Maybe I'm just a party pooper, but the hyper violence for me is now an active turn off. Game looks cool, then the goreporn starts up and I lose interest.
It's just unironic Itchy and Scratchy shit at this point. The fatalities are in a weird limbo of being extremely goofy but the graphics being high enough fidelity to make it actually disgusting. Good for shock value the first time you see it but I don't need to see that shit after every game. I just hope none of them are as bad as D'Vorah's vomit fatality from MK11.
Never cared much for guest characters but this is the worst lineup yet. Especially when the roster is already looking tiny and rehashing the same old MK1-3 roster yet again.
And, fucking STAHP with the guest moofie characters already. I don't care about Rambo or the Terminator in MK. That's for the crying Star Wars guy consoomer faggots.
Yeah it's uh...it's a bit too much. I was okay with Kratos all the way back in 9. It makes sense, GOW 3 was hot, Kratos was violent so he fit and he wasn't a movie character. Plus he had a cool fatality.
Freddy Kruger...eh.
Honestly I'd like for actual video game characters as guests again and not so many of them.
There will also be a $110 Premium Edition that adds a Johnny Cage character skin fashioned after Jean-Claude Van Damme, early access to six characters, and five new Kameo fighters. A $250 Kollector’s Edition will include all that, plus a 16.5 inch Liu Kang sculpture and more.
Man and people used to bitch that base games cost 60 bucks. Gotta love that we gotta preorder for Shang Tsung as well, gotta love capitalizing on that sweet, sweet FOMO.
Jeesus they just dated the game so badly with Homelander and Peacemaker. Wonder if Cena is gonna voice the dude. Could we go back to actual video game characters again please?
Maybe he'll take notes from coworker (?) Ronda Rhousey and not act like stiff piece of board phoning lines in.
Yeah, hmmmm I'm not digging the opening cinematic. Seems to drag everything out unnecessarily. MKX was decent with its short banter. I don't need all the other shit like it's a magical girl show with overly long transformation scenes.
Character design-wise, it looks decent overall. I'm so fucking glad that "young Sonya" no longer looks like a fucking Jazzercise instructor. I fucking hated how she looked. Kano looks klassic but I gotta say, I've grown attatched to Kano with a beard so I gotta get used to seeing him without it.
Gameplay wise, I wonder why the assist characters aren't characters of their own.
Unless it's DLC. It's always DLC,
Speaking of overly long things, they brought the X-ray back again which I...in theory don't mind. I liked them in 9 but good lord are they needlessly long here.
It's just unironic Itchy and Scratchy shit at this point. The fatalities are in a weird limbo of being extremely goofy but the graphics being high enough fidelity to make it actually disgusting. Good for shock value the first time you see it but I don't need to see that shit after every game. I just hope none of them are as bad as D'Vorah's vomit fatality from MK11.
I actually liked the D'vorah vomit shit in MK11. The bug thing really fucked me up at first. I don't got a hard-on for gore but hers was delightfully creepy and uncomfortable. I think it fits big bitch well.
Also unpopular opinion but the visuals of Fatal Blows in 11 was...idk, they felt like fatalities light so kinda took some of the spice from fatalities. As for MK1, they are decent, which is probably because they are old fatalities. Kenshi's is kinda goofy though
If they actually killed off 99% of the cast and came up with new characters and moved the story forward you'd all change your tune real quick because it would be an utter disaster. tbh this High School AU reboot for MK12 sounds like a fairly smart idea.
It's funny to me because Tekken 3 is one of those games that did the "new generation" really well. It might be because 1; a good chunk of the old characters didn't die, 2; the new kids were for the most part reskins of their predecessors with a few outliers and 3: they basically brought everyone back in following games.
Edit: somehow I've gotten it into my mind that Joker was also in MK9. Actually Shang Tsung just aped one of his fatalities...if you could call it that.
I don't like guest characters. Its roster spots that better characters deserve, and hearing the consoomers wank of furiously when product #2 is in product #1 is nauseating.
Nigger MK has been mainstream and normie since MK9 when they first had a pop culture character, Freddy Krueger, in the game. Before 9 it was just stuck in a limbo of trying to be the gorey Street Fighter or the gorey Tekken.
Nigger MK has been mainstream and normie since MK9 when they first had a pop culture character, Freddy Krueger, in the game. Before 9 it was just stuck in a limbo of trying to be the gorey Street Fighter or the gorey Tekken.
Oh I know. That's when I started checking out of the series and MKX was even worse since it's became really obnoxious. I don't even know who these games are for anymore beyond the retarded Twitch crowd. MK has hit a creative dead end for years now if they're going the reboot route again when they literally just did it. How many times can you recycle the typical three Shang Tsung, Shao Kahn and Shinnok as the villains?
But even beyond that, Street Fighter and Tekken are both are terrible too.
Oof, I acutally like Tekken. Street Fighter has burned me a bit
Anyway!
A comrade of mine sent this infographic of the roster so far and I'm sorry but how fucking stupid is it that Kung Lao is both a playable character and a Kameo character?
And why does he look so similar to Raiden? I managed to confuse myself because I forgot that it was two different characters.
Oof, I acutally like Tekken. Street Fighter has burned me a bit
Anyway!
A comrade of mine sent this infographic of the roster so far and I'm sorry but how fucking stupid is it that Kung Lao is both a playable character and a Kameo character?
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And why does he look so similar to Raiden? I managed to confuse myself because I forgot that it was two different characters.
Oof, I acutally like Tekken. Street Fighter has burned me a bit
Anyway!
A comrade of mine sent this infographic of the roster so far and I'm sorry but how fucking stupid is it that Kung Lao is both a playable character and a Kameo character?
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And why does he look so similar to Raiden? I managed to confuse myself because I forgot that it was two different characters.
I think Tekken has been better than SF for awhile now but it’s not a high bar to clear. T8 has me concerned. SF6 is exactly what I expected it to be.
KOF is the only fighting series that’s made by people that actually love the series. It’s limped along through bankruptcies and survived somehow through sheer will.
At this point, not having obnoxious gameplay would sell me. The giant paint splash effects alone in SF6 make me steer clear and they’ve been getting worse with every game, and now has a nigger soundtrack.
Oh, Tekken has Street Fighter beat by a long shot. Long gone are the days of the Alpha games.
It's a bit heartbreaking for me personally because I used to adore SF up until IV.
I will admit that I am personally very interested in Tekken gameplay-wise. The "arcade" mode and story mode on the other hand got me concerned. Assuming we'll get those.
And please, no television characters. I don't want Tekken turning into Mortal Kombat.
KOF is the only fighting series that’s made by people that actually love the series. It’s limped along through bankruptcies and survived somehow through sheer will.
It's actually really interesting and probably speaks volumes about the quality SNK can produce.
KOF XV is thankfully going strong right now so there's at least one bastion of hope.
At this point, not having obnoxious gameplay would sell me. The giant paint splash effects alone in SF6 make me steer clear and they’ve been getting worse with every game, and now has a nigger soundtrack.
Tbf rap music has been a thing in SF since 3. It just sounded better then. I will absolutely say tho that the music is otherwise really blergh. Granted, there were only so many times they can remix the old themes over and over but fucking there had to be better ways than whatever the hell they've done.
Oh, Tekken has Street Fighter beat by a long shot. Long gone are the days of the Alpha games.
It's a bit heartbreaking for me personally because I used to adore SF up until IV.
I will admit that I am personally very interested in Tekken gameplay-wise. The "arcade" mode and story mode on the other hand got me concerned. Assuming we'll get those.
And please, no television characters. I don't want Tekken turning into Mortal Kombat.
It's actually really interesting and probably speaks volumes about the quality SNK can produce.
KOF XV is thankfully going strong right now so there's at least one bastion of hope.
Now if only they'd make another Samurai Shodown.
Tbf rap music has been a thing in SF since 3. It just sounded better then. I will absolutely say tho that the music is otherwise really blergh. Granted, there were only so many times they can remix the old themes over and over but fucking there had to be better ways than whatever the hell they've done.
I like SF in hindsight up until IV, even though I think that game's presentation is awful and all the characters models are too Pixar looking.
Tekken is too lost in the weeds trying to outpace SF but at least Tekken was doing the realistic looking characters for years now while SF only just did that with SF6.
Much like MK, SF is another series that hit a creative dead end years ago. Way before MK did. The series has only had Sagat, Bison, Gill, Seth, Bison again and now JD for final bosses in the series. And they'll just revive Bison again in a game or two like they already had.
Tekken has some more than that but the games are always built around the Mishimas. Just like SF is built entirely around Ryu. But I respect KOF for changing it up at the very end of an arc and introducing new leads and giving you a new and different final boss literally every iteration. KOF has something like a dozen different sub and final bosses. The only boss to come back to back was Rugal but he was cybernetic and Orochi powered. He wasn't just Bison again and again throughout the SF2 milking.
I can ignore the rap shit in SF3 but it's completely obnoxious in what I've seen in SF6. At least with KOFXV, you can replace the OST with the entire KOF catalogue and even the off brand side titles of it which is just crazy. There's one rap song that I've heard in that one but you can just remove it. The main theme to it is a rock song which fits. I never understand why Capcom felt the need to nigger up SF when it's primary audience in the west was always White boys.
As for MK, I saw the newer footage and it's just awful. The ninjas went from overdesigned diarrhea to outright boring and bland. Unless they were wearing their original outfits, trying to do the same sorta look while being different doesn't work. Maybe I'd feel different if they were hooded like they should be. Smoke's mask is just retarded. Again, I don't know how anyone that grew up with this series when it started is still pretending it's not utter shit for the last decade. These are for the EVO mouth breathing Twitch retards. The PS2 has it's huge problems but at least it didn't tread old ground really hard and tried to bring in new villains. This is recycling old storylines and remixing them as "new." NetherRealm's art department fucking stinks.
Being completely indifferent to it is how anyone should be that's long checked out of the series. I had hopes for MK9 but thought it was meh and preferred the PS2 approach. IMO I thought Deception was the best game in the series since MK2 since it was crammed with content, brought back stage fatalities and had a strong roster.
I had gotten MKX and 11 dirt cheap with all the DLC discounted. And even with all that I was pretty meh about it. Heavy handed story modes for fighting games is retarded. Tekken 7 tried that and it was shit. MK11 went for that harder than any other one made and that was shit too. Just throw some appropriate cutscenes in the arcade ladder for the character you're playing as and be done with it. I shouldn't be "watching" a fighting game, but that's all the Twitch crowd wants.
KOF invented the story mode in fighting games and never once fucked up with it and stumbled over it's own feet to tell it. You'll get a middle ladder cutscene and you'll get one at the end. It keeps you engaged with the game instead of constantly putting the controller down. I think a lot of this shit is just WB controlling too much of the series now. Hiring faggot woke developers attacking anyone on Twitter criticizing it. Like where the one shitskin was pissed that people didn't like Jax's ending in MK11 stopping slavery. Like what the fuck. One of the few good black characters and you use him for this we hate Whitey fantasy bullshit.
As for MK, I saw the newer footage and it's just awful. The ninjas went from overdesigned diarrhea to outright boring and bland. Unless they were wearing their original outfits, trying to do the same sorta look while being different doesn't work. Maybe I'd feel different if they were hooded like they should be.
I personally don't mind their MK9 looks but that might be nostalgia fagging. I liked that they took the classic looks and made them a little more fancier aside from color. Now MKX on the other hand....yeah, idk. I didn't love those.
And tbh, the masks here don't really match the outfits IMO.
Unrelated but Sub-Zero's MK3 outfit sucked ass and I will die on that hill.
Yeah, it's a bit unearned when we are three games into the new timeline. I'll stick around and see where things go....and if we're gonna get yet another fucking reboot because they wrote themselves into a corner - yet again.
Like where the one shitskin was pissed that people didn't like Jax's ending in MK11 stopping slavery. Like what the fuck. One of the few good black characters and you use him for this we hate Whitey fantasy bullshit.
