JoRdANMan Wrote:
I was thinking about Mk7 and what they could do to make it better and then I came up with this. A new brutal fighting system, that’s a little like MkD/Das, just a lot more bloody and realistic. Ok so here it is
Erm...I can't really see how this is like MKDA's at all.
Anyway, there are interesting ideas there, but I don't think many of them suit the style of MK.
I really don't think any attacks need to come out faster than they do now, or we'll end up with instant attacks with no animations at all.
The throw system sounds pretty interesting, but just a bit too...what's the word...generic I guess...sorta. It sounds like it would really slow the action down and become a chore after a while, much like that collision thing did in that DBZ game where you had to rotate the sticks as fast as possible to gain the upper hand. I think the only way this could work was if it all went down really fast, but that brings up another problem regarding the difficulty of throw escapes. Throw escapes shouldn't be limited only to players with an insanely fast reflex, so that limits things again. I'm sure there's some way to make it all work, but I don't think that particular system would work too well in MK, it just doesn't flow well enough.
I quite like your pressure point idea, but I don't see how limiting a characters speed would be fair. Maybe characters could slowly lose life or something like MKDA's impales...
Which brings me to the damage idea.
The reason that system works in Smackdown, is because it creates weakness. In MK, the purpose isn't to soften up your opponent to defeat him more easily, the purpose is to pretty much kill him (yes we all know "Mortal Kombat isn't about death ra ra ra", that's bullshit. It is about death, because if it wasn't, it wouldn't sell, and none of us would have started playing it to begin with).
Now, that concept only applies to certain submission holds in Smackdown, it doesn't actually affect the gameplay in terms of what's available to you to inflict damage on the opponent, or the speed at which a character moves (although it does occasionaly see the player stunned, but that isn't relevant here).
If you take that concept and apply it to a game in which you have to kill each other, it affects the gameplay dramatically, because once your right arm is unusable, bam, there goes your spear, which means most of your combos go out the window too (just an example). Lets say you're fighting somebody using taekwondo, and you severly damage their left leg. You remove 80 percent of their attacks, and that's it, game over.
How would head damage work?
If you move slower and have less power with leg damage, what's going to happen to your head?
You can't "soften up" somebody's head. Once you take big head damage, you don't hunch over or move slower, you die.
Having head damage is pretty much equal to having a life bar, because at the end of the day that's really all that's going to matter.
Again, you can't soften up somebody's head for a ko or kill. It either is, or it isn't.
I just don't think this could work in MK. In fact, I don't think the concept of limb specific damage directly affecting gameplay can work in any serious fighter.
One fighting style and one weapon style is good.
I quite like your ideas, but I think they're just a bit too systematic and methodical for what MK is. The same gameplay tactis for each character, just with different animations.
