We would call this the series that just won't die ... but, as Nintendo fanboys, we're actually surrounded by those far older. Yes, yet another installment of MK is coming to the DS, courtesy of Midway; rather predictably, we know almost nothing about it. The only comment given: "it [won't be] a direct port of a previous title, it [won't] be a brand-new game either."This leaves the only remaining option: indirect port. It involves a wormhole and superstring theory. Our best guess? A port of an SNES or Playstation version of Mortal Kombat, complete with OMGawesome stylus control and a couple new characters thrown in for good measure. Meh.
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1-31-2007 @ 7:58PM
Vinni said...
I'd rather have a Street Fighter, or even a new Ninja Turtles game.
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1-31-2007 @ 8:16PM
ManekiNeko said...
Oh no, it's a touch-sensitive port of Mortal Kombat Mythologies!
JR
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1-31-2007 @ 8:35PM
Kefka said...
Was mythologies the craptastic side scrolling sub zero adventure? (totally a better name)
I can't say im excited about this... MK has only just started to get decent again, and those games are on consoles with way more power than the DS
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1-31-2007 @ 8:44PM
dukemeiser said...
If you could play it online against others it would make it much more enjoyable.
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1-31-2007 @ 9:51PM
Oro said...
No, it's going to be Mortal Kombat: Special Forces with touch screen controls :p
Please, Please, make it as close to a direct port of Mortal Kombat II as possible. Everything after MKII has been downhill.
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1-31-2007 @ 11:14PM
Uno said...
MKIII was alright-ish
but I'd rather see Street Fighter or King Of Fighters with wifi
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1-31-2007 @ 11:45PM
B-Mo said...
I say that it's going to be a compilation of 1-3, with wifi. BAM!
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2-01-2007 @ 12:09AM
Matthew said...
A perfect port of the original arcade game complete with Wi-Fi versus mode would be awesome. I wouldn't want to play anything else though since every other MK game sucked.
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2-01-2007 @ 1:56AM
SSBR said...
Ahh arcade port it sounds. While MK1 was alright, MK2 is what made MK, MK. MK2 was the only one that could hold up to SF2.
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2-01-2007 @ 4:09AM
KiFF said...
I would prefer them to build a game straight up. The DS is lacking in beat em ups, at least those released outside Japan.
BTW, how the hell are you guys managing to insert live links in your link.
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2-01-2007 @ 8:25AM
Xian! said...
#7, B-Mo:
You are cruel. Seriously, I would pay upwards of $90 for such a compilation.
Why do they have to say "not a port?" Don't they realize that we WANT a port? What, they tried one half-assed, atrocious port on the GBA and decided we didn't want any ports at all? Bah!
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2-01-2007 @ 8:33AM
DiRT said...
Xian! - Um... I think you somehow missed Deadly Alliance and Tournament Edition on the GBA. Both were great IMHO and much better than other 3D fighter attempts like Tekken.
Also, it won't be a port because the system can't quite handle everything in the "bigger" versions.
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2-01-2007 @ 8:48AM
Florian Warg said...
has anybody ever heard anything about a STREETFIGHTER installment already? being able to daddle super street fighter 2 turbo revival advance on the ds was the reason that i bought nintendos poratable back then...
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2-01-2007 @ 11:20AM
Xian! said...
DiRT: No, no, no. Actually I have both of those games for GBA. They're pretty good, but what I want is CLASSIC Mortal Kombat. 2D, side-scrolling, acid pit uppercutting, pixel for pixel spine-extracting action!
Last place I saw classic Kombat was on SNES (have been out of the loop since then, so if it showed up anywhere else, I'm unaware, but it seems everything after was 3D). I don't understand why Midway won't port the classics to GBA or DS. I was about 15 when MK first came out, addicted from the get-go, so the nostalgia factor is through the roof here.
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2-01-2007 @ 12:47PM
20XX said...
"Classic Kombat" (which we'll say is MK 2 or 3) has been on the SNES, Genesis, 32X, Game Boy, Game Gear (I think), Playstation, Saturn, N64 (sorta), PS2, GC, Xbox, PC, PSP, Xbox Live Arcade, and soon to be the Playstation Network.
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