lol ^^ For sure.

I liked that idea when I was younger too... and when they actually (finally) did it in MKSM, I thought it was cool and it was about time.

My argument for this game would actually challenge whether the trees should be the thing in the background that does something to you.
I'd be satisfied with an "Eternal Champions" styled arena fatality out of the Living Forest.

One where maybe the veins drag you behind a tree and we might simply see a bunch of blood gush out from behind the tree or something. It'd also be could if the vein strung you up like the other people they have in that background.

-- I just don't know if the trees eating you would be the best, or only thing that should go down in that arena's fatality if they give it one. There's so much you can do with it....especially now that it looks like that.

I really love those ideas.

They strongly hinted towards a stage fatality here this time around. I would be surprised if there wasn't one.

I love these little enviroment bios... hoping for one of the dead pool next, its my favorite background after the pit

Yeah I know I'm harder to please than your average MK fan. What can I said, I demand quality from my franchises.

I'd much rather they use this as an opportunity to get creative. Like letting you uppercut your enemies into the canopies, then as they fall back down you see they've becomed tangled in thick vines. And as they struggle to break free, the vines pull them up into the canopy again, where they start to scream as blood and limbs pour down from above. Not great, but definitely more exciting than THEY EAT YOU.

OMG "Tasty" that was so cute lol It fits Mileena very well. I'm really starting to love this character individuality and little details and I'm hoping for more signature catchphrases! As far as the Living Forest I've always loved this arena and I'm loving it even more hope there's a Stage Fatality!!!

I'm sorry but I always liked the MKII version of the Living Forest. When it roars you can see facial detail. In the games after that, it started losing what it originally looks like game after game. The detailed face is not there anymore, it looks more like a typical tree monster a kid would come up with. It's the opposite of "Living" looking. And now it's slouching and almost twisted up.
I'm not gonna cry "Change it!", I'm used to it by now, but the original will be missed. My little two cents.

You'll probably see the Trees holding conversations in the background in the final product of this game. I imagine they are British and use skulls as teacups. I'm sure I saw a monocle on one of the trees, and another had a top hat.

The fatality will probably include them grabbing someone by the vines, biting their bodies off from the neck down then drinking out of the skull.

Cheers!!!


(No disrespect intended to anyone in the UK)

Okay,I see what you mean. I thought you were against the whole idea of a Living Forest stage fatality,but yeah,less would definitely be more in this case.

You know what, I agree with you 100%. I'm pretty happy with how the living forest looks thus far, but only because I've come to terms with the fact that they will NEVER in 3D be able to make it look as awesome as how it looked in MKII. There was something legitimately demonic and frightening about those trees, the way their faces contorted and changed when they roared, and how detailed it all was. But yeah, like you said I'm not going to start a petition to change what they've done or anything, what they have now probably took a tonne of work to do.

I see and get what you guys are saying, but this 2011 Living Forest is just awesome, with or without a stage Fatal

Back in the day yeah, the Living Forest was just flat out creepy. With the way video games have developed in the last 20 or so years, it'll take A LOT for a stage to be able to do that again. Also don't forget we've grown up quite a bit since then.

But overall, the new LF is awesome along with everything else they're doing, in my opinion. Except their marketing.

I was browsing the MK twitters,and Rigo Cortes actually did address that:

Wouldn't it be a cool idea to have the enemy player to uppercut the victim into the maw of a tree and then when the tree finished eating the victim, the trees face turns into the face of the character that has been eaten, as that is said in the story.

So if they eat mileena, mileena's face appears on the trunk, she'd become a mindless tree for the rest of her pathetic life :P

I enjoyed the clip. Love the stage, so dark. Those black birds that can be seen when it switches to MK2011 Living Forest were an awesome little addition. Love little details like that. Great stuff!

That would be VERY cool as long as the face is recognizable yet twisted in anguish. I'm more for "suffering is brutal" than I am for "gore is brutal" as the MK Team has been going for with all of the quick deaths and slice and dice crap for the fatalities. Not enough anguish and torture to these fatalities or just plain adding insult to injury that you want to finish an opponent off with and have them be like "aww... that was... wrong. That's just... mean." Lol. Like Batman's Brutality in MKvsDC where he summons the bats (my favorite in the game). It's not bloody or gory but the guy shivering in the fetal position makes me and my friends wince every time. More of that + violence would be truly brutal.

On a side note I am really really hoping that they will include Scorpion's Hell (not confirmed but almost sorta??), The Warrior's Shrine (I would love to see this stage redone), and a couple of others but mainly those two.

The Warriors shrine would be awesome, loved it in MKSM

Warrior Shrine's my all time favorite stage. If it's not in the game somehow, I'm calling bullshit.

I love that idea of the tree eating them and their faces showing up! But does anybody else think that random guy with the straw hat sitting on the floor has something to do with the stage fatality?? How's he not been eaten yet? Makes me wonder. He personally gives me the jeebies. I think he's the guy that feeds you to the trees or something. Maybe the fatality is like he kind of grabs the loser and they struggle to break free but he shoves them into the tree's mouth or something. OOOH CREEPY.

Yes.

Fedegita, you freakin nailed it with this post. Hence my avatar, the Living Forest from MKII can never be duplicated.

the stage looks great but, the background looks kinda empty. i mean there are no living trees in the back it just too plain

You gotta be kidding me. There are already MULTIPLE threads on this.

I am disappoint.