TonyTheTiger Wrote:RazorsEdge701 Wrote:Shadaloo Wrote:
Looks like fatality commands will be listed in-game.
I will NOT miss the days when you had to wait a week or more for people to figure out the Fatalities on their own and you had to search through a million unfinished FAQs and sometimes they can't even list the right button combos, making typos and shit...
I'm torn on the issue. Back then even if it was somewhat annoying at the time, thinking back on it there was something special about the playground conversations and arcade mythos surrounding the hidden shit. There were no websites. Word of mouth and magazines made learning stuff part of the adventure. I do miss those days.
But at the same time those days are a relic and they're not coming back. Now if they don't list the commands in-game all that does is add an extra annoyance of going to GameFAQs and writing stuff down. It won't bring back the word of mouth stuff. It'll just make an extra trip to the web necessary.
I'd be more for hiding stuff if it meant the return of all those fun things. It wasn't fun because things were hidden. It was fun because those things being hidden was a conversation starter and something of a scavenger hunt. But these days if you hide something you aren't bringing any of the actual fun stuff back. You're just hiding stuff so people will read a FAQ.
Simple solution: don't go to GameFAQs. I won't be.
I'm sick and tired of the MK series being slowly sapped of unlockables. The last time I actually enjoyed trying to unlock everything was Deadly Alliance, and that's only because the list of unlockables was massive. That, and we actually had those super secret characters that everyone has clamored about over the years. Deception fooled everyone in terms of secrets, because 90% of us on this site were convinced that there was a super secret character and none was ever found, and Armageddon's unlockables were pathetic. In short, I really, really hope that the fatalities aren't in the game's move lists. To me, that greatly reduces the replay value. I want to feel accomplished when I figure out a fatality, even if it's by accident. I don't want it handed to me on a silver platter like I'm a 4 year old. The iOS version of UMK3 has the fatalities in the move lists and it annoys me. I don't want to be babied.
Like ReverendBurn (of YouTube fame) said regarding Activision's handling of Call of Duty and what he thinks of Black Ops: "When you listen to whiny little bitches, you get a game made for whiny little bitches." NRS would be wise to make us figure out the finishers and nix any idea of a fatality practice mode, because that too cheapens the whole experience.
Guys, the game is rated M for mature, so I think it's time to act like the rating and once again prepare to get our hands dirty for another dig through a MK game.
MK Khronology: 58.49% complete...
