MateoFoShizzle
Apprentice
that’s like one of those “you hear what you want to hear things”! Like whichever one you’re thinking, that’s what you hear.
Like this.. do you hear “Oh Barbie those were vintage” or “oh fuck, those we’re vintage”??
that’s like one of those “you hear what you want to hear things”! Like whichever one you’re thinking, that’s what you hear.
I wasn't speaking for arcade era players, but the people who hopped on at MK9, which is a shit ton of MK fans today. And that partially the reason that classic characters are so beloved is not only because they were in superior games, but more specifically that they were in MK9. The first time a huge chunk of modern MK fans saw them in a game was when they first played MK9. I guarantee you at least half of Scorpion fans today think of MK9 before they think of MK1, it's just as much the NRS era games that are responsible for the popularity of these characters TODAY as the old games. At least that's how I perceive it, I of course have no way of measuring this. I do of course agree that younger players have a different perspective, so thats what I'm offering - perspective. We are 12 years out from MK9 and the teenagers who played it are now adults, the kids who saw their older siblings play it are now teenagers, that game is pulling a lot of weight with new fans.
Idk, I heard it the first time I saw it and wasn’t thinking of her saying “Koor” at all. But it caught me off guard and I’ve relistened to it a bunch and hear “Koor” every time. Not, as far as the “Pung” part, I do agree that sometimes I hear “Pung” and other times I do hear “Kung”.
This is not really true, though — 3D-era games like Deadly Alliance, Deception and MK vs. DC actually sold really well, in some cases better than the games that came before them:
I'm worried slightly that the 3D era representation in this game will cause it to under sell. I'm not convinced anyone other than diehards care about Havik, Li Mei and Ashrah. At least we have guest characters to draw new fans into the game.
Casuals don't care which era the characters are from. The 3D era characters are only really contentious with the hardcore fan base and we only have four 3D era characters in here anyway.
Technically Kenshi is also a 3d-era character, so I guess that gives us 5
That I'm not worried about. The franchise is extremely popular right now (and has been for over a decade again) and it'll sell like hotcakes, even with those characters.
Yes, it was the 5 number that was my vomit threshold.Technically Kenshi is also a 3d-era character, so I guess that gives us 5
This is the point I've been trying to make, it's not that all these 3D characters don't have potential, Kenshi was just given good treatment by NRS to people love him. If it were Havik instead of Kenshi being in MK9 and X, I bet he'd be similarly popular.
Isn’t there 7?Technically Kenshi is also a 3d-era character, so I guess that gives us 5
But I can understand how some people see him differently since he's been with us in the modern era.
yeah
I intentionally left Tanya out, since tanya is from MK4, and MK4 is sitting in that weird place, where it's basically a 2d arcacde-era fighting game, but with 3d graphics, and occasional sidestepping.
But if he had, similar situation to Tanya.
He was widely regarded as a cool character during the 3D era itself, and the only good new character. While I understand your overall point, and it certainly applies to younger gamers, the original trilogy characters were vastly more popular before and after Mortal Kombat (2011). What that game did was bring the franchise out of the dumpster again.
No. Tanya and Reiko are arcade era.
yeah yeah Poor Reiko, relegated to poor jobber post and never had a chance to shine on MK1, lol !I intentionally left Tanya out, since tanya is from MK4, and MK4 is sitting in that weird place, where it's basically a 2d arcacde-era fighting game, but with 3d graphics, and occasional 3d movement.
It seems like most people have the 3d era starting with Deadly Alliance in 2002 and that's cool with me.
And Reiko hasn't been revealed as part of the main roster, so I'll leave that one to the mystery-seekers until it happens
Kenshi was immediately very cool. A blind swordsman with a cool outfit is always going to beat a goofy Skeletor character. We like Havik a lot, but he's been pushed too hard by fandom throughout the years as a huge force in the game, potentially a main threat, when in fact he's a bit silly and his treatment (and hairstyle) in MK1 looks set to kill off whatever momentum he enjoyed in the fanbase.
Just looked these over, and the data appears incomplete. Correct me if I've missed it, but the reviews seem only to take into account the console port sales and do not reflect the revenue generated by the arcade versions of the original games, the main versions of them. It also doesn't take into account the popularity of the franchise, the profits from films, comics, toys, etc.
They are from MK4 which is a 3D MK game. So there are at least 7 3D MK characters in MK1, playable ones at least. There’s more if you count Kameos. And I bet there’ll be some in future DLC’s.
Mortal Kombat 4 is the first game to use a 3D graphics engine, but it's gameplay is very much like the other arcade era games. It is an arcade era game. This is as per Boon himself.
Don't get me wrong, I prefer Kenshi to Havik by a country mile, I just mean Havik may have been decent if he were given an update in 2011. New Havik doesn't look like near as much of an edgelord.
You can place MK4 in both the arcade era and the 3D MK era, as it can fit in both. Some consider it a 3D MK game and/or apart of the 3D MK era, and some don’t. There’s no real objectively right answer in this regard. I think there was even a debate about it within the past few months in one of these threads.
There was indeed a past debate about it, but there actually is an objectively right answer. Mortal Kombat 4 is not a 3D era game. It is a 3D game in the sense that it uses a 3D engine, but not a part of the 3D era of Mortal Kombat. Boon himself groups it in with the arcade era.
Li Mei, Frost, Ashrah, Havik and Nitara were also popular during the 3D era. It wasn't just Kenshi.
That's the thing, though. WE see these characters as "3D era reps." People who came in with MK9 or those the general masses who will play MK1 just because "Oh hey yeah, Mortal Kombat" will see these characters as effectively entirely new characters. I don't see their inclusion being any sort of loss for NRS.
