I'm still sceptical at it's presence but I'm beginning to like the idea more. If your opponent uses it, it could show that they fear you. It's also dishonourable to kill yourself and they'll be saving you the trouble and causing shame upon themselves. But, I still hate the idea of having a Fatality opportunity stolen from me!

I like it.

My dream come true.

Finally a way to kill myself without feeling the pain.

I can now prepare my sweet suicide.

queve Wrote: I like it. My dream come true. Finally a way to kill myself without feeling the pain. I can now prepare my sweet suicide.

LMAO...that was so great.

I think its an awful idea. The glory of fatalities was that they had to take them and there was nothin your opponent could do about it. That whole aspect is now gone. I sure hope this is all some sick joke.

It's a good idea, but i wouldn't use it often, and i don't think a lot of people would. We all love to see the fatalities played out.

BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO THE MK SERIES!!!

I hope that there is a 2-way engine, in which the first person to put in their finishing move (Fatality person and Hari-Kari person)..........

Could care less about it, cause Im not gonna use it.

I like the idea, it could make you remember your fatalitys faster. Now the battle dosen't end when it says finsish him, it is like a race to see who strikes the final blow to the man who lost the battle. I for one like the Hari Kari cause if i fight a cocky bastard on the internet and he manages to be cheap and beat me, ill use it so he dosen't get the glory of killing me, but that depends on how fast my hands are.

I plan on never useing it if im fighting a real fighter. I lose let them kill me in a alsome a gory manner. I'll learn them by trying it every time i lose against the cpu thouh.

i think id rather have a 3rd fatality...

I think it is a great idea so when i lose i will kill myself and piss the other person off and they can do it me it is a wonderful thing.


Ryu Is Cool

not sure what the real meaning of hari kari is
but i think everyone has the wrong idea on this site.

the winner of the fight dosn't kill themselves
and the loser dosn't kill themselves

this is how i think it will work.

ok:
sub-zero is fighting kuna lao

sub-zero wins 2 rounds it says" finish him"

the player who picked sub-zero puts in the button combination

sub-zero takes out a weapon and starts walking over to kung lao ,

kung lao looking at the sword , kills himself before sub-zero can.


you see its still a fatality for the winner of the battle, and a sucide at the same time....

think about it.

i love the idea, its really cool. Also wth is a Furgality?? i never heard of that

This is just my take on it, but I think its about honor. For instance, if you get your ass handed to you then you ought to off yourself. I don't know much about bushido but it seems that hara-kiri is a warrior's salvage of virtue from defeat.

Then again, the idea of spiteing your opponent by killing yourself is good too.

I think it's great. It's not just like you are killing yourself, it's an honorable death. You rob your opponent the joy of finishing you himself. It was an acient ritual in Japan, back in the days of the samurai. I think there is a thread on here explaining, I just saw it on the History Channel a few years ago. Anyways, I love the idea.

Here is the textbook definition of hara kiri and then some.

HARA KIRI

[Jap.,=belly-cutting], the traditional Japanese form of honorable suicide, also known by its Chinese equivalent, seppuku. It was practiced by the Japanese feudal warrior class in order to avoid falling into enemy hands. Around 1500, it became a privileged alternative to execution, granted to daimyo and samurai guilty of disloyalty to the emperor. The condemned man received a jeweled dagger from the emperor. He selected as his second a faithful friend, received official witnesses, and plunged the dagger into the left side of his abdomen, drew it across to the right, and made a slight cut upward; his second then beheaded him with one stroke of a sword, and the dagger was returned to the emperor. Around 1700, it became permissible to go through a semblance of disembowelment prior to beheading. Voluntary hara-kiri was resorted to after a private misfortune, out of loyalty to a dead master, or to protest the conduct of a living superior. Obligatory hara-kiri was abolished in 1868, but its voluntary form has persisted. It was performed by 40 military men in 1895 as a protest against the return of conquered territory, the Liaotung peninsula, to China; by General Nogi on the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912; and by numerous soldiers as an alternative to surrender in World War II. Hara-kiri was much discussed in recent years in connection with the death, in 1970, of Mishima, the well-known novelist and rightist political leader.

I think the addition of a Hara Kiri maneuver adds a whole new dimension to MK.

GrinningEvilDeath Wrote: This is just my take on it, but I think its about honor. For instance, if you get your ass handed to you then you ought to off yourself. I don't know much about bushido but it seems that hara-kiri is a warrior's salvage of virtue from defeat. Then again, the idea of spiteing your opponent by killing yourself is good too.

You are correct, Though it saddens me that you were able to state that before i could.

I actually enjoy the idea, Though i would never take such an action upon myself in reality. And in a way i'm going to loath it for my friends are the types who would rather turn off my game system rather then allow me to kill them, Though at least this way is much easier then restarting the game.

And i remember talking about suicides two months on these very boards before anything was mentioned about "Hari Kari" And voicing my idea of a race between victor and loser... Though no one responded to my idea, Someone from the Mortal Kombat team must have enjoyed my idea... Or possibly great minds think alike.

Hmm... On another note. The "Hari Kari" would be good when you're defeated by the computer. It doesn't like to do Fatalities too often, So if you truley want to see spewing blood, We could now just kill ourselves just for fun.

I agree with my buddy queve on this one...a way to have my suicide completed but be around to watch ppl whine because i was faster to kill me than they were.