BT writes: Many people love fighting games. The popular genre is usually known for its complex gameplay, amazing set pieces, and off the wall characters that congregate in each iteration to duke it out for one reason or another. Some have less than noble intentions, like buying a boat or looking for fight money, others, however, look to better themselves or defeat a great evil before it is too late.
But one thing that is usually not talked about is the characterization of these heroes. Despite some efforts in recent years to create a storyline based on the myriad of characters found in a fighting game, typically deep, complex characters are hard to come by in the fighting realm. Although there are exceptions, and Scorpion and Sub-Zero are among them.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
A new book detailing the artwork of the franchise has been announced
Let me fix this title to something less click baity for you:
New Book: Mortal Kombat: Flawless Victory Announced.
The description clearly says what it is. It is not like people have to click to the site. They just have to read.
Sure they don't have to go to the site but to get to the description they already have to have clicked on it. Thus the term 'click bait'.
If its a book say its a book in the article title. Everyone’s gonna think this is a new game and get annoyed reading your description.
The Mods had no issues with the title.
The first line under the image says new book and you can see it in the preview windows without even having to click to read the description.
It also says a Visual History on the image.
On desktop and mobile the text a visual history is not visible in the thumbnail on the homepage.
I grew up on this stuff. Adding it to the art collection!
I do hope the next MK iteration goes back to the core of what made these characters appeal in the first place. A few of them lost their edge - I think I've had enough with some of the auntie designs 😂
Ahead of the release of the new Mortal Kombat skins in Fortnite, Epic Games has given players a first look at Scorpion, Kitana, and Raiden.
Ever since our first MK game (4) my brother always loved Scorpion while I picked Sub-Zero. It wasn't based on the character's rivalry too, I doubt we even knew about it right away. We simply chose the characters that we thought stood out the most or represented our fighting style (of those available).
Every MK after that we would always fight with Scorpion vs Sub-Zero. What I noticed also pissed me off a little, because Scorpion is mainly the face of MK he always seemed to have the edge over Sub-zero. That's because they made Sub-Zero into a defensive style playable character, which sucked for me as my brother had the speed and quick attacks. Well also because he's naturally better than me in fighting games (except in Tekken).
This article is a great read. After giving it some thought I believe their style of fighting makes more sense if you see it as a representation of their personalities.