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Mortal Kombat Demo impressions thread

Hahaha at JC trailer. That gives me high hopes for an amazing story mode.

I wonder how it will be structured. Will it branch off letting us play as every character as we meet them? Just the good guys? Can we select any character from the get go and see things from their perspective? I hope it's the latter, but the branching out to eventually play as everyone would suffice. Only playing as the heroes would be a let down though.

I need me some cutscenes where you see Reptile go into his predator-esque invisiblity hidden in the background as he spies during some of the key cutscenes.
 
Story Mode seems to be divided in chapters, but it's one cohesive story. # of chapters:
16
, and only the
good side
of the characters.
Each chapter is focused on one character, but you get to see other characters and fight them.

Johnny Cage's the character that talks the most through the entire story since he's during all the events, a few of the characters can't really stand him.
 
fernoca said:
Some seem just to be disappointed with others. MK is one of the most hated series around here, it wasn't till this game that it actually started to receive some praise and excitement from others, which of course will turn into bashing other games.
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Revivals tend to let the floodgates out in terms of people's preferences. Smash Bros. hate became more apparent when Street Fighter revived itself. (We don't have to play Smash anymore) The same will come with Mortal Kombat.
 
So fernoca is the MK version of me isnt?
The man surely knows his MK.

;)
 
Irish said:
How are you so damn lucky? I wish I could wipe Armageddon from my mind. It's the only MK game I have truly hated.

That Johnny Cage trailer was hilarious. I can't wait to dive into the story mode on the 19th. After you watch the trailer the first time, you should check it out once again using that April Fool's filter that Youtube has up. The trailer works so well with that music and the Sepia tone.
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LOL!!! Sorry :(
 
fernoca said:
I just love MK! :p

Nice to see you back with a Ted Price avatar, Fersis. :p
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And that's awesome! My MK memories only comes from playing MK2 at a friends basement with his dad's computer almost every day after school. Never played other MK games, but I read the fiction lately and I am a sucker for ninjas, magics, gods and whatnot - so my excitement comes from different levels.

Good we have you!
 
Holy shit guys I'm watching a playthrough of DCU vs. MK and ....press the 1911 button during the fights. It's hilarious!
 
that's a lot of chapters, hope each one is more then a few fights and then it's over like MK v DC, that was too short and lacked a lot of story.
 
fernoca said:
Story Mode seems to be divided in chapters, but it's one cohesive story. # of chapters:
16
, and only the
good side
of the characters.
Each chapter is focused on one character, but you get to see other characters and fight them.
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Dang, a bit disappointed but I guess the standard ladder mode with the dynamic endings will suffice.
 
MoonsaultSlayer said:
Dang, a bit disappointed but I guess the standard ladder mode with the dynamic endings will suffice.
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I think you'll still be pleased. It looks to be much longer and more in-depth than what we got with MKvDC, and there's a number of details that won't make sense until you play the Story Mode. Without it, most, if not all of the Dynamic Endings don't really work by themselves.
 
Oh! nice!
I was wondering who's doing Johnny Cage's voice, seeing how he talks so much and his voice fits the character, and wondered if they used well known actor or just a well known voice actor; or both.

And darn, George Newbern did Johnny Cage! :O
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He has done quite a few voices, but also a few well known movies and series like Saw, Father of the Bride, The Mentalist.

Steve Blum is Reptile, which is always nice.
The actor that did Liu Kang's voice, Tom Choi; kinda looks like him too.
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And Stryker's voice, Matthew Mercer is kinda cute cool. :p
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Mercer was announced to play Tigra in the new Thundercats reboot. Seeing that pic reminded me that I need to catch up on anything new that has popped up in the last several months. BRB.

BTW. I wasn't saying I'll skip story mode. I'll still be all over it. Just wished there was MOAR! I want to play as EVERYONE in story mode haha.

Who's this Blum guy as Reptile? Why does that name seem familiar?
 
Gravijah said:
you so racist
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Hahaha, no. But he looks like the in-game character..I think...shut up!!! :p

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Had $10 left on PSN, after buying 3rd Birthday at laucnh...and went and bought Extended Play, to have MKI, II and 3 on PSP Go. :(

Emulation is not perfect ( a few secs of loadings in MKII and 3 between each match, missing clouds in the MKII The Tower stage, missing parallax scrolling effects in a few stages too) , but darn it looks so nice on that small screen and MKII is faster than the PS3 version..feels fast faster, I think.
 
Slamtastic said:
Where are you getting the voice cast for the game?

Somewhere official, or just like IMDB or something like that?
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Different websites. IMDB is kinda wonky for this stuff, so looked across other MK sites, forums, and stuff and they all seemed to confirm it. Guess will know for sure soon. :p

Gravijah said:
Does GGPO support any of the MK games?
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Apparently nope, but I haven't checked in a long time.
 
fernoca said:
Hahaha, no. But he looks like the in-game character..I think...shut up!!! :p

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Had $10 left on PSN, after buying 3rd Birthday at laucnh...and went and bought Extended Play, to have MKI, II and 3 on PSP Go. :(

Emulation is not perfect ( a few secs of loadings in MKII and 3 between each match, missing clouds in the MKII The Tower stage, missing parallax scrolling effects in a few stages too) , but darn it looks so nice on that small screen and MKII is faster than the PS3 version..feels fast faster, I think.
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The most annoying bit is the music cutting out for fatalities and at the character select and other areas.

I've also ran into instances that lock my character into a crouching position until the round is over. Sucks haha. I can beat 1 and 3, but fuck, 2 is impossible for me these days. As a kid, I don't know how I ever beat the damn thing.
 
MoonsaultSlayer said:
The most annoying bit is the music cutting out for fatalities and at the character select and other areas.

I've also ran into instances that lock my character into a crouching position until the round is over. Sucks haha. I can beat 1 and 3, but fuck, 2 is impossible for me these days. As a kid, I don't know how I ever beat the damn thing.
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Yeah, the music bit was weird. Is like the game was originally programmed with the UMD loadings in mind.

But yep, MKII requires patience. I had no problems in the arcade days beating it in one try with Kitana. But over the years, I needed to change a few characters and continue a few more till finally beat it. :p

Though I have to check, because I don't remember if it was Extended Play or some other MKII ports, on which some of the endings were incomplete;with missing text. Is like not even the ones that did the port could finish the games so didn't checked that. :p
 
It comes out THIS MONTH, guys. I am so excited.

My brother bought my mom a blu-ray player and 'Due Date for her birthday yesterday and apparently, at the beginning of the movie is a MK trailer and my bro said to my mom that if I were there, I'd be going nuts. He even said he was getting pumped for it. He hasn't been following thr game as much as I have and said he didn't recognize the trailer... anyone know what they showed? Is it old footage or something new? I'ma check youtube but I feel like borrowing the movie from the momz anyway =].
 
MoonsaultSlayer said:
The most annoying bit is the music cutting out for fatalities and at the character select and other areas.

I've also ran into instances that lock my character into a crouching position until the round is over. Sucks haha. I can beat 1 and 3, but fuck, 2 is impossible for me these days. As a kid, I don't know how I ever beat the damn thing.
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I bought MK2 on PSN a while back.

MK2 difficulty settings are like broken or something, it doesn't matter if you set it to the easiest levels, the computer gets into anal violation mode by the third fight. :(
 
HomerSimpson-Man said:
MK2 difficulty settings are like broken or something, it doesn't matter if you set it to the easiest levels, the computer gets into anal violation mode by the third fight. :(
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Yeah, fuck that game. :(
 
HomerSimpson-Man said:
I bought MK2 on PSN a while back.

MK2 difficulty settings are like broken or something, it doesn't matter if you set it to the easiest levels, the computer gets into anal violation mode by the third fight. :(
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I'm pretty sure thats how MK2 always was. Only the DOS version carried over that difficulty level to the home ports though. I remember the Genesis version was brain-dead easy in comparison.
 
fernoca said:
Story Mode seems to be divided in chapters, but it's one cohesive story. # of chapters:
16
, and only the
good side
of the characters.
Each chapter is focused on one character, but you get to see other characters and fight them.

Johnny Cage's the character that talks the most through the entire story since he's during all the events, a few of the characters can't really stand him.
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I wish there some kind of FREE DLC for
playing as the bad side
 
infinityBCRT said:
I'm pretty sure thats how MK2 always was. Only the DOS version carried over that difficulty level to the home ports though. I remember the Genesis version was brain-dead easy in comparison.
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I don't think so. I played the SNES MKII a few weeks ago, and HOLY SHIT it's just as hard as the PSN version. I really don't get it. I was a PRO at that game as a kid. And now I struggle to beat the first match...=/
 
All that polish and presentation and we such have such a oddly plain old looking loading bar in the versus screen. A spinning MK dragon would have been simple and done the trick too.
 
Seriously, just saw all the versus screen portraits. They look horrible! Like some bad fan art with terrible poses and lack of details.

I just checked out some of the concept arts and renders and they look a thousand times better than what we have for the final game. What the hell Netherealm?!
 
Of all the old costumes, Reptile benefits the most wearing the classic outfit. Surely NR knows how buttass he looks right?

He is not that badass hidden green ninja, reptilian under the mask only, of memories anymore! :(
 
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