A jaguar head as his mask and lays the smack down on all sorts of crazy, magical, cybernetic, robotic and ursine martial artists because he needs to do it for the orphans! Antique Furniture
• Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger is the newest DLC character for the new Mortal Kombat game. All right, I admit, that's awesome. It's a great fit for both franchise, having a modern horror icon in a fighting game is an awesome idea, and it all just works. Well done, Mortal Kombat.
• There's a new cinematic for Street Fighter Vs. Tekken out for SDCC, and this one's all wrestling themed for some godforsaken reason. It's worth watching if only so one of you guys can tell me why everybody is so goddamned wet in this thing. Seriously, it's like they're shooting a Gatorade video or something.
• You'll note that I managed to not say anything shitty about Tekken up above; that's because I had to save my bile and loathing for Kinect Star Wars, which looks like it will truly be one of the worst things ever. Don't believe me, just watch this dude play it. First of all, it's the world's slowest on-rails shooter, which is horrible on principle. Second, the Kinect doesn't work for shit, because the dude has to try every move at least twice before the game can figure out what he's trying to do. Third, even if the game was responding properly, you can tell the game is boring as hell because it's an on-rails shooter with no shooting! Fourth, I understand adjustments have to be made for gameplay, but come the fuck on -- any Star Wars game where you can get shot with a blaster over 200 times in the face in 3 minutes is just fucking broken. Guys, throw that shit in the trash and get back to work on TFU3. You're embarrassing yourselves.
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I liked the part in the starwars video where the game was laggy and unresponsive the whole time. Why they would choose to show off this unfinished(I assume) mess is beyond me.
Just to clarify: everyone here already knows that Poison is half-dude, right?
And to answer your question, Rob: wrestlers are always wet. Be they sweat, water, or some other bodily fluids that I prefer not to mention here, there has never been a dry wrestler at least in the history of WWE. I think it's part of the contract or something.
So Poison's a hermaphrodite?
With a hips-waist-bust ratio like that, I don't freakin' care.
I'd have been more impressed if it were any fighting game other than MK that wound up with Freddy (and I'm not even going to start on the rants about the dual gloves or the fact it's not the original). I've always disliked the Mortal Kombat games even though I owned the collection for PSX. I bought it specifically to give it a fair shot and it just always felt too clunky.
would've been EVEN better if they had gotten the Robert Englund Freddy. He always had the better personality and attitude. Would've made for some nice one-liners too.
It will be interesting to see who's next in Mortal Kombat. Jason would be ideal so there could be an actual decent Freddy Vs Jason.
I'm suprised they didn't have El Fuerte and Hakan in the wrestling video but I suppose that it's an excuse to introduce the two from final fight. At least if it was Hakan it would have an excuse to be all wet and greasy.
Once again the Kinect has another piss poor game released although it's bundled withhttp://www.eurogamer.net/galle...
Which can either be viewed as awesome or awful depending on personal taste.
I hate to say it, but Star Wars Kennect may be the death nail in the coffin of my love of star wars...only to be sucked in by Star Wars Old Republic.
Freddy Kreuger in MC? Hell yes! Wait its the new version... at least he ain't produced by M.Bay this time.
I'm a little bit tired with the video game snobs blasting Kinect Star Wars. Why can't you realize...THE GAME IS NOT FOR US HARDCORE GAMERS!!!! It is for the other people...like kids...that make up 95% of the game buyers (totally accurate not made up stat). My 6 and 4 year old will absolutely love this game. And I'm going to love playing it with them and laughing. This game will sell like gangbusters.
A broken, atrocious game is a broken, atrocious game no matter who the target audience is. Simplistic gameplay is fine. Controls that require you to perform the same action multiple times because it fails to register is not.
The problem with the game isn't that it's "too casual" or "not hardcore", it's that it's horribly made, and even it's own trailers do nothing but showcase the fact that it doesn't work as designed.
I'll gladly forgive Kinect Star Wars due to the incredibly amazing special edition Xbox and controller. I nearly cried the first time I saw it they were so awesome.
Why would they release a video that does nothing but show off how broken the game is?
And why was the music ripped off from The Terminator?
They honestly should have made a light saber peripheral for Star Wars Kinect...
It could have had a couple of basic buttons and an analogue stick on it so you can actually control your jedi, and the game would have been a dozen times better. Not only would it control better, and who wouldn't want to play a Star Wars game with a light saber?!?!
Plus you wouldn't look as much like a tool just waiving your arms around. But of course Microsoft has a stick up their ass and is obsessed with controller-less game play. Perhaps after this fails PS3 will get a much better Move version...
Aha, but with Kinect you ARE the controller. *BLEGH, RETCH*
I wholeheartedly agree, I would have bought the FUCK out of a lightsaber peripheral, and a very good idea that could have fixed (if not everything) a LOT of what was wrong with it. Taking it off rails, for one.
Here's another thing to hate about Star Wars Kinect: it's another example of Lucascorp trying to shove the prequels down our throats. The least they could do is make it about the real Star Wars movies, instead they're all "fuck you, Star Wars fans, here's some more battle droids." Instead of wasting everyone's time on games based on movies that no one liked, they should be remaking Dark Forces.
I figured out what the jump figure means in the corner of the screen. It does not mean jump in game. It means eject disk then jump ON game till you hear satisfying crack of cd.
You know a game sucks when it TELLS you what to do and still won't respond. Also, it further ruins the prequels because Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon had a huge problem with those Droid Dekas and not only can you get shot multiple times, it's a simple matter of jumping over them and taking adventage of their incredibly slow turn-around time.
Yeah, if you're gonna nerd rage over anything, have it be the fact they used the meh remake Freddy, and not the superior original.
I'm nerd raging on that, too... but the two gloves thing just annoys me. If they include Jason down the line, are they gonna give him two machetes?
Surely done for aesthetic reasons: maintain symmetry and so that he's not constantly attacking with his right hand only.
Of course the Kinect game has to be set during the Prequels. I think Lucas (and his affiliates) have decided that the Originals never happened, if only because a lightsaber wasn't ignited every fucking minute during those movies.
I blame George Lucas for KSW. He had nothing to do with it, you say? I still blame him.
And I think MK are doing a good job of updating the franchise for the modern gaming environment, so good on them. Although, $5.99 for one character is pretty damn steep, I just may have to shell it out
I dunno, KSW looks like it would actually be pretty good if it wasn't such a festering pile of shit.
Uhm, Rob, have you not been paying attention to the SFxT trailers? They're using a Water/Oil theme. It's supposed to represent two elements that don't mix finally coming together. If you notice, Street Fighters have Water effects and Tekken uses Oil.
Wow, TR is still posting? It's like 2 AM here in England! Everybody go to sleep so I don't feel left out tomorrow! BATMAN COMMANDS YOU!
What the hell are you doing in England, Batman? Now's not the time to visit Alfred's family, Gotham (and the internet) needs you!
You wouldn't be saying that if you'd tasted Ma Pennyworth's lemon souffle. Beats nightly rooftop broods on the rain, I'll tell you that.
I cant help feeling like Star Wars Kinect is the Star Wars version of SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER. I mean...this HAS to have been made to deliberately fail,right? This looks like a bad arcade game circa 1993. We get this but no BattleFront 3? No Next Gen Rogue Squadron? And I thought the adventures of Gary Stu Starkiller was as low as they could go......
The Star Wars Kinect stuff (and demo at E3) was just hard to watch. With the kinect, you lose the ability of the left analog stick on a controller. You basically have no simple ability to even fucking move.although the Freddy DLC has me planning to get Mortal Kombat in the next week or so.
Maybe that'll be a second skin? Or more likely the unburnt Krueger. At least they kept original Freddy's "Fatalities."
Friday the 13th is owned by Warner Bros. (who also own MK and Freddy), so he could actually be pretty likely to show up if they wanted.but I don't think they have the rights to Evil Dead, so probably no Ash. So fucking depressing.
What's up with that demonic watertower in the MK trailer?
Did those crazy Warner siblings get their hands on Cthulhu's spellbook or what?
Wow, that's the first trailer for any game I've ever seen that could accurately be described as 'moist'.
Nail'd it on Star Wars Kinect Rob. Just looking at the trailer caused bile to rise in my throat, and I liked the prequels! Though there was something wrong in your 2nd to last comment there...
"Guy, throw that shit in the trash and get back to work on BATTLEFRONT 3."
Much better.
Oh Dear God Star Wars Kinect looks like a truly worthy candidate for WORST STAR WARS GAME EVER! And considering some of the previous candidates that's no easy feat... Seriously George Lucasarts, just give the people what they wan't, another sequel to Battlefront and Rogue Squadron and maybe if you have enough time make TFU 3 so I can illegally download it, because I sure as hell am not being tricked into paying full price for what seems like DLC for the first TFU again.
Also, it's not the Kinect's fault that game plays like shit. Child of Eden is proof enough that Kinect works pretty fucking well when the developers are competent.
Child of Eden is a game that amounts to little more than moving a cursor around a screen. As for usefulness in a game that requires movement of a character onscreen, nothing doing. Kinect is a neat piece of tech, but crap for playing actual video games.
Return of the Final Fight crew. As every Beat 'em Up nerd knows Final Fight was once know as Street Fighter 89 and since then part of the Street Fighter universe.Everyones favorite "trap" Poison (cock or not DAT ASS), Hugo and Cody & Guy. Also King and that other dude from the Tekken series.
I don't understand how Rob can hate Tekken so much when it has King. I mean, sure, there's plenty to cringe at/be bored by in the series as a whole, but how can you not love a Luchadore who wears a jaguar head as his mask and lays the smack down on all sorts of crazy, magical, cybernetic, robotic and ursine martial artists because he needs to do it for the orphans!
No idea. I was never big on Tekken myself. I'd rather play SSFIV, CVsSNK2 or Rival Schools before any Tekken title.That said there are quite a few Tekken characters that I like based on their martial arts and character design so I'm super hyped since i've seen the first trailer for this.
Let's just hope Capcom doesn't release a "Super"/"Ultra"/"Turbo"/"Hyper" version 5 month later. That they make one for MVsC3 is a pretty bad sign form me they never done that befor with Vs titles.
