Has the game that created the Fatality crossed the line? Has the bloodiest fighting game series ever created finally become too bloody? Gamemoir's Victor thinks so… to a degree.
If this question is being asked, the game is doing it right ;) MK was always a violent game series and Im glad they aren't holding back on this.
I would love to go one of their meetings where they come up with the fatalities.
Hey Josh. Any ideas for a new fatality?
"Yeah I was stuck in traffic the other day and I thought, wouldn't it be great if you could blow a hole through someone's stomach but leave their spine intact only to snap it with your hands. That poor old lady won't know what hit her".
Certain versions of the game had gimped fatalities and replaced blood with "sweat", the problem is it was white "sweat" and kind of creamy looking, if yacatchmahdrift.
Some of those versions also had "blood and gore" cheats which turned it back on for real fatalities and blood instead of sweat. I don't think SNES version allowed that cheat though, and that's why everyone bought the Genesis version.
Yes, it is too violent, as you will see when it comes to release, Austraila will probably ban it, the EU version will get censored somehow (like The Last Of Us was)
I doesn't bother me, i'm all for violence in games
Depends on how it is received. Sometimes being too violent has the opposite effect of what was intended. Sometimes it is less about it being too gruesome and more about it just being comical, ridiculous or just plain stupid. That is the fine line Mortal Kombat must not cross.
No. I like the more intimate and grotesque violence X offers. Rather than the goofy semi slapstick of 9, it goes for a more... screaming in pure agony and horror as the characters watch themselves get mutilated.
Honestly, it doesn't phase me at all. It's too cartoony to take seriously, something like the crazy stuff that happens in Lars von Trier's Antichrist though? I got literal blue balls throughout that f*cked up film.
If a game gets blood, gore, and violence like that film... Jesus Christ (see what I did there?)
Mortal Kombat isnt too violent in the sense that they NEED to tone it down because its too hardcore. I think the level of violence within the game has always been fine. SOMETIMES i do wish that NRS would make a mortal kombat title without so much violence though, because i feel like its become too much of a gimmick that distracts from a fantastic game. I feel like the fighting game community doesnt take the game as seriously as they should because its so incredibly over the top. kind of wish they'd make a non-gore fighting game and see how far their innovative mechanics take them. I believe in mortal kombat as a fighting game.
Heck no!!!!!! Actually when they made the first MORTAL KOMBAT, the creator of the ARCADE VIDEO GAME DEFENDER (1980}. Said the game was not to violent and said to co-creator ED BOON make it more violent! For a good YOUTUBE video about MORTAL KOMBAT X, check out JEFF GERTZMANN from GIANT BOMB interviewing ED BOON {co-creator of MORTAL KOMBAT}at E3!
When it comes to Mortal Kombat there's no such thing as too violent!
Seems to me a lot of failed parent's tend to blame everything in the media but themselves, too afraid to just say no, games and other forms of media are not babysitters!
If they censor it or tone it down it will loose its essence, just play the first one in the arcade in all its decapitation glory and then play the console (censored) version and you'll get my point
It's sort of plateaud already.. I cant see how X could be any more violent than 9.
It seems more comical than anything though, especially in random perk fights where one of you has no arms etc.. Its gone way past gritty and into Slapstick madness, which I like.:) the bone breaking animations are so dumb too.. Repeatedly smashing bones but then them not being smashed in gameplay is bizarre.
Violence is as much a part of the series as the actual combat is. I love it and so does my wife. It really gives us a chance to get our aggression in a positive way ya know? lol jk
In all seriousness though, no it's not too violent. It's just right.
Get over it. video games don't make people violent. only the ignorant actually think that. People make themselves violent. video games can actually relieve stress and help the person mentally be stable.
i think this new one is too violent for little kids to get a hold of. it should be rated AO based on the trailer. i have enjoyed the violence in every other MK game but this one seems way too brutal and over the top.
... Mortal Kombat has always been about overexaggerated violence, and there's a market for that.
As always, it's simple: Don't like it? Then don't buy it.
Depends on how it is received. Sometimes being too violent has the opposite effect of what was intended. Sometimes it is less about it being too gruesome and more about it just being comical, ridiculous or just plain stupid. That is the fine line Mortal Kombat must not cross.
No. I like the more intimate and grotesque violence X offers. Rather than the goofy semi slapstick of 9, it goes for a more... screaming in pure agony and horror as the characters watch themselves get mutilated.
A game in the Mortal Kombat series being considered "too violent"? Where have we heard that argument before?
No, but I will be taking your man card away.