Mortal Kombat Arcade Collection Arriving Summer 2011

Wow, I'm surprised how many people are so bitter over this. Oh well.

I do hope MK4 gets included in this Kollection. But then again, I would like for that game to be redone in HD in my opinion. Either way, I do hope MK4 sees the light of day through a re-release of some sort.

Also, MKT redone in HD would be the better route than tampering with these absolute classics. MK1-UMK3.

So I'm sold. Lets just hope the online capabilities are better than what (PS3) MKII and (XB360) UMK3 had to offer.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Since these are obviously not HD they should include a scanlines option othwerwise they'll simply just look better in MAME. In MAME you can have scanlines or different kinds of PNG overlays like trinitron, bee hive, etc. which helps with low resolution games such as this especially on LCD monitors.
 
i hope that in UMK3 all the characters are unlocked from the get go, since i only have one controller and it would be tough putting in the ultimate kombat kodes
 
Those saying they want HD don't seem to get the picture that clearly the upscaling of the games to HD didn't work out right, so they opted to still give fans what they want: playing of the classic arcade titles online with others.

Not everyone can goto an arcade to play MK-UMK3 against other people, so there is a market for people who want to play these games. MAME is not the answer either as it's illegal for most (99% of the people playing on MAME are doing so with pirated ROMs who don't own the real boards) and it's not easy to use and also not easily played online either.

WB putting out this product does exactly that, it's an easy way to legally play the classic games online against other people for only $10. So far from the screenshots the emulation video output also looks far better than the previous versions by Digital Eclipse/Backbone so I'm so far happy from what I see.

I was ALWAYS skeptical of the game going to HD, not of it's existence, but instead of the quality of the project. When we heard about it the rumored release date made me question it more. To know they decided not to HD it and instead release proper ports without sloppy HD changes makes me happy as it wont be plagued by issues that would occur in the HD process.
 
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The thing about MAME is that (at least I believe) half the reason it became so popular among MK fans is because they kept releasing the same emulation ports of MK1-3 over and over again that had the same flaws and bugs. The Arcade Classics one had a version of MK2 where you couldn't fight Smoke because they mapped the start button to pause the game, and it had other audio/graphical flaws that some may not even notice but kept it from being a true real arcade port. Those were the same ones that were added to Collector Editions of newer MK games as well. Add the fact that there's like a million MAME overlays for pretty much all operating systems now that make it much easier to use than it used to be, and it's no shock hardcore fans went that way instead.

If this collection is a new port/emulation and not the same one that's been released a million times being put up for sale yet again, I'll buy it in a second. I would be surprised if it was though, I don't think the NRS team would be so quick to spoil all the good will that accumulated with the rebirth of MK.
 
Patrick McCarron said:
Those saying they want HD don't seem to get the picture that clearly the upscaling of the games to HD didn't work out right, so they opted to still give fans what they want: playing of the classic arcade titles online with others.

Not everyone can goto an arcade to play MK-UMK3 against other people, so there is a market for people who want to play these games. MAME is not the answer either as it's illegal for most (99% of the people playing on MAME are doing so with pirated ROMs who don't own the real boards) and it's not easy to use and also not easily played online either.

WB putting out this product does exactly that, it's an easy way to legally play the classic games online against other people for only $10. So far from the screenshots the emulation video output also looks far better than the previous versions by Digital Eclipse/Backbone so I'm so far happy from what I see.

I was ALWAYS skeptical of the game going to HD, not of it's existence, but instead of the quality of the project. When we heard about it the rumored release date made me question it more. To know they decided not to HD it and instead release proper ports without sloppy HD changes makes me happy as it wont be plagued by issues that would occur in the HD process.
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I'm with you 100%. Personally, I feel that finally being able to play MK1 online alone makes it worth the price tag, that's on top of having all three games available for three platforms.
 
im so happy about this, i hope they include the moves list and fatalitys from the start menu, like on mk9, i know you can get them online allready and alot of people no them of by heart but i dont and alot of people dont. Just annoyed that i bought MK2 on PSN and at the moment it looks like PSN will never, ever return.
Im a bit worried that it will suffer from " super ai" like in mortal kombat 2 from PSN where it just chaeps you to death...
 
Im sure you guys talked about this but m confused, I already own UMK3 on XBLA, I dont see why I would have to pay for it again, should be a 30% discount for people like me. :twisted:
 
gamemk said:

if this game can be improved on and gets picked up by a big studio. mk is dead. credit to sans power for mentioning death cargo.
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Doubt it will kill mk. Even after a seeing it again after a few months it still doesnt impress me. Nothing important is shown to even give insight on how good it will be. Graphics don't mean shit if gameplay sucks
 
"death cargo" looks amazing...i hope it becomes reality

this game is made by the same guy that was "altering" MK 9 fatalities?...in most cases his fatalities were better than NRS...even the sound FX were better

even the music is cool ....but i need to see more...the one fatality shown looked real
 
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