BiohazardEXTREME Wrote:coltess Wrote:I gave the game credit for creating the partnership, and mentioned its relative success. Boon and Co. literally made the game to sell themselves to WB, if that's not whoring yourself out, I don't know what is. Everything you said, I already said. I just called a spade a spade; they gave WB a big corporate hand-job with MK vs. DC in order to get into the position to make MK9.
Umm, there's one problem with that theory. When they made MK vs. DC, they were still a part of Midway, and not WB Games. Midway didn't file for bankruptcy and sell off the MK brand name until way after MK vs. DC was released.
Unless you're suggesting that Boon & Co. somehow predicted that Midway would go under and would be selling off the Mortal Kombat brand, and intentionally wanted to get in bed with WB so that those guys would buy them out. But that's a stretch and a half if you ask me.
That's exactly what I'm suggesting, as well as what everyone here knows. Midway was hemhorraging money as far back as 2005 and bankruptcy rumors began in 2006; they were discussed openly on this very website. Boon and the Boonettes saw the writing on the wall, jumped into bed with WB, and when Midway was liquidated in 2009 Boon and the Boontones became WB Games' bottom bitch; NetherRealm Studios.
You don't really think that it's a coincidence that M.K. vs DC was released less than 6 Months before WB bought the MK assets, do you? That whole game was just Boon and the Boon Experience proving to WB that they were a valuable enough asset to be purchased as a whole studio, rather than just the Mortal Kombat name.
How is any of this news to you? This was done ages ago. MK vs. DC was a smart, corporate beej, and WB reciprocated.
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Now, getting back to the topic at hand.
As has been discussed a few times so far, Shujinko has been hinted at already, possibly, being involved in some way. Afterall, his quest did begin before Raiden dinked around with the timeline.
Now, if he is somehow involved in the next game the question really is, in what way? Does he get a Motaro treatment or something more similar to what Bo Rai Cho got in MKX. Now, I'm just using that as a current example, I know a lot of people want Bo playable again, but in MKX he was a nice friend to see. Is something like that more fitting for Shujinko? Just a guest in Story mode?
To be totally honest, I'd be up for him being playable again to properly finish the story that was supposed to have been properly concluded over a decade ago. I know he was a move thief and a bland protagonist, but those are not necessarily hard corrections to make, especially if the story is retold with major changes due to the new timeline.
Props to MINION
