New Mortal Kombat Aims to Be 'Golden Standard' of Online Fighters

MK needs to go back to 2D game play mechanics with tons of insane Fatalities. It will sell millions.
PS don't make it cartoony or even rated T. "Realistic gore", bring back the 90's. You wont be disappointed.

MK3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgv-YdGPggs

This is so easy it's stupid:

1. Take MK I/II as baseline with characters and settings. Update graphics.
2. Add Network play. see ggpo.net for example
3. Do not add complicated story lines or plots. K.I.S.S
4. Do not make it 3D! 2D is key less work means better game! See SFIV as proof
5. Sell for 29.99 on Steam
6. PROFIT!!!!!

6 Very easy steps a company could do. Chances are they'll rape the franchise for even more nonsense, turn it into some 3D Virtua Fighter aborition and charge you 69.99 for the Online Mega pack on 3DVDs.

It's not that hard, MUGEN does this for next to nothing and is wildly popular. SFIV came out in 2D and has sold buckets of games.

Jesus Christ does Ed Boon do anything else?

i hope they call it Mortal Kombat: Origins.

i just want MK2 with updated graphics/fatalities and a really good combo system.

"implement cutting-edge online features to ensure the Mortal Kombat franchise is an industry leader in online functionality." & Boon having promised that the game is targeting a Mature rating, has "sick" fatalites, and won't include any superheroes.

This sounds very awesome to me!

MK vs DC was awful in terms of competitive play.

Terrible balance, people knew infinites before the game was even released, and they did zilch about it.

Gameplay is also very clunky, buggy, and character animations are poor. It was acceptable with MK5 and even MK6, but not anymore.

I wish them luck !

Sf4 gameplay wise will be very hard to beat ... I dont think fatalities will be enough

(was watching some tekken video and christ it look boring for a spectator point of view.. at least compare to sf4)

Take a long look at Street Fighter IV. Now add fatalities and other goofy MK shit. I will buy.

I really hope we can see a modern recreate of Mortal Combat II...

Do that and I'm "IN like flynn".

hahaha maybe start by adding some depth to your games before trying to make them available for online competition

at what point do you let a franchise die?

Has there ever been a good PC port?

Well just concentrate on very detailed playing fields, make the lighting and color correction better than MK vs DC, add more blood, have different color blood, blood stay on the floor, nice meat chunks, use normal mapping, use shadders, and oh ya have cool fatalities.

Instant hit if you do the above, MK vs DC is a good foundation you could just mod that very easily to a awesome MK game.

Again make very detailed backgrounds that don't suck, since you went 3D this has been the worst part of your series.

lolol this is like epic saying they want to make ut the "golden standard" of online fps

what a joke lololol

I really want to see them return MK to its roots. Maybe not completely since the roots are pretty basic by today's standards, but it seems like Boon wants to at least make it more like old school FF again, making fatalities the center focus. Fatalities and gore in general are both tame and pretty much expected by today's standards, but if they came up with a fresh interesting way to implement them or just flesh them out a lot more than any other game has (extreme internal organ detail, etc). Make them SHOCKING. Make them controversy-material, like Manhunt 2's.

Push the limits of what the console devs would allow on the system, and if it gets you an AO rating.......good. As long as it's not rated AO for sex, I can see MK9 actually being a video game industry milestone as the first AO game to be officially released on at least two consoles. After that, AO ratings would start relaxing, and we'd start seeing some really crazy stuff, and then video games would finally be on par with movies, as the rating system should have been in the first place.

3 words: LESS LOADING SCREENS

Fighting games are very boring. There's nothing dynamic or new about them for me anymore.

I'm glad to see they are continuing this even though its outside Midway.

Also, MK vs DC Universe wasn't all that bad.
It actually had blod (even though some that hasn't played it seems to be convinced it has none at all), and it still felt like MK - just a different kind.
At least give it a try before bashing it.

Good luck beating GGPO, Midway. Damn near flawless netplay, too bad SF2 HD Remix and MvC2 are the only non-emulator games to support it so far. http://www.ggpo.net

Can't be a golden standard for on-line gaming unless you release it for the PC!

I think blazblue beat em to the gold standard of online play

Good luck with that.