It always pissed me off how quick that fight between Liu Kang & the Deadly Alliance was in the opening. So have been at least 2 minutes but that ending was just for shock value like most of the things NRS has done.

I don't mind the neck snap. I actually think the way Liu dies was really well done. It's pretty much the only moment in that intro that's worth watching, since everything else is just bland exposition. I mind that the whole fight was two kicks (or one kick with an instant replay?), a punch to the jaw, and then he's beaten by a single fireball to the back.

I get time and budget limitations, but I think there HAS to have been better, more visually spectacular ways to depict the series' main character's final battle. A quick montage of snapshots perhaps? Or gee, maybe they could have not wasted all their money on that Scorpion/Quan Chi fight from the commercial and Adema video?

I am not saying that MKDA opening was the best thing ever. It had it share of problems. CGI quality was one of them. Animation - was another. Never saw anything wrong with voice acting, though. It was good enough for me, especially after MK4. I could care less about action as long as opening served its purpose, which it did perfectly. It was awesome in setting right mood for the game and conveying sense of change.

MKD opening was much better from the technical point of view, but it was quite bad from storyline perspective. The same goes for MKSM, which, while technically awesome, messed up everything about MK1 and MK2 stories (Champion of the tournament Goro defeats Liu, but Liu still somehow becomes champion of the tournament because he defeated Shang? What?).


If only he was so good at interpreting...


Jealous? Of you? Please.
I've yet to stoop that low to be jealous of a person who obsessed with his own headcanon. You aremore like an annoying curiosity to me. But that's really how I treat most of the people.


I think it maybe had something to do with quality of the animation of the opening. It really...didn't look good, so they make attempt to cut battle between Liu and wizards as short as possible.

Mortal Kombat Deception is one of my favorite MK games of all time. I wish they would have continued with this story plot rather than Armageddon honestly.

There's nothing to interpret. It's the lore. That's how it actually is. It's not some random hints written as metaphors that is up for interpretation.

There's that security blanket again.

Keep pitchin' that narrative, bro. Maybe one day it'll pay off and you'll be the popular one.

It's not so much about the lore.


Truth hurts, eh bro?

And...popularity? Really? Heh. P-uh-lease. I am not interested in such triviality.
You, on the other hand, with your constant desire for people to stroke your EGO size of a Jupiter...

Then please explain what it is about.

I'm not the one who posts to talk about it every time someone compliments me.

You're pretty transparent, chief. Have been for a loooong time.

Hey! no stroking....it's a family show.

LOL I wanted was a great discussion. Is it too much to ask for?

About characters: their personalities and their goals views and the like.

I mean, you can have whatever views you want, just don't postulate them as the final and ultimate TRUTH.


Projecting much?
But I can understand you. Honestly. Nobody does appreciate your knowledge of MK'verse in the real world, but here you are LRMSTR. Sadly your EGO, crude attitude and general abrasive personality do not win you many friends.

Poooooor thing. I could almost relate to your problems...except not.

Funny, that's the first word that came to my mind too.

@RedSumac

I paid excellent attention. If I didnt I likely wouldnt care to post on a site like this.

And I stand behind my "contrived" statement. The Kamidogu was such a video-game-plot-device that its literally laughable. At least MK3 had a moderately fun occulty resurection plot device to accomplish its impending peril.

@RedSumac, these are just my opinions. If ya dont agree, cool beans. But do keep your obtuse condescension to yourself. It makes you look mentally ill.

You have offended the gods of nu-metal.

Plagiarism is bad, you know?


Mentally ill for pointing out obvious?
Oh, well...such is the sad state of the world this days...no, wait. It was always fucked up place full of inattentive people who proclaimed that their inability to concentrate and understand was fault of the authors who didn't make simplistic story for kindergardeners. Nothing changes. Nobody takes your opinion away. It's just opinion need a basis. When the basis of opinion is faulty - opinion is rotten. Such is a simple logic.

@RedSumac

If you want to be condescending, please at least do so in decent English.

While Razor is at least as bloated as a Great Unclean One when it comes to the importance of the story, he does know his stuff.

As do I and anyone who bothers to read through it.

Zing!

It's all you've got?
Meh...

In this medium, communicating effectively is all any of us have got.

When the bird is flying, it's high in the sky.

The one being was not about "everything is a dream" right? It was just like "In the beginning there was the elder gods and the one being. the one being was powerful so they split him into many parts." the end right? That would suck if it turned out everything was a dream.

Did you read the thread? Because there's concrete evidence to the contrary quoted from the games.

It's not an evidence. It's suggestion in the same way as one might suggest that our world is a dream of somebody else.