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Lord Scythican wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:Onaga and Bo Ra Cho aren't in. That was a "troll" tweet, he didn't mean it.

I have seen the entire list of characters, I just haven't updated the list in this thread.

Well that is good news. Like timetowaste85 said, if they were in it, it would open the game up to a bunch of useless characters. I like the classic feel to this new game since I really fell off the kombat wagon after MK3.

I wonder if there is going to be any secret characters that are not yet revealed? Sort of like the old days with Reptile, Jade, Rain, Noob, etc. I would like to see a few like that make an appearance and unlocked in the game about 6 months after release.

Yeah, two "secret" characters as of right now: Cyber Sub Zero, and Skarlett (real name unknown).




Retro Mileena and Scorpion

Scarlet's real name will probably be Ruby. She was in the cartoon and appeared as a glitch in Mortal Kombat II.

Or maybe we'll get trolled and she won't be in at all.

Oh Ed Boon you so crazy! But seriously give us Rain before all these other chumps!

Are there any other vendors giving out bonus fatalities with their pre-orders, or is it just Gamestop? And will these "exclusives" be unlockable in the krypt?

And for something kompletely different: Why does everyone pronounce Ermac like Ur-mac. Shouldn't it be Err-mac like in error macro? That was bothering me as a drove back from school...yeah I have odd thoughts.

asimo77 wrote:
And for something kompletely different: Why does everyone pronounce Ermac like Ur-mac. Shouldn't it be Err-mac like in error macro? That was bothering me as a drove back from school...yeah I have odd thoughts.

I always thought it was pronounced Err-mac...odd do they really do a U sound?

Not sure about in-game but in most of the people in videos I've seen and plenty of people I talked to in person say Urmac. And for some reason that bothers me :/

asimo77 wrote:Or maybe we'll get trolled and she won't be in at all.

Oh Ed Boon you so crazy! But seriously give us Rain before all these other chumps!

Are there any other vendors giving out bonus fatalities with their pre-orders, or is it just Gamestop? And will these "exclusives" be unlockable in the krypt?

And for something kompletely different: Why does everyone pronounce Ermac like Ur-mac. Shouldn't it be Err-mac like in error macro? That was bothering me as a drove back from school...yeah I have odd thoughts.

Yes:

Amazon: Reptile Classic + Classic Fatality.
Target: Mileena Classic
Gamestop: Scorpion Classic + Fatality
Bestbuy: Sub Zero Classic + Fatality
Toys R Us (I think?): Kitanna Classic
Tournement Edition: Ermac (Err Mac) Classic.

Ugh I don't care for the costumes, but I would like to get as many fatalities as possible. I think I'll go for Scorpion's then...

TOASTY!

Thank God Onaga was a joke. Same with Bo Rai Cho. Even if they become DLC in the future, I'll skip on them. BRC is a total joke and should never have been included. DLC brutalities and animalities would probably be a cool idea (and Rain had better be DLC!!!!!)

Sub Zero is a boss. I will master him.

Sub Zero and Kung Lao are still my favorites.

I haven't played any of the newer MK games, I heard they weren't so great.

But this looks promising.

Mike Noble wrote:Sub Zero and Kung Lao are still my favorites.

I haven't played any of the newer MK games, I heard they weren't so great.

But this looks promising.

That has been my complaints for a few years now. None of the new characters were appealing at all. This one has a very classic feel to it.

As for the preorder characters + fatalities, does anyone know if they will be released as DLC eventually? I think it is pretty crappy that you can only get all of those extras by preordering from 6 different places...

Lord Scythican wrote:

Mike Noble wrote:Sub Zero and Kung Lao are still my favorites.

I haven't played any of the newer MK games, I heard they weren't so great.

But this looks promising.

That has been my complaints for a few years now. None of the new characters were appealing at all. This one has a very classic feel to it.

As for the preorder characters + fatalities, does anyone know if they will be released as DLC eventually? I think it is pretty crappy that you can only get all of those extras by preordering from 6 different places...

I am 95% certain they are on the disk; one of the Challenge Tower missions is Retro Kombat; Retro Sub Zero vs Retro Scorpion. The only way to do that is if they were on the disk, and I think pre-ordering is just early access to them.

Challenge tower is 300 missions you can pick and choose to do.

NO GEARS OF WAR CHARACTER:

@Kaylila @TherealCliffyB you guys ever succed in getting a Gears Character as the X360 exclusive in the new Mortal Kombat?" Nope, we were too late.

He could be lying, though.

Also, he says: We were too late..... I wonder who beat them out?

That is good news. I really hope you can unlock everything by other means.

Hopefully they will get the Gears of War character or at least someone else.

Anyone getting the tournament edition? That arcade controller looks pretty sweet. I am thinking of using it to store quarters as a savings as well. Everytime I loose to my brother (Which will probably happen a lot) I will drop a quarter in the box.

Moar Kratos Gameplay:

http://www.gamespot.com/showcases/mortal-kombat?sid=6305271&overridePid=961031

Okay so the tournament edition is limited to 20,000 copies in the US. It is sold out online and gamestop has ceased taking preorders for it. My only choice is to camp at wal-mart now...

The tournament/arcade console is VERY hard to play on: they had it for demo at PAX East and the controllers were very difficult: the control stick is great, but the buttons are COMPLETELY different from the PS3 and 360 controls. If you like the feel of 360 and PS3, skip the tournament console piece. I tried it, and the only games I lost were on this because the controls are so awkward.

Hey timetowaste85 when you played the game was it on the 360? And if so how was the d-pad? The Xbox d-pad has some "issues" to say the least.

timetowaste85 wrote:The tournament/arcade console is VERY hard to play on: they had it for demo at PAX East and the controllers were very difficult: the control stick is great, but the buttons are COMPLETELY different from the PS3 and 360 controls. If you like the feel of 360 and PS3, skip the tournament console piece. I tried it, and the only games I lost were on this because the controls are so awkward.

I am pretty old school. I never had any problems with the old arcades games and arthritis hasn't set in yet, so I am hoping it will work out.

Lord Scythican wrote:

timetowaste85 wrote:The tournament/arcade console is VERY hard to play on: they had it for demo at PAX East and the controllers were very difficult: the control stick is great, but the buttons are COMPLETELY different from the PS3 and 360 controls. If you like the feel of 360 and PS3, skip the tournament console piece. I tried it, and the only games I lost were on this because the controls are so awkward.

I am pretty old school. I never had any problems with the old arcades games and arthritis hasn't set in yet, so I am hoping it will work out.

So am I: I've played old MK games, SF and MvsC style games in the arcade when I was younger-but these buttons are spaced just right to be obnoxious, plus they are set up in different locations on the tourney console as opposed to the other two system controllers: if you're used to the tourney console and like them, you can probably handle it-if you are used to 360 and PS3 controllers, it'll be VERY hard to get down-I spent more time looking at the controller to make sure I was hitting the right button than I was looking at the screen: You have a Square setup for the buttons (instead of a diamond) with the block button dead center in the middle, with the shoulder buttons for x-ray attacks far away from the rest of the buttons. It isn't like the arcade controller I'm used to: but if you intend to use it, good luck. I'm staying well clear of it after my previous usage of it.

edit-Missed the picture above when describing. But it backs me up

I got a chance to play the demo today. Not too bad. I can honestly say this is the first fighting game I have liked in a long time. X-ray attacks look pretty good but hell they almost look like fatalities. I couldn't get the stage fatality for the forest to work, but the pit did. The toasty guy came out some times but I didn't know what to do when he came out.

Lord Scythican wrote:I got a chance to play the demo today. Not too bad. I can honestly say this is the first fighting game I have liked in a long time. X-ray attacks look pretty good but hell they almost look like fatalities. I couldn't get the stage fatality for the forest to work, but the pit did. The toasty guy came out some times but I didn't know what to do when he came out.

Forest Fatality isn't in the Demo.

Toasty Guy's secret remains a secret, no one knows what to do with him.

Xrays can be used as fatalities (not so sure about how valid this is/EVERY attack can be used as a finisher...)

I have also played the demo, but to me the controls and combos are all really klunky. Unlike those like street fighter or Dead or Alive.

Slarg232 wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:I got a chance to play the demo today. Not too bad. I can honestly say this is the first fighting game I have liked in a long time. X-ray attacks look pretty good but hell they almost look like fatalities. I couldn't get the stage fatality for the forest to work, but the pit did. The toasty guy came out some times but I didn't know what to do when he came out.

Forest Fatality isn't in the Demo.

Toasty Guy's secret remains a secret, no one knows what to do with him.

Xrays can be used as fatalities (not so sure about how valid this is/EVERY attack can be used as a finisher...)

Hmm... looks like there is going to be plenty of secrets. Have you all heard about the 300th challenge unlock? It is supposed to be Flesh Pits Mileena.

Lord Scythican wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:I got a chance to play the demo today. Not too bad. I can honestly say this is the first fighting game I have liked in a long time. X-ray attacks look pretty good but hell they almost look like fatalities. I couldn't get the stage fatality for the forest to work, but the pit did. The toasty guy came out some times but I didn't know what to do when he came out.

Forest Fatality isn't in the Demo.

Toasty Guy's secret remains a secret, no one knows what to do with him.

Xrays can be used as fatalities (not so sure about how valid this is/EVERY attack can be used as a finisher...)

Hmm... looks like there is going to be plenty of secrets. Have you all heard about the 300th challenge unlock? It is supposed to be Flesh Pits Mileena.

Yeah, we don't know if thats supposed to be the "big prize" though, because NRS said "It will be worth the wait to complete the 300 challenges, and people will be able to see it online".

I really hope it is a new character. That would be pretty sweet.

Don't think it will be that, since they have constantly said they want a hyper competative, tourney worthy Fighter, while trying to dethrone SSF4. Can't really do that with a character no one will really play :/

Damn, them MK fanatics on the forum I'm watching for all this info are a bunch of babies..... "Kratos shouldn't be in the game, he isn't an MK character!", and then a Kratos Vid comes out "Kratos is AWESOME! But he shouldn't be available for Multiplayer, he seems overpowered!"

Nevermind we have only seen the one vid that shows him beating the snot out of someone, when that video is his Character Bio thing where EVERY character revealed has been beating the stuffing out of someone else......

While I don't own a PS3 the idea of Kratos being in seems kinda silly. It's like when they throw in all those odd characters in the Soul Calibur series Yoda, Link, Darth Vader, Heihachi, Spawn...

Didn't see this video up here yet.

Wonder what the fatality looks like, they cut away before the good bit.

Entire roster Leaked:

1.Scorpion
2.Sub-zero
3.Reptile
4.Mileena
5.Cage
6.Kung lao
7.Nightwolf
8.Sektor
9.Noob
10.cyrax
11.sindel
12.sonya
13.jax
14.kitana
15.jade
16. liu kang
17.raiden
18.baraka
19.Kano
20.stryker
21.kabal
22.Shang Tsung
23.Sheeva
24.Smoke
25. Ermac
26. Quan chi
27: Goro OR Cyber Sub Zero (If Goro, CSZ is a SZ alternate, if CSZ, Goro is in DLC pack 2)
28: Kratos/ Xbox Exclusive

None of those DLC packs said Rain :( Also doesn't look like Khan is playable, that's a shame.

Also do you have a source for this?