kill_the_wookie posted:

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Ok, this topic will be the official gameplay thread. What do you think the new gameplay should be like?

Well Deadly Alliance to me was like starting from scratch and working from the gound up to bring an old school feel to a 3D MK game. Each character had 1 fatality and that was that. So to me, DA was like MK1 but in 3D. Deception, was much better, the same gameplay/style system we love but now they add in stage fatalies or actually death traps cause they can be done anytime in a match. Every guy has 2 fatalities and something new, a Hara Kiri. Now I think number 7 is gonna be the third in the new generation of MK 3D games. But hopefully its actually better and not just cheesy like MK3 was.

Now I think these gameplay ideas sould be considered for MK7.

1) Keep 2 Fatalities for each character.
2) Add Team Fatalities & Team based play
3) And/Or Friendships/Animalities
4) get rid of Hara Kiri
5) Characters

1- alright Deception already has 2 per fighter but there is a certain system that they go by. Only the main parts of the body get ripped off, cut off, decapitated, etc..whatever. The head, arms, legs, or torso. How about they get really detailed & gruesome like 'scorpion's spear shoots into guys head, rips out eye, brings spear back to him, look at the eye with a smirk/eat the eye/burn it with a flame(whatever), then spear into his torso with his hook attack and pull on it until the guys torso gets pulled off.' Thats just a rough idea but hey Id rather see that than the old 'toasty' fatality thats cliche and boring(we've seen it enough).

A good example of this detail are sub-zero's two fatalities in Deception. Sure he could've just froze the guy and ripped his head off but he had to slide backwards and throw it at the guy too. Or freezing the guys legs and sweep kicking his legs off wasn't enough, the guy crawled backwards and he stepped on his torso to make his head explode. Thats detail but to a lesser extent to what I just pitched for scorpion. The idea of 2 gruesome fatalities and a 'funny' fatality like in Shaolin Monks; Kung Lao's friendly & unfriendly rabbit ones. Those were funny and entertaining at the same time. The Shaolin Monks fatalities were really good and Id rather see Lui Kang do his shaolin soccer or flame/flying kick fatalities than the stupid ones in Deception.

2- MK needs to go in a new direction and team based play I think is the way to go. You know how shaolin monks had 'team fatalities' well they were actually just team combos but Id like to see team based play with actual team fatalities. The way it would work is you pick two people to play as, ex: Scorpion & Raiden. You would use the L2 button to switch characters and its still debatable whether they would have thier own health bars and both would just share one. But to even go as far to make little team names(like in Mario Party 6). If you picked Noob Saibot and then Smoke then youd get the team name 'Brotherhood of the Shadow', or 'Deadly Alliance'(Tsung & Chi) or 'Legendary Rivals'(Scorpion & Sub-zero).

Now the team fatality could be one of two things. Either individual to the character whos performing it and the 'support' character helps him out Or its different depending who your support character is. Like, for instance; Scorpion being the one who is performing and Sub-zero is the support character. Just think of the possibilities when you hear the Team Fatality for them two called 'Icy Hell'. you know, the possibilities are endless.

3- Now if the above is addressed and the series does evolve and keep players interested instead delvering more or less the same thing a 3rd time and de-evolving; then I can easily forget about friendships and animalities. if the Team Fatalities were character/support character specific like the name, 'Icy Hell' then just think of how much replay value you can get out of the game. Making weird unlikely teams like say Sonya and Goro. She uses her 'kiss orb' from MK3, the enemy is trapped in the orb and along comes Goro and pounds the shit out of the guy or whatever. Or the team of Goro and Johhny Cage. This ones sick by the way. Goro grabs both arms and legs and intends to strech the persons limbs and while the person is maoning/screaming Cage comes along and does the nut punch for the male characters and rips it off and for the female characters he may do whatever, I cant think of anything, but you get the idea of how much intrigue this team based play & team fatalities can inspire.

4- As good as the hara kiri is. I dont think the MK team can come up with with new interesting ones for each and every character especially if they say theres gonna be the most characters in MK7 than any other MK game. Plus the fact that some were just lame like Kenshi, instead of just slitting your side why dont you just cut your whole torso in half or do it samuria style and just have tons of blood squirting out, it may be basic but its also classic. You know I enjoy scorpion's hara kiri over kenshis and scorpions is just a very basic head snap.

5- Im just happy with 24-26 characters. I hope they bring back some more old ones like maybe Rain, or Sektor(cyrax already got his turn in MK:DA), a character, whether Tsung or Shujinko, that ACTUALLY morphs into other characters. Id personally rather have Tsung back looking like his old self from MK1, yeah that would be sweet. so maybe 12 intial characters then 12 more unlockable then a super secret morph character Tsung, Shujinko, whoever. Also when I say unlockable I mean buyable in the Krypt. I really got annoyed with Knoquest mode cause it wasted so much time trying to find those keys and do everything else. Id much rather have them focus on gameplay like team based play than some alternate mode of play like konquest that in the end wasn't even satisfying to beat. They need to get rid of these boring/lesser known/less favorbale characters like Li Mei, Kobra(he died in Kira's ending anways- so we should be expecting two new recruits for the black dragon clan), theres nothing wrong with an old character like rain jioning the black dragons. the brotherhood of shadow should recruit more like get Sektor back in the mix. Keep Havik cause hes awesome as all hell. I dont think he can die anyways, lol. Uh, get rid of darrius, darriuo(sp?), hotaru, tanya, jade, you know get rid of the insignificant ones. they dont seem that important in the grand scheme of things. Even Bo Rai Cho is not as important say as Kitana or Mileena. Just so we dont get any haters, either keep darrius or get jax back although I like darrius' look better plus his finishers are better. We need reptile back, but in human form. We need Lui Kang back for good but Id rather him be 6 feet under than look like a zombie unless hes gonna have cool finishers and implement those damn hooks hanging from his hands. Sindel im not decided on but I could care less whether she stays or goes. If there gonna put goro in, make it fair to the point where he doesnt do boss damage and he actually has combos and moves like a normal character would have plus obviously finishers. Its pointless to play as a boss character if they are slow and only have 2-3 special moves and no finishers. its boring!

So what does everybody think about that or your own ideas.

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Noob-Smoke13 posted:

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I DONT AGREE WITH YOU AT ALL BUT SINCE THIS IS YOUR FIRST POST I'll BE NICE TO YOU THE MORE OF THE CHARACTERS THE BETTER RIGHT WELL AT LEAST FOR ME IT IS.

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pepsi440 posted:

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Create a character would be naff!

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Noob-Smoke13 posted:

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pepsi440 posted:

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Create a character would be naff!

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YEA I AGREE NOW. BUT WHATEVER THEY DECIDE I KNOW THEY WILL MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE

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