Where would i start?
Alright time for a small history recap regarding my experience with this particular video game franchise. The first game I played from this series was Mortal Kombat II (SNES). I must have been no more than 2nd or 3rd grader in primary school when my dad decided to buy this game for himself. So more or less me, my dad and my big brother all got really into it. I played Raiden&Scorpion back then having a ton of fun, mostly having allot of epic matches against my brother doing the legendary sub zero versus scorpion match ups. We really didn´t know any fatalities but it was always awesome to get the AI to do them on rare occasions and always would our mother come out in the room being angry about the fatalities. Yes you guessed it she wasn´t happy about this game, always being very mad regarding the fact you could punch women in the game or even worse do a fatality. Now don´t get me wrong my mother isn´t a feminist but all of us three brothers grew up in a house hold where we were taught certain courtesies towards women and our mother just didn´t want us to grow up as women beating assholes. (Classic parental exaggeration regarding video games effects at that decade)
Next up was UMK III which had the great feature (Ultima demonstration) If you have played the game you will sure as hell know what im talking about and you can also guess how happy our mother was regarding this small feature in the game. Anyway we continued to play UMK3 for a long long time before forgetting it and migrating to other games. Afterwards there begun a long break from MK games we had all but forgotten about the game series because there where allot of new great games spawning out on our high school years. At some point our parents bought us a Sega Dreamcast (Unfortunate souls that bought it just before they announced it was going out of development) That console really did have potential with great game series like Shenmue. (please continue this series through PSN dear god PLEASE) Back to the point, we got our Sega Dreamcast and bought MK4 (Named Mortal kombat Gold) for it and we were instantly hooked again, first time did we get that great MK feeling with all new 3D models and awesomely new brutal fatalities with the epic quan chis leg smack down (God that was awesome) This game had our souls devoured for almost two years we just kept coming back for it and having EPIC (scrub) matches.
Alright time for a small history recap regarding my experience with this particular video game franchise. The first game I played from this series was Mortal Kombat II (SNES). I must have been no more than 2nd or 3rd grader in primary school when my dad decided to buy this game for himself. So more or less me, my dad and my big brother all got really into it. I played Raiden&Scorpion back then having a ton of fun, mostly having allot of epic matches against my brother doing the legendary sub zero versus scorpion match ups. We really didn´t know any fatalities but it was always awesome to get the AI to do them on rare occasions and always would our mother come out in the room being angry about the fatalities. Yes you guessed it she wasn´t happy about this game, always being very mad regarding the fact you could punch women in the game or even worse do a fatality. Now don´t get me wrong my mother isn´t a feminist but all of us three brothers grew up in a house hold where we were taught certain courtesies towards women and our mother just didn´t want us to grow up as women beating assholes. (Classic parental exaggeration regarding video games effects at that decade)
The bad years, MK had allot of them. MK4 was great in its own right but it changed midways strategy for the next games in a horrible twisted way. Changing the game to completely 3D coupled with side steps and all that shit (Deadly alliance) was that small poison which in the end nearly destroyed the game series. Sure games where trying to find ways to change themselves to be fresh. So what started as a one bad step by Midway soon continued on as a full marathon of bad calls. God only knows why Midway didn´t listen to its fans and revert back to 2D earlier and kept spawning these broken bad games. Well in the end all it took was Warner Bros buying them off and starting up Nether Realm studios which has proceeded to spawn one of the greatest games ever in the series of MK. The game that I now have such love for that I´ve started to play on competitive level.
Later on I will delve more into Mortal kombat (9) The greatest reboot of the decade.
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