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Mortal Kombat 8 - GET OVER HERE!
So, today marks Midway's Gamers Day in Las Vegas, Nevada, and several new games are being showcased in the event. One of them is the next iteration of the Mortal Kombat series, running on the Unreal Engine 3.
There's a really strong rumor that this game will be a crossover like the Marvel vs Capcom games, only this would be Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics. Unfortunately, all information is embargoed until tomorrow, 4 PM Pacific Time. |
Mortal Kombat vs DC? Come on, like Superman would ever perform a fatality.
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It's a shame that Midway does not now how to make a fighting game with good mechanics. I won't hold my breath, but I'll play it eventually.
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I'll be interested if it's 2D again, using real actors. With ultra fancy HD project reality emotion engine mode 7 graphics rendered in 1080 blast processed snowboarding pies.
Also, if it's fun. Where the hell did all the goofy shit in Mortal Kombat games go after MK3? I will check my other pants for clues. |
must stop making this game in 3D last 4 games in series are silly,I like MK 1,2 & 3.best one is MK2 is best fighting game after SF.
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You know, first I had to laugh about this but then I thought that it's pretty cool that video gaming has become a legitimate enough form of entertainment for this type of cross-over to happen.
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I think the idea of a comics universe in a fighting game sounds neat, but... Mortal Kombat? Seriously? How can any of those guys really hope to stand up to someone like Superman, Green Lantern or Flash?
Besides, none of the heroes from the DCU (mostly) aren't going to be willing to pull off a fatality or whatever to finish an opponent. How's that going to work? |
I'm trying to imagine some fatalities here...
Flash - Runs around opponents carefully until their body is incinerated by hellfires from below. Superman - Rips the opponent's body in half. Simple. Green Lantern - Obliterates opponent with the ring. This is gonna be one hell of a weird game. :mad: |
Haha, oh man. Batman fighting Sub-Zero, Yoda fighting Ivy, Sonic fighting Mario. Bring on the Street Fighter McDonalds cross-over.
Hamburglar is going down. |
The Question better be in this. He'd actually fit in pretty well with the MK crowd.
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cans it be hype timez now? |
I'm just trying to imagine how this game would work. Maybe they'll have the DC characters have something else to 'finish' their opponents. Wait, I know...FRIENDSHIPS!!!
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Scorpion kicks the shit out of Green Zero every time. Yellow costume. Dude is fucked. That's what you get for having such a gay weakness, Hal. Suck a dick. Also, Batman's fatality will be that he drafts his opponent into being the new Robin and promptly gets him killed. Oh snap. All maudlin and shit. Superman quits the game because he tires of humanity depending on him to fight their Mortal Kombats for them, retires to a holographic farm in Kansas, grows a ponytail and mopes around like a pussy. His fatality is that he just stops caring. Quote:
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Let me run something by you. Kano fighting Lobo. That concept couldn't be more terrible if Uwe Boll directed it. |
I don't really know what to think about this. I haven't been excited for a Mortal Kombat game in a long time and it looks like it's going to be another long time before I am again. It reminds me of when I bought MK Trilogy, so excited to see all the characters in one game... only to find out half the damn fatalities didn't work unless you put in the cheat code. Now they're trying to do the MvC route? Maybe if I were to see more of it would I might change my attitude about this.
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Apparently this has minimal blood, and no fatalities.
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Much as I hate to argue with you good buddy but gaming hasn't been a sub-culture nerd thing for at least four years ever since the gaming industry annual turnover started outstripping the film industry. Playing computer games is as mainstream as watching television now mate and has been for some time, no matter how much the kids here want to pretend they're all underground and different from everyone else. The only thing that seperates gaming nerds from the rest of society these days is the lack of social skills and a desire to play obscure dating sims in Japanese. Cetra's comment is still completely retarded though. There have been games about movies and comments for as long as I can remember. I played a Batman game on the ZX Spectrum, back in the late 80's for fuck's sake. Likewise, there have been myriad films featuring games and game characters, one of the earliest of which was the first Mortal Kombat movie, made in 1995. To suggest that this kind of crossover is in anyway a new thing is at best ignorant and more likely, just stupid. Even the combination of fighting game and comic book characters is old news. Xmen vs Street Fighter came out in 1996 and the Turtles beat 'em up is even older and they're just the first two to pop into my head. Back to the topic at hand, I doubt Superman would be in it, it's more likely to be primarily Batman characters. For starters, they're all mainly human, like the MK protagonists and there's not a character in there who's not killed people. Also, to make comments like Quote:
The 3D MK's haven't been too bad really. I had quite a lot of fun with Deadly Alliance (The Soul Blade-esque one with weapons included) and they're still a hell of a lot less complicated than the Tekken games and to be honest, I think the 3D aspect is better implemented than in Tekken. I'll be keeping an eye on this to see how it turns out. With this and Lego Batman, this could be a good year for DC comics. |
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Another MK = Fail
A game with MK and DC Comic characters = Major Fail Honestly, why is this game still around? It had its moment in the spotlight in the mid 90s with its controversies, but if you look back at the fact when you hit an opponent and gallons of blood come out of their face, you cant help but think "Is this what we were freaking out on?". That being said, no blood or gore in this new crossover game [which looks like a total rip on the Marvel/Capcom crossover] is really not a big deal. It looks gimmicky and I dont see how they can put DC characters into MK-ish setting, or vice versa. I know easily you could say "Well what about Marv/Cap?", but to be honest I could see Apocalypse or Onslaught [who if no one knows, were bosses of those games] create dimensional portals and have the two worlds clash it out. I guess Darkseid from DC can do it, but meh...the concept has been done already. I just can't see this combining. Its like oil and water to me. I think Midway just needs to let this game series rest, did they not say that MK: Armageddon was the last one? I could have sworn I heard that. |
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