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  • my left ear enjoyed this

  • Interesting how the clip shown at the beginning happens to be from the worst port of MK3!

  • violence is created threw the government themselves (hint* wars)....and they blame video games..smmhhh.

  • The bible has more violence than all the Mortal Kombat games put together. I don't see any news anchor complaining about that.

  • I've been playin Mortal Kombat since I was about 5 and im fLine xD

  • ''What the kids learn?'' Well, they learn a lot of moves of his favorites characters (I recommended to know the moves before play it) My god! what question!

  • ed boon and john tobias owned this reporter

  • I was playing this game when I was 8 years old and I beat mortal kombat 1 when I was about 5 or 6. I have no criminal record, I'm a family person, I'm in college and doing well.

    suck on that UPN

  • That news anchor simply tried to get them to admit it's violent by saying, "What are kids learning from this?" Apparently, he did not know about the ESRB which informs gamers about the content as Ed Boon stated. It is the parents' responsibility, not the game developers to see who's playing.

    The news guy is a weasel. He tried to make it sound like kids were getting violent, but in reality, he just wanted parents to side with him so they'd give a good word to his boss and he could get promoted.

  • the fuck did that reporter end the interview tih "youre two very young guys" like wtf???

  • wow, that guy is an asshole

  • "sure were gonna draw the line" is what he said "no were fucking not" is what he thought and now were at mortal kombat 9 with another on the way

  • I would have most likely answered if I were in their position: If kids or whoever plays violent games like mortal kombat isn't smart enough as to know it is fiction and only a videogame and that your life keeps going after you're done playing you better stay away from any kind of framed construction that displays images(monitors)

  • That old ass news anchor is a douche.

  • MK vs DC: Every character has won & lost 3 times in story mode (Except for Raiden or Superman)

    Mortal Kombat (2011): Raiden has the most wins in story mode, Shang Tsung has the most losses in story mode

    I believe you know what game is better

  • ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! blood flying............. :/

  • @VA64XD

    Not everyone

    I loved MK vs DC and MK9.

    Only butt hurt mk fans who wanted more violence, hate this game. You should have realised it wasn't gonna be a pure MK game with the inclusion of Batman and Superman. Hell DC's rawest and bloodiest material is like the first 30 seconds of any mk fight

  • where is chris alexander? he played as johnny cage. i want to see behind the scene chris alexaner.ok why he is actor in all movies?

  • Noob Saibot

  • that news reporter has no idea who their talking to... their talking to Noob Saibot, well it is actually true, i mean say Noob Saibot backwards and you know what i mean

  • no learning value? hand eye coordination, overcoming obstacles and reaching goals, and fucking memory skills...you need to have good memory to pull off all the fatalities haha

  • They didn't even show any fatalities.....dumb shits.

  • If you don't want ur kids to play violent games then don't

  • "You're very young guys, huh? You wanna hang out later?"

  • Retarded kids ruin the fun, especially fireworks.

  • @goldensolder44 fuck you.

  • hope mortal kombat never end cause the fucking news

  • This DUMBASS reporter is a jackass!!! Wait....let me throw missles out of ny arms LOL

  • Lol they are paranoid of pixelated violence.... but don't say anything about pixelated nudity and sexual content.

  • dumb lil kids fuck up games for the adults and teenagers

  • he asked if they would ever draw the line...... i wonder if that guy has seen clips of MK9 yet lol 

  • take both of their names and turn em backwards

  • @Timmydatoof93 Noob Saibot

  • I'm playing mk9 not for the violance because it is fun

  • the reporter is asking stupid questions

  • Boon said there's a point where he'd draw a line in video game violence; obviously having two guys split a human being in half crotch up, while the victim is still alive, like a Thanksgiving wishbone is not that line yet.

  • Those eyebrows.

  • NOOB SAIBOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • lol i like how ed boon says that there will be a line to how violent it gets when the new one just came out and its arguably the most graphic and gruesome MK of them all

  • @91aztecking He did say they will draw a line, but he never said what that line was or that they crossed it yet. He was also not under oath here. And even if he was, people often do what they said they wouldn't do after it's been 10-20 years since that promise. Times change.

  • @infinity34 oh yeah totally ... trust me i love all the mortal kombat games (even the failures mythologies and special forces) i especially love the new one ! :D

  • THEY'RE TREATING ED BOON LIKE HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A FUCKING BABYSITTER!! IT'S THE PARENTS JOB!!!!! TO KEEP THEIR KIDS AWAY FROM VIOLENCE OR ANYTHING THEY DON'T WANT THEIR KID EXPOSED TOO NOT THESE POOR DUDES! UGH TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF HOW PARENTS EXPECT THE MAINSTREAM TO RAISE THEIR KIDS UGH DISGUSTING!!!

  • they draw the line? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOO-

  • @legocontrollerjr you do realize this was in 1996 and i dont think they even drawed a line for mk9

  • you know what's more violent than video games .. a drunk uncle or father..

  • Hey look, it's an Ed Goodman cameo!

  • They both were ready to do a Fatality on that retarded Interviewer.

  • Boon + Tobias = Noob Saibot

  • yeah sure they drawed the line muahahahaha and that punk ass new achorman believed it... muahahaha how stupid...

    PS: WE NEED JOHN AGAIN...

  • wow ,goro lost weight ,grew some hair and started reading the news.............FINISH HIM!

  • Ed Boon and John Tobias

    spell their last names backwards and you get........

    Noob Saibot :D

  • @Echo7521 EVERYONE fucking knows this. God damn shut up already.

  • @MAIDENMETALHEAD1995 i posted that a month ago so calm down man i'll remove it if i get another "everyone knows that!" comment K? :)

  • @Echo7521 Lol alright bro. It justs makes me mad because MK fans like me, have known this most of their mk lives, and almost every video someone posts it. Just bugs me, that's all. lol

  • Oh my God. It's like getting called into the principal's office!!!

  • HA draw the line, I would love to see peoples reactions back then of mk9 Kung Lao dragging a person through his hat tearing him in 2. :D

  • i think bob is dead after the show ended ed boon did a fatality on him!! : eyebrowality

  • MK all the way

  • Was I the only one more startled by Ed Boons eyebrows?

  • Ed Boon... YOURE A LIAR HAHAHAHAHAH!!! Take a look at the new mortal kombat hahah. But thats what mortal kombat should be. over the top violence and action. I swear if i could, id take mk (new one) go back in time, interupt the interview and say hey pal, play this. The old man probably woulda fallen over and died. haahahahah

  • stfu fox news

  • Finish Him!!!!!!! lol.

    

  • ''you're very young guys hmmm?'' strange ass comment.

  • AWKWARD interview....

    Violence itself isn't to blame.

    e.g.: Someone yelling at someone is "violent" to some extent.

    Then there's a few levels above: i.e. ripping the torso off, head off, burning body...etc.

    But MK doesn't desensitize; we still find it horrible in real life to see a dead body.

    And it never goes beyond the "limit". That limit is pretty well defined after all: no incest/rape/pedophilia/actual torture etc...

  • @yoe91 dude can I give you 20 thumbs up? seriously you are so right, some people just think that humans are dumb enough to not be able to tell apart what's real and what's fabricated, I can look at heads being blown off, guts spilled, and decapitations in a GAME because I know that nobody is getting hurt, but me and everyone else who got used to seeing this are smart and sane enough to know when to cringe or feel concern when it's a real live human getting killed, old people basically suck

  • @4everSolidSnake Yeah man. Basically, the point is "do you feel the same way about blood on the screen as you do in real life ?"

    No joke, I JUST came back from a blood test, they filled up 7 tubes off my veins, felt like I was going to die. But MK fatalities leave me indifferent, as it does all kids. No controversy here.

  • @yoe91 completely agree, I find it annoying how older people find shows/movies like The Sopranos, Scarface, The godfather, etc. to be masterpieces (which they are) but disregard that there is violence and malevolence in those movies/shows,seems hypocritical to me, some games (just like movies) have a good story with the gore, others have mindless, but fun (as it's intended to be) killing which just serves as entertainment, besides...older people hate not being in the loop of video games imo

  • @4everSolidSnake As a matter of fact, the so called masterpieces about Italian American gangsters and mafia are real, based on a reality.

    I'd say it's more shocking to watch a guy wake up with his own horse's head on his blood-soaked bed (knowing mafia people actually deal that way) than seeing something more brutal but 1) fictional and 2) in 3D graphics.

    Maybe in 20yrs, the PS-17 will be out and display graphics as real as a film. Then, that might be problematic...still fiction though....

  • @yoe91 good point on the visuals, I can easily feel indifferent to an exaggerated character like a big gears of war guy, or an ice ninja in mortal kombat getting chopped in half, I suppose when every game looks like L.A. noire or Heavy Rain with brutal violence is when i'll cringe a little, but like you said, still fiction, look at the Saw movies or any other horror movie, still fiction, maybe in our eyes, but people will always complain...people should just have a little more trust in us!

  • @yoe91

    Hey, imagine if Seta Corporation's "Super Real Mahjong" strip mahjong series was released outside of Japan. Players would be influenced by the game to make underage girls strip down to their panties -- topless -- and screw them endlessly. Wanna know why? Because the majority of the computer opponents are underage girls as young as 15.

    I think we owe it to the government that they've banned strip mahjong games featuring girls under the age of 18.

  • @VikutaaChyaaruzu You may be right, but you're off topic.

    Here's one for you:

    "yeah, but Street Fighter isn't as good visually as MK is".

  • "We see kids looking at increasingly violent movies, they see violence on the news..."

    Right there he should have shut his mouth.

  • It still aggrivates me to this day that the controversy about Mortal Kombat's blood and fatallites steemed from a misunderstanding caused by parents, teachers and others who never played the game

  • NOOB SAIBOT!!!!!!

  • "what do kids learn out of this?" ROFLMAO!

  • thats funny he said is there a line where you say its too violent and he said yes.

    now all its about is guts bones blood gore bruses cracks shatering decapitation

    and way more than half naked skimpy women fighting

  • @delta873 Friggin eh!

  • Old, rich white men: Ruining everything fun since ever.

  • "you're very young guys" why did he say that?

  • lol you could feel the sarcasm in ed's voice when he said they were gonna draw the line

  • "what do they learn from this game?" .... learn what?? its a game.... u dont learn nuthin but whoop ass and take names

  • The Parent Groups and Reproters from the 90s would have rioted in the streets at the sight of games like Grand Theft Auto, the Call of Duty Series, MK9, God of War, Gears of War, Bioshock (the moral choice system) Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead

  • (what if this was the answer to this question?)

    Reporter: were do you put the line?

    Boon: no 100% nude characters.

    Tobias: yeah like then we need an adult rating!

    this reporter (or any critic from the 1990s) would have fallen off their chairs when the saw games like God of war and MK9 :D

    were you put the line? every generation goes a step further that's were.

  • LOL, sure they know when to draw the line in violence.....

    Just look at MK9

  • I hope critics now a days realize that kids know the difference between seeing someone get killed in a game or movie and seeing someone actually get killed right in front of them.

  • NOOB  SAIBOT!

    BOON + TOBIAS

  • @OverLoad619 OMG!

    I just noticed that

  • "You're very young guys". What kinda way is that to finish an interview? Boon should've said "And you're old, fat & clueless. BOON OUT."

  • Boon and Tobias look like negative versions of each other.

  • wait till they see mortal kombat 9....

  • @ThisIsSplat lol Boon, when saying that he will draw the line, was probably thinking to himself, " no fucking way, dumbass"

  • @imranite yeah cause the new mortal kombat is everything better, fuck fox news

  • I hate smug yuppies. Especially if they're news anchors. Noob Saibot wins. FATALITY!

  • lol draw the line, yeah he will stop. lol that guy was a dumbass if he belived him.

  • "of course we're gonna draw the line" well that was a lie, good for you Ed. I never want him to draw the line. As soon as you do that, the critics win.

  • I wonder if Mr Jimenez has seen MK 9 gameplay

  • "You're very young guys." O_o Was that news anchor hitting on them? LOL Anyway, Boon looked like he wanted to smack that guy in the face...LOL. Sure they'll draw the line...when they stop making video games... LOL. 2011 and not we're getting a game that would probably put people in the late 90s into like cardiac arrest. No need for digitized "real" graphics...=P Ed Boon FTW!!!

  • NOOB!!!! NOOOO DONT DRAW THE LINE NOOB SAIBOT WILL NEVER GIVE IN TO UR PUSSY WAYS!!!!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

  • Boon and Tobias backwords makes my favorite character Noob Saibot

  • @TheAustinAddiction Wow that's awesome. I didn't realize that lol

  • They should be covering problems in other countries, or the poverty in our country, but NOOOOOOOOOOOO....

  • Dang, that interviewer tried to throw them some curveballs, but they handled that like a couple of pros.

  • "Yes ofcourse we're going to draw the line." Yeah no, I spy, MK9 with blood on the fist and flesh on the ground. There is no line on that ground.

  • haha what the fuk over exposed to violence now? try being like 100 years ago having your fukin town raided by an enemy an they rape you family n shit lol like wtf

  • Toasty!

  • draw the line? theryre now on ther 9th game, with more violence than them all put together, yh mister reporter, well draw the line ;)

  • im a huge mk fan dont give a fuck about wat they say i'll play when ever i want to so all you adults who thinks mortal kombat is to frekin bad go play manhunt 2 that will change your little sensitive minds....jklasdfjklfjhas XD

  • Actually, they draw the line... Boon says in the interwievs of the new MK, that all the fatalities are tested and revised, in the phase of "design"... he says: "We know when the fatality is going to far"... Tanks to the Elder Gods (XD), the line is higher than rip te arms, and use them as weapons for decapitating your oponent... O man... Thats MK.

  • @sannamy Wait, so the guys that gave us Noob "Make a Wish" Saibot and Kung "I Saw You" Lao actually think there are fatality ideas that go too far?

  • @chipmunx Aparentely... yes. XD... but thinking about it... and that in mk armaggedon are moves like the fatal one of backstab the oponent from the ass... XD... i do not know... How much is too much for them... jajajajajajajajajaa. I want to know what was kick out of the skectches period. XD

  • "your both very young guys" lol not anymore with Ed now that he's going bald, but nah I still like the man who makes my favorite game

  • If i was Ed Boon i would of never granted an interview with any news media scumbag. First of all, they dont really care for the person they are interviewing, they just care about their stupid ratings. Telepromter-reading whores have no valid opinion on the video game industry.

  • Lol doesn't Ed boon look like drake

  • wow, watching the news is far more gruesome and depressing than any game.

  • ever gunna draw the line. mk9...No.

  • Ed Boon felt a bit "cornered" when this guy asked him "will you draw the line due to the violence" in the next MK4 game? Boon answered, "yes" with an unsure nod to come after. Well, look at how far MK has gone with the violence since then! It's the year 2011 and MK will be ripping off heads, torsols, arms and many other body pieces! NO ONE CAN STOP THIS! Hell yeaaaaahhh! MK 4ever baby!

  • damn tobias looks really young lol.

  • What do the kids learn? ............ Your shitting me lol.

    Take all cartoons off the shelves and airwaves. Take away all books except for school. Burn all toys, or shut the hell up.

  • ahaha.. good old times ... mankind rocks

  • @Yareare LAWLAWL hell yea

  • what kind of asshole invites people on TV and then tries to make them feel like monsters

  • is it me or did Ed Boon looked uncomfortable in this interview? but who cares, now he's more successful than ever :)

  • EXACTLY!

    idk I'd say Mature. Idk. Is that the same as 18? I'd figure its like 21?

  • ED BOON YOU ARE MY HEROOOOOOO ^^

  • would you take your seix year old to see halloween or friday the 13th or my bloody valentine? NO!! so why the hell would you buy them mortal kombat! its the parents responsibility to say NO

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  • Violent games we're the 50s rock n, roll of the 90s

  • THE LINE WILL NEVER BE DRAWN!

  • yep and some of that was blood flying there. LOL

  • If this was originally a movie and not a video game then parents wouldn`t give a f*ck.

  • OH NO

    MY CHILD FIRED A MISSILE OUT OF HIS BIONIC ARMS AND KILLED SOMEONE

    I BLAME MORTAL KOMBAT FOR TEACHING THIS SORT OF VIOLENCE TO MY KIDS

    yeah right

  • HOW RACIST! he assumes jax is a blood 0:24 LOL

  • @Tikada22 no, he said "yep, with all that blood flying there" or something about those lines.

    Nothing about the characters

  • @Biankito No, dude Tikada22 was joking...

    He said "LOL."

  • @Tikada22 he says theres blood there not hes a blood lol

  • fuck off. the violent the better.

  • That news reader was an ass hole. He wasn't even letting them talk or anything.

  • I had 6 years when I played MK3 and I'm not a lunatic who kills everyone that appears in front of me

  • yeah i think im gonna draw the line WRONG

  • Damn I dont know why is it people attack video games but dont say shit if it was a movie, or TV show. If u dont want ya kid playin it dont buy it and STFU!

  • @THANUMBA1NIGGA Word my nig. I be on MK vs DC and i hear a bunch of little kids voices on the heatset. Kids trick their parents on buying M rated games for them, then the parents bitch about it. "I see niggas getting their head decapitated, but ill buy little jimmy whatever he wants" Fuck outta here.

  • If I were Ed Boon, I would have answered the first question like this: "OK, asshole, first of all, the game is NOT supposed to be played by kids, and second, they learn the same you do when you get wasted and go out with whores, NOTHING. This game is for entertainment. Stop talking to us like we are criminals. End of interview."

  • I hope Mortal Kombat 9 generates this kind of controversy again.

    And from the what i've seen so far in the game, it sure looks like it. =D

  • I've been playing the MK games since 1992 (I was 8 at the time btw) and all I've ever gotten was two speeding tickets (clean since 2005).

    Hey Idiot Parents, the reason why your children become criminals or losers is because you sucked at raising them, not video game violence.

  • He was like: (All right, i'm tired of this guy being overly dramatic about violence and gore, so screw it, let's get out of here) "Yeah we'll draw the line" (In your dreams, D*CK) And then when they left: "GOD, THAT GUY WAS STUPID"

  • This news guy should see MW2.

  • See, that's an improper representation of the game: Nobody uses Sindel.

  • it's just a game to forget reality!

  • what a dick.

  • LOL@ MK fangirls is well past the hype already

  • Draw the line- Eds thinkin WERE GONNA MAKE IT MORE VIOLENT YOU FAT MOTHERFUCKER!!!!

  • "is there going to be a mk4?"

    "are you gonna draw the line on violence?"

    Ed:"oh yeah we'll draw the line"

    heh Bullshit, fuckin dudes ripping legs off and beating the shit out of em. Mk4 was like a "FUCK YOU" letter to that faggot Bob.

    I played MK when i was 3 and i never got a criminal record for ripping heads off, hard to believe these dumbfucks had the balls to bitch about violent videogames when people are constantly fed stories of murder through antenna channels that no one pays for.

    unf

  • Anyone else have no audio on this video? I thought it was just my computer, but all other videos work here.

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  • 0:23 of course it was blood what did you think Hawaiian Puch 

  • 2:20-2:28

    LMAO, anyone played the latest MK title?

  • 'very young guys' what was the fucking point of saying that? queer american twat!

  • they are not young anymore

  • Ed i suggest you...... FINISH HIM!

  • @iKamMedia lol

  • Lol gta and manhunt are way worse! Haha I wonder if mk9 will get some contraversy.

  • yea of course hes gonna draw the line, now we have splitting people in hat with a hat

  • Because everyone is going to try to turn into a dragon and eat a dudes head off, because that violence is completely possible, STFU news guy and get the hell off these guys backs

  • that reporter can suck on my fucking harry dick kids should play violent games the lesson is that if someone picks on you / you say get the fuck over here and kill them

  • lol I wonder how this news reporter is reacting to the mortal kombat 9 trailer XD

  • Children shouldn't be playing M rated games so what the hell?? these news casters want to ruin our fun by bitching about this shit knowing that there are major issues out here, children should just stay off of video games period! why do you think i never let my little brother play my M rated games

  • Lol if they saw mk9 they'd shit their pants

  • @swiv2d I wish he could see Kung Lao's chainsaw fatality of MK9 LOL!

  • VIOLENCE PWNZ N00BZ LOLZ

  • that news caster is a dick. If i was ed boon i would be like" a, well in mortal kombat, there is no drawing a line, it's called put more violence in mk4 and future mk games."

  • so.. parents should be very educated about games that their kids are playing.

  • lol some of what was blood XD

    what if they realesed manhunt in that time