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[lupinko]

Yes! UMK3, best MK next to MK9.

 

[ThatCrazyGuy]

Will this thing finally have a proper button config? Good lord!

 

[Mr. Enigma]

MK2 online is garbage. Nothing but Mileena doing her fucking teleport kicks.

 

[Slamtastic]

I'm not gonna lie, I could never go back to an older MK after 9. Their digitized style is fun for nostalgia, but the new one is the closest MK has been to being a legit fighting game, by a wide margin.

 

[U n i o n 0015]

I'm not gonna lie, I could never go back to an older MK after 9. Their digitized style is fun for nostalgia, but the new one is the closest MK has been to being a legit fighting game, by a wide margin.

At least the price is cheap enough where you don't mind buying it and only playing a few minutes here and there.

 

[dark_chris]

Although it pisses me off they canceled the remake of it, least the price is good enough. I'm biting.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Will pick up the PC version for sure when it goes on sale on Steam.

 

[Persona7]

Day one!

I always liked 3 the best.

 

[LosDaddie]

$10?

Day 1 on XBLA....and PSN a week or so later.

 

[The Return of]

wow, 10 bucks? I'd get it

 

[Osu 16 Bit]

Outstanding.

 

[Throavium]

They should put MK Trilogy and MK 4 in there, remastered with online play.

 

[RelentlessRolento]

They should put MK Trilogy and MK 4 in there, remastered with online play.

I'd pay more to have those

 

[Mr. Enigma]

Trilogy would be a disaster online. Nothing but Noob Saibots and Rains doing what they do.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

MKast recalling memories of the original games.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Trilogy would be a disaster online. Nothing but Noob Saibots and Rains doing what they do.

More like Human Smokes and Kabals

 

[Nemesis_]

More like Human Smokes and Kabals

UMK3 Online is just Cyber Smoke and Kabals. =/

 

[fernoca]

Yeah. Cyber Smoke + teleport punch.
Easily countered by block + Uppercut..which made some quit because they had no other strategy and I was "obviously" cheating by blocking those teleports.

 

[simtmb]

Does backbone have anything to do with this whatsoever?

 

[SolidSnakex]

Does backbone have anything to do with this whatsoever?

It's being ported by Other Ocean. They're best known for handling the XBLA port of Symphony of the Night.

 

[fernoca]

Other Ocean also did the Ultimate MK3 port for the Nintendo DS and Dark Void Zero for the Nintendo DSiWare. So the Kollection was in good hands at least.

 

[Xevren]

Think I am just going to wait and hear how the online is for UMK3, that's all I really care about it.

 

[Persona7]

Is their a licensing problem keeping MK4 from being re-released?

 

[Mr. Enigma]

Is their a licensing problem keeping MK4 from being re-released?

No. The general MK community dislikes it. Even Boon wasn't too fond of it.

 

[Drkirby]

Wow, that is soon. Maybe if a few friends will play with me, I'll pick it up on a 33/50% off sale.

 

[fernoca]

Is their a licensing problem keeping MK4 from being re-released?

Not that I know of.
But the team (and some of the public) dont have many fond memories of the game. Many found the combination of MK4 and the second movie (Annihilation) as two of the lower points of the series.


I do remember mentions of a few internal problems during developments, as Midway was meddling with the team too much forcing the addition/removal of characters, and other misc. things.

 

[Nemesis_]

I wouldn't mind a port of MK Gold. I am sure everyone hates it, heck I kind of do too (why doesn't Kitana have her Fan as a weapon? Or Mileena have her Sais?) but I would like to relive that experience again, for some reason.

I know, I am masochistic.

I liked the fact that it kept the classic kind of mechanics (Uppercuts, Sweeps, Low/High Punch/Kick) in the 3D setting. But I guess it also shows you can't move a 2D system into a 3D arena and hope it all works out perfectly. =/

 

[joshwaan]

Hell Yes!!

I hope Mk2 is Arcade perfect, all the ports have been close, but things like missing shadows in level piss me off a little. Midway Arcade treasures 2 I'm looking at you

 

[@MUWANdo]

I can't watch the MKast - does it actually address/describe the Kollection itself in any meaningful way?

 

[Nemesis_]

I can't watch the MKast - does it actually address/describe the Kollection itself in any meaningful way?

Nope, just explains the development of the original games a little bit.

 

[GrayFoxPL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyH8ozwWoiQ

Kollection trailer.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011...edium=social&utm_campaign=mortalkombat_082911

Blog feature by Boon.

The games look suspiciously slow in that trailer. Like slower then they should be.

 

[Eurocult]

I know it drops August 30th, but does anyone know what time (Eastern, USA) this will be available on PSN?

 

[fernoca]

I know it drops August 30th, but does anyone know what time (Eastern, USA) this will be available on PSN?

US-PSN doesn't update at any specific time; which is the reason of the usual joke regarding "whenever Grance Chen feels like".

Could be 5PM, could be 10PM.

 

[sixteen-bit]

The games look suspiciously slow in that trailer. Like slower then they should be.

Will wait for reviews.

 

[Seraphinianus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyH8ozwWoiQ

Kollection trailer.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011...edium=social&utm_campaign=mortalkombat_082911

Blog feature by Boon.

The games look suspiciously slow in that trailer. Like slower then they should be.

The first set of gameplay shots were a tiny, tiny bit slow, then the last set with the MK1 and 2 fatalities were fine. Pretty sure it's just the video, but devs have a special way of fucking up rereleases sometimes, so I'll wait for reviews too...

 

[Eurocult]

US-PSN doesn't update at any specific time; which is the reason of the usual joke regarding "whenever Grance Chen feels like".

Could be 5PM, could be 10PM.

bah! I remember going through this waiting for the RE5 DLC last year. I figured maybe they got their shit together by now.

 

[Jaxter09]

They should have just released trilogy instead

 

[Ocaso]

The games look suspiciously slow in that trailer. Like slower then they should be.

The gamma also looks off in the trailers, like the grays are way lighter than they should be. I imagine there's some setting to fix that, but it's worrisome that they left it that way in the trailers.

 

[Iknos]

Wasn't aware of this game's existence until just now. So pretty much Saturn'd for me.

Texting all my buds about this news after I submit this message lol

 

[Mr. Enigma]

They should have just released trilogy instead

No. Broken.

 

[StuBurns]

I missed this thread, I heard about it coming to Steam the other day.

I don't understand, we had a thread like a month ago showing leaks of this, saying it was canned, but it was a literal remake, this is a port?

 

[Satchel]

Hard to justify.

I have MK2 on PSN and Ultimate MK 3 on Saturn and 360.

Hard to make it worth it JUST for Mortal Kombat 1.

 

[Azure Dream]

I missed this thread, I heard about it coming to Steam the other day.

I don't understand, we had a thread like a month ago showing leaks of this, saying it was canned, but it was a literal remake, this is a port?

Right, most likely emulating the Arcade ROMs, maybe with some hooks for very specific things. The other thing was an actual "rebuild the game in HD" attempt, using brand new actors.

 

[tapedeck]

I already have MK2 on PSN....but I fucking NEED UMK3 so Ill bend over and pay 10 bucks just for that.

 

[StuBurns]

Right, most likely emulating the Arcade ROMs, maybe with some hooks for very specific things. The other thing was an actual "rebuild the game in HD" attempt, using brand new actors.

Interesting, for a second I thought that was grand hoax, which would have been pretty impressive. Ports I actually find much more interesting for whatever reason.

 

[fernoca]

Yep. The HD collection was the original with with remade HD backgrounds and new actors/pictures in HD. That was canned.

This is just a collection of the 3 games in original form with online-play and leaderboards.

Since MKII on PSN costs $5 and has no voicechat, and UMK3 was delisted from the Marketplace; for $10 is a nice deal to those looking for the "whole package" at least.

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

They should have just released trilogy instead

I would love a refiltered and rebalanced Mortal Kombat Trilogy, but it looks like Mortal Kombat 10 will probably be much closer to true Mortal Kombat nirvana with all the characters and whatnot

 

[Apath]

Holy shit, this is only $10? Marking this one for a future purchase when I get around to buying PSN point cards..

 

[Khezu]

I hope they eventually do a arcade perfect port of MK4, not the best game in the series, but it was interesting, and for a 3D game from that era, it has aged rather well, well the arcade version, not so much the console ports.

What would be even cooler is if they were willing to do a 4th revision on the game, a few things would make that game much better.

-Just flat out remove the ability to side step, force it to be played on the 2D plane.
-Remove the weapon system and the rocks and skulls on the floor.
-Remove Maximum damage. its mortal kombat, infinites are awesome.
-Also just some general gameplay tweaks, like nerfing scorpion and tanya.

If possible add in the gold characters from the dreamcast port, kitana, mileena, cyrax, sektor, baraka, kung lao. Would probably be too much effort, but eh.

I can dream.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

Hopefully this version of UMK3 doesn't suffer from the same issue the previous XBLA release had: the backgrounds not rotating so that it's always Scorpion's Lair in the background. Shit was fucking annoying.