Either Midway did not grant the MK team enough time or it was just pure laziness on behalf of the MK team and I hope that wasn't the reason.MK3 and UMK3 could of been so so so much better than it is in so many ways.I'm still hoping an HD MKAK is still in consideration.

Agreed

Either the deadline that Midway always pushed on the MK Team or just for fun,MK HD Collection was cancelled.

^^ We all know HD MKAK was cancelled but we all still hope the project gets revived.

The game was a joke, and it was probably just to show that you could never have too much gore, even if it doesn't make sense.

Well, it was a pretty bad joke...

The limbs of characters looked like they took pictures of the legs and arms of a barbie doll. Terrible. Just terrible.

lets not mention the part where the MK3 Character's stood still after being decapitated instead of falling forward.

And let's not even talk about the animalities.
The MK3 models had an horrible design. They had done better designs in UMK 3 and MKT but they added the MK3 designs in UMK3 and MKT instead of fixing it. And there's also the part where the opponent's hand remain in the void.

I would have been content had they recycled MK2's gore.

Likely due to size limitations. More characters, more backgrounds, combos, Animalities... The MK2 gore and death sprites were pretty detailed, they probably were unable to match that when they had to cram so much other stuff in the game. It looks pretty bad, but I don't play MK for the gore so it doesn't bother me that much.

The ridiculous gore in MK3 was a direct response to media/parents groups criticism of video game violence back in the mid 90s.

MK was considered over the top, so they went sarcastically over the top in response to critics.


Wonders how GTA's old nemesis Jack Thompson is doing these days.



Ka-Tra

The MK Mugens fatality animations are 1000 % better than MK 3's.Especially the body exsplosions

Too bad the MUGEN games' fighting system is disgustingly broken and the physics of it all is way too far from the original games. Doesn't even feel like you're playing MK.

Can it be confirmed that it was a sarcastic response or size limitations? Why hasn't anyone just asked Boon or Tobias in an interview?

It could always be rigor mortis, really fast rigor mortis. Besides how come no one asks why their legs are still standing and not falling down when their top half has been ripped off, punched off, pulled off blown off in MKII? And they are still standing when Jax rips their arms off...

ibut you gotta admit it's pretty damn funny when you're actually observing the bone count


in the NTSC version of mk trilogy, every time you do a brutality, the explosion is tripled giving you 3 times more bones, where as in the PAL version it's just one explosion giving you the correct amount of bones


this annoyed me because i was used to the PAL brutality

i do think the bloody fatalities weren't as good as mk1 & 2


every time a character gets their head chopped off the body just freezes where it is, where as in mk1 & 2 the body falls to the ground


the gore was improved in mk4 for the explosive and bloody fatalities as they were real body parts, not just bones