Mortal Kombat 9 Planned As A Mature Return To Form

Baka-akaB - 520 days 22 hours ago

Really ? Mk's animation is usually off but this one is a stinker in that area .

Besides the DC universe online mmo looks even better ... i mean come on ... a mmo , an open game in the same universe got better graphics than your quite closed fighter ..

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DirtyLary - 520 days 21 hours ago

Funny. I still remember playing MK1 in the arcades. That was probably before most of you were born when you were all just shots in the dark seeping down your mothers leg.

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SolidLiquidSnake - 520 days 23 hours ago

Exactly! This is a great new for fans of Mortal Kombat!...This DC game didn't please me so much...I'm waiting for it, but whith some doubts!...Now, this one I can't wait!

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Genki - 520 days 22 hours ago

MK4 - Complete overhaul, grittier, added weapons. FAILURE

MK:DA Complete overhaul, added styles, grittier. FAILURE, alon with the rest of the trilogy.

MK vs DC...won't pass judgment on it yet, however I will say that it looks just as stiff as MK:DA, D,and A. There hasn't been fluidity in MK animations and collision detection since the 2D days oddly enough.

And yet again...before this next game even comes out, they're talking complete overhaul, return to form, BLAH BLAH BLAH.

I've heard it all before, and way too many times at that. The MK team is practically dead to me. MK Trilogy is the last decent MK game that hit shelves IMO.

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DirtyLary - 520 days 21 hours ago

I'm approaching MK vs DC with an open mind. I just hope Baraka makes the cut.

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Panthers - 520 days 21 hours ago

I dont see how you have just 9 bubbles MK. People have been stealing them away like crazy. 2 weeks ago I had 10 I think.

But yea I am hoping they poor everything they have into the next MK.

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MK_Red - 520 days 21 hours ago

SolidLiquidSnake, I'm with you. I'm also waiting for the DC game but that's not the real Kombat.

Genki, I have to disagree with you. I LOVED MK: DA and even MK: D was decent enough for me. Its still better than releasing 2 million different rehashes of the same game (Street Fighter 2 and its spin-offs / remakes / rehashes). MK team could have sticked to the UMK formula but they decided to try new things and many new gamers have become fans because of the games you said are failures. Armageddon was indeed a FAILURE but before that, I STRONGLY disagree with you. Sure, MK4 to MKD weren't MK2 good but they were great and I've enjoyed them more than any other modern fighter except for maybe, Soul Calibur and even then, NO game has the awesome characters and story of MK (Again, before the eff up that was MKA).

DirtyLary, Baraka will probably be in the real, M rated MK9 because you gotta admit, he is too dark and violent for a T rated MK vs DC.

Panthers, I actually have 8 now :(
Bubbles for you and hopefully, we both get our bubbles back :)

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Genki - 520 days 20 hours ago

The VAST majority of MK's cast are throw-away placeholders and lame ideas. I think it's illustrated by Armaggeddons lineup. Can you honestly say you cared for characters like Jarek, Mavado, Tanya, Stryker, Kai, among others? I could go on for days, and many, MANY of those characters stories were ever fleshed out and forgotten after their whole SINGLE GAME appearances. It's evident that Boon himseld doesnt even give a crap about his new characters and their backstories, because far too many of them are irrelevant and fade away without a trace after a single appearance. It's as if he sticks new characters in games just for the sake of doing so.

Even character design went to sh*t after a while. Every character wears colored pants, has shin guards of some sort, some kind of flap that hangs below their crotch, a vest-type shirt, fore-arm guards, and boots.

The best characters in the series are the ones who have endured from the first 2 or 3 games, and even then, Liu Kang is the most hackneyed and boring protagonist next to Superman. Quite fitting that those two will be in a game together. Sub-Zero is probably my favorite game character, but like I said, there haven't been many compelling or interesting new faces since the third entry in the series. Even the bosses have all been lame.

In any case, as far as the game goes I didn't want them to stick to the UMK formula. As I said to another poster, I'm all about new things, new tech, and forward progress. I don't believe in constantly conjuring up the old, tried and true from the past, which is why I'm about fed up with annual sports games. Deadly Alliance was a valiant effort, I'll give you that much. It was a big step forward from the abortion that was MK:4, but my beef with the game was that it was too stiff, WAY too canned, and too restrictive. I felt like I was playing with robots.

The only good thing DA did was Scorpion...that was easily his best costume by far, and in fact probably the best ninja costume in a game, and this is coming from a Sub-Zero fanatic. At least as good as Hattori Hanzo from Samurai Spirits.

MK:D and A should have addressed these issues, but they used the exact same engine without refining it, they just added a gameplay gimmick here or there. (air kombat, WTF!?)

I hope this game will be better, but from the looks of things, I doubt it. The graphics are there, that's for sure, but as for the way it appears to play...stiff and robotic FTL, but hopefully we get a demo so I can see for myself.

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MK_Red - 520 days 11 hours ago

I don't know. I liked almost everything in MKDA and D. From characters like Kenshi and Mavado to the new versions of Subby and Scorp. Plus, I had more fun playing them than most 3D fighters. I also liked their storys (Loved the death of Liu at the beginning of MKDA). D started good enough but the Shujinko and some others ruined it.

MKA is the only true failure.

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Genki - 520 days 21 hours ago

Although IMO the best MK games were the 2D ones, I don't necessarily believe so solely because they were 2D.

I'm all about forward progress...but it has to be progress, and the series has been taking missteps ever since the fourth entry, what an embarrassment.

I want a 3d MK, but I want it to be fluid and believable in the movements, it needs to have collision detection as good as FNR3, but fits the fast paced action MK inherent to the franchise. Blood and gore, although a trademark of the series, is superficial to me. So long as it's done well, I can appreciate it.

I'm sick of stiff MK games with completely canned dial-a-combos and restrictive gameplay.

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Sitdown - 520 days 20 hours ago

I need the graphics from the 2-d MK. Ever since the series went 3-D the character models have just looked and felt touch much like cartoons. I remember that being the big thing that really stood out for me when MK was battling Street Fighter in the 90s.......MK had the realistic looking characters. I think if they can tone down the cartoon look and up the realism in character design.....it might also help the series....and perhaps bring back....umm, was it Tobias? or did he come back already...I have not really followed that side in a while.

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outlawlife - 520 days 18 hours ago

money.

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