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Sick of all the whiny fanboys.
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posted11/09/2014 04:18 PM (UTC)byReignInBlood1986Member Since
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I swear, most of my fellow MK fans are LUDDITES and nothing but. What part of storytelling do you all get? If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress and the series to evolve.
OttoVonRuthless •11/09/2014 12:45 AM (UTC) •
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Mortal Kombat has always killed off characters and then brought them back. So... I'm not sure what your ranting about
Back and sassier than before. •11/09/2014 01:18 AM (UTC) •
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A luddite?! How dare you!
ReignInBlood1986 Wrote:
I swear, most of my fellow MK fans are LUDDITES and nothing but. What part of storytelling do you all get? If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress and the series to evolve.
I swear, most of my fellow MK fans are LUDDITES and nothing but. What part of storytelling do you all get? If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress and the series to evolve.
These are fighting games not story driven Bioware games. Fighting games live and die by their characters.
RazorsEdge701 •11/09/2014 01:28 AM (UTC) •
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If you know so much about storytelling, then tell me how you would write a Mortal Kombat plot without ever using the Netherealm.
Or Scorpion, who IN THE FIRST GAME was introduced to us as being back from the dead.
Or Scorpion, who IN THE FIRST GAME was introduced to us as being back from the dead.
Historical Favorite •11/09/2014 01:52 AM (UTC) •
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ReignInBlood1986 Wrote:
I swear, most of my fellow MK fans are LUDDITES and nothing but. What part of storytelling do you all get? If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress and the series to evolve.
I swear, most of my fellow MK fans are LUDDITES and nothing but. What part of storytelling do you all get? If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress and the series to evolve.
1. Gotta love someone starting a thread to whine about whiners. You're turnin' that stereotype around, champ.
2. Call me ignorant if you must, but the connection between luddites, sorry, LUDDITES and folks who want to see specific fictional characters is lost on me.
3. How does a character staying dead help the series to evolve? The way I've always looked at it, the contrivances that the series' writers develop to revive dead characters serve ultimately to make the world of the series that much bigger. If MK operated under a "dead is dead" mentality, we'd never have gotten the Netherrealm, Scorpion, the evolution of Noob Saibot, Sindel as a major plot point and possibly the omission of the Lin Kuei cyborg story.
ShaolinChuan •11/09/2014 01:57 AM (UTC) •
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RazorsEdge701 Wrote:
If you know so much about storytelling, then tell me how you would write a Mortal Kombat plot without ever using the Netherealm.
Or Scorpion, who IN THE FIRST GAME was introduced to us as being back from the dead.
If you know so much about storytelling, then tell me how you would write a Mortal Kombat plot without ever using the Netherealm.
Or Scorpion, who IN THE FIRST GAME was introduced to us as being back from the dead.
Burn!
nightbreed_16 •11/09/2014 05:17 AM (UTC) •
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All I have say about this thread is TOASTY!
RazorsEdge701 Wrote:
If you know so much about storytelling, then tell me how you would write a Mortal Kombat plot without ever using the Netherealm.
Or Scorpion, who IN THE FIRST GAME was introduced to us as being back from the dead.
If you know so much about storytelling, then tell me how you would write a Mortal Kombat plot without ever using the Netherealm.
Or Scorpion, who IN THE FIRST GAME was introduced to us as being back from the dead.
Have the game omit any kind of reference to an afterlife and establish his undeath as a separate state of being from any kind of mythological continuation of his earthly life? It's not that hard.
TemperaryUserName New sig on the way •11/09/2014 08:17 AM (UTC) •
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ReignInBlood1986 Wrote:
I swear, most of my fellow MK fans are LUDDITES and nothing but. What part of storytelling do you all get? If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress and the series to evolve.
I swear, most of my fellow MK fans are LUDDITES and nothing but. What part of storytelling do you all get? If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress and the series to evolve.
I'm not aware of the reason why, but it appears you are emotionally invested in the dead characters of MK9 NOT returning.
Well, no matter what any of us may want to happen, some of them most likely will return. It's probably best you accept that now, especially given that one of the dead characters has ALREADY been revealed to be alive and relevant in MKX: Sub-Zero.
So I don't know if you're a frustrated fan or just someone's troll account, but my advice is the same to you either way: if you find yourself in a hole, the logical thing to do is to stop digging.
Kitsune •11/09/2014 09:02 AM (UTC) •
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ReignInBlood1986 Wrote:
If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress
If a character dies he/she needs to stay that way for the story to progress
Wrong, sucka.
Resurrection and/or reincarnation are part of MK's lore.
Napalm1980 •11/09/2014 10:30 AM (UTC) •
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This is Mortal Kombat, not Game Of Thrones.
OttoVonRuthless •11/09/2014 02:09 PM (UTC) •
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Napalm1980 Wrote:
This is Mortal Kombat, not Game Of Thrones.
This is Mortal Kombat, not Game Of Thrones.
Beric Dondarrion
RazorsEdge701 •11/09/2014 03:36 PM (UTC) •
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Chrome Wrote:
Have the game omit any kind of reference to an afterlife
Have the game omit any kind of reference to an afterlife
So...a reboot.
A reboot that either doesn't include or completely mangles the entire backstory and purpose of Quan Chi and Shinnok. And you can't do MK3 because no Sindel.
Not to mention Shang Tsung doesn't work if there's no such thing as a soul, so the franchise falls apart at the very first step.
Chrome Wrote:
and establish his undeath as a separate state of being from any kind of mythological continuation of his earthly life?
and establish his undeath as a separate state of being from any kind of mythological continuation of his earthly life?
That doesn't make sense. If you establish undead and demons as a thing, you're automatically admitting the concept of the soul and afterlife exist in your universe. And since Mortal Kombat is ENTIRELY about interdimensional travel, going to or from that afterlife is inevitable.
The only form of undeath that doesn't preclude an afterlife is the zombie, a post-mortem body reanimated withOUT its intelligence or any special powers. And that's not Scorpion. The core of the character requires intelligent will and motivation, he doesn't shamble on auto-pilot.
And even if Scorpion was a zombie, you're still bringing a dead person back to life, which apparently, the topic creator is 100% against because he has a very narrow concept of what kind of events do and do not cause character development and story progression, and the whole purpose of the argument is to point that out.
Chrome Wrote:
It's not that hard.
It's not that hard.
Yes, stupid choices are often easy ones. Because you don't have to think them through. Anybody can write a bad plot full of holes. Writing a story that is both entertaining and always makes sense is the hard one.
DarkenedSoul •11/09/2014 03:37 PM (UTC) •
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Denizen Wrote:
If some dead characters from MK9 are back I do hope they give an explanation other than *puff* X/Y character is back, because the fans demanded it.
If some dead characters from MK9 are back I do hope they give an explanation other than *puff* X/Y character is back, because the fans demanded it.
This^
Example: Jade; They would have to use her MK9 ending for an explanation, which would be legit by being possessed and brought back to life.
Rainberri •11/09/2014 04:16 PM (UTC) •
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But, but... They'll never come back if we don't cry hard enough. Must cry harder T0T
[Killswitch] •11/09/2014 04:18 PM (UTC) •
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I'm sick of all the whiny threads. Stop doing it.
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