Well, MK stole their character ideas, which MK was then ripped off by something else which was then ripped off by MK. heh

what system is weapon lord for?
il go buy it

Actually, MK came out before ET did. ET had the death traps before MK did in Deception, however they looked shitty and MK's are much better.

If you're being serious? It was for SNES and Sega Genesis. I had the SNES version. If you were being sarcastic, you just wasted my time.

Nah it's nothing like that at all.
But seeing as how we're comparing random shit, now that I think about it, it's more like Baseball. You know. People couldn't come up with their own ideas for a sport so they ripped off cricket and made a more simplistic, completely inferior game called "baseball". Yes. It's exactly like that.

Baseball is nothing like Criket.There are different rules, bats and baseball has a foul poll. BTW, Baseball isn't exactly new either. That's like saying Soccer and Kickball are the same thing, they're not.Totally different other then KICKING the ball, different rules.Same thing with Cricket and Baseball.Other then HITTING the ball with two totally different kinds of bats btw, there's nothing else.Different rules, different dimensions among other things.

Baseball is gay.

Baseball is awesome.
BTW, I didn't know a sport has a sexual preference?

lol!
Baseball sucks imo. You hit a ball and then run around until someone hits you with a ball, touches a base or catches the ball in the air.
Now football, well, football kicks ass

I wouldn't expect you to be intelligent enough to understand or know this, but "gay" is widely accepted and widely used as a colloquialism by under 30's which denotes unfavorable characteristics or some degree of fault in the speakers opinion. It's synonymous with other such slang words, like "lame," "shithouse," and "suckful". The word "gay" in this context has a different meaning to the other usage of the word "gay" that means homosexual. Much like the usage of the word "gay" to denote homosexuality has a different meaning to the word "gay" to denote happiness. I'm unsure of why you assumed I was talking about sexual preference and not happiness, actually (being as those were the only two options you could have picked from your mind as you were completely unaware that the word "gay" had a thrid usage as slang). Possibly it was an automatic subconscious reaction based on your own personal conflicts that you have trouble dealing with, thus subconsciously transmit to others in daily life as a cry for help? Freud called this "projecting". Perhaps you should seek the advice of a psychiatrist about projection of your sexual conflict. And also the advice of somebody who hasn't been living under a rock for the last 30 years and can further inform you of the various "slang words" in use today.
And Baseball is still gay.
(Deeeeeeraaaaaaail!!!!222222)
(Sorry.)

As a linguist-in-training I can only confirm his notion as true. However gay is also not a neologism. It has existed faar before anyone of us was ever planned to be.

Actually, I knew EXACTLY what you meant lol.I just made your stupid comment using gay as an insult look silly with my witty comment.I was being sarcastic.I'm surprised you couldn't see that.
I guess you don't remember the "gay" thread and why people like you use is as if it's an insult.
I'm not gay, but if I were I would be offended a little the way you use the word.Then again, you posted it.Shocker. For what it's worth, I don't speak in slang as I feel it makes people sound stupid honestly.I'm not one of these guys that says, "yo, yo that shit is tight son" or she's mAd hot" I'm well aware of what "slang" is and the silly "urban dictionary" as well. Baseball owns!Football, mehh it leads the world in commercials=dumb.

o yAh iT wUz So WittY anD FuNnY i 4GoT 2 LafF! loLz

I was the person who created that thread. It recieved about 2 pages of replies, and of those replies the overwhelming majority (including several homosexuals/bisexuals) said they wern't bothered by it.
Where's my chalk.
Me: A million.
You: Quadruple negative nine billion.
This has been the most fun spamming i've had in like, two months.

if u wanna test Weaponloard here i put the link
Fatality of MKA and Weaponlord are completely differents
Emulator links removed; one can discuss them, but not link to them, nor to ROMs. -Jerrod

Last part made as much sense as Hillary Clinton's new program concerning violent video games.None!
BTW, I don't remember posting in that thread.If I did, I must have forgot.But this is how I feel.If I were Gay, I wouldn't let it bother me a lot like some people in that thread posted it would.However, it would annoy me a little bit to see an ignorant person use that term in a negative fashion where in reality, the word "gay" has nothing to do with "stupid" or "dumb" words that you're really comparing it to.
Me:English
You:Slang
Which looks better on a resume?Me

I never played WeaponLord, but I remember having a video game magazine that had an article on it, with move lists for every character. It actually occurred to me a while back that MKA's new fatality system had some similarities to Weaponlord's fatality system, but personally I don't think it's in the realm of plagiarism or anything. WeaponLord may have been an inspiration, but so what? As others have said, all video games incorporate elements from other games.
That said, I think there is a difference between WeaponLord using fatalities, and MKA using a fatality system similar to WeaponLord's. Fatalities/finishing moves had already been used in Killer Instinct and Primal Rage, both of which came out in 94, so finishing moves had already become a somewhat institutionalized elemnt of fighting games. True, not all fighting games had them, but the point is that it had been established that Mortal Kombat did not have sole rights to the concept of finishing moves. Additionally, finishing moves in KI and PR worked in a more similar way to MK's fatalities than WeaponLord's system did, so the case could be made that WeaponLord was more innovative in its implementation of finishing moves.

yes but the Weapon lord finishers are completely differents from MKA beacause there is only five ways for every chjaracters to finish your opponent. If u did a certain move like final blow u have the fatality but there are only
decapitation
head splitter
pulp finish
crazy death
head explode
same animations for all the chracters.
In MKA u have standard moves like starter and ender, weapons fatality ecc
and specific fatality for eahc characters.
The animations should be differents for every characters.
Other games with classic fatality system Killer Instinct 1 , 2 and gold Double Dragon Five Blood Storm Primal Rage 1 , 2 Kasumi Ninja Game with new fatality/finisher system Thrill Kill Wu tang shaoiln style Samurai Shodown 4 , 5 Marvel Nemesis Def Jam Vendetta 1 ,2 The punisher Yu Yu Hakusho The final and Yuyu Hakusho forever

Ok, this discussion has prompted me out of retirement, so I can set this straight once and for all:
Weaponlord is NOT a rip-off of Mortal Kombat in any way, shape, or form
This is exactly why I left this virtual day care center that has been improperly labeled as a discussion forum. In reading these posts, I've been able to deduce that pretty much half the people posting on here weren't even friggin' born when Weaponlord came out, or at least weren't old enough yet to graduate to anything beyond Pokemon. Time to dissect these moronic rantings, one so-called "argument" at a time.
Weaponlord is a rip off because:
-It has fatalities - Are you kidding me? Weaponlord is a rip off of Mortal Kombat because it has fatalities? That is about as idiotic as an argument can get on this forum. Yes, Mortal Kombat introduced the concept of having time at the end of the losing character's second round to initiate a death move. However, it was not the first fighting game to feature a character death/fatality at the end of the match. Are you telling me that Hippodrome, which came out in the late 80's is also a rip off of Mortal Kombat? You might as well, since that's what you're saying when you tell me Weaponlord is a rip off because it features fatalities. Weaponlord's Death Moves were not called fatalities. They were also NOT entered as a key command, as in Mortal Kombat. Weaponlord DID NOT feature time at the end of the round to 'Finish Him/Her'. Weaponlord's death moves were set up in an elaborate combo system that had to be initiated mid-combo when the opponent no longer has any health left on their health bar, and could only be completed IF AND ONLY IF the combo was already initiated before the final strike on their health bar. They were quite difficult to pull off unless you mastered the game's controls. Similarities to MK? ZERO.
Furthermore, calling MKA's fatality system a rip-off of Weaponlord's Death Combo system is just plain stupid. Again, Mortal Kombat features time at the end of the round for you to input button commands. You then have to do a button command to perform the fatality. Weaponlord had you initiating regular special moves IN THE MIDDLE OF A COMBO. Mortal Kombat times you between each fatality move you do. I see absolutely no similarities, other than the fact that you can chain multiple types of fatalities together.
It came after Mortal Kombat - SO F*CKING WHAT? So did Killer Instinct. So did Street Fighter Alpha series. So did War Gods. So did Soul Blade and Soul Calibur. So did Tekken. So did Toshinden. So did COUNTLESS OTHER FIGHTING GAMES. War Gods could easily be considered the MK rip off here, which it was...War Gods was nothing but a way for Midway to test the 3-d fighter grounds to see how other games would port over. But if you sit there and tell me that Killer Instinct, SF Alpha, Tekken, Soul Blade, Soul Calibur, Toshinden, Ergheiz, Tobal, Destrega and whatever other fighting games I can name off the top of my head are rip offs...then you need to grow up and open your eyes.
The characters/story ripped off MK - Yeah, right. Not only did Weaponlord not feature pallette swapped ninjas (or pallete swapped characters of ANY kind, for that matter), Weaponlord also had a completely original story that didn't mirror MK in any way. And how the HELL could the characters rip off MK? They were in a completely different timeframe and setting. Sorry, I don't remember seeing and spear-throwing ninjas with flaming skulls, or blue ninjas that threw ice, or Shaolin Monks that flew through the air with fireballs and bicycle kicks in Weaponlord. Nor did I see ripped Barbarians with tremendous broadswords, gigantic brutes wielding even more tremendous stone hammers, or amazonian swordwomen in Mortal Kombat.
I can't even beleive the garbage I read on this forum today. The fact of the matter is, Weaponlord came out in the middle of the MK vs. Street Fight era, and it was a refreshing change to the usual fire-ball tossing kung fu master or fire-breathing ghost ninja. It introduced an elaborate combo system that was NOT Dial-a-combo, and offered more freedom than Mortal Kombat ever did at the time. Frankly, the Death Combo system in Weaponlord was so much more intricate and fun than the basic "tap in a button-sequence in 4 seconds" MK style. It was more rewarding, and you could always get something different. All you needed was SKILL, not memorization. Not to mention Weaponlord's fatalities were so gory that they made MK's look just plain silly in comparison...which, to be honest, they were, and always have been.
Its not often that something would draw my ire so badly that I would come back to a message board that I vowed I wouldn't post at again to unleash Hell upon a sea of idiocy. But what I saw today was just that: sheer idiocy. Calling Weaponlord a rip-off of Mortal Kombat is undoubtedly one of the stupidest things I have ever seen on this forum, and before I left in '05 I had been here since this place was nothing more than a pathetic little message board on gamers.com. Not to mention that from what i've seen here, almost none of you have ever played the game, let alone were old enough to know what a Genesis or SNES were at the time that it came out.
I love Mortal Kombat, that's why I used to come here. But bashing Weaponlord and calling it a rip off of MK? A game that was FAR DEEPER than MK 1-4 could have ever hoped to have been? Right. Give me Weaponlord over MK any day...and this is coming from someone who loves Mortal Kombat. Weaponlord is not a rip off because it contained a death combo system. You're all just a bunch of blind idiots who follow a sign and don't bother to look at your surroundings. Not everything is a rip off of MK...least of all Weaponlord.
In closing, I will once again say that The MKA (Or Mortal Kombat Trilogy 2, as I like to call it) fatality system is also NOT a rip off of the Weaponlord Death Combo system, but it sure as hell is similar, and once again its a great idea for an MK game that is NOT original.
With that, I take my leave again. I can't beleive that I actually was bothered enough to come back to this place to post this, but I couldn't resist. Once again I must say I am EMBARASSED to be among the 'MK Community', because frankly I think 90% of it is made up of ignorant children. I don't even like to admit that I play MK simply because the fan base has such a repuation for being childish, whiney and just plain idiotic. That is why I left in the first place, and that is what prompted me to come back for one moment and put children in their place, where they belong.
Be well, and be more open-minded.
-Shang Out

Yes indeed.You have to realize that a lot of people here bash MK more then like it at times where it's totally unnccessary and ultimately stupid.
I agree with you on that and hopefully the people that think that MK ripped off Weaponlord where they are nothing alike what so ever understand and comprehend this message.
I do disagree with you on a few things such as the "skill point" memorization to SOME is skill, and I must admit that there are combos in UMK3, MKT, MK:DA and MK:D DO in fact take skill.
I know this for a fact because I play them competitively.Trust me, when you play these games for comp besides fun, key elements to win DO take skill.
Memorization helps, however not everyone can memorize dial ups(as simple as they may sound) and not everyone can pull off ridiculous juggles.
There are juggles that I can do with him in Deception among other great players that most can't even fathom.And believe me, it takes SKILL to do.Not simple at all.
UMK3 was also basic with dial ups, however still took lots of skill to pull off certain insane combos.The whole thing with WL's finishers were as you said comboish, if anything similar to KI's.KI to WL what ever lol.But each and every fighter is unique and different in it's own way, people should just play what they like instead of posting "false shit" like this game stole from this game constantly.
One thing people have to realize is that just because MK is more simple compared to other fighters doesn't mean it requires 0% skill.It does when played at high level, don't care what anyone says.I know from personal experience playing on xbox live Deception and when I used to play hardcore at the arcades.
As for the horrible posts criticizing MK on here, well you get no argument from me man. lol...only site I visit where people will find the most useless things to down on MK.
But a lot of them will be proven wrong once MK:A comes out.With the newer gameplay elements there such as parries, throw escapes, breakers and the works of a wake up game.MK will indeed me a lot more challenging and fun then it used to be.
The KAF, HA, HA it kicks ass, enough said.Anyway, I'm done for now...

eep darkstalkers and ki are my second faves too, I owned with felicia in ds3 her, lilith, morganna, bb hood and hising ko where my faves to use and I usually sucked with the guys

Yeah, I'm better with the girls too. Morrigan is my favorite, I guess I played with her the most so I own with her now. I was pist when The Chaos Tower only came out for psp, I don't have one. I would've bought it for PS2 though, even though I already had Darkstalkers 3. Capcom is like George Lucas they just keep coming out with variations of the old 2D games, but I still love them!