It's Time For Mortal Kombat vs. Everyone Else

[infohippie]

I would so play that David Bowie one, that is a fantastic idea.

Now, it is just a pity that Hasbro slapped Fighting Is Magic with a C&D.

 

[Tim Chuma]

Isn't there a fighting game where it was nothing but custom characters? I can't seem to remember it at the moment.

God of Cookery does have a "cooking battle" segment with people getting beaten by folding chairs, flying, exploding "Buddha Jumping Wall", frying eggs on the palm of your hand, rolling down BBQ Roast Pork, people having holes blown in them by the Gods and getting turned into dogs, phew!

Also these dudes
http://hkmovies.timchuma.com/goc_eighteenbronzemen.htm

Some animated shenanigans
http://hkmovies.timchuma.com/godofcookery_animated.htm

Battle Gar-fei cat from Love on Delivery, this page may make your computer cry
http://hkmovies.timchuma.com/loveondelivery_garfeicat.htm

The "not a fight" from the same movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FsAstiwLnc

That said, a fighting game with the three kung fu masters vs the Axe gang from Kung Fu Hustle would be awesome.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Isn't there a fighting game where it was nothing but custom characters? I can't seem to remember it at the moment.

MUGEN? You can do pretty much "anyone vs anyone" in that.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I don't think he's played a game like BB before. I mean, the storymode is one thing but the combat system isn't particularly "Japanese", it's just a good flashy fighting game with a lot of differently-playing characters.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

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He won't. Why?

"If you find the Japanese offensive, you'll find this game offensively Japanese."

He hates everything about games like BlazBlue, which is a shame, because it's an awesome game.

Hey, I'm not exactly a fan of anime and japanese stuff either. In fact I hated them. But Blazblue, which is bassically a playable anime, is good enough that I can get into it despite my biases, and I'm thinking of checking out FMA or Super Sentai or something. If it can convert me, I'm sure that Yhatzee can at least tolerate it.

 

[Grahav]

I am curious abou of what he would say about Skullgirls. I am afraid too since I am a fan of the game.

It would lead to him bad-mouthing it and a swarm of angry fans that regularly watch the weekly Salty Cupcakes stream starting a riot. Remember, it had an Indiegogo campaign that made over 829K.

Probably, still I would like to have a good laugh at myself and hear pertinent criticism.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Hang on Yahtzee! Men are TOTALLY allowed to like Chicago!

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Mortal Kombat vs. Hellsing Ultimate. Because that's the only way the cast of MK will ever get to meet some people who are as into massive amounts of gore, oceans of blood and experimental forms of killing as they are. Actually there are probably quite a few +18 animes that would meet that quota but I haven't seen them and their casts aren't usually very big for obvious reasons.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

Revitalizing the fighting game genre? I like that. I miss the glory days of 1v1 fighting games.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Revitalizing the fighting game genre? I like that. I miss the glory days of 1v1 fighting games.

Here you go, 5 different new fighting games which came out last years/this year and are not triple A or western for that matter but are actually way better than games such as Mortal Kombat. Still think the genre needs to be revitalized?

 

[SageRuffin]

"There have been no fighting games with all-new characters (in triple-A releases, at least) for quite some time..."

What about Blazblue? The first game in that series came out 2008, so it's not exactly brand new, but it's an original fighting game IP that was made in this generation. I daresay that Blazblue: Calamity Trigger and Street Fighter 4 are responsible for fighting games coming back for this gen.

The thing is, any fighting game that's not Street Fighter, Marvel vs Capcom, or Tekken is automatically a "B-list" fighting game with the exceptions of maybe KoF and GG (that's the respective shorthand for "King of Fighters" and "Guilty Gear" for the uninitiated). The reasoning's rather simple: all the other games simply don't pull in the same numbers of fans as the aforementioned 3 "major" games; hell, the main events, so to speak, at tournaments are always either SSF4AE 2012 or UMvC3.

Also, your assessment is half-right. While Blazblue and SF4 did release the same year, SF4 came out a few months prior to Blazblue in both arcades and home systems, not to mention that Blazblue was brand new, while nearly everyone and their grandparents knew about SF already, and we all know the average person prefers what's familiar. An analogy, if you will: Blazblue was the brand new friend from another city; alien and unknown, but fun and colorful once you understood them. SF4 was more akin to hearing from an old friend you didn't know was still alive.

 

[SageRuffin]

I am curious abou of what he would say about Skullgirls. I am afraid too since I am a fan of the game.

It would lead to him bad-mouthing it and a swarm of angry fans that regularly watch the weekly Salty Cupcakes stream starting a riot. Remember, it had an Indiegogo campaign that made over 829K.

Probably, still I would like to have a good laugh at myself and hear pertinent criticism.

The problem with Yahtzee's reviews of fighting games is that just about every time he's done them (sure, he's only reviewed, like... 3), he comes off as a complete idiot. I know he's not one, you know he's not one, most everyone else on the forum knows he not an idiot, but his implied inability to grasp even the simpler mechanics is painful to listen to. Sure, he pretty much only talks shit about the shit he thinks is shit, but to most of us who play fighting games on a regular basis, most of his assertions cause so many eye-rolls that I fear my eyes are gonna unscrew out of my head with such force that they're gonna blow a couple of holes through my monitor.

Then again, I'm willing to give Yahtzee the benefit of the doubt. He doesn't play fighters, and most people on this forum don't play fighters. To those who don't play fighters, there's little to no disconnect. To the rest, it gets increasingly difficult not to think he's full of shit.

 

[EeviStev]

Mortal Combat vs. Afro Samurai. Hell, Afro Samurai would make an awesome fighter game: Plenty of distinct characters, both visually and personality-wise, and the universe would lend itself to off-the-chain combos and super moves.

 

[Holythirteen]

Hmm... why is Yahtzee so interested in fighting games all of a sudden?

Saved By the Bell VS. All the other shit you used to watch on TV fighter. Awesome. I'm in.

I love the reaction of fighting game fans this week compared to the the mario fans last week.
They were all "noooo! don't change my characters wahhhh!" and you guys are all like "Yeah! Let's do this!"

 

[MeisterKleister]

I believe Yahtzee misspelled 'Krueger'.

 

[Olas]

I'm pretty sure Sweeney Todd is a musical that it's okay for men to like, any musical where characters sing while murdering people seems good in my book.

While I was reading this I couldn't help but come up with a few other ideas for Mortal Kombat crossovers.

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Mortal Kombat vs Sgt Pepper and the Lonely Hearts Club Band

Mortal Kombat vs The Deadly Viper Assassin Squad

Mortal Kombat vs Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat vs The Bible

Mortal Kombat vs Aliens vs Predator vs Freddy vs Jason vs Billy Crystal

Mortal Kombat vs Board of Education

Mortal Kombat vs Creepypasta

Mortal Kombat vs NP

Mortal Kombat vs Friends

Mortal Kombat vs the works of William Shakespeare

Mortal Kombat vs Spy

Plants vs Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat vs an apparent lack of creativity or new ideas, or perhaps just willingness to take risks.

Mortal Kombat vs Sesame Street

Mortal Kombat vs stage 3 Adult T-cell Leukemia

Mortal Kombat vs Parents who speak out against violent videogames

Mortal Kombat vs The Volcano

Mortal Kombat vs you, yes you, the person reading this right now!. I know who you are, Darrel! [sub](anyone named Darrel who read that probably just freaked the fuck out)[/sub]

Mortal Kombat vs poverty

Mortal Kombat vs Team Fortress 2

Mortal Kombat vs spellcheck

Mortal Kombat vs The Mighty Ducks

Mortal Kombat vs screw it I just don't care anymore. Why do I keep typing these? Think of all the things I could be doing instead of this right now, I'm wasting my life.

Mortal Kombat vs the Westboro Baptist Church

Mortal Kombat vs Wild

Mortal Kombat vs Donkey Kong: March of the Minis

Mortal Kombat vs Mortal Wombat

Mortal Kombat vs The Muppets

Mortal Kombat vs CandleJa...

Mortal Kombat vs The Wizard of Oz except with Toto being replaced by Gandalf, an actual wizard who's sure to put the "Great and Powerful OZ" through an identity crisis.

Mortal Kombat vs the dream I had last night

Mortal Kombat vs Monsters vs Aliens

Scott Pilgrim vs Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat vs Mr. Men vs Mystery Men

Mortal Kombat vs mirror universe Mortal Kombat where everyone dresses slutty and/or has a goatee.

Mortal Kombat vs the Harlem Globetrotters

Mortal Kombat vs anything and everything else I could possibly think of.

Mortal Kombat vs the Rancorn

Mortal Kombat vs Lost

Mortal Kombat vs Their own inner demons

Mortal Kombat vs My Little Pony Generation 3

Mortal Kombat vs the State of Illinois

Mortal Kombat vs the slow cruel passage of time

Mortal Kombat vs the entire Kellogs line of cereal characters

Mortal Kombat vs George Lucas

Mortal Kombat vs the blue screen of death

Mortal Kombat vs the Tea Party

Mortal Kombat vs apocalyptic jam

 

[Saelune]

Its not stagnation that keeps roster's unchanging, but sense. Soul Calibur 5 sucks, and its because it tried too hard to be different from the previous games. Imrpove/fix the bad, keep the good. A motto sequals need to have.

But yes, MK vs more things. And make sure people dont think they are main releases. (MK vs DC is NOT MK8, the newest MK is "MK8" not 9. ((pet peeve)))

 

[Second World]

Yahtzee, I believe it would be great benefit to you to look into Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. A new fighting game is being made for it Japan and the cross-over potential with Mortal Kombat is PURE GOLD.

Just taking examples from Jojo's upcoming fighting game you have a man that fights with Clackers, an ancient aztec-ian superman that attacks using his veins full of boiled blood, another that can twist his arms tightly and make a twister, a paraplegic that rides a horse and walks by doing the worm (in a FIGHTING game), a psychopath that can stop time and attack by dropping a steam roller on someone (in an alternate universe he turns into a velociraptor), a very manly woman, a DLC character that attacks by spontaneously blowing someone up (and has a fetish for ladies' hands), etc. Not to mention, nearly every character is named after a Rock Star or Rock Band.

With Jojo's being rather gory to begin with, the match is made in heaven if you want a goofy yet bloody, unique, and fun to play crossover with Mortal Kombat.

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Yes damn it!! Imagine the epic posing with the xray gore. The hype would be insane.