Originally Posted by
TheSonicRetard
Fatalities are obviously my favorite. Every other finishing move felt gimmicky and lame. I did enjoy friendships the first time I saw them, but Babalities were a quick addition into a late revision of MK2 and it shows.
My favorite fatality has to be Sub Zero's spine rip from MK1. It's the most classic and brutal fatality in the entire series. Specifically the Sega CD version of the fatality, because it replaces the scream with a very guttural grunt that makes the entire thing seem so much more violent. I vividly remember going to a six flags when I was younger and playing Mortal Kombat in front of my older sister. She had never seen the game before (it was pretty much brand new) and I showed her the fatality... she gasped. Thats when I knew it was fucking cool.
For the stage fatality, I have to go with the Kombat Tomb from MK2. Uppercutting someone onto a bed of spikes rules, and I love how you can make them fall back off. So brutal.
The worst mortal kombat is Mortal Kombat Advance. It's an awful port of one of the most mediocre MK games.
I fucking love the MK series. Back in the 90's, I was so firmly in the MK camp over the SF camp, even though I played both. I used to enter local tournaments and win. I would print out hundred-page faqs as the arcade games were released and studied them. I would learn tricks, combos, everything about the game. I would follow the games as they were being made, counting down the days till they would pop up in my local arcade.
I absolutely adored the story, I thought it was the coolest video game story of all time. The original trilogy was incredible, with MK2 being, by far, the best game in the series... until the new MK was released. After MKT, I kinda dropped the series - MK4 had a rushed, but alright story, and the games which followed felt uninspired. I still played them but I couldn't recite the stories for those games by heart like I can with the original trilogy.
The new MK is my favorite fighting game this generation. I love how you can build combos so easily, I love how it feels like a very updated MK2. I love the new story, the story mode is probably the best story mode I've seen this entire generation of games. I was glued to my PS3 for an entire day playing through it. I was shocked with what they did to Sub-Zero. I love how they showed off the classic MK1 Sub-zero vs Scorpion fight. I love how they properly incorporated quan chi into the backstory, instead of retconning him like they did with MK4, which winds up making him probably the most despicable and evil character in the entire series.
I love MK very much. Back when I was a teenager, MK was the coolest video game series in the world. You can't appreciate how big MK was unless you were there. The very first game I ever preordered was MK2. I picked up MK1 on mortal monday. I saw the MK movie on opening day. Everything about the series was awesome - you know you got a winner when congress is bitching about your game.
