Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe just dumb..

Omegasyde - 536 days 22 hours ago

I understand what you are saying on don't knock it till you try it.
It won't work here is why:

1)Ed Boon
2)Teen Rating
3)Ed Boon
4)Superman now magically "handicapped" with limited flight?
5)Midway hasn't made a hit since NFL Blitz
6)No Fatalities. Ed says but there is! Nope they are now "loss-of-Consiousalities& amp; quot; i.e. Little blood, and you can't tear off limbs in a T rated game.
7)Story will suck, because the same guy who wrote Mk:DA and newer penned the script. Crossing Dimensions?
8)Warner Bro's(DC Comics) gets the final OK on what happens to their Character.
9)Ed Boon.
10)Midway is broke.
11)Name a Decent DC comics game. Please. Try.

As you can see Ed boon is massively over rated. Him and John Tobias, the Creators of the Mortal Kombat Universe, were great when Mortal Kombat was Mainstream with its controversial gameplay, over the top characters and game play. This was pre-2002. Its 2008 and Ed still can't get 3d gameplay right.

Now Looking at the last 3 iterations, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance which wasn't half bad with a interesting Story (lui kang dies?). It also introduced some incentives to unlock items. Return of the Dragon King However was utterly crap. The game play gets worse. # fighting styles were a bad idea. This made the series way too confusing, and the weapon styles were horrible. Why would having a weapon out Handicap the person by receiving twice the damage when the guy holding the sword gets hit?

Lets not Talk about Mortal Kombat Armageddon. Crap story made no sense, Allows only 2 stances (which made people use to 3 pist) And then Ed Boon executes this brilliant idea gone horribly wrong.

"Create-a-fatality"

WTf, seems good on paper but now everyone one has the same create-a-fatality with no real distinction of finishers.Sure you can rip a arm off and beat the guy with it, but everybody has the same moves? Lack of Signature finishers. Everyone finally figured out the truth:

Armageddon was a limited budget rush job.

No individual fatalities because they didn't "have" the time to incorporate it for every character. The Online was very gimicky with MANY exploits when people would "create thier own fighter. The Stock characters weren't balanced, the story mode was good but the ending and main character made no sense. So where is the balance? No one wants to fight a unfair fight.

In order for Mortal Kombat to survive and Midway make money off it, there are 3 things they need to do:
1)Replace Ed Boon.
2)Make a Fun Yet Challenging fighting engine. One stance, with maybe weapons coming out only in combo's ala Mortal Kombat 3.
3)Bring back Fatalities, Babitalities, animaltalities, "suicides", Stage fatalities, and friendships. Make them unique for each character with many unlockables items to get when people accomplish certain task.

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Baka-akaB - 536 days 22 hours ago

I'd argue that actually it wasnt that uncommon to have martial artists compete successful against mutants or powered up heroes/villains , in the marvel (or even the dc) universe .

It fitted for the reasons you advanced , but also because nothing street fighter added was out of place in the marvel universe ...

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Sangria - 536 days 21 hours ago

@1.1: i totally agree with you, Mortal Kombat perhaps should be dead and buried it became so much a crap, just like Sonic with Sega. Midway now tries to wash their hand incoming DC Universe.

It's a good opportunity to change everything that made Mortal Kombat a crap, with first of all the gameplay and the graphics. I mean, yes Mortal Kombat is a near-the-death license, but i see MKvsDC as an opportunity for Midway to erase years of crap.

But if MKvsDC is still a crap (90% of chances that can be), it would be a sign for Midway to take drastic decisions, even if it has to close the studio (i guess Midway is in a bad situation financially). It the best have to do if MK keeps being so bad.

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Tyler Durden - 536 days 22 hours ago

they said this game had fatalities

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Fanboy Slaughter - 536 days 22 hours ago

I feel the need to post this in a reply also:

http://www.gamespot.com/xbo...

Towards the end of the interview, it explains the fatality situation

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RecSpec - 536 days 22 hours ago

Sub Zero grabs head, screen goes black, you hear a scream

Fatality.

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Omegasyde - 536 days 22 hours ago

"I was actually impressed to see how much passion the MK fans still have for the series. "
-Ed Boon

Wow, The series is almost 20 years going on...YA THINK?

They understand that their universe isn't as violent as Mortal Kombat's and that there would be a lot of assumptions that the game would be a "watered-down MK." So from that standpoint, we know that is where a lot of player's concerns would be. With that, our discussions with DC are mainly based on individual items that may or may not be too violent or are not in brand with their characters"
-Ed Boon

So Dc is running the Show. No Fatalities

"Question: Have you made any more headway on the fatality versus finishing moves?
Yes we have. All of the MK characters and all of the DC villains will have fatalities. The DC heroes who don't kill that often will have brutalities that will function just like fatalities but don't actually kill the opponent."
-Ed Boon.

Ok Lets LOOK at the definition of a T-RATED game by ESRB.

Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language.
http://www.esrb.org/ratings...

Hmm Minimal Blood.... but may contain Violence...? Yea Ed Is going to waterdown fatalities to push people off buildings, Freeze people + Upercut, "poison kisses", or discinerate to ashes.

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RecSpec - 536 days 22 hours ago

Hating on a game before it releases? NO, IMPOSSIBLE!!!!

That's how things work, you can't change it.

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Omegasyde - 536 days 22 hours ago

Read My comment above please.

and remember Ed Noob, I mean Ed Boon is killing off Mortal Kombat.

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DARK WITNESS - 536 days 18 hours ago

its not just about hate for this one game...

come on man, read between the lines. what we " hate " is what has happened to one of the best fighting games. This idea is just anther example of how bad its all getting.

just when you thought they could not do anything else to it... they do this.

Ya, maybe we should not knock it till we try it. but,looking at the track record so far there is every reason to believe that this is going to be nothing more then a big pile of Sh%t !

on the flip side, reading this makes me admire what capcom have been able to do with the street fighter games.

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