Toonen1988
Noob
It's not only about Johnny Cage. It's about the whole picture, the voices, the voicelines.
Read my other comment aswell where I explained it even further, instead of talking about the same thing over and over again. Thank you!
It's not only about Johnny Cage. It's about the whole picture, the voices, the voicelines.
i have and i dont agree with you a bit. voice acting and tone are excellent throughout.
Then we simply agree to disagree. I won't change my opinion, simply by the fact that I only saw one single argument against my opinion, which I basically also agreed on.
You have to remember that a mainstream trailer is going to have a "Marvel movie" vibe to it, but that doesn't necessarily mean the story will be. Because the trailers are targeted.
A trailer should be representing a product. If the trailer has that "Marvel movie" vibe, while the game is anything like that, doesn't it mean the trailer isn't really representing the product?
Most trailers are like this. To present a product as entertaining. They won't be too far off, like you won't have a new Freddy Krueger movie advertised as a love story. But even The Punisher had trailers where some of the scenes were light-hearted, then when you actually watch it most scenes are of him blowing people away with a shotgun.
And there you go, you hit the nail on it's head. They want to attract a broader audience and probably also a younger audience.
But that's marketing 101, attracting more business. Even if those "campy" scenes are only a small amount of the story (like I don't think Liu Kang is going to be making campy jokes as he recruits warriors, or Sub making them while he tries to strengthen the Lin Kuei, etc) they'll be shown more in trailers. The "woah" type scene you're talking about, even if it's cringe, will be a small fraction of the story I'd guess.
I 100% agree, this is marketing and business. And I'm going to play again the laywer of the devil.
all the voices have a very unique timbre and pronounciation or even subtle yet credible accents (liu kang, ashrah). still they manage to form/integrate into an overall coherent tone of the game, which is full of tension, mystery and individuality (+ johnny cage) to me. their vocal expressions fit very well and reinforce each other with the facial animations (reptile especially). also, "you misread my intentions, princess", "you will accept chaos, by choice or by force" or "killing one realm to free another is a heinous proposition" is not stupid language but rather well-thought and -expressed sentences.
Trailers are basically always misleading. Welcome to marketing.
yes, to a point where it intentionally sends viewers on the wrong track by cutting scenes and dialogues together which are in totally differnet points and contexts in the final work.
But they'll save the 3D era characters!
It wasn't their story that needed saving, at least not the ones I like. If anything, I fear they'll mess it up, like they did Sindel or Bi-Han.
Seriously , what do people want from MK? Are people out here thinking "this is cinema" when they see MK Deception cutscenes? In fact, any cutscenes in the series? Its always been a campy, cheesy story, that's heavily influenced by pop culture. Guess what, "Marvel-writing" is in.
I don’t even think the marvel comparisons are fair. Aside from GOTG 3 and Spider-Man, the recent marvel jokes feel super manufactured, dumb punch line and pause for the audience to laugh.
