Quote from: predxeno on Jan 14, 2016, 11:15:45 PM
I think the argument is that Alien for MKX is like AVPR for the movies. Mind you, I LOVE AVPR but something both AVPR and the Alien costume in the game is that they both seem to be based on something that fans don't think belong in the genre; for AVPR, it was the teen horror trope and for MKX it's that the Alien's design (and move set?) is too much a reskin of another character in the game rather than its own thing.
Like XenoHunter99, I don't really get the hate but at the same time... I do. I do understand that the reason for the anger is that the design isn't really up to the high standards which the fandom has set up for itself, the fandom wanted something which was... essentially Big Chap. A lot of people wanted the original Giger Alien in the game, and clamored for it. But apparently, Ed Boon saw otherwise to create a new type of Alien which... was never even seen before, or potentially even so much as thought of. A Tarkatan Alien. And a lot of fans on both MK and Alien side, are not happy.
Though in the case of MK fans, they just simply hate guest characters in their game. Plain and simple, no other way of slicing it.
But in the case of Alien fans, well... their argument is more understandable. The design is something to be desired and while, I believe that the Tarkatan Alien is something bold on Boon's part, there could've been some changes in the design. At least lengthen the head.
But at the same time, I would've thought that they take solace that the character is not at all canon neither in the Mortal Kombat mythology or even so much as the Alien mythology. It would seem as if... I was wrong.
Then again, I suppose the same arguing would've applied to me concerning the Predator and the use of the Hish-qu'ten term.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.