Something about the X "ninjas" I personally like.

Re: Something about the X "ninjas" I personally like.

Commander said:
Daniel and Carlos Pesina were both fired during the production of MK3, for trying to promote another fighting game (BloodStorm) with Daniel Pesina dressed as Johnny Cage.
That's why there's no Scorpion, Raiden or Johhny Cage in MK3.
Carlos played the role of Raiden and Daniel played the role of the masked ninjas in MK1 and MKII.
When Ultimate MK3 came around, John Turk donned the UMK3 "ninja" costume and did the roles of Scorpion, masked Sub-Zero, Reptile, Ermac, Noob Saibot, Smoke and Rain.
Carlos Pesina was forgiven by the time Trilogy came out, this Raiden returned in Trilogy, and a new person was hired to play Johnny Cage (the role which Daniel Pesina played).

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Actually, only Daniel got canned for that incident, since Carlos was uninvolved. Carlos kept his job with Midway (as evidenced by his appearance on the behind-the-scenes video for MK3, which is bonus material on MAT2), but was suspended from the production of MK3 for participating in an MK clone game intended for release on the Atari Jaguar but ultimately went unreleased (it was either Tattoo Assassins or Thea Realm Fighters).

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Lord Greyjoy said:
That's awesome and all - MKX is a step in that direction with skinny Ermac and lithe Reptile, but it's got a ways to go since I see every female shares the same base model - but we were talking about costumes. :)
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MK is based a bit more on reality. If they ditched that and went with comic graphics, you could easily see a huge variety of different bodies.

Consider that many bodies of the same height and weight might be similarly shaped anyway, give or take a few inches here and there. For a fighting game based on more realistic proportions, it'd be hard to show that kind of difference in body shapes and it be noticeable enough to be important. Say Johnny Cage is 6 foot and Kano is 6 foot 2 inches. Do you think we'd notice a two inch difference once the game starts?
 
Reptile will have a beard in one of his alts

No, I don't like this whole unmasked ninja stuff. I love the palette swaps since I was a kid. Everytime I watched the first MK movie I always waited for the Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile fights. I think the movie has the best design for MK ninjas. I would like to have them in MKX and I hoped to see them in MK9. But it won't happen.

I know that they had to make the characters individual but they shouldn't change too much. I like the idea of seeing them unmasked only if there is a story purpose like Sub-Zero being marked for death and leaving the Lin Kuei or the new direction with Scorpion.
 
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