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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.... WTF?

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    elkatas wrote: »
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Wouldn't they have to tone down the violence ALOT for it to be acceptable to DC? I mean, I doubt DC would allow Superman to be melting people with his vision as a fatality and shit like that.

    By my understanding, Midway is aiming for T rating, which means no blood, and highly stylized fatalities (or no fatalities at all).

    It's hard to conceive of such a tame Mortal Kombat these days..

    'Course they have gimped the violence before. Back. in the snes days..

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  • DartboyDartboy Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Batman: QCF+Punch to Prepare.

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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    slash000 wrote: »
    elkatas wrote: »
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Wouldn't they have to tone down the violence ALOT for it to be acceptable to DC? I mean, I doubt DC would allow Superman to be melting people with his vision as a fatality and shit like that.

    By my understanding, Midway is aiming for T rating, which means no blood, and highly stylized fatalities (or no fatalities at all).

    It's hard to conceive of such a tame Mortal Kombat these days..

    'Course they have gimped the violence before. Back. in the snes days..

    I think the only good thing to come of that was Sub Zero's new fatality

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  • mynameisguidomynameisguido Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Very strange, but still not quite as strange as Yoda in Soul Calibur.

    It's getting so weird with fighting games these days, what's MUGEN even good for now?

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    randombattle wrote: »
    Yoda and Vader in Soul Calibur.. Batman and the rest in Mortal Kombat.. Sonic in Brawl..


    If you would of said any of this 10 years ago you would of been called insane.

    It seems with every passing day, this becomes more and more true.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Actually I dig the idea of a T-rated MK vs. DC with stylized fatalities. Because honestly, Fatalities were always about the shock and cool factor, and they haven't had that since MK3. Fatalities since then have been pretty lame. But a Batman "fatality" (or whatever they call it)? I would love to see that.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    BTW, here is first footage from the game 8-)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-zLJpUMtk

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  • DusdaDusda is ashamed of this post SLC, UTRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Whats the explanation for Superman in these sort of games? Is he wearing a kryptonite belt or something?

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dusda wrote: »
    Whats the explanation for Superman in these sort of games? Is he wearing a kryptonite belt or something?

    Well, there is lots of gods in Mortal Kombat character roster, and mortals who can kick god's ass. :)

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  • FireWeaselFireWeasel Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Do they hand out Kryptonite gloves to everybody fighting Superman? I'm not sure how that'd all work.

    Unless of course Supes just acts like a total dick and hovers out of range, frying people with his eyes. STOP SPAMMING SUPERN00B

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Actually I dig the idea of a T-rated MK vs. DC with stylized fatalities. Because honestly, Fatalities were always about the shock and cool factor, and they haven't had that since MK3. Fatalities since then have been pretty lame. But a Batman "fatality" (or whatever they call it)? I would love to see that.

    MK 3 had awful fatalities. Deadly Alliance brought the game back.

    Anyway, a T rated Mortal Kombat isn't really a game. There's nothing left when you remove the hilarious amounts of blood and gore.

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  • DusdaDusda is ashamed of this post SLC, UTRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    elkatas wrote: »
    Dusda wrote: »
    Whats the explanation for Superman in these sort of games? Is he wearing a kryptonite belt or something?

    Well, there are lots of gods in the Mortal Kombat character roster, and mortals who can kick gods ass'. :)

    Yea but MK gods are kinda wimpy (relatively) for some reason.

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  • toxk_02toxk_02 Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oh no.

    Oh no no no no nonononononono.

    Unless this happens:

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    Then OH YES.

    But still....what???

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Yes there is.

    MK is the premiere fighting franchise for people who suck at ones that take a lot of skill. There is still a large audience for MK.

    EDIT: Case in point, I've never had to wonder about which millisecond time-frame I had to enter a button command in at with MK.

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Yes there is.

    MK is the premiere fighting franchise for people who want to have fun playing a video game with their friends

    Fixed that for you.

    Only series better at that is possibly smash bros

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    DisruptorX2 wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Yes there is.

    MK is the premiere fighting franchise for people who want to have fun playing a video game with their friends

    Fixed that for you.

    Only series better at that is possibly smash bros

    You're the one saying there's no game beneath the gore! There obviously is, just not a very deep one. DC > gore, in my opinion.

    Also, Scorpion vs. Green Lantern...uh oh!

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    DisruptorX2 wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Yes there is.

    MK is the premiere fighting franchise for people who want to have fun playing a video game with their friends

    Fixed that for you.

    Only series better at that is possibly smash bros

    You're the one saying there's no game beneath the gore! There obviously is, just not a very deep one. DC > gore, in my opinion.

    Exaggeration, but the SNES version of MK pretty much shows what happens when you take away all the violence. Its a really, really bad game.

    MK does have a cool story, setting, and characters, which makes me like it a lot more than it deserves. And 2 and V were just plain fun.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I prefer Deception to DA. In fact, the only two discs I really need are Deception and Shaolin Monks (which aside from being fun as hell also includes MKII).

    Man, all my friends used to work the graveyard shift at IHOP, and when Deception came out we brought out the TV they had in the back, hooked it up and had Deception competitions nearly every weekend for cash. I was kicking ass with Jade.

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Baraka was always my character of choice ever since I first played 2. It pissed me off that they added him, but removed Shang Tsung, my favourite in DA.

    Also amusing is how you can do 80% damage combos in DA with Quan Chi and about 72% ones with Raiden.

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  • DysonDyson Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I enjoyed MK Armageddon, I guess I'm not a hardcore badazz at fighting games. Sorry

    But the addition of DC makes me really interested in this, I dont really care that they are switching to a T rating. Fatalities sucked in MK Armageddon so I'm used to them being gone anyway

    Hope its legit

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  • SaddlerSaddler Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dartboy wrote: »
    Batman: QCF+Punch to Prepare.

    Preparing would have to be Batman's fatality though, since not even Superman can defeat it.

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  • IdolNinjaIdolNinja Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    DisruptorX2 wrote: »
    Baraka was always my character of choice ever since I first played 2. It pissed me off that they added him, but removed Shang Tsung, my favourite in DA.

    Also amusing is how you can do 80% damage combos in DA with Quan Chi and about 72% ones with Raiden.

    I loved Shang Tsung's sword impale in DA. Deception would have been perfect if they had left that in. Shaolin Monks was all sorts of unexpected awesome too.

    Anyways, wait... What? DC vs MK? Huh? This is krazy talk. Krazy awesome talk.

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  • MC MysteryMC Mystery Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Well this pisses me off.

    I would KILL to see my favorite DC characters face off against my favorite Capcom characters, but Mortal Kombat sucks ass, and I really really would hate to see the DC universe through it's lenses (whereas capcom-styled fighting games could even ballance supes IMO)

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  • LBD_NytetraynLBD_Nytetrayn TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    maximumzero wrote: »
    Is this is real, this is more fucking awesome than Mario & Sonic at the Olympics.

    Fuck yes.

    Like the Power Rangers teaming up with the Ninja Turtles...
    Nocren wrote: »
    Questions....
    Why is there the WB logo on there? Something like this should only have the DC and Midway/MK logos.
    And I hope to god this isn't just a simple comic-crossover.

    Warner Bros. owns DC.

    Mad Magazine, too.

    AOL Time Warner owns quite a bit, actually.

    Anyway, if real, I want Batman Beyond and Mary Marvel in there.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    The Mortal Kombat Online forums have exploded into pure rage. A few select quotes follow. Please note that "Boon" is obviously Ed Boon, just for the record.
    i just got a creative idea.....take my saved 8,000 dollars and use it to pay someone to design me the most awsome looking scorpion costume.....i mean litterally sick looking..... take 6 months out of my life to make the sharpest blade i could possibly make and get as ripped as possible...take my remaining money to find out exactly where boon sleeps.....and then i do it.....sneek into his room during the night and stand there.....in my disgusting looking outfit....loooking real as hell.....he wakes up maybe i make a little sound.....his wife runs out of the room.....i stand still waiting for him to move...then stand him up and slice his fucking body from his dick to his heart.....and look down at him as he dies and say.......FATALITY.....

    It's over. The MK franchise finally ended up with the gutter trash like DOA,Tekken and the last Soul Calibur games.
    MIDWAY is a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!!

    Mortal Kombat is a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!

    MK-Team is a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!!!

    ED BOON your are a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!!!

    your are, ha ha ha

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Speaking of fatalities..

    Batman's needs to be that thing he always did in the animated series where he the criminal would like fall to the floor. Then Batman would just walk into the camera and it would fade to black.

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  • ArcibiArcibi Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Cloudman wrote: »
    The Mortal Kombat Online forums have exploded into pure rage. A few select quotes follow. Please note that "Boon" is obviously Ed Boon, just for the record.
    i just got a creative idea.....take my saved 8,000 dollars and use it to pay someone to design me the most awsome looking scorpion costume.....i mean litterally sick looking..... take 6 months out of my life to make the sharpest blade i could possibly make and get as ripped as possible...take my remaining money to find out exactly where boon sleeps.....and then i do it.....sneek into his room during the night and stand there.....in my disgusting looking outfit....loooking real as hell.....he wakes up maybe i make a little sound.....his wife runs out of the room.....i stand still waiting for him to move...then stand him up and slice his fucking body from his dick to his heart.....and look down at him as he dies and say.......FATALITY.....

    It's over. The MK franchise finally ended up with the gutter trash like DOA,Tekken and the last Soul Calibur games.
    MIDWAY is a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!!

    Mortal Kombat is a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!

    MK-Team is a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!!!

    ED BOON your are a FUCKIN SELL OUT!!!!!

    your are, ha ha ha

    I especially like the one I bolded

    All pretending that Mortal Kombat was ever relevant

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  • LBD_NytetraynLBD_Nytetrayn TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Relevant enough to help lead to the ESRB, at any rate.

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  • Fatboy RobertsFatboy Roberts Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    They're just gonna call em "knockout blows" or something?

    And while I'm thinking DC heroes, why wouldn't there be DC Villains, too? Goro vs Gorilla Grodd would be fun to watch. As would Shang Tsung vs The Joker. For whatever reason, I'm imagining The Joker plays like Baraka.

    Powersuit Luthor vs Raiden

    Liu Kang vs Darkseid

    I really have no clue how to even begin IMAGINING what this is going to look and play like. Not even the slightest. I hope it's a lot more fluid than most MK games are. I'm skeptical initially, because this feels to me like the time I was told, way back in the mid nineties "So yeah, Star Wars is getting a fighting game, and they're basing it on Tekken." and I got all excited because Star Wars + Fighting Game sounded like THE BALLS at the time.

    Johnny Cage vs Booster Gold

    Mileena vs R'as Al Ghul

    Quan Chi vs The Penguin

    ...yeah, this doesn't make any fuckin sense. Wow. Weird

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Aquaman, people

    Aquaman

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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Who?

    :p

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  • Fatboy RobertsFatboy Roberts Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Aquaman vs Stryker in a battle of bullshit.
    Kabal vs The Question

    I'm wondering how many of the DC guys are just gonna be palette swaps/clones of MK fighters. Batman's basically a ninja already. I'm betting Superman's moveset is going to be based on Raiden's. Johnny Cage/Booster Gold. Kung Lao/Green Arrow.

    Kingdom Come Superman as an alternate costume?

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  • Vangu VegroVangu Vegro Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games...

    Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood...

    Yoda & Darth in Soul Calibur...

    Mortal Kombat vs. DC...

    How much more of these can my brain take? Stay tumed to (possibly) find out!

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I will bet anything that LEGO Indiana Jones has some unlockable LEGO Star Wars characters in it. If I can play as LEGO Indy alongside LEGO Han, my life will be complete.

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  • KrisKris Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Cloudman wrote: »
    I will bet anything that LEGO Indiana Jones has some unlockable LEGO Star Wars characters in it. If I can play as LEGO Indy alongside LEGO Han, my life will be complete.

    Wrong thread? :P

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  • Fatboy RobertsFatboy Roberts Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    You can already do that in Lego Star Wars on Wii, can't you?

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  • DisruptorX2DisruptorX2 Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Arcibi wrote: »
    I especially like the one I bolded

    All pretending that Mortal Kombat was ever relevant

    I'm pretty sure that around the time of MK 2, it was the most popular fighting game.

    At least, that was my perspective.

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  • ArcibiArcibi Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    DisruptorX2 wrote: »
    Arcibi wrote: »
    I especially like the one I bolded

    All pretending that Mortal Kombat was ever relevant

    I'm pretty sure that around the time of MK 2, it was the most popular fighting game.

    At least, that was my perspective.

    Eh, maybe

    I was never really much for Mortal Kombat, though

    I was a Street Fighter guy through and through

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Two legitimate requests:

    1. HIRE ACTUAL CHARACTER MODELERS.

    Midway cannot break the habit of having characters having huge and or stupid looking anatomically incorrect characters. If Batman looks like a malformed retard with downs I'm gonna snap.

    2. DITCH THE OLD MK FIGHTING MECHANICS

    Seriously. I loved 1992 too but this shit is killing me.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    This is making me laugh so hard.

    So hard.

    The Mortal Kombat series has been a joke for a decade plus now. And this is the punchline.

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