder in the faggy 90s popular music scene

Black metal became the genre most loved by posers, bands like Chat Pile use black metal logos. The genre is dead and was always inferior to death metal anyway, and Venom still has more balls than any of the gayish Norwegian bands they inspired

>>12155189
I think bars respect it more if you say "neat", but I have had to tell people "no ice" before. You do need to say one or the other, not just "gimmie a whiskey".
White Zombie is okay, I guess. I prefer his solo stuff (wouldn't call any of it "groove"), but Pantera is definitely for fags. They're just The Beatles for people who think they're hardcore. Their music is midding and mediocre and people like them or pretend to like them as a conversation piece. Their music is only FOR posing.
>if anything was lite beer of metal it'd be glam, nu metal, or metalcore
Glam and nu-metal aren't metal, so those would probably be methanol and isopropanol, respectively, in the sense that glam would probably result in me throwing up and doing convulsions on the floor if I was exposed to any significant amount of it, and nu-metal can very occasionally be pleasurable in tiny amounts in a controlled environment depending upon the brand. Metalcore can be White Claw or boxed wine or something. Or maybe whiskey with Jarritos a great deal, in the sense that I enjoy both post-hardcore and metal independently but not so much the combination.
>>12154326
III has its charm, but it's absurdly difficult. I got as far as the part where the mob boss's girlfriend trolls you by telling him you slept with her and ragequit. There were hard missions before that, but I just could not kill that guy.
It does have great atmosphere, though. So does Vice City, but in a different way.

>>12155218
Pantera isn't mid you just hate big dick riffs, true metal falsetto, and true metal solos. White Zombie is groove, Rob Zombie is industrial metal

Glam a s absolutely metal. It's just sort of a confusing genre to actually know about and define like grunge. Alice in Chains Facelift is a metal album, Nirvana Nevermind is not. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil is a metal album, Bon Jovi New Jersey is not

Nu metal is a cousin of metal at best. It was influenced by alt metal, rap metal, and funk to k, things already distanced from metals origins. But glam isn't, glam bands had the same influences thrash bands did the two movements just ran in opposite directions

>>12155218
>>12155218 #
Pantera isn't mid you just hate big dick riffs, true metal falsetto, and true metal solos. White Zombie is groove, Rob Zombie is industrial metal

Glam is absolutely metal. It's just sort of a confusing genre to actually know about and define like grunge. Alice in Chains Facelift is a metal album, Nirvana Nevermind is not. Motley Crue Shout at the Devil is a metal album, Bon Jovi New Jersey is not

Nu metal is a cousin of metal at best. It was influenced by alt metal, rap metal, and funk rock, things already distanced from metals origins. But glam isn't, glam bands had the same influences thrash bands did the two movements just ran in opposite directions

>>12155235
>falsetto
I like Mercyful Fate, anyway.
>Zombie
I think both projects are industrial metal/rock. I've never heard anything considered groove that sounds anything like White. I dunno. It's not the same genre as Pantera, even.
>Glam is absolutely metal.
No. Also, I don't agree that Shout at the Devil is metal. That's a hard rock album. A great one. I also don't consider it glam, or at least not glam in the genre sense (maybe they dressed like that or something back then; idk I wasn't alive - glam being both a genre and an aesthetic). I've never heard anything from Bon Jovi or Alice in Chains (Nirvana is okay, I guess; not metal).
>glam bands had influences
Doesn't make them metal. They're rock bands.
>>12146421
Also, didn't this franchise have weird shit like Spawn and Darth Maul making appearances in some games? Good thing it was already pretty cheesy to begin with.

Also, while we're on the subject, the Mortal Kombat movies are better than the games. That's not to say they're good, but they held my attention for roughly three hours combined, which is more than any Mortal Kombat game ever will.

>>12155235
>>12155247
We're moving this over here before the jannies have a heart attack.
>>>/mu/128366831

>>12155247
Metal started in the 70s. Music that sounds like Judas Priest or Black Sabbath is metal. That describes a lot of glam bands. Metal was never about extremity, that's why extreme metal itself is a dub category and genres like doom metal and power metal are not extreme but still central to true metal

In the 70s hard rock and heavy metal were also synonyms. Even I as a purist differentiate today but it doesn't change anything historically. A band like KISS is better defined as hard rock but certainly has metal songs and was a far bigger influence than punk bands, who were a secondary influence. What separates rock from metal exactly is the blues and "danceability". ACDC Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution is a hard rock song, Hells Bells is heavy metal. Heavy metal is a genre, aka traditional metal, and heavy metal/trad doesn't have blast beats or gutturals

>>12155267
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>>12155267
>>>/mu/128366831

>/vr/ is full of metal fags
>not one mention of Led Zeppelin or Blue Cheer or even Deep Purple
>they'd rather argue about pleb shit like Pantera and Rob Zombie
>and glam
>mfw
at least it's not about rap

>>12144092
>Watch MrGstar's playthrough
The absolute state of this board...

>>12143990 (OP)
A friend brought this over to my house and gave me it along with MR1 and Rival Schools. Awful game, but cool friend.

>>12155372
I only listen to slam, brutal death and grindcore nowadays, support local bands and go to small local gigs. Fuck mainstream shit.

>>12155372
no, it's that only metalfags are subhuman enough to prattle on about their music taste in a retro vidya thread. this is called selection bias.

>>12143990 (OP)
More like Sub Queero haha
>>12155028
hell yeah it was

>>12144092
>Watch
How about actually playing a game for yourself, than some manchild on YouTube who's trying to dramatize stuff for "content", faggot?

>>12155028
>Was Mythologies the last MK game to use digitized sprites?
Yes. And I like how it looks. Good graphics, good art direction.
Shitty game, though.

>>12155372
>they'd rather argue about pleb shit like Pantera and Rob Zombie
what, you thought MK's reputation for being a white trash series was unwarranted?

>>12156353
You think Blue Cheer and Led Zeppelin weren't the exact same demographic? They were, that's why coastie critics always hated heavy metal

Metals spirit is the blue collar white man, ironic it was college boys from LA and NYC rallying against it for being "disconnected from rocks humble roots"

Is metal really made for white trash? We can solve this conundrum by asking ourselves one simple question:
Do they play metal during Nascar?

>>12157331
Blue collar white people have different demographics. NASCAR is specifically a rural/redneck obsession, so it'd be more country music. Now, look at professional wrestling, it always had a connection to rock music and heavy metal aesthetics, if you want to connect cliches here

Metal isn't music for the wimpy college kids though, they preferred punk and alternative and always gave metal bad reviews because it reminded them of their grade school bullies

>>12143990 (OP)

It's a game that I really wanted to like. I like the digitized sprites on top of the polygon environments look. I played the N64 version when I was a kid, it was lacking the FMV cutscenes and just has still images and text in its' place. A platform/ adventure game with MK controls sounded like an interesting idea, but the controls were hard to get to grips with. I did make it pretty far in. Never played the PS1 version. I like the look of it and the FMV. I like that they added it to the Kollection. Special Forces looks like a poor man's Die Hard Trilogy Nakatomi Plaza section... or Loaded/ Re-Loaded. I loved Loaded and Re-Loaded.

>>12157348
Metal kids are mostly dorky nerds. Unless it's slam. Slam is cool

>>12143990 (OP)
Watching it is more fu--
>Watch? Watch!? WATCH!??? REEEEEEE
Why are you retards like this

>>12157363
Slam is just Juggalos too afraid of Juggalos racism. It's not real death metal, it's people who listen to trap

>>12157458
Modern Death and Slam are two parts of the same scene, dumb nigger

>>12157480
No they're not. Death metal is the antithesis of hip hop. Slam is just nu metal/juggalos pretending to be death metal

People who worship Morbid Angel and Malevolent Creation don't like slam

>>12157498
You listen to Him, you're not in the scene so stfu and gtfo

>>12157510
Him is more metal than slam because they don't like hip hop

>>12157450
You're the only one like this tbf

>>12156330
Same. It doesn't get mentioned enough how much the digitized sprite style contributed to MK's success, because the blood and fatalities hit a lot harder when it looked like actual people on the screen and not cartoon/anime characters. That's why games like Time Killers just looked goofy while Mortal Kombat was terrifying as a kid. The move to 3D took away that terror factor for me.

>>12143990 (OP)
Shame because I think there's a lot of untapped promise to this day in merging fighting game mechanics and input in other types of games but man this game is just not it.

>>12143990 (OP)
It was basically the first Konquest mode.

Anyone played the SNES homebrew version of this?

>>12159614
Fuck no I didn't play that shit. Fuck that shit. That's some bullshit.

>>12157515
>Him
Isn't that the earth rocker band?

>>12160795
It's bam margeras boyfriends band

>>12143990 (OP)
I played through this with the infinite lives cheat. Never seen such a spiteful game, harder games exist but none hate you quite as much as MK Mythologies

>>12161386
Better than anything Sierra ever made that's for sure.

>>12144092
kys faggot

>>12144092
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