Completely agree
It kind of sucks since as long as Midway is behind the games that’s never going ot change
Midway doesn’t own MK anymore. Warner Brothers bought it.
I don’t think it changes things either way. I’d love for them to go back to 2d, but I don’t think they will.
All look good except Sonya; she needs some damn pants.
as far as rejected pitches go it doesnt really compare in stupidity to sirlin’s rejected sf4 pitch. therefore, disappointed.
I think MK is a good fighting game but when it went 3D with MK4 it just didnt feel the same. I think a reboot and bring it back to 2D would be a cool idea. A new look for the characters while keeping the same basic ideas could bring MK back on top again.
Like having her breasts hand out of her suit, lol?
These designs are really good and creative.
Uhmm… no thanks lol.
Just give Sonya a pair of chaps and she’s fine.
Just found this thread…
…and I felt like I have to add my opinion to it cauz I’m a MK fan since the beginning (now, not anymore).
The designs of the MK characters from that link look nice, though. No offense but…
I’m 30yo and the very first MK I’ve played was MK1 on the arcade machine before it got released on Genesis, SNES, PC, Amiga, GB, Master System and Game Gear, I think.
Why I felt in love with MK was not only because of the GORE (but yeah, I loved the fatalities and blood), it was because the characters looked almost realistic and I never saw that in any beat em’ up before. I liked that idea and was impressed how realistic characters can look like in the year 1992! I mean damn, it was 1992 and everyone who played video games back in 1992 know from what I’m talking about as far for the graphics.
Now take a look what happened to the MK characters nowadays… They look like drawed, yeah, almost like comic stuff like mickey mouse, donald duck and road runner…okay, everyone got a different opinion to this but to me…midway doesn’t understand what MK made so special and famous. It was the realistic character design and after that, the bloody gore.
I personally lost the interest after MK trilogy…the time when MK4 came out where midway tried to copy tekken with turning MK into a 3D beat em’ up. Take a look at the actually tekken, even tekken 6 got more realsitic lookin characters than MK nowadays. I always hoped that midway will learn from their mistakes and will make MK to somthing what it was in 1992 but nope, MK became more and more ridiculous from part to part until they finally lost all the love of the MK veterans when they brought out MK VS. DC. It could be a great game but it got not much to do with everything what MK stand for and that’s fatalities and characters who looked like realistic humans…MK VS DC also dissapointed with the fatality system…I expected a little bit more of a MK in 2009.
Here, that’s the MK I was a fan of:
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The comic style might look good on games like streetfighter but not on MK in my opinion. Right now…If I want violence then I rather play FP-shooter like L4D, FEAR and alike. If I want a good beat em’ up I go for SF or tekken.
Goodbye midway and MK!
Actually, wasn’t Kano’s backstory retconned slightly to make him Australian? I’m sure I read that they made the character Kano Australian as a tribute to the way Trevor Goddard played him in the first MK movie.
From the ever-reliable Wikipedia:
If it were up to me, I’d do a compete re-imagining/re-boot of Mortal Kombat. Obviously just 7 playable characters is not enough for a starting line-up in this day & age, so flesh that out a little, but keep the idea the same. Re-design the characters a little, like that Scorpion sketch in that link is almost perfect for what Scorpion was in the first game. I think an MK reboot could work if done right.
Faptality. 
Frankly they all seem lame, like they’re trying too hard. Except for Kano, he just looks homeless.
Mortal Kombat needs a re-re-boot.
WB scooped up Midway so they are still working on MK
Very true, the things Capcom could do with their characters in a 2d game, or the SC team in a 3d game. Fap ap fap.
If MK looked like that in 2009 I’d laugh my ass
That look is outdated; it needed a change to 3D just not 3D gameplay
Always thought Scorpion looked ridiculous in a brightly-colored outfit after UMK3 (or any of the ninjas for that matter), so I like how he put some thought into how he gets his signature yellow palette. Still a little silly, but I’ll take that over him intentionally wearing a bright yellow garb.
I lol’d hard.
Kano, Scorpion, and Raiden look pretty damn awesome. Sonya looks too much like a slut for MK. Don’t get me wrong, she’s fucking sexy. But it’s way too much for a fighting game.
:rock:nice work