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03/25/2019 12:33 AM (UTC)
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If they're gonna go so far as to hire Cary Tagawa, they might as well play some of his greatest hits.

If they're going so far as to hire him again, why bother getting him to repeat the same lines as the first time?
Give him some new lines or just use the original recordings.

This doesn't sound like an argument made in good faith. Clearly, mixing new lines with a few movie ones sprinkled in for nostalgia purposes is totally doable. The two approaches aren't mutually exclusive, and if they avoided movie references entirely while hiring the actor from the movie... fans would be justified in wondering why they passed up the opportunity.

Not sure why this warrants so much explanation. Shang Tsung is probably going to have a lot to say over the course of his Krypt appearance and fight dialogue. There's plenty of room to mix movie references and original lines.

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They should add an easter egg in the background where there's a random chance that Johnny Cage is seen trying to make it up the stairs and dropping his luggage.

At this point, with all these request... they might as well just include the movie with the game - instead of having to animate the whole thing for the sake of easter eggs.

... I think...

... you might be...

... slightly...

....

... overreacting.

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03/25/2019 10:19 AM (UTC)
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Yeah, because it's not like the devs struggle to move on from revisiting / remaking the MK1-3 era. Now we gotta mix in the movie too, which is also MK1 yet again.

Paying homage is one thing, but there is a point where they can take it too far and we're just getting repeated content and the series is unable to move on.

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03/25/2019 10:46 AM (UTC)
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Yeah, because it's not like the devs struggle to move on from revisiting / remaking the MK1-3 era. Now we gotta mix in the movie too, which is also MK1 yet again.

Paying homage is one thing, but there is a point where they can take it too far and we're just getting repeated content and the series is unable to move on.

Why couldn't that be interesting though? Instead of taking time as a means to create stories (for any game or movie), why wouldn't "alternate universes" be a means of creating stories? It may be harder to pull off, but it can be more interesting. I always like movies in which they try to alter the outcome by knowing what lies ahead because of time-bending.
But I'm also probably biased, because I always like to see the characters back from the original 3 games. So I like their new way of mixing original characters with new ones.

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03/25/2019 11:02 AM (UTC)
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Yeah, because it's not like the devs struggle to move on from revisiting / remaking the MK1-3 era. Now we gotta mix in the movie too, which is also MK1 yet again.

Paying homage is one thing, but there is a point where they can take it too far and we're just getting repeated content and the series is unable to move on.

Why couldn't that be interesting though? Instead of taking time as a means to create stories (for any game or movie), why wouldn't "alternate universes" be a means of creating stories? It may be harder to pull off, but it can be more interesting. I always like movies in which they try to alter the outcome by knowing what lies ahead because of time-bending.
But I'm also probably biased, because I always like to see the characters back from the original 3 games. So I like their new way of mixing original characters with new ones.

It can be good to an extent, if done right. If characters are still allowed to develop instead of just being reset repeatedly. If the story actually changes instead of just repeating the same things shot-for-shot, word-for-word.

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