I'm done with MK if ANY of this is true. The Crossover, no fatalities...how can you have a dark, errie game with Superheroes and No Fatalities?

Oh God no. Don't let ANY of this be true! I want a stand-alone rated M Mortal Kombat 8.

Once again, I'm guessing(and Hoping) that MK sources are letting out false Information. Maybe they are trying to lower everyone's standards. So when the game does come out, everyone is blown away.

Dude that isn't going to happen, so don't worry. MK was founded on gruesome violence, and thats where it's fanbase comes from. Midway isn't going to risk it. MK8 will be bloodier than ever....It's also a good thing to note that over 80% of top-selling games are rated M.

T for Teen rated mortal kombat,I hope I am wrong,I would much rather face the stoning and back lash I will rightly get of you people if what Ive been told is false, than play a dumbed down mk.

Cyberdog! I have a question for you. If you are an inside source and all of this, then why can you not type for shit?

Shane at 1up is a douche. He guessed the PS3 would launch cheaper than the 360, that RE5 was a PS3 exclusive, and that MGS4 was coming on 360. He's been wrong on numerous occasions, he's just trying to strut his stuff.


MK8 is using the UE3 engine, known for it's over-the-top violence. MK will be the MK we love, just refined for the future.

Im not an inside source and never claimed to be,english is my second language so give me a break.
Im simply a whistleblower who passes on what Ive been told.

I think I could handle it being rated T, more than I could handle a Xover. Screw Xovers

If that dude is telling the truth about the T for Teen roumer, then the next Mortal Kombat will be a crossover indefinitely. However, Midway will likely not consider it MK8, but instead a non-canon side project.

Crossover? I'm out.
Rated T? I'm out.

If they want to do that kind of shit, fine, but don't do it in MK8. Do it on a side proejct like MKSM or something. I want MORTAL KOMBAT.

The only thing that sort of eases my mind is that Shane works for EGM. The first legit rumor of an MK cross ever was from Quaterman from EGM . However technically TRMK started that rumor ( which is likely bullshit ).

So maybe Quarterman was having a slow month, read about the cross over rumor on a message board, which he in turn would have put in EGM, thus the reason Shane would have heard this rumor since he and quaterman are both EGM employees. I cant explain however where shane would have heard it was being rated T, unless who ever told him about the cross over also mentioned the DC characters, which would make one assume that the game would have to be rated T.

Atleast Boon himself, has said the game is going to be darker and grittier, and considering that is the only FACT anyone has heard from Boons mouth (also the words blood and fatality being the crossword on Boon.com ) would mean the game is most likely going to stay M rated.

I probably shouldn't have even started this thread, but considering it is RUMOR but from a legit source, I figured I'd post it.

Lets just hope that AT WORST, it is indeed an MK game crossed over with the UT characters which I have speculated for awhile.

I highly doubt this. OK, first of all T to Teen means there's bound to be some humor. ED said it was gonna be SERIOUS, DARK, and GRITTY. If it is. M for Mature is defiantly at hand. This dude just happened to get info before any of us... Sure. If this had been posted by Cinder from Midway boards, then I'd believe it.

Can you tell me where in the over 2 hour long podcast they talk about MK and the other fighters? I'd like to listen but not scour 2 hours to find it, thanks. Downloading the podcast now.

3 dayz left and we'll see.

its at

65:15

...

i ripped the part... its really short

http://www.zshare.net/audio/104955498e8ee997/

bye,

Thank you. Was hoping they would talk about it for a bit... got about 15 seconds lol.

So lets see if they finally destroyed MK for good..

Look every one remain calm it just like the VS rumor is just another silly little rumor nothing more and for that mater a stupid one
don't lose sleep over it, its not true.

Yes, MK8 is said to be darker and grittier by Boon himself. So maybe, MK8 could even be rated PG.

Do you remember the two teens that killed that little girl because of MK? Well that's why I said in may be PG.

Bettenhausen Kermit the frogged out something that's been brought up here without any founding. Yeah, I'm worried...

I'm more pissed about the crossover idea. I dont think that'll happen though (it better fucking not)

In the September 2006 issue of Official Xbox Magazine, the cover story was MK Armageddon. On page 61, in the lower left hand corner, Ed Boon talks about the possibility of a dream match betwen MK and Street Fighter:

"I have had conversations with people about it and we've actually made phone calls about it." reveals Boon, only to quickly add: "it's not in the near future and I don't think there are any plans at the moment. I'd love to see it. It might be something that a smaller, elite group of people would be super-excited about, but the mass market, I think they'd say 'Was Mortal Kombat 2D at one point?' So maybe it's more of a novelty to them."

Now, EGM, who has been banned from the MK team studios and who is the LAST source for anyone looking for info on anything MK related, puts in it's August 2007 issue regarding Soul Calibur 4 (issue #218) says on page 67 under the headline "In Other Hard Hitting News..." that "Mortal Kombat's brutal crew is also prepping a return to the ring, and we hear Scorpion and co. may be squaring off against another extremely well-known cast."

There is absolutely no basis for this rumor. EGM has never revealed any source as to where the rumor originates from and given the fact that EGM gets zero first hand knowledge of MK themselves, they are only going on hearsay just like everyone in these threads.

Now I'm not trying to make the leap that Shane Bettenhausen doesn't know anyone else in the industry that might be able to provide him with reliable information, but if that were the case, and Shane actually has a reliable source, than why hasn't EGM ever printed this as news? Oh yeah, it goes back to the fact that EGM does NOT have first hand knowledge of this rumor's validity.

Again, why would this Versus rumor make any sense at all? You see Ed Boon's words from his own mouth: "It might be something that a smaller, elite group of people would be super-excited about, but the mass market, I think they'd say 'Was Mortal Kombat 2D at one point?"

Do you think that's the type of game that would take this long to develop? A 2D version of MK vs SF? Okay fine, let's assume that it's 3D. Why would the MK team get the Unreal engine, why would Ed Boon talk for over a year now about "wiping the slate clean" and "starting a new chapter" in the series, saying things like "this will probably be the last that we see of alot of these characters?" If it's a versus game?

Why would Ed Boon talk about how the game will be darker and grittier and what not if it's a cross over game? Clearly he's talking about the future of the MK series, not a versus game, which is obviously a noncanon type of side game.

There are too many facts that make the BS of this rumor sound even dumber than the idea itself would be. We'll find out in a few days what the real story is, but if Cyberdog and some of these other people are right and the rumor is legit, I'll praise him and apologize. I just don't see any way of that happening though.