Alright, so i've almost stopped reading this forum due to the constant repeated pointless threads, when there's other things to discuss. For example: i've seen a shitload of "it's not Smoke, it's noob!" threads and arguments, but i don't recall seeing too many (or any at all) threads about how Smoke is going to "work" in 3d.
Also note that i checked the next few pages to see if there was anything like this hanging around, and i couldn't seem to see one, however if this has already been discussed extensively, provide me a link to the thread, and i'll try to have this one closed as soon as i can.
So now that that's out of the way...
With smoke taking an etherial form now, how is the whole thing going to work? Blood and bodyparts are what concerns me the most.
From the shot we saw of him fighting Baraka, he had red blood. This just doesn't seem to make sense if he is in fact, "smoke". Should his blood have been made a different colour? Should it have been made a liquid? Should he even of been given blood? If he wasn't given blood, would that have looked equally as lame as having red blood?
Personally, i would have liked to see a smoke like liquid as blood. When Smoke would take a blow, his grey transparent "blood" would spill to the floor, then dissapate into the surrounding air a half second or so later.
As for bodyparts...
Well i can't really think of how fatalities could possibly work on a transparent character. What's going to happen when somebody say, pulls an organ from Smoke's chest? Or say somebody has a finishing move where the victim explodes, how would smoke itself, explode? What about chunks of fleash and bones? Can electricity pass through smoke itself?
If i had my way, Smoke's organs/bones ect would also be made of smoke. Grey swirling transparent mist in the usual shape of a bone/organ. At least it would make more sense than a red heart being pulled out of thin air (or should i say thick smoke?). Unfortunately i get the feeling this isn't even close to what we're going to see.
Throws? Same thing again. If in MK:D the fighting styles/martial arts will be more realistic (which i doubt to be honest), and my character is using a martial art that includes a lot of throws/"submissions"/bone breakers ect, how is that going to work when my character grabs smokes arm and "breaks" it, or throws him to the ground by it?
I guess the main question is "how the fuck can somebody hit actual smoke?!" it's completely illogical.
My only explaination for it is this...
Smoke has a similar ability to to what reptile had, in that he can almost make himself invisable. Smoke has invisable skin (so there is actually something to grab, and something to hold him together) and his innards are semi-transparent. Everything inside him is seemingly invisable, but rather than being able to see through him, we see smoke billowing inside, almost like the illusion of smoke, when in fact all his organs ect are there, just invisable in a way. This explains how he can bleed red blood and have red organs/bones, because they're there, just not visable untill the ability is disrupted (just like the classic MK games in which an invisable character became visable again when hit).
Either that or he's just actual smoke floating around while somehow posessing bones that appear from nowhere, wearing clothing, and bleeding red blood...Which i fear is what we're going to get in MK:D.
Anyway if you bothered to read all that, feel free to make comments on how you think Smoke will interact with the surroundings and other characters.
(Note that i don't give a shit whether you think he's Noob, or whether you have "proof" he's not Smoke, because this isn't what the thread is about. If you feel you must, you may read the words "Smoke" and "smoke" as "Noob" and "mist", but please, nobody wants to hear who you think the character is. Go talk that useless shit in another thread.)
