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STILL WAITING FOR THIS TO BE A JOKE.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK WHY COULDN'T THEY GIVE THE LICENSE TO CAPCOM.

MIDWAY WILL FUCK IT UP SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD.

/anger off.

The official site is pretty good.

Awww yah.  Time to dig out my Immortals cd again.

I was chatting to a friend on the phone when I read this, and his comment was "What kind of lame-ass Fatality is Batman going to do? Sub-Zero tears out spines; Batman gives his opponent a good talking to?"

I can only believe this is a late April's Fool joke.

There are no fatalities.

ahoythematey (8:33:05 PM): god
ahoythematey (8:33:14 PM): another doomed mashup
ahoythematey (8:33:20 PM): mortal kombat versus dc
ahoythematey (8:33:29 PM): how fucking stupid
ButtBird28 (8:33:31 PM): wow
ButtBird28 (8:33:34 PM): christ
ahoythematey (8:33:47 PM): batman and superman are the confirmed dc characters so far
ahoythematey (8:34:16 PM): I hate that I feel all comic book nerd, but are they serious about putting superman in a fucking fighting game
ButtBird28 (8:34:53 PM): looks like it!
ButtBird28 (8:35:03 PM): back to the inconsistently powerful superman of yore
ahoythematey (8:35:05 PM): that is so made of fail
ahoythematey (8:35:22 PM): yeah, batman can beat him, that's in the comics
ButtBird28 (8:35:23 PM): time for liu kang to just beat the shit out of fucking superman
ahoythematey (8:35:40 PM): but that's through planning and execution, not fucking fisticuffs
ahoythematey (8:36:17 PM): superman is an all or nothing superhero
ButtBird28 (8:36:34 PM): true
ButtBird28 (8:36:43 PM): maybe there's just traces of kryptonite dust
ButtBird28 (8:36:50 PM): sometimes the amount matters
ButtBird28 (8:36:52 PM): depending on who's writing!
ButtBird28 (8:37:01 PM): or how deep the exposure is
ahoythematey (8:37:02 PM): kryptonite makes him as frail as a human, and more often than not he's depicted as not having any particular combat skill beyond being invincible
ButtBird28 (8:37:02 PM): or whatever
ahoythematey (8:37:12 PM): well wait
ahoythematey (8:37:14 PM): scratch that
ahoythematey (8:37:18 PM): red sunlight does that
ahoythematey (8:37:31 PM): kryptonite does that mostly too, but also kills him
ahoythematey (8:38:05 PM): I don't know, I feel dirty actually caring about it, I'm going to stop now
ahoythematey (8:38:12 PM): fucking nerds
ButtBird28 (8:38:21 PM): good man
ButtBird28 (8:38:32 PM): there are far more pathetic people than you to throw a fit about it
ahoythematey (8:38:40 PM): yeah
ahoythematey (8:38:44 PM): manbabies and neckbeards
ahoythematey (8:39:01 PM): wearing initial D shirts
ahoythematey (8:39:12 PM): or whatever the fucking hip anime is now
ButtBird28 (8:39:52 PM): god I have no idea
ButtBird28 (8:39:53 PM): and I'm glad
ButtBird28 (8:40:04 PM): lucky star or some girly weeaboo shit
ahoythematey (8:40:18 PM): same
ahoythematey (8:40:32 PM): I'm upset that I even know what yaoi is
ahoythematey (8:40:47 PM): I can't undo that kind of knowledge

... wtf?

So it's less Mortal Kombat and more Mortal Karebears?

This is pretty lame. I have no desire to see DC associate their characters with Midways god-awful fighting game engines. This is going to be a train wreck of a game...

Ahoy: Your little chat sounds like you guys are trying really hard to make sure you sound cool. Lame salsa.

By the way i have a beard and am currently wearing a green lantern shirt. Superman could single handedly beat each and every inhabitant in the outworld. Batman beats up Superman because he caries a chunk of the green stuff to snuff out the boyscout, just in case, and Liu Kang wont be doing shit cause he  is dead in the main MK story line.  :ye_gods: Im a manbaby/neckbeard who knows too much about comics and games...I hope we can still hang out...

All the best,

Corn Rolla

ps. prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh you didn't hear? Superman is only fighting in the Kryptonitorium.

He has no powers in the game.

Except the power to gay it up.

(http://imtotallysweet.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/batman-kiss.jpg)

... Did Signe put you up to that?

Holy Yaoi Batman!

It was inevitable, you can't talk about batman without someone mentioning him tasting the boy wonders dong, it's the godwins law of batman.

I wanted to show how Superman could "gay it up" but I couldn't find any good pic - and there was a did you mean : gay batman link...

Pretty sure the entire last superman movie was nothing but gay. All over your face.

You must've forgotten about the promo pic. Let me jog your memory.

(http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9779/routhsupermangaltk4.jpg)

Wake me up for Dark Horse Comics versus Fatal Fury.

(http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/2003/253675vbdawyg2.jpg)

edit : broken link

Humm, his color scheme and flowery design make me want to roll him up in my Katamari.

Thanks, that's all I needed to know.

Pass.

Terrible, terrible, terrible idea. Wow. Like Marvel vs. Capcom only craptacular.

Well, when Marvel vs. Capcom came out there were rumors of this sort of thing. At least where I was living, no one wanted it because MK sucked compared to SF.

But now that's it's happening, it's like, a little vomit inducing.

We can hope it lights a fire under Marvels ass to side with Capcom again.

The no fatalities thing is funny. That's pretty much the whole selling point of the series. The gameplay hasn't been any good in a decade.

Regardless it will probably sell a bajillion copies.

Sadly, we really do talk that way in chat.  We're elitist assholes but also pretty fucking hypocritical considering that we'd be the eternal enemy of Ogre if Revenge of the Nerds was a documentary.  It's a dirty feeling perpetuated by the media depicting us in bottle-glasses.  I blame video games for my crimes!

That Superman picture is giving me bad flashbacks of The Phantom.

uhh...with Billy Zane?

Not overly impressed by the teaser video on the website (that's now live). 

Needs more Howard the Duck.

Oh shit.

http://badnews4batman.ytmnd.com/ (http://badnews4batman.ytmnd.com/)

Batman versus SubZero (http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080423.html).

it could be worse....MK vs DBZ / Naruto etc.
 :pedobear: I'd still pop a coin to see how it plays just ONCE.

God, please don't even suggest a Goku vs. Superman fight...

that depends, which era goku, are we talking about a goku/vegeta fusion or not?  :awesome_for_real:

I'm still amazingly indifferent, though. Must be because MK sucks rotten arse.

Maybe some company should do Darkstalkers vs Archie, because it makes about as much sense as MK vs DC.

Watch out for Veronica's finisher!

Also re: Making sense

Link, Heihachi, Yoda, Vader in Soul Calibur.

Yoshimitsu at least fits passably.

Soul Caliber doesn't have a mechanic that is so core to the series that putting in characters that couldn't use that mechanic would make everyone go "Huh?"

Re: Soul Caliber making sense

I don't disagree.  But at least with SC you can just ignore one anachronistic character (well, two because of the 'apprentice' guy).

Sure, mechanically they work - though Heihachi using fists and feet in a weapon-based game was a little "huh?". But in terms of jarringness, Yoda is pretty jarring.

Lots of footage of DC Universe vs. MK III:  http://www.gametrailers.com/gametrailerstv_player.php?ep=26&ch=1

Looks good, but still looks like MK.  Probably not going to be able to rip out Superman's spine though.

Oh fuck, I was still hoping this was some kinda joke.  And why the hell can't you rip out Superman's spine?  I mean, okay, because he's Superman.  But they're clearly ignoring that or else he'd be invincible.

The idea is stupid, the gameplay doesn't look so bad though.  I am actually digging those graphics, at least much more than DC online.

As stupid as the idea might be, this looks kickass.

Don't know about Sub Zero's classic but they've kept Scorpions Flamebreath fatality in. (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33096.html)

Fatalaties = not gone.

Nobody said Fatalities were out of the game.  We said that you won't be able to do them on certain characters & that certain characters wouldn't be able to do them.  Characters that don't have fatalities are supposed to have a finishing move, it just won't be 'out of character' for the license.

Okay, but if I'm Sub-Zero and I beat Superman (and my butthole puckered even typing that) what do I do to him at the end?

uhhh. friendship?

BABALITY.

Schild, the man who seems to know about these things, quite clearly stated at the beginning of the thread


I haven't seen anywhere that you won't be able to do fatalaties on certain characters - source for this or is it guesswork? I also wonder if there'll be arena fatalities as in, well, every other MK game. Haven't seen this clarified - I'd like to see Batman stressing out with guilt because he inadvertantly hurled Kano into spiked-rollers-o-death.

Source for it is the interview with the producer I posted.

Schild's guessing about fatalities versus my repeating verbatim what the man in charge of creating the game says on camera are two entirely different things.

I thought Boon just said that certain characters wouldn't be able to do fatalities so must have missed the bit about not having fatalities done to them too. CBA to sit through it again so I'll take your word on it.

Anyway, I don't know why I care. As much as I'm a MK fanboi, I'm not so much of one as to buy a console solely to play this on.

MK characters and probably the DC villains can do fatalities.

The DC heroes will do something violent, yet non-lethal. Also: no blowing up Superman or atomising Batman, I'd suspect.

NECRO:

So this is available now.  Anyone played it yet? Is it as bad as it portended or is it actually playable?  I've read mixed reviews so far and the major criticism is that there's just not really a lot to it.

Hm, did they release an XBL/PSN demo for it?