Shockgamer
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Lol. Such rage. I'd hate to see what you'd do to somebody actually ruining your precious series with a shot at relevance. Guess head ripping just doesn't pay the bills. :'(
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Mortal Kombat 8 REVEALED IN ALL ITS GLOR...wait, what is this?
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Precious as a turd. MK hasn't been decent since the second one, and it hasn't been halfway decent since the Dreamcast game. Don't mistake my disgust at the further desecration of MK's corpse as anger. I resolved myself to this series' fate long ago.Shockgamer said:
Though maybe you'd be mad to know that the recent games, in spite of being ass jenkem, sell millions of copies a piece and are perhaps the most relevant fighters being made today.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I just found out that there will be another Blitz: The League game. Midway am redeemed. 
Shockgamer
Banned
Mad? Eh. Not really. Good for them I guess. My attachment to the fighting genre is casual at best.
Though if MK by itself sold so well, I could only imagine how this is going to do next to a Dark Knight DVD release. *whistles*
I desire new NBA Jam.
Though if MK by itself sold so well, I could only imagine how this is going to do next to a Dark Knight DVD release. *whistles*
twinturbo2 said:I just found out that there will be another Blitz: The League game. Midway am redeemed.
I desire new NBA Jam.
Rekki-Maru
Banned
:lol, just hearing Ed Boon talk about Superman getting nerfed by magicks and all that other crazy shit..
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Yeah, it's called NBA Ballers: Chosen One. It's the closest we're getting to a new NBA Jam for a while...Shockgamer said:
Ether_Snake
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NO FATALITIES!
YOU GUYS WILL BUY IT ANYWAY!
And LOL, why didn't they JUST make a DC fighting game instead?!?!?!!
YOU GUYS WILL BUY IT ANYWAY!
And LOL, why didn't they JUST make a DC fighting game instead?!?!?!!
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
The closest we got to a new NBA Jam was EA's NBA Street series.twinturbo2 said:
Shockgamer
Banned
Do the hoops catch fire and explode with glass? It's not the same otherwise.
Shockgamer
Banned
Caj814 said:
Sub-Zero's MK1 fatality is the Spine Rip.
I was more of a kiss of death fan myself.
Also:
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Why is it that we can get photorealistic models in games but the blood effects haven't advanced past what they were doing in 92?
Zombie James
Banned
Can't wait to see the fatalities.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
SapientWolf said:
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Ether_Snake
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_leech_ said:
THERE ARE NONE. It has been announced.
The Lamonster
Member
wow, wtf happened to this once badass franchise?
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Notice that I didn't say MK games.Spirit of Jazz said:
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Love the old school look of Batman... Why the fuck is he expressionless though?
Zombie James
Banned
Ether_Snake said:
Oh...
rollingstart
Banned
NOT ENOUGH PREP TIME!
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Look at the bright side guys... this might be the first UE3 game to feature hair :lol
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
SapientWolf said:
Notice you still said photo-realistic :lol
Also to answer yours question it's because in fighter you can choose from stylistic blood, Tekken explosions or ending up like Tao Feng.
Ether_Snake
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_leech_ said:
Kotaku said it.
OokieSpookie
Banned
Perhaps this will be the return of A, B, A, C, A, B, B ...
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Spirit of Jazz said:
Eiji said:
Holy crap! That looks real!
And about the blood... It's the same particle effect in almost every game. You don't see a lot of bleeding cuts, gashes, lacerations, bloody noses, etc. It's rarely even treated like a liquid, so you don't see it pooling, dripping, or spreading. And I guess I shouldn't complain, because the sight of blood makes me faint. I just thought it was weird that so few advancements have been made with blood and gore all these years.
Insane Metal
Member
Man, the character actually look good. Sub-zero and Scorpion are looking more "human", I mean, their bodies are not huge with enormous arms like in MKV and beyond, they look way better now. But WTF with this DC thing. WTF, Boon.
WickedLaharl
Member
what normally happens when you uppercut someone in MK? that's right, you're rewarded with a gallon of blood going everywhere. sadly tis not the case here.
Let's have a serious discussion here about mk's fatalities.
It's obvious that it was getting REALLY HARD to try to come up with new interesting fatalities in MK: Deception and MKeadly alliance. Even when MK3 came out, the fatalities were decried by fans as being uninspired. Nothing will ever match the grittyness and shock factors of the fatalities of the first two games.
In MK4, the lack of inspiration was beginning to show. There's only so many ways you can kill someone; it also didnt help that the medias were really down on violence at the time, so Midway had to go down the 'wacky' fatalities way.
I've been a non-weird MK fan since the first game randomly popped up at the local arcade (and it was NOTHING like we had ever seen before back then).. but think about the whole situation from Boon's perspective..
MK1 had 7 characters, one fatality per character
Mk2 had 12, 2 fatals per character
Mk3+UMK3+MKT had over 35 characters, 2 fatals per character
Mk4 had around 16 rejetcs, 2 fatals
MKA had around 20 people, two fatals
MKE had around 20 people, two fatals each
So that's around 170+ original fatalities that had to be designed over the years. There's only so many ways you can cut heads and rip arms. The whole custom fatality thing for MK:armageddon was actually awesome for the random factor. I actually enjoyed it.
Can you people honestly come up with fatalities that would be interesting? I remember being 13 and coming up with stuff, but they were eventually all made their way into the games over the years, which isnt surprising considering how hard it is to come up with stuff as the series advanced.
I think they are going to go with finishing moves along the lines of neck-crackings, limbs-breakings and various magic-style stuff like soul-stealing and electrocution. That's about as far as they will be able to go.
I can't imagine what kind of design nightmare it is for the team now that they've really come up with everything.
It's obvious that it was getting REALLY HARD to try to come up with new interesting fatalities in MK: Deception and MK
eadly alliance. Even when MK3 came out, the fatalities were decried by fans as being uninspired. Nothing will ever match the grittyness and shock factors of the fatalities of the first two games.In MK4, the lack of inspiration was beginning to show. There's only so many ways you can kill someone; it also didnt help that the medias were really down on violence at the time, so Midway had to go down the 'wacky' fatalities way.
I've been a non-weird MK fan since the first game randomly popped up at the local arcade (and it was NOTHING like we had ever seen before back then).. but think about the whole situation from Boon's perspective..
MK1 had 7 characters, one fatality per character
Mk2 had 12, 2 fatals per character
Mk3+UMK3+MKT had over 35 characters, 2 fatals per character
Mk4 had around 16 rejetcs, 2 fatals
MK
A had around 20 people, two fatalsMK
E had around 20 people, two fatals eachSo that's around 170+ original fatalities that had to be designed over the years. There's only so many ways you can cut heads and rip arms. The whole custom fatality thing for MK:armageddon was actually awesome for the random factor. I actually enjoyed it.
Can you people honestly come up with fatalities that would be interesting? I remember being 13 and coming up with stuff, but they were eventually all made their way into the games over the years, which isnt surprising considering how hard it is to come up with stuff as the series advanced.
I think they are going to go with finishing moves along the lines of neck-crackings, limbs-breakings and various magic-style stuff like soul-stealing and electrocution. That's about as far as they will be able to go.
I can't imagine what kind of design nightmare it is for the team now that they've really come up with everything.
mr stroke
Member
Ether_Snake said:
really WTF is this???!!!
Take what has been the BIGGEST selling point of the franchise and get rid of it?:lol
Sad really.....even more so because this was supposed to be the big comeback title for the MK series. I was hoping for dark and bloody but oh well. Still day 1(as long as there is online)
momolicious
Member
they probably dont want fatalities because DC doesnt want to see their characters get ripped to shreds. Kind of like Gran turismo series and car damage
mr stroke
Member
shuri said:Let's have a serious discussion here about mk's fatalities.
It's obvious that it was getting REALLY HARD to try to come up with new interesting fatalities in MK: Deception and MK
In MK4, the lack of inspiration was beginning to show. There's only so many ways you can kill someone; it also didnt help that the medias were really down on violence at the time, so Midway had to go down the 'wacky' fatalities way.
I've been a non-weird MK fan since the first game randomly popped up at the local arcade (and it was NOTHING like we had ever seen before back then).. but think about the whole situation from Boon's perspective..
MK1 had 7 characters, one fatality per character
Mk2 had 12, 2 fatals per character
Mk3+UMK3+MKT had over 35 characters, 2 fatals per character
Mk4 had around 16 rejetcs, 2 fatals
MK
MK
So that's around 170+ original fatalities that had to be designed over the years. There's only so many ways you can cut heads and rip arms. The whole custom fatality thing for MK:armageddon was actually awesome for the random factor. I actually enjoyed it.
Can you people honestly come up with fatalities that would be interesting? I remember being 13 and coming up with stuff, but they were eventually all made their way into the games over the years, which isnt surprising considering how hard it is to come up with stuff as the series advanced.
I think they are going to go with finishing moves along the lines of neck-crackings, limbs-breakings and various magic-style stuff like soul-stealing and electrocution. That's about as far as they will be able to go.
I can't imagine what kind of design nightmare it is for the team now that they've really come up with everything.
I agree that coming up with new ideas can be hard, but with all the "next gen" power here they should be able to at least find ways to present old ones with better graphics/presentation. Trust me, there are a million ways to die.
Insane Metal
Member
TAcid08 said:
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
MK and MK2 were arguably the most realistic looking games in the arcade when they were released, and the gameplay was better than the hopeless SF clones glutting the market. It's hard to imagine that now that the series is in such a decline, but at the time it was a solid, if gimmicky, 2nd tier fighter.Ferrio said:
The true shit were the blatant rip-offs like Time Killers.
krackerjack
Member
Congratulations MKII, you are still the best in the series.
I wish the people at Midway would get their heads out of their ass and remember what it was they did to draw in drones of people to the arcade when MK2 hit. Maybe it was the timing, maybe it was that period in time itself, maybe it was something unexplained....but it sure as hell wasn't this.
Have fun going up against Tekken 6 and VF5:R...sheesh
I wish the people at Midway would get their heads out of their ass and remember what it was they did to draw in drones of people to the arcade when MK2 hit. Maybe it was the timing, maybe it was that period in time itself, maybe it was something unexplained....but it sure as hell wasn't this.
Have fun going up against Tekken 6 and VF5:R...sheesh
apocalidiot
Banned
Acid08 said:
wow
From a business perspective why would Midway stuff DC into the series? Mortal Kombat is more successful than most of the old fighters. It was only fighters you could argue that it would sell pretty well. Street Fighter sales could not endure like Mortal Kombat. Adding DC characters might help from a sales perspective but ultimately destroy the series because no blood or fatalities will put off a lot of MK's fans.
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