Zero Punctuation: Mortal Kombat

[Moffman]

I've always found MK's violence to be a bit tongue in cheek, the pure ridiculousness of it being laughable. Kinda like Duke Nukem (But this game does it with sexism). I think it's meant to be stupid in that way, soooo over the top that intelligent people aren't going to take it seriously.
... Still there probably is someone getting off on it *shudder*

 

[GoddyofAus]

how did he get it?

good review none the less

Lots of Australians have the game.
When it really comes down to it, Customs don't open every package that comes into the country to look at it directly and try and match it up to a huge list of banned content/materials.
Hell, an Australian online store called ozgameshop had it in stock (Not that it lasted very long, and they're useless when it comes to re-stocking)

FYI, ozgameshop is located in the U.K. I doubt it takes 2-3 weeks to ship an item from inside the country.

 

[ace_of_something]

Kinda surprised this was done given how much of a point Yahtzee made that he doesn't like fighting games.

Hehehe. It's banned in Australia and you publish a video off you criticizing it? Hmmmmm...

So long as it can't relate to you playing it, but than again that would be unprofessional.

He played it while he was on vacation... er holiday... in the USA. Yeah, that's it.

 

[liquidsolid]

Just called to say "Marty McFly"

 

[Tsaba]

Marty McFly would like totally win! Yeah!

that and he has backup, the Starlighters
Go Johnny Go!

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Great review.

I could agree that the X-ray attacks do tend to become very repetitive if you like to play only with a certain fighter.

 

[cassiebearRAWR]

The only thing I found impressive about this game was that despite already being campy as all hell, they found a way to make it even more sexist and misogynistic. But that's not really a point in its favor...

 

[jebussaves88]

Mr Leap would crush Calvin Klein like a fat kid crushes his own hopes and dreams by just looking in a mirror.

What were we talking about again?

 

[Magister2005]

There IS a game that has all the 2D characters duking it out updated every few months. It's called MUGEN. Freeware, buggy as the midwest in spring, and...well, just look it up. Still, if you want to see what happens when Peter Griffen dukes it out with Homer Simpson...

 

[RavenDrake]

I'm curious... why is the "someone gets off on it" thing so bothersome to people when it comes to gore?

I mean, I know there are people with high-heels fetishes, but I don't squick out every time a Payless shoes commercial comes on. Is it just because having graphic violence/gore is already so touchy a subject?

It just feels like an extra level (or several) or criticism is applied to it over and above other subjects.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Marty Mcfly would win. Just sayin

Marty Mcfly will always win in a lineup!.

 

[RJ Dalton]

You know, I never liked Mortal Kombat to begin with. Even as a young kid, the gore always seemed so ridiculously over the top as to put me off. I kept thinking over and over again, is the gore the only thing the game has?
And now, as an adult, whenever I see a pointless sex scene in a movie I think to myself, "Are you seriously trying to get my attention with sex? Pft!"
I must just be weird.

 

[TheEnglishman]

Yeah, the entire fighting genre does scream of "Wait, that's it, you just stand in roughly the same arena every time and do glorifed button mashing?"

At least SSBB incorporated platformer elements and ridiculous power ups and weapons.

 

[GreigKM]

Not liking the new Dr. Who? As in the whole revived series or just Matt Smith? Either way, I wholeheartedly disagree. Sounds like nostalgia to me, then again, my favorite Doctor is number 4, so...

 

[K84]

I like the new/old MK, reminds me of times when gaming was fun.
And when arcades still.....*emotion*
Of times when Doctor Who was still worth watching.

I do not like the new one, no sir, i do not.
Torchwood, on the other hand, tres bien.
And that show about the smeghead.

 

[Master Chibi]

Marty McFly without question.

 

[Dana22]

Well I never played new MK, and I also do not like new Dr. Who. So MK must suck as well.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

Best fighting game of this generation, by far.

Whether a person likes it or not is their opinion, but to say it's irrelevant is a bit of an ignorant statement, considering that less than a month after its release, it sold 1 million units in the US alone.

 

[boag]

I thought the story mode was refreshing from not having one at all, and the mass retcon actually fixed up a lot of crap with the storyline up to the Armagedon game.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Mortal Kombat isn't trying to be 'relevant'
You literally spent one line review the game and the rest complaining about how it doesn't conform to your ideas of what a game should be.
At the end of the day, if it works and you enjoyed playing it then give it a good review, and if it didn't, then don't. I couldn't tell because you spent the entire time bitching about fighting games in general and how this game is too 'gory'.

Yahtzee, too bitchy? That surprises you? Ha! What other Yahtzee have you been watching until now?
Also his comments about the gore wasn't that there was too much, but that it wasn't that good.
Example: You do an x-ray move and break the enemies legs, he gets up, and then kicks
your face. The gore has no weight to it, and becomes boring after long exposure.
Also Yahtzee never settles for anything. Especially Fun! I have always thought
Yahtzee was hard on games, but he is right a lot too.
Besides, why should we settle?