Reinventing MORTAL KOMBAT to ensure MK7 reinvents the Fighting Genre, and looks very different from MKD
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Reinventing MORTAL KOMBAT to ensure MK7 reinvents the Fighting Genre, and looks very different from MKD
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posted12/03/2004 05:58 PM (UTC)by
Well MKDA broke the mould of MK game making, MKD basically was just the improved version of what MKDA should have been. But what will the future hold for MK7. It will be on a new platform eg: Playstation 3, XBOX 2 etc. The cheap way out would be to keep game play engine of MKD and redesign the Graphics engine to keep up with standards of the new systems But that would end the Franchise for sure and piss of a lot of fans.
The real way to do it:
Suggestions/concepts by Chris K seekaedigital@hotmail.com
MK7 needs to be as different from MKD as MKDA was from MK1. Simple and end of story.
The Midway team needs to throw it all way. Bring in some fresh talent, and start from 100% scratch. Everything needs go. Not one part of MKDA, MKD should go into MK7 except for the title of "Mortal Kombat", classic characters and story elements. Thats it. Check out my suggestions below. Number 12 and 14 are my favourite ideas.
1. For instances every sound should be recreated from scratch, new punch sounds, new moans, new power sounds etc.
2. All character designs should now take on a PHOTOREALSTIC look. If not base each character on real life counterpart and scan them use there facial textures and skin textures, and motion capture each actor to bring there personailty into the characters. Photorealstic options are viable it just takes more memory and a longer production time, Well start now and by the time the next systems are out it will be ready.
3. Everything from power bars, to titles and menus should be redesigned.
4. Gameplay options. Its about being fluid and real, realstic animation counts, real physics, etc.
5. A new feature could be 'KLASSIC KOMBAT' Where when selected it only allows Characters from the first MK game or first 4 mk games to be choosen from a special Klassic Kombat menu. When every character appears in classic costume only. By classic i mean a complete recreation of the costume in 3d from the first time they appeared.
6. On the normal menu You have your main selection of 32 Characters. Which comprise of the orignal klassics (MK 1) and New and returning characters from MKDA and MKD.
7. As for costumes well you have 4 options, You choose you character and then you select standard Costume, Alternate Costume, Random Costume or Custom Costume. Custom costume comes from a new feature which allows players to Kreate-A-Character or Kreate a look for an existing Character. Random Costume just randomly selects clothing from the Costume database of thousands of pieces of apparel Much like the Wrestling games.
8. Kreate-a-Character: MK7 needs an ability create a character from scratch. You choose your Race, Gender etc then clothing and then martial arts style and you can choose 2 powers.
9. Before a tournament the Characters should have some interaction. If Scorpion fights quan Chi Scorpion should announce that Quan Chi will pay for dishonor and if Liu Kang fights Raiden He should announce he is no longer going to listen and raiden be fight back or something. Bring some emotion into the fights. instead of just posing before it says round 1.
10. on the subject of rounds, they could possibley remove the notion of rounds and just have it as a Death match. 1 round to the death. power bar drains slower. but round lasts longer.
11. The game has to go back to a tournament story line. Maybe focus on the Elder gods holding a Mortal Kombat tournament for the purpose of...........
12. FIGHT damage. This is a big one. Each punch, Each wound, stabbing sword swing should leave damage on the oppoenent. For example if Scorpion swings his sword and its a clean hit on an enemny it should leave a major wound, if he hits twice say in the arm the players arm should be cut off. IT doesnt mean its game over it means that player now has one arm and is trying to punch with a stump (so every second punch will make contact, i.e they now only have one arm to hit with) if both arms are cut off then only kicks will do damage. etc... This type of kombat could reinvent the game your basically using fatalties mid round with out the game ending just crippling the other player.
13. The martial arts system is good, but needs reworking. Perhaps bring in 4 styles to choose from or some other notion all together.
14. A run button concept or something similar would be cool picture, this your fighting it out and players is approaching you from the right. You use the run button to run left and your player runs up the wall and does a jump kick back to the right using the wall to gain more strenght.
15. Kreate-a-costume: besides create a character, Create a costume for an existing character would be cool.
16. FMV endings if they use real texutures and motion capture from real actors then perhaps they could film real video of these people for the character endings (although it could conflict with kreate a costume, as the character appears in there mk7 costume in the end video)
17. If konquest mode survives it should become true to the Kombat story, not just trying to cram every mk character into a muddle mess of storyline conflicts. The Krypt and Konquest should combined. You unlock stuff in Konquest directly no krypt. Also no training should take place in konquest, traing should be combined into the practice mode. ITs there if you want, not be forced to do combos and simple press kick, press punch rubbish.
18. As for storyline, I would like to go with some kind of battle in the heavens, hence the reason the Elder gods hold a tournament. I also would like to See Shao Kahn as a playable character trying to reclaim his throne. Also introduce King Jarod of Edenia as selectable fighter.
19. Arenas: Should be realstic, multi leveled and Keeping with the deathtrap idea, just improve it. Areana suggestions: Cloud Temple, Sewer sanctum,
The Krypt, Special forces HQ, Lin Kuei training ground, Elder gods Council, Dark forest, Outworld Waste lands, Edenia Kingdom. See below for descriptions
20. I wouldnt mind to see Scorpion in more of Heavenly way. No longer a demon but a higher being. with spooky white glow. same powers but more angel like than demonic.
21. Sub-zero should have an apprentice. A new lin Kuei Ninja, new powers new abilities. Perhaps Hydro or something. similar. No not Frost.
22. Bring back test your might as far as mini games go.
23. If necessary Mini games include: MK7 Pong and MK1 or cheat and use only mk1 characters in an klassic kombat game, with mk 2d levels and the camera is locked to a 2d view only. but characters are 3d if ya get my meaning..that could be a mini game
Check out my Site for more see below, we got a whole section MK7 with character concepts, story plots, and I am currently writing a heap more.......Why you ask, in hopes that someone at MIdway sees them and takes note.
Cheers
Arena Descriptions:
Cloud Temple: Its a temple to the sky gods. You fight high in the sky , if your kicked off you fall all the way back to earth (ouch)
Sewer sanctum: You stand kneed deep in sludge. its dark and dirty. Some parts there is no floor and so you will be sucked into the sludgey mess
The Krypt: basically your fighting in graveyard, except some graves have just been dug, you can fall into these and some zombies try to reach up grab you
Special forces HQ: Says enought, this area you can see army officers walking around, Jax's arms hanging on a wall bracker. get to close they may grab you
Lin Kuei training ground: in background like in MKD konquest, ninja are training, closer your get they may turn there interest on you. Get to close and you may get gang bashed by 10 ninja.....game over.
Elder gods Council : the arena is round, lined with elder gods in thrones, getting to close you may get zapped
Dark forest: Like the living forest but in the Netherealm
Outworld Waste lands: Lots of nomads come to watch your fight, it is night time and there are camp fires around. They burn ya, nomads through rocks at ya, also watch out for baraka he has be known to swing his blade if you get to close to him,
Edenia Kingdom: very formal arena. Lots of gold and jade stones.
The real way to do it:
Suggestions/concepts by Chris K seekaedigital@hotmail.com
MK7 needs to be as different from MKD as MKDA was from MK1. Simple and end of story.
The Midway team needs to throw it all way. Bring in some fresh talent, and start from 100% scratch. Everything needs go. Not one part of MKDA, MKD should go into MK7 except for the title of "Mortal Kombat", classic characters and story elements. Thats it. Check out my suggestions below. Number 12 and 14 are my favourite ideas.
1. For instances every sound should be recreated from scratch, new punch sounds, new moans, new power sounds etc.
2. All character designs should now take on a PHOTOREALSTIC look. If not base each character on real life counterpart and scan them use there facial textures and skin textures, and motion capture each actor to bring there personailty into the characters. Photorealstic options are viable it just takes more memory and a longer production time, Well start now and by the time the next systems are out it will be ready.
3. Everything from power bars, to titles and menus should be redesigned.
4. Gameplay options. Its about being fluid and real, realstic animation counts, real physics, etc.
5. A new feature could be 'KLASSIC KOMBAT' Where when selected it only allows Characters from the first MK game or first 4 mk games to be choosen from a special Klassic Kombat menu. When every character appears in classic costume only. By classic i mean a complete recreation of the costume in 3d from the first time they appeared.
6. On the normal menu You have your main selection of 32 Characters. Which comprise of the orignal klassics (MK 1) and New and returning characters from MKDA and MKD.
7. As for costumes well you have 4 options, You choose you character and then you select standard Costume, Alternate Costume, Random Costume or Custom Costume. Custom costume comes from a new feature which allows players to Kreate-A-Character or Kreate a look for an existing Character. Random Costume just randomly selects clothing from the Costume database of thousands of pieces of apparel Much like the Wrestling games.
8. Kreate-a-Character: MK7 needs an ability create a character from scratch. You choose your Race, Gender etc then clothing and then martial arts style and you can choose 2 powers.
9. Before a tournament the Characters should have some interaction. If Scorpion fights quan Chi Scorpion should announce that Quan Chi will pay for dishonor and if Liu Kang fights Raiden He should announce he is no longer going to listen and raiden be fight back or something. Bring some emotion into the fights. instead of just posing before it says round 1.
10. on the subject of rounds, they could possibley remove the notion of rounds and just have it as a Death match. 1 round to the death. power bar drains slower. but round lasts longer.
11. The game has to go back to a tournament story line. Maybe focus on the Elder gods holding a Mortal Kombat tournament for the purpose of...........
12. FIGHT damage. This is a big one. Each punch, Each wound, stabbing sword swing should leave damage on the oppoenent. For example if Scorpion swings his sword and its a clean hit on an enemny it should leave a major wound, if he hits twice say in the arm the players arm should be cut off. IT doesnt mean its game over it means that player now has one arm and is trying to punch with a stump (so every second punch will make contact, i.e they now only have one arm to hit with) if both arms are cut off then only kicks will do damage. etc... This type of kombat could reinvent the game your basically using fatalties mid round with out the game ending just crippling the other player.
13. The martial arts system is good, but needs reworking. Perhaps bring in 4 styles to choose from or some other notion all together.
14. A run button concept or something similar would be cool picture, this your fighting it out and players is approaching you from the right. You use the run button to run left and your player runs up the wall and does a jump kick back to the right using the wall to gain more strenght.
15. Kreate-a-costume: besides create a character, Create a costume for an existing character would be cool.
16. FMV endings if they use real texutures and motion capture from real actors then perhaps they could film real video of these people for the character endings (although it could conflict with kreate a costume, as the character appears in there mk7 costume in the end video)
17. If konquest mode survives it should become true to the Kombat story, not just trying to cram every mk character into a muddle mess of storyline conflicts. The Krypt and Konquest should combined. You unlock stuff in Konquest directly no krypt. Also no training should take place in konquest, traing should be combined into the practice mode. ITs there if you want, not be forced to do combos and simple press kick, press punch rubbish.
18. As for storyline, I would like to go with some kind of battle in the heavens, hence the reason the Elder gods hold a tournament. I also would like to See Shao Kahn as a playable character trying to reclaim his throne. Also introduce King Jarod of Edenia as selectable fighter.
19. Arenas: Should be realstic, multi leveled and Keeping with the deathtrap idea, just improve it. Areana suggestions: Cloud Temple, Sewer sanctum,
The Krypt, Special forces HQ, Lin Kuei training ground, Elder gods Council, Dark forest, Outworld Waste lands, Edenia Kingdom. See below for descriptions
20. I wouldnt mind to see Scorpion in more of Heavenly way. No longer a demon but a higher being. with spooky white glow. same powers but more angel like than demonic.
21. Sub-zero should have an apprentice. A new lin Kuei Ninja, new powers new abilities. Perhaps Hydro or something. similar. No not Frost.
22. Bring back test your might as far as mini games go.
23. If necessary Mini games include: MK7 Pong and MK1 or cheat and use only mk1 characters in an klassic kombat game, with mk 2d levels and the camera is locked to a 2d view only. but characters are 3d if ya get my meaning..that could be a mini game
Check out my Site for more see below, we got a whole section MK7 with character concepts, story plots, and I am currently writing a heap more.......Why you ask, in hopes that someone at MIdway sees them and takes note.
Cheers
Arena Descriptions:
Cloud Temple: Its a temple to the sky gods. You fight high in the sky , if your kicked off you fall all the way back to earth (ouch)
Sewer sanctum: You stand kneed deep in sludge. its dark and dirty. Some parts there is no floor and so you will be sucked into the sludgey mess
The Krypt: basically your fighting in graveyard, except some graves have just been dug, you can fall into these and some zombies try to reach up grab you
Special forces HQ: Says enought, this area you can see army officers walking around, Jax's arms hanging on a wall bracker. get to close they may grab you
Lin Kuei training ground: in background like in MKD konquest, ninja are training, closer your get they may turn there interest on you. Get to close and you may get gang bashed by 10 ninja.....game over.
Elder gods Council : the arena is round, lined with elder gods in thrones, getting to close you may get zapped
Dark forest: Like the living forest but in the Netherealm
Outworld Waste lands: Lots of nomads come to watch your fight, it is night time and there are camp fires around. They burn ya, nomads through rocks at ya, also watch out for baraka he has be known to swing his blade if you get to close to him,
Edenia Kingdom: very formal arena. Lots of gold and jade stones.
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MK 7 will need alot of work.The fighting engine must be reworked from the ground up.First they should lose the 3 fighting styles per character.Give everyone one style some two,armed and un-armed(Like Mileena).Some fighters can have three or four styles like Lie Wulong(sp)from Tekken.Make the styles deeper more moves pokes,power movers ground game.The most they should work on is defense,not just blocking and ducking but real defense.Every move should be able to be counterd or reversed,parries can push fighters who are to attack happy moves aside to attack them.Most special moves can be use in combos like fire balls and such.A real combo system no more dial a combos you should have to come up with your own combos and many can be branched.The more creative you are the better the combos can be.
The characters should be mostly returning charcters.Someone posted that all charcters whom been in MK should apper at lease twice and I agree well besides Meat and Mokap that is.Some charcters that should make thier second MK showing are Sektor,Stryker,Rain,Sheeva,Reiko,Sereena,Fugin and Nitira.Add three new characters and the rest can be charcters that are returning Sub,Scorp etc.And fan favs Reptile and Sho Khan should return hell more people asked for thier return more the anyone else.
A cool boss I had such high hopes for Onaga but damn he is lame,he dies in almost everyones ending and he supposed to be more powerful then Raiden a god yeah right!
I liked MKD but it's time for the MK staff to try and build the best most complex fighter every made.And people who said it shouldn't try to be Tekken or VF ARE RIGHT IT SHOULD TRY TO BE EVEN MORE COMLEXED.No more kontent imo fuck the extra kontent most of it is pointless anway and people will complain no matter how much they put in.
I'd rather master a character which may take a week or two then play konquest and beat it in a week.I'd feel like I earned I how good I was with a character.That way it will take you months to master 20 or so fighters and to me thats the fun working to get better should be whats fun.I know not everyone thinks like that and the game should still remain easy to pick up but to become trully skilled like any thing else should take time and a bunch of practice.
I hope MK7 will go that way and not give us all fluff and no substince I think it's time for mk to take the title as best fighter and more depth is the only way to go.
P.S. sorry for the long post.
The characters should be mostly returning charcters.Someone posted that all charcters whom been in MK should apper at lease twice and I agree well besides Meat and Mokap that is.Some charcters that should make thier second MK showing are Sektor,Stryker,Rain,Sheeva,Reiko,Sereena,Fugin and Nitira.Add three new characters and the rest can be charcters that are returning Sub,Scorp etc.And fan favs Reptile and Sho Khan should return hell more people asked for thier return more the anyone else.
A cool boss I had such high hopes for Onaga but damn he is lame,he dies in almost everyones ending and he supposed to be more powerful then Raiden a god yeah right!
I liked MKD but it's time for the MK staff to try and build the best most complex fighter every made.And people who said it shouldn't try to be Tekken or VF ARE RIGHT IT SHOULD TRY TO BE EVEN MORE COMLEXED.No more kontent imo fuck the extra kontent most of it is pointless anway and people will complain no matter how much they put in.
I'd rather master a character which may take a week or two then play konquest and beat it in a week.I'd feel like I earned I how good I was with a character.That way it will take you months to master 20 or so fighters and to me thats the fun working to get better should be whats fun.I know not everyone thinks like that and the game should still remain easy to pick up but to become trully skilled like any thing else should take time and a bunch of practice.
I hope MK7 will go that way and not give us all fluff and no substince I think it's time for mk to take the title as best fighter and more depth is the only way to go.
P.S. sorry for the long post.
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