Esoteric Wrote:
If anyone with the power to do anything of substance with the game of MK9 or any future MK games I would like to say I have a ton of ideas that I think could be good if given a chance. First I'd like to say...I have some honest critiques towards the current MK9 that maybe could be implemented into the first or second patch of MK9 called "Other Ideas" as well a mix of 47 new/heavily influenced/old characters that I think would make either some great additions to MK or could use some touching up with specialty moves and traditional martial art costume looks.
OTHER IDEAS FOR MK 9
- During the closing credits of Mortal Kombat, background music can play “Farewell” by ApocalypticA and show highlights of winning arcade/tag team ladder matches in similar fashion when video gamer lands final knockout hit against Shao Kahn, maybe just highlighting the great hits and combos landing during the course of one’s climb up the ladder either in arcade ladder or tag team mode.
- In tag team mode, it would be cool if the tag in partner enter the match with a simple front summersault or a front ground roll like in MK1 and also exited the matches with back summersaults unless executing a specialty move for partner in match. It’d be cool if they also after being knocked out would stayed laid out on the floor during the course of the match like in MK1. It’d look more realistic instead of being knocked out the screen. It wouldn't affect any of the intro or winning poses but again I think this idea would give the game a more realistic touch.
- It’d be cool in the “Courtyard Arena” that the monks in the background would clap only after a won round like in MK1, instead of throughout the match and if the claps sound effects were louder. It could sound like the clapping from the fight scene between Bruce Lee and O’Hara in the movie “Enter the Dragon” but just after each round.
- It’d be cool if in the “Choose Your Fighter” screen, that they presented the fighters with sinister looking facial pictures like in MK1 of them instead of the mini-sized pictures of the fighters. And in the Arcade/Tag Team ladders, once they cut to the “Vs.” screen, they execute a brief form in their martial arts style of fighting like Soul Calibur 3 does in the character select screen.
- Maybe sometime further down the line in a future Mortal Kombat, there was a presented Adventure Mode. This could be a change up from the monotonous one-on-one/tag-team game play. It could be formatted like the third shooter video games like Assassin’s Creed or Dynasty Warriors. This can also offer another mode for fans to unlock hidden secrets, characters, arenas, fatalities...etc.
- It’d be cooler if Scorpion had a pair of authentic ninja katana swords on his back in his retro-ninja costume.
- It would be cool if there was a new twist to training mode or it could be a whole other mode like a practice mode or "ENTRY MODE" to where there was a stage specifically designed for this mode such a dojo. In the dojo there would be a fighting mat with fighters in long sleeved gi and pants surrounding the mat. Or a training room like in the movies “Matrix I” or “X-Men” inside the mansion. Here, a sensei, Sifu or Grandmaster like character could watch a sparring session in a high chair with student-like fighters with novice skills surrounding the fighting pad. And as you progressively get better, you fight more skilled fighters up to a novice level so it wouldn’t be too difficult (a test of how well you can control your character before fighting in the real environment.). And a visual demonstration of this would be the student fighters you’d spar with would wear different colored belts indicating their skill level until you’d get to a student wearing a white long sleeved gi with a black belt wrapped around their waist. As you’d advance you would receive “1st level dan” achievements or “2nd level dan” achievements and so forth and so on. Also fatalities or specialty moves would be disabled or not allowed to be performed in this mode because of your learning. Finally you’d have to take on the Sensei, Sifu, or Grandmaster like character in a sparring session. It could be like your training for the tournament Mortal Kombat. It could also be a testing ground before you could actually unlock the normal format of the one-on-one/tag team mode of the game and this could apply for each character you choose. You’d be required to past this entry level mode of the game before unlocking Mortal Kombat with your chosen characters. That way you gain some familiarity with the character before using your character in Mortal Kombat and get use out of all the characters. This also could be just an additional mode to play when this mode has been past by all of the selectable characters in the game.
- Or you have another “Test Your Knowledge” Mode where video gamers would be quizzed on Mortal Kombat history and obscure characters and facts of the game. And then with the game can also test your knowledge of button combinations of your characters specialty moves, fatalities, novice level combos, X-Ray Moves, with you having to enter in specific button combinations across the screen to match the actual console button combinations. Prizes could be Koins or other unlocked materials, secret character, arenas or whatever.
- It would be cool if in the “Choose Your Fighter” screen, you could choose your character’s costume. So if you like more traditionalized costumes you could choose that attire, or if you like the street urban/rocker armor like costumes you could choose that. That way you give the video game fan options to choose what their character can look like.
Again I've got like 46 to 47 characters that are either brand new, touch ups of old/established MK characters or heavily influenced characters from other games with creative specialty moves, fatalities and traditional martial arts style clothing. And each character has at least 8 specialty moves, a creative yet realistic and practical fatality, winning pose and backstory to explain their origins with exceptions to established characters.
I hope these ideas get heard and possibly considered to be implemented but it's just an set of ideas that I'm confident could strengthen the MK franchise I think.
Please let me know what you think of these ideas with your honest critiques whether good or bad.
I actually loved the idea of the Test your Knowledge...
...and, unless you post them for @noobde, your ideas will only be seen by us, NRS don't lurk around here.
-courtesy from MINION- 
