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At the time, the arcade KI was extremely impressive. The stilted CGI sprites haven't aged well like Capcom's hand drawn CPS2 animations, but I still give KI the win for music, sound FX, and those psuedo-3D backgrounds.
And at the end of the day, the Vs series just plays better.
KI had great intro song but X-Men Children of the Atom music is a league of its own. Not even later VS games have music this good. Also original X-Men animated series cast beat KI voice work by a mile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE7O1qN0yXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyyvUGTh0cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlPc8XHBuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6lkLNaoG38
You're absolutely right. The same goes for mortal kombat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantar
Not quite. Many people love Mortal Kombat (mostly 2 and Ultimate) but I never saw an opinion about any of them being the best fighting game ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by bagmahnutz
I never really liked KI's character design so I never got into it. Part of that has to do with me never really falling for digitized graphics. I always thought it was a terrible aesthetic.
I was crazy over MK1 before I heard any hype for it and basically just from borrowing a Genesis cart off someone in the neighbourhood. ... Yeah, I still have that same boxed cart. Like I needed to tell you guys how things worked back then. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bagmahnutz
MK hype really started for me when I heard it was getting a sequel and it was already in Arcades. Then the hype for MK3 was at an all time high were a bunch of us grade school kids got together just to go to this Arcade center that just got an early revision of MK3 (only Arcade game I seen with lineups in my life time). But of course, that game did not live up to the hype. Meanwhile MK2 did. And MK1 became hype because it made a lasting impression on kids like me.
Back to KI and hype. Yeah, the SNES version was the first version I owned, so missed out on Arcade hype - but was able to read about it in gaming mags. Even bought the game with that cool OST and an official Nintendo guide to learn the combos. But this game failed to keep me at it as MK series did. So hype fail. I did however always want to play the Arcade version until I was finally able among the first games when I discovered MAME (along with MK and TMNT... actually wanting to play the first TMNT was what made me discover MAME). Was nice to finally experience the true version of KI, but that didn't live past a day or two, meanwhile continued my half year to a year MK1 & 2 online binge. Good times.
Still, the presentation (graphics, sounds, music, voice announcer) of KI Arcade is top notch in my opinion.
There's nothing really special about Killer Instinct, it just rode the hype wave well and delivered a solid game with an engine that was actually nice to play.
(compared to the dozens of broken engines out there, and I'm not talking infinite combos. I'm talking SHITTY fighters)
It truly was a time of "Our game is tons better than the one before us!"
Looking back I really only remember Mortal Kombat II and Street Fighter II (and it's many iterations) fondly.
Killer Instinct isn't a bad game, it was just another one that came around and tried to up the ante again.
Kinda like with Doom clones, many of them offered great visuals and innovative ideas. but in the end everybody still remembers the originals more.
Back in the day, I always saw it as a poor man's Mortal Kombat. But the music has always been fantastic.
The definitive edition on the Xbox One is outstanding, though.
KI for me was always great. the arcade graphics were lush and different and the combo system was really fun to try and master with all the linking moves. The snes version was a serviceable port, but my heart always belongs to the arcade version.
As a game it's nothing outstanding, but it had pretty graphics, a solid fighting engine, the combo system was pretty new and the game is really flashy.
I love the game simply based on flash
The music was the best part of the series.
The new one Microsoft put together on Xbox One & Windows 10 is as good as Street Fighter. Well balanced, lots of game modes, the best tutorial mode for fighting game noobs. It's free to play too.
I've never wasted a single quarter to play this silly looking game, back when it came out in arcades. Total cheeze-fest, 90's style.
Mortal Kombat 3: Ultimate Edition appeared to borrow the chain combo system from Killer Instinct.Quote:
Originally Posted by QuickSciFi
Regular Mortal Kombat 3 had it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet