Chops

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  1. Before Deadly Alliance and Deception came out, I would have gone with Mario Kart, but those games completely re-invented the Mortal Kombat series, making it more than just a special move game that had blood, but into a real fighting game with combos, reversals, inspired levels, great character depth, huge storyline usually unscene in fighting games and so forth.

    Other games had been doing that for years by that point. Seems like they should lose a point or two for taking so damn long to add those very basic elements into their fighting franchise.

    I know other fighting games had those elements, that's why I made sure to say that they re-invented the MK series, not fighting games in general. Yes, it took them awhile to upgrade the fighting system to more than special moves, but when they did, it was a complete 180 from the direction the series was going. I'll be honest, I was never a big fan of the original MK games, my wife completely loves them to an almost scary level, but I was more into street fighter. The DA and Deception versions made me love the series and actually made me want to take the time to learn everything, to understand the characters and story, and get everything down.

    With Mario Kart, Nintendo just put out the same game but on a different platform. The SNES version was an amazing game, the 64 version was basically Mario Kart 1.5, with no improvement over the original, The Gamecube version, while trying the gimmick of having 2 drivers in a cart, also seemed like a shallow upgrade, and the hand held version on the DS seems like the only worthy succesor, mostly inpart to the WiFi option.

    So both games are very guilty of remaining stagnant, and failing to improve over the various incarnations. I just feel that when the games did decide to progress further, Mortal Kombat did it in a bigger way, and pulled it off better.

  2. Before Deadly Alliance and Deception came out, I would have gone with Mario Kart, but those games completely re-invented the Mortal Kombat series, making it more than just a special move game that had blood, but into a real fighting game with combos, reversals, inspired levels, great character depth, huge storyline usually unscene in fighting games and so forth.

    Plus in my opinion, the best Mario Kart was the original on the SNES, so it loses points for me for failing to ever improve over the years, even though Nintendo tried with a new gimmick for the Gamecube version.

  3. If the company, based on their own accords, deserves a positive review, I don't see it as a conflict of interest. Plenty of sites are sposered and run ads on the main pages for companies, but it doesn't mean they need to only refer to them positively. A company sponsers a show/website to get their name out there, so they are taking the risk that you will be honest about their level of service, both the good and the bad. Plus I'd like to think that most people are smart enough to differentiate a positive review and a shill.

  4. Since we've already done comic and movie trivia, I thought it's time to have a go with video games. Usual rules apply;

    -Wait for confirmation of your answer before posting a new question

    -48 hour rule in effect

    -Honor code that you don't look up answers on the internet

    So, since I'm in an oldschool mood,

    Name five characters that appeared in the Street Fighter series that were orignally from Final Fight, and Poison does not count as one.