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11/05/2010 11:39 PM (UTC)
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And the Pixie Dust Teleport lives on, still no pixies though. I love how Mileena and Kitana are especially vicious in this game, Mileena especially. Was that a throw or, I don't know but it was nice.
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11/05/2010 11:51 PM (UTC)
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"Really trying to inject more personality..."

"Everyone's sweep will look different, everyone's punch will look different, but the command will be consistent for every character..."

Definitely a good note! Hopefully they can really think carefully about how each character moves and really capture personality, avoiding some of the mistakes of the arbitrary style allocation past.
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11/05/2010 11:59 PM (UTC)
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Whats up with Kitana's X-ray? She buries her fans right inside your skull and practically destroys your brain. That a little too much for a X-ray, Id say. That should be a fatality, not an X-ray. Have to see it in full though.
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11/06/2010 12:17 AM (UTC)
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oh no everyone is teleporting again.....
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11/06/2010 12:19 AM (UTC)
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Demon_0 Wrote:
Whats up with Kitana's X-ray? She buries her fans right inside your skull and practically destroys your brain. That a little too much for a X-ray, Id say. That should be a fatality, not an X-ray. Have to see it in full though.
Well Reptile sticks his very pointy fingers practically knuckle deep in your eye sockets, almost all of the x-ray moves have been things that would kill a normal person.
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11/06/2010 12:28 AM (UTC)
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oracle Wrote:
Demon_0 Wrote:
Whats up with Kitana's X-ray? She buries her fans right inside your skull and practically destroys your brain. That a little too much for a X-ray, Id say. That should be a fatality, not an X-ray. Have to see it in full though.
Well Reptile sticks his very pointy fingers practically knuckle deep in your eye sockets, almost all of the x-ray moves have been things that would kill a normal person.


All of them actually. They are all exaggerated mini Fatalities, so, I don't see any problem with Kitana's.

Are the fans inside the victims head though? It looks to me like she stabbed him close to the neck area. No?
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11/06/2010 12:33 AM (UTC)
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Most X-ray's would definitely kill a normal human being but still, most of em involve bone breaking and such which is acceptable to a certain extent for in-game fighting. Reptile's eye poke would make you go blind for sure but doesn't necessarly have to kill you and certainly doesn't go as far as two huge fans being burried in your head.

I agree that all X-ray's are over the top brutal and would most probably kill (instantly or slowly) but Kitana's X-ray is far more deadly than the others seen so far and fits more as a fatality move, I'd say. Lke, part of Nightwolf's fatality is throwing his axe at your head.
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11/06/2010 12:37 AM (UTC)
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I enjoyed this entry in the MKast and I really respect the guys that are making this game for taking their time out and reading our posts and blogs. It makes me feel like my opinion does matter and that whatever whacky idea I come up with on these boards might actually have a chance of being considered by a programmer. If this is being read by a MK developer thanks alot and keep up the great work.
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11/06/2010 12:38 AM (UTC)
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Demon_0 Wrote:
Most X-ray's would definitely kill a normal human being but still, most of em involve bone breaking and such which is acceptable to a certain extent for in-game fighting. Reptile's eye poke would make you go blind for sure but doesn't necessarly have to kill you and certainly doesn't go as far as two huge fans being burried in your head.

I agree that all X-ray's are over the top brutal and would most probably kill (instantly or slowly) but Kitana's X-ray is far more deadly than the others seen so far and is more of a fatality move, I'd say.


Hmm, I think that still having your eyes after Reptile's X-Ray is far more exaggerated and Fatal though.

In general I just don't think any of the X-rays have to be taken seriously. They are in just for a show. For a wonderful awesome show.

I'm far more concerned about Kitana's horrible hair (even if it looks slightly improved) than her X-ray. Hopefully her X-ray will be stylish and cool looking though. So far it looks promising (brain damage!).

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11/06/2010 12:47 AM (UTC)
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BIG_SYKE19 Wrote:
oh no everyone is teleporting again.....


I kinda feel the same way! I dont like it when everyone teleports... really loses its luster a bit... I feel the same way about Mileena ́s teleport... it used to look like a ninja trick before, but now they added the pink effect so it looks like everyone is a damn power ranger!

And I really wish they had saved that spin teleport for Jade!!! I think the characters loose a bit of personality when they share moves like that... they did such a good job individualizing her square-wave punch like attack... its a shame.

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11/06/2010 12:49 AM (UTC)
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It's definetly looking better, but I'm still not particularly sold on Kitana's hair. Did anybody else not notice in her scene where she fights with reptile how bad the animation was on her hair? At one point he slides into her and the hair stands upright when she hits the floor, before flopping back down into place. Still plenty of room for improvement with that one, they should really discuss first and foremost how practical a costume will be in terms of graphics and mechanics before they plan on it...big hair on the likes of herself and Sindel will just look ridiculous if they dont work that out fairly soon.

Loving Mileena's knife stab move, and one thing I really liked was the little bubbles of Oxygen that rise to the surface of the Deadpool. That looked pretty fuckin sweet!
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11/06/2010 01:42 AM (UTC)
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I think it was a smart decision to give every fighter an upper cut, crouch punch, and sweep. This should make balancing characters easier and it adds accessabiltiy. It keeps the game back to it's 2D roots as well, and even though each character is unique there are still gameplay principles that each character must obey.
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11/06/2010 01:57 AM (UTC)
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"characters will have little thematic instances that makes sense for them to have".


Then why the hell did they give Scorpion swords?? It makes sense for him to use his ropedart - not swords!!!
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11/06/2010 02:00 AM (UTC)
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"characters will have little thematic instances that makes sense for them to have".


Then why the hell did they give Scorpion swords?? It makes sense for him to use his ropedart - not swords!!!


What the hell ever happened to his battle axes? I know he's a ninja and they use kitanas, but battle axes seem more demonic and brutal which suite Scorpion.
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11/06/2010 02:11 AM (UTC)
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Don't you guys see it? MIleena seems different from last time, something has changed on her head, hair or mask... can't really see what but it just seems different.

Also to that guy that dislikes Sektors replay fatality, I don't mind it, it makes his fatality actually cool, Sektor is one of the only characters that has a kind-off magical different fatality than just ripping the victim to parts with his hands or hold weapons, I really adore the replay of the parts.

And I enjoyed this video and I like that they actually visit this site!

Maybe one of you guys is actually one of them in disguise! :p
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11/06/2010 02:11 AM (UTC)
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it is Katana and use MK logic here. When is the last time you have seen a real ninja freeze a person thru magic.
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11/06/2010 02:25 AM (UTC)
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jbthrash Wrote:
What the hell ever happened to his battle axes? I know he's a ninja and they use kitanas,


They don't use katanas. They hardly ever used swords and if they did it would have been something similar to the wakizashi. Regardless, Scorpion uses a kunai and a chain - that's his signature weapon and he should fucking use it!!!

My anger is not aimed at you jbthrash, it's at the people who took Scorpion's identity and raped it with generics and blandness.

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When is the last time you have seen a real ninja freeze a person thru magic.


I don't think I have ever seen Scorpion freeze anyone.
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11/06/2010 03:16 AM (UTC)
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It was alright, I'm not impressed like some of you guys. Pretty simple, not very exciting new info thrown around at different times. And they didn't even show all of Kitana's X-Ray! Wtf? Is it so precious and jaw-dropping that we must wait until release to behold?

Liked Mileena's new Sai stab and what little bit of gameplay we saw.
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11/06/2010 03:39 AM (UTC)
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Kamionero Wrote:
I kinda feel the same way! I dont like it when everyone teleports... really loses its luster a bit... I feel the same way about Mileena ́s teleport... it used to look like a ninja trick before, but now they added the pink effect so it looks like everyone is a damn power ranger!
I actually really like the pink effect. It puts her in line with Kitana and Jade.
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11/06/2010 03:50 AM (UTC)
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I don't see why the ball roll has to have a pink effect. It's not magic, it's a fucking somersault.
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11/06/2010 03:53 AM (UTC)
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That....is odd. It's a rather long somewhat bouncy one.
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11/06/2010 03:55 AM (UTC)
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I love how this game is coming along. Great job everyone!
I get hard when I think about how Sindel's screams will sound. Jade and Sindel FTW!
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11/06/2010 04:07 AM (UTC)
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-Kitana's hair looks better. Could take or leave the teleport.

-Lighting and sand effects are pretty.

-This whole front/rear attack deal still seems odd. I'll need to play a demo....>_>

-There needs to be a massive coherent flood of concentrated, relevant questions (to staff: if you folks are really out there listening like you've said - apologies) because...that one about the weapons was a joke. Anyone paying the slightest amount of attention to this game so far would realize there are no stage weapons or weapon styles. I know they pick and choose, but...Jesus. Let us rally behind some meaningful questions - I vote for poking them about methods of secret character access - whether the new school 'buy everything' approach will be in place, or whether we'll see a return to the old school 'work for it' method- which gets my vote any day (ex: Reptile, Jade, Smoke, Noob) .
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11/06/2010 07:53 AM (UTC)
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jbthrash Wrote:
Scorpion1813 Wrote:
"characters will have little thematic instances that makes sense for them to have".


Then why the hell did they give Scorpion swords?? It makes sense for him to use his ropedart - not swords!!!


What the hell ever happened to his battle axes? I know he's a ninja and they use kitanas, but battle axes seem more demonic and brutal which suite Scorpion.


I share the sentiment on the swords (as I'm sure anyone who's even SKIMMED over one of my recent posts knows by now, lol). Axes however are out of the question... lol. I really just tried to tell myself in UMK3 that his "spear-tip" just got bigger and then split to form the axe-head. I know it's not true nor all that possible but it helped me not cringe every time I did the combos. lol. I can't do that with his sword-abuse. Even though his combos look AMAZING and really cool with the actual double sword slicing and flip kick ender and other stuff I would have just preferred he used the rope-dart in more of his strikes and if does have use the sword just do use that LESS. But I'm pretty sure if they are showing them to us his combos as well as his lame fatalities/X-ray (aside from hopefully some special effect tweaks or something on the latter two things) are pretty damn set in stone. That I know of they've never shown us a fatality and then been like "Oh yeah that way a place holder THIS is their fatality in game." They've done it for a few other things like Cage's X-ray in the first couple trailers but I don't think they've ever done that for fatalities or special moves in previous games. Gameplay videos in the past have been pretty much telling you what to expect. Which saddens me for Scorpion but has me really really psyched for like EVERY other character. He's still my favorite character though and it's a shame I'm way more excited to see the improvements made to the others in this game. I'm still waiting on an Enhanced SPEAR special guys!!!
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11/06/2010 09:40 AM (UTC)
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Looks like the physics of Kitana's hair is a bit fixed. Glad to see that.
Mileena stabbing her opponent with her sai is fucking awesome!
Holy shit at Jax anti-airing the hell out of Cage!


I must've missed it because Kitana only teleported in her X-Ray. A lot of you are crying as if it's her Special Move.
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