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the ending where Tanya leads Liu into a dark cave and then jumps Liu with Shinnok to blow him up fucking TERRIFIED me as a kid - the hero of the series got merc’d in a dark cave with no one around to see what happened… little did I know that the Deadly Alliance intro was just around the corner to scare me even more!
This terrified me as a kid too! I remember thinking Tanya was going to be one of the new female protagonist and she turned out to be a traitor to her realm and sided with the brotherhood of shadow. This was some dark stuff back then. Lui got decimated. Tanya actually became one of my favourites In Deception lore wise. Good times
Mythologies is a god awful game, but I have to admit when I was a kid I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen, those super cheesy live action sequences blew my mind
I appreciate these uploads because I enjoy MK lore but haven’t gotten around to playing/finishing most of them. They’re also getting me excited for MK1’s release!
MK4 was super hype and one of my favorites. I’m surprised to hear that it had a negative response. Love these videos and can’t believe they aren’t getting more views. Thank you for making them!
I was really young. Played 2, 3 and trilogy nearly every weekend. When me and my cousin rented out 4 from the local blockbuster we couldn't believe how bad it was 😂 definitely paved the way for future titles though.
Agreed. At the time, it was one of my favorite games, and I still have fond memories of it. Fujin was such a great new fighter, I wish he had replaced Raiden in the lore
I mostly played MK Gold because it had Kitana, Mileena, Kung Lao, Robots and Baraka. Overall, I feel a strange affection to this game plus I love how they used cutscenes to tell the story.
@@FreeOpenTruth you know that the PS1 version isn't the arcade version either right? The arcade didn't have Goro in it at all; Quan Chi was the sub-boss.
It wasn't mentioned in the video, but it should be noted that Kitana, Noob, and Kano were planned for MK4 (they were seen and playable in pre-release footage), but replaced by Tanya, Reiko, and Jarek respectively because Midway felt the game didn't have enough new characters. Noob became a hidden playable character in the home versions. Kitana wasn't completely removed because her model was needed for Liu Kang's ending for the arcade and N64 versions since those used in-game cutscenes while the PS1 and PC versions used FMV videos so an unfinished version of Kitana can be played by hacking the game. Goro was also not in the arcade version and was home console exclusive.
In the arcade one time, I wanted to try to do a fatality that I remembered from Game Informer. So I put my quarters in, picked Reptile then these older kids came up and were watching me play. I beat the first enemy and ended up pulling off the fatality where Reptile jumps on the enemy and eats their face off, one of the older kids was shouting "HES HUMPING HIM!!". They all cheered for me, then the older kid put his quarters in to fight me, he beat me immediately and I was booted from the game.
First, how come a Mortal Kombat Arcade Collection hasn't been released since the PS3 & 360? Second, how come Mortal Kombat 4 is never rereleased and made for new consoles? Doesn't Netherrealm Studios have the rights and can make it?
I just don’t think they want to put the resources in to make a remaster at the moment. They seem to have been really busy working on the new MK1. Although having a way to play the pre-MKX games on modern consoles would be great
I remember how much of a pain in the @ zz MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero was. It took me forever to beat. This live character are HILARIOUS looking back at it. 😂😂😂
Even when we were only like 10 or 11 years old, my friend and I laughed hysterically at Jarek's goofy scream and Jax doing his best Dirty Harry impersonation. I don't know if they were intentionally trying to be funny or if they wanted the scene to be taken seriously.
I bought Mythologies: Sub-Zero during a 4 day trip to Gothemburg. Bought it the first day and was so hyped to come home to my PlayStation. Looked through the manual every night. Well... You know the end of this story. Another disapointed child.
They really should've took that mythology concept seriously and had a game for each character from MK1 with each one being a different genre of videogame. It could've made the lore stronger to see how each of them ended up at the tournament. Especially if they treated it as prequels to the storyline from the 1992 comic books which should've been the foundation of the entire MK lore.
I'll never forget it. I was waiting and waiting for so long to get MK4, my mum promised me she'd get it for me after we moved house, I had my ps1 chipped at this point so my uncle used to burn the games for us at Bolton institute and charge us £3 a go, anyways a mistake was made and my mum bought a burned copy of what she throught was MK4 ... only for it to be mk special forces 😭 my uncle stopped doing the games shortly after and she wouldn't buy me a proper copy of it so I literally played mk4 for the first time in 2015 🤣 and god damn it was AWFUL! Ironically I enjoyed special forces 🙃
When I was a kid I actually enjoyed Mythologies. I guess I just liked anything MK and didn’t know any better. However , I also though Special Forces was a piece of garbage.
18:00 This is one of those cases where I didn't learn something was poorly received or hated until years later as an adult. Because I remember me and my friends(and the majority of kids at my school who played MK4/Gold) were talking about it nonstop. In fact, two of my best friends growing up who lived right around the corner from me were OBSESSED with MK4 and we would play it NON STOP. Always having heated rivalries and tournaments lol. This was before I came of age and started paying attention to(or even noticing) things like review scores. I didn't learn until after Deadly Alliance released that MK4 was seen as a bad entry when reading articles talking about it as "that game no one remembers" etc. I loved MK4 and Gold.
That’s really great though. The best part of being a kid is almost every game you got, you really cherished and enjoyed even if the general consensus didn’t
Same here. As a kid playing on N64, MK Trilogy was pretty hard. I only got to Motaro a handful of times, and only beat him 1-2 times. Never beat Shao Kahn. For MK4 I really enjoyed the switch to 3D and how the game seemed "more fair". It took me a while to beat Goro, but once I did I felt such a great accomplishment. Then when I got older I got an Xbox for Christmas and soon got Deadly Alliance, which also felt so fresh to me back then. I didn't wind up getting Deception, but I absolutely loved Armageddon for what it was, especially the Kreate a Fighter mode.
@@DonCriticyeah, I have a feeling that the consensus back then were adults and didn't really look for guidance from the younger generation though granted this was a mature rated game
I loved mk 4 Never owned it but used to rent it from the local video store over the weekends. I know it was no tekken but honestly that was okay, back then it was nice having all types of fighters. Plus I was happy Cage was back haha. I dug him when I was younger. I love this series brother awesome video
Johnny Cage is one of the greats! Yeah the late 90’s had so many great fighting games, competition was super strong back then. Soulcalibur, Tekken, Killer Instinct, Dead or Alive. You were never stuck for a new fighting game haha
My favorite too. I was born in 92, and I believe MK4 came out 97?? 5 yrs old, I was a Nintendo 64 kid. Super Mario, MK4, Super Smash Bros, and Banjo Kazooie hahahahahah
Yes!! The background music for MK Trilogy and MK4 were so good and terrifying in a way. With MK11 it's like you're listening to a symphony or something lol.
I think the problem was that Midway deemed the MK name as bigger than the games themselves. They were becoming cheaper and cheaper and in these games that went too far. Have anyone not tested MKM:SZ to noticed how unplayable it was? No comments on MKSF. I think MK4 is a funny game and I enojoyed playing it. But, Lord... cheapness everywhere. Few characters (same as MK3), same dial combos for all of them, no actual boss fight, endings were played by the characters instead of being images and the champion screen was just a flat image with no animation whatsoever.
I really love Mythologies. I mastered the gameplay with the “B” button and got the levels memorized. I enjoyed the game so much, I replayed it on the N64. Wish NetherRealm would make another Mythologies, there’s so much potential.
If you ever decide to livestream it, plz do let me know to go watch it. This game was impossible for me, but I’d loved to see someone play it. Would be a good time.
@@DefinitelyReagan it's the best story out of any of the games easily and the greatest expansion of lore the series ever had til that point. Fix the controls and you'd have a solid as hell game
MK4 was my first introduction to this series and I never thought it was bad or poorly written. Looking at it now it hasn’t aged the best but there were some valuable tidbits like Scorpion and Sub Zero learning they were both set up, Shinnok *is* canonically unstoppable but Quan Chi’s double crossing backfired, and that there are more than 1 gods that can be protectors.
I had the idea for Mythologies before it was a thing. I thought it would be a cool game to just tear though piles of minions. Then Sub-Zero Mythologies came out and holy shit! Exactly what I came up with... except it was far from it. Horrible controls, platforming puzzles and cheap deaths. The idea was there, just so poorly executed. It honestly felt like a game where some 3rd party just ripped the characters and pasted them into some cheap game and slapped a MK sticker on it to sell knock offs. Then MK4 came out. While I liked it, it felt like such a step backwards. Sure it was 3D, but who cared. Such low poly characters when we just had digitized actors. The fun part of the gore and fatalities was because it was realistic humans. Now with polygon cartoons it was more of a laugh watching Daffy Duck explode than an "ooooh" watching a human have their spine ripped out. Every character felt and played the same. Preforming moves was more of a test of memorization than fluid combos. Weapons was interesting but again you had to memorize combos to pull your weapons and it didn't really make much of a difference in combat. Developers often make the mistake of doing something new, not because it's better, but because they can. I think going 3d was one of those mistakes when the hardware was so young.
Even then I would just opt to rent Trilogy over MK4. I didn't necessarily hate MK4 and my friend and I had fun with two player mode, the unlockables, etc. but Trilogy was just a more fun game to play overall. More fast paced, fluid, and dynamic.
This was the one our dad took away for a month because of our fighting.😂 Pretty sure Jax has the worst ending in 4. Playing these games into the wee hours of the morning just beating the ladder with each character is still a thing I do.
I always thought Jarek had the worst one. Someone on TH-cam redid his with the _Unreal Engine_ a couple of years ago, and made it look way better. From the graphics to him actually being flip-kicked off of the cliff instead of Sonya just side stepping out of the way. He still made that weird Raiden sound when he fell off though, which is actually hilarious. And then the same TH-cam account actually redid the Jax ending to explain it more.
Never played MK4. I was in my late teens when UMK3 appeared on the Saturn, and it was amazing. By the time MK4 appeared, I was totally tuned out from the series. Not sure if I played any of the sequels much after that.
To me imo mk mythology subzero was one of my favorite games I guess I just have nostalgic feeling and grew up wit the game I enjoyed so many days tryna beat the game lol
Mortal4Kombat mlMy favorite MK game till this day! This was the FIRST VIDEO GAME I EVER PLAYED! At only 4 years old on the N64 Haha good times This game needs a Remaster
Never forget when my uncle got me mk4 for Christmas on N64 lol loved it was playing mk trilogy before that on my N64 and then later on got mk mythology subzero game was hard at first but always got to the stage where I had to escape the realm and den it reset to beginning because I didn't have enough experience and didn't no until a few years ago lol wow I was shocked
So basically, if Special Forces wasn't rushed, and maybe waited for the PS2, it could have been the first Shaolin Monks. I mean, it's the exact same thing, just without platforming... or any polish whatsoever.
MK 4 seemed like a step back from graphics design to me. I’ve always like the backgrounds of MK series but MK4 just seemed bland. Even the characters looked off. As much as I am a MK fan, MK4 just didn’t do it for me.
How’ does shinnok get the amulet back if sub zero apparently got it for quan chi in mythologies but then sub zero ends up beating shinnok at the end of that game ? So how does shinnok have the amulet in MK 4 ??
Maybe the Amulet that Quan Chi gives to Shinnok in Mythologies, and that Sub Zero passes to Raiden was a replica and Quan Chi kept the real one for himself
@julianmitchell5776 Quan Chi tricked his master & tricked Bi-Han & Raiden. Once he received the real amulet from Bi-Han he gaved Shinnok a fake amulet. Shinnok's Amulet gave Quan Chi the ability to travel outside to the other realms since his magic only limited him to travel between the Netherrealm & Earthrealm also the amulet increased his magic ten fold which it was key to reviving Onaga's army.
I've been playing MK since the first one came out. However, with MK4, it felt as if it had been rushed out. I had the feeling MK4 could have turned out better if more time was spent on it (graphics, movement of the characters and the endings specifically).
4’s roster is so tiny compared to other MK titles, but damn, do the 90s 3D graphics used in the game look astounding. The fatalities in the game are a vast improvement from MK3’s, UMK3’s, and MKT’s due to its greater creativity and the fact that 50% of the fatalities are no longer, “watch some guy blow up to a million pieces.” Man, I wish I have access to the original Arcade version of it, but you know, _it costs big money._
MK4 is good, I liked it, I don't understand why some people say it's the worst of the older games. Obviously today it looks ugly and the 2D games hold up a lot better, 2D resists the passage of time a lot better than early 3D and polygons, but back then 4 looked fine. In terms of gameplay it's good, some of the new characters are boring but the roster is ok, the stages are ok, it brought back the fantasy and mistery feeling of 1 and 2 in terms of stages, colors, music and atmosphere, and I think it's very underrated. I remember running home so excited when i got it for PC, I couldn't wait to play it!. If you had a 3DFX Voodoo card it looked awesome (for its time). MK4 is a solid very underrated entry. And in my opinion, the last good MK until MK9. The really bad ones are the PS2 trilogy. I hated those so much!. The gameplay was horrible, the direction the story and characters took was bad, like "Liu Kang is dead" WTF??. To this day I really dislike Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armaggedon, to me that's the worst era of the franchise, those games are a mess, it's like they lost the way for years trying to do something that's not MK. I know a lot of people like those games and they were succesful so I'm in the minority here (I can't imagine why MK fans liked those games), but to me that dark age after 4 and before 9 felt like MK was dead. I'm happy MK9 soft rebooted the saga and brought back "real Mortal Kombat" in terms of gameplay, characters, story, atmosphere and feeling. MK9 was a great comeback.
MK4 was what introduced me to Mortal Kombat, and I loved it. Quan Chi's look in the game is the most sinister, I dunno why they changed it later. Also had a videogame crush on Tanya 😁
MK4 was when i kinda dropped the series and went back to playing trilogy with my friends, i grinded deadly alliance and deception for a while but couldnt bring myself to playing newer titles
Honestly, by that point I had no interest. I wasn't interested in the concept at all, and I wasn't the biggest fan of Mythologies despite the fact that I wanted Sub-Zero to have his own game ever since I first played MK2.
This game was so bad, but I love it because it (along with Tekken 3 and the OG Dual Shock) were the first things I bought with my very first paycheck. I used up every bit of the ink from our printer to print out the fatalities and moves. The internet was just more exciting back then because the "new" was still there.
The MK4 issue lies in the replacement of characters like Jarek, Fujin, Kai, and Tanya, which were disappointing. Quan Chi is the best new character. The game felt fairer with difficulty than older games, and the alt costumes were enjoyable but the weapons seemed pointless. Ending videos were cheesy but I'm glad they had them compared to text. Shinnok was alright but found him less intimidating than Quan Chi. I loved he was a more grounded boss not over powered and playable but compared to Shang Tsung which could transform or Shao Kahn which had super strength just seem lack luster.
I prefer MK Mythologies Sub-Zero because it expands a huge story rivalry between Sub-Zero (Bi-Han) & Scorpion, also we see back in the days introduced new kharacters like Quan Chi, Shinnok, Fujin & Sareena, exploring also the Netherrealm, which I was happy to see this type of fighting game, but unfortunately the gameplay was so underwhelming, disappointed & receive poor critics. MK4 to me was the beginning of downfall to the series, it wasn't very entertaining as it was MKX, chessy voices & endings, the story was lack AF & the roster was really poor compare to MK Trilogy. MK Special Forces... ... ... No comments (facepalm)
I had MK4 on the N64 and I didn’t know that Noob Saibot was a hidden character in it, I might have enjoyed the game a bit more if I did know 😢 to me UMK3 was better than MK4. What I did like was that you were able to play as the final boss Shinnok which you weren’t able to do in previous games (except Trilogy but none of the boss characters had fatalities if I remember correctly). And I think Goro would’ve been a better unlockable character alongside Noob Saibot than Meat and the fans would’ve preferred that as I know that I would’ve preferred it
If MK Gold had been what the original MK4 Arcade was, it would've been way more well received. And kept Kano instead of introducing Jarek. That was pretty dumb
The intro for MK4 (live action one) had me scared as a little kid, same with the spikes and music. I was no older than 6-7 cuz my dad was a huge fan of the original arcade games so he had MK4 on PSOne
Okay but who in the hell is the dude in middle of Kano and tremor at 20:45 because tasia and no face are on the side /behind Kano and jarrek is on the side of tremor
I think I'm the only one on this planet that enjoyed mkm Sub-Zero, the only gripe I have is the turn button and the lack of fatalities besides that I enjoyed it
@@DonCritic I didn't get far into the game only onto the second level because I had no way of saving the game did the game even have fatalities I don't remember their being only the finish him
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I’ll add it to the next polls
@@DonCritichey whens part 5 coming? I really liked the previous videos so excited for the next one
@@leotyson1001 It drops in just a few hours, I’m doing final editing touches right now. It’s certainly my personal favourite episode I’ve made so far, you’ll really enjoy it!
I agree i think people just didn’t know what they had in their hands at the time
the ending where Tanya leads Liu into a dark cave and then jumps Liu with Shinnok to blow him up fucking TERRIFIED me as a kid - the hero of the series got merc’d in a dark cave with no one around to see what happened… little did I know that the Deadly Alliance intro was just around the corner to scare me even more!
Yeah that is a really cool ending
This terrified me as a kid too! I remember thinking Tanya was going to be one of the new female protagonist and she turned out to be a traitor to her realm and sided with the brotherhood of shadow. This was some dark stuff back then. Lui got decimated. Tanya actually became one of my favourites In Deception lore wise. Good times
Same MK4 terrified me period. No matter if you lose you still die cause of falling in the pit lol man I love it though.
Mythologies is such a great backstory to Bi-Han himself.
a shame they don't really do anything with it, I really like that they tie him in with the Brotherhood Of Shadows before being turned into Noob
Mythologies is a god awful game, but I have to admit when I was a kid I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever seen, those super cheesy live action sequences blew my mind
@@felipeaguena5289if they remade it with better graphics and to play like shaolin monks ..it would be fire
Yea one the hardest game lol I even have it for ps1
I appreciate these uploads because I enjoy MK lore but haven’t gotten around to playing/finishing most of them. They’re also getting me excited for MK1’s release!
Thanks David! I’m glad you’re enjoying them. Next episode will be out soon 🙂
MK4 was super hype and one of my favorites. I’m surprised to hear that it had a negative response.
Love these videos and can’t believe they aren’t getting more views. Thank you for making them!
Thanks so much Kyle!! I really appreciate it!
Mk4 is underrated for sure
I was really young. Played 2, 3 and trilogy nearly every weekend. When me and my cousin rented out 4 from the local blockbuster we couldn't believe how bad it was 😂 definitely paved the way for future titles though.
Agreed. At the time, it was one of my favorite games, and I still have fond memories of it. Fujin was such a great new fighter, I wish he had replaced Raiden in the lore
I mostly played MK Gold because it had Kitana, Mileena, Kung Lao, Robots and Baraka. Overall, I feel a strange affection to this game plus I love how they used cutscenes to tell the story.
That wasn't the Arcade though. I played the Arcade identical PS1 version.
EDIT - I meant to type PS1 version. Mistake corrected!
@@FreeOpenTruth No you didn't because there wasn't a PS2 version. lol.
@@DLKnightstick1989 - I just said that Gold wasn't the Arcade version. There was an MK 4 for playstation. I meant PS1 version because I have it.
@@FreeOpenTruth you know that the PS1 version isn't the arcade version either right? The arcade didn't have Goro in it at all; Quan Chi was the sub-boss.
@@DLKnightstick1989 - Goro wasn't in the PS1 version there chief.
It wasn't mentioned in the video, but it should be noted that Kitana, Noob, and Kano were planned for MK4 (they were seen and playable in pre-release footage), but replaced by Tanya, Reiko, and Jarek respectively because Midway felt the game didn't have enough new characters. Noob became a hidden playable character in the home versions. Kitana wasn't completely removed because her model was needed for Liu Kang's ending for the arcade and N64 versions since those used in-game cutscenes while the PS1 and PC versions used FMV videos so an unfinished version of Kitana can be played by hacking the game. Goro was also not in the arcade version and was home console exclusive.
Thanks for the information! 😃
Mythologies is basically a noob saibot story, wild
I think that Mythologies could be really improved with a remake.
Quan Chi also appeared in the live action show Mortal Kombat: Conquest. Which was really damn fun.
In Sonya and Jax’s endings where Jarek goes over a cliff (seem like the same cliff) his screaming is hilarious
In the arcade one time, I wanted to try to do a fatality that I remembered from Game Informer. So I put my quarters in, picked Reptile then these older kids came up and were watching me play. I beat the first enemy and ended up pulling off the fatality where Reptile jumps on the enemy and eats their face off, one of the older kids was shouting "HES HUMPING HIM!!". They all cheered for me, then the older kid put his quarters in to fight me, he beat me immediately and I was booted from the game.
Great video!
Thanks so much Mike!!
@@DonCritic You're welcome!
First, how come a Mortal Kombat Arcade Collection hasn't been released since the PS3 & 360?
Second, how come Mortal Kombat 4 is never rereleased and made for new consoles?
Doesn't Netherrealm Studios have the rights and can make it?
I just don’t think they want to put the resources in to make a remaster at the moment. They seem to have been really busy working on the new MK1. Although having a way to play the pre-MKX games on modern consoles would be great
I like mk4 for its atmosphere, very gritty and dark but hilarious due to the endings and voice lines.
I still don't understand why the game isn't more hyped since for a loooong time it used to be the only MK game for PC.
Excellent series. Thank you!
You’re welcome! 🙏
I remember how much of a pain in the @ zz MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero was. It took me forever to beat. This live character are HILARIOUS looking back at it. 😂😂😂
I honestly did not enjoy playing it for the video 😂 and yeah the characters do look funny 😄
@@DonCritic I was just THAT much of an MK fan. I had to beat the game. But I hated it lol.
Remember having this game for both Dreamcast and N64 but my brother and I only played the N64 version for whatever reason I don’t know lol
Yessir 💪💪💪
"Wrong Jerik this is not a Bru.Tal.Ity this is a Fa.Ta.Lity"😂😂😂
😂 it’s like Shakespeare
@DonCritic Macbeth didn't have a single line with such eloquence. This writing moves beyond simple poetry and cannot be simply heard, only felt 🤣🤣🤣
Even when we were only like 10 or 11 years old, my friend and I laughed hysterically at Jarek's goofy scream and Jax doing his best Dirty Harry impersonation. I don't know if they were intentionally trying to be funny or if they wanted the scene to be taken seriously.
Your voice reminds me of Nate the great from Ted Lasso ! 🙌🏻
Haha I don’t know who that is 😄
Great series... I love them all
I bought Mythologies: Sub-Zero during a 4 day trip to Gothemburg. Bought it the first day and was so hyped to come home to my PlayStation. Looked through the manual every night. Well... You know the end of this story. Another disapointed child.
I would if nowadays ending have animation
Hopefully in MK1!
I wish I could of played mythology id would of loved it
I fkn loved this game
*Subzero
They really should've took that mythology concept seriously and had a game for each character from MK1 with each one being a different genre of videogame. It could've made the lore stronger to see how each of them ended up at the tournament. Especially if they treated it as prequels to the storyline from the 1992 comic books which should've been the foundation of the entire MK lore.
I'll never forget it.
I was waiting and waiting for so long to get MK4, my mum promised me she'd get it for me after we moved house, I had my ps1 chipped at this point so my uncle used to burn the games for us at Bolton institute and charge us £3 a go, anyways a mistake was made and my mum bought a burned copy of what she throught was MK4 ... only for it to be mk special forces 😭 my uncle stopped doing the games shortly after and she wouldn't buy me a proper copy of it so I literally played mk4 for the first time in 2015 🤣 and god damn it was AWFUL! Ironically I enjoyed special forces 🙃
Mythologies was the biggest disappointment of my childhood and MK4 was salt in the wounds
Tanya looks like Camron Diez
Time for mortal kombat to make adventure games, they have potiential.
When I was a kid I actually enjoyed Mythologies. I guess I just liked anything MK and didn’t know any better. However , I also though Special Forces was a piece of garbage.
I liked Mythologies more than MK4 🥴
Mythologies ruined my childhood. Terrible game lol
Great concept but poorly executed
MK4 was horrible on Playstation.
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This is one of those cases where I didn't learn something was poorly received or hated until years later as an adult. Because I remember me and my friends(and the majority of kids at my school who played MK4/Gold) were talking about it nonstop. In fact, two of my best friends growing up who lived right around the corner from me were OBSESSED with MK4 and we would play it NON STOP. Always having heated rivalries and tournaments lol. This was before I came of age and started paying attention to(or even noticing) things like review scores. I didn't learn until after Deadly Alliance released that MK4 was seen as a bad entry when reading articles talking about it as "that game no one remembers" etc. I loved MK4 and Gold.
That’s really great though. The best part of being a kid is almost every game you got, you really cherished and enjoyed even if the general consensus didn’t
I knew since back then it wasnt well received
Same here. As a kid playing on N64, MK Trilogy was pretty hard. I only got to Motaro a handful of times, and only beat him 1-2 times. Never beat Shao Kahn. For MK4 I really enjoyed the switch to 3D and how the game seemed "more fair". It took me a while to beat Goro, but once I did I felt such a great accomplishment. Then when I got older I got an Xbox for Christmas and soon got Deadly Alliance, which also felt so fresh to me back then. I didn't wind up getting Deception, but I absolutely loved Armageddon for what it was, especially the Kreate a Fighter mode.
@@DonCriticyeah, I have a feeling that the consensus back then were adults and didn't really look for guidance from the younger generation though granted this was a mature rated game
I loved mk 4
Never owned it but used to rent it from the local video store over the weekends.
I know it was no tekken but honestly that was okay, back then it was nice having all types of fighters. Plus I was happy Cage was back haha. I dug him when I was younger.
I love this series brother awesome video
Johnny Cage is one of the greats! Yeah the late 90’s had so many great fighting games, competition was super strong back then. Soulcalibur, Tekken, Killer Instinct, Dead or Alive. You were never stuck for a new fighting game haha
I've always wondered why scorpion and sub-zero weren't turned into fire and ice elementals after they became earth realm protectors
MK 4 introduced me to the series and will always be my favorite. Just had a real sinister atmosphere to it.
Same
I loved it
My favorite too. I was born in 92, and I believe MK4 came out 97?? 5 yrs old, I was a Nintendo 64 kid. Super Mario, MK4, Super Smash Bros, and Banjo Kazooie hahahahahah
Yes!! The background music for MK Trilogy and MK4 were so good and terrifying in a way. With MK11 it's like you're listening to a symphony or something lol.
I think the problem was that Midway deemed the MK name as bigger than the games themselves. They were becoming cheaper and cheaper and in these games that went too far. Have anyone not tested MKM:SZ to noticed how unplayable it was? No comments on MKSF. I think MK4 is a funny game and I enojoyed playing it. But, Lord... cheapness everywhere. Few characters (same as MK3), same dial combos for all of them, no actual boss fight, endings were played by the characters instead of being images and the champion screen was just a flat image with no animation whatsoever.
I really love Mythologies. I mastered the gameplay with the “B” button and got the levels memorized. I enjoyed the game so much, I replayed it on the N64. Wish NetherRealm would make another Mythologies, there’s so much potential.
I’d love to see it remade as a 3D action game like Shaolin Monks
If you ever decide to livestream it, plz do let me know to go watch it. This game was impossible for me, but I’d loved to see someone play it. Would be a good time.
Mythologies was great. Needs a remake.
😅 lol
It’s true though. Fix the controls and the platforming and it’ll be a damn good idea for a spin-off series. I’d play the heck out of those.
@@DefinitelyReagan it's the best story out of any of the games easily and the greatest expansion of lore the series ever had til that point. Fix the controls and you'd have a solid as hell game
@@WalkBesideMe Hard agree.
Mythologies would have been dope AF if the developers changed literally everything about that game…
MK4 was my first introduction to this series and I never thought it was bad or poorly written. Looking at it now it hasn’t aged the best but there were some valuable tidbits like Scorpion and Sub Zero learning they were both set up, Shinnok *is* canonically unstoppable but Quan Chi’s double crossing backfired, and that there are more than 1 gods that can be protectors.
I'm really loving these episodes! Can't wait to see more 😀
Geez Bi han is a beast. He also deserves his own redemption as noob just like scorpion
This was the first 3d mortal Kombat
Game ever.
Let that sink in?
MK4 is great. The atmosphere is like nothing else.
I had the idea for Mythologies before it was a thing. I thought it would be a cool game to just tear though piles of minions. Then Sub-Zero Mythologies came out and holy shit! Exactly what I came up with... except it was far from it. Horrible controls, platforming puzzles and cheap deaths. The idea was there, just so poorly executed. It honestly felt like a game where some 3rd party just ripped the characters and pasted them into some cheap game and slapped a MK sticker on it to sell knock offs.
Then MK4 came out. While I liked it, it felt like such a step backwards. Sure it was 3D, but who cared. Such low poly characters when we just had digitized actors. The fun part of the gore and fatalities was because it was realistic humans. Now with polygon cartoons it was more of a laugh watching Daffy Duck explode than an "ooooh" watching a human have their spine ripped out. Every character felt and played the same. Preforming moves was more of a test of memorization than fluid combos. Weapons was interesting but again you had to memorize combos to pull your weapons and it didn't really make much of a difference in combat.
Developers often make the mistake of doing something new, not because it's better, but because they can. I think going 3d was one of those mistakes when the hardware was so young.
Even then I would just opt to rent Trilogy over MK4. I didn't necessarily hate MK4 and my friend and I had fun with two player mode, the unlockables, etc. but Trilogy was just a more fun game to play overall. More fast paced, fluid, and dynamic.
Another great one! Shame the game is seen as a blemish tho. I saw that new mk1 trailer aswell. Am confused but excited. Good stuff as always!
Thanks Jon! The new MK1 does look very exciting, we’ll catch up to it in the Explained series pretty quickly!
This was the one our dad took away for a month because of our fighting.😂 Pretty sure Jax has the worst ending in 4. Playing these games into the wee hours of the morning just beating the ladder with each character is still a thing I do.
I always thought Jarek had the worst one. Someone on TH-cam redid his with the _Unreal Engine_ a couple of years ago, and made it look way better.
From the graphics to him actually being flip-kicked off of the cliff instead of Sonya just side stepping out of the way. He still made that weird Raiden sound when he fell off though, which is actually hilarious.
And then the same TH-cam account actually redid the Jax ending to explain it more.
Never played MK4.
I was in my late teens when UMK3 appeared on the Saturn, and it was amazing.
By the time MK4 appeared, I was totally tuned out from the series.
Not sure if I played any of the sequels much after that.
To me imo mk mythology subzero was one of my favorite games I guess I just have nostalgic feeling and grew up wit the game I enjoyed so many days tryna beat the game lol
It’s great that you still enjoyed it, that’s what gaming is all about 🙂
I crushed that game in one shot I loved it I was like 12yrs old , IGN even sucked then 😂
I can at least appreciate that Mythologies did a lot to fill in certain lore gaps despite the game itself being...well, Mythologies
💯
Mortal4Kombat mlMy favorite MK game till this day!
This was the FIRST VIDEO GAME I EVER PLAYED! At only 4 years old on the N64
Haha good times
This game needs a Remaster
Glad it brought back some good memories ☺️
Never forget when my uncle got me mk4 for Christmas on N64 lol loved it was playing mk trilogy before that on my N64 and then later on got mk mythology subzero game was hard at first but always got to the stage where I had to escape the realm and den it reset to beginning because I didn't have enough experience and didn't no until a few years ago lol wow I was shocked
Perfect timing too, if we are getting the next MK trailer today. 🙌
Just one hour to go!!
So basically, if Special Forces wasn't rushed, and maybe waited for the PS2, it could have been the first Shaolin Monks. I mean, it's the exact same thing, just without platforming... or any polish whatsoever.
MK 4 seemed like a step back from graphics design to me. I’ve always like the backgrounds of MK series but MK4 just seemed bland. Even the characters looked off. As much as I am a MK fan, MK4 just didn’t do it for me.
MK4 was my favorite!! Tanya and Fujin were my favorite characters to play with.
Till this day mortal Kombat mythologies is still the hardest game
How’ does shinnok get the amulet back if sub zero apparently got it for quan chi in mythologies but then sub zero ends up beating shinnok at the end of that game ? So how does shinnok have the amulet in MK 4 ??
Maybe the Amulet that Quan Chi gives to Shinnok in Mythologies, and that Sub Zero passes to Raiden was a replica and Quan Chi kept the real one for himself
@julianmitchell5776 Quan Chi tricked his master & tricked Bi-Han & Raiden. Once he received the real amulet from Bi-Han he gaved Shinnok a fake amulet. Shinnok's Amulet gave Quan Chi the ability to travel outside to the other realms since his magic only limited him to travel between the Netherrealm & Earthrealm also the amulet increased his magic ten fold which it was key to reviving Onaga's army.
I didn't know my two favourites Sub Zero and Jax had their own spin-offs. 🤯
The MK movie soundtrack was so amazing. Says a lot about that time period
It’s so iconic
I liked Sub-Zero Mythologies 🤷🏿♂️ I thought it was a good game
I've been playing MK since the first one came out. However, with MK4, it felt as if it had been rushed out. I had the feeling MK4 could have turned out better if more time was spent on it (graphics, movement of the characters and the endings specifically).
15:03 Never gets old
😂
4’s roster is so tiny compared to other MK titles, but damn, do the 90s 3D graphics used in the game look astounding.
The fatalities in the game are a vast improvement from MK3’s, UMK3’s, and MKT’s due to its greater creativity and the fact that 50% of the fatalities are no longer, “watch some guy blow up to a million pieces.”
Man, I wish I have access to the original Arcade version of it, but you know, _it costs big money._
MK4 was my first video game ever. It will forever have a special place in my childhood.
I got mk4 and trilogy in my N64 and i love them😅😂
Everybody hated it cause they got
Rid of the sprites.
Justin found ya channel love it all the best from the north east of England
Thanks Joseph! Love your profile pic!
Bob from Tekken remind me of po
MK4 is good, I liked it, I don't understand why some people say it's the worst of the older games.
Obviously today it looks ugly and the 2D games hold up a lot better, 2D resists the passage of time a lot better than early 3D and polygons, but back then 4 looked fine. In terms of gameplay it's good, some of the new characters are boring but the roster is ok, the stages are ok, it brought back the fantasy and mistery feeling of 1 and 2 in terms of stages, colors, music and atmosphere, and I think it's very underrated. I remember running home so excited when i got it for PC, I couldn't wait to play it!. If you had a 3DFX Voodoo card it looked awesome (for its time). MK4 is a solid very underrated entry.
And in my opinion, the last good MK until MK9.
The really bad ones are the PS2 trilogy. I hated those so much!. The gameplay was horrible, the direction the story and characters took was bad, like "Liu Kang is dead" WTF??. To this day I really dislike Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armaggedon, to me that's the worst era of the franchise, those games are a mess, it's like they lost the way for years trying to do something that's not MK. I know a lot of people like those games and they were succesful so I'm in the minority here (I can't imagine why MK fans liked those games), but to me that dark age after 4 and before 9 felt like MK was dead. I'm happy MK9 soft rebooted the saga and brought back "real Mortal Kombat" in terms of gameplay, characters, story, atmosphere and feeling. MK9 was a great comeback.
I forgot how much MK4 looked like it was always about to break.😂
So true 😂
I swear you could play as goro as well
Yeah you could, he was another hidden character
MK4 was what introduced me to Mortal Kombat, and I loved it. Quan Chi's look in the game is the most sinister, I dunno why they changed it later. Also had a videogame crush on Tanya 😁
Glad I found your channel these history of mk videos remind of the videos MKsecrets use to do in the early youtube days
Thanks so much! Hope to bring lots of more videos like these in the future!
MK4 was when i kinda dropped the series and went back to playing trilogy with my friends, i grinded deadly alliance and deception for a while but couldnt bring myself to playing newer titles
Never played MK Special Forces, from the reviews I've heard, I didn't miss much
I’ve played it twice and both times I dragged myself through it 😅 not very fun
Honestly, by that point I had no interest. I wasn't interested in the concept at all, and I wasn't the biggest fan of Mythologies despite the fact that I wanted Sub-Zero to have his own game ever since I first played MK2.
This game was so bad, but I love it because it (along with Tekken 3 and the OG Dual Shock) were the first things I bought with my very first paycheck. I used up every bit of the ink from our printer to print out the fatalities and moves. The internet was just more exciting back then because the "new" was still there.
The MK4 issue lies in the replacement of characters like Jarek, Fujin, Kai, and Tanya, which were disappointing. Quan Chi is the best new character. The game felt fairer with difficulty than older games, and the alt costumes were enjoyable but the weapons seemed pointless. Ending videos were cheesy but I'm glad they had them compared to text.
Shinnok was alright but found him less intimidating than Quan Chi. I loved he was a more grounded boss not over powered and playable but compared to Shang Tsung which could transform or Shao Kahn which had super strength just seem lack luster.
Soon we will see a mk da explained
Very soon!
@@DonCritic *in heavy voice* GOOD!!!
I prefer MK Mythologies Sub-Zero because it expands a huge story rivalry between Sub-Zero (Bi-Han) & Scorpion, also we see back in the days introduced new kharacters like Quan Chi, Shinnok, Fujin & Sareena, exploring also the Netherrealm, which I was happy to see this type of fighting game, but unfortunately the gameplay was so underwhelming, disappointed & receive poor critics.
MK4 to me was the beginning of downfall to the series, it wasn't very entertaining as it was MKX, chessy voices & endings, the story was lack AF & the roster was really poor compare to MK Trilogy.
MK Special Forces... ... ... No comments (facepalm)
I had MK4 on the N64 and I didn’t know that Noob Saibot was a hidden character in it, I might have enjoyed the game a bit more if I did know 😢 to me UMK3 was better than MK4. What I did like was that you were able to play as the final boss Shinnok which you weren’t able to do in previous games (except Trilogy but none of the boss characters had fatalities if I remember correctly). And I think Goro would’ve been a better unlockable character alongside Noob Saibot than Meat and the fans would’ve preferred that as I know that I would’ve preferred it
If MK Gold had been what the original MK4 Arcade was, it would've been way more well received. And kept Kano instead of introducing Jarek. That was pretty dumb
Goro was also playable
The intro for MK4 (live action one) had me scared as a little kid, same with the spikes and music. I was no older than 6-7 cuz my dad was a huge fan of the original arcade games so he had MK4 on PSOne
I never knew anyone who beat mk mythology’s 😂😂😂
Haha that game is solid 😄
@@DonCritic that game was hard af
My cousin has 4 on Nintendo 64 was best time ever lol 😂 I remember my cousin making nephew cry doing fatalities 😅Classic
Saying 'the game revealing his identity as Bi-Han' isn't right. That name was first revealed in MK9, almost twenty years later.
Funny that Tanya here is more beautiful than in MK1? graphics man, GRAPHICS
Okay but who in the hell is the dude in middle of Kano and tremor at 20:45 because tasia and no face are on the side /behind Kano and jarrek is on the side of tremor
Honestly I have no idea 😂 I assume it was another boss that they had to cut from the game cause they had to rush it to completion
@@DonCritic Was it supposed to be Kabal? He was a Black Dragon.
It could be, but it’s not mentioned in the game anywhere who it is
I think I'm the only one on this planet that enjoyed mkm Sub-Zero, the only gripe I have is the turn button and the lack of fatalities besides that I enjoyed it
Mk 4 looked horrible coming from the original 3. We still played but man what a step back in details 😂
I loved Mythologies. So what it was a little hard and you had to manually turn around. It was definitely better than MK4 that's for sure
I played mythology subzero on the n64 and never knew that there was cutscenes
I should’ve clarified it better in the video, but only the PlayStation version had the FMV cutscenes due to the CD format 🙏
@@DonCritic I didn't get far into the game only onto the second level because I had no way of saving the game did the game even have fatalities I don't remember their being only the finish him
Yeah it just had finish him, where you could do Sub Zero’s MK1 fatality
I could never figure out how to escape Fuijn's one hit kill. Had to give up on that game.
Amazing video. Thank you so much for making it ❤
You’re welcome! Thank you for watching friend!