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So DC wanted their own version of Marvel vs. Capcom? Looks like it could be cool. I haven't played any of the MK games since 3 (which sucked.) Are the newer ones any good?

Arghghghh...

I'm sorry, no DC fighting game should include Superman unless he's the last boss of the Singleplayer game and kryptonite is somewhere involved to bring him down.

But really, who can you add that's more fair? Green Lantern? Wonder Woman? Even though the Flash has never been that astounding of a hand-to-hand combatat, it's mostly because he's such a goof-off. As a character he should be like trying to catch greased lightning, and I don't think what we saw constitutes that. Batman is a serious combatant and would be a more likely candidate to fight peoples. I could see Batman showing up in, like, Soul Calibur the way Yoda is. The Catwoman style they have is too trampy, not enough sexy or dangerous. I'm no DC comic reader though, I just know from what I've seen, didn't she usually have some kind of form-fitting wear and not a bright purple sweatsuit? Maybe they wanted to have a little less black.

But Superman really needs to make less of a common appearence in games that aren't just about Superman smashing everyone. A superman game should ideally be something like the Hulk: Ultimate Destruction game, except with more raybeam eyes and flying. Someone whose solution to a problem is throwing ____ into the sun is not the sort of person I'd generally suspect to be a fair match for a slow-moving Ninja. The matchup of Zangief versus Wolverine was pushing it enough already. A much more mortal looking Scorpion against Supes just seems like slaughter.

Am I wrong here? It just seems goofy. I don't mind altering their abilities for the sake of the game, but it just looks retarded.

Have we ever seen Outworld in the daytime? Maybe it has a red sun.

Covenant wrote: Am I wrong here?

It's a fighting game. There actually has to some sort of balance to the characters in order to make it playable.

It just seems goofy.

Duh. It's paired with Mortal Kombat.

My main complaint about a DC Vs. Mortal Kombat story is that DC will not allow ultraviolence in a game featuring the Justice League members (this is not Marvel MAX, folks; DC doesn't want parents to be too freaked out by pictures of bloodshed to allow their kids to buy their comics), and ultraviolence (fatalities, blood) is as important to the Mortal Kombat series as kidneys are to a human being; take away either part(s) and the result will be too weak to live (or be a successful franchise; remember what happened when Nintendo censored the original Mortal Kombat?).

Covenant wrote:The Catwoman style they have is too trampy, not enough sexy or dangerous. I'm no DC comic reader though, I just know from what I've seen, didn't she usually have some kind of form-fitting wear and not a bright purple sweatsuit? Maybe they wanted to have a little less black.

Catwoman wore a purple catsuit in some of the 90s-era comics.

Sidewinder wrote:My main complaint about a DC Vs. Mortal Kombat story is that DC will not allow ultraviolence in a game featuring the Justice League members (this is not Marvel MAX, folks; DC doesn't want parents to be too freaked out by pictures of bloodshed to allow their kids to buy their comics), and ultraviolence (fatalities, blood) is as important to the Mortal Kombat series as kidneys are to a human being; take away either part(s) and the result will be too weak to live (or be a successful franchise; remember what happened when Nintendo censored the original Mortal Kombat?).

Covenant wrote:The Catwoman style they have is too trampy, not enough sexy or dangerous. I'm no DC comic reader though, I just know from what I've seen, didn't she usually have some kind of form-fitting wear and not a bright purple sweatsuit? Maybe they wanted to have a little less black.

Catwoman wore a purple catsuit in some of the 90s-era comics.

Did you not see the trailer? It ended just before Scorpion finished winding up to do his fire-skeleton-thing fatality on Flash.

Covenant wrote:Arghghghh...

I'm sorry, no DC fighting game should include Superman unless he's the last boss of the Singleplayer game and kryptonite is somewhere involved to bring him down.

But really, who can you add that's more fair? Green Lantern? Wonder Woman? Even though the Flash has never been that astounding of a hand-to-hand combatat, it's mostly because he's such a goof-off. As a character he should be like trying to catch greased lightning, and I don't think what we saw constitutes that. Batman is a serious combatant and would be a more likely candidate to fight peoples. I could see Batman showing up in, like, Soul Calibur the way Yoda is. The Catwoman style they have is too trampy, not enough sexy or dangerous. I'm no DC comic reader though, I just know from what I've seen, didn't she usually have some kind of form-fitting wear and not a bright purple sweatsuit? Maybe they wanted to have a little less black.

But Superman really needs to make less of a common appearence in games that aren't just about Superman smashing everyone. A superman game should ideally be something like the Hulk: Ultimate Destruction game, except with more raybeam eyes and flying. Someone whose solution to a problem is throwing ____ into the sun is not the sort of person I'd generally suspect to be a fair match for a slow-moving Ninja. The matchup of Zangief versus Wolverine was pushing it enough already. A much more mortal looking Scorpion against Supes just seems like slaughter.

Am I wrong here? It just seems goofy. I don't mind altering their abilities for the sake of the game, but it just looks retarded.

For every fan that complains Superman shouldn't be in the game because he's meant to be invincible, you'd get a hell of a lot more complaining if they weren't able to play as their blue spandex-wearing hero in this game. It's really the less of two evils, as far as Midway's concerned.

Why on earth has the Mortal "wi kant spel gud" Kombat franchise not folded yet?

The game, frankly, looks like shit graphically - just like every other MK game I've seen - and the concept is...well, just plain dumb. I can't think of a single character in the DC roster other than Catwoman and Batman who wouldn't be vastly overpowered in that setting, and the actual animations of them fighting in the trailer looked horrible, just plain sloppily done.

Oh, and they managed to take my all-time favorite Catwoman costume and make it look like crap. Kudos to Midway on that. The misshapen hood is just silly, the horribly random gratuitous cleavage is annoying (why the fuck does she have her top open to the navel?), and they couldn't even get the damn goggles right.

Yeah, I forgot to actually comment on the subject matter.

This game looks like complete ass, and is in desperate need of a face lift. Aside from the slow, ponderous, unintuitive look and feel of the combat, everyone looks like inflated clay dolls. And it's looked this way for what, 6 years now, since they entered the 'next generation' on the gamecube?