lol at Baraka and Mileena talking with all those teeth
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unseenwombat Wrote:
Really, as inconsequential as it might be to all of you, he has a damn point. I could understand that the tarkatans have "internal" lips and tongues to produce sounds, if they weren't moving their actual mouth and tongue when they were speaking. NRS is obviously trying to show them speaking with THIS mouth, and like with so many other graphics related things, failing spectacularly. It looks STUPID, and is really a huge f***ing embarrassment to an otherwise (mostly) great story mode.
Try this: bare your teeth with your lips pulled way back and try to say "playmate." YOU F***ING CAN'T. Guess what, neither can Mileena. The best she would be able to mutter would be "lay-ate"
For the smartass who says we're just noticing this now: Mileena and Baraka never spoke in cutscenes in MK2, because there WERE NO cutscenes. IDK what they did in later games, because I pretty much dumped the series for SC after MK3. I don't think it's ever been this glaringly obvious though that they're speaking sounds that they shouldn't possibly be able to produce.
What they SHOULD have done is to give Mileena a mouth like she has in MK: Legacy, which only splits open when she's enraged or something, but otherwise has normal lips. Baraka could stay the same, but he should just not speak. He should growl or grunt like Reptile. Either that, or if you want to run with the "internal" vocalizations, don't show them chomping their jaws and flopping their tongue when they speak. Instead, they could extend their jaw forward (or something) to emphasize their speaking from their throat. I really love how Legacy did it though. It's perfect.
Really, as inconsequential as it might be to all of you, he has a damn point. I could understand that the tarkatans have "internal" lips and tongues to produce sounds, if they weren't moving their actual mouth and tongue when they were speaking. NRS is obviously trying to show them speaking with THIS mouth, and like with so many other graphics related things, failing spectacularly. It looks STUPID, and is really a huge f***ing embarrassment to an otherwise (mostly) great story mode.
Try this: bare your teeth with your lips pulled way back and try to say "playmate." YOU F***ING CAN'T. Guess what, neither can Mileena. The best she would be able to mutter would be "lay-ate"
For the smartass who says we're just noticing this now: Mileena and Baraka never spoke in cutscenes in MK2, because there WERE NO cutscenes. IDK what they did in later games, because I pretty much dumped the series for SC after MK3. I don't think it's ever been this glaringly obvious though that they're speaking sounds that they shouldn't possibly be able to produce.
What they SHOULD have done is to give Mileena a mouth like she has in MK: Legacy, which only splits open when she's enraged or something, but otherwise has normal lips. Baraka could stay the same, but he should just not speak. He should growl or grunt like Reptile. Either that, or if you want to run with the "internal" vocalizations, don't show them chomping their jaws and flopping their tongue when they speak. Instead, they could extend their jaw forward (or something) to emphasize their speaking from their throat. I really love how Legacy did it though. It's perfect.
They've been talking in cutscenes since 1997 in MKGold.
But the way I see it, they have internal organs in their vocals that act as lips and teeth, and they use the tongues in their mouths to speak. I know it's not the most glorious and profound explanation, but it's good enough for me in this game of magic and sorcerers and undead ninjas and such.
And one more thing: everyone in MK speaks. Even Reptile. Sadly, you don't hear him speak. But he is seen talking to Shang Tsung, and he has dialogue in Challenge Tower. So Baraka shouldn't be singled out just because he doesn't have a conventional mouth.
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Insider2000 Wrote:
It was already mentioned on this thread:
"His blades don't retract like Wolverine, but grow/extend like Marrow."
It was already mentioned on this thread:
"His blades don't retract like Wolverine, but grow/extend like Marrow."
Nah, I don't buy that. Then they'd have to, I don't know, shrivel up or crumble every time he retracts them into his arms, or something. We do see them go back in - they do retract.
Really, I've just learned to smile and nod when it comes to anatomy logic in the world of fiction. Nobody should be taking this stuff too seriously.
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Shadaloo Wrote:
Nah, I don't buy that. Then they'd have to, I don't know, shrivel up or crumble every time he retracts them into his arms, or something. We do see them go back in - they do retract.
Really, I've just learned to smile and nod when it comes to anatomy logic in the world of fiction. Nobody should be taking this stuff too seriously.
Insider2000 Wrote:
It was already mentioned on this thread:
"His blades don't retract like Wolverine, but grow/extend like Marrow."
It was already mentioned on this thread:
"His blades don't retract like Wolverine, but grow/extend like Marrow."
Nah, I don't buy that. Then they'd have to, I don't know, shrivel up or crumble every time he retracts them into his arms, or something. We do see them go back in - they do retract.
Really, I've just learned to smile and nod when it comes to anatomy logic in the world of fiction. Nobody should be taking this stuff too seriously.
As the guy who came up with the Marrow comparison in the first place, I just wanna say I've been misquoted. I never said "They don't retract", I said I think they do BOTH.
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