Plus, it was glitchy as fuck. Load times were TERRIBLE. The regular black label version wasn't even backwards-compatible on PS2. The Greatest Hits version was but caused constant game freezes. The N64's version had the sound all fucked up. I mean, seriously.
MK4 was easily the worst MK game. That was the one that killed a lot of people's interest. Shit, even Ed Boon has admitted that.
The only people that didn't like Armageddon were the ones that probably didn't like any of the 3D MK's to begin with. Because it's sure as shit better than Deadly Alliance and Deception.
Deadly Alliance was a great entry after the piece of shit that MK4 was. But a lot of the characters didn't have many of their classic moves. None of the characters had a teleport move. Each character had only one fatality and that's it. No stage fatalities. Most stages had stupid invisible walls. No secret hidden fighters. Test your might was retarded. Konquest was a chore. The average character only had 2 special moves. You can only throw Kitanas fans once during a fight. I mean, c'mon..
Deception brought the series back to its darker feel. But it added that unnecessary "Hara Kiri" crap that COMPLETELY WRECKED the game for me. Most of the cool/interesting stuff in the krypt was locked and had be found in Konquest, which was fun at times BUT WAY TOO GODDAMNED DRAGGED OUT. Also, some of the stuff could only be found AFTER YOU FINISHED KONQUEST ONCE? Gimmie a fucking break! Then they bring Liu Kang back as a stupid zombie.
So, whatever. I like Armageddon so just piss off.

