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Matt Bassos
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| Midway offloading Mortal Kombat by Matt |  | | PALGN News: Fatality. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Now watch EA pick it up.... MK09 an the likes....
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Well, there goes the neighbourhood. MK is (hopefully)not gonna go the way of Crash Bandicoot. I guess it depends on who gets those rights.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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haha, EA: "Get over here"
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| Quote: | | Filing for bankruptcy protection on February 12 this year, Midway is now seeking kourt authority to protect up to 29 key employees. A motion recently filed, konfirms among other things, the “execution of an asset purchase agreement for the sale of Midway’s Mortal Kombat franchise assets.” |
Fixed.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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damn
Ultimate Mortal Kombat on Xbox 360 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy on PC are still some of my most played games.
MK09 would be funny... but I hope the game gets its due justice.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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At least if EA buys it, it will be in better hands than if Squareenix bought it on one of their recent strange purchases.
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I wouldn't mind seeing Capcom get this since they want to continue to penetrate the US market more. That and it'll become more easier to perform cross overs between their titles. Maybe even a cosmetic make over will do it good.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
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Capcom gets it -
MK vs Street Fighter Vs Marvel Vs DC Universe
Now that would be ultra cool !!!!
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| dloiscute wrote: | | At least if EA buys it, it will be in better hands than if Squareenix bought it on one of their recent strange purchases. |
OMFG I hope Squareenix DO buy it, I've been thinking that fighting games would make the perfect base for the combat in an RPG for ages. My #1 complaint of fighting games is the story is pitifull, but making something like final fantasy but with the fighting game instead of the normal turn based combat would give the fighting game a massive story and IMO would be just awesome. Fighting games would also lend them selves perfectly to character leveling, more HP, more strength/damage, dexterity/speed, instead of spell you'd learn new moves ect.
Of course the overlap of people who like fighting games and people who like RPGs is probably WAY too small for it to ever happen though  , then again it worked wonders when puzzle quest did the same thing but with puzzle games instead of fighting games.
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Great idea killer, it could easily work with levelling up increasing special powers and combo's. Only problem is, in most rpg's the main character gets way over powered near the end
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Square already tried their hand at the fighting genre: The Bouncer.
No thanks.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:50 am Post subject: |
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And the tried their hand at the First Person Shooter genre: Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII.
No thanks again.
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Ahh yer, good points yvo84, square probably not the best developer for the fighting part of the game, maybe they should do something like what ID did for quake 4 (one dev did multiplayer, another did single player) and collaborate with another developer so square does the RPG stuff and the other does the fighting.
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See this is what happens when you fuck around with Mortal Kombat seriously MK vs DC is a prime example yeah lets make a mk game and turn the finishing moves into child friendly shit! Pfft.
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To add to Shiraj's comment:
Capcom buys it and makes...
MK vs Capcom vs SNK vs Marvel Super Heroes vs DC Universe
I think my head just exploded!
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yvo84: I'll mostly agree with you on The Bouncer, but I actually thought Dirge of Cerberus was pretty good. That said, if they were going to do a fighter-RPG, I'd definitely be hoping for a seperate developer to do the fighting system. Square could take care of the character design, story, FMVs etc.
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They aslo did Ehergiz didn't they?
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| toolmansevendust wrote: | | They aslo did Ehergiz didn't they? |
yeah that's what I thought and it wasnt half bad...?
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From the amount of times i played it on arcade i would say it was no sizeable force but was well worth the hundred odd i pump thru it. (well maybe not that much)
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I think it's kinda ironic that the advertising on the side of this article has a giant "ELIMINATE YOUR DEBTS!!!" on it...
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My #1 complaint of fighting games is the story is pitifull, but making something like final fantasy but with the fighting game instead of the normal turn based combat would give the fighting game a massive story and IMO would be just awesome. Fighting games would also lend them selves perfectly to character leveling, more HP, more strength/damage, dexterity/speed, instead of spell you'd learn new moves ect. |
Reminds me of Soulcalibur 3. Didn't that have this kind of mode?
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