OK, well, out of boredom (and then out of hype!) I read all seventeen pages of this thread. The Live Action trailer was absolutely dreadful and completely ridiculous. However the gameplay trailer was fantastic and pretty much exactly what I wanted from an MK game. I just hope that Kano (MK version) and Shang Tsung (MKII version) are around the corner. As in I don't want a laser-eye shooting Kano or an old man Shang.
Still, with the announcement of the price drop for the 360 and this game on the horizon, I am buying a 360 this week. I was a huge MKII fan back in my arcade rat days and I am not expecting a completely fair and balanced ultra competitive game so I expect that my expectations will be met.
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Seems to be that none of the gaming websites have noticed that Sareena is clearly visible in the trailer for the new game.
Though I think she's only been a playable fighter in all of... oh... 2 MK games (Armageddon, and I think the GBA version of Deadly Alliance)... so probably not that popular.
Point of order: Baraka is from Outland, which is a wasteland that is a conglomerate of conquered dimensions. It's not really a hell dimension; just a crappy environment.
"Hell" would be the Netherrealm, which is a literal realm of fire and lava where demons roam and the souls of bad people go.
'course, not like anyone cares.
EDIT: You sure that was Sareena?
I see
Shao Kahn vs Raiden
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Reptile
Reptile vs Nightwolf
Mileena
Mileena vs Sub-Zero
Kung Lao
Kung Lao vs Reptile
Shao Kahn
Johnny Cage
Sektor
Nightwolf
Sub-Zero
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Mileena vs Sektor
Cage + Nightwolf vs Sub-Zero + Kung Lao
Sektor vs Reptile
Cage + Nightwolf vs Sub-Zero + Kung Lao
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Reptile vs Cage
Lao vs Sub-Zero
Cage
Lao vs Sub-Zero
Lao
... Oh hey, there's characters in the background of that final shot with Kung Lao. I think I see Kira .. and maybe Kitana? That could be Sareena after all.
You can also see old-man Tsung in the background shot of the first Mileena fight.
Point of order: Baraka is from Outland, which is a wasteland that is a conglomerate of conquered dimensions. It's not really a hell dimension; just a crappy environment.
"Hell" would be the Netherrealm, which is a literal realm of fire and lava where demons roam and the souls of bad people go.
'course, not like anyone cares.
EDIT: You sure that was Sareena?
I see
Shao Kahn vs Raiden
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Reptile
Reptile vs Nightwolf
Mileena
Mileena vs Sub-Zero
Kung Lao
Kung Lao vs Reptile
Shao Kahn
Johnny Cage
Sektor
Nightwolf
Sub-Zero
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Mileena vs Sektor
Cage + Nightwolf vs Sub-Zero + Kung Lao
Sektor vs Reptile
Cage + Nightwolf vs Sub-Zero + Kung Lao
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Reptile vs Cage
Lao vs Sub-Zero
Cage
Lao vs Sub-Zero
Lao
... Oh hey, there's characters in the background of that final shot with Kung Lao. I think I see Kira .. and maybe Kitana? That could be Sareena after all.
You can also see old-man Tsung in the background shot of the first Mileena fight.
The last shot after Lao kills Sub Zero and puts his hat back on, Sareena is clearly visible in the background. Hadn't noticed old-man Tsung though.
Interesting thought.... this game is supposed to span MK 1, 2 and 3. I wonder if we will have to fight Old Man Tsung and Goro? Or later on Kintaro and Motaro? I think Shao Khan is pretty much a given.
There's a character select screenshot from E3 that clearly shows that Scorpion is the first character on the top left. Although it doesn't show Raiden or Shao Khan. Maybe neither will be playable and they'll just be around for the lore? I would be perfectly fine with Shao Khan not being a playable character!
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
It'd be great if Jax's report was bullshit because they haven't seen the other realms/dimensions so they try their best to explain Reptile's and Baraka's sweet mutant abilities.
There's a character select screenshot from E3 that clearly shows that Scorpion is the first character on the top left. Although it doesn't show Raiden or Shao Khan. Maybe neither will be playable and they'll just be around for the lore? I would be perfectly fine with Shao Khan not being a playable character!
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
There's a character select screenshot from E3 that clearly shows that Scorpion is the first character on the top left. Although it doesn't show Raiden or Shao Khan. Maybe neither will be playable and they'll just be around for the lore? I would be perfectly fine with Shao Khan not being a playable character!
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
This article says there were noone was killed in MK v DC. HMMMMMM.........
Yeah people definitely died from the fatalities in MK v DC. They just pussied out about the gore (not showing Joker's shot for example), and had the "good" DC characters do some other non-fatal finishing move, which made sense.
Well. If they manage to get their act together and make a decent game I would like for Fatalities to have easier commands.
I never saw a point in making some of them the way they were.
Most of the commands for the 2D mortal kombat fatalities weren't really that bad. It's just that it seemed to be pretty precise about where you had to be standing.
There's a character select screenshot from E3 that clearly shows that Scorpion is the first character on the top left. Although it doesn't show Raiden or Shao Khan. Maybe neither will be playable and they'll just be around for the lore? I would be perfectly fine with Shao Khan not being a playable character!
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
This article says there were noone was killed in MK v DC. HMMMMMM.........
Yeah people definitely died from the fatalities in MK v DC. They just pussied out about the gore (not showing Joker's shot for example), and had the "good" DC characters do some other non-fatal finishing move, which made sense.
Though the non-fatal "Heroic Brutalities" were only non-fatal in that the character somehow miraculously survives the punished inflicted upon them, even though it's about the same as other, more fatal finishers.
There's a character select screenshot from E3 that clearly shows that Scorpion is the first character on the top left. Although it doesn't show Raiden or Shao Khan. Maybe neither will be playable and they'll just be around for the lore? I would be perfectly fine with Shao Khan not being a playable character!
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
This article says there were noone was killed in MK v DC. HMMMMMM.........
Yeah people definitely died from the fatalities in MK v DC. They just pussied out about the gore (not showing Joker's shot for example), and had the "good" DC characters do some other non-fatal finishing move, which made sense.
Though the non-fatal "Heroic Brutalities" were only non-fatal in that the character somehow miraculously survives the punished inflicted upon them, even though it's about the same as other, more fatal finishers.
Like where the Green Lantern crushed his opponent, or where Superman hits them in the ground so hard they are buried up to their neck
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Well. If they manage to get their act together and make a decent game I would like for Fatalities to have easier commands.
I never saw a point in making some of them the way they were.
Most of the commands for the 2D mortal kombat fatalities weren't really that bad. It's just that it seemed to be pretty precise about where you had to be standing.
Oh yeah, that was my biggest problem with it.
Especially when your character had fullscreen fatalities and you were right next to your opponent. And they only stayed dizzy for like...3 seconds.
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There's a character select screenshot from E3 that clearly shows that Scorpion is the first character on the top left. Although it doesn't show Raiden or Shao Khan. Maybe neither will be playable and they'll just be around for the lore? I would be perfectly fine with Shao Khan not being a playable character!
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
This article says there were noone was killed in MK v DC. HMMMMMM.........
Yeah people definitely died from the fatalities in MK v DC. They just pussied out about the gore (not showing Joker's shot for example), and had the "good" DC characters do some other non-fatal finishing move, which made sense.
Though the non-fatal "Heroic Brutalities" were only non-fatal in that the character somehow miraculously survives the punished inflicted upon them, even though it's about the same as other, more fatal finishers.
Like where the Green Lantern crushed his opponent, or where Superman hits them in the ground so hard they are buried up to their neck
"I will confine you to live in traction with tubes coming out of you for the rest of your miserable life, but I won't actually end your life. Because I'm a good guy."
Hearing Jeff Gerstmann talk about the mechanics of how this plays on the Bombcast is making me so wet for it
Basically making a classic MKII-style game and adding in EX moves, three-tier specials and keeping the combo breaker in? Yes please. And the X-ray moves sound really fun too.
There's a character select screenshot from E3 that clearly shows that Scorpion is the first character on the top left. Although it doesn't show Raiden or Shao Khan. Maybe neither will be playable and they'll just be around for the lore? I would be perfectly fine with Shao Khan not being a playable character!
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
This article says there were noone was killed in MK v DC. HMMMMMM.........
Yeah people definitely died from the fatalities in MK v DC. They just pussied out about the gore (not showing Joker's shot for example), and had the "good" DC characters do some other non-fatal finishing move, which made sense.
Though the non-fatal "Heroic Brutalities" were only non-fatal in that the character somehow miraculously survives the punished inflicted upon them, even though it's about the same as other, more fatal finishers.
Like where the Green Lantern crushed his opponent, or where Superman hits them in the ground so hard they are buried up to their neck
"I will confine you to live in traction with tubes coming out of you for the rest of your miserable life, but I won't actually end your life. Because I'm a good guy."
Someone posted the full fatality video from youtube a few pages back. It was more of a HMMMM...... they didn't play that damn thing, did they?
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If they're going to put Shang Tsung as a playable character in this game, they should give him back his one/two/three flaming skulls ability. I'm tired of this 3D fire closer/far thing.
This game should be getting more love. Perhaps if it had its own thread and was not lumped in with the live-action trailer it would be better off? There is news, videos and information coming out daily.
This game should be getting more love. Perhaps if it had its own thread and was not lumped in with the live-action trailer it would be better off? There is news, videos and information coming out daily.
Ask the op or a mod to change the title and we can hve an MK thread like the Resident Evil one.
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That really turned around my opinion of this. I'm seeing it as less of a rehash now and more of a "Mortal Kombat Ultimates" (Not ot be confused with Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 )
Fatalities look really cool. A lot less goof and a lot more brutal. The x-ray attacks are a lot more effective looking than I would have given them credit for.. you really go "Ouch" when you see them, which is not something I can say for a lot of stuff in Mortal Kombat, outside of Fatalities.
The select screen seemed to have room for 26 characters, plus more through DLC, so we should get a good lineup.
I'm watching the video now, I feel like I did the first time I did walking into a bowling alley, and seeing kano ripping out sub zero's heart for the first time. I put up my quarter, and proceeded to get my head ripped off
Wow reptile looks as vunerable as ever with his force ball. Why do I think character like sub and scorpion will have an advantage for the super like moves. Being able to have an opponent free for a beating.
Each character will "play differently". (I'm hoping this just means they put work into their normals, unlike previous 2D versions where they all felt kind of the same)
Tag battle looks awesome. It has assists and your second character can be switched doing an attack. This means you can start a combo and call them in with the last attack to finish it. Basically it'll allow safe switching so you don't get pummeled when a new character first comes in.
Online:
1 vs 1 (sounds like SFIV ranked)
2 vs 2 (It sounds like this may be using the tag battle where each person controls a character. But they didn't say specifically. It could also be like SSFIV team battle mode)
Online lobbies for multiple players. People not currently playing will spectate the match.
In that first video that antihippy posted, the fight with nightwolf and johnny cage is awesome.
They have the xray combo going on with johnny doing a one-two hit combo to nightwolfs' groin. Then while he is lurched over holding his said groin, johnny elbows him in the back.
Alright, after antihippy's video i am very excited for this. I was hoping reptile would be good, but im not so sure, maybe the forceball will be active earlier in its animation. 26 characters is a lot, but it means probably the entire MK2 cast plus the best Mk3 guys made it. The 3d series did introduce a few really good characters (quan chi, ermac, havik), so maybe they make the cut anyways.
Alright, after antihippy's video i am very excited for this. I was hoping reptile would be good, but im not so sure, maybe the forceball will be active earlier in its animation. 26 characters is a lot, but it means probably the entire MK2 cast plus the best Mk3 guys made it. The 3d series did introduce a few really good characters (quan chi, ermac, havik), so maybe they make the cut anyways.
Also, everyone seemed to have a lot of HP.
Edit: Online mode? Will Scorpion==Ken?
Ermac is from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. He's my favorite ninja of the 2D games. I hope he makes it in.
I didn't mind that the characters played similarly in the 2D MKs. It was a limitation of using real actors. Messing around with proportions works fine for SF but they never look right when real actors do it (ie. SF:The Move).
Now that everything's polygons, though, it would be nice to have different punches and kicks. The old games had different ranges, which people never seemed to notice, but they always felt like the same moves.
Alright, after antihippy's video i am very excited for this. I was hoping reptile would be good, but im not so sure, maybe the forceball will be active earlier in its animation. 26 characters is a lot, but it means probably the entire MK2 cast plus the best Mk3 guys made it. The 3d series did introduce a few really good characters (quan chi, ermac, havik), so maybe they make the cut anyways.
Also, everyone seemed to have a lot of HP.
Edit: Online mode? Will Scorpion==Ken?
Ermac is from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. He's my favorite ninja of the 2D games. I hope he makes it in.
Oh, that's good news. He was one of my fav's in the 3d games because they gave him a sweet ax.
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Interview with the director: who incidentally also directed Fame /mindblown
http://www.collider.com/2010/06/09/kevin-tancharoen-interview-mortal-kombat-rebirth-feature-film/
Still, with the announcement of the price drop for the 360 and this game on the horizon, I am buying a 360 this week. I was a huge MKII fan back in my arcade rat days and I am not expecting a completely fair and balanced ultra competitive game so I expect that my expectations will be met.
Though I think she's only been a playable fighter in all of... oh... 2 MK games (Armageddon, and I think the GBA version of Deadly Alliance)... so probably not that popular.
"Hell" would be the Netherrealm, which is a literal realm of fire and lava where demons roam and the souls of bad people go.
'course, not like anyone cares.
EDIT: You sure that was Sareena?
I see
Shao Kahn vs Raiden
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Reptile
Reptile vs Nightwolf
Mileena
Mileena vs Sub-Zero
Kung Lao
Kung Lao vs Reptile
Shao Kahn
Johnny Cage
Sektor
Nightwolf
Sub-Zero
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Mileena vs Sektor
Cage + Nightwolf vs Sub-Zero + Kung Lao
Sektor vs Reptile
Cage + Nightwolf vs Sub-Zero + Kung Lao
Cage vs Sub-Zero
Reptile vs Cage
Lao vs Sub-Zero
Cage
Lao vs Sub-Zero
Lao
... Oh hey, there's characters in the background of that final shot with Kung Lao. I think I see Kira .. and maybe Kitana? That could be Sareena after all.
You can also see old-man Tsung in the background shot of the first Mileena fight.
Yeah, when they still had the whole Johhny Cage is an actor turned mercinary still in there I was like "yup, still dumb".
Maybe he's Jamaican? Don't hate.
The last shot after Lao kills Sub Zero and puts his hat back on, Sareena is clearly visible in the background. Hadn't noticed old-man Tsung though.
Interesting thought.... this game is supposed to span MK 1, 2 and 3. I wonder if we will have to fight Old Man Tsung and Goro? Or later on Kintaro and Motaro? I think Shao Khan is pretty much a given.
Also, from the other screenshots, we can see that Johnny Cage has the Torso Rip Fatality again and that Reptile has a Fatality where he spits venom/acid down the throat of his opponent. Also Sektor blows his opponent into chunks with his missles then blows those chunks into smaller chunks with more missles.
http://wildgunmen.com/blog/2010/06/15/e3-first-look-mortal-kombat/
i also find it hilarious that in MK, good cyborgs are black, and bad cyborgs are white
They have to include Baraka, right? Right?
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This article says there were noone was killed in MK v DC. HMMMMMM.........
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Yeah people definitely died from the fatalities in MK v DC. They just pussied out about the gore (not showing Joker's shot for example), and had the "good" DC characters do some other non-fatal finishing move, which made sense.
I never saw a point in making some of them the way they were.
Most of the commands for the 2D mortal kombat fatalities weren't really that bad. It's just that it seemed to be pretty precise about where you had to be standing.
Though the non-fatal "Heroic Brutalities" were only non-fatal in that the character somehow miraculously survives the punished inflicted upon them, even though it's about the same as other, more fatal finishers.
Like where the Green Lantern crushed his opponent, or where Superman hits them in the ground so hard they are buried up to their neck
Oh yeah, that was my biggest problem with it.
Especially when your character had fullscreen fatalities and you were right next to your opponent. And they only stayed dizzy for like...3 seconds.
"I will confine you to live in traction with tubes coming out of you for the rest of your miserable life, but I won't actually end your life. Because I'm a good guy."
Basically making a classic MKII-style game and adding in EX moves, three-tier specials and keeping the combo breaker in? Yes please. And the X-ray moves sound really fun too.
Someone posted the full fatality video from youtube a few pages back. It was more of a HMMMM...... they didn't play that damn thing, did they?
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Seems like a time to repost it since it's come up again. All the DC Brutalities start @3:47
The fatalities were definately tamer in comparison but a few of them I really liked. Baraka, Deathstroke, and Joker were all pretty well done
Ask the op or a mod to change the title and we can hve an MK thread like the Resident Evil one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1K0MfJcMBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBQYJPc66Ck
I'm actually really liking the looks of this one. As a reboot or something that's going back to the roots it's looking awesome.
Fatalities look really cool. A lot less goof and a lot more brutal. The x-ray attacks are a lot more effective looking than I would have given them credit for.. you really go "Ouch" when you see them, which is not something I can say for a lot of stuff in Mortal Kombat, outside of Fatalities.
The select screen seemed to have room for 26 characters, plus more through DLC, so we should get a good lineup.
But I don't have a Wii yet so I am awarding it to MK
Wow reptile looks as vunerable as ever with his force ball. Why do I think character like sub and scorpion will have an advantage for the super like moves. Being able to have an opponent free for a beating.
Here's an interview which I think has gotten me more excited about the game than anything else.
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/main.htm
Highlights
Each character will "play differently". (I'm hoping this just means they put work into their normals, unlike previous 2D versions where they all felt kind of the same)
Tag battle looks awesome. It has assists and your second character can be switched doing an attack. This means you can start a combo and call them in with the last attack to finish it. Basically it'll allow safe switching so you don't get pummeled when a new character first comes in.
Online:
1 vs 1 (sounds like SFIV ranked)
2 vs 2 (It sounds like this may be using the tag battle where each person controls a character. But they didn't say specifically. It could also be like SSFIV team battle mode)
Online lobbies for multiple players. People not currently playing will spectate the match.
They have the xray combo going on with johnny doing a one-two hit combo to nightwolfs' groin. Then while he is lurched over holding his said groin, johnny elbows him in the back.
It was quite pleasant to watch
Kung Lao's fatality was also quite gruesome lol
Also, everyone seemed to have a lot of HP.
Edit: Online mode? Will Scorpion==Ken?
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Ermac is from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. He's my favorite ninja of the 2D games. I hope he makes it in.
Now that everything's polygons, though, it would be nice to have different punches and kicks. The old games had different ranges, which people never seemed to notice, but they always felt like the same moves.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to this.
Oh, that's good news. He was one of my fav's in the 3d games because they gave him a sweet ax.
Edit: 18 fighters left, lets see if we can guess.
Raiden
Shao Kahn
Kano
Sonya
Jax
Shang Tsung
Kabal
Cyrax
Baraka
Liu Kang
Smoke
Ermac
Goro
Noob
Jade
Sindel
Kitana
And from the 3ds: Quan Chi
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I agree!