to be honest if they have finishers like the ones in Marvel Nemesis i won't be impressed. they were fine for Marvel but not for MK

Those Marvel Nemesis finishers have already been mentioned in several other threads, and those would be just fine by me. Johnny Ohm's finisher would perfectly fit Raiden IMO. And it would also be way more realistic than having the human body explode for no logical reason.

But for an MK game they could take Johnny Ohm's finisher one step further and show the opponent getting some really nasty burns all over his body till he's just a black, smoking corpse.

Ohh yeah sweet dude!

the def jam: fight for new york fatalites are cool too: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YYIkqVviXTM

i think a fusion of Marvel Nemisis and Def Jam finishers will be satisfying - plus the blood will make them more appealing

I think MK8 is the era of "Realistic, Brutal Finishers" rather than "Cartoony, Gory Fatalities"

The first thing I thought when people started complaining "how can it be gritty and brutal if there's going to be less blood and no fatalities?" was actually Def Jam Vendetta.

I'm actually really glad that the blood is being toned down. The amount of gore in past MK games has always been a little cartoonish and immature for my liking.

I hope using more realistic sized blood splatters works out for them and they stick with it for the games that come after this...with true fatalities brought back as well though, naturally.

EXACTLY! You echoed my other post :)

Snoop Dogg, or Crow! Has the coolest one...Sumthing you expect from Johnny Cage or Liu Kang to have. Also Crazy Legs' is Tight!

I watched both links provided for Marvel Nemesis and Def Jam fight for NY, and some of those finishers are actually quite good!

Here are links to a lot of non-gory "FATALITIES" from past MK's. I'm more of a fan of the realistic / non-cartoony fatalities, as such provided in my links.


Subzero MK3 ice myst:

Shao Kahn vs. Kung Lao MKSM finisher:

Liu Kang bone breaker fatality (at 1:05)

Hotaru neck snap 3 times fatality:

Shang Tsung soul steal from MKII (even just the way it is with the soulless corpse)


Scorpion toasty MKSM version (while this might be considered gory to some because of the explosion, I think it could get away for a Teen rating, notice no blood, bones or organs flying around)



As you can see, there are many great fatalities that don't require gore to be dark and brutal, although I agree that sometimes it's good to see a head or torso getting lobbed off but come on how many times have we seen them already?
Just please Midway, LET THE FATALITIES SUIT THE CHARACTERS!

Love Hotaru's triple neck snap fatality! Tanya did the same with her legs in MK4 - also great! i perfer a broken neck to a decapitated head.....more grittier to me :)

and there will be blood just not as much as we're used to seeing.....along the lines of Def Jam, Tao Feng, (cant think of any others lol) i hope the blood stays on the floor/ground like in the MK5,6,7

Who says they have to be violent finishers anyway? Couldn't they do something entirely different yet equally traumatizing? Here's some ideas I heard thrown around...

DR. LIGHT WINS
SURPRISE BUTTSEX!

GREEN LANTERN WINS
YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS IN A REFRIGERATOR!

BATMAN WINS...
.... BECAUSE HE'S THE GODDAMN BATMAN!

WONDER WOMAN WINS
NOW WEAR THE LASSO WITH THE GIMP MASK....

Just some ideas to mull over.

Hahaha! So true.

i wouldnt mind those type of finishers. some were pretty cool

i hate to tell you this but them def jam moves looked just as
Cartoony if not more Cartoony then the Fatalities"
i can see movies were people get there head cut off and it's looks real
but i have,nt even seen wwe wrestlers pull moves off like that in
def jam

They weren't supposed to look realistic, and that doesn't make them cartoony. They looked a hundred times better than the steaming piles of crap we've had for fatalities in the last 3 MK games.

I don't think being realistic is really a big thing for MK, it's got magic and realms and whatnot.

Just because MK is a heavily fantasy based game, that doesn't mean we can't maintain a certain degree of realism. So we've got a character that can use lightning. Instead of turning it into a run-of-the-mill Fatality with no imagination, they should do some research on effects on the human body by electricity.

Or let's take a look at Sub-Zero. So he's got freezing powers and is known for deep freezing his opponents. All good and dandy. Now, why do his opponents still bleed like crazy after they've been shattered, when they are frozen to the core?

Every time I think about the subject, I just can't stop thinking about characters being trapped inside a crazy 2D prism as Superman banishes them to the Phantom Zone.

Because whoever designed his fatality liked blood? I don't have the answers, just my opinion and I like bloody fatalities. Unecessary amounts of blood are just fun IMO.

Marvel Nemesis style finishers + blood would work perfectly. In fact, I think they'd be better than MK's usual cartoony and often unnecessary bodily explosive Fatalities.

Give me brutal, real, and painful with some blood. That's all I need and that seems to be what we will get.

PREACH! :)