I agree,and know what you mean. I also would like to see the darker side of MK without all of the on screen notifications. I loved the digitized characters of the first three games; it really set MK apart from the crowd. However, I have to say that the new MK, while not meeting these specific requirements, seems like it has recaptured some of the lost MK essence. I think fans of the first three games have something to look forward to in 2011.

true i do like the back to the old skool look of the new one coming. if it was up to me i would employ the special effects team who make the saw movies and render some epic life like HD graphic fatalities. scrap the silly gimics and use the gaming space to allow it.

i tottally agree on all that.
it has to be serious and dark again.
i made a thread about that called 'graphics'.
i am not satisfied with the graphics cause i STILL think its a bit cartoonish, but seems like everybody else is.
I want it DARKER and more realistic :P
the three first games had this!

You mean the spandex wearing superheroes from MK3?



what.

yes, those.

thanks for making the effort to post a comment on my opinion.
do the developers and ed boon read these posts? if they do they would do well to listen and take on board how we fans feel about the way the game is made. and how disapointing the recent games have left us. its not like we are asking too much. we want a simple fighting system with hardcore death moves that looks and feels real like the original MK games did. leave the complex fighting styles to tekken, the cartoon and comic combo breakers and hit counters to street fighter. the old MK fighting with high punch low punch, leg sweep round house, and and the little 3 to 6 hit combos that MK3 had was good enough for some epic fights. and the only on screen words in game should be "round 1 etc..., fight, flawless victory, finish him and of cause fatality.

/facepalm

You seem to forget that combo breakers and the other stuff you said called game wasters were in mk1-3 ever heard toasty before and see a guy pop up?

These kinda posts makes me angry

give stella her groove back

fair enough the toasty dude was funny (at the time).

honestly though do you think hit counters and combo pop ups are needed????? cause they are not.

they are pointless.

i have lost all confidence in the game and the developers. they need to go back to basics. if given a choice between playing MK1,2,3 on a sega megadrive and any of the other MK games on any other console the megadrive would win hands down. the game play the looks and the fights i've had on the old MK's has never been parallelled by the latest attempts.