Mortal Kombat 8 controls

The 7th Number

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After seeing the ed boon interview on how the Wii controls will work, it gave me the idea on how MK8 controls might work, as i hope they do end up like this.

Left analog stick: moves your character around, up to jump, down to duck, thats it.
Right analog stick: Performs special moves with a up down motion, or back forward, or circular motion.

To me this would be great, especially on the xbox 360. I have a hard time trying to pull moves off with the 360 controller using the dpad or the left analog stick. Mainly trying to do a move such as back forward without accidentally jumping. This new way i discribed above would totally cut that out, since the left analog stick is JUST for moving, and the right being only for special moves. There would be no need for a added button at the end of a special move either. Just make these special moves easy so grandma can pull the off too. :D Of course the face buttons would be normal attacks, low kick, high kick, low punch, high punch. Well thats the real main issue for controls, at least for me.
 
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Ok you switched things up a bit there. First you say the right analog stick moves your character, then you say the left one does. Which one is it? 'Cus there's NO way I'm using the right analog stick to move! As far as specials, I too am loving the way the Wii helped spawn this idea because I always thought it was annoying that you basically gave away your move based on the motions your character does just before. Any Wii-like special move scheme emulated on a normal 16 button controller would be just fine with me.
 
ahhh i fixed it, LEFT analog moves your character and RIGHT analog does special moves. Sorry for the mix up. You also made a good point in giving away moves right before you do them.
 
so er, kinda like CvS2:EO on the GC? That kinda sucked. As long as you can still perform the moves the normal way I'm up for it, but if not then no, not for me
 
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