Mortal Kombat (Reboot)

[Mr. Spencer]

That reminds me, I was reading the wiki article for Marvel vs Capcom 3 and I laughed at this:

Capcom promised three-on-three tag team fighting gameplay and a robust plot.

Also, I like the fact that the new MK has characters earned by actual playing, not paying. I noticed your post on the EU PlayStation blog, Kylie, and I agree with what you said in regards to the Jill/Shuma DLC. However, I will be the first to admit to outrageous hypocrisy, as I bought Jill the other day. Hey, I had £4 in my wallet and it was either Jill or My Aquarium.

Excuse me while I lament the missed opportunity of cultivating virtual fish.

[Vector]

They're about to unveil Kabal on GameTrailers TV on Spike.

[CODE_umb87]

Kabal looks badass. His x-ray and fatality look gruesome. Soul Chamber stage is also confirmed.

[nemesiswontdie]

Oh man Kabal's fatality was sweeeeeet. I'm loving the Soul Chamber look.

And the video is now up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Xb85WjuwA&feature=player_embedded

[Mr. Spencer]

Kabal looks great for combos.

[GuardhouseMusic]

Wow, I wonder if they'll have a fatality featuring his disfigured face. I wouldn't doubt it.

I played the demo and I'm glad to see that it plays just as quickly and fluidly as MK1-3. Nobody moves around like they're carrying weights anymore.

I'm with CR29 in some ways though; I wasn't at all disappointed with Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (of course, it could definitely use a few things, but I got what I wanted), but nonetheless I've had my fill of fighters for now. I'm probably going to start buying cheaper DS games and save up for LA Noire, Catherine, and RE: Mercs 3D, among others.

[Dracarys]

That reminds me, I was reading the wiki article for Marvel vs Capcom 3 and I laughed at this:



Also, I like the fact that the new MK has characters earned by actual playing, not paying. I noticed your post on the EU PlayStation blog, Kylie, and I agree with what you said in regards to the Jill/Shuma DLC. However, I will be the first to admit to outrageous hypocrisy, as I bought Jill the other day. Hey, I had £4 in my wallet and it was either Jill or My Aquarium.

Excuse me while I lament the missed opportunity of cultivating virtual fish.

Yeah my tipsy rant on the prices and practices, I wanted to delete it later when I realised all the typos and such, but I got the point across.

I also bought Jill so maybe a bit hypocritical. I didn't buy Shuma though, I would have if very cheap like PAIN character price.

[Jill's Boob]

Played the demo tonight at the request of nemesiswontdie...I actually quite enjoyed the fatalities and the really cool x-ray attacks, and the graphics were very, very good. Mileena had some nice digital boob physics going on, so much so to where I unhealthily found myself constantly shifting her stance, lol.

However I found the combat (kombat?) to be very clunky, and too slow for my liking. Certainly not close to the speed of MvC2/3, or even SSF4. To me, those titles feel more fluid. I've been told the demo may not be the final build...but still, the demo didn't convince me that I needed to buy this game day 1 (or even at all).

I hope it does well though, as it appears that the developers have put a lot of love into the title. Unfortunately for me, this title, like the few other MK titles I have played - aren't fun beyond a few matches here & there.

I'm hoping it does well so devs take notes to actually fill a fighting game and not release a barebones product and milk it with DLC a la Capcom.

Wow, that's quite funny. Upon looking at the character select screen for the demo, it already listed 2 "DLC" character slots at the bottom of the screen. Capcom is surely guilty of really abusing the DLC approach, but you can't act all high & mighty like the other companies aren't almost all doing the exact same thing.

And while MvC3 & SSF4 don't have a wealth of modes, they are well-crafted, finely tuned fighting games that are all about the core experience - which involves the "fighting" of the matches. And despite Capcom half-assing it with material beyond that core experience, I'm almost entirely sure that they'll be moving a LOT more boxes off the shelf than MK. So your high-horse stance that they should learn a lesson is probably not going to happen.

[aris13]

Wow, that's quite funny. Upon looking at the character select screen for the demo, it already listed 2 "DLC" character slots at the bottom of the screen.

Also there have been speculations regarding DLC fatalities.

Anyway I played the demo and really enjoyed it, not sure about day 1 purchase though.

[DONNIemo]

I love the demo, it really sold me on it, shame its banned in this stupid country, Ill find a way of getting it tho. XD

[BrionIrons]

Australia needs to lighten up,its just a game.

[CODE_umb87]

Mortal Kombat gets Custom Soundtrack for PS3

Also there have been speculations regarding DLC fatalities.

Anyway I played the demo and really enjoyed it, not sure about day 1 purchase though.

Yeah, but I think it's been confirmed in interviews that all characters will have at least 2 fatalities, which is pretty much the standard. There's also been rumors that there will be more than just fatalities and a total of over 60 finishers.

[Dracarys]

Wow, that's quite funny. Upon looking at the character select screen for the demo, it already listed 2 "DLC" character slots at the bottom of the screen. Capcom is surely guilty of really abusing the DLC approach, but you can't act all high & mighty like the other companies aren't almost all doing the exact same thing.

And while MvC3 & SSF4 don't have a wealth of modes, they are well-crafted, finely tuned fighting games that are all about the core experience - which involves the "fighting" of the matches. And despite Capcom half-assing it with material beyond that core experience, I'm almost entirely sure that they'll be moving a LOT more boxes off the shelf than MK. So your high-horse stance that they should learn a lesson is probably not going to happen.

Story modes, alt costumes, survival modes, times attacks, usually some sort of challenge mode (not just combo trials) etc etc are standards of nearly all fighters these days.

Except for Capcom, who do away with most of these and charge extra for the ones they do include.

DLC isn't so bad when the base product is actually fleshed out, it then adds to the game. Far different to Capcom releasing the a bare skeleton of a game then charging extra for all the parts that are missing.

[aris13]

Except for Capcom, who do away with most of these and charge extra for the ones they do include.

Have you played SF4? Because it includes all the game modes that you mentioned above.

[Dracarys]

Have you played SF4? Because it includes all the game modes that you mentioned above.

No it doesn't. No story mode, no extra challenges, no alt costumes for free either. SSFIV did away with all extra modes.