just because thats the release date doesnt mean thats when it will actually come out

just look at Halo2 it should already be out from their first release date but it keeps gettin pushed back, it wouldnt suprise me if MKD did the same

It doesn't have to be rushed. MK:DA was built from the ground up. MK:Deception from the vid and past interviews is going to use the same engine as MK:DA. So they already have the foundation from MK:DA so not as much time is needed to go from MK4 to MK:DA.

They will just re-tool/modify the engine to make it better while of course adding new content(Characters, fatalities, etc)

So relax and I'm hoping it comes out this year. Scew 2005. I'll wait longer if I have no choice but to suggest them to delay it is ridiculous to me. They should be able to get their shit together by fall. At least I hope so.

It's absolutely no different than the time it took to develop other MK games. MK3, MK4, and MK:DA all took around 2 years to develop. MK2 only took 1 year. It's not like they have to spend those 2 years having to make up new ideas and characters when they can just use what they couldn't put into MK:DA. And they're not remaking the game engine, so that saves even more time.

I think it looks pretty sweet. I'm loving the stage interaction (that rock crusher looks NASTY)- and the cloth physics (check out mileena's mouth-scarf whatsit) looks much improved too. I should check the trailer again but i expect they've done some cool stuff with the lighting and stuck in some nice new graphical effects too.

I'd say it looks like they've done enough (with the new characters and hopefully some gameplay improvements- hard to tell from a trailer/screenshots) to warrant a new game. As with any game you can delay and improve- but i say it looks like enough to warrant my buying it, and they can then take a (brief) holiday and crack on with mk7.

As long as they take their time on all the important parts of this game - animation, characters, moves.. it should be fine. If they've been working on the game for over a year now and still have 6 or 7 months to go Im pretty sure it'd be great. I expect a Thanksgiving time release.

I played MK:DA for a good while last night.. picking it apart - and I think one of the things I hope they take their time on is the animations.. some of them just seemed too jotty/slow - not nearly as good as a namco title. I hope the flow of MK6 is that much better than DA's.

Look at it this way:

Deadly alliance was just an experiment. Deception is going to be the fruits of that labor.

um, the realease date for MKDA was 2003 not 2002.
Also, i hope they finish it this year just in case ps3 or Next XBOX comes out so that they dont make it for those systems.

umm.. hey man.. mabe you forgot.. but they already have the egine.. since mk:da came out.. the only thing they need to do is add chars, costumes, and goodies for us such as fatalitys.. man what do you think they where trying to do to mk1!...

Holy crap man...don't get freaked out already, look at what all they have done so far. They look like they have the characters pretty solid (remember what Jax and Scorpion looked like when we saw them, yeah...my point exactly.) They already have stage fatalities tweaked from what I can see (two of them, count, thats two), they have the stages pretty figured out (no more force field, YAY), and it looks like they have a hell of alot of motion capture done to. Now all they have to do is get everything programmed into the game, tweak the code and graphics to how they want it (to avoid bugs, chopy frame rate, ext) and they should have it going on. Now the only thing we don't know much about, is the online play.

Now I imagin they're putting some new game modes in to take full advantage of this feature. But another thing that might also hold this back is that they said (they're going to push each system to it's limits with each version to get the best possible results) that takes alot more time then just make a straight forward version like they did on MK:DA. But from the looks of things it looks like they have their shit together. So you never know.

Another thing however that got games like mk2 and 3 out so early was the fact that they could put out a crap version and then send updates to the arcades and add in some nifty stuff *COUGH* NOOB *COUGH*. Maybe the online feature hold something similar in store for us...I'd sort of fell bad for gamecube owners if this happened though.

I am also amazed that MK6 is here already. I woul have thought it would have taken at least 2 years to get it up and running, also the MK team is working on 2 diff versions of the game. I find that amazing that the speed in which the MK team is working.

The_Purple_Bunny Wrote: It's absolutely no different than the time it took to develop other MK games. MK3, MK4, and MK:DA all took around 2 years to develop.

MK: DA took them four years from inception to completion, not two.

xphoguytonyx Wrote: um, the realease date for MKDA was 2003 not 2002.

MK: DA was released November 2002 in the US. PAL territories didn't get it until February 2003 however.

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