Crave Online Interviews Midway's Ed Boon and John Edwards

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<a href="http://www.craveonline.com">Crave Online</a> has posted a <a href="http://www.craveonline.com/articles/gaming/04651855/mortal_kombat_vs_dc_universe_ed_boon_interview.html"> lengthy interview</a> with <a href="http://www.trmk.org/games/mortal_kombat_vs_dc_universe/">Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe</a> developers <b>Ed Boon</b> and <b>John Edwards</b>. The interview questions vary from how the fatalities/brutality system work, to if the story is canon or not and even discussed how they paired up characters from each side that are similar to each other.

Here's an excerpt from <a href="http://www.craveonline.com/articles/gaming/04651855/mortal_kombat_vs_dc_universe_ed_boon_interview.html">the interview</a>:
Crave Online: Do the Mortal Kombat characters have new powers?

John Edwards: Yeah, they're all still based on their theme basically. Subzero, obviously his stuff's all going to involve ice to some degree, but he does have a new teleport where he actually freezes himself into a puddle and pops out the other side. We definitely add new moves for all the MK characters as well to keep up with all the newness of the DC side.
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This interview was retarded.

"Crave Online: How much fun thinking of words to spell with K instead of C?"

Seriously, they really asked that.
 
What's wrong with asking that? It isn't a really formal interview. It seems more of a... conversation between friends.
 
Crave Online: Is there a corresponding MK character for each DC one?

Ed Boon: It's interesting you said that because a lot of people asked, "How did you choose which characters to pick?" A lot of it was based on that. We were saying, "What is the equivalent of a Batman in our universe?" That's Subzero. What is the equivalent of a Scorpion? It was like our Flash. A lot of our decisions were based on counterparts basically.
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Oh really?

Crave Online: Also, because it's awesome.

Ed Boon: Well, there you go. Short answer, because it's awesome. I'll have to remember that for the next interview. "How can you beat up Superman?" "Because it's awesome." And, done.
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LOL. The Crave guys are idiots.
 
This is ridiculous, I've been trying to load this page for the past hour and it WON'T LOAD. I'm gonna reset my router if this keeps up.

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Ok that worked wonders. Definitely a good interview, and really, I don't think they're morons at all. That really IS the reason for these things. "Because it's awesome." That's the logic for ALL crossovers that a lot of fans didn't "get" in the beginning.
 
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Crave Online: Do the Mortal Kombat characters have new powers?

John Edwards: Yeah, they're all still based on their theme basically. Subzero, obviously his stuff's all going to involve ice to some degree, but he does have a new teleport where he actually freezes himself into a puddle and pops out the other side. We definitely add new moves for all the MK characters as well to keep up with all the newness of the DC side.
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Glacius, anyone?
 
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