Is Mortal Kombat Armageddon REALLY That Good?! 

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Booting up Armageddon as a kid for the first time on PS2 and seeing how big the roster was I was just like 🤯🤯🤯

The hundreds of hours I spent in the character creation alone is insane. This was beyond a perfect MK game. God so nostalgic man.

PS2 era was such a magical time. Especially as a kid.

I loved the regular gameplay, but Deception had that really cool Konquest mode... Also yeah Mortal Kombat scared me a bit as a kid, specifically Shaolin Monks. There was an area in the early game where heads were placed on spikes, and when you passed a certain platform where one of the heads would be super zoomed in and that scared me so much

Armageddon is still my favorite. I can distinctly remember sinking hours upon hours into the conquest mode and Kreate a Fighter. I made Shredder from the 1990 TMNT movie in that game and he looked almost identical. Makes me wish modern MK would revisit Kreate a Fighter.

I am SO glad I subbed to this channel recently. Not only is he a Long Island guy like me, but CONSTANTLY pumps out quality content. It's an endless supply.

Konquest mode for this one was truly special for me, loved it so much growing up. Everyone makes fun of Taven but I would love to see him come back even if only for a kameo

Armageddon is one of the reasons everyone loves the custom character makers. The ability to choose all the moves, specials, weapons and everything else was just amazing!

MK:A and MK Shaolin Monks were the two most played Mk games I had as a teenager. before them, the most played games were MK2 and UMK3. My brother and I used to go hours without a break learning our favourite characters and going match after match. Often playing the Arcade ladder, and taking turns. He showed me the cheats menu for easy fatalities in the old games (because I was only a kid and wasn't great at button inputs). I'd taken a short break until MK9 came out, and my love for the franchise (and fighting games) came back in full swing. It helped a lot that Reptile - my personal favourite character of the whole franchise - was so busted it was hilarious. Love the videos Matt! Always great to revisit these!

Armageddon's fatality system was horrendous, but the rest of the game was absolute fighting perfection. So much content, so many characters, great atmosphere and truly one of the best the genre had to offer during that generation of consoles.

My favorite part about Armageddon was the konquest mode. Lots of neat locations and scenarios like the lin keui temple and shao kahn’s fortress

This is still my favorite MK game ever, I don't care what people have to say about it. Stacked roster, different fighting styles and story lines for each character. Konquest Mode and Create a Character, even a silly little go kart game. What more could you ask for?

Armageddon was G O D T I E R

Bro this game and Shaolin Monks were my go to during the PS2 days. I'd come home from school and br so excited to play these

The intro The air combos The roster The mini-games 🔥🔥🙌

Armageddon was definitely a classic for us 80/90s kids

I found this channel recently but this is quickly becoming one of my fav. Keep it up!

I like how they brought back "Air Combos" in MK1. I didn't use them much in the Armageddon days but definitely did in Shaolin Monks and the MK1 beta.

Armageddon was my first MK game. honestly, its why I love Mortal Kombat to this day. god I miss Taven also, Yes it was damn scary as a kid. Zombie Liu Kang and blaze in the trailer were terrifying.

My father always talks about how used things could contain spirits living in them from previous owners, one day as a little kid I was with my mother on a flea market and she told me to look up for a game for her to buy me, so I look around and see MK2, having watch the movie multiple times from a copy VHS I used to have it got my interest, so I pick that one up. Later that day I came home and popped the cartridge into my snes and started the game, I don't remember if I liked it back then, but I can tell you that moment when I uppercut baraka and a real guy appears in the corner I jump up super scare, run towards the snes turn it off remove the cartridge and threw it outside. Thankfully my mother found it and bring it back, but I didn't want it. She kept it safe, I still have it to this day.

Glad you’re covering some 3d era MK games! They don’t get enough love. I have my Wii copy lol

Also felt the spookiness as a kid, the game over animation in MK4 and the Krypt in the PS2 games were super creepy to me. But I loved it

Bro! I thought It was just me lol I grew up with Trilogy and #4 and they scared this crap outta me! The laughing and dark sound voice petrified me as a kid. Deception is my ABSOLUTE favorite though BTW this is a great video man, just gave you a sub, like and a comment. You’re awesome!

This game came out when I was in my mid 20s and really drew me back into kombat. My younger brother and his friends bought it and owned me, I couldn’t let that stand and I spent a inordinate amount of time playing until I destroyed them and then took it more seriously and got online and played this religiously. Eventually I got the rank of #1 on PlayStation for a little bit and remained in the top 25 afterwards. A lot of nostalgia.

I actually liked MK Deception more but the roster for MK Armageddon is insane!

This game is the reason I love mortal combat all the characters the story and what happens to each character when you beat the final boss you find out what happens when they become gods

This game will forever hold a place in my heart, had my brother buy it for me when i was 7 now im 21 i miss those days

i feel like deception really introduced a scarier version of mortal kombat. and the conquest in deception had some good levels and ambience. a very chill experience

So glad to see Armageddon getting rhe the love it deserves ✍🏾🤣🤣

Armageddon is my favorite MK 3D game because of Kreate-A-Fighter, especially after learning how to do air cancellation combos, into a infinite juggle combo with weapon style as a ender.

now that you mentioned it, yes armageddon does have the spooky vibe to it, i was terrified with the opening scene alone and i only played it when my brother was around 😂

The intro cutscene though? Holy, what an intro. Definitely one of the best intros of MK.

Moving up In real time from Deadly alliance, to Deception and finally Armageddon was quite a ride! It felt like Mk couldn't do no wrong and couldn't stop to innovate with every sequels. Not hating on the style of Mk9 and onwards, but they never felt like the big leap like It used to.

Man you take me down memory lane every video. Love the content

MK Armageddon is like The Elder Scrolls of fighting games. It doesn't do anything particularly great, but it does so much and all of it is pretty damn fun.

Bro firing this up on the PS2 was the best time ever the karts were so fun

This game was a big part of my childhood, so much fun content all packed on one disc. Me and my friend would play it all the time.

If this game had actual fatalities this would have been the best Mk game ! It had everything but original fatalities which killed it for me a little but it was still very fun to find ways to be creative on killing the opponent with the kustom fatalities system , great memories with me and my little brother

Did anyone play this game on Wii? I bought it on launch day and loved how intuitive the controls felt as far as special moves. Plus for the fatalities, it mimicked your hand gestures such as recognizing pulling off someone's head versus pulling off an arm or ripping out a heart. Sounds bizarre to say but it was a ton of fun playing with friends!

I wish the newer Mortal Kombat games had a togglable sidestepping option to cater to the fans of this era of Mortal Kombat games. Fighting in hallways with invisible walls have always bothered me in certain fighting games.

I love armageddon despite its flaws. I recently replayed through the konquest mode

Love your content dude and I’m so hype you are covering my favorite game series. Can’t wait for your thoughts on MK9

You did not just call Deception’s Konquest mode abysmal lmao that was the best one. Armageddon’s was very fun but definitely not better than Deception’s imo. But yeah I still love Armageddon, I have a lot of good memories with my older siblings. This game was my first MK game & got into it but Deception is still my favorite 3D MK game. I still think Deadly Alliance had the best fighting system but Armageddon is still very fun in its own way.

It let you create custom fighters, which was such a great feature. You can easily tell the devs wanted you to make all kinds of Gokus, Sailor Moon, He-Men, Skeletors and basically any Shoto from Street Fighter. It was such an amazing feature that I wondered why it never came back, but then I realized: If you can make your own Jason, why would you buy the DLC (simillar thing is happening with the TMNT in SF6 now). Unfortunately, this is also the game that crippled Motaro for close to seventeen years. Since Midway was in deep financial trouble, Armageddon was more on the rushed side of things and Motaro almost didn't even make it in. To have him, they had to turn him into a satyr rather than his centaur self. Devs threw around the "can't make four legs work in 3D" excuse, but I never bought that. It was a time-saving meassure. But in the Netherrealm era of games, he shows up in MK from 2011 and dies immediately and is gone from the series. It took till now for him to make return in full four-legged grlory (even if, just like Goro, he got slimmed down a bit).

When it came to balance, MKA is in contention for most broken MK ever made. But the single player content has held up well even to this day. At the end of the day, Armageddon is silly MK fun.

My most played games on the Wii were absolutely this game, Resident Evil 4, Smash Bros Brawl, and Mario Party 8. All of them have a special place in my heart.

I agree I remember the MK Deception menu being super scary when I was a kid.

I love whoever’s doing your art for these thumbnails tell them to keep it up

This was my jam as a kid, I really enjoyed the Kharacter Kreator and it was fun making my own end story after finishing the tournament.

This is my favorite MK of all Time! So much replayability, there’s so much to do and play I could play this game for all eternity

As a kid MK also scared me but I kept coming back like a horror film addiction

The new artists fro the thumbnails are cooking! Dope new art

The Armageddon konquest mode was more story driven, while the Deception konquest mode was "Let's do quests, but end up destroying the realms" style.

How do you not overdose from nostalgia doing these videos

man bro Armageddon & Deadly Alliance was a fire memory as a kid life was perfect & i didn’t even know it at the time

12:33 in MK2 Baraka would always scare me as a kid. I could not even play against baraka I would tell my dad to go against him lol. But MK was scary to me as a kid as well

The last Blockbuster is in Bend, Oregon! I went there in July 2022, it was a real nostalgia trip of my childhood!

Me and many people ive spoken to agree. This is THE FUNNEST Mortal Kombat of all time. Its when gaming was all about having fun with friends.. not being so damn serious about frame data, tournaments, and all that bs.

I didnt played much Armageddon but it always seemed like alot of fun when i saw some gameplay. The MK game i grew up with was Shaolin Monks and even tho we were way too young back then and had to hide the CD very well, my friends and i had a blast playing it. Im really looking forward to the new MK game but i miss the old days of Midway too, they were able to make fighting games approachable and fun even for people who never played a beat'em up. Great video btw, it was kinda heart warming to me seeing someone else talk about the good old days. (I also wish we would still have booklets nowadays and not stupid season pass ads...)

Finally seeing someone shine some light on Armageddon. The race mode is so weird and yet SO ADDICTIVE. The roster was so unique that seeing another weird ass character added I’d be like “yeah okay. I can see that being in Mk.” Just the sheer idea of Armageddon feels like a fever dream Edit: can we talk about the days when these games also included demos to other games to promote what else they had to offer outside of MK?

omg hey its mrmattyplays! long time fan, just stumbled upon this channel. love ur fallout content

The trailer alone still was the best game trailer of all times especially can't forget Konquest Mode as well Motor Kombat too

When I was younger a lot of people hated Armageddon and I never understood why because I always loved it I made a character who looked like Thor it was nice just a lot of memories🔥

Absolutely loved this game! My dad always bought all the mk games and I loved the konquest on here and deception!

This is my odd favorite right here. Haven't played it in years so I might think differently, but man, this one has been brought up in SO many conversations. I was pretty popular for my character creations. So many good times. Ohh the memories. :)

I thought I was crazy and alone for having Armageddon be my favorite mortal kombat, it was everything I wanted in a mortal kombat

This was my first mk game. I remember I was in kindergarten and I was soo scared of the picture of Goro in the menu screen that I mainly played the racing section.

Custom characters and custom fatalities and so many characters was a dream come true.

One of the best MK ever the amount of characters and konquest was goated

liked the video, you talked ab deadly alliances konquest mode, there was little to it but it told you giant stories in the background as well and i really liked that lore should give it a read if you like mortal kombat from the "3d era"

Just found your channel and I’m really enjoying it! Great content and great charm

Yeah I totally agree with you about how Mortal Kombat had a spooky vibe too it. When I was kid when the first MK came out to Sega Genesis I remember the music and how creepy Goro's Lair was in that first game. My dad who passed away when I was 7 years old he loved Mortal Kombat and if it wasn't for him I wouldn't of saw it in theatres when it came out back in 95, but he passed the game with Sub-Zero and I remember once you beat the game it shows Goro's Lair and it felt so creepy and spooky that I didn't want to play it by myself. hahaha great memories back in the 90's.(I forgot to mention Shang Tsung first appearance in that game all old and creepy look so haunting till this day.lol)

your scorpion joke with the costume there right at the end, Matty, was cute. Sincerely.

You could create your own character,set up the combos and special attacks , that was absolutely amazing and i wish they can bring that back , so many miny games without dlc , games before dlc was a really beautiful time like look at thT roster, plus changing styles from fist to swords etc. was awesome as well

1 thing I didn't like about this entry was the make your own fatalities thing other than that this game was fire. I wish they'd bring back being able to impale your opponents with weapons and have them bleed out though. That was pretty cool and I think deadly alliance is the only one to have it.

I have this game in the ps2 also, I’ve played it everyday day when I was a kid along with deception and deadly alliance and shaolin monks, I love these games so fucking much, I hold them dear to my heart

Subscribed! Before MK9 came out Armageddon was on TOP of my list. I haven't revisited it but, I remember the fun that was had. 💯

I had that game. May still have but sold my ps2. Create your own finisher was crazy. I like the MK game with chess. Armageddon came out in 1999 actually.

Man deception, SM, deadly alliance & this one was amazing. So glad I was able to play them when they came out. Me and my lil brother used to stay play the Tetris & motor combat

I grew up on MK Armageddon. It definitely has a special place in my heart. I actually started replaying it recently and I was surprised how well it actually held up. Definitely a classic in fighting games.

As of 10/09/23, Armageddon celebrated it's 17th anniversary of it's debut. I love it for KAF characters & doing an air cancellation combo into a juggle string with them, boss characters can too with a weapon from any stage that's available with one, it's funny & crazy to see Onaga do an air cancellation combo, because of how big he is.

As a kid, I just loved playing the ladder to fight the end fighter who makes you look like an ant. Seeing your character trying to fight this god is just so cool as a kid.

We all know this is the best MK game next to Shaolin Monks. Great story mode, Kart Racing, Introduction to Air combos. Not to mention it’s still in the running for Best MK Intro of all time. I like where NRS is going with this new story. I’ll never forget watching all the game trailers on G4 TV

First Mortal Kombat game I played when I was 7. Loved this franchise ever since

Although not my favorite mk, it is the only 3d era mk that I've ever owned on the ps2 and at the time, thought it was pretty cool. You had every character up to that point, almost every stage from every game, a decent konquest mode, and create a character mode. The only thing i felt like was ass was the create-a-fatality. Which as you said, takes personality away from everyone who used to have unique fatalities. Given, i feel that's because of all the characters they had to cram into this game. It was like a then-modern version of mk trilogy. Which imo is the greatest mk game.

Deception is the first memory I have and it is still one of my favourite games of all time, I didn’t play a lot of Armageddon but recently ive replayed both and deception is still my favourite, the konquest in MKD was so much greater than MKA

I was just thinking about this game yesterday and this appears, it’s crazy how good the algorithms are sometimes.

“Shoutout to my King Lao mains out there” Bro you’re gonna make me cry for the struggle we gotta go through in every movie and story mode 😭

Deception is my favorite and I love Shujinko, but Armageddon is ridiculously awesome!

The intro to this game was the most epic thing to watch as a kid. Imo one of the best mortal kombat games ever.

He didn’t mention that you could stack the fatalities. Every time you added a move it would reset the timer so you could keep adding different fatality attacks up to a certain point

Really loving the new thumbnails.

You're definitely not the only one who was scared by MK as a kid. I remember we found a full n64 and 2 games (Mario Kart 64 and a Mortal Kombat game but I don't remember which one or if there are even multiple MK games for n64) in a clear garbage bag at the end of someone's driveway next to their trash. Me and my siblings rescued it and I played the Mortal Kombat game and while I tried to play tough it disturbed me so much lol. It was the most violent thing I had ever seen (I think I was eight) and everything from the music, deep voice, atmosphere, to your character falling down an endless well or hole? when they died to the fatalaties. The first of which I saw was someone turning into a dragon and biting someone's head off. It horrified me and I'll never forget it. Didn't play it again after that first experience and haven't played many MK games at all but I'd love to get into the series someday

This Mortal Kombat game was awesome, imo this had the best story mode out of all of the games in the series, during covid when everything shut down I was playing this game and I beat the arcade mode with every single character it was one heck of a journey, the modes in this game was awesome

I was 6 years old when the very first Mortal Kombat game came out! My younger sister was deathly afraid of the living forest stage in MK2.

Man I will always be grateful I grew up on this generation of games. What a time.

It was the Smash Ultimate of the Ps2 era. EVERYONE WAS HERE!

I was 18 when it came out. Fond memories still. Made multiple profiles so i could make all sorts of KAFs. i'm a sucker for character creation systems.

Absolute classic for me. Still have my copy for Xbox. It feels like an adventure running through Konquest Mode. Definitely would like to make content with it at some point.