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MKUniverse Gamescon Ed Boon Interview: NRS entertaining 4th "bare bones" variation w/ no specials

John Grizzly

John Grizzly

The axe that clears the forest
Chuckychuck said:
Bare bones sonuds more like it's the variation before the variation. For instance, Kano would have knives and kano balls, Scorpion would have teleport, spear and hellfire, etc.
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That would be cool. Sort of like an MKX version of MK1 Scorpion, for example.
 
Chuckychuck

Chuckychuck

Noob
John Grizzly said:
That would be cool. Sort of like an MKX version of MK1 Scorpion, for example.
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Yeah that's what it sounds like. I doubt it's a "no specials" variation and everybody is just punching each other and then the 1 char with awesome long range Aquamang normals just dominates.

MKX is built upon a core character and then adds 3 different types of spices to it. The spices will handle unforseen balancing issues (and create a whole other bag of issues lol). So if basic kano sucks vs zoning, then boom there's a variation for that. If Kano sucks vs rushdown, boom there's a variation for that too. It sounds like that is how they are building the game to avoid having to overly patch it. Instead of throwing patchs they just make cater a variation to deal with the issue. This will solve one problem and just create another one - which could be good or bad.

As for the baseline feature, I think this is stripping the characters of their variations while keeping the core intact.
 
PaletteSwap

PaletteSwap

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I do like the idea of barebones. A barebones only mode could offset any potential imbalance with the variations (not saying they won't be balanced, but - - who knows?).

I'd prefer "old school" or "klassic" over the term "barebones." It would be pretty old school MK to play as Sub-Zero with just the slide and freeze, or Scorpion with the spear and teleport only, but I suppose the terms I suggested wouldn't make sense with the amount of new characters. I just don't like how barebones sounds, I guess. Reminds me of stupid CoD.

@Andromeda

I'm calling Onaga. The Dragon King is gonna come back and be like "what y'all muthafuckas do to mah house?" I'm sure Quan Chi will likely have something to do with his resurrection (an agreement to let Onaga rule Outworld in exchange for helping him destroy Shinnok). Quan Chi is responsible for most bad things in the world like the DMV and puppies dying.
 
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eolson3

eolson3

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MKF30 said:
With information from content creators still pouring in from their trips to GamesCom in Cologne, Germany our friend over at MKUniverse.lu got a very nice interview with Ed Boon. With this interview being over 15 minutes in length with really awesome questions we have made a list of key information throughout that we have listed below. One bit of information has never been heard before...


Key notes:
- completey new story-line that follows Mortal Kombat 9 jumping 5, 10, 15 up to 25 years in the future
- story mode in MKX can be compared to MK9 in length
- Kotal Kahn is NOT related to Shao Kahn in any way. Kotal was ruling Outworld in a part of the story and has relationships with D'Vorah, etc
- Kano is not Lin Kuei (with how cybernetic/cyborg he is now)
- there will be no stage transitions in MKX, there will be single stages only
- stage Fatalities are likely
- @6:28 mark: NRS is entertaining a variation that has none of the features of the other variations, a bare-bones variation targeted at the pro players who "want to show off" - haven't decided yet
- tag team mode NOT likely
- New challenge tower NOT likely, however a new mode will be a replacement for the challenge tower
- New "Finish Him" graphics probably close to final
- Toasty guy returning? Boon mentions that the Toasty guy was put in to MK9 very late
- character endings will likely be the same, meaning no crazy CGI story endings due to cost
- No MKX demo news at this time, Boon states, "not that I know of"


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No tag, no buy.

:'-(

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Ninj

Ninj

Where art thou, MKX Skarlet?
No tag mode? That sucks...

@Immortal Tag mode was targeted towards casual, fun play. Someone like me who spends hours and hours in the lab could play with a buddy who plays maybe an hour a week, go online, and have a great time. Contrast that with 1v1 where it's a curbstomping, it immediately becomes not so fun for casual play.
 
REDRUM

REDRUM

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trufenix said:
Highlights in no order:

-No Tag
-Story about as long as MK9s
-Not following mk4-DE plots at all.
-No Tower, but something new involving towers
-Scorpion's 2nd fatal may be the one from the trailer
-Kano is not a Lin Kuei, also still mostly man.
-No transitions / multi part stages.
-Comparable cast size to MK9 + DLC.
-Guest has already been decided, stop asking.
-New Online Mode; "involves everybody".
-Same Kotal stuff, rise and fall in story, not final boss.
-No Stryker Jr.
-Forden still on music, no word on toasty
-Still with the flash / slide show endings
-New ality may not be called "-ality"

Think thats it.
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lol @ "no Stryker Jr." was that even a rumor? (havent listened to the interview yet... getting my popcorn ready naooooooooo)
 
REDRUM

REDRUM

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stage fatalities and it sounded as if he said babalities are back! im down with both
 
eolson3

eolson3

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Ninj said:
No tag mode? That sucks...

@Immortal Tag mode was targeted towards casual, fun play. Someone like me who spends hours and hours in the lab could play with a buddy who plays maybe an hour a week, go online, and have a great time. Contrast that with 1v1 where it's a curbstomping, it immediately becomes not so fun for casual play.
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This is it, precisely. I only started playing MK9 because I played tag with a buddy. I find the dismissiveness of anything not hyper-competitive to be pretty off-putting. I know this is a site all about the competition, but that is no reason to shut out other angles. NRS isn't going to run out of disc space due to including tag mode.

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trufenix

bye felicia
eolson3 said:
This is it, precisely. I only started playing MK9 because I played tag with a buddy. I find the dismissiveness of anything not hyper-competitive to be pretty off-putting. I know this is a site all about the competition, but that is no reason to shut out other angles. NRS isn't going to run out of disc space due to including tag mode.

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Well, NRS isn't omitting it to smite non-competitive casuals. They're doing it because its a crazy heavy duty mode to put in your game after the fact. They already did it once, so until they change the game to MK Tag Tournament, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
 
eolson3

eolson3

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trufenix said:
Well, NRS isn't omitting it to smite non-competitive casuals. They're doing it because its a crazy heavy duty mode to put in your game after the fact. They already did it once, so until they change the game to MK Tag Tournament, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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I'm not talking about NRS. Some members of this community take every opportunity to thrash tag, while declaring its ommission an obvious decision. I'm saying that there are other perspectives, and laughing at them is poor form.

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trufenix

bye felicia
eolson3 said:
I'm not talking about NRS. Some members of this community take every opportunity to thrash tag, while declaring its ommission an obvious decision. I'm saying that there are other perspectives, and laughing at them is poor form.

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If you want tolerance and understanding, these definitely aren't the droids you're looking for. The only person who gets to have a difference of opinion and not get torch and pitchforked around here is REO and maybe the Terrys.
 
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