Xbox-Exclusive Mortal Kombat Character Nixed for Mysterious Reasons
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yeah everyone seems to have forgotten about him....and I can see it now after putting on his opponent a massive number of strength orbs fall onto the agent followed by a large object(car, a light pole, or metal rebar) that appears to crush him and the opponent laughs before going O faced as the agent reemerges holding the object without any trouble before he smashes his victim into a bloody pancake and tosses the object aside as Crackdown's mysterious announcer in the sky says the signature 'fatality' lineTsunimo said:
If not Marcus Fenix, General Ramm might have worked: krill for shields and projectiles, big ass knife for close combat and finishers.
uh for the guys that are just comeing in to talk crap about halo, and Gears, look at jacks, he looks like he should be standing next to Marcus Fenix in the next game.
Marcus and Dom cameo'd in the Xbox version of Lost Planet 2.SAT4NSLILHELPER said:
Maybe they just really like Capcom.
I don't think either Master Chief or Marcus Fenix would be a good fit for Mortal Kombat. Maybe someone like General RAAM or Skorge from Gears of War would have worked out fine. But Why restricted the access of a character just because he's from a PS3 exclusive.
How about Spawn? Since he was the xbox exclusive in Soul Caliber 2. I think he would fit well enough.
And just me being a geek. Shredder from TMNT would have been cool as long as he stays away from the rayguns and whatnot. Put those blades on your hands to use! (Forgotten the exact name of the weapon.)
And just me being a geek. Shredder from TMNT would have been cool as long as he stays away from the rayguns and whatnot. Put those blades on your hands to use! (Forgotten the exact name of the weapon.)
Not only that but it would be a pain to get the rights from Team Ninja to put in one of their characters from one of their games into game that's suppose to be competition (although the last DoA game was a while ago).Frank_Sinatra_ said:
Microsoft needs to stop just being in the lead with online features and get some exclusives. It's pathetic that there's only 2 franchises Mircosoft can pull characters from for this game.
My gut feeling in this paticular case was that the Mortal Kombat guys pushed this the wrong way.
In general exclusives like this come about because the companies making the consoles want to attract usership, and approcah the developers with monetary incentives to create exclusive content, to gravitate people towards their platform when it comes to big titles. A good example of this would be how Microsoft offered Rockstar big bucks to create exclusive DLC for the 360, even though it did go to all platforms down the road.
I'm guessing that especially being fairly strapped for cash, that the guys doing Mortal Kombat decided to go the opposite route, and approached the companies, asking for money to produce exclusive content for them. Sony said "yes", and Microsoft said "no", and refused to be leveraged when they pointed out that Sony was getting exclusive content. After all if they gave in to this, it would encourage developers to approach the situation this way more often. Microsoft at least wanting to maintain a status quo where it's deciding when, and where to get exclusive content, and will be making the offers for it, not the developers initiating things and ultimatly banking to wind up in a position to dictate terms for things like this.
I could be wrong, but that's what I think at any rate.
Another issue to look at though is that Microsoft doesn't own that many properties directly to my knowlege, at least not the way Sony has their fingers directly into Kratos. You might hink "well what about Halo?" but remember that there was a Spartan (Nicole) in the last "Dead Or Alive" game, and I remember it being mentioned that they wanted to use Master Chief but couldn't for some kind of contractual reasons given the way the character was pimped out promotionally or something like that. Putting another generic Spartan into the game wouldn't be the same. I'm not sure if Microsoft has to same kind of abillity to dictate/sell the apperance of Gears Of War characters to video game companies, such an apperance would probably have to be negotiated with Cliffy, and not Microsoft, and his interests don't quite coincide with this kind of thing the way Microsoft's would.
I could be totally wrong, this is just my thoughts on the subject, and why things played out this way.
In general exclusives like this come about because the companies making the consoles want to attract usership, and approcah the developers with monetary incentives to create exclusive content, to gravitate people towards their platform when it comes to big titles. A good example of this would be how Microsoft offered Rockstar big bucks to create exclusive DLC for the 360, even though it did go to all platforms down the road.
I'm guessing that especially being fairly strapped for cash, that the guys doing Mortal Kombat decided to go the opposite route, and approached the companies, asking for money to produce exclusive content for them. Sony said "yes", and Microsoft said "no", and refused to be leveraged when they pointed out that Sony was getting exclusive content. After all if they gave in to this, it would encourage developers to approach the situation this way more often. Microsoft at least wanting to maintain a status quo where it's deciding when, and where to get exclusive content, and will be making the offers for it, not the developers initiating things and ultimatly banking to wind up in a position to dictate terms for things like this.
I could be wrong, but that's what I think at any rate.
Another issue to look at though is that Microsoft doesn't own that many properties directly to my knowlege, at least not the way Sony has their fingers directly into Kratos. You might hink "well what about Halo?" but remember that there was a Spartan (Nicole) in the last "Dead Or Alive" game, and I remember it being mentioned that they wanted to use Master Chief but couldn't for some kind of contractual reasons given the way the character was pimped out promotionally or something like that. Putting another generic Spartan into the game wouldn't be the same. I'm not sure if Microsoft has to same kind of abillity to dictate/sell the apperance of Gears Of War characters to video game companies, such an apperance would probably have to be negotiated with Cliffy, and not Microsoft, and his interests don't quite coincide with this kind of thing the way Microsoft's would.
I could be totally wrong, this is just my thoughts on the subject, and why things played out this way.
It's a good idea, but all the bioware fanboys would cry in real life when they see their precious Shepard lifted into the air telepathically by a mysterious, red clad ninja and have all 4 limbs ripped of at the same time, and then having his head crushed against the floor.AgentBJ09 said:Here's a few I would like to see given their exclusivity, or mostly so, to Microsoft consoles thus far:jovack22 said:
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In fact, you could do this with almost any character from a popular franchise and the result would be the same: the fanboy rage would be endless.
Besides, I'm not sure what his Fatality would be. Duke Nukem already has a Fatality (I'll rip your head off and shit down your neck!), Doomguy could probably find something creative to do with a chainsaw, but Shepard? I don't know...
Also, I'm okay with not having a crossover character. It makes the game seem more original to me for some reason. Mortal Kombat characters vs. Mortal Kombat characters is fine with me.
Guess Microsoft didn't want to give away Master Chief rights... quite odd really, seems there wasn't enough monetary persuasion.
Yes let's put a character from an FPS into a fighting game. I think that would be kinda stupid since they already have Stryker who specializes in guns.
If you want a character that would kick ass and fit perfectly in the MK universe, here he is:
If you want a character that would kick ass and fit perfectly in the MK universe, here he is:
But, as you said, it would be fun. I agree wholeheartedly. Having Commander Shepard strike a pose after taking down an opponent, much less a Fatality would be awesome.Dfskelleton said:
I can think of a few...
Fatality 1 - Old West Takedown - Shepard pulls his blaster pistol and blows several holes in the opponent's legs, causing them to drop to their knees. As they do, he moves to his shotgun, aims at their head, and pulls the trigger. The head explodes an a shower of gore and goo.
Fatality 2 - Up Close and Personal - Shepard grabs the head of his opponent and slams it into his knee, denting the armor. He then punches his foe in the gut, causing him to buckle over in pain, where he takes the chance to snap the enemy's neck and kick the body aside.
Fatality 3 - The Paragon's Recourse - Shepard forgives his foe, thanking him for a good fight. However, this mercy is interrupted by Wrex, who takes the time to fill the enemy full of holes with a machine blaster and shotgun.
While I do agree to an extent, and am glad also we did not get a crossover character for the 360 version, I did enjoy the DC crossover game.
However, while DC had a good reason to want to keep their heroes from being too badly maimed, I.E. the general rule the DC's heroes do not kill people or villains, Microsoft has almost no excuse for not at least revealing who they were thinking of putting into the game.
This is a fucking genius idea. Stops them from wasting the scraps that are left of Rare, and solves the exclusive character problem. But I could honestly see him working, having somewhat of a joke character among all the brutality would just make it more fun. That's the whole point of Conker's character, he's a cute little squirrel but he'd be drunk, swearing and stabbing people in the face.SelectivelyEvil13 said: