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Mortal Kombat 9: 7 more characters confirmed

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Jax is pretty ugly in the face in this game. He looks like a retarded Sgt. Johnson when he should look like a young Michael Jai White.
 
TrAcEr_x90 said:
so is the game only balanced for the 26 characters. The rest of the characters are just for fun?
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Wouldn't that apply also to every other fighting game that also has DLC characters?:p

In any case, the team has already talked about patching/balancing the game post-release and even talked about some "feature" that let them balance the game at any moment, without the need of going through the whole patching/certification process. If they fulfill or not that "promise". only time will tell.
 
fernoca said:
Wouldn't that apply also to every other fighting game that also has DLC characters?:p

In any case, the team has already talked about patching/balancing the game post-release and even talked about some "feature" that let them balance the game at any moment, without the need of going through the whole patching/certification process. If they fulfill or not that "promise". only time will tell.
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im not talking about dlc characters, it seems there are a ton of characters being shipped with the game, over 26 right?
 
TrAcEr_x90 said:
im not talking about dlc characters, it seems there are a ton of characters being shipped with the game, over 26 right?
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No specific number yet, more than 20; less than 30 at the moment.

But you said it as if the game was "only balanced for the 26 characters while the rest are for fun"; when basically all the characters on the disc will be balanced, and any additional ones they add later will be balanced through patches/updates to the game. So all the characters are balanced, well at least as far as we know.

Infinites, exploits, etc. may pop after release, which is why they wanted (and apparently implemented) the system to update the game without waiting for specific patches.
 
The Lamonster said:
Jax is pretty ugly in the face in this game. He looks like a retarded Sgt. Johnson when he should look like a young Michael Jai White.
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I pretty sure they based his face off the original actor from MK2/3. They had released a video with him at NRS recently. It's just that he's older now so it doesnt look right.
 
infinityBCRT said:
I pretty sure they based his face off the original actor from MK2/3. They had released a video with him at NRS recently. It's just that he's older now so it doesnt look right.
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Makes sense if true. I was wondering why Jax looks so old.
 
MoonsaultSlayer said:
It's been said that that character select screen isn't final.
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Yep.
Not to mention that:
Number of characters in the game said:
Ed revealed it remains "in the 20s" but the old number of 26 may no longer be up to date, as there may end up being less or more than originally planned (he also noted the character list was, in fact, not finalized as previously reported). Once again however, he hinted at the strong presence of DLC.
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infinityBCRT said:
I pretty sure they based his face off the original actor from MK2/3. They had released a video with him at NRS recently. It's just that he's older now so it doesnt look right.
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Link?
 
Game's probably not going to be balanced as well as, say, SSF4 because of the absense of pre-release loketests and people who've actually played the game for more than a few minutes. But there aren't a lot of reasons to believe that it's going to be as poorly balanced as some of the previous games.

I have a feeling that tag team mode is gonna be pretty unbalanced though. There are probably gonna be a handful of teams that just dominate everybody.
 
Kurtofan said:
They're giving Namco a run for their money!


Their clothes and their skin.
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Namco has ass-jiggle, so they still win in that department. SC makes DOA look tame.

Only other fighter with ass-jiggle was KOF up to XI, IIRC.

Also, Real Bout Fatal Fury and Samurai Shodown 3 are two fighters with naked boobs. Rumblefish had clothes tear, as did AOF amongst others. But fan-service wise, this is the only American series o know of, yeah.

EDIT:

Sonya's fan-service in MKvsDC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCzgd258EAE
 
Boon recently tweeted (though don't know if hewas joking) that they wanted Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa (Shang Tsung in the first movie) to voice the character in this game; but couldn't work things out.
 
I have to rant. Wasn't Reptile's coolness based on the fact that he looked like a human and people thought "why do they call him Reptile... because he's gre- OH SHIT! THAT' WHY!"? Why take that away. He's supposed to be a hired whatever the fuck.. shouldn't he at least blend in? He's been poorly desiged for more than 10 years snow... WTF. The lizard should be the ALT costume if anything.

Sorry, my former, younger self wanted to get that out haha.
 
He had a dinosaur head in his ending for MKII.

To be honest I liked it more when the ninjas costumes where more uniform with the others, with small but different details. I guess though that the various fighting styles don't require that now.

Sometimes they go over the top, but I really admired the costume designs from Deadly Alliance and Deception.
 
MisterHero said:
He had a dinosaur head in his ending for MKII.
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Yeah, and Scorpion has a skull head, but you don't see 3d Scorpion turned into a Skeleton. Turning Reptile into a... reptile... all the time was just one of the worst character design choices of the franchise.
 
NeonZ said:
Yeah, and Scorpion has a skull head, but you don't see 3d Scorpion turned into a Skeleton. Turning Reptile into a... reptile... all the time was just one of the worst character design choices of the franchise.
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Scorpion's portrait in MKIII had the skull shape. My guess is that if he removed his mask (like Reptile did after MKIII) he'd be skull dude all the time.
 
NeonZ said:
Yeah, and Scorpion has a skull head, but you don't see 3d Scorpion turned into a Skeleton. Turning Reptile into a... reptile... all the time was just one of the worst character design choices of the franchise.
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They had ALWAYS intended Reptile to be a reptilian ever since MK2. Even a number of the promos for the games had Reptile depicted as such.

See: MK2 Commercial (Extended ver.)

It's just that technological limitations back in the day made it so that they had to settle for Reptile being one of many, many palette-swaps in MK2/UMK3.

Now, I'll admit that I didn't care for his designs in 4 or DA. But his Armageddon/SM and MK2011 designs seem to be right in line with what they've wanted Reptile to be for years. And hell, they're fine enough. Plus, since I'm getting KE off of Amazon, I'll get Reptile's throw-back costume as an alternate, any way. Best of both worlds! :lol
 
Replicant said:
It's kinda hard to see from youtube vids if the character models have that much details on them.
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The pic's quite big, and lacks some effects, HUD and details but still quite detailed:

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More at the link and an old video. (Site's in spanish just in case)

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Resized the pic a little; bigger in the link anyway.

And a random one of Sub-Zero from another site:
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As always, final product should look even better since the original pics/videos, Cage's hair was just a flat texture.
 
MoonsaultSlayer said:
I have to rant. Wasn't Reptile's coolness based on the fact that he looked like a human and people thought "why do they call him Reptile... because he's gre- OH SHIT! THAT' WHY!"? Why take that away. He's supposed to be a hired whatever the fuck.. shouldn't he at least blend in? He's been poorly desiged for more than 10 years snow... WTF. The lizard should be the ALT costume if anything.

Sorry, my former, younger self wanted to get that out haha.
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amazon preorder is your friend. you'll get the ninja costume for reptile.
 
so hyped for this game...

gotta question.. have they changed the announcers voice at all?
(the one that says FINISH HIM or FLAWLESS VICTORY)

i thought the voice was perfect in the older games.. hope it sounds similar.
 
Gin said:
so hyped for this game...

gotta question.. have they changed the announcers voice at all?
(the one that says FINISH HIM or FLAWLESS VICTORY)

i thought the voice was perfect in the older games.. hope it sounds similar.
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Nope. At the moment is the one we've been hearing so far. Though, we don't know if the announcer is Shao Kahn or Shang Tsung; or if there are others.
 
fernoca said:
The pic's quite big, and lacks some effects, HUD and details but still quite detailed:

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Niiice. I love the details on Scorpion's armor/mask. Soo much better than his original costume.

Unforch, Shao Kahn still looks like a steroid-abuser-dudebro with an ugly mask.
 
fernoca said:
Nope. At the moment is the one we've been hearing so far. Though, we don't know if the announcer is Shao Kahn or Shang Tsung; or if there are others.
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They need that deep menacing voice that used to be in the old games, the newer voices take a little bit away from Shao Khan's coolness too imo lol,
 
SapientWolf said:
Yeah right at those pics. Either announce the PC version or stop releasing bullshots.
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Resolution aside it looks the same:

(Not the best pic, but still nice)

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Plus the pictures were posted to show the character detail in the realtime models, compared to the CG models; not as representation of the actual game.
 
fernoca said:
Resolution aside it looks the same:

(Not the best pic, but still nice)

http://i56.tinypic.com/2igyq9g.jpg[img]

Plus the pictures were posted to show the character detail in the realtime models, compared to the CG models; not as representation of the actual game.[/QUOTE]
That one looks more like an actual gameplay shot. The others look like touched up in-engine renders.

[QUOTE=TrAcEr_x90]why do you guys think those are bullshots?[/QUOTE]
The 16xSSAA on a console game was sort of a tip-off.
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SapientWolf said:
That one looks more like an actual gameplay shot. The others look like touched up in-engine renders.
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Yep, but we were talking about realtime game models vs. CG renders; since Replicant was wondering if the characters were as detailed in-game as they were on their portraits. The pics were posted for that comparison (small/low res pics wouldn't show any detail), and if anything the "bullshots" make the characters look less detailed since everything is upscaled. :p

Another kinda bad pic, but to show the detail in the character models and the backgrounds:

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