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

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  • SilkyNumNutsSilkyNumNuts Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Hey, V's a DC character isn't he, at least technically?

    Or dream...

    Ah well. It's a nice wish. They're about the only DC characters I have any connection with.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    We'll call it 'Ultra Crush Siblings'

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  • shyguyshyguy Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Around 40 characters combined would give us a nice cross section of the DCU.

    Twenty DC characters would be enough to get the heavy hitters from the Justice League and Teen Titans, as well as some supporting characters and villains.

    Off the top of my head, twenty characters could get you Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Robin, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, Nightwing, Catwoman, Supergirl, Artemis, Hawkman, Lex Luthor, Mongul, Cheetah, Gorilla Grodd, and the Joker.

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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I feel like I fell into a time machine to 1994.

    Especially with the 616 Spider-Man game on the horizon, too. Before you know it, we'll have a successful and well-written Star Trek franchise on the air again.

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  • TheBogTheBog Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Sorry. This looks awful.

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  • RidleySariaRidleySaria AnaheimRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    For once I'm glad a game won't be coming to Wii. I don't want this stupid shit anywhere near my console.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dareth Ram wrote: »
    Video Interview with Ed Boon wherein he tries to explain the batshit crazy storyline the game follows and also how anyone could possibly fight Superman (it's magic!).
    Superman isn't fucking weak against magic.

    IF THOR CAN'T EVEN BEAT SUPERMAN WITH MAGIC MAGIC HAMMER, HIS MAGIC MAGIC SUPER STRENGTH, AND MAGIC MAGIC ELECTRICITY, NO ONE CAN. PERIOD. SORRY SHANG TSUNG, RAIDEN. YOU CAN'T.

    God, I hate Superman.

    Thor can beat Superman.

    And actually, Superman's not WEAK to Magic in the sense that, say, a Charizard is weak to a Water-attack. He's "weak" to it in the sense that he has no "super" defenses against it. Hit him with a magic blast and it'll hit just as hard as if he were a normal human.

    Also, what the fuck is with this magic bullshit all of a sudden?
    "Outworld has a red sun".
    Bam.
    Problem solved.

    "Batman is like the DC counterpart of Sub Zero."

    What the fuck? Where do you get this from?

    I...what

    Boon says it in the interview.

    More random stuff that doesn't make any sense.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    For once I'm glad a game won't be coming to Wii. I don't want this stupid shit anywhere near my console.

    That's okay, you still have Escape from Bug Island to cry over.

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  • NarianNarian Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Burnage wrote: »

    See I told you. There was no way DC would let their characters get ripped apart, as utterly cool as it would be.

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  • UselesswarriorUselesswarrior Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    NOR wrote: »
    So what are the chances that the actual mechanics behind the game aren't going to be junk like every other mortal kombat game ever?

    also, I think my brain is leaking out of my nose.

    Yeah the mechanics are kinda what hold mortal kombat back. More forgivable in 1995, but I played soul calibur and there is no going back. When is the last time an American developer made a decent fighter? Seriously, who is going to stand up for the US of A.

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I think we're all missing the big picture here.

    Wonder Woman with fighting game tit physics. Especially those ridicolous ones MK Deadly Alliance used.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Lars wrote: »
    So, how big a roster are we looking at here? I'm assuming a 1:1 ratio between MK and DC characters.
    In the last MK game, they tried to cram every single MK character ever into it and I think it topped out with 60-something characters.
    Do you think they'll try to cover their gameplay flaws with a huge amazing roster again, or tone it down to like 10 or each and actually try to fine tune it?
    Being Midway, I'm leaning towards the former. Actually, I'm kind of hoping for that as well. It's gameplay is going to be trashed anyways by virtue of being MK (whether those people play it or not), so might as well go with a WhoaOMG roster. Besides, 30+ DC characters increases Cassandra Cain's odds of making the cut.

    Armageddon was a sendoff to the series in preparation for a "reboot" so to speak. Sticking every single MK fighter ever in there was a fan-service more than anything else. The MK roster is to be culled, majorly so, and only the most popular characters are going to make the cut. The new game is to feature an entirely new fighting engine, as well.

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  • GoodOmensGoodOmens Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Hey, V's a DC character isn't he, at least technically?

    Or dream...

    The idea of the Sandman in a fighting game is simultaneously awesome and horrifying, because he'd end up with a QCF-Punch "Sand Breath" attack. Of course, summoning his big sister for a Fatality is just too perfect.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    HadjiQuest wrote: »
    I feel like I fell into a time machine to 1994.

    Especially with the 616 Spider-Man game on the horizon, too. Before you know it, we'll have a successful and well-written Star Trek franchise on the air again.

    *cough*

    It ain't far off.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    This is the wrongest thing since wrong came to wrongtown.

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  • Mr BubblesMr Bubbles David Koresh Superstar Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    The worst thing is, I will buy this. Even if Rorschach isn't in it

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  • rakuenCallistorakuenCallisto Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2008
    august wrote: »
    This is the wrongest thing since wrong came to wrongtown.
    You sir, make my brain hurt.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    What is the point of Mortal Kombat without a ton of blood and fatalities?

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    titmouse wrote: »
    What is the point of Mortal Kombat without a ton of blood and fatalities?

    to push buttons and make stuff happen on screen.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    titmouse wrote: »
    What is the point of Mortal Kombat without a ton of blood and fatalities?

    to push buttons and make stuff happen on screen.

    Who the hell buys Mortal Kombat for that?

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    titmouse wrote: »
    What is the point of Mortal Kombat without a ton of blood and fatalities?

    This is NON-FATAL KOMBAT

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Immortal Kombat?

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I think if there's no fatalities or blood, they have to start spelling 'Kombat', Combat. And all other C-words, for that matter. (haha, C-word!)

    I just think the privilige of intentional misspelling is reserved for those who are X-Treme. Fighting without fatalities and blood is NOT X-Treme.

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dunno.

    I guess they could still have fatalities.

    But make it so the DC characters get different animations, like Scorpion's flame breath of death merely burns the recipient...and Kano's (or his current generation replacement, whoever he may be) heart rip is replaced by...

    ...an appendix removal, thanks Kano!

    *hugs*

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    FINISH HIM!
    In a civil manner.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Kinda makes the days when the 'Friendship' moves were thrown in as a sly 'fuck off' to censors a little less powerful, huh?

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    mxmarks wrote: »
    I think if there's no fatalities or blood, they have to start spelling 'Kombat', Combat. And all other C-words, for that matter. (haha, C-word!)

    I just think the privilige of intentional misspelling is reserved for those who are X-Treme. Fighting without fatalities and blood is NOT X-Treme.

    It will be called Civil Combat. You will have to cill ten characters before reaching the final boss, Cahn.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dunno.

    I guess they could still have fatalities.

    But make it so the DC characters get different animations, like Scorpion's flame breath of death merely burns the recipient...and Kano's (or his current generation replacement, whoever he may be) heart rip is replaced by...

    ...an appendix removal, thanks Kano!

    *hugs*

    Kano's heart extraction is replaced by a Kryptonite insertion.

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  • VothVoth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    The teaser video doesn't look too bad. There may be hope for this, yet.

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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    X-Play said 20 around total characters, with heroes and villains from each side, and that Gotham and the Fortress of Solitude would be stages.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    HadjiQuest wrote: »
    X-Play said 20 around total characters, with heroes and villains from each side, and that Gotham and the Fortress of Solitude would be stages.

    It would be awesome if I could use civilians as meatshields.

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    titmouse wrote: »
    HadjiQuest wrote: »
    X-Play said 20 around total characters, with heroes and villains from each side, and that Gotham and the Fortress of Solitude would be stages.

    It would be awesome if I could use civilians as weapons.

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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So are all the finishers going to be "Friendship" finishers?

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  • SpeedySwafSpeedySwaf Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I want Superman's finisher to be him reeling his arm back for his most powerful punch ever, but when he goes forward he stops an inch from the opponents face, flicks his finger, and sends them into the distance.

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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    SpeedySwaf wrote: »
    I want Superman's finisher to be him reeling his arm back for his most powerful punch ever, but when he goes forward he stops an inch from the opponents face, flicks his finger, and sends them into the distance.

    Or, you know, Phantom Zone.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I want baby Superman to be a character.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    HadjiQuest: Where did you hear about this 616 Spider-Man game?

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  • -SPI--SPI- Osaka, JapanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I'm shocked that sub zero is almost recognisable in the image/trailer, he doesn't have a ridiculous crown or Shredder outfit or anything. They've altered the character designs so much over the years that with the last few games I'll be looking at an image and it won't be until I read a caption or description that I realise that it's actually meant to be Reptile or Smoke.

    It's a bad sign for their artists when the palette swaps of old look better in comparison.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    this is the weirdest thing

    also, i really hope martian manhunter is in

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  • CokomonCokomon Our butts are worth fighting for! Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    -SPI- wrote: »
    I'm shocked that sub zero is almost recognisable in the image/trailer, he doesn't have a ridiculous crown or Shredder outfit or anything. They've altered the character designs so much over the years that with the last few games I'll be looking at an image and it won't be until I read a caption or description that I realise that it's actually meant to be Reptile or Smoke.

    It's a bad sign for their artists when the palette swaps of old look better in comparison.

    I actually liked Ermac's belt head design, and Scorpion has barely ever changed. But yeah, Sub-Zero's alternate costume in Deception was bad, the one with the white pony tail.

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