Alright, no more beating around the bush -- Fighterpedia is incredible. The show is able to present some seriously fascinating fighting game trivia while keeping the overall energy and enthusiasm constant throughout. I'm lovin' it! Good job, Woolie and Matt!
In this latest episode, the duo charts the rise of the videogame fatality and notes the games that shamelessly cribbed from Mortal Kombat. My favorite part comes around the five-minute mark when they start listing off all the other fifth-rung, hyperviolent copycats, like Weapon Lord and Pray for Death. Did you know that one of Naughty Dog's earliest titles was a bloody fighter called Way of the Warrior, or that another game called Shadow: War of Succession was developed by a company co-founded by Robert De Niro? Like I said, fascinating stuff!
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But seriously,I love Fighterpedia, the grapplers episode was manly as fuck,and the Metro City Vs Southtown episode made me glad that I don't live in Detroit.
The start talks up how much people loved MK3's fatalities, but later in the video they knock how lousy most of the MK3 fatalities were.
What was the obsession with repeatedly showing footage of MK3 Stryker matches when talking about Mortal Kombat 1?
Trying to copy a Harry Plinkett voice is a mistake, as Fighterpedia has yet to match up with the core quality of Plinkett videos. (Hint: It is more than just the Plinkett voice and an iffy sense of humor. It is also having plenty of valid critical points.)
But the reason fatalities where cool and fun was that they where rediculace and not realistice at all' now there just sickening and that is why mortal combat will never hold a flame agenst street fighter. Watching a women get ripped apart from her vag and having her uterus and hit the ground followed by her guts is sickening, and makes me question the depth of depravity much in the same way I think people that like films like saw need some mental help.
What "valid critical points" do you think there should have been? The "Plinkett" section had no opinions. It was just a list of games, a list of facts.
Dunno how they decide what's a fatality bit "Barbarian - Ultimate Warrior" from 1987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian:_The_Ultimate_Warrior) should have gotten an honourable mention for its insta-kill head-decapacitation attack.
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But seriously,I love Fighterpedia, the grapplers episode was manly as fuck,and the Metro City Vs Southtown episode made me glad that I don't live in Detroit.
What was the obsession with repeatedly showing footage of MK3 Stryker matches when talking about Mortal Kombat 1?
Trying to copy a Harry Plinkett voice is a mistake, as Fighterpedia has yet to match up with the core quality of Plinkett videos. (Hint: It is more than just the Plinkett voice and an iffy sense of humor. It is also having plenty of valid critical points.)
What "valid critical points" do you think there should have been? The "Plinkett" section had no opinions. It was just a list of games, a list of facts.