pingchi Wrote:
I played MK:DA for the first time last week. I know the game is relativly old, but I haven't had one of the systems it was on until I borrowed my friend's X-Box. Anyway, I was severly dissapointed at the approach the developers took to bring DA to life. It seems to me that they reinvented the wheel, which in most cases would make a sequel worth playing. But when I sit down to play a game of Mortal Kombat, I am expecting at least twenty characters, each with two fatalities and a host of other finishing moves. When I sat down to DA, not only was I dissapointed at the lack of fatalities but the quality of those fatalities. What kind of a finishing move is stretching someone's neck in a giraffe-like fasion? Maybe if their head had been snapped off, I would have found it more exciting. The only fatality that even gave me interest was Scorpion's.
What is up with the new characters? Now I didn't have any of the blackened charcters unlocked, but what happend to all of the ninjas? Are they out of the story line? I loved being able to go back and play the classic characters from MK1 and MK2 in UMK3.
And finally, the way secrets are aquired is rediculous. I really didn't want to sit through all of those training modes for each character. I know you can earn coins other ways but that is still a pain in the ass.
However, I liked the feature of bidding coins in matches against other players.
Anyway, that was my two cents. Sorry if I make any of you hardcore DA fans mad. =) |
Well I personally liked MKDA a lot. The MK team only had about 1 and a half years to make the game and they were spending most of that time by creating the new fighting engine (which I thought was a big step in the right direction) from scratch. The reason for one fatality per character (excluding Blaze and Mokap) is because for each fatality that they make for this game, they would need to do some debugging and there was not enough time to have 2 fatalities or other finishers per character. As for the fatalities themselves, I didn't get to see all of them but they still looked pretty cool to me for the most part (except for Quan Chi's fatality). I really liked Cyrax's Claw Smasher/Mince Machine fatality and I hope he has that in MK6. And as for the amount of characters, I was also pleased with that. You did say you expected there to be at least 20 characters and there are 23 characters in the game (if you don't wanna count Moloch of course).
As for the ninjas, we'll probably be seeing Noob Saibot in MK6 (and I did hear he was in MK:TE for the GBA). Ermac was freed by Kenshi and Ermac taught telekinesis to Kenshi in return. I'm not sure about Rain and Smoke. We might see them in the future.
As for your so-called "secrets", they are more of unlockables. The real secret is yet to be found..(if there really is one)
So here is my 2 cents...
