Anyone else miss the digitized graphics?

Senzo Tanaka

Senzo Tanaka

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I remember the first thing that drew me to Mortal Kombat in the arcade was the violence but also the fact that it was REAL people I got to control. Pit Fighter may have been first but MK seemed to perfect it.

After MK3, Midway went animated/3D and the rest is history. I thought MK lost something unique when they decided to drop the digitized actors.

Sure it may be cheaper to hire a bunch of animators and spit out a bunch of characters but it lost its charm. Technology has jumped leaps and bounds above from when MK1 first hit the arcades. I would love to see some capable martial arts actors digitized with full motion captured movements in a future MK. This combined with a actual real life arenas and backgrounds could make for a really memorable game. It may be expensive to do but just for the fact that no one does it anymore would make it standout.

Can anyone look at a gif of one of the original ninjas from MK1 and think that one of the animated ones look cooler? Come on now.
 
If building models, textures, and animating were so simple, games would be take a lot less time for development. The original MK's were created in a matter of months; the actors were real but not not the backgrounds.
 
I do. But I think it should stay in the past. The HD remake scares me in that it may look like this nightmare :

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Yeah.. not so pretty.
 
Absolutely I miss them. Those sprites were the most amazing thing for my young mind that had grown up on Atari and Sonic the Hedgehog. If MK hadn't had digitized actors to begin with, I probably never would have become a fan.

Still, today's renders aren't all bad. What I don't understand is what they were thinking with some of the faces. The crazy costumes probably benefit more by not being real, and I won't complain on that end.
 
I hear ya , wish they would , but sadly the mk team lost their passion , now its all about the profit , a new company should do this ... byw google Dark Presence
 
I miss them a lot, but honestly it may have been time to move on a bit. Although maybe we'll see it again soon, with what LA Noir is doing. :)
 
raskassiano said:
I hear ya , wish they would , but sadly the mk team lost their passion , now its all about the profit , a new company should do this ... byw google Dark Presence
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You didn't see the image I posted didn't you? I don't think that them designing games with polygons as opposed to people has anything to do with their passion. Clearly you have not played this game or you would have seen the MASSIVE amounts of dedication that went into it.
This :
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Is not a good looking game.
 
It could be cool, but I think they'd have to hire Hollywood make-up artists. I mean, with HD graphics, it would be so easy to tell that Baraka is just some dude in a mask, you know?

I remember even in MK3, Stryker looked like a total idiot on the VS screen (and in the game too, I think).

So if they did it, they would either have to have world class make-up people help them, or do significant digital retouches.

BTW, I don't know if this is true or not, but I always heard that for the original MK, either Boon or Tobias stole that Buddha statue from a neighbor's yard and digitized it for the background of the game. I think parts of the backgrounds were digitized items put together as sort of a collage.
 
raskassiano said:
I hear ya , wish they would , but sadly the mk team lost their passion , now its all about the profit , a new company should do this ... byw google Dark Presence
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MK is suddenly all about profit? Midway has capitalized on the franchise since the first game. They had spin-off games, television series, movies, and all kinds of merchandise.
 
Take my hand, Bro. Absolutely agree, MK MUST return to real people. Maybe not in absolute 2D, but with real actors. When people resist, saying "No, sprites will never look better than 3D!!!" I mention this:


This is how new generation MKs must look!
 
In 3d models you can do much more, for example animations, 2nd costume, scars and battle damage,,,,anyway, i really miss the digitilazed actors.
 
I could care less about the digitized graphics. I mean thats what really made Mk stand out back than, along with the gruesome finishers, but get with the times and take advantage of the technology that we have. MK looks much more sophisticated and you can do things these days graphic wise than you couldnt have done obviously back than. I like the 3D appearance of the characters I think they should keep the 2D fighting plane for good.
 
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xamoel said:
In 3d models you can do much more, for example animations, 2nd costume, scars and battle damage,,,,anyway, i really miss the digitilazed actors.
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The same you can do with sprite graphics. Yes, you'll need more sprites, but it's already PS3 and XBox360, not Sega MD. Technology we have now, together with Boon's experience and cool MK team... Damn, these guys created INCRADABLE MK9!!! No a single doubt that thew WOULD create PERFECT sprite game which would look AWSOME and modern.
 
MK9 is awesome! But being I grew up with the MK arcades I would love to see the digitized graphics on the current generation systems in HD!
 
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