Talk:List of media in the Mortal Kombat franchise

message: Is it just me or the Movies and television section has some bad POV issue? – Kaonashi 01:47, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: POVness seems to be in places here n there all about the article.  Being a videogame article, rather than say an article pertaining to politics or science, is probably why nobody really has bothered yet.  Even I'm not really motivated to give a damn.  "Another interesting thing..." well I know whoever writes like that isn't really intending to bias the article, but, like myself, can't really think of a "less" "POV" way to write it without sounding like the subject in question isn't of importance -- like if you replaced it with "Another important thing" or "Another significant thing" it would still be POV some way or another.  Blah.  --69.234.185.170 06:50, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movies and television 

message: :Mortal Kombat introduced a new combo system called juggling. Juggling is an aspect of gameplay that became a recurring element in games that followed. The juggle involved following an initial successful combat hit with moves that kept the opponent in mid-air, hence rendering the opponent unable to defend subsequent moves of the juggle until falling to the ground and standing again.
:Mortal Kombat also deviated from Street Fighter in the way moves were performed. Street Fighter (and many other fighting games) performed all special moves in variations of circles on your joystick followed by a button press (half circle back, half circle forward, forward then half circle forward). Mortal Kombat was the first to introduce moves that not only were not-half circles (tap back, tap back, punch) but also introduced moves that did not require a button press (such as tap back, tap back, then forward).
:These innovations allowed Mortal Kombat to succeed where so many Street Fighter clones had failed.
I'm not sure these things are even partly responsible for the success of the game. I would point to the failure of MK1 on the SNES as evidence that most people were not playing it because of the actual gameplay. I also wonder how many people actually liked juggling (which I would guess wasn't intentionally designed/programmed) and irregular move commands. My own opinion -- and I realize it's just my own, but I'm sure I'm far from alone in it -- is that Mortal Kombat would have been a failure, or at least not as successful, if it didn't have the blood and gore it was known for, but that last sentence seems to suggest otherwise. So I think this may need a small bit of NPOV work. - furrykef (Talk at me) 20:53, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The blood somewhat drew them in, but the staying power was definately the gameplay, as proved by all the copycat digitized fighters that failed. I personally believe that the MK 1-4 series had by far the best gameplay of any fighting game, correcting many mistakes of street fighter game design.
no no no,reptile only happens when u get to the pit level w/ no mistakes,then u get a double flawless,and boom!whalla!there's reptile!67.185.245.4 20:36, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Innovations? 

message: "Street Fighter (and many other fighting games) performed all special moves in variations of circles on the joystick followed by a button press (half circle back, half circle forward, forward then half circle forward)."
*I don't think that's accurate -- I know for a fact that SF2, which was released before MK1, had tapping movies -- i.e. Chun Li and E Honda's rapid kick/punch attacks.70.110.180.145 14:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Accuracy in "Overview" Section

message: What is the deal with the that pops up in MK II and make a weird sound? Is it a glitch or some kind of in-game joke
:You mean head? If I'm not mistaken, that's Dan Forden's head. It's someone from the game's developing team. Yes, it's an in-game joke. What he says is "toasty", apparently.--Kaonashi 03:51, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dan Forden's head 

message: Is this section even necessary? It sounds mostly like POV and really doesn't add anything to the content of the page.Virogtheconq 21:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was actually interested to read that portion of the article. It doesn't seem too much like POV to me (at least not like it was intentional), it seems to be a bit of interesting trivia. Perhaps it needs a bit of rewording and elaboration? — Striker 22:53, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Now that I have read that section, I concur that it doesn't add anything to the article, and that the 'mistakes' perceived after trying to relate the names with japanese real ones just point out that there is no such relation. I vote for removing that section from the article. DrJones 12:04, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Design Errors

message: There needs to be a MK Series article and an article for the first video game. This page is looking sloppy the way it is now. Buzda 19:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs to be split into two! 

message: Becky Gable - truly obsessive vandal keeps reverting to my own error (I one copy/pasted the data from Katalin Zamiar), really repeatedly, for many months (see history).
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Becky_Gable&oldid=137287145 - good version, lock this please (pernamently, because this is all what can be found on her). --HanzoHattori 18:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mods: protection needed 

message: How has this tag come up? All that is in the few paragraphs there is in game information and a statement that post John Tobais leaving the company, endings were done slightly differently, nothing controversial about something that is actually within the source material. Madslocodemente 05:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research - Plot continuity? 

message: Talk:Mortal Kombat redirects to THIS talk page. That should NOT be happening, since these are two different articles, with two different discussions. One discussion page about two articles can get out of hands, and you COULD think that someone is discussing List of media in the Mortal Kombat franchise when they are in fact discussing the page Mortal Kombat, please fix it.
I'm not doing a thing, because I don't want to screw up anything. TheBlazikenMaster 12:44, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  There MUST be some kind of mistake. 

message: Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but should there be SOME thing on this page referring to the type of controversy this game made when it first came out, since it was basically the FIRST game to fire up the entire "violence in video games" talk in the first place for its fatalities and blood in the game? This article needs to bring it up somehow.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkpower (talk • contribs) 08:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? Nothing on the controversy? 

message: There are currently two MK media pages:
*List of media in the Mortal Kombat franchise
*List of Mortal Kombat media
The navbox points the the latter. TH1RT3EN talk ♦ contribs 19:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two media pages