General Mortal Kombat Discussion

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This thread is for discussing everything and anything Mortal Kombat. From your favorite fatality, to strategies, to whatever Mortal Randomness comes to mind.  

[Mr. Kennedy]

From chatterbox:

Okay so WB bought it and is pushing out all this money for them? Awesome.

And oh yeah, I really like how they moved back to 2D fighting. It looks pretty damn good.  

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Yeah. Not only money, but time. Midway were hardasses with their schedules. And yeah, I was always happy to see that they say, "The game will be released on this date" and it always did. But at the same time, the past few MK games could have used a lot of polish. And now, they have the opportunity to say, "Well, we can make it even better if we get more time," and WB says, "Okay, make it better, then."  

[kenshiro28]

Quote:

Nightwolf was originally designed as part of a Create-A-Character contest hosted by Midway games after the release of Mortal Kombat 2, and was one of three winning characters, the other two being Stryker and Kabal.

This...explains alot about those three. At least Kabal was cool but he always seemed relatively out-of-place.

Edit: Reading around more, I can't seem to find any actual references about Stryker and Kabal being the result of a contest...hmm...  

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Where'd you read that. Sounds a little unreliable. I mean, I know that they always said they created Stryker, because they wanted to put in like a "normal guy" without any kind of special abilities. Which is why all his stuff is practical, guns, grenades, etc.  

[kenshiro28]

Some MK wiki. I'm disregarding it because there wasn't really any source cited and it's not mentioned anywhere else.  

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Oh god... The MK Wiki... It's a horrible source.

In Deception's Konquest mode, when you talk to Reptile who's roaming around the Living Forest, he says, "Leave me be!"

Now, one of the admins at mortalkombatonline.com made this fake pic:



And the MK Wiki cited it as official and said this:

 

[kenshiro28]

haha oh wow...that's..."special"...  

[ElenaMason]

haha thats hilarious. but you know I always liked Kabal. He was pretty nifty and a b***h to fight sometimes. But I never liked Stryker. He was just.....eh....I mean they already have Johnny Cage. isn't he technically the normal guy since he's just a movie actor? But I never really liked Johnny either. Or Lui Kang XD hahah I know I know I'm horrible. I don't care. I have many other favorites.  

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ElenaMason

haha thats hilarious. but you know I always liked Kabal. He was pretty nifty and a b***h to fight sometimes. But I never liked Stryker. He was just.....eh....I mean they already have Johnny Cage. isn't he technically the normal guy since he's just a movie actor? But I never really liked Johnny either. Or Lui Kang XD hahah I know I know I'm horrible. I don't care. I have many other favorites.

Yeah, but even Johnny Cage started out with that weird fireball move he's got. That ended up turning into a green... plasma projectile... In any case, I guess they felt like he already had something abnormal about his fighting.

I liked Stryker's design. I mean, riot cops are awesome. I was a little disappointed that they didn't bring back his original outfit in Armageddon. His haircut was different, though. The actor they picked was kind of meh.


Kabal... I liked Kabal. He always had this mysterious backstory to him, all we really know is that he was in league with the Black Dragon, and then Shao Kahn's squads messed up his face. I think Kabal could have a successful adventure game of his own. At least story wise.  

[kenshiro28]

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I liked Stryker's design. I mean, riot cops are awesome. I was a little disappointed that they didn't bring back his original outfit in Armageddon. His haircut was different, though. The actor they picked was kind of meh.

If his alt didn't have him wearing a mask that would've been pretty good since he was still wearing a variation on the blue shirt underneath.  

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Yeah, but it still wasn't the classic, "Riot Cop" look. I mean, neither of his outfits was something you'd walk the streets in, that's what I mean. He could in his original uniform. Everyone would be like, "Hey, there's a cop." Now it's like, "Hey there's a guy from the future."  

[kenshiro28]

He looked like a cop before?

Because...well...I mean, I don't really see how you could get "cop" from his original appearance unless someone had already said as much.  

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Well, not your typical patrol cop, obviously. He's a riot cop. But still, it doesn't look like he's in the middle of a bank robbery mission.
Yeah, he's got the combat boots and pants on, but the T-Shirt made him look at lot more informal.

 

[King of Paradise]

I like Stryker because he looks like a pissed off Dave Coulier...Sorta...

Haha, wtf?

Full House and Randomness FTW!