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The audience that came to watch a hybrid bloodsport/standup routine have awfully high standards
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New York hipsters I bet. The same people that see Chess Boxing.
The Head of the Hydra
In their defense, puns are the absolute lowest form of comedy.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
I love how Johnny's fatalities just screw with the 4th Wall like mad in this one.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Puns/Word play is 90% of Asian humor
The sign of a great pun, to paraphrase George Carlin in one of his books, is when people groan at it all while wishing they'd thought of it first.
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
You mean like the hit a man with glasses joke from Wreck It Ralph?
One Strip! One Strip!
Touch The Sky
Unfortunately for translators. Though I think the Yakuza games are good at not relying on that and just being genuinely funny.
I've always thought humor is the hardest the to translate. It's the difference between why the chicken crossed the road and why the chicken crossed the playground. note
Edited by sgamer82 on Apr 13th 2019 at 12:21:17 PM
Why the fuck does Pennywise keep getting brought up
He isn't a fighter... I mean outside of the Catharsis factor of getting to kill him gruesomely
Whats the appeal here?
He's an iconic horror movie character.
He's as much of a fighter as Freddy Kruger and he got in.
Google "big ears"
Why would you make Scarecrow a fighter in Injustice 2?
The answer is: Why not? It can be done.
Uni cat
The King Without a Kingdom
If Mortal Kombat can make a moveset for a fat alcoholic man, it can make a moveset for Pennywise.
It's been 3000 years…
The Head of the Hydra
Isn't Pennywise a shape-shifter?
That seems like stuff you can get ideas from.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Google "big ears"
You could make the case that his gimmick is too similar to Shang Tsung but he can still happen.
Uni cat
Before the storm closes in, the wolf howls at th
NetherRealm talks about the challenge of making Mortal Kombat 11's characters unique
The puns can be hilarious though.
Every culture has humor that doesn't always translate well to others, even between cultures with the same language.
Edited by Cortez on Apr 13th 2019 at 11:32:36 AM
Google "big ears"
We are going to get a Shao Kahn breakdown on the 22.
Uni cat
Got to admit that Kitana intro was actually pretty cool.
Never seen her basking in vanity like that. I wonder if that's supposed to be Netherrealm Queen Kitana just with her "human" skin, or if the "past" Kitana just liked being carried.
D'Vorah's bug mode surprised the sh-t out of me. I wonder if it eventually matures, or if she's stuck like that, or if it's some kind of "last-ditch effort" mode.
Edited by Soble on Apr 13th 2019 at 6:09:17 AM
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!
Hey, is Raiden supposed to be Raijin from Japanese Mythology?
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
Nah, he's Lightning from Big Trouble in Little China.
Raiden is suppose to be EVERY thunder lightning god, Raijin is the one He's suppose to directly be
Nightwolf calls him Haokah 'thunder god of the Lakota' and Raiden answers to it
which leads to a funny implication... Raiden is the inspiration for Zeus/Thor/Lugh...
I'd like to imagine that Younger Raiden after defeating Shinnok the first time... let the victory go to his head... and lets just say Raiden's exasperation with Johnny isn't so much Johnny its being forced to look into a younger Mirror
But Fujin is in the series too and he's Raijin's brother, but that doesn't seem to be the case in MK lore, though they are friends.
Some of those could be packs of time crystals, no?