Why do you guys believe that MK and DC cannot crossover?
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Why do you guys believe that MK and DC cannot crossover?
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posted04/23/2008 07:40 PM (UTC)by
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nastynate Wrote:
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Nice try,
I beleive that people just cannot think that Mortal Kombat be a crossover game due to the fact that it's mostly (and I say MOSTLY for a reason) the only game that features fatalities and lots of gore.
But because all of that is basically gone in this game, people are already giving the game grief because one little thing is taken away. Big deal, every fighting game has had a crossover once in their series, now it's Mortal Kombat's turn.
Yeah, it might be toned down a bit, but they're still making it as dark as it should be even for a T rating.
People just judge to quickly and whine about the dumbest things that's all.
I don't have a problem with this, I did way back before the news came out, but now I'm like, "I feel like an idiot in not believing the rumor is true, now I want to see what this game is like."
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mastermalone Wrote:
What's up people,
I've been reading over an over about how Mortal Kombat and DC cannot possible crossover in terms of look, feel, story etc. That's not true. MK is definitely a comic book style story through and through. It has main protagonists, villians, side stories and cliff hangers just like a comic book. So many IP's have had crossovers recently such as Marvel vs DC, Spawn Batman, Batman vs Predator, Aliens vs Predator, the list goes on and on.
What these crossovers do is spur interest in the combination of two iconic franchises which benefits supporters from both sides. This DC crossover will definitely get the Media's attention and put MK back in the public's eye. If they manage to get the gameplay on par with some of the other fighting games out there, then this game will gain the respect of the hardcore fighting game fans as well as the casual fighting game crowd.
I hope most of you here know that MK is laughed at by the hardcore crowd. Many hardcore fighting game fans don't even know that there are new mortal kombat games after MK4, that is the honest truth. They have no idea that MKDA, MKD or MKA even exist. Ask one and you will see. What I'm trying to say here is that I'm excited to see how this game turnes out. I love comic book hereos and the like and seeing them take on my MK buddies (who's poweres have been amplified to match) makes the game even more appealing to me and many others.
To prove my point, my friend, who works at a local arcade (Family Funtime in Granada Hills, CA) has informed me that many of the hardcore fighting fans know of MKDC and are gaining interest in it. That is a good sign.
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Why do some of you think that Capcom is giving the current fans what they want regarding Street Fighter IV? For your information, they definitely are not. Most fans wanted a strict, hand drawn 2D fighter that progressed the story of Street Fighter III. What they got was a return to the old Street Fighter 2 story line with mostly Street Fighter 2 Characters, in 3D. Do you want to know why? It's because Street Fighter III, a 2D game in 3D gaming times, was a commercial failure, yet it was a critical success to a select few. It took five years after its release to gain popularity.
The reason you ask?
Because Capcom threw out all of the known, popular characters in favor of some very SNK-like designs. It turned a lot of fans off and they left for orther titles. Capcom wants its old fanbase back so they decided to go back to SF2 for inspiration, thus neglecting it's SF3 fans. They also decided to make the game 3D to apeal to the casual crowd. They outweighed the pros and cons of this and the pros(more money) outweighed the cons by a longshot.
That's what Midway is doing with this game. They know that this crossover game is a potential cash cow and I think they are going to be right on the money (no pun intended).
Peace
What's up people,
I've been reading over an over about how Mortal Kombat and DC cannot possible crossover in terms of look, feel, story etc. That's not true. MK is definitely a comic book style story through and through. It has main protagonists, villians, side stories and cliff hangers just like a comic book. So many IP's have had crossovers recently such as Marvel vs DC, Spawn Batman, Batman vs Predator, Aliens vs Predator, the list goes on and on.
What these crossovers do is spur interest in the combination of two iconic franchises which benefits supporters from both sides. This DC crossover will definitely get the Media's attention and put MK back in the public's eye. If they manage to get the gameplay on par with some of the other fighting games out there, then this game will gain the respect of the hardcore fighting game fans as well as the casual fighting game crowd.
I hope most of you here know that MK is laughed at by the hardcore crowd. Many hardcore fighting game fans don't even know that there are new mortal kombat games after MK4, that is the honest truth. They have no idea that MKDA, MKD or MKA even exist. Ask one and you will see. What I'm trying to say here is that I'm excited to see how this game turnes out. I love comic book hereos and the like and seeing them take on my MK buddies (who's poweres have been amplified to match) makes the game even more appealing to me and many others.
To prove my point, my friend, who works at a local arcade (Family Funtime in Granada Hills, CA) has informed me that many of the hardcore fighting fans know of MKDC and are gaining interest in it. That is a good sign.
PS:
Why do some of you think that Capcom is giving the current fans what they want regarding Street Fighter IV? For your information, they definitely are not. Most fans wanted a strict, hand drawn 2D fighter that progressed the story of Street Fighter III. What they got was a return to the old Street Fighter 2 story line with mostly Street Fighter 2 Characters, in 3D. Do you want to know why? It's because Street Fighter III, a 2D game in 3D gaming times, was a commercial failure, yet it was a critical success to a select few. It took five years after its release to gain popularity.
The reason you ask?
Because Capcom threw out all of the known, popular characters in favor of some very SNK-like designs. It turned a lot of fans off and they left for orther titles. Capcom wants its old fanbase back so they decided to go back to SF2 for inspiration, thus neglecting it's SF3 fans. They also decided to make the game 3D to apeal to the casual crowd. They outweighed the pros and cons of this and the pros(more money) outweighed the cons by a longshot.
That's what Midway is doing with this game. They know that this crossover game is a potential cash cow and I think they are going to be right on the money (no pun intended).
Peace
Totally agree dude, lol that's what I've been preaching the past week on here..there's been more sillier crossovers or "unexpected" that have easily survived and didn't "kill their franchises"
I mean hell, the next SC4 will have Vader and yoda for gods sake lol. Vader and Yoda....yet people have a stink with Batman vs. Subby lol
Sometimes a franchise needs change and just about everyone agreed from fans to Midway that MK needed "change" and we got change" just because it's not "MK exclusive or MK vs. Marvel or MK vs Yugio" like some fans would have wanted lol, we got something just as good if not better(better in my book honestly)
There's many dark characters that exist in the DC universe that I think would fit in nicely in the MK universe as well, some fans just need to chill out a little bit and give it a chance...
I also believe that this will not only be a huge financial success, cashcow for Midway/DC but also shows something new that neither franchise has ever done before and let's face it DC's brand of games aren't that great overall except for a few such as JL Heroes and perhaps a few others....
But yeah malone I liked it how you broke each franchise down a bit, very well said. I feel on games like Tekken and SC that might have that hardcore crowd, despite their success the gameplay IMO is all that they have going for it and I think Namco is afraid of "change" or taking any risk, but noticed as you've even mentioned Capcom has with SF, Midway has with MK taking the chance of going from 2D to 3D and failing...at first anyway, I believe MK has improved and SF is taking an interesting path with SF4 keeping the "look 3D" yet play 2D.....to me Namco's fighters haven't changed "dramatically" thru out the years compared to the other fighters. I mean even SSBB's gameplay, characters and overall game altered a bit from the original and Melee.
I guess since SF's EX didn't do so well, they figured let's stick to our roots with 2D instead of trying to improve in the 3D and just keep the SF2 storyline with some newer characters. I'd like to see another 3D SF though someday.
I bet a lot more fans on here wouldn't be as harsh, judgemental,critical and negative if this was MK vs. SF....a point in which TRMK mentioned after his first hands on look which is a good point, it just shows how many people aren't aware of DC's success over the years or that they have had tons of dark stories.
In closing, I'm looking forward to this game and feel it's going to surprise a lot of people in a good way.
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