I'm probably getting stoned for this, but I really don't mind that Fatalities will be gone as we know them. I really like the whole MK world, its characters and history. But the overuse of gallons of blood, the human body can't possibly hold, and Fatalties where human characters with no superhuman strength rip effortlessly limbs off, made the games always a bit too silly for me. And IMO that is something more for the teenager crowd that gets still drawn by blood and gore.

I'd love to see MK get more mature. Tone everything down, which IMO opinion would make everything feel darker and grittier if you don't have cartoon blood flying everywhere.

With Power Finishers Midway will have to be especially creative, because they won't be giving every character a run-of-the-mill limb tear move. If they would be done similar to Marvel Nemesis, I'd be more than satisfied.

And as you mentioned, just because there are no fatalities, that doesn't mean nobody can't die. I could still see Sub-Zero grabbing someone by his throat and slowly freezing him solid. Then he would look his victim into his pain frozen face, and then just knock him over. And all you hear would be ice shattering, but you don't see the corpse. Instead we just have a camera shot from below looking up, showing Sub-Zero looking down on his fallen victim.

if fatalaties are gone because they dont want us to kill superman, than they need brutality so we can beat the crap out of him

That's what I was thinking at the end just beat the shit out of your opponent.

Honestly now, when someone's limb(s) came off and it poured a pool of Jello-blood for a damn good 1-2 minutes I was humored... and not the good kind. I always thought to myself "Why can't they be more serious and focus more on the blood? Why do we need an unnecessarily ridiculous amount of blood to satisfy us? Why does the blood still look like crappy Jello even after 3 (failed) attempts?" Well I can, honestly, say now that Midway has somehow read my mind. The unnecessary pool of Jello has now turned into a far more realistic looking blood gush with just the right amount (so far from what I've seen). Frankly, I'm pretty satisfied; I don't care what those idiot "gore/blood freaks" say or think.

Sure,my first reaction was "oh no mk without fatalities blah blah blah",but it's like in the movies,take for example the SAW franchise,it's so cool for exposing torture and bloody chunks??,i think not,the GORE is something very old in horror cinema and it has been done to death by the masters,so i think that taking away the old gory/bloody fatalities it's not so bad after all and this new finishing moves,that we know nothing about,can provide something fresh to the table.

ok some fatalities were ridicoulous,but only because Ed Boon and his staff's IQ is lower than common standards....for istance look at Quan Chi neck stretch,the super kick by Reiko...but loo at some gruesmoe fatality....the vertical hat slice of Kung Lao,the punchbag fatality of Johnny cage in Shaolin Monks,heart rip by kano,electroshock by Rayden,dragon's transofrmation by Liu kang...
where they stupid fatalities?
i loved them

There's no such thing as a Mortal Kombat game without fatalites.

They will have fatalites, otherwise, what's the point in making the game?

CHEERS!

Good point Truth...I was going to mention that. I really am not that upset about the lack of blood and gore and stuff, just the whole crossover DC idea and demolition of the story kinda bothers me.
But given what it is, I AM glad they are going this route with the fatality business. As opposed to this idea as I am, I would be even MORE opposed if Superman was doing fatalites on people. That just isn't right. Maybe he banishes them to the Phantom Zone or something. I don't know. As far as I am concerned, them removing fatalities and doing some kind of different finishers is a good move for this particular game. It fits.

Oh Noes my Gaemz dosent have enough bloods! How will I prove my maturity now?

Its T, no real finishers. I bet Batman will handcuff you or something gay,

Exactly, but it must be really brutal.Something like this :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfvtqOZON0


but used as a finisher not super combos like SF.

If we're getting super moves like in SF, that would actually be pretty lame. Unless they speed up the game ALOT, then I don't see how it'll work.

And the ten pounds of blood pouring out was stupid imo. I loved fatalities, but I can do without them. Playing as Batman or Green Arrow makes up for it

This game will be rated G for Gay.

As a pro wrestling fan I'm kind of looking at "finishing moves" in a pro wrestling type sense for the time being until we learn more about them. So you're not going to explicitly murder your opponent, well, if you get a bitching sequence where you perform some kind of last, big, final blow, that could still be pretty sweet. And frankly most of the fatalities in the last couple of MK games were a bit shit anyway and most of them had little impact as slight variations of one another. I think I'd rather be able to deal one last cool looking final blow than see my character just perform some half assed variation of decapitating my opponent with a bit of bloody popcorn spraying out.

Or, remember Clay Fighter? Claytalities? Those weren't gory at all, but they were still pretty cool to perform after beating your oppoent. It could just be like that. That's fine with me, it could still be fun. Usually people get sick of watching fatalities after performing them a few times anyway., the REAL fun with fatalities was trying to perform them when they were difficult, because that made them mean something when you hit one and you were like "OMG AEWSOEM!!!!!" So I just hope that whatever they are, they're like UMK3 hard to pull off. Earn that shit, then it'll be cool again, even if there's no blood.

I honestly think the finishing moves will be brutal and definate, but there wont just be gallons of blood everywhere. You'll probably get a certain amount of different cool and deadly finishing moves you can do, but they won't be as over the top as fatalities, they'll be more to the point. Also, there is blood in the game as you can see in the trailer, but its not GALLONS of it which is realistic.

lol. Without fatalities, i will be VERY let down. or at least giving superman a head stomp while hes down as a finisher, like a curby, i hate him so much.

-Casselman

On a positive note there's no way they can be as bad as the "Kreate-a-Fatality" from Armageddon.

FUCKIN A brothers. I couldn't agree more.

Exactly, well said and I totally agree with you and with Nathan and anyone else who feels that "just fatalities" alone don't make a game. Yes of course we all know that say 10+ years ago fatalities WERE what MK was known for but not anymore....it's changed so much thru out the years that I think honestly that should be a second or third thought and gameplay, characters, storyline and online play should be #1 priority honestly. My opinion on that. People have to like the "overall" game not just a few aspects that's a mere part of it.

This kind of reminds me of 2 things within the past 10 things. When MVC was first announced I knew many fans that HATED the idea of a crossover....much like this MK vs. DC but they have to give it a chance, I also remember when the new SSBB was first announced a year+ ago and it was going to have Snake in it...many fans were like WTF? Snake in a game with pikachu, kirby, mario? No Fuc#$#ing way!! And thought it was dumb, but now you'll notice people/fans accepted it and even like the idea since Snake fits in well(despite his mature background mixed in a kiddy character game) so honestly if that can work, SC's SW character merging can work then MK vs. DC can definitely work.

I also want to chip in here on the finisher gig that Truth is talking about here.

For one, the bloody, gorey overdone popcorn blood was fun to watch at first but gets old. I like fatalities but at the same time, I'd also like the fact if say they were more realistic in some sense. Go back to basics without "the overdone blood and gore" There can be pretty nasty finishers, like the following say:

Someone holding another guy up and breaking his back over his knee

Someone snapping and twisting someone elses neck

Someone perhaps stabbing someone more naturally

Perhaps someone jumping on someones chest (like the teaser) but as a finisher and you hear bones crackling...

Things like this which to me anyway would make me squirm because that can actually happen not someone lifting someone up and making them explode into 1000 pieces... lol

The game will still have blood, torn clothing, bones cracking, finishers and not sure if you guys read but in one of the other interviews Boon said the game will probably be rated T but will try to push the envelope for M....given the darkness, violence and still some blood don't assume it'll be rated T just yet.

Still even so, just from the looks of it MK even now merged with DC is still way darker then any other fighter out currently.

wtf no more fatalitys?? this is what this game what it is to day

Exactly dude. Whatever the hell we're getting this time will certainly be better than last time in that department.

but.....Fatalities are the whole effing point of Mortal Kombat......thats how I got into MK



this sucks!!!!!!!