Lokheit Wrote:
Sure you can have "cool ways" of killing people with for example poison (later on my post I included exploding the body, so I include electricity and magic on the gore list), BUT one of the things with this game is that the style of the violence is purely TRIBAL, there are a lot of tribal them music on the game, and all the "hold trophies" helps with the idea, so doing an intoxication fatality wouldn't go with the spirit of the game unless the effects of the poison shows heavely on the character with terrible disforming effects, but this isn't just a cruel game, the fatalities are a tribal element and simple use of "cruel poison" has nothing to do with tear the body of your enemy and keep his head as a trophy.
A poison fatality would be a kill, but not a FATALITY, it needs to have a visual impact, when native americans made trophies with the skins of their enemy there was a simple reason: inspire fear. If you see your enemy riping the body of your comrade and geting a shower with his blood or ripping his soul from his body you will fear him a lot more than if the guys just posion him with an injection. Visual impact = fear, members sliced in gore-mode = fear, weird green energy being absorbed from the body and then see him dying = fear, this is the spirit of the fatalities.
Anyway, it's just my opinion.
I agree with you regarding the "visual impact" part.
But I have to disagree with your general opinion not because I want to argue, but because I still think that you seem to be limiting the possibilities for some reason.
Again, a Poison Fatality and even a (to take this to an extreme of what you wouldn't consider a good Fatality) a suffocation Fatality could work wonderfully!
They could have a powerful visual impact and be much much better than another silly gory boring dismemberment.
Just as a small/quick example, take
Sonya's Poisonous Kiss Fatality from MKDA. Back then its supposed to show first some blood from internal body damage and then some gross food and body parts or whatever.
Well, with todays technology you can have that again only a thousand times better (and without the head stomp):
Sonya's Poisonous Kiss of Death FATALITY 1) You can have the camera zoom in to show you the victims body being affected by the poisonous kiss (bloated ugly green veins, purple veins, swelling in some areas, pus, growing pimples, etc).
2) Then you can have them puking their own blood.
3) Then they will start to throw up severed and mutilated body organs (because of the poison of the kiss, of course) from their own mouth.
4) Then their skin could start to peel off from their body as if it was paper.
5) Fatality.
That's a poison Fatality that could be twisted in many ways and would certainly be more visually powerful for the eyes and the mind of the players.
You can play around with different twists like making their eyes explode, having their entire fingernails fall apart, making them loose their hair, having pus coming out of their ears, foam from their mouths, veins popping everywhere....its disgusting, its morbid, its better than what we've gotten so far.
You can even make a "Suffocation" death a great Fatality, you just need to start thinking about the creative possibilities.
