I remember when my older sister used to play this game when I was a little kid. I had just 4 or 5 years old. And whenever I saw that Game Over screen, with that tense music and the whole "falling down helplessly to a bunch of spikes", that legit scared me. I always covered my eyes at that. XD It's funny how, looking back at it after so long, this thing looks so silly that I wonder how the hell was I ever afraid of that.
SAME!!! I’m 24 now and STILL can’t watch it 🙃 The first time I ever saw it when I was too damn young to even play MK4 I legit ran behind my television i was that terrified! Something about the music, the way they look when they fall, and the splat into the spikes just scares the ever living shit out of me ;-; I don’t think I’ll ever not be afraid of it tbh.
I was noticing the exact same thing. I played N64 version a lot and it was way better than this, besides the inferior graphics. That Liu Kang fatality was pure horseshit on this Gold version. You only see some bizarre pixels on the screen and no blood. On the N64 you could see the body exploding perfectly and the blood hitting the screen properly and even according to where the body parts where touching it.
@@TheDoomSlayer the funny thing is that the original MK4 still arguably looks better than Gold, since the more pixelated nature of the original better fits the low-poly character models.
@@kobold7964 Fr just look at the Mk Gold exclusive characters, they look horrendous and have the worst fatalities out of them all. Feels like they were done in a rush
Noob Saibot is also a secret character in this game. If I recall correctly his fatalities are the sub zero freeze / shatter and the reiko shuirkens. I think MK4 was the first game to establish that noob was the original sub zero, thus having the ice fatality.
I remember seeing these fatalities as a 4 year old and I thought it was the coolest ones ever now 20 years later they really dont look as good as they did back then😅
To be fair, Liu Kang's dragon Fatality and Scorpion's giant scorpion one are really awesome. Hell, I'd probably play this game again just to do those Fatalities.
The Tanya neck twist is hella underrated especially if she actually twists their neck 3 times and it's not a replay lol. It looks like an original neck break.
My FAVORITE thing about this game is if you do Scorpion's kick button grab on Raiden you break his arm and Raiden yells "AAHHHH MY LEG". My friend and I died soooo hard when we played MK4 on my PS years ago.
I remember the game over screen used to scare me when I played this game as a little kid on the N64. Me and my friend would always cover our eyes when they were falling.
Peyto_Potato Going through the comments has made me so glad I wasn’t the only one running and closing my eyes in true terror when they fell down the well ;-; it still spooks me as an adult, have to skip it whenever I see it or else my blood will run cold XD
@@dragons_red In late 90's Midway mostly released piss like War Gods, Bio F.R.E.A.K.S and MK: Mythologies. No one except the most hardcore MK fans expected this game to be any good.
@@Rangaisia No, we knew it would not be great when we saw the pre release screenshots. Three was fun and acceptable but by its release, we fans knew the MK series would have to improve or die off. So, by the time this was on the way, we were mostly tired of the series. They've more than made up for this crap.
if you slow down the footage of Fujin's crossbow fatality 12:23 when subzero's bits fly around, if you pause the video when they hit the screen, you can actually see a picture someone in his gore bits, quite possible the texture file for Subzero's face
Lmao I remember all of these, I played the shit out of this game back then. It would've been cool to see the stage fatalities, the fan fatality is hilarious.
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I've seen so many of these that I'm able to accurately predict what Max will rate things. I can sometimes predict Steve's too, but he's usually crazy with his. Kenny is unable to be predicted however.
10:26 Not gonna lie, giving this one a 2 was a bit harsh. It's not exceptional, but in comparisson to most other fatalities in this game, it's actually pretty well-animated. I'd personally say 6/10
Well Cyrax, Mileena, Kitana, Kung Lao and Baraka were not in the original MK4 thats why they are so bad and the fatals are shit, its clear that the gold version was rushed.
I can't be too hard on them for these, they were kinda battling the start of the decline of arcades at the time and dabbling with 3D as a whole, so by and large they were just like "let's update the ones we already did in 3D."
I think they have the original release of the MK Gold for Dreamcast. There was a revised version that has a red disk label which fixes the animations and cameras quite a bit. Also fixes the sounds a bit too.
