good idea,really.
But just a question:if YOU are the character with low health,and your hits are less strengh than normal,how you can defeat your opponent.
The great thing of a fighting game is unpredicable of fights:i can have 1% of life-bar and reverse the aftermath of the match beating my opponent.
A match must be fight till the end.
If the low-healted character haven't enough strengh and it's too slow,how in the hell can he beat his opponent?
That means that the fight is decided from start:the first that can chain a 6 or 7 hits combo will win.

The damage factor will still be the same, it's the animation that is different.

Good idea what would barakas be like?

Baraka would have a personality based on rage, imagine a pitbull with rabies, from the start of the fight he would be growling and he would pound his chest with his fist. Baraka would bark out taunts such as "Your death is going to be slow and painful mortal!" If fighting against human characters. If he fight's a character like Mileena he could say "I'm going to enjoy cleaning your blood off my blade bitch!" If he gets beat to the point where you start to see him fatigue, instead of him getting sluggish, it would just add on to his rage but his breathing gets deeper and he lowers his stance, "picture how wolverine stands when he fights" Baraka would start sliding his blades back and forth, and would start drooling, and you would see it drip off his chin to the ground. If you beat Baraka down to almost defeat he would let out a roar and his blades would extend, Baraka would then make gargling sounds.

I want to see more "natural"mobility from all the characters, not just AI. By natural I mean, not so conformed to the fighting styles each has.... The proverbial fist at the waist, partial squat and hand up in front.


Now, I know that's from Mk1, but we are still cursed with this basic funtionality from every character. I think part of the appeal of a "run" feature is that, everybody runs differently. More "natural" things happen when people run. Facial expressions transform, weight of the character becomes visual while in motion like that and everything else associated with movement while-in-speed.

I want to see characters get tired of holding their arms in the same place during a fight. I think the only time we should see the "stance" is at the beginning of the fight, and when the character regroups from being hit with a combo. Not too loose though, one punch or kick shouldn't disorient the form if that character was just standing there.

Another thing I wanna see, or rather hear, on the audio side of things is like, "struggling grunts". Whenever doing something physical, the "grunts" from a person become more wierd and crazy than ever. It signifies how hard it is to try and beat up or "kill" someone of high skill. Which all of our Mk combatants are supposed to be.

Maybe even an extention to this idea would be to have an "Aggressor" metor off screen that dictates when you are kickin someones ass. What it would trigger is "shit talking" during the whipping. Like Scorpions: "Get over Here!" or Jaxs': "Gottcha!"
But more comments and from other characters.

I like the motion hints from PNF here too(wipe of the brow and so on), but I think stuff like that should be inconsistant. Like once every so often, triggered by a long combo or something. I'd like to see it, but not often enough to get used to it. Know what I mean?

I think we should also see more facial expressions from our characters. Technology has advanced enough for this. Wounds need to be more realistic looking as well as blood//sweat//saliva splatter.

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Fight wise, AI should be able to switch "player inspired" styles...not just the styles that are set (like Iron Fist). I.e. ever played that person that blocks or baits alot when they play? Or that extemely aggressive player? Yea, but within any given fighting style. AI should be able to bait or block alot.....Or be really agressive like you are playing someone sitting next to you. Exploiting the games capabilities like the players will.

I say this because we all know how the creators "test" the game. Well, how many different types of players test the game....implement it.

Too much to continue.....thinking.......