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Title: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Grecco on April 17, 2008, 01:59:27 PM
Anyone excited?
(http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Features/2008/04/MKDC/MKDC%20blog--article_image.jpg)

Thats from Gamesrader they have the exclusive alledgedly.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 17, 2008, 02:00:55 PM
You had better be kidding... are you serious??? lmao
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Grecco on April 17, 2008, 02:02:08 PM
Gonan be shown today. Prolly embargoed for a day. Wonder what supermans fatality will be

(Got no idea how DC fucking allowed it)
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 17, 2008, 02:03:24 PM
I've got people saying that's straight up false, I think GamesRadar is just generating hits
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Grecco on April 17, 2008, 02:04:46 PM
Does gamesradar make up shit for hits?
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 17, 2008, 02:06:39 PM
I would both lol and roffle if it were true.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 17, 2008, 02:12:08 PM
ugh

Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 17, 2008, 02:13:43 PM
google turns up lots of hits starting in september of last year
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 17, 2008, 02:14:38 PM
Reasons why that is fake:

* The new Mortal Kombat will not have a Goro
* MKDC actually means Deadly Coalition
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 17, 2008, 02:17:32 PM
even if it's false, it's a weird bump considering the time line
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 17, 2008, 02:29:10 PM
i'd buy it if it had plastic man and captain marvel (shazam)
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 17, 2008, 02:34:27 PM
I guess Ed Boon was looking at Vader and Yoda in Soulcalibur IV and thinking, "How could I one-up THAT?"

Boon better be working on an XBLA port of The Grid to make up for this...  :'(
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 17, 2008, 02:36:39 PM
Lots of conflicting reports on what this actually is, so fuck it, no use but to wait.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 17, 2008, 02:55:14 PM
Lots of conflicting reports on what this actually is, so fuck it, no use but to wait.

GAFfers seem convinced that it's true and are bracing themselves...  :-X
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Robo on April 17, 2008, 02:58:49 PM
I really hope this is true.  Has the potential to end up as one of the most awesome shitty games ever made.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 17, 2008, 03:04:34 PM
Now that EA Chicago shut down and their Marvel game got cancelled, this has the running lead
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 17, 2008, 06:40:48 PM
I really hope this is true.  Has the potential to end up as one of the most awesome shitty games ever made.
Even more awesome than Daikitana? Heresy!
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 17, 2008, 06:43:37 PM
Well, it will at least use Unreal Engine 3...
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6189449.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 17, 2008, 06:48:10 PM
I probably won't like it (haven't liked MK since 2, aside from a brief flirt with UMK3.) 

but if this is true, it'll sell like 4 billion copies.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: The Sceneman on April 17, 2008, 07:54:24 PM
Batman is a DC character, no?

would be awesome if he mounted his opponent sexually then strangled them with his utility belt for a fatality
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: TVC15 on April 17, 2008, 08:49:18 PM
Will only buy if I can play as King Mob or Lord Fanny.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Grecco on April 18, 2008, 02:40:22 AM
Confiremd according to mkonline.com

Game of the Generation!
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 02:45:54 AM
please be a fake please be a fake
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: pilonv1 on April 18, 2008, 02:50:31 AM
i certainly didn't expect this
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Grecco on April 18, 2008, 02:51:32 AM
I'm going to impale you guys on my GREEN LANTERN SPEAR!

This game damn well better have GL in it
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Enl on April 18, 2008, 02:53:07 AM
It's like seeing Robocop turn PG-13!
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Jabberwocky on April 18, 2008, 03:04:30 AM
I knew it was going to be a VS. game, and I had a feeling it was going to be against a comic universe. For a while I thought Soul Calibur or Tekken, since Namco seems extremely cameo-happy with SC4 (random anime chicks, Yoda and Vader... wtf?).
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 18, 2008, 03:08:43 AM
They'll come up with some replacement for fatalities and blood. Just look at the "finishing moves" and sweat in MK1 Snes, they weren't so ba--BWAHAHAA even as a 12 year old I could tell that 80% of the fun was missing. 

Ed Boon can't create a decent fighting engine his way out of a paper bag.  Science fact.

but the game will sell trillions.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: bork on April 18, 2008, 03:28:42 AM
LMAO.

Marvel at least got to have CAPCOM make some fighting games for them, and they rocked as we all know.

But this?  YUUUUUCK.  I feel bad for DC.   :(  Especially after the last Mortal Kombat game.  Maybe if they scrap EVERYTHING they did before, start over, and ape a good game, it might be decent.  Maybe. 
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: bork on April 18, 2008, 04:04:25 AM
Design tip for DC- Please lose the "underwear on the outside of the spandex" look for your male characters.  It looks so cheesy.   Marvel has already done this.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 18, 2008, 05:01:31 AM
This is going to be the greatest game ever.  DAY ONE.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Crushed on April 18, 2008, 10:27:36 AM
But Superman has a code against killing.

"SO I'LL DO THE JOB FOR HIM"



Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Bloodwake on April 18, 2008, 10:57:23 AM
This idea sucks so bad, I don't even know where to begin bitching.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: MCD on April 18, 2008, 10:59:39 AM
better than soul calibur 4 and star wars  lol.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 18, 2008, 11:23:36 AM
Sorry, but no blood, no buy. I'll stick to Ultimate MK3 on Xbox Live Arcade, kplzthx.

Any news on Midway making more XBLA titles, btw?
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Raban on April 18, 2008, 11:23:53 AM
are games selling so poorly in the fighting genre we gotta do shitty crossovers like this in every new game?
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Beezy on April 18, 2008, 12:19:16 PM
Why are MK games still being made?
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Enl on April 18, 2008, 02:46:44 PM
better than soul calibur 4 and star wars  lol.
Not really. The Star Wars character being inserted into Soul Caliber 4 doesn't force them to change the tone the series is known for. You could probably play the game and just simply ignore that they are even there. Where as putting DC character in a series known for its over the top violence will probably take away the one thing that it had going for it.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: MCD on April 18, 2008, 02:48:59 PM
...

SC  :(
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Robo on April 18, 2008, 02:51:22 PM
AHAHA YESSSSSS

This is going to be the greatest game ever.  DAY ONE.

 :rock
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: GilloD on April 18, 2008, 03:16:09 PM
This really is one of the dumbest. I mean. You sit around and go, "Wouldn't that be cool?" but you never expect anyone to take you seriously and for good reason.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:29:12 PM
Only potheads think Scorpion versus Green Lantern is a good matchup
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:32:06 PM
[youtube=425,350]CmwUP6fzra8[/youtube]

:lol
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: MCD on April 18, 2008, 03:34:06 PM
 :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: MCD on April 18, 2008, 03:37:08 PM
sonia + ue3, the horror!
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:38:36 PM
That's not UE3
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:40:44 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/mortalkombat/news.html?sid=6189513&mode=recent
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: MCD on April 18, 2008, 03:42:45 PM
you sure?

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/05/mortal-kombat-8-inspired-by-gears-of-war-using-unreal-engine-3/

edit:

from your link: "The visuals in the game benefit from a tweaked out Unreal III engine, which has allowed the art team to go to town."
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:44:20 PM
Look at that video dude, its straight ripped from their past games
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:49:08 PM
Alright I'm starting to change my mind

I am convinced this game will be so bad and just bizarre that I have to buy it on that alone. You look at my shelf and see "MORTAL KOMBAT VERSUS THE DC UNIVERSE", that is guaranteed pussy
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:54:55 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/video/943567/6189498/videoplayerpop?

HD
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 03:57:18 PM
This game is absolute genius, I can troll both comic fegs and kombat fegs all in one swoop, just by either buying this game or pretending I care about either thing (while pretending to hate the other thing)
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 04:13:56 PM
10 DC characters, 10 MK characters

No Bizarro

Shazaam is in the game (who the fuck? edit: wikipedia says its Captain Marvel?)

Lex Luthor is in the game
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Herr Mafflard on April 18, 2008, 04:18:00 PM
10 DC characters, 10 MK characters




Not bad but used to be

(http://gaygamer.net/images/mortalcombatchar.jpg)
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: TVC15 on April 18, 2008, 04:23:35 PM
THIS GAME IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT VERTIGO!
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 18, 2008, 04:50:29 PM
Captain Marvel, aka Shazam:

(http://www.hillcity-comics.com/poster_misc/ShazamAlexRossPoster_BIG.jpg)

big superhero in the 1940s, for a time outsold even Superman

along with Plastic Man, my favorite comic character

now i have to buy this piece of shit

shift 8 sigh shift 8
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 04:55:40 PM
There will be a Metropolis level
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 18, 2008, 05:00:29 PM
Well, at least that new game with Vin Diesel in it looks good.  :-*
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: demi on April 18, 2008, 05:01:06 PM
shut up already, distinguished mentally-challenged fellow
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 18, 2008, 05:06:13 PM
shut up already, distinguished mentally-challenged fellow
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/ferrarimanf355/kagopr2.jpg)
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 18, 2008, 05:06:35 PM
no Plastic Man = fail
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 18, 2008, 05:11:05 PM
I will buy this game if it has Booster Gold in it
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Fragamemnon on April 18, 2008, 05:12:33 PM
I will buy this game if it has Booster Gold in it

is booster gold some sort of illicit substance? It sounds like something out of a bad scifi dystopia novel.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 18, 2008, 05:19:27 PM
I will buy this game if it has Booster Gold in it

i can't wait to see the line up

dc should have tried to get powergirl into doa5 instead
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 18, 2008, 05:21:28 PM
THIS GAME IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT VERTIGO!
hahaha

i'd love to see the john constatine move set

<- -> high kick, smoke a triple 5.
<- <- low punch, drink a guinness
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 18, 2008, 05:22:48 PM
I will buy this game if it has Booster Gold in it

is booster gold some sort of illicit substance? It sounds like something out of a bad scifi dystopia novel.

Booster Gold is a loser janitor from the future who steals some superhero gear from the superhero museum and travels back in time with his robot companion Skeets, only since his robot has an encylopedic knowledge of the present day, he uses it Groundhog Day style to stop crimes before they start and develop an inflated reputation for himself, which he quickly parlays into a lucrative career on the talk show and promotional tie-in circuit.

He's totally awesome, at least as redeemed by Grant Morrison in 52 (and continued by Geoff Johns in his ongoing series).

We should actually make a buy-bet thread where we promise "I will buy Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe if it has C-list Character X" in it. :D
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 18, 2008, 05:44:17 PM
they will probably all have multiple unlockable costumes, too

golden age green lantern > *

that's where you might see bizarro
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 18, 2008, 05:46:15 PM
i wanna play gorilla grodd
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Grecco on April 18, 2008, 06:06:29 PM
Lobo plz
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eduardo24 on April 18, 2008, 06:17:14 PM
But cap marvel is not shazam.  Shazam is the wizard that gave the kid his powahs.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 18, 2008, 06:40:43 PM
But cap marvel is not shazam.  Shazam is the wizard that gave the kid his powahs.

WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR

Wisdom of Solomon
Strength of Hercules
Bravery of Arthur
Lightning of Zeus
More Bravery of Arthur
Magic of Merlin

I think I fail
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Bloodwake on April 18, 2008, 06:45:03 PM
Mortal Kombat

+

DC Comics

=

(http://www.except.nl/overig/uploads/kittens/fail.jpg)
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 18, 2008, 07:07:40 PM
They have to call Captain Marvel "Shazam" on comics covers, because when DC comics sued Fawcett (the original publishers of Captain Marvel) out of business in the 1950s, the copyright on the name lapsed, and by the time they brought Captain Marvel back in the early 1970s, Marvel Comics had already established a new copyright on the name

they can call him Captain Marvel inside the comics he appears, but they can't use the name anywhere on the cover
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 18, 2008, 07:13:01 PM
and let's not even GET into Marvelman/Miracleman

then OR now
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 18, 2008, 07:27:27 PM
and let's not even GET into Marvelman/Miracleman

then OR now

if they could clear up all that and put out an Absolute Hardcover of Miracleman, I would prostitute my anus to get it
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 18, 2008, 11:14:51 PM
The Nerdiness of Spencer
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: MCD on April 18, 2008, 11:22:02 PM
no fatalities, shit/bin.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 20, 2008, 02:27:49 PM
yeah, you would think DC wouldn't care about having fatalities, considering how violent their mainstream superhero comics have been over the last few years
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 20, 2008, 02:36:21 PM
What?  Are you kidding me?  You think they'd make a videogame where Superman could potentially kill Batman?  C'mon.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 20, 2008, 02:47:02 PM
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=154206

Quote
There will be two different stories, one told from the side of MK, one from the side of DC, where each universe is invaded by the opposite universe’s characters. Names familiar to comic fans, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray are writing the story to help lend the proper voices to the DC Characters. These stories will be told in a new version of the traditional single player campaign.

The story will be used to balance the fights more evenly, and will do so using established mythology. For instance, the story will feature magic factors, to weaken Superman against a character like Sub-Zero.

I'm so glad that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe won't break continuity.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 20, 2008, 02:51:30 PM
You of all people should know how crazy diehards take this kind of shit!
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 20, 2008, 03:13:16 PM
What?  Are you kidding me?  You think they'd make a videogame where Superman could potentially kill Batman?  C'mon.

uh, he's done it in comics before
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Oblivion on April 20, 2008, 09:57:25 PM
Shazam? Wasn't that the name of that awful movie by Shaq?
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on April 21, 2008, 12:10:52 AM
That's the best excuse they could use to nerf Superman? :wtf
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Ichirou on April 21, 2008, 02:41:54 AM
.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Smooth Groove on April 21, 2008, 02:52:21 AM
Ted Kord was awesome in the prelude to Infinite Crisis.  Too bad I and many other people didn't find out about him until that issue. 
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Ichirou on April 21, 2008, 02:56:03 AM
.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 21, 2008, 04:38:37 AM
one punch!

bwahahahahaha
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Ichirou on April 21, 2008, 04:47:27 AM
.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 21, 2008, 12:09:14 PM
Did you read these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Buddies

you can get those trades for $11 each off Amazon

it's the last time you'll probably ever see that incarnation of the justice league
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 21, 2008, 01:55:02 PM
well it's mortal kombat, so to keep the edge they need...extreme justice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Justice
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Ichirou on April 21, 2008, 07:15:26 PM
.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: bork on April 21, 2008, 09:46:45 PM
I'd like to go back and read those old JLA comics.  I was never much of a DC fan and always stuck with Marvel in the 80s and 90s.  Gave them both up in the mid-90s and went back to the them a few years ago, but then quit reading again when I moved to Japan.  Occasionally I find some scanned comics to download though.  Loved Marvel Zombies.  Anyway, I did find an imported issue of JLA (they started over AGAIN?! It was #18) with a bunch of characters I didn't recognize in it, plus the League was acting like a government-sanctioned organization just like what Marvel has done with the Avengers and the X-Men previously.  Yuck.  When I was a kid, I also remember hating the art (I cared more about the art back then) in DC comics so much.  It seemed like they were still stuck in the 80s during the pin-up bad-pose art of the early 90s.  Now they seem to have caught up.  Ed Benes, man...what happened? 

But hey, Power Girl is getting her own series!  Big-boobed blonde haired character in revealing outfit, yeah, been there and done that 209394349032094309 times in comics, BUT it's Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner doing the story and art.   8)
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 21, 2008, 09:47:46 PM
Quote
I'd like to go back and read those old JLA comics.

you're in luck

both the giffen 80s version and the morrison 90s version see extravagant releases this year

Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: bork on April 21, 2008, 09:49:06 PM
Quote
I'd like to go back and read those old JLA comics.

you're in luck

both the giffen 80s version and the morrison 90s version see extravagant releases this year



Giffen, yes.  Morrison...I dunno.  I'm not the biggest fan of him.  And when he teams up with Frank Quietly?  VOMIT VOMIT VOMIT.  The weird thing is I loved the Authority when they were doing it.  It was the move to X-Men I fucking hated.
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Eric P on April 21, 2008, 09:52:38 PM
the JLA he did is considered a good run for JLA, but if you're not a morrison fan, this won't change your opinion at all.

looks like the giffen HC is out

http://www.amazon.com/Justice-League-International-Keith-Giffen/dp/1401216668/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208824194&sr=1-3

*moves to save list*
Title: Re: So Mortal Kombat vs DC Comics
Post by: Ichirou on April 22, 2008, 11:07:02 AM
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