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14 versions of Sub-Zero?
Not enough by a long-shot.
I love how there are like three Sub-Zeros wearing a mask but with a slightly different colour palette.
Dr. Baraka or whatever and Reptile just being crazy killing machines fits pretty well if they were put into the 'real world'.
Also, who knows why Scorpion was in jail? I don't think he was a pacifist, I got the impression that since he thought he killed Sub-Zero he didn't have much of a drive to stay in that life so he decided to turn himself in and 'retire'. Doesn't Scorpion consider Sub-Zero to be the ultimate opponent, or something? Once he was gone, Scorpion didn't exactly have much to do.
Plus, Jackson wasn't even surprised when Scorpion took off his handcuffs, he expected it. He knew what Scorpion was doing and he knew how to push his buttons.
Of course Jackson will enter the tournament and kill some mans as well. Either way, I like the idea and I would purchase a ticket to see the film (take notice marketing staff who are monitoring this movie's viral reception!)
And I just saw a promo for Twilight: Eclipse? The hell? Didn't the last movie come out like a few months ago? They are cranking that shit out like nuts.
What? There was no cliffhanger. Shao Kahn murdered everyone and bragged about it to Raiden after kicking the shit out of him.
THE END!
best ending ever.
GET OVER HERE (so I can drink your milkshake)
Although unless there's some wild Outworld angle and faux chinese kung fu action theater magic involved, it looks inferior to Brawl.
Love the top left characters. Also, I'm game. The first mortal kombat movie was awesome and I've love to see a proper reboot.
Baraka I liked less and I'm not sure why, I think it's probably the back story. When they said he was a doctor whose first kill was an accident I was thinking it might have been Sub-Zero and some kind of liquid nitrogen mishap. I like the end result of the character but I feel like the self-mutilated animalistic brute doesn't jib with the doctor origin at all which stereotypically would produce a villian with more finesse. Maybe they had to go the plastic surgeon route to explain the grafted blades but I'd rather have seen Baraka as Reaver-esque schizophrenic who simply jabbed two long shards of metal into his forearms and reinforced them with duct tape. My suspension of disbelief easily extends to ignoring the fact that he'd probably be fighting with a pair of stumps after infection got done with him.
And finally making Scorpion the protaganist is just the worst idea - he's the fan favourite partly because he's a badass undead villian and they're going to Spike-ify him by trying to make him the hero of the piece.
Also what is up with his eyes? If he's some kind of Dare-devil style blind savant assassin then why did they bring him photos of Sub-Zero? Were they brail?
There are actually two sub-zero's. The one with the scar and the one with the messed up eyes. The scar one is a good guy and the messed up eyes one is a bad guy. They were brothers. The messed up eyes one died sometime around or in between mortal kombat 2 and 3.
I'm pretty sure he's the only mortal kombat character to ever actually stay dead.
And then he became Undead, because Sub Zero the elder is now Noob Saibot (yes, they actually made a way to fit in a character with the reverse surnames of Ed Boon and John Tobias). He was sent to the Netherrealm or some such bullshit and became a wraith known as Noob Saibot.
Noob/Smoke was a hella-fun combo in Deception though.
It was all a dream, but since the show was cancelled it was never reverted.
We were chatting about Scorpion actually. And considering how 'grounded' Reptile and Baraka are I doubt they're going the ghost/zombie route although the "*Real Name* is dead. I'm Scorpion." line was certainly a shout out to that.
So assuming they're going to have to explain his eyes in a similar manner to explaining Reptiles appearance with a real skin disease, I can only assume he's a blind assassin. Which brings me back to my original question - why the hell are they showing a blind man photos. I don't care how enhanced your tactile sensation or how awesome your echo-location abilities are that dossier could have had Sonya's laundry list in it for all Scorpion knew.
Edit: Alternatively, surgically grafted contact lenses!
Oh well, reading comprehension ftl I guess. I did however think that it was Sub-Zero they were interviewing. This has a lot to do with me being at work and watching it with the sound off. I went the whole interview thinking it was going to be Kano, then saw the picture of sub-zero and the eyes and thought old sub-zero. Turns out I was still wrong.
Also this video also hits home the point that I don't have a problem with video game violence but still don't have the stomach for movie (more realistic) violence. I think I'll pass on this one.
I will bet my dick that Smoke will make an appearance in the movie/game and be a psychotic burn victim or arsonist.
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Learning that Harlequin Ichthyosis is a real disease and doing more research on it.
the right eye, whether intentionally or through special effects failure, is in shadow but looks like there is an iris there
I like 1, 2, hell even 3, even though I thought it was kind of sucky at the time. 3DMK killed it for me.
Fucking War Gods.
I just rechecked. I saw both eyes clearly and saw no iris.
Geez, I just followed suit and H.I. is nasty.
I'm sure most people are loosely aware of it, just not the actual medical term for it.
Edit - And there's a 20-some year old woman who has survived with the disease so far and treatment has come into existence for it. So it's not that dire.
Edit Edit - Or well, it's not as severely dire as it once was. There's hope.
And Rayden's a wily old electrician. Zap!
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Look, I'm not about to start blabbing about Street Fighter being the penultimate fighter franchise or anything (SNK's games gave Capcom's a run for their money for the longest time), but give me a break. Name the 'buggy' features in Street Fighter 2 that are in any way comparable to the stiff controls & plainly untested characters in MK2.
Baraka was broken. Totally, utterly, completely broken. His moves cancelled everything, his dashing slice took him right around projectiles, his attack animations had some of the fewest frames, etc. Or how about Reptile's ability to turn invisible? I mean, that's a good idea, right? Having a move that a player is only ever going to activate by accident because nobody ever wants to take away their own ability to see what their character is doing?How about Scorpion's teleport uppercut infinite juggle? How about Kitana's fan lift infinite juggle?
Now, granted, most of those problems were fixed after the game was ported to the SNES (notably, though, Reptile's bullshit invisibility 'move' was kept), but Street Fighter didn't have those kind of issues going on in it - and mostly this was because Capcom kept a clear design direction for their character roster. There's a reason that a serious tournament scene currently revolves around the Street Fighter franchise and a lot of gamers refer back to Midway's 'glory days' while stifling a chuckle.
That reminds me, what the hell are Midway doing financing more Mortal Kombat movies, when they could be making a Smash TV movie??
Ouch baby.
Also, any news on when you guys are picking up GTA IV again? Was always entertaining to watch.
If we're comparing arcade releases then SF2 had like 2 viable characters, 1 if you're considering Guile's handcuffs and throw bug. It was completely worthless for competitive play, which is why nobody plays it competitively. Mortal Kombat 2 had a lot of broken stuff as well, and the controls weren't perfect, but it was playable and AT THE TIME there was no reason that it couldn't have been improved the same way Street Fighter 2 was.
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.... So there. Unless the online reaction is so great that WB goes OH MY GOD GET THAT GUY BACK HERE WE GOTTA DO THIS it ain't happening.
Which is to say, it ain't happening. Period.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 2 would've been awesome. Refine the characters, beef up Reptile a little, etc, tweak the graphics...
Mortal Kombat 3 did a lot of things wrong. A 2.5 would've given a better perspective, IMHO...namely, don't bring the tournament to Earth. They should've taken it to Edenia. The instant Shao Kahn conquered Earth, it pretty much broke everything, and suddenly we've got people fighting in a church with stained glass MK symbols, Sub-Zero in a life vest without a mask, no Scorpion, Raiden, or Baraka, but instead a riot cop, Jax with cheesy metal arms, a Centaur creature, and a big gimmicky Kombat Kode thing that didn't do a lot. It was like they took everything good about MK2 and figured out a way to use the same cool ideas to do something bad.
I did like the Robot Ninjas and Sheeva, though.
I'm a pretty big fan of the original Mortal Kombat movie and I loved the fight with Johnny Cage and Scorpion.
As far as the games are concerned I stopped playing after 3, I don't know why but thats just what happened
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