Just stumbled over this(trusty Angry). He has the same opinion like me(or vice versa) on MK9’s SP. The story mode is just so cinematic, it’s basically the best MK movie ever. I was really amazed when I saw that^ video in the first post. I mean there’s no doubt, that MK is a PvP game, but the fact that they’ve so profoundly implemented a overarching SP campaign into that game and didn’t just feed us some sloppy a$$ character-sheets, really makes me cheer NetherRealms for their passion and love for their franchise and the genre as a whole.
//youtu.be/R13TY1uImcY
I’m really a newly born disciple of the beat-em-up genre now. I don’t know, but I’m completelly into that atm. I love the purity of it, especially in the 2D/2½D beat em ups. And I can’t think of a videogame genre, that lends itself so naturally to being an e-sport, like the fighting game genre. You need no spec cam, everybody sees everything at the same time and add to that, that it is highly competetive by nature and the rounds are quite short and intense. I had as much fun watching all the EVO stuff on YT as I had playing the games themselfs.
I’m no real-life sports guy. I mean I like doing sports myself(cycling, working out, the usual things), but I wouldn’t watch soccer or boxing or anything like that on TV, EVER; I just don’t care. I haven’t watched much e-sport vids either, simply because I haven’t played much e-sport titles in the past; and watching matches of games you haven’t even played is kinda pointless to a certain degree, when it comes to e-sports. But I used to watch a lot of game reviews, playthroughs and stuff like that. YouTube has basically replaced my TV programm.
And somehow I stumbled over this MK vid in my first post and, I’ve said that already, it is basically a movie, with extremely awesome fighting scenes. Aside from the ueber-cool moves and the gory fatalities it’s the sounds that make this game so awesome. I don’t know, but MK’s sounds are just a pleasure to listen to, and I’m not even remotely a sound guy, or someone who’d put his focus on the audio part of a game. But in MK9 the sounds are just amazing: they alone are worth watching the vids.
PS: I’ve never looked at Johnny C. as being a cool guy, simply because his appearance is that of a class “A” douche. But in this iteration of the franchise I just love him(as a character); he’s still a douche, but somehow charismatic. I’d never had expected, that they’d start the story with this worn out, c-movie actor, who has all too striking similarities to a certain belgian martial artist who also happens to be a parody of himself by now. But they did and it’s just so much fun to watch.