Guyver Spawn
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In this timeline, I want to see Lucifer and not Shinnok. I would love to see what the original NR ruler was like long before Shinnok existed.
Mortal Kombat 1 General Discussion Media Thread
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Misucra
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I doubt they even remember, that part. I don't expect them to do anything better with Netherrealm visuals either. Will drop in some lava and call it a day.
Commander
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Speaking of these types of characters, when Boon said some "obscure" characters could be kameos in that 1 interview, I think what he actually meant was some of the characters that (according to some of us in the fan base) probably wouldn't be as obscure as we think.
Like, to us characters like Aquilluxborg Hydroxybot or Belokk fall into the obscure category, but I could see characters that either haven't been playable in a while or even some sub-boss characters being what Boon really considers to be "obscure."
For example, I could see characters like Motaro, Moloch, Mavado, C/Khameleon, Darrius, Meat, etc, etc, etc... being kameo types of characters.
We already know that Goro is a kameo.
Like, to us characters like Aquilluxborg Hydroxybot or Belokk fall into the obscure category, but I could see characters that either haven't been playable in a while or even some sub-boss characters being what Boon really considers to be "obscure."
For example, I could see characters like Motaro, Moloch, Mavado, C/Khameleon, Darrius, Meat, etc, etc, etc... being kameo types of characters.
We already know that Goro is a kameo.
Misucra
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lariat
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Speaking of which.....It looks like most of the top NRS shill...I mean content creators are getting to participate in a stress test beta. Smaller channels and the rest of us get left out in the cold as usual. Their website says the codes are random but people that signed up are reporting that no one has been given a code but the usual suspects. Lots of people complaining about it on YouTube yada yada. Never change NRS.
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Xenon
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Yeah so the way NRS handles this game so far... What a laughing stock.
- Stress test fail
- Piss poor communication
- PC shafted
- "Wrong, low quality footage for reveal trailer!!!!"
- Low effort all around
I can definitely see these "4 years; it'll show!!!", Ed. This right here is the finest... THE FINEST AAA $70+ video game experience gamers can get.
Don't forget to pre-order that Lui statue, bitches!
Also apparently the MK2 movie people started "making fun" of people who didn't like what they were seeing... or was it the animated movie people?... ah who cares, consume product and be grateful for the privilege.
- Stress test fail
- Piss poor communication
- PC shafted
- "Wrong, low quality footage for reveal trailer!!!!"
- Low effort all around
I can definitely see these "4 years; it'll show!!!", Ed. This right here is the finest... THE FINEST AAA $70+ video game experience gamers can get.
Don't forget to pre-order that Lui statue, bitches!
Also apparently the MK2 movie people started "making fun" of people who didn't like what they were seeing... or was it the animated movie people?... ah who cares, consume product and be grateful for the privilege.
Commander
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Don't hold your breath for that.
Midway / NRS hasn't figured out a way to make him properly playable with 4 legs ever since Armageddon.
My best guess is that Motaro will end up being a kameo, if anything.
He has a weird body to do traditional Fatalities on but an ideal character to come in for a teleport punch, projectile, pop-up move or combo extender and have his own klassic Fatality.
Same goes for Ferra.
Saw someone talking about the likelihood of Ferra being a kameo and I was like "Yup, can totally see that."
Those 2 are likely to be R1 / RB + directional move easy assist characters.
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Misucra
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:|
It's like... yeah. This is pure fucking insanity.
Rinse and repeat. Every... single... fucking time.
This entire thing smells fishy.
You can't trust a single word Ed Boon says, cause he is known to be a complete fucking liar. And I am not talking his "trolling" on tweet. I am talking false advertisement levels of lying. So those "4 years of development" can be easily shut down as bullshit.
MK1 marketing is completely backwards.
Delayed stress test? Uh oh, sounds like game isn't ready for stress testing.
And even in this video... I just can't get over the towers design. Cheap PNG pictures. As a fellow artist, I can smell fancy looking half assed work, from a mile away. Looks pretty if you shut down your brain, but once you start paying attention you can see that this thing was thrown together pretty quickly.
Interface design is also bare fookin bones.
No matter where I look I can't see any those "4 years of development". More like "we were doing something else and then had to change everything at the last second".
It doesn't bode well, that NRS has pretty much dropped Onslaught into development hell too. An asset flip mobile game... was too hard to finish and release.
In the end I get a very strong feeling, that NRS/WB are hiding the main meat of the game, cause it is either:
A. Unfinished.
B. Micro transaction hell.
Commander
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I should say that this surprises me, but by now I'm not surprised that the uncagedgames, Dynasty and PrincessSMG dumbasses get these codes ahead of everyone else.
I'd honeslty prefer it if folks like SonicFox, Tweedy and FoxyGrandpa to get codes as pro FGC people like that could better break down the actual gameplay and give us more useful information on the meta data than the 30 minutes they got with it at SGF.
Xenon
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It's simply bizzare, ever since the "gameplay reveal" trailer. How can you hype it up so much, yell about 4 years etc, but then.... "we've put wrong outdated footage by mistake!!! yeah the game looked like it came straight out of 2007, but it's just a mistake, bro!!". Then the usual suspects stanning: "it's NRS, they always do this!!". I would make a joke about NRS being an Indie comparison, but can't do that.... since there's Indies now who produce absolute bangers, without costing $70+, putting AAA to shame... with their FIRST TITLE.
4 years of hardcore AAA Digital Deluxe development by video game Heavyweight Champions!
Something is seriously fishy with this game, as you said.
Jion_Wansu
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lol
If you remember; MKII, MK3/UMK3, and MK4 were all rushed too. That's why we have MKII Revision 1.1, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1 and so forth.
The 1st version of MK4 has Noob Saibot in it. Then the final got replaced by Reiko.
MK3 is basically an unfinished UMK3.
Capcom has been doing the same with Street Fighter since the 1990s too. I mean, how many versions of SFII are there. Probably more versions of SFII and more versions within the versions of SFII than any other SF game in history.
Misucra
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Oh yeah I know. But at least, you had to make sure that games worked back then. No live updates. Biggest issues, would be lack of some type of content or bad design decisions. Now games aren't even being finished anymore. Bugs, bugs and more bugs. You own nothing and stuff gets locked, behind online only.
And the most amusing part is that people have so little self respect or ANY semblance of standards, that just for that little amount of "FUN", they fork out 70 bucks and once they spend more than a week or two on the game, they start bitching about the purchase, only to repeat the same process. No wonder companies produce shit like this. They know that people don't care. They know that people have no standards. They know that there are enough stupid people, that will pay full price, just as long as there is something shiny. Hence all of the different EDITIONS.
Diablo 4 is an amazing example of that. 70 bucks, for what? Shiny cutscenes?
BUT IT IS FUN.
So why are the people leaving the game now? Hey guys, I thought it was fun? What's that? Balancing issues? Game progression is broken? What do you mean that there is a cap on player progression, while game keeps getting more difficult, causing you to get one shot, even with the best gear?
And some people even paid 90 bucks for that, so they could play "early".
MK1 shows a cinematic trailer. SELLING LIKE COOKIES.
Wow they showed some gameplay! 4 whole characters! That justifies the 70 bucks! IMMA BUY NOW!
As long as there will be suckers, who wet their pants and get excited over shiny stuff, no current corpo will put effort in creating ACTUAL content.
Guyver Spawn
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We need a way to change the towers by pressing a button, so that people don't have to fight against the guest characters. MK4:Gold had that feature with the select button.
Misucra
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You might as well ask them to remove ads from the main menu.
Not gonna happen. Them being in the tower = advertisement. If people had an option to turn them off, it would go against their aggressive marketing policy.
Guyver Spawn
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Even SF5 had the choice to remove the Esports shit in their game. I don't see why NRS can't do it.
Misucra
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Cause CAPCOM ain't WB/NRS.
What happened with Street Fighter 6, was a lightning strike on a clear sunny day. NOBODY saw it coming. Not after SF5.
SF5 was overmonetized, grindy, corporate cashgrab. Did they fix the gameplay issues? Sure. But was it well received? No. CAPCOM got rid of the head of SF development team and replaced him with someone more competent it seems, cause holy shit. The difference in quality is day and night.
But even during SF5 days, devs were MORE RESPONSIVE, than NRS.
NRS doesn't give two flying shits about what you want.
I can't emphasize enough, how nothing you say or think, has any weight to WB/NRS.
Do I like commercials at the top of main menu in MKX? No. Did I buy the game? Yes.
Do I like same commercials in Injustice 2? No. Did I buy the game? Yes.
Do you like commercials and forced guests in MK11? No. Did you buy the game? Yes. (I received the game as a gift.)
Do you like forced guests in MK1? Apparently no. Will you still buy the game? Most likely yes.
Soo... let me respond in the same way. I don't see why NRS would do it. You still gonna buy the game. They still gonna make millions and your discontent is... well.. not registered. You will support them regardless. Just like many other. They have no reason to take player's interests into account. They just need to make shiny shit and people will buy it.
They already proved that by just showing cinematic trailer and selling MK1 like ice cream on hot day.
Jion_Wansu
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This is fascinating. You get the true canon/lore "straight from the horses mouth" between the events from MK to UMK3. Guess Shao Kahn was dying and needed even more power and this is why he merged realms.
If only NRS hired him for the lore:
I like this one. MKII is much like SFII. Nobody really won those tournaments in canon:
What if Mortal Kombat 12 (Mortal Kombat 1) is like bazarro world from Superman? What if Jerrod is the new Emperor and Sindel the Emperess!!! So everything is almost the opposite. And Shang Tsung is the good guy!
If only NRS hired him for the lore:
I like this one. MKII is much like SFII. Nobody really won those tournaments in canon:
What if Mortal Kombat 12 (Mortal Kombat 1) is like bazarro world from Superman? What if Jerrod is the new Emperor and Sindel the Emperess!!! So everything is almost the opposite. And Shang Tsung is the good guy!
Xenon
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John Tobias: "Shao Kahn was so powerful, he ate Edenia and Outworld, and was basically dying, that's why he started to merge realms again. The only reason why he lost was because Liu Kang is basically Neo from the Matrix, and a crew of best fighters headed by a Thunder God."
Dominic: "......Katana go brrrrrrrrrr! Beat Shao Trump without breaking a sweat or getting a scratch! Lui then says OF COURSE SHE DID!!!111"
Yeahh..... no wonder NuMK stories such major ass. Everything John has written there makes absolute sense, meanwhile NRS stories are incoherent and inconsistent.
Dominic: "......Katana go brrrrrrrrrr! Beat Shao Trump without breaking a sweat or getting a scratch! Lui then says OF COURSE SHE DID!!!111"
Yeahh..... no wonder NuMK stories such major ass. Everything John has written there makes absolute sense, meanwhile NRS stories are incoherent and inconsistent.
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