OTHER IDEAS
- During the closing credits of Mortal Kombat, background music can play “Farewell” by ApocalypticA and show highlights of winning arcade/tag team ladder matches in similar fashion when video gamer lands final knockout hit against Shao Kahn, maybe just highlighting the great hits and combos landing during the course of one’s climb up the ladder either in arcade ladder or tag team mode.
- In tag team mode, it would be cool if the tag in partner was tagged in the match and executed a simple front summersault or a front ground roll and also tagged out of the matches with back summersaults unless executing a specialty move for partner in match. It’d be cool if they also after being knocked out would stayed laid out on the floor during the course of the match like in MK1. It’d look more realistic instead of being knocked out the screen. And when round is over the partner would just pop up on feet and execute a back summersault out of the screen until tagged into the match again.
- It’d be cool in the “Courtyard Arena” that the monks in the background would clap only after a won round like in MK1, instead of throughout the match and if the claps sound effects were louder. It could sound like the clapping from the fight scene between Bruce Lee and O’Hara in the movie “Enter the Dragon” but just after each round.
- It’d be cool if in the “Choose Your Fighter” screen, that they presented the fighters with sinister looking facial pictures like in MK1 instead of the mini-sized pictures of the fighters. And in the Arcade/Tag Team ladders, once they cut to the “Vs.” screen, they execute a brief form in their martial arts style of fighting like Soul Calibur 3 does in the character select screen. It could be a motion captured animation of the characters. Obviously with a multitude of characters the screen would be easily filled with these facial pictures so they could rotate the group of “14” sinister looking facial pictures of the characters throughout the screen in a similar motion that a revolving door rotates the different doors, is the same way a fan could rotate/navigate the “Choose Your Fighter” screen. So for example, they could be formatted like five fighters on top row, two to the left, then a space for the “Mortal Kombat Dragon Logo” then two to the right, then five down on the bottom row making a total of 14 characters for each screen. Then there could be some arrows located on the bottom towards the center of the screen with the words, “Previous” or “Next” to navigate to the next screen of fighters to rotate/navigate to.
- Maybe sometime further down the line in a future Mortal Kombat, it’d be cool if the game presented an Adventure/Konquest Mode. This could be a change up from the monotonous one-on-one/tag-team game play. It could be formatted like the third shooter video games like Assassin’s Creed or Dynasty Warriors. This can also offer another mode for fans to unlock hidden secrets, characters, arenas, fatalities...etc.
- It’d be cooler if Scorpion had a pair of authentic ninja katana swords on his back in his retro-ninja costume.
- It would be cool if there was a new twist to training mode or it could be a whole other mode like a practice mode to where there was a stage specifically designed for this mode such a dojo. In the dojo there would be a fighting mat with fighters in long sleeved gi and pants surrounding the mat. Or a training room like in the movies “Matrix I” or “X-Men” inside the mansion. Here, a sensei, Sifu or Grandmaster like character could watch a sparring session in a high chair with student-like fighters with novice skills surrounding the fighting pad. And as you progressively get better, you fight more skilled fighters up to a novice level so it wouldn’t be too difficult (this mode would test of how well you can control your character before fighting in the real environment.). And a visual demonstration of this would be the student fighters you’d spar with would wear different colored belts indicating their skill level until you’d get to a student wearing a white long sleeved gi with a black belt wrapped around their waist. As you’d advance you would receive “1st level dan” achievements or “2nd level dan” achievements and so forth and so on. Also fatalities or specialty moves would be disabled or not allowed to be performed in this scene because of your learning. Finally you’d have to take on the Sensei, Sifu, or Grandmaster like character in a sparring session. It could be like your training for the tournament Mortal Kombat. It could also be a testing ground before you could actually unlock the normal format of the one-on-one/tag team mode of the game and this could apply for each character you choose. You’d be required to past this entry level mode of the game before unlocking Mortal Kombat with each of your chosen characters. That way you gain some familiarity with the character before using your character in Mortal Kombat and get use out of all the characters. This also could be just an additional mode when this mode has been past by all of the selectable characters in the game.
- Or you have another “Test Your Knowledge” Mode where video gamers would be quizzed on Mortal Kombat history and obscure characters and facts of the game. And then with the game can also test your knowledge of button combinations of your characters specialty moves, fatalities, novice level combos, X-Ray Moves, with you having to enter in specific button combinations across the screen to match the actual console button combinations. Prizes could be Koins or other unlocked materials, secret character, arenas or whatever.
- Another thing I am blown away from, is the background and stages from the game. Sometimes I’ll just look at the scenery instead of the game play because it looks so authentic. The lead artist/designers of the stages are some very imaginative and creative people. I wish I could see all the original stages from MK1 remained with the upgrade in computer animations. Also I’d like to see the “Original Pit” the “Warrior Shine” with the original cast of MK1 in statues. That would be cool, I would convulse violently where I stand if I saw all the stages from MK1. Also maybe the arena from “Bloodsport” or “The Quest” the movie. That would be great!!!
- As far as mechanics go, I’d like to see characters stay frozen in the exact posture they were in right before being hit with Sub-Zero’s standard freeze. It looks like the character jumps into a scared posture when being frozen, I don’t understand the reasoning behind that switch up.
- It would be cool if in the “Choose Your Fighter” screen, you could choose your character’s costume. So if you like more traditionalized costumes you could choose that attire, or if you like the street urban/rocker armor like costumes you could choose that. That way you give the video game fan options to choose what their character can look like.
- Another mechanic I wish that could be touched up some more would be the way that characters fall down. When being hit in the air, like an air-juggle combo, the characters turn into some rag dolls with their limbs flapping. If Mortal Kombat could emulate Tekken’s mechanics in their air juggles and fighting that would be cool!!!! Also I’ve noticed when a knockout hit is administered, the character just falls down like a statue. They look stiff. I think if they, again, mimic Tekken’s mechanics on knockout hits and the mechanics of how characters, “Shake out the cobwebs” , “Get back on their feet”, “Get up feeling overwhelmed” I think that would great!!!!
- Also after the course of a fight, it’d be cool if the character could “Show Mercy” like in MK3 and not finish them off. Or if the opponent could do a standardize button combinations on the gaming console controller and get a little bit of a boast of energy and get a “Second Chance”. That could switch up the dynamic of the game as well.
- There could the instrumental for “Legacy” by Non Phixon that could serve as background music for one of the stages in Mortal Kombat.
- It’d be cool if Scorpion had his original MK1 stance, along with Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Kano, Sonya Blade and Raiden. I think that would be awesome!!! Especially Raiden, Sub-Zero and Scorpion. I thought those three characters had the best fighting stance in the game.
- It be cool if Tag Team mode had three and four tag in partners as well as the standard double team partners. I think it would be great!!! It’d give the game a different dynamic and also make things more challenging for the video gamers. It would also make for some fun online play.
- It’d be cool if Johnny Cage’s shadow kick left images of himself trailing behind like in the original MK1, really with all of his shadow moves, his shadow punch, shadow kick and other shadow based moves he might have or new ones given to him.
- Another idea for a mini-game can be the “Death Chambers” where through each chamber’s tests one’s ability to attack offensively against time limits, or within certain perimeters such as the exclusion of specialty moves, X-Ray moves and combos of that nature. This also could be set to the level of very hard for the opponents one would face and also reveal hidden characters in the game at the end of each chamber. I don’t know if this concept has already been incorporated with the “The Challenge Tower”.
“Fully realized additional characters are their primary interest, with the gamut of moves and features expected of any fighter to be included.” "They won't be copy and pasted from characters already in the game - they're going to have their own unique fighting styles, moves, fatalities and x-rays - all the good stuff..." - Hans Lo
