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Post by Bobinator on May 8, 2014 11:42:14 GMT -5
The cameo list is missing MLB Slugfest. There is a code to play as an all Sub-Zero or all Scorpion team. Damn it, Midway, you're trolling me from BEYOND THE GRAVE. I don't think I covered the PC version, but I plan to do that if I ever get around to giving this article a once over and cleaning up the bits I don't like. If you want a quick once over, it's a pretty good port, but you'll need a pretty good computer. The online's a little "meh", too, because whoever you play with will need a good computer. Also, apparently the story mode cutscenes are of a lower quality. It's not a bad port besides that, just keep that in mind. Online is... workable, but if you REALLY want it for the online, you might just want to get the 360 or PS3 version.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on May 8, 2014 11:55:04 GMT -5
Ah, so we Europeans pay more in fact? Oh joy.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on May 8, 2014 12:21:50 GMT -5
The cameo list is missing MLB Slugfest. There is a code to play as an all Sub-Zero or all Scorpion team. Damn it, Midway, you're trolling me from BEYOND THE GRAVE. After checking, it's MLB Slugfest 20-04 and MLB Slugfest Loaded that have those teams. I think 2006 may have them as well, no idea. May take a screen of the 20-04 version later. ...and apparently there's a Todd McFarlane team on 20-03, 20-04 and Loaded, holy shit.
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Post by moran on May 8, 2014 13:09:39 GMT -5
Damn it, Midway, you're trolling me from BEYOND THE GRAVE. After checking, it's MLB Slugfest 20-04 and MLB Slugfest Loaded that have those teams. I think 2006 may have them as well, no idea. May take a screen of the 20-04 version later. ...and apparently there's a Todd McFarlane team on 20-03, 20-04 and Loaded, holy shit. Yep, Todd McFarlane was included. I didn't realize there were that many Slugfest games.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on May 8, 2014 13:48:32 GMT -5
As promised, here's Subby and Scorpion. Screenshots from MLB SlugFest 20-04 (GameCube)
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Post by jorpho on May 8, 2014 23:11:09 GMT -5
Did you hear about the leaked photos of the Mortal Kombat HD motion-capture? They date back to some time ago and there is zero chance that anything will come of them, but an interesting historical artifact nonetheless. By the way, has anyone here played Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus ? I remember way back before Deception came out there were murmurs about incorporating damage effects into the next MK, and kind of wondered what happened to those. I guess I know now.
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Post by moran on May 9, 2014 7:45:27 GMT -5
I read about those photos the other day. I found found it pretty interesting and would have liked to see how it would have turned out.
I forgot about Tao Feng. I remember it being controversial(not MK level controversy, but made some headlines regardless) at the time because of the damage effects, but since the game didn't catch on it just disappeared.
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Post by Bobinator on May 9, 2014 11:16:53 GMT -5
I actually played Tao Feng! It's... interesting. See, I think John Vogel, the co-creator of MK produced it. So you get a game that has an absolute TON of backstory, but none of it actually really maters in the game itself. The game... well, the fighting game community at large kind of hates it, but it's really just more REALLY un-noteworthy than anything. It's a little smoother than the PS2-era MK iterations, and it plays a little more like Dead or Alive.
There's no blood that I recall, or maybe there was only a little bit of it, and there's no sort of finishing moves at all. About the worst thing you can do to somebody is break their arm or leg, which just makes it so their punches or kicks do half damage until you spend your super bar on healing it.
It should be noted that Deadly Alliance and Deception actually DO have bruising effects on the characters, but I'm not sure who came up with the idea first.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on May 9, 2014 13:28:25 GMT -5
I'm guessing it's Midway that did it first, since IIRC Deadly Alliance came out before Tao Feng (DA was late 2002, Tao Feng was early-to-mid 2003)
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Post by Bobinator on May 10, 2014 20:33:27 GMT -5
Just letting you guys know that I've revised the article and sent it Kurt's way. Don't expect any major changes, but I fixed some typos and rewrote some stuff I thought looked kind of awkward. I didn't do that baseball game, but I'll get that over to Kurt soon, too.
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Post by jorpho on May 11, 2014 20:38:03 GMT -5
I actually played Tao Feng! It's... interesting. See, I think John Vogel, the co-creator of MK produced it. And John Tobias was heavily involved, too.
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Post by derboo on May 11, 2014 23:47:40 GMT -5
I think he actually meant John Tobias, as John Vogel stayed with Midway and did not work on Tao Feng, and if people say "co-creator of Mortal Kombat", they usually refer to Tobias.
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Post by Bobinator on May 12, 2014 0:00:27 GMT -5
I think he actually meant John Tobias, as John Vogel stayed with Midway and did not work on Tao Feng, and if people say "co-creator of Mortal Kombat", they usually refer to Tobias. R Right, thank you.
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Post by GamerL on May 12, 2014 4:44:01 GMT -5
Did you hear about the leaked photos of the Mortal Kombat HD motion-capture? They date back to some time ago and there is zero chance that anything will come of them, but an interesting historical artifact nonetheless. By the way, has anyone here played Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus ? I remember way back before Deception came out there were murmurs about incorporating damage effects into the next MK, and kind of wondered what happened to those. I guess I know now. I remember renting that game purely for the eye candy because the graphics were excellent for their day, but even as a fighting game novice I could tell it was clunky one other upside to the game though was because I was 13 years old at the time some of the female characters gave me a boner
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Post by Bobinator on May 12, 2014 8:02:22 GMT -5
I still maintain that the 2D games are... OK, really. My biggest problem with them is the characters are so samey and that the inputs are so weird, but what I like about MK2 is the general presentation, not to mention those sweet juggle combos you can do. But as I've said, MK9 is the only one worth playing. I'm telling you this as a person who likes this series enough to write that much about it. (Not to mention the avatar I have at the time of this wrting, of course.)
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