Favorite Mortal Kombat Game?

[NintendoDieScreaming]

Pretty self explanitory.

 

My favorite Mortal Kombat has to be the 3rd one. I just bought Deception, and I'm loving it as well. Not sure which one to vote for...

[AlexKIDD]

The genesis version of the second one is my favorite. 1 and 3 were both pretty good too. Every one i've played since 3 has been mediocre but I havn't played all of them.

[Clint Thompson]

Buddy had the SNES MKIII so I chose that one and it's easily my favorite... even over the newer ones...

[Xot]

Hands down MKII. Had the best character balance and the best control IMO, although MK: DA was a pretty decent 3D fighter. I was tremendously disappointed with Deception.

[guitarmas]

How can you beat showing off fancy combos with Kabal??? I vote MKIII.

[moycon]

I remember when MK2 was released.

I saw that game in the distributers lobby and imeadiately played it for like an hour and every time I was headed there I looked forward to playing a few games, especially since I had a magazine that listed the moves! WOOO!

Wow what a great game and what an improvement over the first one!!

 

Then a while later long after they had removed MK2 from the front lobby. MK3 showed up. Wow I cant wait to play this! I put on some free credits and the first thing I notice is that most of the characters all went to the same dayglow spandex sale to make their uniforms. Then I notice the characters themselves.... Stryker? Who the hell is that supposed to be? To me it kinda looked like Woody Harrelson with a scowl.Needless to say I was majorly disappointed. Haven't really been excited with an MK release since.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

The early MK games SUCK as fighting games. They just arent that fun. They rely on pre-made combos to win, and thats more of a memorization thing then a fighting game. The blood and gore was the only thing they had going for them. But the two newest MK games, those are fun and pretty good fighters.

[Ze_ro]

Mortal Kombat overall is an overrated series. I haven't played the two new games, so I can't really vouch for them, for all I know they may be great, but the old ones are really shallow. All the characters have the same moves minus a handful of special moves, the fatalities got REALLY lame after the first one, the chain combos were boring and didn't take much skill, poor character design and endless palette-swap "characters" (Noob Saibot? Give me a break...), and the computer AI is just play shit. Overall, out of all the popular fighting games out there at the time, I feel that this one had the worst gameplay (although it still beats out UNpopular games like Time Killers). This series really only had 3 things going for it: Nice digitized graphics (which were pretty impressive at the time), lots of neat secret stuff, and blood and gore. Frankly, I think without the blood and gore, this series probably would have died on the operating table, but it seems the violence took hold on the teenagers and they've remembered it fondly ever since. Honestly, go back and play Mortal Kombat 1 and tell me it's a deep, fun game with lots of strategy. Even playing against a human opponent isn't very fun, since it just exposes flaws in the gameplay. I remember playing against my brother for a while last month, and we both got really sick of it after 2 matches and put in Street Fighter 2 Turbo instead.

 

That being said, I voted for MK2. This was about the height of the series where the graphics were good (MK3's graphics were slightly better, but not by much), the characters were decent, and it had a half-decent combo system. In my opinion, MK3 just got stupid with all the animalities (frankly, I thought MK2's babalities and friendships were stupid enough already), the Run button, chain combos, and crummy characters (ie, Kabal and the robot ninjas). MK4 did absolutely nothing for the series aside from making it 3D. All the bad features remained. I've been meaning to get the two newer games just to see if they're any good, but I'm waiting until I can find them for a decent price, since I'm not expecting to like them much more than I did MK Gold.

 

--Zero

[jesusc]

how dare you leave off Trilogy, Sub Zero, and Special Forces?

[guitarmas]

how dare you leave off Trilogy, Sub Zero, and Special Forces?

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Dang, I forgot about Trilogy.

[+FujiSkunk]

Tough call. I had to decide between Mortal Kombat II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (which isn't on the list). MK2 wins by a hair, only because of the half-finished, bug-ridden versions Midway put out in an attempt to get the game in arcades as quickly as possible. Remember killing babies? Remember performing a fatality, only to be declared the loser afterward? That was funny, when it wasn't surreal.

 

Mortal Kombat 3 (sans Ultimate) wasn't unfinished in an amusing way, it was just unfinished.

[ATARIeric]

I went with mortal kombat due to being the last game ive actually finished at an arcade.

[sega saturn x]

I have never enjoyed mortal kombat. I tried i really did i even own the first two for genesis and the third for snes. But i failed to get in to them at all for a few huge reasons. Dumb characters i give them credit for throwing fighting game arch types out the window. But the thing's they came up with were not a whole lot better. Another problem i always had was the ridiculously stupid finisher's. I think the robot ninja's and babalities were the height of mortal kombat retardation. Let's not forget the fighting was just not very good. And mortal kombat 3 was one of the first figthing game's i had ever played and i still didn't think it was very good. To win anything past the second fight you had to memorize a ludicrous amount of moves. The fighting never felt fluent either thank's to all the long ass combo's needed to win.

 

Funny thing is the new game's suffer largely from the same problem's. So bottom line i would pick street fighter over mortal kombat and virtua fighter over both. I never saw what people liked about the game's. I always wanted to believe it was some thing other then the gore. But i know thats why people played and still play mortal kombat. Oh and every one loves it because the spell combat with a K. Can any one tell me why they do this? Are they just stupid or did they think that it was really funny?

Edited July 8, 2005 by sega saturn x

[Atarifever]

Opps, I voted for Gold because I saw the word ultimate and wasn't paying enough attention. I thought it was Ultimate MK3, which is my favorite. I've never understood why so many people love MK2, it is my last favorite.

[IronMongeR]

The original followed by the second. THe novelty wore off after that. Having said that I still bought Ultimate MK3 on the Saturn.

[Lord Helmet]

SNES MK II

[Xot]

How can you beat showing off fancy combos with Kabal???  I vote MKIII.

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By doing fancy combos with Kitana that actually require a modicum of skill.

[guitarmas]

How can you beat showing off fancy combos with Kabal???  I vote MKIII.

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By doing fancy combos with Kitana that actually require a modicum of skill.

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yeah well she was took hard to use anyway. Kabal and Cyrax were the fighters I mastered.

[AMG]

MK2 is my all time favorite.

[Hydian]

I have to go with MKII. The fact that they were doing updates and incorporating rumors and player requests made it more fun IMHO.

[Tempest]

Tough call.  I had to decide between Mortal Kombat II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (which isn't on the list).  MK2 wins by a hair, only because of the half-finished, bug-ridden versions Midway put out in an attempt to get the game in arcades as quickly as possible.  Remember killing babies?  Remember performing a fatality, only to be declared the loser afterward?  That was funny, when it wasn't surreal.

 

Mortal Kombat 3 (sans Ultimate) wasn't unfinished in an amusing way, it was just unfinished.

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I agree.

 

BTW wasn't there a page that detailed all the various Mortal Kombat bugs? IIRC some of them were really interesting...

 

Tempest

[n8littlefield]

I voted MKII as my favorite, although Deception was excellent as well. I never could get into MK3 all that much - but I have it on MAT2, maybe I'll have to go back and give it another chance sometime.

[guitarmas]

I voted MKII as my favorite, although Deception was excellent as well.  I never could get into MK3 all that much - but I have it on MAT2, maybe I'll have to go back and give it another chance sometime.

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Seriously man, look up the combo moves for some of the characters, try them, and tell us what you think.

Edited July 6, 2005 by guitarmas

[BuzzTron451]

Genesis version of Mortal Kombat Ultimate. Not only did it have a whopping cast of MK characters in traditional MK style, but it also had an unlockable game, Galaga! Plus, Shao Kahn and that horse guy were pretty damn cool bosses. But eh, there's better Fighting games out there that I've played.

[BassGuitari]

I like the original most, for some reason. I think it's the simplicity that I like. I also think Goro was the coolest MK boss character; a serious badass, but not this ridiculous and virtually invincible thing like Kintaro, Motaro, or Shao Kahn, although when II and III came out, I thought Kintaro, and later Motaro, were the wickedest guys ever. Come to think of it, in retrospect, Shao Kahn looks like more like some kind of sodomizing necrophiliac than a ruler of another dimension.

 

And I agree MK would have gone nowhere if not for the ludicrous gore.

Edited July 7, 2005 by BassGuitari