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Originally Posted by Denicalis

Yes. It's pretty cool that video gaming has become legit enough to cross over with... comics? What? "Man, it's pretty cool how sub-culture nerd thing A can be legit enough to cross over with sub-culture nerd thing B."

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

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How can any of those guys really hope to stand up to someone like Superman, Green Lantern or Flash?

is kinda forgetting that, you know, it's not real, it's a game, the creators can balance the characters any way they want. If you've played Xmen vs Street Fighter you'll know that it's entirely possible for Ken and Ryu to beat up Juggernaut and even Apocalypse. As such is it really such a leap of faith to see Scorpion and Liu Kang beating the shit out of Bane or Rorschach?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by KrelEN

Apparently this has minimal blood, and no fatalities.

- Kotaku

:/

One could suggest that a former Midway employee saying that the blood and guts were the only point of the MK games (Rather than game mechanics and stuff) might be one of the reasons the recent games have been sliding quality-wise. Sure the blood and guts was amusing enough but I used to enjoy the game-play too, hopefully now they've jogged on all the idiots like him they can rediscover some of that.

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

Pretty sure he meant crossover as in combining videogame universes and comic book universes.

OK, fair enough but Xmen vs Street Fighter is still 12 years old, hardly a recent development in video gaming terms.

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I dunno, if they rush it out in time to catch the Dark Knight hype it makes sense. Anything with Batman written on will sell well this summer.

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Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Well, I was kind of upset when Square Enix gave Japan + Europe the International version for FFX

I was kinda upset that we had to wait six months longer than the US for the game to be released so it's swings and roundabouts with an example like that.

If you don't like the censorship you can always import a foreign version. Until America gets over this weird thing you have where an 18 rated (Or M is it over there?) product must for some reason be the spawn of satan, you're always going to produce kiddie-centric games (And movies too, I can't remember the last time I saw an American film that got an 18 rating over here). In the UK that stigma simply doesn't exist, if anything an 18 rated game will sell much better than a 15 because all the kids want to play it (And despite our BBFC ratings being legally binding rather than your pointless voluntary ESRB things, shops will still sell 18 rated stuff to kids).

We do have the problem of the German government censoring basically everything though which has occasionally affected pan-European products. In Soul Blade, Li-Long had a three point staff instead of nunchucks because of the Germans and the G-Con accessories had to be blue with a bright orange end because the Germans were worried people might try to commit armed robbery with them.

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

The thing is, M ratings are much closer to 15. An equal of the 18 rating in games would be the AO, and every single publisher balks at those because Walmart won't sell them. As hilarious as that is. Can you imagine if 18 rated movies in the UK were suddenly not sold?

The ASDA in Brighton (Owned by Walmart) was having a sale of horror films for Halloween, most of which were 18's. If memory serves there was a big old banner out front proclaiming the sale. I'm pretty sure I bought my copy of Vice City from an ASDA too, did Walmart not stock that in America? I guess it's a cultural thing though, Americans are rather prudish as a collective.

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It's apparently fine to show a playing card lodge itself in someone's forehead, but not ok to show a gunshot hit.

Have you ever tried to kill someone with a playing card though? Even if you hit them square in the eye it'd probably do no more than sting briefly.

I have to say I agree with your surprise at Europe getting the uncut version though.

I was speaking idiomatically.