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Originally Posted by Bunnyformoney21
It deserved to be the number 1. Have you played the game? Its sick and seriously addicting. The graphics are amazing, the backgrounds are beautiful epic control and syncronization.A better question would be...why shouldn't it have been number 1 last month?
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Lets not get over our heads here.
The fighting genre has always been a pretty shallow genre. Don't get me wrong, fighters have their merits too. Fun is fun, no matter how you chalk it up. In all honesty though, the genre has had very little to innovation or evolution outside of it's combat mechanics.
Mortal Kombat has always skewed away from a complex combat mechanic in favor of "mature" content. It waives the genre's one saving grace if favor of pandering and fan service. Basically Mortal Kombat is to fighters what Shania Twain was to country music, a soulless construct aimed at the greatest common factor.
Again, it's cool to like MK. Nothing wrong with mind numbing fun at all. Love it on occasion myself. I'm just surprised it's so popular. I think a lot of people just got caught up with media hype and it'll be lining GameStops's pre-owned shelves in spades in a month or two because of that.