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bondspy
11/20/09

In reply to The Mortal Kombat That Should Have Been
It doesn't have a new home, Kotaku. The MK brand is being developed by the same team, the company was just bought by another company.
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Michael McWhertor
11/20/09

@bondspy: Yeah, no shit. We all understand how one company being bought by another company works!
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krammaii
11/20/09

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I'm really digging Kano's look. The extra bit of weight, stained clothes and bare feet make him look really scrappy. Like he's really seen some shit...
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Michael McWhertor
11/20/09

@krammaii: Pretty much everything I like about the redesign. Everything I dislike? Pouches!
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Fernando Jorge
11/20/09

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Oh my god I am so tired of "dark and gritty" the way it is being done nowadays. It is just as cartoonish as anything else. All the characters are caricatures of "bad ass", with the same posture, same ragged, "raw" and dirty look.

For starters, people should scrap out everything normally related to the concepts of "bad ass" and "dark". It is getting tired. That doesn't means people will be riding unicorns either. The thing is that this whole thing is getting old.

You know, some years from know, people will remember this "dark and gritty" design choice the same way we remember late 80's and early 90's colored super muscled overly weaponized exaggerated design fads: as completely boring.
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Testamonium
11/20/09

@Fernando Jorge: Welcome to every trend ever. In the late 2010's, people will get tired of whatever the standard is, and it will shift again. It'll happen again in the 2020's, and the 2030's, ad nauseum.

Hell, 20 years from now everything that we think is cool will begin to fall into the 'retro' category, and the campy ironic people will pick it up until it begins to fold itself in to whatever the current trend is, thus shifting it once again. That is, of course, assuming the campy ironic mindset hasn't become ironic...

Just go with the flow and see what changes happen and enjoy what you can in the process.
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Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
11/20/09

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I'm not sure Sonya's new design meet Miltary regulation...

"Did it Ever?"
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WhatTheFrag
11/20/09

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When it comes to MK, I'm going to believe nothing on the basis of concept art - I mean remember the concept art for MK:Mythologies and remember what we got in the end? Psh that was horrible.
Or that Jax game for that matter.

They have some amazing concept art, but some spectacularly meh execution sometimes.
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tsim
11/19/09

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Although I do like the concepts, we know that Midway will still make the same gameplay. In the end, it's still the same game. I'm a die hard Mortal Kombat 1,2 and 3. Mortal Kombat deserves better than this. Bring back the hype of the original 3's or give the title to Capcom
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NeVeRMoRe666
11/19/09

@tsim: I would die a happy death if they released Capcom Vs. Mortal Kombat....
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September
11/19/09

@NeVeRMoRe666: The video is totally relevant.
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Barts
11/19/09

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They look really great, the Mortal Kombat that should have been - dark, serious and very, very bloody.

Ah, pity it's just four images.
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TrjnRabbit
11/19/09

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If Street Fighter, Tekken and Guilty Gear have proven anything, it's that you can have the most ridiculous cast with the most outrageous and unintelligible plots, and people will buy it because the gameplay is good.

Guess what went wrong with the Mortal Kombat series?
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NeVeRMoRe666
11/19/09

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"We're not sure what direction the Mortal Kombat team is taking the series at its new home"

Can someone update me on the Midway/Mortal Kombat Situation? What's going to happen with everything now that Midway closed down?
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rabbibert
11/20/09

@NeVeRMoRe666: Mortal Kombat is owned by Warner Brothers now.
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shouryuuken
11/19/09

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dang dude... yeah sonya needs some pants.. but everything else was nice. ESPECIALLY scorpion.. i wonder what this guys sub zero would have looked like.. sure would have liked to have seen my fave mk character.
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geiko
11/19/09

@shouryuuken: As a former user of Kano, I love this rendition of him. It looks wonderful. He actually has a lot more character with this look (my opinion of course) than he did before. He always seemed lacking compared to the likes of Liu Kang, Kung Lao, or any other character. The loss of the awful red jumpsuit or the ridiculous vest he wore gets a warm welcome from me.
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tangerine
11/19/09

@shouryuuken: I prefer this fap-fap-fap version.

Fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap.
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Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
11/20/09

@tangerine: Wait until you see the designs for Zero Suit Sonya...
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

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You know what....I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Sonia's outfit is pointless.

Hot but ultimately pointless...and I approve!

But what's with the dildo sword? I saw a hentai with this once....
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Shinta
11/19/09

@Rachel Fogg: Imagine her high kicking in this. I approve as well.
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

@Shinta:

Double approved....doesn't she do that one move where she locks you between her thighs?

Who wins? Everyone wins...
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CaptMonkey
11/19/09

@Rachel Fogg: She's a soldier, she doesn't have time to put on pants. She's got better things to do like fighting ninjas.
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Shinta
11/19/09

@Rachel Fogg: locks between her thighs ... upside down.
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

@CaptMonkey:

I didn't say it was bad, in fact, if I controlled an army of hot women...these are the outfits I would send them out to fight in. Sonia is only following my instructions, complete with dildo sword.

Only my elite team would be completely naked.

Why you ask? Because it's awesome.

Oh...and before you ask. My men wouldn't fight....they're part of my harem.

My...sexy harem.
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Mad-Hobo
11/19/09

@Rachel Fogg: Sonias outfit is deliciously slutty.
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

@Shinta:

It's almost mythical...that outfit would just make it perfect.
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

@Mad-Hobo:

As it should be...I mean she was always kinda...slutty? This just officially proves it.

It's a shame that this isn't used. These designs are pretty cool.
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geiko
11/19/09

@Rachel Fogg: Hey Rach... you bringing up that Sonya is hot reminds me of something: we have some unfinished business to settle. Or have you forgotten? Let me jog your memory. We were in the middle of battle, when you suddenly declared that you had a wedding to go to. Now do you remember?
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The Cynical Librarian
11/19/09

@Rachel Fogg: My pants approve....
/I'll show myself out.
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

@geiko: I remember our battle...but I remember passing the battle to Curse Lily, it was a really wonderful wedding...outside the lack of a wedding cake.
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

@The Cynical Librarian:

You really rose to the occasion sir....
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geiko
11/19/09

@Rachel Fogg: Oh in that case I win. That's a shame though, I love me some wedding cake. I went to this wedding once, and the wedding cake was made up of red velvet cupcakes. Needless to say, it was delicious. Hmmmmm red velvet.
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etchasketchist
11/19/09

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Bring back real models and green-screen photography. THAT is what Mortal Kombat was for me. More than the gore and the fatalities. It was that FMV look that blew my mind as a kid. It's a look that has been completely abandoned in favor of mo-cap and polygons. I think it's time to try it again in an HD, 60FPS era.
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Alessar
11/19/09

@etchasketchist: You know, I agree with you. The FMV element was what I missed with the 3D transition in 4.

I must say though, these character designs are great (except Sonya's which is a ridiculous T&A show). It would be great to have this kind of gritty styling + FMV. John "Sub Zero" Turk in a new outfit like these? HELL YES.
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gundaman
11/19/09

If your opinion was a person, I'd make love to it.

But really, this... using real people as models for the characters is 100% more badass. But! Do not get me wrong, I l-o-v-e this concept art. If a mortal kombat game came out that had an inspired look from the pics above, I'd be all over it. PS- Love the Jack Forst icon- *high five*.
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Alessar
11/20/09

@gundaman: Shin Megami Tensei, represent!
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Seroth
11/19/09

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Japanese Kano? Eff that! Australian Kano 4 life! ...though was he even Australian prior to the first movie?
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wirebrain
11/19/09

@Seroth: No he wasn't. Although, I don't think his nationality was brought up before the film.
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wirebrain
11/19/09

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Scorpion looks like a very pissed off version of the Bumblebee Guy in that picture.
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OriginalGman
11/19/09

@wirebrain: Really? I mean, besides the color scheme... which he's always kinda had. I think Kano as Terminator and Raiden as the lightning dude from Big Trouble in Little China are more spot-on.

And Sonya's perfect, don't change a thing.
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wirebrain
11/19/09

@OriginalGman: Well, the crazy floating headband doesn't help any. I clearly don't remember that in his design.

Sonya really looks absolutely impractical. She looks like she's going to work at a Strip Joint in Compton.

#speakup
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Rachel Fogg
11/19/09

@wirebrain:

Whatever strip club is allowing that kind of stripper is the strip club I NEED to attend. Seriously.

Imagine if anything pops off like a fight...? How awesome is that!?

#speakup
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deliciousburglar
11/19/09

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the Sonya one is pretty pathetic. i find it demeaning to guys, not all of us are sex craved teens, some of us can actually comprehend a nice looking woman thats not in a bikini.
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