Picked up Armageddon on Wednesday. It's fun, but a few gripes:

1. Create A Fatality is GAY. I don't know what the fuck the MK was smoking, but character-speicific fatalities are probably the single most important feature of Mortal Kombat. They add to a character's personality and they're fucking cool.

2. No Character Bios - That's just fucking lazy. I think most of us wanted explanations as to how certain characters showed up and their backstories. Like Reiko, for instance. I would have liked a definitive explanation about who he was and what exactly happened in his full MK4 ending.

3. Half-Assed Endings - A lot of the endings didn't seen to follow canon. Then again, if we were to point out every continuity error in MK, we'd have a pretty big list.

4. Two Fighting Styles Instead of Three - Weak.

Overall though, the game is still really fun. Still, it's a shame that Midway has never made a perfect 3D MK. Deadly Alliance was the start of something brilliant, but it never became brilliant. Each game has had its own good and bad mechanics, but not a one has successfully managed to perfect blend all of the good together. A perfect 3D MK would have:

1. Three fighting styles for each character (two bare fisted styles, one weapon style)
2. Character-specific Fatalities and Hara Kiris
3. Character bios
4. FMV endings (not done since MK4)
5. Multi-story levels
6. Level fatalities (both in-game and during Finish Him)
7. No weapon impales
8. A true counter system based on skill instead of the shitty Breaker system
9. A large Krypt packed full of cool extras
10. An extensive Konquest mode
11. Motor Kombat
12. Puzzle Kombat
13. A sizeable roster
14. Kreate A Fighter

Sadly, this will never happen. The team has said that MK8 will use a completely new engine. Rumors are also flying that few, if any, characters will survive Armageddon, meaning that MK8 may have a roster comprised of Scorp, Sub, and 16 shitty new guys that no one cares about.

Hey, just because the EB employee with the SUPER COOL Gran Turismo 4 shirt didn't card you, that's no reason to throw it back in my face.

Oh wait, I guess it is.

I liked how there was only one Koin color in this game. It took fucking FOREVER to finish the Krypt in the first game because Black and Silver Koins were a cunt bitch to get.

I don't like how ridiculously small the Krypt is in MK:A and how most of it can be unlocked via Konquest. And as it's been said, Koncept Art is hardly a good extra.

Tebor wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote: 4. FMV endings ONLY DONE IN MK4

I know. Best thing about that game.

MK has always been about introducing new characters. There hasn't been a single MK game that didn't have at least one new playable character. And some of them are awesome.

But if it's true that MK8 will scrap almost all of the current characters in favor of new ones, then fuck it. They tried that before... it was called MK3 and it sucked. That's why Boon & Tobias eventually released Ultimate MK3 which added in a shitload of previously MIA good characters.