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Ed Boon's hint about the returning -ALITY, "never present in the arcade period of the series."

NickDaGreek1983

NickDaGreek1983

Oh, my days !
Flagg said:
Brutalities were cool but animalaties were freaking stupid and looked really awful.
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If Animalities were brought back for MKX, they would look much better -obviously- but still would be hilariously stupid. It would change the gritty looking style of MKX so, my guess is that we will never see animalities again...
My money is on brutalities.
 
Flagg

Flagg

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NickDaGreek1983 said:
If Animalities were brought back for MKX, they would look much better -obviously- but still would be hilariously stupid. It would change the gritty looking style of MKX so, my guess is that we will never see animalities again...
My money is on brutalities.
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I hope so. I mean some of the animalities I remember were silly and made no sense. Like some characters turned into Penguins. And some didn't make sense. You would think Scorpion would turn into the obvious but instead it was something like a lion or frog.

Friendships and babalities are kinda fun and original, animalities just didn't fit in. Yeah they could look better now as 16bit technology didn't do it justice.

I feel with the dark tone of MK X it will be something dark, like brutalities or hari kari.
 
NickDaGreek1983

NickDaGreek1983

Oh, my days !
Flagg said:
I hope so. I mean some of the animalities I remember were silly and made no sense. Like some characters turned into Penguins. And some didn't make sense. You would think Scorpion would turn into the obvious but instead it was something like a lion or frog.

Friendships and babalities are kinda fun and original, animalities just didn't fit in. Yeah they could look better now as 16bit technology didn't do it justice.

I feel with the dark tone of MK X it will be something dark, like brutalities or hari kari.
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MK3/UMK3/MK trilogy animalities sucked... Even for the 95-96 era. I remember everything as if it were last month.
Apart from the "who turns into which animal" curiosity , everything else sucked... Sheeva turned into a Scorpion and Scorpion turned into a penguin... :confused: !!!
There was ONE animality that made me laugh though... A Montty Python funny reference! Kitana turned into a killer rabbit !!! :) :)
 
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Eldriken

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Flagg said:
I hope so. I mean some of the animalities I remember were silly and made no sense. Like some characters turned into Penguins. And some didn't make sense. You would think Scorpion would turn into the obvious but instead it was something like a lion or frog.

Friendships and babalities are kinda fun and original, animalities just didn't fit in. Yeah they could look better now as 16bit technology didn't do it justice.

I feel with the dark tone of MK X it will be something dark, like brutalities or hari kari.
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Scorpion turned into a penguin and Sheeva turned into a scorpion.
 
Flagg

Flagg

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NickDaGreek1983 said:
MK3/UMK3/MK trilogy animalities sucked... Even for the 95-96 era. I remember everything as if it were last month.
Apart from the "who turns into which animal" curiosity , everything else sucked... Sheeva turned into a Scorpion and Scorpion turned into a penguin... :confused: !!!
There was ONE animality that made me laugh though... A Montty Python funny reference! Kitana turned into a killer rabbit !!! :) :)
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Eldriken said:
Scorpion turned into a penguin and Sheeva turned into a scorpion.
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Lol I knew that Penguin was in there somewhere. Didn't Kano turn into a tarantula? That was kinda cool. And someone was also a great white shark.

I wondered if there were Monty Python fans as didn't Lui Kang have a fatality where a MK 3 arcade machine landed on someone?
 
NickDaGreek1983

NickDaGreek1983

Oh, my days !
Flagg said:
Lol I knew that Penguin was in there somewhere. Didn't Kano turn into a tarantula? That was kinda cool. And someone was also a great white shark.

I wondered if there were Monty Python fans as didn't Lui Kang have a fatality where a MK 3 arcade machine landed on someone?
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Yes, and the Midway/NRS guys gave that fatality to him again in MK vs DC :/
If it weren't for Quan Chi's neck strech, my favourite character's fatality would still be the worst...
 
GeoffBedlam

GeoffBedlam

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I'm guessing it's Brutality. Would make sense seeing as how they wanted to implement it into MK 9 but couldn't in time. I'm just hoping they don't have the loser explode like at the end of the orignial Brutalities.

However, I'd prefer seeing Hara-Kiri's return. It'd be a great way to counter someone's BM. That and I'd love to see how my new Brohemoth, Kotal Kahn, would off himself. I imagine it'd be nothing short of fucking awesome.
 
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Eldriken

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Flagg said:
Lol I knew that Penguin was in there somewhere. Didn't Kano turn into a tarantula? That was kinda cool. And someone was also a great white shark.

I wondered if there were Monty Python fans as didn't Lui Kang have a fatality where a MK 3 arcade machine landed on someone?
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Cyrax turned into the shark for whatever dumb reason.
 
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Eldriken

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GeoffBedlam said:
I'm guessing it's Brutality. Would make sense seeing as how they wanted to implement it into MK 9 but couldn't in time. I'm just hoping they don't have the loser explode like at the end of the orignial Brutalities.

However, I'd prefer seeing Hara-Kiri's return. It'd be a great way to counter someone's BM. That and I'd love to see how my new Brohemoth, Kotal Kahn, would off himself. I imagine it'd be nothing short of fucking awesome.
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Kotal would probably have the bet one if they were to make it into the game.
 
Vagrant

Vagrant

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Hara Kiri's would be awesome. (The race to input the finisher is hype)

1-2 frame link Brutalities would be cool too. (Make them work for that shit.)

Just please god no more Create A Fatalities.
 
T33-Kahn

T33-Kahn

Waifu, Peacock, Cutie Patootie,...
I know UMK3/MKT's Brutalities were lame but anyone remember MKSM's Brutalities? That shit was awesome.
 
ChaosTheory

ChaosTheory

A fat woman came into the shoe store today...
ShaolinChuan said:
Most likely Hara Kiri.
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I agree. If it's between that and Brutality, I'd expect it.

First off, wouldn't Brutalities be kinda redundant? They're already using Fatalities to exercise their brutal ideas. And in cinematic fashion. And if they were Brutalities as we know them, they would've fit more with MK9's goofiness and fan-service, not with MKX's tone.

Speaking of which; look at all the similarities between MKD and MKX so far. The tone, the art, the three fighting styles, even the renders during loading screens... a lot of it is reminiscent of MKD. Hara-Kiri fits a lot better in my opinion.
 
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trufenix

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ChaosTheory said:
I agree. If it's between that and Brutality, I'd expect it.

First off, wouldn't Brutalities be kinda redundant? They're already using Fatalities to exercise their brutal ideas. And in cinematic fashion. And if they were Brutalities as we know them, they would've fit more with MK9's goofiness and fan-service, not with MKX's tone.

Speaking of which; look at all the similarities between MKD and MKX so far. The tone, the art, the three fighting styles, even the renders during loading screens... a lot of it is reminiscent of MKD. Hara-Kiri fits a lot better in my opinion.
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Without really knowing the implementation of brutalities, its hard to judge propriety. A brutal ultra combo like finisher could very easily work within the darker grittier framework of mk, so long as they don't explode into forty rib cages at the end. Vice versa, there were PLENTY of silly Harakiri's in MKD (Sindel backflipping onto her own head, Nightwolf lawn darting himself, Mileena's antlers, etc) probably about even with the actual serious ones, so either one would require some tonal adjustment.

Edit: Actually thinking about it, even doing brutalities like an extended version vsDCs Klose Kombat would be pretty tight. The camera zooms in and you just get to fuck them the fuck up with a few button presses and when you fill a meter or something you just press a button to wrap it up with some absurd conclusion? Yes, that would do nicely.
 
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