For the Lose (One, Two, Check)

[jheti]

If the Mortal Kombat franchise were my boyfriend, I could describe him thusly, gargling through my mangled face around the respirator tubes the medics almost didn't insert in time:

"He hits me because he loves me. And I love him. Forever and ever. I mentioned he loves me?"

COME the fuck ON.

Fuck you, Midway. "MK8", or whatever you finally call the shitty spinoff game with probably no Tarkatans in it because you are dicks like that...is not an acceptable excuse.

Even if Kitana/Mileena/Baraka prison rape sex were suddenly gloriously, magically out and out canon, no, it would not make up for this.

It would help. I mean, it...It would be a fun start. But I still don't forgive you.

Just...fuck you.

For the first time in literally MORE THAN HALF MY LIFE, I am contemplating not buying into your shit, not looking forward to your product, and, yes, not following it.

(On the level, I haven't always OWNED some of the drek you shoveled out, because I do not like, um, well, certain characters, or care whether they, er, get an ancillary sidescrolling game. And having Jax but not Sonya was just too stupid to even justify a rental. They are fuckbuddies A TEAM. Seriously.)

You...you people are...I just.

I need a shower.

Comments

[jheti.livejournal.com]

Wow. O_o; I mean, I heard it was crap but DANG.

Haha, you're probably right. I wouldn't be as mad as I am if MKA wasn't the "last game" with the cast that I care about in it. (Supposedly.)

It's hard to tell. Half the community over there seems to be like, "No big, just tell us who comes back" and the other half are rabid. (I'm pretty mad, but it wasn't a total surprise, so I don't quite make it all the way into the 'rabid' category.)

See, that's the thing! If they would spend three months of the year--ninety whole days--just on the plot and making sure it didn't suck, they'd still have nine more months to write the code. Six months for the production/promotion nonsense, and there's the game, every 1.5 years. At worst they add better beta-testing and we get a new game once every two years.

But, no, they spend ten seconds on the story, eleven months fixing Ed Boon's typos, and the rest of the time promising us stuff they don't deliver. *Grumble grumble.*

I mean, seriously, all the guys just wear ninja outfits (sometimes ninja shorts!) and all the girls wear colorful underwear, so it's not like they need to spend any time in outfit development. XD

[warrax1.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought that you would have recognized Midway = douchebags a LOOONG time ago....

[jheti.livejournal.com]

Naw, dude, I do, it's just...I'm bowled over, sometimes, by the sheer DEPTH and POWER of their total utter assholery and complete inability to do even super-basic storyline stuff.

It really is like having somebody promise "I'll never do this again!" and every time they say that, you flinch, because you know whatever they've got up their sleeve for round two is going to be even worse, but at the same time you can't quite make yourself believe it, 'cause you can't see how it could really get any worse.

And then it does. O_o;;

This'll save me some money, though. XD

[warrax1.livejournal.com]

Think of it this way; if you begin ignoring them now, there's no way they can possibly ruin MK for you any more than they already have...

Midway died to me a LOOONG time ago. Right around UMK3, I think.