Why no Mortal Combat

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Why not remake some of the older stuff? I used to love to play Mortal Combat in the arcade and even on the consoles.

I think if they just redid the old one I'd be happy. Heck with any newer crap.
 
They released MK2 and MK3 on the 360 and PS3 with online play.
The more recent ones like Deadly Alliance weren't bad.
I think it's a franchise that they took as far as they could. High level MK play is torture and they milked the fatality idea about as much as they could. Personally I think the series peaked with #2 anyway.
 
The best MK game for me was MK3:Ultimate. I hope they make another one focussed on 2D fighting (look at Street Fighter 4 for inspiration - modern graphics, same gameplay) with the same old real-looking gory fatalities.
 
the last few mk games killed the name pretty bad i don't expect to see another mk game for quite a while
 
Domingo said:
They released MK2 and MK3 on the 360 and PS3 with online play.
The more recent ones like Deadly Alliance weren't bad.
I think it's a franchise that they took as far as they could. High level MK play is torture and they milked the fatality idea about as much as they could. Personally I think the series peaked with #2 anyway.
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Yeah, I agree. They went downhill after the second one :( I highly doubt we'll see another one anytime soon. Or atleast, not like the originals.

all of the 3D ones were garbage. How they managed to screw such a groundbreaking franchise is beyond me.

oh well, either download them on PSN or LIVE, or play them via an emulator :)
 
dr.stevil said:
all of the 3D ones were garbage. How they managed to screw such a groundbreaking franchise is beyond me.
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No kidding. They tried way to hard to make the games have 3D game play, and the whole thing was a mess. I bought a couple of the 3D MK games, and each time I was shocked at how horribly mediocre the games felt. They took out everything that made the 2D games fun, created a shitty new 3D fighting platform, then pasted in some MK character models.
 
The first MK was groundbreaking, but the gameplay was horrible. Defensive crouch FTW. There was nothing to keep someone from just sitting there all day since throws could be avoided by holding d/b. Plus, there were tons of abusable combos in that one.

MK2 was a lot more offensive minded, although there were still too many anti-air moves.

MK3 added the idea of running up and mashing out combos which sounded fun on paper but ruined the gameplay flow. The upgrade making it "Ultimate" broke the CPU and unbalanced the game.

The less said about the rest of the series (MK4 in particular) the better, although the later games WERE better than MK4 and even MK3 in some ways.

I really think the legacy of the series is the idea of a juggle combo. They not only invented it - they implimented it pretty well, too.
 
reptile - fast power ball, slow power ball, uppercut!

man mk2 was great. I thought deadly alliance was pretty good.
 
The next Mortal Kombat is already in development. They said the game will focus on being "the most gory MK yet". I just want them to get away from all of the BS like weapons and 3d gameplay. Do what SF IV did and focus on 2D kombat with 3D characters, make some awesome fatailities and arena kills.
 
bigdogchris said:
The next Mortal Kombat is already in development. They said the game will focus on being "the most gory MK yet". I just want them to get away from all of the BS like weapons and 3d gameplay. Do what SF IV did and focus on 2D kombat with 3D characters, make some awesome fatailities and arena kills.
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Couldn't agree more, 2d is the new 3d :D

Expecting big things from Sonic 4 just for that reason.
 
MK2 on the SNES made me drop a few grades in my A levels!! Was it worth it?.........yup!!
 
Trilogy was okay on paper, but it was buggy as hell. Shiva and Goro could full-on hard lock the game just doing two teleport moves in a row. Not to mention they ported over the CPU from Ultimate and threw balance out the window for the new characters they added (more palate swaps).
Ultimate's when MK "jumped the shark" and Trilogy compounded that.
 
Thats the idea i had, take the old one mk1 mk2 and update the graphics, leave it 2d thats fine with me.

I just remember all the time i spent in the arcade with my bro playing the game. We used to have a ton of fun playing forever. I have it on the snes but when i hooked that up the graphics are horrible. How did we used to play those things :rolleyes:

I was about to buy a newer one not long ago, i forget the name, but the reviews had always sucked so I never bought it.

What made me write this thread was looking at street fighter 4 thinking how much i used to like to play mortal combat
 
Domingo said:
They released MK2 and MK3 on the 360 and PS3 with online play.
The more recent ones like Deadly Alliance weren't bad.
I think it's a franchise that they took as far as they could. High level MK play is torture and they milked the fatality idea about as much as they could. Personally I think the series peaked with #2 anyway.
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Agreed. MK2 was the pinnacle of the series, once they went with the combo system, it was obvious they were trying to be more like Killer Instinct, rather than MK.

That's too bad too because MK2 was freaking awesome and it was amongst the best 4.99 purchases I've ever made.
 
rcf1987 said:
the last few mk games killed the name pretty bad i don't expect to see another mk game for quite a while
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I wouldn't worry, Midway went under, and WB owns the rights now, I think they are only looking at resurrecting the movie series, yeah 2 was great, three was an "oh I can fall through layers now", and that was about it.
 
I think the worst thing about 3 was how broken and bad it was.
The running up and spaz-combo'ing thing was just weak. The whole game was like Ergheiz on crank with characters running around and going apeshit with button mashing.
They released 3 full-on new versions of the game into arcades before "Ultimate." Each one further nerfed the strong characters, changed the fatalities (so people would have to spend more to re-learn them), and tweaked the way you did a few of the moves.
 
Personally I liked mk3 the best but 4 wasn't to bad. I really wish arcades would get revived again. I miss going there on a friday night and having a crowd around the mk machine. My arcade use to have mk in those showcase machines so you could be far away and still see most of the action.
 
I was just saying to my friend that they should remake Mortal kombat with the old side view perspective like what SF4 did.

Id like to see a full character roster with all the characters from previous games (excluding DC characters of course)
 
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