I didn't expect this interview to focus only on gameplay since Mastermalone did a very good job already.

I was expecting after the MKO interview to have a better idea of what MKA will be and I can say that indeed it is the case. The purpose of an interview is to ask questions, not interrupting someone and tell him what to do. You did a good job Kombat!


BUT, let me be a bit critical about some of the questions that were chosen...


FMV endings question: the MK team didn't have the time to do them for MKDA and MKD do you really think that they will do them for the 60 characters this time? I think that the FMV did rock but that was not a good question. a question like that could create the false impression that FMV endings are more important then the gameplay for the average MK fan.

the 2 MK unchained questions: I don't care about this game and I think that those were 2 wasted questions... but anyway maybe some people do care about it so I won't complain. But one question would have been enough...

future MK games for the Nintendo consoles: again, personnally I don't care about this question, but maybe if someone want to play MK games and is unsure about buying the Wiii the question makes sense... but then again Ed`s answer was 'maybe' so it was not a productive question

compatibility with the Xbox360: really good question!

gameplay questions: It had to be ask anyway just to annoy Ed with it and let him know that the fans care about it. Even if it was not ask correclty(like the lack of reference about the MKD infinites and all) I'm glad the question was ask(again thanks to Mastermalone for asking the questions properly)

Noob-Smoke question: very good question

minor characters(Khameleon etc): very good question, finally people will stop talking about them lol

Create a fatality question: allright question, I don't care about them but a lot of people do so it had to be ask

the intro question about Scorpion being evil: What a stupid question...

special features and stuff in the Kontent: all the stuff in the Kontent was garbadge 90% of the time anyway, I won't buy MKA for the Kontent... I don't like this question at all

the 2 Profiles question: interesting I guess

fighting styles question: very good question!

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But you could have ask instead questions about:

- special moves returning (like Cage's low blow or Sonya leg grab)

- options in practice mode (like computer options, ability to practice fatalities)

- number of alternate outfits

- storyline in general (why characters have come back to life)

- will we be able to play as Daegon?

- can you make characters in the forms of shokans, oni's, dragons like onaga, and centaurs.


- Will the online be looked into in terms of when someone who decides they wanna keep there streak and decide to pull their kords to prevent a loss.

- Will players who take a cheat device online have their system banned for a certain amount of time and giving a certain amount of chances before it's officialy banned from online mk play.

Hey there,

I just wanted to bring up a small point to those who were critical about some of the questions asked in the interview. This was a Fan Interview; with one exception (that being the very last question), every single question asked were ones that users submitted. We simply had to work with what was given to us. We would have liked to have asked more questions, but as you could probably tell we hit our timelimit with Ed right after he answered the fighting style question. (There were other media groups that had scheduled time with him.)

One question that was brought up earlier was downloadable patches et al; that question was submitted, but the reason it wasn't asked because we knew what the answer was and, well... no offense, but I personally figured the answer was obvious. Midway likes to keep their ports as identical as possible; the Playstation 2 by default doesn't support downloadable patches as it doesn't have a hard drive, so Midway wouldn't put the functionality in X-Box as they want the two versions to be virtually identical.

In any event, our thanks to those who enjoyed the Fan Interview; we'll be posting more material and our final impressions soon, so keep an eye here.

quote:- can you make characters in the forms of shokans, oni's, dragons like onaga, and centaurs.

THAT one should be the main question!!!

however,regarding my uber-hated team noob-smoke,i hope that,at least,you can create them separately in KAK....

about the NS question.
Boon said that many liked the team.
Kombat you should have said that the majority of the MK comunity hates it.

Man, if it ends up being still only one Kak per profile upon release I'm going to be making ALOT of profiles!

All those passwords....

RRRRRR - Kak1
LRRRRR - Kak2
ARRRRR - Kak3
BRRRRR - Kak4
YRRRRR - Kak5
XRRRRR - Kak6.....

Two styles sucks! this is a bad move:/

Thanks for submitting questions, but the time to submit these questions was before the Fan Interview, not after. :)



Did you know that you can actually give each profile the exact same password? It's been this way since MKDA.

This was great, I'm really glad you guys got the information on styles, and all that was explained on that matter.

Id like to thank MKO for their fan interview, and choosing my question to be amongst the questions asked. Please do more fan interviews in the future.

Me.

thx for the interview. can sombody post a transcipt? the quality was poor and I wasnt able to get all the points

Me too.

And thanks for the interview!

well i really hope Noob ans Smoke are seperated as in There ending and profile it focused on Noob and not Smoke!

He ony mentioned Meat, he didn't really say anything about Chameleon or Khameleon so i can't see em been in!

I'm shocked nothing was said about Motaro or if when the Roaster pik will be updated!!

i dont think well have any info on motaro until we unlock him ourselves

Good job MKO on the wake up game questions.

It seems Midway finally know they MUST have a wake up game.



Too bad no online or umk3 questions were asked but still good job

me three

awesome.

it's hilarious to see the MK team taking a shot at Nintendo's "Wii" system name at 1:55 also

NOOB-SMOKE

YES!!!
It was *I* who asked the question about Noob-Smoke being seperated!

But you guys got to remember, this Justin guy kinda re-worded my question toward Ed out of respect.
I do believe that i hinted in my question that majority didn't like the team up.
Crownjo, tgrant,Chrome

Sorry the majority overrules!

If Noob-Smoke does return, it won't be from yea's opinion ha!

TWO WEAPONS

Uh, actually i am disapointed in this choice, i believe that everone should have 1 fighting, 1 weapon.

FMV ENDINGS

I knew the this question was going fruitless, meaning that you won't get the answer that you wanted.

Ps
Thanks Justin for asking *MY* question!

So there is hope that Noob Saibot can be solo again

Prove me that we aren't the majority. And not only on MKO and on forums.

Btw, how did you expect to have 54 FMV's crammed in there? Midway does not own the ModZilla packaging program, plus, the FMV for MKDA and MKD were not done by Midway.

Ok, some actually have two weapons, I like this. Not everyone as imbecile to fight hand to hand against a weapon.+this would bring up some good characteristic elements for some.

btw, did you know that tehre was a Smoke ending left out of MKD? So plot is not a valid excuse to separate N/S .

I like Xzar

Q. Prove me that we aren't the majority. And not only on MKO and on forums

A. Darnit Chrome, you're just giving me more work to do

Q. Btw, how did you expect to have 54 FMV's crammed in there? Midway does not own the ModZilla packaging program, plus, the FMV for MKDA and MKD were not done by Midway.

A. I knew FMV wasn't possible in this time frame. Its not about compressing the video it havinf time to do all of them.

Q. Ok, some actually have two weapons, I like this. Not everyone as imbecile to fight hand to hand against a weapon.+this would bring up some good characteristic elements for some.

A. Well... this is coming from my personal opinion.

Q. btw, did you know that tehre was a Smoke ending left out of MKD? So plot is not a valid excuse to separate N/S

A. No i did not know about a Smoke ending! My excuse would be in the form of a Ashrah Vs Noob conflict and Smoke malfuncioning. Perfect excuse.

Q. I like Xzar

A. Xzar and Montaron are two of my favorite henchmen lol.
Ps
I found out who you are in Baldur's Gate. You'd be none other than Edwin Odesseiron.

Quotes

Edwin (upon Dynaheir's death): Checkmate! The witch is dead!

Edwin: Well, it would seem the leader of our little group has impregnated the impressionable circus child. And here I thought she was merely getting chubby without the ring master's whip to keep her in shape.

Edwin: Greetings. I am Edwin Odesseiron. You simians may refer to me merely as "Sir," if you prefer a less... syllable intensive workout.

lol

While I think everyone is entitled to their opinion, including you, not everyone is necissarily required to agree with that opinion, including me.

I don't see why you had to bitch about ]{ombat getting us MORE information, even if it was things you don't care about. And frankly just because you don't care about them doesn't mean that other people don't. Personally I liked the info that came out of this interview about a hundred times better then what came out of mastermalone's, because I'm one of the people who doesn't mind the fighting mechanics, and could give a damn about them. In fact, I even rolled my eyes when ]{ombat asked about wakeup game.

PERSONALLY, I'd be more inclined to say that Mastermalone wasted his questions and ]{ombat didn't, but that's just because I take an interest in different things then you.

Now, I'm not saying that it's wrong for people to take an interest in the fight mechanics. Ya'll are entitled to too, and mastermalones questions were right up your alley. I however, didn't care about most of what he addressed, but I didn't go bitching about it either, because I knew that some people wanted to know those types of things, and frankly any info is good info. But some of us are more interested in this kind of stuff then we are wake up game, and we're entitled to be. So on you.



Wouldn't that prove the exact opposite of what you just said? If Smoke had an ending, and it was removed, then he was cheated out of equal plot development in favor of Noob, thus meaning plot would be a valid reason to seperate Noob and Smoke, because otherwise Smoke has gotten, and would still be getting the shaft.

Good job ]{ombat! You asked questions I actualy wanted an answer to. In all the other interviews they are asking things that have been known for a while. Like release dates, how many characters, all the obvius stuff. Too bad he wouldn't give straight answers. "yeah it wouldn't be too hard to make noob and smoke their own characters..." I'm guessing they are going to remain a tag team.

I dont, i like Smoke but not Noob.

I love noob smoke as a team. I always thought of smoke as a reject character anyway. I couldn't agree more. Too many wasted questions. should have been more focus on gameplay and online. Scorpions my favorite since one and i don't care about if he's neutral or why he's on the bad guy side.

I think you guys are giving him too hard of a time. Most of the questions you wanted him to ask Ed wouldn't have answered or he would have beat around the bush answered them. There was no way that he would say 'YES' a wake up game is included or yes this gameplay feature has been tweaked too unless it was in fact 100% in there. I say better to ask questions you'll get answers to rather then ask a question that'll get dodged.

My thoughts:

FMV endings, dudes... just let it go man, not happening.

Noob/Smoke - I'd rather have them as a team, I loved the team format. I don't care for either character seperately, i only got interested in them when they teamed up.

Unchained Stuff - I have a PSP and have ton's of time to play it (special thanks to my employer for that) so I wasn't upset Unchained questions were asked.

360 Question - thank you! that's the first definitive answer I've heard on this and it's an extremely important question for me anyhow.

KAK Stuff - I'm probably only going to rock out 1 created fighter so atm the profile thing doesnt bother me. Major kudos though to asking about being able to choose the other players Fighter. I think this would make for some really fun matches, switching up created Fighters to see who can learn/adapt the fastest. Sort of like an alternate random kombat mode.

The Good/Evil sides question - k that wasnt really neccessary but oh well.

2 Weapons, 2 Hand to Hand - this honestly doesnt bother me, it could if it's done improperly but if done right it could be excellent. For instance I always thought of Johnny Cage or Liu Kang as strict hand to hand fighters so I'd love to see them have only hand to hand styles where characters like Darrius or Kenshi (he is a swordsman supposedly) would benenfit from 2 weapons styles (especially darrius).